Prehistory & Ancient History  /  Rome & the Roman Provinces
Roman Military Equipment from the Punic Wars to the Fall of Rome, second edition Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9781842171592
Pub Date: 22 Apr 2006
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: colour illus
Description:
Rome's rise to empire is often said to have owed much to the efficiency and military skill of her armies and their technological superiority over barbarian enemies. But just how 'advanced' was Roman military equipment? What were its origins and how did it evolve?
JJP Supplement 5 (2006) Journal of Juristic Papyrology Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 280
ISBN: 9788391825044
Pub Date: 12 Feb 2006
Imprint: Journal of Juristic Papyrology
Series: JJP Supplements
Description:
The book collects 13 papers delivered at a conference held in Warsaw in April 2004, devoted to the memory of an eminent Warsaw Papyrologist and Romanist, Henryk Kupiszewski. The authors of the book, leading scholars in the field of Legal History, Roman Law and Canon Law studies as well as Papyrology, used different methodological tools, proper for their disciplines, to present the multifaceted reality of marriage in Graeco-Roman Antiquity.
Roman Working Lives and Urban Living Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 232
ISBN: 9781842171868
Pub Date: 18 Aug 2005
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w illus, 2 maps
Description:
The ordinary people who made up the largest section of the population in the cities and towns in the Roman world were largely ignored by contemporary writers and have often been marginalised in traditional studies of Roman urbanism, but research into their patterns of work and social interaction have increased markedly in recent years. This book has come out of a conference on 'Roman Working Lives and Urban Living' held at the University of Durham in 2001. The conference was planned as a forum for people researching urban space and architecture, commercial and retail structures, organisation of craft activity and social theory.
The Clothed Body in the Ancient World Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9781842171653
Pub Date: 15 Apr 2005
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w illus
Description:
The recent renaissance of interest in the history of dress and its cultural importance is celebrated in this collection of interdisciplinary essays. The sixteen contributors present on-going research into the study of the clothed body in ancient Egypt and the Aegean, Classical Greece, Rome and Late Antiquity. Through literary and artistic evidence and film, they discuss how dress articulates and defines an individual within his or her given society, at the same time highlighting common themes in scholarship, methodological differences between disciplines and periods, as well as contrasting definitions of what constitutes the clothed body.
Transport Amphorae & Trade in the Eastern Mediterranean Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 300
ISBN: 9788779341180
Pub Date: 31 Mar 2005
Description:
As Peacock and Williams have noted, amphorae provide us "not with an index of the transportation of goods, but with direct witness of the movement of certain foodstuffs which were of considerable economic importance ..
Bridging the Tiber Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 336
ISBN: 9780904152401
Pub Date: 03 May 2004
Series: Archaeological Monographs of the British School at Rome
Illustrations: 128 b/w figs, 8 col pls, 14 tabs
Description:
Few river valleys can claim the historical importance of the Tiber, and an understanding of the river and its valley is key to an understanding of Rome and its place in the ancient world. When Rome was in its ascendancy, the Tiber became a vital route for communication and trade, but when Rome went into decline, the Tiber became a buffer-zone between Rome and Byzantium. This ebb and flow, with the associated reorganisation of social, political and economic life are themes central to any study of Roman civilisation.
RRP: £49.95
Roman and medieval Cripplegate, City of London Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9781901992427
Pub Date: 20 Mar 2004
Series: MoLAS Monograph
Illustrations: 93 b/w illus, 22 tables
Description:
This volume presents the results of work from five separate developer-funded excavations between 1992-8. Bronze Age field ditches were sealed by domestic buildings relating to the expansion of early Roman London after AD 70, contemporary with the timber amphitheatre located nearby beneath the Guildhall. The masonry fort was built in the early 2nd century AD and there was no evidence of a long-suspected predecessor.
RRP: £13.95
Christian Monuments of Cyrenaica Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 462
ISBN: 9781900971010
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2003
Imprint: Society for Libyan Studies
Series: Society for Libyan Studies Monograph
Illustrations: 376 figs, 2 maps
Description:
Christian Monuments of Cyrenaica publishes archaeological studies undertaken between 1953 and 1971 by the late J. B. Ward-Perkins (d.

