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Tacitus' Annals by Ronald Mellor 9780195151923
$71.47Tacitus' Annals is the central historical source for first-century C.E. Rome. It is prized by historians since it provides the best narrative material for the reigns of Tiberius, Claudius, and Nero, as well as a probing analysis of the imperial system of... -
Rome's Holy Mountain: The Capitoline Hill in Late Antiquity by Jason Moralee 9780190492274
RRP: $113.52$95.05Rome's Capitoline Hill was the smallest of the Seven Hills of Rome. Yet in the long history of the Roman state it was the empire's holy mountain. The hill was the setting of many of Rome's most beloved stories, involving Aeneas, Romulus, Tarpeia, and... -
Tribes of Ancient Britain and Germany by Cornelius Tacitus 9781781592380
RRP: $19.29$12.76Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus (AD 56 - AD 117) was a senator and a historian of the Roman Empire. The surviving portions of his two major works - the Annals and the Histories - examine the reigns of the Roman Emperors Tiberius, Claudius, Nero... -
Tios/Tieion on the Southern Black Sea in the Broader Context of Pontic Archaeology by Gocha R. Tsetskhladze 9781803276205
RRP: $99.33$97.73Tios/Tieion was intended to be a publication of the proceedings of a conference held at Filyos (ancient Tios/Tieion) in 2020. The conference had to be cancelled in common with other events due to Covid 19, though with the hope that it might take place... -
Controlling Laughter: Political Humor in the Late Roman Republic by Anthony Corbeill 9780691631776
$134.12Although numerous scholars have studied Late Republican humor, this is the first book to examine its social and political context. Anthony Corbeill maintains that political abuse exercised real powers of persuasion over Roman audiences and he... -
Saeculum: Defining Historical Eras in Ancient Roman Thought by Paul Hay 9781477327395
$54.92How the notion of unique eras influenced the Roman view of time and the narration of history from various perspectives. The Victorian Era. The Age of Enlightenment. The post-9/11 years. We are accustomed to demarcating history, fencing off one period... -
The Voices of the Consul: The Rhetorics of Cicero's de lege agraria I and II by Brian A. Krostenko 9780199734207
RRP: $91.59$83.39The Voices of the Consul is the first book-length study of the rhetoric of "On the Agrarian Law" I and II, the first two speeches that the great Roman orator Cicero gave on his ascension to the leadership of the Roman state-the first to the senate, the... -
Liber Linteus Zagrabiensis. the Linen Book of Zagreb: A Comment on the Longest Etruscan Text by L. B. Van Der Meer 9789042920248
RRP: $117.39$117.08This book is the first complete analysis of and comment on a unique Etruscan document, the Liber linteus zagrabiensis, the linen book of Zagreb, better known as the Mummy Wrappings of Zagreb, dated to the first half of the second century BC, containing... -
Work in Progress: Literary Revision as Social Performance in Ancient Rome by Sean Alexander Gurd 9780199837519
RRP: $129.00$114.53Work in Progress offers an in-depth study of the role of literary revision in the compositional practices and representational strategies of Roman authors at the end of the republic and the beginning of the principate. It focuses on Cicero, Horace,... -
Marcus Tullius Cicero: Speeches on Behalf of Marcus Fonteius and Marcus Aemilius Scaurus: Translated with Introduction and Commentary by Andrew R. Dyck 9780199590063
RRP: $129.00$121.66Besides his renowned prosecution of Gaius Verres, Cicero also appeared as defence counsel in a number of cases in which former governors were accused of misconduct in the provinces. This volume unites two such defences, both incompletely preserved, from... -
Cosmopolis: Imagining Community in Late Classical Athens and the Early Roman Empire by Daniel S. Richter 9780199772681
RRP: $135.45$118.81This is a book about the ways in which various intellectuals in the post-classical Mediterranean imagined the human community as a unified, homogenous whole composed of a diversity of parts. More specifically, it explores how authors of the second... -
Italy's Lost Greece: Magna Graecia and the Making of Modern Archaeology by Giovanna Ceserani 9780199744275
RRP: $132.23$117.89Italy's Lost Greece is the untold story of the modern engagement with the ancient Greek settlements of South Italy-an area known since antiquity as Magna Graecia. This "Greater Greece," at once Greek and Italian, has continuously been perceived... -
