Brill, 2017. — 426 p. — (Amsterdam Studies in Classical Philology 24). In Speech and Thought in Latin War Narratives , Suzanne Adema offers linguistic and narratological tools to analyse and interpret narratorial choices in speech and thought representation in Latin narratives. Her approach combines insights from (cognitive) linguistic and narratological theories and has been...
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 234 p. — (Greek Culture in the Roman World). A strange thing happened to Roman sarcophagi in the third century: their Greek mythic imagery vanished. Since the beginning of their production a century earlier, these beautifully carved coffins had featured bold mythological scenes. How do we make sense of this imagery's own death on later...
Routledge, 2022. — 276 p. This volume examines the pivotal role of movement, visibility, and experience within Pompeian houses as a major factor determining house form; the use of space; and the manner, meaning, and modalities of domestic daily life, through the application of GIS-based analysis. Through close consideration of ancient literature, detailed explanations of...
University of Toronto Press, 2015. — 124 p. In an expansion of his 2012 Robson Classical Lectures, Clifford Ando examines the connection between the nature of the Latin language and Roman thinking about law, society, and empire. Drawing on innovative work in cognitive linguistics and anthropology, Roman Social Imaginaries considers how metaphor, metonymy, analogy, and ideation...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. — 224 p. This book demonstrates how the Romans constructed garden boundaries specifically in order to open up or undermine the division between a number of oppositions, such as inside/outside, sacred/profane, art/nature, and real/imagined. Using case studies from across literature and material and visual culture, Victoria Austen explores the...
University of Michigan Press, 2021. — 366 p. Foodways in Roman Republican Italy explores the production, preparation, and consumption of food and drink in Republican Italy to illuminate the nature of cultural change during this period. Traditionally, studies of the cultural effects of Roman contact and conquest have focused on observing changes in the public realm: that is,...
Princeton University Press, 2001. — 246 p. Stories about brothers were central to Romans’ public and poetic myth making, to their experience of family life, and to their ideas about intimacy among men. Through the analysis of literary and legal representations of brothers, Cynthia Bannon attempts to re-create the context and contradictions that shaped Roman ideas about...
Princeton University Press, 2020. — 210 p. This inquiry into the collective psychology of the ancient Romans speaks not about military conquest, sober law, and practical politics, but about extremes of despair, desire, and envy. Carlin Barton makes us uncomfortably familiar with a society struggling at or beyond the limits of human endurance. To probe the tensions of the Roman...
Princeton University Press, 2020. — 210 p. This inquiry into the collective psychology of the ancient Romans speaks not about military conquest, sober law, and practical politics, but about extremes of despair, desire, and envy. Carlin Barton makes us uncomfortably familiar with a society struggling at or beyond the limits of human endurance. To probe the tensions of the Roman...
Archaeopress Archaeology, 2019. — 186 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology, v. 52). Rethinking the Concept of "Healing Settlements": Water, Cults, Constructions and Contexts in the Ancient World brings together papers dealing with therapeutic aspects connected to thermomineral sites both in Italy and in the Roman Provinces, as well as cultic issues surrounding health and...
The History Press, 2023. — 364 p. From the hooves of chariot horses pounding the dust of the racetrack to the cries of elephants charging the battlefields, animals were a key part of Roman life. On memorials left to beloved dogs or in images of arena animals hammered onto coins, their stories and roles in Roman history are there for us to find. - Why did the emperor Augustus...
De Gruyter, 2022. — 266 p. Although the relationship of Greco-Roman historians with their readerships has attracted much scholarly attention, classicists principally focus on individual historians, while there has been no collective work on the matter. The editors of this volume aspire to fill this gap and gather papers which offer an overall view of the Greco-Roman readership...
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 450 p. For the Romans, much of life was seen, expressed and experienced as a form of theatre. In their homes, patrons performed the lead, with a supporting cast of residents and visitors. This sumptuously illustrated book, the result of extensive interdisciplinary research, is the first to investigate, describe and show how ancient Roman...
University of California Press, 2014. — 336 p. — ISBN-10 052027716-3 What made the Romans laugh? Was ancient Rome a carnival, filled with practical jokes and hearty chuckles? Or was it a carefully regulated culture in which the uncontrollable excess of laughter was a force to fear—a world of wit, irony, and knowing smiles? How did Romans make sense of laughter? What role did it...
University of California Press, 2014. — 336 p. — ISBN10: 0520277163; ISBN13: 978-0520277168. What made the Romans laugh? Was ancient Rome a carnival, filled with practical jokes and hearty chuckles? Or was it a carefully regulated culture in which the uncontrollable excess of laughter was a force to fear—a world of wit, irony, and knowing smiles? How did Romans make sense of...
Walter de Gruyter, 2010. — 538 S. — (Image & Context 6). Von den Insignien römischer Kaiser ist der Kranz im Bild am häufigsten belegt. Er war für die Darstellung des Kaisers von zentraler Bedeutung. Dennoch hat die altertumswissenschaftliche Forschung dem Kranz des Kaisers bisher wenig Aufmerksamkeit geschenkt. Diese Lücke schließt das Buch von Birgit Bergmann. Gestützt auf...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — xii + 284 p. In classical Latin, luxuria means 'desire for luxury'; it is linked with the ideas of excess and deviation from a standard. It is in most cases labelled as a vice which contrasts with the innate frugal nature of the Romans. Latin authors do not see it as endemic but as an import from the East in the aftermath of military...
De Gruyter, 2023. — 808 p. — (Beiträge zur Altertumskunde 412). Different receptions permeated Roman culture in all phases of its formation and development. This included, firstly, Greek-Hellenistic culture as the great initial template and broadened into self-determination through self-reception in the imperial period. This volume delves into these receptions from the...
Routledge, 2005. — 320 p. — ISBN-10: 9780415251037, ISBN-13: 978-0415251037. An Introduction to Roman Tragedy by A. J. Boyle is the first detailed cultural and theatrical history of a major literary form – the Roman drama and tragedy. This landmark introduction examines Roman tragedy and its place at the centre of Rome’s cultural and political life. Analyzing the work of such...
Routledge, 2014. — 221 p. Lucian and His Roman Voices examines cultural exchanges, political propaganda, and religious conflicts in the Early Roman Empire through the eyes of Lucian, his contemporary Roman authors, and Christian Apologists. Offering a multi-faceted analysis of the Lucianic corpus, this book explores how Lucian, a Syrian who wrote in Greek and who became a Roman...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 280 p. The study of colour has become familiar territory in anthropology, linguistics, art history and archaeology. Classicists, however, have traditionally subordinated the study of colour to form. By drawing together evidence from contemporary philosophers, elegists, epic writers, historians and satirists, Mark Bradley reinstates colour as...
Cambridge Philological Society, 2015. — 220 p. With over seventy works to his name, Marcus Terentius Varro (116-24 B.C.) was arguably the greatest scholar of the Roman world. This volume of essays addresses his often neglected output, shedding new light on the intellectual activity of the late Roman republic.
University of California Press, 2007. — 320 p. In this fresh, accessible, and beautifully illustrated book, his third to examine an aspect of Roman visual culture, John R. Clarke explores the question, "What made Romans laugh?" Looking at Laughter examines a heterogeneous corpus of visual material, from the crudely obscene to the exquisitely sophisticated and from the playful...
University of California Press, 1998. — 372 p. What did sex mean to the ancient Romans? In this lavishly illustrated study, John R. Clarke investigates a rich assortment of Roman erotic art to answer this question-and along the way, he reveals a society quite different from our own. Clarke reevaluates our understanding of Roman art and society in a study informed by recent...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 552 p. Imagery and iconography served specific functions in public, private, and ritual spheres in the Roman world. State-sanctioned imagery communicated politically charged ideas through an often-complex pictorial language, composed of emblems and attributes that signaled aspects of policy. In the private sphere, imagery communicated ethnic,...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 552 p. Imagery and iconography served specific functions in public, private, and ritual spheres in the Roman world. State-sanctioned imagery communicated politically charged ideas through an often-complex pictorial language, composed of emblems and attributes that signaled aspects of policy. In the private sphere, imagery communicated ethnic,...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 552 p. Imagery and iconography served specific functions in public, private, and ritual spheres in the Roman world. State-sanctioned imagery communicated politically charged ideas through an often-complex pictorial language, composed of emblems and attributes that signaled aspects of policy. In the private sphere, imagery communicated ethnic,...
University of Michigan Press, 2020. — 362 p. While Rome Burned attends to the intersection of fire, city, and emperor in ancient Rome, tracing the critical role that urban conflagration played as both reality and metaphor in the politics and literature of the early imperial period. Urban fires presented a consistent problem for emperors from Augustus to Hadrian, especially...
De Gruyter, 2022. — 250 p. — (Trends in Classics – Pathways of Reception 8). For about one thousand years, the Distichs of Cato were the first Latin text of every student across Europe and latterly the New World. Chaucer, Cervantes, and Shakespeare assumed their audiences knew them well - and they almost certainly did. Yet most Classicists today have either never heard of them...
Princeton University Press, 2004. — 224 p. Bodily gesture. A Roman worshipper spins in a circle in front of a temple. Faced with death, a Roman woman tears her hair and beats her breasts. Enthusiastic spectators at a gladiatorial event gesticulate with thumbs. Examining the tantalizing glimpses of ancient bodies offered by surviving Roman sculptures, paintings, and literary...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 238 p. The Roman sanctuary at Bath has long been used in scholarship as an example par excellence of religious and artistic syncretisms in Roman Britain. With its monumental temple, baths, and hot springs, its status as one of the most significant Roman sites in the province is unquestioned. But our academic narratives about Roman Bath are also...
Cambridge University Press, 2025. — 350 p. - Provides the first broad overview and analysis of 3rd-1st century BCE Italic architectural terracottas - Offers new evidence and perspectives for ongoing debates related to 'Romanization,' colonization processes, and communal identities in 3rd-1st century BCE central Italy - Shows how the evidence from 3rd-1st century BCE Italy can...
