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Water Culture in Roman Society
Häftad, 2018
1277 kr
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Water played an important part of ancient Roman life, from providing necessary drinking water, supplying bath complexes, to flowing in large-scale public fountains. The Roman culture of water was seen throughout the Roman Empire, although it was certainly not monolithic and it could come in a …
Spartan Oliganthropia
Häftad, 2018
1237 kr
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Sparta’s dominance over other Greek states was greatly hampered and finally ended because of the impossibility of maintaining its power in the face of oliganthropia, an irreversible demographic shortfall of its citizen manpower. In Spartan Oliganthropia, Timothy Doran examines the population …
Imperial Cult
Häftad, 2019
1250 kr
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As political power in Rome became centered on the emperor and his family, a system of honors and titles developed as one way to negotiate this new power dynamic. Classified under the modern collective heading ‘imperial cult’ (or emperor worship or ruler cult), this system of worship comprises …
Roman Imperialism
Häftad, 2019
1277 kr
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Rome engaged in military and diplomatic expansionistic state behavior, which we now describe as imperialism, since well before the appearance of ancient sources describing this activity. Over the course of at least 800 years, the Romans established and maintained a Mediterranean-wide empire from …
Functions and Use of Roman Coinage
An Overview of 21st Century Scholarship
Häftad, 2019
1250 kr
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In this publication Fleur Kemmers gives an overview of 21st century scholarship on Roman coinage for students and scholars in the fields of ancient history and Roman archaeology. First, it addresses the study of numismatics as a discipline and the theoretical and methodological advances of the last …
Cities and the Meanings of Late Antiquity
Häftad, 2019
1250 kr
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The last half century has seen an explosion in the study of late antiquity, which has characterised the period between the third and seventh centuries not as one of catastrophic collapse and ‘decline and fall’, but rather as one of dynamic and positive transformation. Yet research on cities in this …
Roman Colonies in Republic and Empire
Häftad, 2020
1250 kr
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The Romans founded colonies throughout Italy and the provinces from the early Republic through the high Empire. Far from being mere ‘bulwarks of empire,’ these colonies were established by diverse groups or magistrates for a range of reasons that responded to the cultural and political problems …
Etruscan Orientalization
Häftad, 2021
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Etruscan Orientalization provides a historiography of the terms ‘orientalizing’ and ‘orientalization’ in eighteenth through twentieth century European scholarship on early Etruscan history as it sought to understand how civilizational knowledge transferred in antiquity from East to West. This …
Peoples of Anatolia
Häftad, 2022
1143 kr
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Studies of the peoples of Anatolia take for granted the existence and importance of regional ethnic communities on the peninsula when investigating issues of identity, ethnic origins, and cultural assimilation (especially Hellenization). In reviewing the scholarship, Jeremy LaBuff argues that such …
Politics in the Roman Republic: Perspectives from Niebuhr to Gelzer
Häftad, 2022
1216 kr
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B. G. Niebuhr, the founder of ‘modern history’, exerts an enduring influence; even in death, Goethe once claimed, ‘[Niebuhr] still walks around and works’. Today, Niebuhr is a humbler phantom, rarely invoked and largely forgotten. Similar fates await the shades of Theodor Mommsen, Friedrich Münzer, …
Between Miltiades and Moltke: Early German Studies in Greek Military History
Häftad, 2022
1119 kr
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The authors of the first serious scholarly works on Greek warfare were not free to write their surveys as they wished. In the nineteenth-century German-speaking world, the supreme authority on all military history rested with the Great General Staff, the intellectual nerve centre of the Prussian …
Plato's Political Thought
Häftad, 2023
1143 kr
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Plato’s political thought continues to be of enduring interest among classicists, philosophers, political theorists, and intellectual historians. The present volume introduces readers to the topic through a survey of important recent trends in the scholarly literature, focusing on challenges to the …
Roman Empire Third Century 'Crisis'
Av Hermann Amon
Häftad, 2025
1210 kr
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The years from the assassination of Severus Alexander to Diocletian’s rise to power (235–284) remain of interest to ancient historians. This period, commonly known as the Third Century “Crisis,” exerted a significant influence on the political, economic, and socioreligious developments of late …
Origin and Early Practice of Greek Historiography
The First Century
Av John Dillery
Häftad, 2026
1119 kr
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This book looks at the development of Greek historical writing, from Hecataeus of Miletus through Xenophon. It considers how Greek historiography emerged from other Greek social practices, under the impetus of contact with the non-Greek world, especially Persia. The work of Herodotus, Thucydides, …
