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This volume explores and elucidates Critical Ancient World Studies, a new model for the study of the ancient world operating critically,... Læs mere
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Children Enslaved, first published in 1988, reveals the full extent of child slavery throughout the world. It describes both persisting traditional forms of child exploitation and... Læs mere
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The Royal Navy and the Slave Trade, first published in 1987, offers an analysis of the navy's operations on the East Coast of Africa – an area often neglected in... Læs mere
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The Royal Navy and the Slavers, first published in 1969, examines not only the Royal Navy’s 60-year campaign to eradicate slavery, but also the British Government’s diplomatic pressure on other countries to discontinue the slave trade.
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This volume investigates how versions of Trojan War narratives written in Greek in the first through fifth centuries C.E. created nostalgia for audiences, particularly in the case of the third-century C.E. poet Quintus of Smyrna’s epic Posthomerica.
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This work breaks new ground by considering the ancient and medieval reception of Alexander the Great from a gender studies perspective.
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This study examines third- and fourth-century portraits of married Christians and associated images, reading them as visual rhetoric in early Christian conversations about marriage and celibacy, and recovering lay perspectives underrepresented in literary sources.
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First published in 1966, Latin Historians gives an account of some of the most important Latin historians.
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First published in 1967, Latin Biography contains chapters on Nepos, Plutarch and Suetonius, the three best-known Classical biographers. There are also accounts of the less-familiar works of Q. Curtius Rufus and the author – or authors – of the Historia Augusta.
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First published in 1965, Cicero contains a number of assessments of Cicero’s political career, his character, his oratory, philosophy and poems, and his influence on subsequent literature and scholarship.
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Gives a unique take on the history of Roman Britain covering the Emperors, usurpers and tyrants who set foot in Britain.
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Bringing together specialists in ancient history, archaeology and Roman law, this book analyses the socio-legal framework within which maritime trade was conducted. In... Læs mere