Amberley Publishing, 2010. — 160 p. There is plenty of information about military dress in Roman Britain and the rest of the Roman Empire, but the evidence for civilian dress has not been comprehensively looked at since the 1930s. In this richly illustrated survey, Alexandra Croom describes the range and style of clothing worn throughout the Western Empire and shows how...
Presses universitaires de France, 2024. — 288 p. Digérer, jeûner, ne pas trop épicer?: de la naissance à la vieillesse, manger sain est une vraie préoccupation des Romains dans l'Antiquité. Les médecins, tels que l'illustre Galien, s'invitent dans les cuisines pour concilier plaisirs du banquet et santé. Loin du cliché de l'orgie romaine et des excès, la diététique s'allie à la...
The History Press, 2021. — 224 p. For almost three hundred years, excavations have been carried out in Roman Bath. At first these were rare and sporadic and archaeological finds were made by chance. From the 1860s deliberate investigations were made and increasingly professional methods employed. The Roman Baths were laid open to view but little was published. From the 1950s...
De Gruyter, 2007. — 468 S. — (Untersuchungen Zur Antiken Literatur Und Geschichte 88). Römische Agrarhandbücher sind weit mehr als Medien zur Vermittlung von Sachwissen. Sie sind auch literarische Gebilde aus der Feder begabter Autoren samt dem damit verbundenen ästhetischen Anspruch und den literarischen Traditionen. Sie sind zugleich Ausdruck der gesellschaftspolitischen...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 446 p. The Cambridge Companion to Roman Comedy provides a comprehensive critical introduction to Roman comedy and its reception through more than twenty accessible and up-to-date chapters by leading international scholars. This book defines the fundamentals of Roman comedy by examining its literary and comic technique as well as its...
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 400 p. Cultural memory is a framework which elucidates the relationship between the past and the present: essentially, why, how, and with what results certain pieces of information are remembered. This volume brings together distinguished classicists from a variety of sub-disciplines to explore cultural memory in the Roman Republic and the...
University of Michigan Press, 2017. — 394 p. On its initial publication, The Roman Community at Table during the Principate broke new ground with its approach to the integral place of feasting in ancient Roman culture and the unique power of food to unite and to separate its recipients along class lines throughout the Empire. John F. Donahue’s comprehensive examination of areas...
University of Michigan Press, 2017. — 394 p. On its initial publication, The Roman Community at Table during the Principate broke new ground with its approach to the integral place of feasting in ancient Roman culture and the unique power of food to unite and to separate its recipients along class lines throughout the Empire. John F. Donahue’s comprehensive examination of areas...
University of Michigan Press, 2017. — 394 p. On its initial publication, The Roman Community at Table during the Principate broke new ground with its approach to the integral place of feasting in ancient Roman culture and the unique power of food to unite and to separate its recipients along class lines throughout the Empire. John F. Donahue’s comprehensive examination of areas...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 328 p. Disorienting Empire is the first book to examine Republican Latin poetry's recurring interest in characters who become lost. Basil Dufallo explains the prevalence of this theme with reference to the rapid expansion of Rome's empire in the Middle and Late Republic. It was both a threatening and an enticing prospect, Dufallo argues, to...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 328 p. Disorienting Empire is the first book to examine Republican Latin poetry's recurring interest in characters who become lost. Basil Dufallo explains the prevalence of this theme with reference to the rapid expansion of Rome's empire in the Middle and Late Republic. It was both a threatening and an enticing prospect, Dufallo argues, to...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 328 p. Disorienting Empire is the first book to examine Republican Latin poetry's recurring interest in characters who become lost. Basil Dufallo explains the prevalence of this theme with reference to the rapid expansion of Rome's empire in the Middle and Late Republic. It was both a threatening and an enticing prospect, Dufallo argues, to...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 312 p. Dining was an important social occasion in the classical world. Scenes of drinking and dining decorate the wall paintings and mosaic pavements of many Roman houses. They are also painted in tombs and carved in relief on sarcophagi and on innumerable smaller grave monuments. Drawing frequently upon ancient literature inscriptions as...
University of Wisconsin Press, 2015. — 272 p. Latin plays were written for audiences whose gender perspectives and expectations were shaped by life in Rome, and the crowds watching the plays included both female citizens and female slaves. Relationships between men and women, ideas of masculinity and femininity, the stock characters of dowered wife and of prostitute - all of...
De Gruyter, 2010. — 420 p. The volume presents essays on different aspects of Roman sarcophagi. These varied approaches produce fresh insights into a subject which has received increased interest in English-language scholarship, with a new awareness of the important contribution that sarcophagi can make to the study of the social use and production of Roman art. Metropolitan...
University of Texas Press, 2004. — 225 p. Roman Tragedy - Theatre to Theatricality by Mario Erasmo is bold and original. I know of no other work in which the evolution of the tragic form is treated as a form, within its context, over time. Roman tragedies were written for over three hundred years, but only fragments remain of plays that predate the works of Seneca in the...
University of Texas Press, 2004. — 225 p. Roman Tragedy - Theatre to Theatricality by Mario Erasmo is bold and original. I know of no other work in which the evolution of the tragic form is treated as a form, within its context, over time. Roman tragedies were written for over three hundred years, but only fragments remain of plays that predate the works of Seneca in the...
University of Texas Press, 2004. — 225 p. Roman Tragedy - Theatre to Theatricality by Mario Erasmo is bold and original. I know of no other work in which the evolution of the tragic form is treated as a form, within its context, over time. Roman tragedies were written for over three hundred years, but only fragments remain of plays that predate the works of Seneca in the...
University of Texas Press, 2004. — 225 p. Roman Tragedy - Theatre to Theatricality by Mario Erasmo is bold and original. I know of no other work in which the evolution of the tragic form is treated as a form, within its context, over time. Roman tragedies were written for over three hundred years, but only fragments remain of plays that predate the works of Seneca in the...
University of Texas Press, 2004. — 225 p. Roman Tragedy - Theatre to Theatricality by Mario Erasmo is bold and original. I know of no other work in which the evolution of the tragic form is treated as a form, within its context, over time. Roman tragedies were written for over three hundred years, but only fragments remain of plays that predate the works of Seneca in the...
University of Michigan Press, 1999. — 480 p. For Romans, bathing was a social event. Public baths, in fact, were one of the few places where large numbers of Romans gathered daily in an informal context. They went to meet friends, drink wine, pick up sexual partners, and generally while away the idle afternoon hours. Despite the disapproval of the morally superior, the...
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 380 p. This is the first comprehensive study of the associations of athletes and artists in the Roman empire. The xystic synod of athletes and the thymelic synod of artists were the only ancient associations that operated on a pan-Mediterranean scale. They were active from southern Gaul to Syria and Egypt and were therefore styled 'ecumenical...
Walter de Gruyter, 2008. — 592 p. — (Image & Context). The highest honour a Roman citizen could hope for was a portrait statue in the forum of his city. While the emperor and high senatorial officials were routinely awarded statues, strong competition existed among local benefactors to obtain this honour, which proclaimed and perpetuated the memory of the patron and his family...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 488 p. No field of Latin literature has been more transformed over the last couple of decades than that of the Roman historians. Narratology, a new receptiveness to intertextuality, and a re-thinking of the relationship between literature and its political contexts have ensured that the works of historians such as Livy, Sallust, and Tacitus...
Brepols Publishers, 2021. — 250 p. Graffiti, scratched or drawn on the walls of religious shrines, provide unique unmediated evidence of how ordinary men and women, many of them pilgrims, invoked and sought the help of God and the saints in Late Antiquity. The papers in this volume document and discuss cultic graffiti across the entire late antique Mediterranean, and into Nubia...
Brill, 2022. — 256 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 456; Mnemosyne, Supplements, History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity 456). This book changes our understanding of the Roman conceptions about the sea by placing the focus on shipwrecks as events that act as bridges between the sea and the land. The study explores the different Roman legal definitions of these spaces, and...
Brill, 2022. — 255 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 456; Mnemosyne, Supplements, History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity 456). This book changes our understanding of the Roman conceptions about the sea by placing the focus on shipwrecks as events that act as bridges between the sea and the land. The study explores the different Roman legal definitions of these spaces, and...
Archaeopress, 2024. — 350 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 115). A Map of the Body, a Map of the Mind considers the relationship between geography and power in the ancient Roman world, and most particularly the visualisation of geographical knowledge in myriad forms of geography products, including geographical treatises, histories, poems, personifications, landscape...
Manchester University Press, 2020. — 344 p. This is the perfect guide for any writer who wants to recreate the Roman world accurately in their fiction. It will aid any novelist, screenwriter, games designer or re-enactor in populating their story with authentic characters and scenes, costumes and locations. Written from a historian’s perspective, this guide pulls back the...
Routledge, 2022. — 352 p. Pliny and the Eruption of Vesuvius is a forensic examination of two of the most famous letters from the ancient Mediterranean world: Pliny the Younger’s Epistulae 6.16 and 6.20, which offer a contemporary account of the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79. These letters, sent to the historian Tacitus, provide accounts by Pliny the Younger about what happened...
Routledge, 2022. — 352 p. Pliny and the Eruption of Vesuvius is a forensic examination of two of the most famous letters from the ancient Mediterranean world: Pliny the Younger’s Epistulae 6.16 and 6.20, which offer a contemporary account of the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79. These letters, sent to the historian Tacitus, provide accounts by Pliny the Younger about what happened...
Routledge, 2022. — 352 p. Pliny and the Eruption of Vesuvius is a forensic examination of two of the most famous letters from the ancient Mediterranean world: Pliny the Younger’s Epistulae 6.16 and 6.20, which offer a contemporary account of the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79. These letters, sent to the historian Tacitus, provide accounts by Pliny the Younger about what happened...
