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  • An Introduction to Silius Italicus and the Punica

    by Dr John Jacobs ...
    In a much-needed comprehensive introduction to Silius Italicus and the Punica, Jacobs offers an invitation to students and scholars alike to read the epic as a thoughtful and considered treatment of Rome's past, present, and (perilous) future. The Second Punic War marked a turning point in world history: Rome faced her greatest external threat in the famous Carthaginian general Hannibal, and her ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

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  • Eager for Glory

    The Untold Story of Drusus the Elder, Conqueror of Germania

    by Lindsay Powell ...
    "The first biography of an important personality from the beginnings of Rome's empire" (Graham Sumner, coauthor of Arms and Armour of the Imperial Roman Soldier).Nero Claudius Drusus Germanicus (Drusus the Elder) was the first conqueror of Germania (the Netherlands and Germany) and one of ancient Rome's most beloved military heroes. Yet there has never been a full volume dedicated to his ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Julia Augusti

    by Elaine Fantham ...
    Series series Women of the Ancient World
    This scholarly biography details the life of an extraordinary woman in an extraordinary society.Julia Augusti studies the life of the only daughter of Augustus, the first Roman emperor, and the father who sacrificed his daughter and her children in order to establish a dynasty.Studying the abundant historical evidence available, this biography studies each stage of Julia’s life in remarkable ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Rome's Vestal Virgins

    by Robin Lorsch Wildfang ...
    Comprehensive and thoroughly up-to-date, this volume offers a brand new analysis of the Vestal Virgins’ ritual function in Roman religion.Undertaking a detailed and careful analysis of ancient literary sources, Wildfang argues that the Vestals’ virginity must be understood on a variety of different levels and provides a solution to the problem of the Vestals’ peculiar legal status in ancient Rome ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Cicero

    Edited by Catherine Steel ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Cicero was one of classical antiquity's most prolific, varied and self-revealing authors. His letters, speeches, treatises and poetry chart a political career marked by personal struggle and failure and the collapse of the republican system of government to which he was intellectually and emotionally committed. They were read, studied and imitated throughout antiquity and subsequently became ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • The Idea of a Town

    The Anthropology of Urban Form in Rome, Italy and the Ancient World

    by Joseph Rykwert ...
    Roman towns and their history are generally regarded as being the preserve of the archaeologist or the economic historian. In this famous, unusual and radical book which touches on such disparate themes as psychology and urban architecture, Joseph Rykwert has considered them as works of art. His starting point is the mythical, historical and ritual texts in which their foundation is recounted ... Read more

    $19.69 USD

  • Rome, the Greek World, and the East

    Volume 1: The Roman Republic and the Augustan Revolution

    by Fergus Millar ...
    Series series Studies in the History of Greece and Rome
    Fergus Millar is one of the most influential contemporary historians of the ancient world. His essays and books, including The Emperor in the Roman World and The Roman Near East, have enriched our understanding of the Greco-Roman world in fundamental ways. In his writings Millar has made the inhabitants of the Roman Empire central to our conception of how the empire functioned. He also has shown ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture

    Edited by Jonathan Edmondson, Alison Keith ...
    Series Book 46 - Phoenix Supplementary Volumes
    Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture investigates the social symbolism and cultural poetics of dress in the ancient Roman world in the period from 200 BCE-400 CE. Editors Jonathan Edmondson and Alison Keith and the contributors to this volume explore the diffusion of Roman dress protocols at Rome and in the Roman imperial context by looking at Rome's North African provinces in particular, ... Read more

    $37.49 USD

  • The Patrician Tribune

    Publius Clodius Pulcher

    by W. Jeffrey Tatum ...
    Series series Studies in the History of Greece and Rome
    Publius Clodius Pulcher was a prominent political figure during the last years of the Roman Republic. Born into an illustrious patrician family, his early career was sullied by military failures and especially by the scandal that resulted from his allegedly disguising himself as a woman in order to sneak into a forbidden religious ceremony in the hope of seducing Caesar’s wife. Clodius survived ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Tacitus

    Edited by A. J. Woodman ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Tacitus is universally recognised as ancient Rome's greatest writer of history, and his account of the Roman Empire in the first century AD has been fundamental in shaping the modern perception of Rome and its emperors. This Companion provides a new, up-to-date and authoritative assessment of his work and influence which will be invaluable for students and non-specialists as well as of interest to ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • On Roman Religion

    Lived Religion and the Individual in Ancient Rome

    by Jörg Rüpke ...
    Series Book 67 - Cornell Studies in Classical Philology
    Provocative reading for anyone interested in Roman culture in the late Republic and early Empire.â• Religious Studies ReviewWas religious practice in ancient Rome cultic and hostile to individual expression? Or was there, rather, considerable latitude for individual initiative and creativity? Jörg Rüpke, one of the world’s leading authorities on Roman religion, demonstrates in his new book that it ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Remembering the Roman People

    Essays on Late-Republican Politics and Literature

    by T. P. Wiseman ...
    In the Roman republic, only the People could pass laws, only the People could elect politicians to office, and the very word republica meant 'the People's business'. So why is it always assumed that the republic was an oligarchy? The main reason is that most of what we know about it we know from Cicero, a great man and a great writer, but also an active right-wing politician who took it for ... Read more

    $46.79 USD