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Zachary Herz
The God and the Bureaucrat

Why is Roman law so boring? In this book, Zachary Herz argues that the bureaucratic, positivistic world of Roman law is not a distraction from the violent autocracy of the Roman empire, but an imagined es…

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Laurel Fulkerson, Jeffrey Tatum
A History of Latin Literature from its Beginnings to the Age of Augustus

Latin literature exploded onto the scene from relatively humble beginnings in the third century BCE. In an astonishingly short time the Romans adopted and adapted nearly all the genres of literature known…

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P E Easterling
Studies in Greek Literature: Volume 1, Greek Tragedy

Pat Easterling's articles are fundamental to her status as one of the most influential Hellenists of her generation. Characterised by unostentatious astuteness and an arresting capacity for observation, t…

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Aristophanes: Knights

Aristophanes' Knights was a sensation in its time, famous for its assault on the Athenian politician and demagogue Cleon in the first comic drama devoted to a sustained, open satire of an individual polit…

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Writing, Enslavement, and Power in the Roman Mediterranean, 100 Bce-300 CE

This volume assembles twenty-two scholars from the fields of classics and early Christian studies to interrogate the intersections between writing and enslavement around the Roman Mediterranean. Drawing u…

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Aloka Parasher Sen
Looking Back Through Our Identities

An accessible monograph that invites readers to rethink traditional historical boundaries in its exploration of myth and memory. Looking Back through Our Identities explores the intricate relationship bet…

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Melissa Mueller
Sappho and Homer

In this book, Melissa Mueller brings two of the most celebrated poets from Greek antiquity into conversation with contemporary theorists of gender, sexuality, and affect studies. Like all lyric poets of h…

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Peter Fibiger Bang
The Roman Empire and World History

How do we fit the Roman Empire into world history? Too often the empire has simply been conceived of in terms of the West. But Rome was too big to be squeezed into a purely European model; her empire best…

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Articulating Resistance under the Roman Empire

"The Changing Scope of Resistance Studies During the twentieth century - whose concerns were framed by colonialist and postcolonial political contexts worldwide, as well as by the geopolitics and pro…

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John Holton
Royal Traditions and the Consolidation of Power by Alexander's Successors

In the wake of Alexander the Great's death, his ambitious Successors sought to solidify their positions as kings and establish a framework of new royal traditions. John Holton delves into the interconnect…

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Lea Niccolai
Christianity, Philosophy, and Roman Power

"Shows that the paradox of the late antique clash between Christianity and Greco-Roman culture is that classical culture wrote the script for the Christianisation of Roman power. Emperor Julian's wri…

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Eric H. Cline
The Trojan War: A Very Short Introduction

Homer's tale of the abduction of Helen to Troy and the ten-year war to bring her back to Greece has fascinated mankind for centuries since he related it in The Iliad and The Odyssey. More recently, it has…

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Palmyra, the Mediterranean and Beyond

"An innovative collection illuminating Palmyra's and Palmyrene society's negotiations, struggles, benefits and disadvantages from being part of the Roman Empire, situated on the fringes between the E…

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Alaudae Volume 1

For the first time, more than just a handful of readers will be able to study, enjoy and become acquainted with one of the seminal works by Karl Heinrich Ulrichs. Many have been able to read his works in …

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Giovanni Parmeggiani
Ephorus of Cyme and Greek Historiography

"Through a careful study of the surviving fragmentary evidence, Giovanni Parmeggiani throws new light on the lost Histories of the fourth-century B.C. Greek historian Ephorus of Cyme, the first, acco…

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Reassessing the Peloponnesian War

Modern accounts of the great war between the Athenians and the Spartans in the late fifth century BC have simply reanalysed the gripping analysis of military and political events given by Thucydides. But …

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Peter Fibiger Bang
The Roman Empire and World History

How do we fit the Roman Empire into world history? Too often the empire has simply been conceived of in terms of the West. But Rome was too big to be squeezed into a purely European model; her empire best…

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P E Easterling
Studies in Greek Literature: Volume 2, Early Greek Literature, Reception, Ancient and Modern Scholarship

Pat Easterling's articles are fundamental to her status as one of the most influential Hellenists of her generation. Characterised by unostentatious astuteness and an arresting capacity for observation, t…

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Owen Rees
The Far Edges of the Known World

'A tour of those far-flung places where Romans rarely dared to venture' The Times 'A strikingly original take . . . uncovering forgotten stories of life on the periphery' Spectator 'This is the book for e…

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Tatiana Bur
Technologies of the Marvellous in Ancient Greek Religion

For the first time investigates the ways that technological, and especially mechanical, strategies were integrated into ancient Greek religion. Presents in full the evidence from the fifth century BCE to …

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