Gorgias press, 2005. — 372 p. Ancient Rome is renowned for its distinctive calendar and frequent festivals dedicated to various Gods; classical scholar W. Warde Fowler discusses each event, and its role in Roman religious and cultural life. The modern, twelve-month calendar was built upon the foundations set by the Romans. Several of the months retain the names invented in...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. — 208 p. Focusing on the transitional period of the late Republic to the early Principate, Trees in Ancient Rome offers a sustained examination of the deployment of trees in the ancient city, exploring not only the practicalities of their cultivation, but also their symbolic value. The Ruminal fig tree sheltered the she-wolf as she nursed Romulus and...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. — 208 p. Focusing on the transitional period of the late Republic to the early Principate, Trees in Ancient Rome offers a sustained examination of the deployment of trees in the ancient city, exploring not only the practicalities of their cultivation, but also their symbolic value. The Ruminal fig tree sheltered the she-wolf as she nursed Romulus and...
Princeton University Press, 2024. — 336 p. Across the vast expanse of the Roman Empire, anxieties about childbirth tied individuals to one another, to the highest levels of imperial politics, even to the movements of the stars. Birthing Romans sheds critical light on the diverse ways pregnancy and childbirth were understood, experienced, and managed in ancient Rome during the...
Princeton University Press, 2024. — 336 p. Across the vast expanse of the Roman Empire, anxieties about childbirth tied individuals to one another, to the highest levels of imperial politics, even to the movements of the stars. Birthing Romans sheds critical light on the diverse ways pregnancy and childbirth were understood, experienced, and managed in ancient Rome during the...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — xvi + 384 p. From the bites and scratches of lovers and the threat of flogging that hangs over the comic slave, to murder, rape, dismemberment, and crucifixion, violence is everywhere in Latin literature. The contributors to this volume explore the manifold ways in which violence is constructed and represented in Latin poetry and prose from...
Archaeopress, 2019. — 276 p. La presente publicación pretende suponer un acercamiento transversal y generoso a la cultura visual, lingüística y religiosa de la provincia romana de Lusitania. La influencia romana fue especialmente notable en la religión y en las manifestaciones artísticas. Las ciudades fueron una de las instituciones más importantes impuestas a Lusitania durante...
Brill, 2023. — x, 316 p. — (Mnemosyne Supplements 475). The cryptic figure of the cinaedus recurs in both the literature and daily life of the Roman world. His afterlife – the equally cryptic catamite – appears to be well and alive as late as Victorian England. But who was the cinaedus? Should we think of a real group of individuals, or is the term but a scare name to keep at...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 372 p. Latin literature is a hotbed of holes and erasures. Its sensitivity to politics leaves it ripe for repression of all sorts of names, places and historical events, while its dense allusivity appears to hide interpretative clues in a network of texts that only the reader's consciousness can make present. This volume showcases innovative...
University of Chicago Press, 1994. — 238 p. From appetizers to desserts, the rustic to the refined, here are more than two hundred recipes from ancient Rome tested and updated for today’s tastes. With its intriguing sweet-sour flavor combinations, its lavish use of fresh herbs and fragrant spices, and its base in whole grains and fruits and vegetables, the cuisine of Rome will...
2nd Edition. — Oxford University Press, 2021. — 544 p. - Innovative thematic approach introduces students to Rome's vibrant social and cultural history while also challenging them to consider its complex relationships, dynamics, structures, and beliefs outside of a chronological timeline. - Written and edited by Canadian researchers and scholars, offering students a relevant...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 496 p. Themes in Roman Society and Culture is a core contributed volume that provides a thematic introduction to fundamental aspects of Roman society-its composition, institutions, structures, and cultural products-with major focus on the period 200 BCE to 200 CE. This engaging introduction challenges students to consider Roman society as a...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 248 p. The turbulent decade of the 60s CE brought Rome to the brink of collapse. It began with Nero's ruthless elimination of Julio-Claudian rivals and ended in his suicide and the civil wars that followed. Suddenly Rome was forced to confront an imperial future as bloody as its Republican past and a ruler from outside the house of Caesar. The...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 230 p. In this book, Bill Gladhill studies one of the most versatile concepts in Roman society, the ritual event that concluded an alliance, a foedus (ritual alliance). Foedus signifies the bonds between nations, men, men and women, friends, humans and gods, gods and goddesses, and the mass of matter that gives shape to the universe. From...
Princeton University Press, 1994. — 232 p. The careers of two popular second-century rhetorical virtuosos offer Maud Gleason fascinating insights into the ways ancient Romans constructed masculinity during a time marked by anxiety over manly deportment. Declamation was an exhilarating art form for the Greeks and bilingual Romans of the Second Sophistic movement, and its best...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. — 594 p. A Blackwell Companion to Roman Love Elegy is the first comprehensive work dedicated solely to the study of love elegy. The genre is explored through 33 original essays that offer new and innovative approaches to specific elegists and the discipline as a whole. - Contributors represent a range of established names and younger scholars, all of whom...
Gorgias Press, 2013. — 300 p. Ancient color-terms can be difficult for us to understand because of the temporal distance between our world and that of antiquity. This study of Roman color-terms covers a great deal of territory, from the occupations that created the colors, to the people who wore them, and how they used them in public and private life. Romans attached nuanced...
University of California Press, 2025. — 192 p. Why are the small and unimportant relics of Roman antiquity often the most enduring, in material form and in our affections? Through close encounters with minor things such as insects, brief lives, quibbles, irritants, and jokes, Emily Gowers provocatively argues that much of what the Romans dismissed as superfluous or peripheral...
University of California Press, 2025. — 192 p. Why are the small and unimportant relics of Roman antiquity often the most enduring, in material form and in our affections? Through close encounters with minor things such as insects, brief lives, quibbles, irritants, and jokes, Emily Gowers provocatively argues that much of what the Romans dismissed as superfluous or peripheral...
Clarendon Press, 1993. — 346 p. This book offers a novel and unconventional approach to Roman culture, through food, or rather, food as it is represented in literature. Food is not generally thought of as the noblest of literary subjects, and this view is a legacy from the Romans, so it is curious that Roman writers chose so persistently to depict their society at the...
Routledge, 2023. — 248 p. This book explores the place of birds in Roman myth and everyday life, focusing primarily on the transitional period of 100 BCE to 100 CE within the Italian peninsula. A diverse range of topics is considered in order to build a broad overview of the subject. Beginning with an appraisal of omens, augury, and auspices – including the ‘sacred chickens’...
Routledge, 2023. — 248 p. This book explores the place of birds in Roman myth and everyday life, focusing primarily on the transitional period of 100 BCE to 100 CE within the Italian peninsula. A diverse range of topics is considered in order to build a broad overview of the subject. Beginning with an appraisal of omens, augury, and auspices – including the ‘sacred chickens’...
Archaeopress, 2023. — 194 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 104). Ancient funerary reliefs are full of representations of writing materials and instruments, the interpretation of which can help us better understand the phenomenon of ancient literacy. The eight studies in this volume were delivered as lectures at an online conference organized by the Department of Ancient...
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 232 p. — (Greek Culture in the Roman World). A Greek declamation was an 'imaginary speech': a fictitious speech composed for a rhetorical scenario set in Classical Greece. Although such speeches began as rhetorical exercises, under the high Roman empire they developed into a full-blown prestigious genre in their own right. This first...
University of Wisconsin Press, 2008. — 344 p. — (Wisconsin Studies in Classics). In this strikingly original and playful work, Erik Gunderson examines questions of reading the past—an enterprise extending from antiquity to the present day. This esoteric and original study focuses on the equally singular work of Aulus Gellius—a Roman author and grammarian (ca. 120-180 A.D.),...
W.W. Norton and Company, 2017. — 224 p. In this informal history of Roman civilization, Edith Hamilton vividly depicts the Roman life and spirit as they are revealed in the greatest writers of the time.Among these literary guides are Cicero, who left an incomparable collection of letters; Catullus, the quintessential poet of love; Horace, the chronicler of a cruel and...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2012. — 288 p. This volume seeks to explain developments within the structure of the family in antiquity, in particular in the later Roman Empire and late antiquity. Contributions extend the traditional chronological focus on the Roman family to include the transformation of familial structures in the newly formed kingdoms of late antiquity in Europe, thus...
A&C Black, 2013. — 308 p. The history and literature of the Roman Empire is full of reports of dream prophecies, dream ghosts and dream gods. This volume offers a fresh approach to the study of ancient dreams by asking not what the ancients dreamed or how they experienced dreaming, but why the Romans considered dreams to be important and worthy of recording. Dream reports from...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 380 p. Every day Roman urbanites took to the street for myriad tasks, from hawking vegetables and worshipping local deities to simply loitering and socializing. Hartnett takes readers into this thicket of activity as he repopulates Roman streets with their full range of sensations, participants, and events that stretched far beyond simple...
De Gruyter, 2023. — 182 p. Studies on ancient urbanity either concerns individual buildings or the city as a whole. This volume, instead, addresses a meso-scale of urbanity: the socio-spatial organisation of ancient cities. Its temporal focus is on Late Republican and Imperial Italy, and more specifically the cities of Pompeii and Ostia. Referring to a praxeological and...
De Gruyter, 2023. — 182 p. Studies on ancient urbanity either concerns individual buildings or the city as a whole. This volume, instead, addresses a meso-scale of urbanity: the socio-spatial organisation of ancient cities. Its temporal focus is on Late Republican and Imperial Italy, and more specifically the cities of Pompeii and Ostia. Referring to a praxeological and...
Walter de Gruyter, 2021. — 294 p. The focus of this volume is on the aesthetics, semantics and function of materials in Roman antiquity between the 2nd century B.C. and the 2nd century A.D. It includes contributions on both architectural spaces (and their material design) and objects – types of 'artefacts' that differ greatly in the way they were used, perceived and loaded with...
Walter de Gruyter, 2021. — 294 p. The focus of this volume is on the aesthetics, semantics and function of materials in Roman antiquity between the 2nd century B.C. and the 2nd century A.D. It includes contributions on both architectural spaces (and their material design) and objects – types of 'artefacts' that differ greatly in the way they were used, perceived and loaded with...
Walter de Gruyter, 2021. — 294 p. The focus of this volume is on the aesthetics, semantics and function of materials in Roman antiquity between the 2nd century B.C. and the 2nd century A.D. It includes contributions on both architectural spaces (and their material design) and objects – types of 'artefacts' that differ greatly in the way they were used, perceived and loaded with...