Rome, Ostia, Pompeii: Movement and Space. by Ray Laurence 9780199583126
RRP: $151.58$137.40Rome, Ostia, Pompeii: Movement and Space demonstrates how studies of the Roman city are shifting focus from static architecture to activities and motion within urban spaces. This volume provides detailed case studies from the three best-known cities from... -
Apuleius' Metamorphoses: A Study in Roman Fiction by Stefan Tilg 9780198706830
RRP: $126.42$114.44This volume reveals how Apuleius' Metamorphoses - the only fully extant Roman novel and a classic of world literature - works as a piece of literature, exploring its poetics and the way in which questions of production and reception are reflected in its... -
Edward Gibbon and the Shape of History by Charlotte Roberts 9780198704836
RRP: $118.68$107.53Edward Gibbon's presentation of character in both the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and in his posthumously published Memoirs demonstrates a prevailing interest in the values of transcendent heroism and individual liberty, but also... -
The Roman Imperial Court in the Principate and Late Antiquity by Caillan Davenport 9780192865236
RRP: $129.00$117.26The Roman Imperial Court in the Principate and Late Antiquity examines the Roman imperial court as a social and political institution in both the Principate and Late Antiquity. By analysing these two periods, which are usually treated separately in... -
Medicine and the Law Under the Roman Empire by Claire Bubb 9780192898616
RRP: $129.00$116.75What happens when we juxtapose medicine and law in the ancient Roman world? This innovative collection of scholarly research shows how both fields were shaped by the particular needs and desires of their practitioners and users. It approaches the study... -
Practical Ethics for Roman Gentlemen: The Work of Valerius Maximus by Clive Skidmore 9780859894777
$143.33'Practical Ethics for Roman Gentlemen' is a collection of historical anecdotes written during the reign of the Emperor Tiberius in the first century A.D. The book aims to redefine the significance of the work of Valerius Maxiums, author of The Memorable... -
Imperial Panegyric from Diocletian to Honorius by Adrastos Omissi 9781789621105
$143.85Imperial Panegyric from Diocletian to Honorius examines one of the most important literatures of the late Roman period - speeches of praise addressed to the reigning emperor - and the panegyrical culture of the late Roman world more generally. Unlike ... -
Sallust: The War Against Jugurtha by Catalina Balmaceda 9780856686382
$64.93The Roman historian C. Sallustius Crispus, better known as Sallust, decided to write about the war against the Numidian king Jugurtha, 'because it was a long and cruel struggle in which fortune swung from side to side; and secondly, because it was ... -
Gibbon's Solitude: The Inward World of the Historian by W. B. Carnochan
$88.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804713634Author W. B. CarnochanFormat HardbackPage Count 244Imprint Stanford University PressPublisher Stanford University Press -
The Enemies of Rome: The Barbarian Rebellion Against the Roman Empire by Stephen Kershaw
RRP: $25.74$16.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643136899Author Stephen KershawFormat PaperbackPage Count 508Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 140g -
Investigations into the Dyeing Industry in Pompeii: Experimental Archaeology and Computer Simulation Techniques by Dr Heather Hopkins Pepper
RRP: $69.66$67.70The scale of processing associated with the dyeing industry in Pompeii is a controversial subject. To determine the scale of manufacturing would allow an understanding of the operation of Pompeii's economy and its part in the Roman World. Previous... -
From Concept to Monument: Time and Costs of Construction in the Ancient World: Papers in Honour of Janet Delaine by Simon J. Barker
$119.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789694222Author Simon J. BarkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 450Imprint ArchaeopressPublisher ArchaeopressWeight(grams) 5439g -
Roman Material Culture: Studies in Honour of Jan Thijssen by Harry Van Enckevort
RRP: $60.63$48.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789089320155Author Harry Van EnckevortFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Stichting Promotie ArcheologiePublisher Stichting Promotie Archeologie -
Comparative Studies in Republican Latin Imagery by Elaine Fantham
