The Roman Villa in the Mediterranean Basin: Late Republic to Late Antiquity - Annalisa Marzano

DescriptionThis volume offers a comprehensive survey of Roman villas in Italy and the Mediterranean provinces of the Roman Empire, from their origi...

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Reducere. DescriptionIn this volume, Hugh Elton offers a detailed and up to date history of the last centuries of the Roman Empire. Beginning with the crisis...

The Arabs and Islam in Late Antiquity - Aziz Al-Azmeh

DescriptionSince antiquity, Roman architecture and planning have inspired architects and designers. In this volume, Diane Favro and Fikret Yeg l of...

The middle of the second until the middle of the first century BCE is one of the most creative periods in the history of human thought, and an impo...

Publisher: Hirmer VerlagAuthor(s): Jessica RichardsonIllustration(s): 240 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 380Publication date: 2021Dimensions:...

Explores how ancient and late antique Christianity traveled through Asia by examining the social networks that connected the ancient and late antiq...

Fresh analysis of elite public giving in the Greek cities in all periods of ancient history, highlighting it as a structural feature of polis socie...

The first assessment of religious violence throughout the whole of Antiquity, with a particular focus on Late Antiquity where a much more nuanced p...

New study of the conflicting uses of libertas in the political struggles of the late Roman Republic. By reconstructing Roman political thought and ...

This volume brings together an international team of scholars to debate Cicero's role in the narrative of Roman law in the late Republic a role tha...

Fresh analysis of elite public giving in the Greek cities in all periods of ancient history, highlighting it as a structural feature of polis socie...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 10 bw illusNumber of pages: 240Collection: Ancient EnvironmentsPublication date: 2022Dimension...

Argues that the largest extant theatrical tradition of the third and second centuries BCE continued to be vital for writers of the first century BC...

The River Nile fascinated the Romans and appeared in maps, written descriptions, philosophical texts, poems and landscape paintings. This book exam...

The explosion of research in the field of ancient and historic glasses has opened up glass studies in recent years.Publisher: Oxbow BooksAuthor(s):...

This book is essential reading for understanding what happened to Rome at the end of antiquity. By focusing on the actions of senatorial aristocrat...

An innovative approach to the study of an under-appreciated topic of the place of art in ancient religion and will be essential reading for researc...

This textbook outlines the factors that every student must assess for a proper understanding of the period, from the attitudes of the aristocracy a...

Daily Life in Late Antiquity is the first comprehensive study of lived experience in the Late Roman Empire, from c.250-600 CE. Each of the six topi...

Reducere. The ancient philosophy, in its original Orphico-Pythagorean and Platonic form, is not simply a way of life in accordance with the divine or human i...

Zeini challenges the view that considers the Zand's study an auxiliary science to Avestan studies, framing the text instead within the exegetical c...

Explores power relations in the households, schools, and monasteries of late antiquity in light of social theory, in a way that will be of interest...

Explores how literary form changes when Christianity and rabbinic Judaism take shape. By reading little-known but hugely influential texts, this bo...

This is the first general book on Greek and Latin letter-writing in Late Antiquity (400300-600 CE). Allen and Neil examine early Christian Greek an...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Jean-Luc FournetIllustration(s): 37 b/w illus. 3 tables. 1 map.Number of pages: 224Collection: The ...

This Element explores the papacy's engagement in authorial publishing in late antiquity and the Middle Ages. The opening discussion demonstrates th...

Rabbinic stories portraying heretics (minim) typically involve a conflict over biblical interpretation. Using previously untapped Christian materia...

The transition from roll to codex as the standard format of the book is one of the most culturally significant innovations of Late Antiquity. The C...