Leipzig & Berlin: B.G. Teubner, 1930. — 156 S. Augustum Saeculum Der Staat Volk und Heer Die Religion Die Stadt Rom und ihre Kunst Wissenschaft und Bildung Livius Die Dichtung: Elegie Horaz Virgil
Brill, 2024. — 840 p. — (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 198/1). With this analysis of Sol images, Steven E. Hijmans paints a new picture of the solar cult in ancient Rome. The paucity of literary evidence led Hijmans to prioritize visual sources, and he opens this study with a thorough discussion of the theoretical and methodological issues involved. Emphasizing the danger...
Brill, 2024. — 630 p. — (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 198/2). With this analysis of Sol images, Steven E. Hijmans paints a new picture of the solar cult in ancient Rome. The paucity of literary evidence led Hijmans to prioritize visual sources, and he opens this study with a thorough discussion of the theoretical and methodological issues involved. Emphasizing the danger...
Routledge, 2005. — 224 p. Richard Hingley here asks the questions: What is Romanization? Was Rome the first global culture? Romanization has been represented as a simple progression from barbarism to civilization. Roman forms in architecture, coinage, language and literature came to dominate the world from Britain to Syria. Hingley argues for a more complex and nuanced view in...
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 310 p. This book analyzes the mentality that required the invention of history to commemorate the achievements of aristocrats at the dawn of the Roman Empire. By investigating classical literary sources as well as the visual arts, this book helps us understand how the Romans justified their action to themselves and to their conquered...
Oxbow Books, 2011. — 144 p. This book explores the themes of memory and mourning from the Roman deathbed to the Roman cemetery, drawing subject matter from the literature, art, and archaeology of ancient Rome. It brings together scholarship on varied aspects of Roman death, investigating connections between ancient poetry, history and oratory and placing these alongside...
University of North Carolina Press, 2014. — 348 p. Libraries of the ancient world have long held a place in the public imagination. Even in antiquity, the library at Alexandria was nearly legendary. Until now there has been relatively little research to discover what was inside these libraries, how the collections came into being and evolved, and who selected and maintained the...
University of California Press, 2024. — 372 p. The history of dining is a story that cannot be told without archaeology. Surviving texts describe the opulent banquets of Rome’s wealthy elite but give little attention to the simpler, more intimate social gatherings of domestic invitation dinners. The lower classes, in particular, are largely ignored by literary sources. We can,...
University of California Press, 2024. — 372 p. The history of dining is a story that cannot be told without archaeology. Surviving texts describe the opulent banquets of Rome’s wealthy elite but give little attention to the simpler, more intimate social gatherings of domestic invitation dinners. The lower classes, in particular, are largely ignored by literary sources. We can,...
Brill, 2023. — 275 p. — (Contexts of Ancient and Medieval Anthropology 5). This book argues that Romans credited certain living persons with the capacity to function as cult statues, that is, as images and vessels of the divine. After addressing the cultural context that produced the idea that humans can become images of the divine, the text shows how emperors, bishops, and...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 334 p. This book is for readers of classical literature and culture. It explores the role paratexts (e.g. indexes, prefaces, inter-titles) play in our reading and interpretation of Roman texts. It proposes a new direction in the criticism of the structure of Roman texts, and new understanding of reception in Latin literature. What is a...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 652 p. In Gardens of the Roman Empire , the pioneering archaeologist Wilhelmina F. Jashemski sets out to examine the role of ancient Roman gardens in daily life throughout the empire. This study, therefore, includes for the first time, archaeological, literary, and artistic evidence about ancient Roman gardens across the entire Roman Empire...
Psychology Press, 1996. — 264 p. This work provides a survey of the jewellery of Roman Britain. Fully illustrated and accessible to both the specialist and amateur enthusiast, it surveys the full range of personal ornament worn in Britain during the Roman period, the 1st to 4th centuries AD. It emphasizes the presence of two distinct cultural and artistic traditions, the...
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 300 p. This book explores the many strategies by which elite Greeks and Romans resisted the cultural and political hegemony of the Roman Empire in ways that avoided direct confrontation or simple warfare. By resistance is meant a range of responses including 'opposition', 'subversion', 'antagonism', 'dissent', and 'criticism' within a...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. — 208 p. This volume focuses on four cultural phenomena in the Roman world of the late Republic - the garden, a garden painting, tapestry, and the domestic caged bird. They accept or reject a categorisation as art in varying degrees, but they show considerable overlaps in the ways in which they impinge on social space. The study looks, therefore, at...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. — 208 p. This volume focuses on four cultural phenomena in the Roman world of the late Republic - the garden, a garden painting, tapestry, and the domestic caged bird. They accept or reject a categorisation as art in varying degrees, but they show considerable overlaps in the ways in which they impinge on social space. The study looks, therefore, at...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 308 p. — (Greek Culture in the Roman World Serie). In the first centuries BCE and CE, Roman wall painters frequently placed representations of works of art, especially panel paintings, within their own mural compositions. Nathaniel B. Jones argues that the depiction of panel painting within mural ensembles functioned as a meta-pictorial...
Cambridge University Press, 1997. — 404 p. The World of Rome is an introduction to the history and culture of Rome for anyone seriously interested in the ancient world. It covers all aspects of the city - its rise to power, what made it great and why it still engages and challenges us today. Frequent quotations from ancient writers and numerous illustrations make this a...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 332 p. The Solitary Sphere in the Age of Virgil uses an enriched tripartite model of Roman culture-touching not only the public and the private, but also the solitary-in order to present a radical re-interpretation of Latin literature and of the historical causes of this third sphere's relative invisibility in scholarship. By connecting Cosmos...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 332 p. The Solitary Sphere in the Age of Virgil uses an enriched tripartite model of Roman culture-touching not only the public and the private, but also the solitary-in order to present a radical re-interpretation of Latin literature and of the historical causes of this third sphere's relative invisibility in scholarship. By connecting Cosmos...
Brepols, 2011. — 338 p. The foundations of European civilization as we know it today were laid in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. 'The Faces of the Other: Religious Rivalry and Ethnic Encounters in the Later Roman World' traces the roots of the attitudes and argumentation about religious or ethnic otherness in modern western culture. It aims at deepening the...
De Gruyter, 2025. — 312 p. — (Millennium-Studien / Millennium Studies 107). In der Spätantike veränderte sich im Römischen Reich vieles, auch das Spielewesen, das das städtische Leben für Jahrhunderte geprägt hatte. Immer seltener wurden munera , also Gladiatorenkämpfe und Tierhetzen, und Agone aufgeführt, bis sie im fünften Jahrhundert beinahe völlig verschwanden. Diese...
University of California Press, 2024. — 260 p. After the deaths of Antony and Cleopatra, Rome finally took control of Egypt. This occupation simultaneously facilitated and circumscribed the exchange of goods, people, and ideas along the paths carved across Rome’s burgeoning empire. In this book, Edward Kelting sets out to recapture one of these systems of exchange: the vibrant...
University of California Press, 2024. — 260 p. After the deaths of Antony and Cleopatra, Rome finally took control of Egypt. This occupation simultaneously facilitated and circumscribed the exchange of goods, people, and ideas along the paths carved across Rome’s burgeoning empire. In this book, Edward Kelting sets out to recapture one of these systems of exchange: the vibrant...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023. — xviii + 458 p. Traces how the day has served as a key organizing concept in Roman culture—and beyond. How did ancient Romans keep track of time? What constituted a day in ancient Rome was not the same twenty-four hours we know today. In The Ordered Day , James Ker traces how the day served as a key organizing concept, both in antiquity...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 320 p. This volume seeks to explore the ways in which particular conceptions of knowledge and particular ways of textualising knowledge were entwined with social and political practices and ideals within the Roman Imperial period. In the process, we explore the possibility that the Roman Empire brought with it distinctive forms of knowledge,...
Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2002. — 254 p. — (Hermes Einzelschriften 84). Das sog. Saturnische Versmaß ist eines der großen Rätsel der Lateinischen Philologie. In der vorliegenden Arbeit werden die bisherigen Ansätze zu diesem Metrum diskutiert, weiterführende Vorschläge erarbeitet und schließlich im Hauptteil die infrage kommenden Inschriften erstmals im Zusammenhang in...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2007. — 192 p. One of the greatest aesthetic attractions in the ancient world was pantomime dancing, a ballet-style entertainment in which a silent, solo dancer incarnated a series of mythological characters to the accompaniment of music and sung narrative. Looking at a multitude of texts and particularly Lucian's "On the Dance", a dialogue written at the...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2007. — 192 p. One of the greatest aesthetic attractions in the ancient world was pantomime dancing, a ballet-style entertainment in which a silent, solo dancer incarnated a series of mythological characters to the accompaniment of music and sung narrative. Looking at a multitude of texts and particularly Lucian's "On the Dance", a dialogue written at the...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 277 p. Modern society has a negative view of youth as a period of storm and stress, but at the same time cherishes the idea of eternal youth. How does this compare with ancient Roman society? Did a phase of youth exist there with its own characteristics? How was youth appreciated? This book studies the lives and the image of youngsters...
Brill, 2013. — xiv+318 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements, History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity 356). This is the first volume ever to systematically study the subject of disabilities in the Roman world. The contributors examine the topic a capite ad calcem, from head to toe. Chapters deal with mental and intellectual disability, alcoholism, visual impairment, speech...
Routledge, 2023. — 304 p. This book, built around the study of the representation of age and identity in 23,000 Latin funerary epitaphs from the Western Mediterranean in the Roman era, sets out how the use of age in inscriptions, and in turn, time, varied across this region. Discrepancies between the use of time to represent identity in death allow readers to begin to...
De Gruyter, 2015. — 674 s. Die Römische Tragödie der archaischen Epoche, der augusteischen Klassik und der frühen Kaiserzeit ist mit Ausnahme der Tragödien Senecas nur in zahlreichen Fragmenten erhalten. In über 30 Aufsätzen aus den Jahren 1972 bis 2014, von denen eine Reihe unpubliziert ist, zeigt der Verfasser, dass die politische Grundierung ein durchgehendes...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. — 432 p. - Study on the Roman culture of remembrance on the basis of current Theories of Memory - Rome's defeats in the mirror of Roman historiography - Rome and the relationship to military defeat The history of the Roman Republic was a military success story. Texts, monuments and rituals commemorated Rome's victories, and this emphasis on its own...
