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From Trophy Towns to City-States
Urban Civilization and Cultural Identities in Roman Pontus
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9780812252378
Pub Date: August 2020
Format: Hardcover
280 Pages
In 66 BCE, in the woods of Armenia Minor, Pompey the Great defeated Mithridates VI Eupator, making him one of the most successful Roman generals of all time. The victory presented him with the enormous...
The Politics of Roman Memory
From the Fall of the Western Empire to the Age of Justinian
Price: $74.95
ISBN: 9780812251623
Pub Date: October 2019
Format: Hardcover
304 Pages
What did it mean to be Roman after the fall of the western Roman empire in 476, and what were the implications of new formulations of Roman identity for the inhabitants of both east and west? How could...
Constantine and the Cities
Imperial Authority and Civic Politics
Price: $50.00
ISBN: 9780812223682
Pub Date: December 2017
Format: Paperback
416 Pages
Over the course of the fourth century, Christianity rose from a religion actively persecuted by the authority of the Roman empire to become the religion of state—a feat largely credited to Constantine...
Aristocrats and Statehood in Western Iberia, 300-600 C.E.
Price: $74.95
ISBN: 9780812249460
Pub Date: November 2017
Format: Hardcover
328 Pages
In a distant corner of the late antique world, along the Atlantic river valleys of western Iberia, local elite populations lived through the ebb and flow of empire and kingdoms as historical agents...
Ancient States and Infrastructural Power
Europe, Asia, and America
Price: $84.95
ISBN: 9780812249316
Pub Date: July 2017
Format: Hardcover
320 Pages
While ancient states are often characterized in terms of the powers that they claimed to possess, the contributors to this book argue that they were in fact fundamentally weak, both in the exercise...
The Gods, the State, and the Individual
Reflections on Civic Religion in Rome
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9780812247664
Pub Date: December 2015
Format: Hardcover
200 Pages
Roman religion has long presented a number of challenges to historians approaching the subject from a perspective framed by the three Abrahamic religions. The Romans had no sacred text that espoused...
Ethnography After Antiquity
Foreign Lands and Peoples in Byzantine Literature
Price: $84.95
ISBN: 9780812245318
Pub Date: August 2013
Format: Hardcover
288 Pages
Although Greek and Roman authors wrote ethnographic texts describing foreign cultures, ethnography seems to disappear from Byzantine literature after the seventh century C.E.—a perplexing exception...
Religion in Republican Rome
Rationalization and Ritual Change
Price: $90.00
ISBN: 9780812243949
Pub Date: April 2012
Format: Hardcover
328 Pages
Roman religion as we know it is largely the product of the middle and late republic, the period falling roughly between the victory of Rome over its Latin allies in 338 B.C.E. and the attempt of the...
The Transformation of Greek Amulets in Roman Imperial Times
Price: $110.00
ISBN: 9780812249354
Pub Date: April 2018
Format: Hardcover
512 Pages
The era of the Roman Empire was distinguished by an explosion of images and texts in a variety of media—metal, papyrus, mosaic, gemstone—all designed to protect, heal, or grant some abstract benefit...
Violence in Roman Egypt
A Study in Legal Interpretation
Price: $84.95
ISBN: 9780812245080
Pub Date: August 2013
Format: Hardcover
376 Pages
What can we learn about the world of an ancient empire from the ways that people complain when they feel that they have been violated? What role did law play in people's lives? And what did they expect...
From Trophy Towns to City-States
Urban Civilization and Cultural Identities in Roman Pontus
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9780812252378
Pub Date: August 2020
Format: Hardcover
280 Pages
The Politics of Roman Memory
From the Fall of the Western Empire to the Age of Justinian
Price: $74.95
ISBN: 9780812251623
Pub Date: October 2019
Format: Hardcover
304 Pages
Constantine and the Cities
Imperial Authority and Civic Politics
Price: $50.00
ISBN: 9780812223682
Pub Date: December 2017
Format: Paperback
416 Pages
Aristocrats and Statehood in Western Iberia, 300-600 C.E.
Price: $74.95
ISBN: 9780812249460
Pub Date: November 2017
Format: Hardcover
328 Pages
Ancient States and Infrastructural Power
Europe, Asia, and America
Price: $84.95
ISBN: 9780812249316
Pub Date: July 2017
Format: Hardcover
320 Pages
The Gods, the State, and the Individual
Reflections on Civic Religion in Rome
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9780812247664
Pub Date: December 2015
Format: Hardcover
200 Pages
Ethnography After Antiquity
Foreign Lands and Peoples in Byzantine Literature
Price: $84.95
ISBN: 9780812245318
Pub Date: August 2013
Format: Hardcover
288 Pages
Religion in Republican Rome
Rationalization and Ritual Change
Price: $90.00
ISBN: 9780812243949
Pub Date: April 2012
Format: Hardcover
328 Pages
The Transformation of Greek Amulets in Roman Imperial Times
Price: $110.00
ISBN: 9780812249354
Pub Date: April 2018
Format: Hardcover
512 Pages
Violence in Roman Egypt
A Study in Legal Interpretation
Price: $84.95
ISBN: 9780812245080
Pub Date: August 2013
Format: Hardcover
376 Pages