Papers of the Langford Latin Seminar 11

Caesar against Liberty? Perspectives on his Autocracy
Format: Hardback
Pages: 234
ISBN: 9780905205397
Pub Date: 17 Jul 2003
Imprint: Francis Cairns Publications
Series: ARCA, Classical and Medieval Texts, Papers and Monographs
Description:
Julius Caesar changed world history by inaugurating the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire. This themed volume of PLLS handles the important and controversial problem of Caesar's own attitudes to 'liberty' and 'autocracy'. It contains revised, annotated and sometimes expanded versions of papers delivered at the Seventh Annual Langford Conference held at Florida State University, along with one supplementary contribution and English translations of two papers originally published in Italian.
Greek Romans & Roman Greeks Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 287
ISBN: 9788772887968
Pub Date: 31 Mar 2002
Series: Aarhus Studies in Mediterranean Antiquity
Illustrations: illus
Description:
In its first three centuries the Roman Empire expanded politically at the same time as Greek culture was enjoying its heyday. This not only created tensions but also many productive impulses, which were mirrored in different branches of cultural life. In this collection of papers an assembled team of international scholars from the fields of philosophy, history of ideas, literature, epigraphy, archaeology and history explores the intercultural aspects of that thriving period.
Catalogue of the 'Germanic' Antiquities from the Klemm Collection in the British Museum Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 174
ISBN: 9780714123189
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2001
Illustrations: plus 137 b/w pls, 5 b/w illus, 4 maps
Description:
Gustav Friedrich Klemm was a 19th century scholar and collector of antiquities. Part of his collection which was purchased by the British Musuem in 1868, forms the subject for this book. It largely comprises a catalogue of material from the Old Germanic Confederation, with objects dating from the Neolithic to post-Medieval period.
Meals in a Social Context Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 248
ISBN: 9788779340060
Pub Date: 31 Mar 2001
Series: Aarhus Studies in Mediterranean Antiquity
Illustrations: illus
Description:
This collection of outstanding essays gives an in-depth look at the role of meals in creating a sense of family and community in the Mediterranean world in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. By looking at the dining habits of Greeks and Romans, Jews and Christians, Essenes and Therapeutes, an international cadre of scholars provides insight into how social mores and etiquette were passed on to children, how family life increased in importance for Christians, the conflict in styles when Greeks and Romans met, and how meals attained and sustained religious significance. Other topics include funerary banquets; the etiquette of a formal dinner; the position of women at meals; royal feasts; the development of the Eucharist as a separate ritual; the architecture of the Greek andron and the Roman triclinium, early synagogues and temples; the diets of each culture.
Africa Proconsularis Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 339
ISBN: 9788772888286
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2000
Illustrations: illus
Description:
From 1987 to 1990, in collaboration with several Danish research institutes, the Tunisian Institut National de Patrimoine carried out an extensive archaeological survey in the valley known as the Segermes basin, in Tunisia. The results of that work are contained in three volumes entitled 'Africa Proconsularis' This volume reviews the information and looks at the historical conclusions.
Celti (Penaflor) Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9781842170359
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2000
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: University of Southampton Department of Archaeology Monograph
Illustrations: many b/w figs
Description:
Southern Spain's archaeological record is a rich one but for the Roman period archaeological research has yielded limited results. The major settlement of Penaflor, the site of ancient Cleti, was selected for excavation for its good epigraphic and historical record and its excellent uncluttered stratigraphic sequence. The excavations aimed to establish, amongst other things, the date and cultural context for the first establishment of the site, the site'ss regional context and the Romanisation of the town during the late Republican period.
TRAC 2000 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 176
ISBN: 9781842170434
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2000
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: TRAC
Illustrations: b/w illus
Description:
This book contains thirteen papers on Roman archaeology from the tenth Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference in London. The TRAC conference was held in April 2000, at the Institute of Archaeology and was divided into five different sessions. In the opening session, Representing Romans, the methodology of portraying the Romans to the wider world was explored.

Rome and Persia at War, 502-532

Format: Paperback
Pages: 301
ISBN: 9780905205489
Pub Date: 18 Oct 1998
Imprint: Francis Cairns Publications
Series: ARCA, Classical and Medieval Texts, Papers and Monographs
Illustrations: 14 maps and plans
Description:
The first modern account of the conflict between the eastern Roman Empire and the Sasanian kingdom. Greatrex traces the background to the war, investigating relations between Rome and Persia, the state of Roman defences in the East, and the chaotic situation in Persia at the end of the 5th century. He then examines the sources and the war itself, including the development of Roman defences, and the attempts by both powers to secure control of the Transcaucasian kingdoms.