Cambridge University Press. 2019. — 204 p. This volume wades into the fertile waters of Augustan Rome and the interrelationship of its literature, monuments, and urban landscape. It focused on a pair of questions: how can we productively probe the myriad points of contact between textual and material evidence to write viable cultural histories of the ancient Greek and Roman...
University of Michigan Press, 2017. — 288 p. In recent decades, the study of Roman art has shifted focus dramatically from issues of connoisseurship, typology, and chronology to analyses of objects within their contemporary contexts and local environments. Scholars challenge the notion, formerly taken for granted, that extant historical texts - the writings of Vitruvius, for...
University of Michigan Press, 2017. — 288 p. In recent decades, the study of Roman art has shifted focus dramatically from issues of connoisseurship, typology, and chronology to analyses of objects within their contemporary contexts and local environments. Scholars challenge the notion, formerly taken for granted, that extant historical texts - the writings of Vitruvius, for...
Walter de Gruyter, 2008. — 688 S. — (Image & Context 5). Gibt es eine Beziehung zwischen Bildern an der Wand und der Tapete im Kopf ihrer Betrachter? Und wie könnte sich eine derartige Beziehung methodisch greifen lassen, welche soziohistorischen Aspekte ließen sich aus ihr gewinnen? Mit der kontextuellen Analyse von Mythenbildern in pompeianischen Wohnhäusern entwickelt...
Princeton University Press, 2025. — 456 p. The essential role of ethnographic thought in the Roman empire and how it evolved in Late Antiquity. Ethnography is indispensable for every empire, as important as armies, tax collectors, or ambassadors. It helps rulers articulate cultural differences, and it lets the inhabitants of the empire, especially those who guide its course,...
De Gruyter, 2019. — 362 p. — (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes 93). While most work on Dionysus is based on Greek sources, this collection of essays examines the god’s Roman and Italian manifestations. Nine contributions address Bacchus’ appearance at the crossroads of Greek and Roman cultures, tracing continuities and differences between literary and archaeological...
De Gruyter, 2019. — 362 p. — (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes 93). While most work on Dionysus is based on Greek sources, this collection of essays examines the god’s Roman and Italian manifestations. Nine contributions address Bacchus’ appearance at the crossroads of Greek and Roman cultures, tracing continuities and differences between literary and archaeological...
Brill, 2022. — 300 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 460). This first in-depth study of Valerius Flaccus’ animals reveals their role in his poetic programme and the manifold ways in which he establishes their subjectivity. In one encounter, a trapped bird becomes a tragic victim, while the trapper is dehumanized. Elsewhere there are touching portrayals of animal/human camaraderie...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. — 320 p. Athenian comedy is firmly entrenched in the classical canon, but imperial authors debated, dissected and redirected comic texts, plots and language of Aristophanes, Menander, and their rivals in ways that reflect the non-Athenocentric, pan-Mediterranean performance culture of the imperial era. Although the reception of tragedy beyond its own...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. — 320 p. Athenian comedy is firmly entrenched in the classical canon, but imperial authors debated, dissected and redirected comic texts, plots and language of Aristophanes, Menander, and their rivals in ways that reflect the non-Athenocentric, pan-Mediterranean performance culture of the imperial era. Although the reception of tragedy beyond its own...
Ohio State University Press, 2016. — 234 p. This book discusses same-sex desire among elite, educated Roman men in late antiquity, when same-sex desire could operate as a distinct vehicle for expressing friendship, patronage, solidarity, and other important relationships. Indeed, a man's grandeur or reputation could be portrayed metaphorically, and with some paradox, as sexual...
Lexington Books, 2017. — 268 p. The Teacher in Ancient Rome: The Magister and His World by Lisa Maurice investigates a particular aspect of education in ancient Rome, namely the figure of the teacher. After identifying and defining the different kinds of teachers in the Roman education systems, Maurice illuminates their ways of life both as both professionals and members of...
Lexington Books, 2017. — 268 p. The Teacher in Ancient Rome: The Magister and His World by Lisa Maurice investigates a particular aspect of education in ancient Rome, namely the figure of the teacher. After identifying and defining the different kinds of teachers in the Roman education systems, Maurice illuminates their ways of life both as both professionals and members of...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. — 294 p. Focusing on the Roman west, this book examines the rituals of cursing, their cultural contexts, and their impact on the lives of those who practised them. A huge number of Roman curse tablets have been discovered, showing their importance for helping ancient people to cope with various aspects of life. Curse tablets have been relatively...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. — 294 p. Focusing on the Roman west, this book examines the rituals of cursing, their cultural contexts, and their impact on the lives of those who practised them. A huge number of Roman curse tablets have been discovered, showing their importance for helping ancient people to cope with various aspects of life. Curse tablets have been relatively...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. — 272 p. This volume approaches the broad topic of wonder in the works of Tacitus, encompassing paradox, the marvellous and the admirable. Recent scholarship on these themes in Roman literature has tended to focus on poetic genres, with comparatively little attention paid to historiography: Tacitus, whose own judgments on what is worthy of note have...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 354 p. The River Nile fascinated the Romans and appeared in maps, written descriptions, texts, poems and paintings of the developing empire. Tantalised by the unique status of the river, explorers were sent to find the sources of the Nile, while natural philosophers meditated on its deeper metaphysical significance. Andy Merrills' book, Roman...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 256 p. What is good luck and what did it mean to the Romans? What connections were there between luck and childbirth, victory in war, or success in business? What did Roman statesmen like Cicero and Caesar think about luck? This volume aims to address these questions by focusing on the Latin goddess Fortuna, one of the better known deities in...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2021. — 200 p. — (Potsdamer altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge 75). Chris Mowat brings together understandings of divinatory traditions and of gender in the Late Roman Republic to consider how each influenced the performative nature of the other. The identity of the divinatory actor(s) is an important element that plays a part in confirming the...
Casemate Academic, 2016. — 250 p. When the Roman Empire progressively expanded its influence over the North African continent, it encountered a very heterogeneous mix of peoples with a long and diverse history. This collection of papers from the conference De Africa Romaque: Merging Cultures Across North Africa (Leicester, 2013), explores the mutual relationships between North...
Oxford University Press, 2024. — 368 p. - First comprehensive modern study devoted to the later-Roman and post-imperial linguistic environment - Provides a wide-ranging and multi-disciplinary treatment by leading international experts - Presents major advances in understanding languages in use in the Roman West Languages are central to the creation and expression of identities...
Oxford University Press, 2024. — 368 p. - First comprehensive modern study devoted to the later-Roman and post-imperial linguistic environment - Provides a wide-ranging and multi-disciplinary treatment by leading international experts - Presents major advances in understanding languages in use in the Roman West Languages are central to the creation and expression of identities...
Oxford University Press, 2024. — 312 p. Gardens are not central in Latin literature, but usually somewhere off to the side, as was often the real garden. They appear, however, in some form in nearly all literary genres of Latin literature--history, satire, epigrams, epics, letters, lyric poetry, elegies, and novels--and often edge their way into larger socio-economic and...
San Diego, California: Lucent Books, 2000. — 96 p. — (The Way People Live Series). — ISBN: 1-56006-655-5. Discusses life in ancient Rome, focusing on the origin and popularity of public games, Rome's monumental game facilities, gladiators, wild animal shows, and other spectacles. Foreword. Discovering the Humanity in Us All. Introduction. Rome's Favorite Form of Entertainment....
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 359 p. This book rethinks the Christianisation of the late Roman empire as a crisis of knowledge, pointing to competitive cultural re-assessment as a major driving force in the making of the Constantinian and post-Constantinian state. Emperor Julian's writings are re-assessed as key to accessing the rise and consolidation of a Christian...
Routledge, 2008. — 192 p. In ancient Rome, the subtlest details in dress helped to distinguish between levels of social and moral hierarchy. Clothes were a key part of the sign systems of Roman civilization - a central aspect of its visual language, for women as well as men. This engaging book collects and examines artistic evidence and literary references to female clothing,...
Routledge, 2017. — 214 p. In Masculinity and Dress in Roman Antiquity , Olson argues that clothing functioned as part of the process of communication by which elite male influence, masculinity, and sexuality were made known and acknowledged, and furthermore that these concepts interconnected in socially significant ways. This volume also sets out the details of masculine dress...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2024. — 706 p. — (Heidelberger althistorische Beiträge und epigraphische Studien (HABES) 66). Jonas Osnabrügge geht einer zentralen Frage epigraphisch-althistorischer Forschung nach: Warum wurden antike Monumente mit Inschriften versehen? Er bietet erstmals eine zusammenhängende Analyse der über 1.500 Inschriften aus dem Gebiet beiderseits des Oberrheins...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 200 p. — ISBN-13 9781107000964. Walking served as an occasion for the display of power and status in ancient Rome, where great men paraded with their entourages through city streets and elite villa owners strolled with friends in private colonnades and gardens. In this first book-length treatment of the culture of walking in ancient Rome,...
Foreword by Mark Fenster. — University of Texas Press, 2012. — xvi + 182 p. This provocative new companion to Conspiracy Narratives in Roman History shows how viewing an array of Latin texts through the lens of conspiracy theory reveals a host of socioeconomic tensions from the Roman Republic through the age of the emperors.
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. — 520 p. Classical authors such as Cicero and Plutarch would have us believe that the elderly were revered, active citizens of ancient Rome. But upon closer inspection, it appears that older people may not have enjoyed as respected or as powerful a place in Roman society as has been supposed. In this highly original work, Tim Parkin...
De Gruyter, 2021. — 250 p. From gleaming hardstone statues to bright frescoes, the unexpected and often spectacular Egyptian objects discovered in Roman Italy have long presented an interpretive challenge. How they shaped and were shaped by religion, politics, and identity formation has now been well researched. But one crucial function of these objects remains to be explored:...