RRP: $30.95$27.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487598464Author Elaine FanthamFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 349g -
State Power in Ancient China and Rome by Walter Scheidel
RRP: $41.27$37.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780197552292Author Walter ScheidelFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Oxford University Press, USAPublisher Oxford University Press, USA -
Roman Reflections: Iron Age to Viking Age in Northern Europe by Klavs Randsborg
RRP: $116.10$115.95Roman Reflections uses a series of detailed and deeply researched case studies to explore how Roman society connected with and influenced Northern Europe during the Iron and Viking Ages. In an original way, the book brings late prehistoric Denmark - best... -
Venantius Fortunatus: Personal and Political Poems by Judith W. George
RRP: $35.48$31.67Venantius Fortunatus, writing in the latter half of the sixth century, was not only a major Latin poet, but also an important historical figure. He travelled as a young man to seek patronage in the courts of Merovingian Gaul, writing both formal and... -
Valorizing the Barbarians: Enemy Speeches in Roman Historiography by Eric Adler
$26.88With the growth of postcolonial theory in recent decades, scholarly views of Roman imperialism and colonialism have been evolving and shifting. Much recent discussion of the topic has centered on the ways in which ancient Roman historians consciously or... -
Arqueologia y Techne: Metodos formales, nuevos enfoques: Archaeology and Techne: Formal methods, new approaches by Jose Remesal Rodriguez
RRP: $69.66$67.65'Archaeology and Techne' publishes papers resulting from the European project EPNet (Production and Distribution of Food during the Roman Empire: Economic and Political Dynamics). Various interdisciplinary research techniques and results are presented... -
The Care of the Dead in Late Antiquity by Eric Rebillard
$34.19In this provocative book Eric Rebillard challenges many long-held assumptions about early Christian burial customs. For decades scholars of early Christianity have argued that the Church owned and operated burial grounds for Christians as early as the... -
Controlling Laughter: Political Humor in the Late Roman Republic by Anthony Corbeill
$40.67Although numerous scholars have studied Late Republican humor, this is the first book to examine its social and political context. Anthony Corbeill maintains that political abuse exercised real powers of persuasion over Roman audiences and he... -
Work and Labour in the Cities of Roman Italy by Miriam J. Groen-Vallinga
$131.08Work and labour are fundamental to an understanding of Roman society. In a world where reliable information was scarce and economic insecurity loomed large, social structures and networks of trust were of paramount importance to the way work was provided... -
Tacitus by Victoria Emma Pagan
$99.60The greatest of Roman historians, Publius Cornelius Tacitus (56-117 CE) studied rhetoric in Rome. His rhetorical and oratorical gifts are evident throughout his most substantial works, the incomplete but still remarkable Annals and Histories. In concise... -
How to be a Roman: A Day in the Life of a Roman Family by Paul Chrystal
RRP: $20.63$14.00How to be a Roman is a fascinating guide to day-to-day life in ancient Rome. Explore the early Empire through the eyes of a typical Roman family - father, mother, son and daughter - and discover the daily routine of each member of a bustling Roman... -
Living and Cursing in the Roman West: Curse Tablets and Society by Stuart McKie
RRP: $116.10$115.95Focusing 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... -
Dining Posture in Ancient Rome: Bodies, Values, and Status by Matthew B. Roller
RRP: $38.70$35.33What 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... -
Roman Military Law by C. E. Brand
$24.76Rome was the law-giver for much of the modern world. She was also the greatest military power of antiquity, operating her military organization with remarkable efficiency and effectiveness throughout most of the then-known world. In view of the... -
Experiencing the Frontier and the Frontier of Experience: Barbarian perspectives and Roman strategies to deal with new threats by Alexander Rubel
RRP: $72.24$70.09Experiencing the Frontier and the Frontier of Experience deals with the Roman Empire's responses to the threats which were caused by the new geostrategic situation brought on by the crisis of the 3rd century AD, induced by the 'barbarians' who - often...