Prehistory & Ancient History  /  Rome & the Roman Provinces

A Historical Commentary on Sallust's Bellum Jugurthinum

Format: Hardback
Pages: 276
ISBN: 9780905205168
Pub Date: 31 Dec 1984
Imprint: Francis Cairns Publications
Illustrations: xxvi + 276 pages.
Description:
The Bellum Jugurthinum is the second historical monograph (the other is the Catilina) written by C. Sallustius Crispus (probably 86-35 B.C.

Sheep-rearing and the wool trade in Italy during the Roman period

Format: Hardback
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9780905205229
Pub Date: 01 Dec 1984
Imprint: Francis Cairns Publications
Illustrations: 13 illus, 8 plates.
Description:
For this study of sheep-rearing in Roman Italy, Dr. Frayn presents and evaluates material from epigraphy, law, literature, archaeology, painting and sculpture to illuminate the social life of shepherd communities. Throughout, the ancient evidence for Italian practice is supplemented with comparative material from other ancient societies and (where relevant) from more modern farming experience.
Fragmentary Classicising Historians of the Later Roman Empire, Volume 2 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 515
ISBN: 9780905205496
Pub Date: 01 Dec 1983
Imprint: Francis Cairns Publications
Series: ARCA, Classical and Medieval Texts, Papers and Monographs
Illustrations: x + 515 pages.
Description:
This volume is the much larger companion to Roger Blockley's similarly-titled monograph, published in 1981 (ARCA 6). The earlier volume gave a commented conspectus of the fragments, and essays on the individual historians. In vol.

Statius and the Silvae. Poets, Patrons and Epideixis in the Graeco-Roman World

Format: Hardback
Pages: 261
ISBN: 9780905205137
Pub Date: 01 Dec 1983
Imprint: Francis Cairns Publications
Illustrations: viii + 231 pages.
Description:
Although writing in Latin, Statius (first-century AD) was, by origin and training, a Greek poet, and his collection of "occasional" poems, the Silvae, are a Roman extension of contemporary trends in Greek display poetry. No reading of the Silvae can be accurate without an understanding of this Graeco-Roman poetic milieu. This book therefore begins with a reconstruction of the professional background to the Silvae - the festival circuit, the conditions of work for writers, their opportunities for advancement in the Greek and Roman worlds - both in the Hellenistic period and in the first century A.
The Late Republican Villa at Posto, Francolise Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9780904152036
Pub Date: 01 Dec 1979
Illustrations: including 69 figs, 1 fold-out figure and 56 photos
Description:
Report on the 1962-5 excavations with full description of pottery and other finds.
RRP: £15.00