De Gruyter, 2021. — 250 p. From gleaming hardstone statues to bright frescoes, the unexpected and often spectacular Egyptian objects discovered in Roman Italy have long presented an interpretive challenge. How they shaped and were shaped by religion, politics, and identity formation has now been well researched. But one crucial function of these objects remains to be explored:...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 376 p. Is music just matter of hearing and producing notes? And is it of interest just to musicians? By exploring different authors and philosophical trends of the Roman Empire, from Philo of Alexandria to Alexander of Aphrodisias, from the rebirth of Platonism with Plutarch to the last Neoplatonists, this book sheds light on different ways...
Routledge, 2019. — 270 p. The life of Alexander the Great began to be retold from the moment of his death. The Greco-Roman authors used these stories as exemplars in a variety of ways. This book is concerned with the various stories of Alexander and how they were used in antiquity to promote certain policies, religious views, and value systems. The book is an original...
Routledge, 2019. — 270 p. The life of Alexander the Great began to be retold from the moment of his death. The Greco-Roman authors used these stories as exemplars in a variety of ways. This book is concerned with the various stories of Alexander and how they were used in antiquity to promote certain policies, religious views, and value systems. The book is an original...
Brill, 2018. — xviii, 292 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 420). Caroline Petit’s book, Galien de Pergame ou la rhétorique de la Providence: Médecine, littérature et pouvoir à Rome is the first comprehensive study of the role of rhetoric in Galen’s œuvre. Physician to several Roman emperors and author of the most impressive body of works in antiquity up to AD 350, Galen created a...
Brill, 2001. — 470 p. — (Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition 24). In the first and second centuries A.D., Roman soldiers were forbidden legitimate marriage during service: nevertheless, many soldiers formed de facto marriages. This book examines the legal, social, and cultural aspects of the marriage prohibition and soldiers' families. The first section covers the...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — xviii + 337 p. Classicists have long wondered what everyday life was like in ancient Greece and Rome. How, for example, did the slaves, visitors, inhabitants or owners experience the same home differently? And how did owners manipulate the spaces of their homes to demonstrate control or social hierarchy? To answer these questions, Hannah Platts...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 346 p. In this book, Maggie Popkin offers an in-depth investigation of souvenirs, a type of ancient Roman object that has been understudied and that is unfamiliar to many people. Souvenirs commemorated places, people, and spectacles in the Roman Empire. Straddling the spheres of religion, spectacle, leisure, and politics, they serve as a...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 346 p. In this book, Maggie Popkin offers an in-depth investigation of souvenirs, a type of ancient Roman object that has been understudied and that is unfamiliar to many people. Souvenirs commemorated places, people, and spectacles in the Roman Empire. Straddling the spheres of religion, spectacle, leisure, and politics, they serve as a...
Routledge, 2021. — 206 p. Future Thinking in Roman Culture is the first volume dedicated to the exploration of prospective memory and future thinking in the Roman world, integrating cutting edge research in cognitive sciences and theory with approaches to historiography, epigraphy, and material culture. This volume opens a new avenue of investigation for Roman memory studies in...
University of Michigan Press, 1999. — 368 p. Life, Death, and Entertainment gives those who have a general interest in Roman antiquity a starting point informed by the latest developments in scholarship for understanding the extraordinary range of Roman society. Family structure, gender identity, food supply, religion, and entertainment are all crucial to an understanding of...
Turnhout: Brepols, 2024. — 156 p. — (Generation 4). Romulus et Rémus naissent d’une vierge vestale (Ilia ou Rhéa Silvia) ou d’une esclave qui s’accouple avec un phallus divin. Après avoir été soustraits à leur mère, ils sont allaités par la louve, une bête qui, malgré son caractère de prédateur, se comporte comme une nourrice pleine d’attention et d’affection. L’abris pour cet...
De Gruyter, 2022. — 805 p. The book concerns female dress in Roman life and literature. The main focus is on female Roman dress as it may have been worn in daily life in Rome and in a social environment influenced by Roman culture in the time from the beginnings of the Republic until the end of the 2nd century AD. There is, however, a certain surplus as to its contents because...
De Gruyter, 2022. — 805 p. The book concerns female dress in Roman life and literature. The main focus is on female Roman dress as it may have been worn in daily life in Rome and in a social environment influenced by Roman culture in the time from the beginnings of the Republic until the end of the 2nd century AD. There is, however, a certain surplus as to its contents because...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2007. — 192 p. "Legendary Rome" is the first book to offer a comparative treatment of the reinvention of Rome's origins in the poetry of Vergil, Tibullus and Propertius. It also examines the impact that the changing topography of Rome, as orchestrated by the emperor Augustus, had on those poets' renditions of Rome's legendary past. When the poets explore...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 288 p. Building in Words explores the relationship between text and architecture in the Roman world from the perspective of architectural process. Ancient Romans frequently encountered buildings under construction - they experienced noisy building work, disruptive transportation of materials, and sometimes spectacular engineering feats. Bettina...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 288 p. Building in Words explores the relationship between text and architecture in the Roman world from the perspective of architectural process. Ancient Romans frequently encountered buildings under construction - they experienced noisy building work, disruptive transportation of materials, and sometimes spectacular engineering feats. Bettina...
Oxford University Press, 1992. — xxxiii + 315 p.
This book began as a means of determining the place of Juvenal 2 , 6 , and 9 relative to Juvenal's satire as a whole and to the rest of Roman satire. The works read in this endeavor proved interesting enough in their own right that the analysis of them here takes up much more space than the analysis of Juvenal 2, 6, and 9; still,...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 272 p. — (Classical Culture and Society). — ISBN: 978-0-19-063250-2. Today's information technology often seems to take on a life of its own, spreading into every part of our lives. In the Roman world things were different. Technologies were limited to small, scattered social groups. By examining five technologies - lists, tables, weights and...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 272 p. — (Classical Culture and Society). — ISBN: 978-0-19-063250-2. Today's information technology often seems to take on a life of its own, spreading into every part of our lives. In the Roman world things were different. Technologies were limited to small, scattered social groups. By examining five technologies - lists, tables, weights and...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 270 p. In this volume, Felipe Rojas examines how the inhabitants of Roman Anatolia interacted with the physical traces of earlier civilizations in their midst. Combining material and textual evidence, he shows that interest in and knowledge about pre-classical remains was deep and widespread. Indeed, ancient interaction with the remnants of even...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 650 p. This is the first thorough English commentary on the geographical books of Pliny the Elder, written in the AD 70s. Pliny's account is the longest in Latin, and represents the geographical knowledge of that era, when the Roman Empire was the dominant force in the Mediterranean world. The work serves both cultural and ideological...
Princeton University Press, 2006. — 240 p. What was really going on at Roman banquets? In this lively new book, veteran Romanist Matthew Roller looks at a little-explored feature of Roman culture: dining posture. In ancient Rome, where dining was an indicator of social position as well as an extended social occasion, dining posture offered a telling window into the day-to-day...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 338 p. Historical examples played a key role in ancient Roman culture, and Matthew B. Roller's book presents a coherent model for understanding the rhetorical, moral, and historiographical operations of Roman exemplarity. It examines the process of observing, evaluating, and commemorating noteworthy actors, or deeds, and then holding those...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019. — 256 p. This book traces the toga's history from its origins in the Etruscan garment known as the tebenna, through its use as an everyday garment in the Republican period to its increasingly exclusive role as a symbol of privilege in the Principate and its decline in use in late antiquity. It aims to shift the scholarly view of the toga from one...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019. — 256 p. This book traces the toga's history from its origins in the Etruscan garment known as the tebenna, through its use as an everyday garment in the Republican period to its increasingly exclusive role as a symbol of privilege in the Principate and its decline in use in late antiquity. It aims to shift the scholarly view of the toga from one...
De Gruyter, 2024. — 182 p. Rome was an empire of images, especially images that bolstered their imperial identity. Visual and material items portraying battles, myths, captives, trophies, and triumphal parades were particularly important across the Roman empire. But where did these images originate and what shaped them? Empire of Images explores the development of the Roman...
De Gruyter, 2024. — 182 p. — (Appearances – Studies in Visual Research 5). Rome was an empire of images, especially images that bolstered their imperial identity. Visual and material items portraying battles, myths, captives, trophies, and triumphal parades were particularly important across the Roman empire. But where did these images originate and what shaped them? Empire of...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2019. — 360 p. Warfare is one of the defining elements that drove the development of the city of Rome from a small territory into a Mediterranean Empire. Religion is identified as having played an important part in this. Never done before, this book undertakes a survey of all rituals, and religious institutions in a broader sense, along with discourses...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2019. — 360 p. Warfare is one of the defining elements that drove the development of the city of Rome from a small territory into a Mediterranean Empire. Religion is identified as having played an important part in this. Never done before, this book undertakes a survey of all rituals, and religious institutions in a broader sense, along with discourses...
Routledge, 2025. — 220 p. This book explores the function and socio-cultural significance of rural bathhouses, seeking to redefine our understanding of the relationships between these buildings and the identities of the communities residing in the countryside of Roman Britain. The popularity of baths in antiquity and their archaeological distinctiveness have led both...
Brill, 2024. — 590 p. — (Mnemosyne Supplements 484). Die vorliegende Monographie entwirft eine literaturgeschichtliche Gesamtdarstellung des römischen Antiquarianismus vom 2. Jahrhundert v. Chr. bis zum 3. Jahrhundert n. Chr. Ausgangspunkt ist die begrifflich-konzeptuelle Neuprofilierung des Phänomens. Dieses wird als ein epistemologisches Modell gegenwartsbezogener...
University of Wisconsin Press, 2015. — 288 p. — (Wisconsin Studies in Classics). The elegists, ancient Rome’s most introspective poets, filled their works with vivid, first-person accounts of dreams. Dream, Fantasy, and Visual Art in Roman Elegy examines these varied and visually striking textual dreamscapes, arguing that the poets exploited dynamics of visual representation to...
Routledge, 2022. — 268 p. This book examines how Pompeian peristyle gardens were utilized to represent the socioeconomic status of Roman homeowners, introducing fresh perspectives on how these spaces were designed, used, and perceived. Pompeian Peristyle Gardens provides a novel understanding of how the domus was planned, utilized, and experienced through a critical examination...
De Gruyter, 2022. — 200 p. The book presents the author's latest research on ancient perceptions of time; it centres on medical discussions, especially of the doctor-philosopher Galen, while also contextualizing his work within Graeco-Roman evidence and discussions – archaeological, medical, technological, philosophical, literary – more broadly. The focus is on questions of...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 320 p. This volume addresses the treatment and perception of historic buildings in Imperial Rome, examining the ways in which public monuments were restored in order to develop an understanding of the Roman concept of built heritage. It considers examples from the first century BC to the second century AD, focusing primarily on the six decades...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 320 p. This volume addresses the treatment and perception of historic buildings in Imperial Rome, examining the ways in which public monuments were restored in order to develop an understanding of the Roman concept of built heritage. It considers examples from the first century BC to the second century AD, focusing primarily on the six decades...
Liverpool University Press, 1996. — 159 p. 'Practical Ethics for Roman Gentlemen' is a collection of historical anecdotes written during the reign of the Emperor Tiberius in the first century C.E. The book aims to redefine the significance of the work of Valerius Maxiums, author of The Memorable Deeds of the Men of Rome and Foreign Nations and is likely to become the standard...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 236 p. This book tackles how and why 'landscape' (farms, gardens, countryside) set the scene in the first centuries BCE and CE for Romans keen to talk up and about (but also to scrutinize and understand) what it meant to be a citizen. It investigates what 'landscape' means now and reflects upon how contemporary approaches to 'landscape' can...
Roma: Edizioni Quasar di Severino Tognon, 1993. — 484 p. The Lexicon Topographicum Urbis Romae (1993–2000) is a six-volume, multilingual reference work considered to be the major, modern work covering the topography of ancient Rome. The editor is Eva Margareta Steinby, and the publisher is Edizioni Quasar of Rome. It is considered the successor to Platner and Ashby's A...
Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2010. — 125 p. — (Collegium Beatus Rhenanus 2). Im Jahre 1939 wurde in der Slowakei eine römische Silberplatte mit reicher figürlicher Verzierung gefunden, die Matthias Steinhart hier neu deutet. Anhand literarischer Parallelen zeigt der Autor, dass es sich um Darstellungen berühmter Ereignisse aus der Frühzeit Roms handelt: Brutus, Lucretia,...
University of Michigan Press, 2005. — 336 p. Inspired by a classical education, wealthy Romans populated the glittering interiors of their villas and homes with marble statuettes of ancestors, emperors, gods, and mythological figures. In The Learned Collector , Lea M. Stirling shows how the literary education received by all aristocrats, pagan and Christian alike, was...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 322 p. This is a study of the emergence, development, and florescence of a distinctly 'late Republican' socio-textual culture as recorded in the writings of this period's two most influential authors, Catullus and Cicero. It reveals a multi-faceted textual - rather than more traditionally defined 'literary' - world that both defines the...
Cambridge University Pres, 2015. — 260 p. This book examines the appetite for Egyptian and Egyptian-looking artwork in Italy during the century following Rome's annexation of Aegyptus as a province. In the early imperial period, Roman interest in Egyptian culture was widespread, as evidenced by works ranging from the monumental obelisks, brought to the capital over the...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 320 p. In this book, Ellen Swift uses design theory, previously neglected in Roman archaeology, to investigate Roman artefacts in a new way, making a significant contribution to both Roman social history, and our understanding of the relationships that exist between artefacts and people. Based on extensive data collection and the close study of...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 320 p. In this book, Ellen Swift uses design theory, previously neglected in Roman archaeology, to investigate Roman artefacts in a new way, making a significant contribution to both Roman social history, and our understanding of the relationships that exist between artefacts and people. Based on extensive data collection and the close study of...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 264 p. In an unscientific era when maps were rarities, how did ancient Romans envisage their far flung empire? This was done by various means for certain, including with the aid of an ingenious type of portable sundial that has barely attracted notice. As the Romans understood before the first century BCE, to track the passage of the sun across...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — xviii + 308 p. World and Hour in Roman Minds: Exploratory Essays seeks to penetrate Romans' consciousness of space and time, aspects of antiquity currently attracting intense interest. Historian Richard Talbert presents here a cohesive selection of nineteen essays, published over the course of thirty years, all but one previously appearing in...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 326 p. World and Hour in Roman Minds: Exploratory Essays seeks to penetrate Romans' consciousness of space and time, aspects of antiquity currently attracting intense interest. Historian Richard Talbert presents here a cohesive selection of nineteen essays, published over the course of thirty years, all but one previously appearing in widely...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 326 p. World and Hour in Roman Minds: Exploratory Essays seeks to penetrate Romans' consciousness of space and time, aspects of antiquity currently attracting intense interest. Historian Richard Talbert presents here a cohesive selection of nineteen essays, published over the course of thirty years, all but one previously appearing in widely...
Routledge, 2024. — 252 p. This volume explores the effects of the Roman censorial mark (nota censoria) and the influence of censorial regulations on the development of written law in ancient Rome. The censor was one of the most fascinating legal institutions of Republican Rome. One of the most colourful and anecdotal areas of censorial activities was in the upkeep of public...
Routledge, 2024. — 300 p. This is the first book-length exploration of the ways art from the edges of the Roman Empire represented the future, examining visual representations of time and the role of artwork in Roman imperial systems. This book focuses on four kingdoms from across the empire: Cottius’s Alpine kingdom in the north, King Juba II’s Mauretania in the south-west,...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2006. — 305 p. — (Technology and Change in History 9). Rome was able to support a huge urban population by providing it with the rudiments of human nutrition in the form of processed foods. This volume contains a careful analysis of those food processes. The work is organized on the basis of the presumed importance of those foods, beginning with the...
Polity Press, 1998. — 208 p. — ISBN: 978-0-7456-6890-1. By exploring the nature and role of leisure, Toner offers a new way of looking at Roman society at all levels, not just among the elite. He examines the imperial games and the baths, as well as the forms of leisure associated with popular culture, such as gambling, the taverns, theatre and carnivals. He shows how these...
Polity, 2009. — 248 p. The mass of the Roman people constituted well over 90% of the population. Much ancient history, however, has focused on the lives, politics and culture of the minority elite. This book helps redress the balance by focusing on the non-elite in the Roman world. It builds a vivid account of the everyday lives of the masses, including their social and family...
Polity, 2009. — 248 p. The mass of the Roman people constituted well over 90% of the population. Much ancient history, however, has focused on the lives, politics and culture of the minority elite. This book helps redress the balance by focusing on the non-elite in the Roman world. It builds a vivid account of the everyday lives of the masses, including their social and family...
Pen and Sword History, 2020. — 176 p. Imagine you were transported back in time to Ancient Rome and you had to start a new life there. How would you fit in? Where would you live? What would you eat? Where would you go to have your hair done? Who would you go to if you got ill, or if you were mugged in the street? All these questions, and many more, will be answered in this new...
Pen and Sword History, 2020. — 176 p. Imagine you were transported back in time to Ancient Rome and you had to start a new life there. How would you fit in? Where would you live? What would you eat? Where would you go to have your hair done? Who would you go to if you got ill, or if you were mugged in the street? All these questions, and many more, will be answered in this new...
Pen and Sword History, 2021. — 190 p. From Emperors and empresses, poets and prostitutes, slaves and plebs, Ancient Rome was a wealth of different experiences and expectations. None more so than around the subject of sex and sexuality. The image of Ancient Rome that has come down to us is one of sexual excess: emperors gripped by perversion partaking in pleasure with whomever...
Pen and Sword History, 2021. — 190 p. From Emperors and empresses, poets and prostitutes, slaves and plebs, Ancient Rome was a wealth of different experiences and expectations. None more so than around the subject of sex and sexuality. The image of Ancient Rome that has come down to us is one of sexual excess: emperors gripped by perversion partaking in pleasure with whomever...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 1024 p. In this magisterial two-volume book, Pier Luigi Tucci offers a comprehensive examination of one of the key complexes of Ancient Rome, the Temple of Peace. Based on archival research and an architectural survey, his research sheds new light on the medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque transformations of the basilica, and the later...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 266 p. - Analyses Roman wall painting and Latin love elegy through an interdisciplinary lens that highlights previously unexamined connections between early imperial art and literature - Prior knowledge of Greek and Roman art and literature is not assumed; all Greek and Latin passages are translated into English - Delineates the emergence and...
Peeters, 2019. — 192 p. This book presents an archaeological overview of the presence and development of Egyptian material culture in the context of Augustan Rome. The Augustan period was a crucial turning point for the urban landscape of Rome, which became specifically characterised by a complex, and often flexible repertoire of cultural diversity. Studies in the past have...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 592 p. M. Fabius Quintilianus was a prominent orator, declaimer, and teacher of eloquence in the first century ce. After his retirement he wrote the Institutio oratoria, a unique treatise in Antiquity because it is a handbook of rhetoric and an educational treatise in one. Quintilian’s fame and influence are not only based on the Institutio, but...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 592 p. M. Fabius Quintilianus was a prominent orator, declaimer, and teacher of eloquence in the first century ce. After his retirement he wrote the Institutio oratoria, a unique treatise in Antiquity because it is a handbook of rhetoric and an educational treatise in one. Quintilian’s fame and influence are not only based on the Institutio, but...
L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2001. — 235 p. ' Erotica Pompeiana is the translation into English of a book first reviewed in Classical Review 45 (1995) by Roger Ling, who has revised the translation of this enlarged edition. The collection of erotic graffiti found throughout Pompeii is divided into chapters dealing with different aspects of sexual attachment, accompanied by high...
Dover Publications, 1977. — 301 p.
Oldest known cookbook in existence offers readers a clear picture of what foods Romans ate and how they prepared them. Actual recipes — from fig fed pork and salt fish balls in wine sauce to pumpkin Alexander style, nut custard turnovers, and rose pie. 49 illustrations.
Translated and edited by Joseph Dommers Vehling
Etablissement, traduction et commentaire par J.-F. Bara. — Brill, 1989. — xv, 245 p. — (Études préliminaires aux religions orientales dans l'Empire romain 111). L'etude critique du premier livre des Anthologies de Vettius Valens d' Antioche a fait !'objet d'une these en Science des Religions, soutenue devant l'Universite de Paris-Sorbonne. C'est ce travail, avec modifications...
Reaktion Books, 2022. — 240 p. With a celebrated food writer as host, a delectable history of Roman cuisine and the world - served one dish at a time. “There is more history in a bowl of pasta than in the Colosseum,” writes Andreas Viestad in Dinner in Rome. From the table of a classic Roman restaurant, Viestad takes us on a fascinating culinary exploration of the Eternal City...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2016. — 376 p. — (Historia Einzelschriften 246). Der Anblick von Personifikationen im Palazzo dei Conservatori in Rom oder im westanatolischen Aphrodisias wirft viele Fragen hinsichtlich der Visualisierung und medialen Vermittlung imperialer Herrschaft auf: In welchen bildlichen und textlichen Formen stellten die Römer die Ausdehnung ihrer Machtsphäre dar?...
Brill, 2024. — 185 p. — (Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition 47). This volume’s title designates the Roman first-century BCE senator P. Nigidius Figulus a “polymath.” According to the definition of Peter Burke, the author of a recent monograph on the concept, a polymath is “an individual who has mastered several disciplines,” a description that certainly applies to...
Princeton University Press, 2021. — 400 p. In The Roman Republic of Letters , Katharina Volk explores a fascinating chapter of intellectual history, focusing on the literary senators of the mid-first century BCE who came to blows over the future of Rome even as they debated philosophy, history, political theory, linguistics, science, and religion. It was a period of intense...
Princeton University Press, 2021. — 400 p. In The Roman Republic of Letters , Katharina Volk explores a fascinating chapter of intellectual history, focusing on the literary senators of the mid-first century BCE who came to blows over the future of Rome even as they debated philosophy, history, political theory, linguistics, science, and religion. It was a period of intense...
Routledge, 2009. — x + 182 р. This innovative book is the first comprehensive study of ancient Roman gardens to combine literary and archaeological evidence with contemporary space theory. It applies a variety of interdisciplinary methods including access analysis, literary and gender theory to offer a critical framework for interpreting Roman gardens as physical sites and...
Cambridge University Press. 2007. — 300 p. — ISBN-10 0521123607; ISBN-13 978-0521123600. The relationships between Roman emperors and their objects of desire, male and female, are well attested. The salacious nature of this evidence means that it is often omitted from mainstream historical inquiry. Yet that is to underestimate the importance of 'gossip' and the act of thinking...
De Gruyter, 2022. — 320 p. The Roman foundation myth has been the subject of classical scholarship for centuries. But much in the story of Romulus and Remus remains unexplained. This is the first English language book-length study of the Lupercalia, a religious festival central to understanding both the Roman foundation myth and the history of Rome. The festival of the...
Bristol Classical Press, 1998. — 228 p. Suetonius, a Roman historian, was the author of The Lives of the Caesars - one of the most vivid surviving documents of the early Roma empire. His biographies illuminate not only the political history of the twelve rulers from Julius Caesar to Domitian, but also the whole social and cultural world to which these Caesar's belonged. In the...
Brill, 2022. — xiv + 321 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 457; Mnemosyne, Supplements, History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity 457). Communal Dining in in the Roman West explores why the practice of privately sponsored communal dining gained popularity in certain parts of the Western Roman Empire for almost 300 years. This book brings together 350 Latin inscriptions to...
Bristol Classical Press, 2009. — 246 p. The publishing of Roman books has long and often been misrepresented by false analogies with modern publishing. This comprehensive new study examines, by appeal to what Roman authors themselves tell us, both the raw materials and aesthetic criteria of the Roman book (a papyrus scroll) and the process of literary composition. What was the...
Bristol Classical Press, 2009. — 246 p. The publishing of Roman books has long and often been misrepresented by false analogies with modern publishing. This comprehensive new study examines, by appeal to what Roman authors themselves tell us, both the raw materials and aesthetic criteria of the Roman book (a papyrus scroll) and the process of literary composition. What was the...
Leicester University Press, 1979. — 208 p. Clio is Muse of history, her 'cosmetics' the adornments of rhetoric. Peter Wiseman's influential book concerns the writing of history during the first century BCE, when Rome was in process of becoming the centre of the Greek, as much as her own, literary world. Historians, trained in the schools of rhetoric, prized elegant plausibility...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. — 320 p. This volume offers a long overdue appraisal of the dynamic interactions between Roman law and Latin literature. Despite there being periods of massive tectonic shifts in the legal and literary landscapes, the Republic and Empire of Rome have not until now been the focus of interdisciplinary study in this field. This volume brings vital new...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. — 320 p. This volume offers a long overdue appraisal of the dynamic interactions between Roman law and Latin literature. Despite there being periods of massive tectonic shifts in the legal and literary landscapes, the Republic and Empire of Rome have not until now been the focus of interdisciplinary study in this field. This volume brings vital new...
Перевод Э.Э. Малер, под редакцией [и с предисловием] проф. М.И. Ростовцева. С 5 хромолитографиями, 4 картами и планами, 440 рисунками в тексте и 6 одноцветными таблицами. — СПб.: Акционерное издательское общество «Ф.А. Брокгауз - И.А. Ефрон», 1914. — [2], XVIII, 777 с. Монументальное справочное издание по всем сторонам культурной жизни эллинистической и римской цивилизаций....
М.: Наука, 1985. — 429 с.
Двухтомник по истории культуры древнего Рима — первый в советской историографии обобщающий труд, в котором римская культура в целом предстает как определенный исторический феномен, тесно связанный с эволюцией социально-экономического базиса. В 1-м томе освещаются политические, научные, религиозные, юридические представления римлян, вопросы...
М.: Наука, 1985. — 396 с.
Во втором томе рассматриваются некоторые аспекты римской культуры в целом, дается характеристика отдельных регионов римского мира (Галлии, дунайских провинций, Малой Азии, Египта) и исследуется проблема взаимодействия и синтеза римской и местных культур — влияние Рима на провинции (романизация) и провинций на Рим (варваризация, эллинизация,...
М.: Наука, 1985. — 432 с. Двухтомник по истории культуры древнего Рима – первый в советской историографии обобщающий груд, в котором римская культура в целом предстает как определенный исторический феномен, тесно связанный с эволюцией социально-экономического базиса. В 1-м томе освещаются политические, научные, религиозные, юридические представления римлян, вопросы...
М.: Наука, 1985. — 400 с. Во втором томе рассматриваются некоторые аспекты римской культуры в целом, дается характеристика отдельных регионов римского мира (Галлии, дунайских провинций, Малой Азии, Египта) и исследуется проблема взаимодействия и синтеза римской и местных культур – влияние Рима на провинции (романизация) и провинций на Рим (варваризация, эллинизация,...
М.: Наука, 1985. — 628 с. Первый том данного издания посвящен «центру римского мира». Авторы изучают римскую систему ценностей, показывают значение религии в разные периоды римской истории, анализируют основные особенности римского права, определяют место науки в системе мировоззрения, роль поэзии и искусства в римской культуре. Во втором томе прослеживается эволюция...
М.: Наука, 1985. — 432 с. Двухтомник по истории культуры древнего Рима – первый в советской историографии обобщающий груд, в котором римская культура в целом предстает как определенный исторический феномен, тесно связанный с эволюцией социально-экономического базиса. В 1-м томе освещаются политические, научные, религиозные, юридические представления римлян, вопросы...
М.: Наука, 1985. — 400 с. Во втором томе рассматриваются некоторые аспекты римской культуры в целом, дается характеристика отдельных регионов римского мира (Галлии, дунайских провинций, Малой Азии, Египта) и исследуется проблема взаимодействия и синтеза римской и местных культур – влияние Рима на провинции (романизация) и провинций на Рим (варваризация, эллинизация,...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2006. — 232 с. — ISBN 5-9524-2180-6. В книге представлена история Древнего Рима - главного города западного мира, центра Римской империи и цивилизации, с начала его возникновения до эпохи императоров династии Антонинов. Автору удалось передать неувядаемое очарование Вечного города и осветить все стороны жизни его обитателей: культурные традиции, систему...
М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2004.— 400 с.: ил. — ISBN: 5-86793-284-2. Древнеримская цивилизация предстает в книге в неожиданном ракурсе. Рассказ полон подробностей, которые не встречаются в учебниках или энциклопедиях. Живость изложения не лишает книгу серьезности. Мода не сводится только к одежде. Автор весьма убедительно показывает, какое подчас неожиданно большое...
Изд. 2-е. — М.: Просвещение, 1965. — 400 с. Памятники римской литературы послужили примером для многих европейских писателей. Античных писателей стали называть римским словом «классики», обозначающим «первоклассные, образцовые». Творения Вергилия, Горация, Овидия навсегда вошли в сокровищницу мировой литературы. Рассказ об этих писателях позволит понять многие явления...
Изд. 2-е. — М.: Просвещение, 1965. — 400 с. Памятники римской литературы послужили примером для многих европейских писателей. Античных писателей стали называть римским словом «классики», обозначающим «первоклассные, образцовые». Творения Вергилия, Горация, Овидия навсегда вошли в сокровищницу мировой литературы. Рассказ об этих писателях позволит понять многие явления...
2-е изд. — Москва: Просвещение, 1965. — 400 с. Памятники римской литературы послужили примером для многих европейских писателей. Античных писателей стали называть римским словом «классики», обозначающим «первоклассные, образцовые». Творения Вергилия, Горация, Овидия навсегда вошли в сокровищницу мировой литературы. Рассказ об этих писателях позволит понять многие явления...
М.: Наука, 1985. — 281 с. Первый том посвящен "центру римского мира". Авторы изучают римскую систему ценностей, показывают значение религии в разные периоды римской истории, анализируют основные особенности римского права, определяют место науки в системе мировоззрения, роль поэзии и искусства в римской культуре.
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