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Money in Imperial Rome offers an in-depth examination of the institutional framework within which money operated as an economic agent in the Roman empire, emphasising its systemic complexity. Analyses focus on classical Roman law as reflected in the writings of Roman...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-05-31
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The ancient Greek world consisted of approximately 1,000 autonomous polities scattered across the Mediterranean basin and was remarkable for both its diversity and its uniformity. As Greeks dispersed throughout the Mediterranean, the different environmental and human...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-05-16
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Embark upon a fascinating journey through ancient Greece – from its rise and fall to its lasting legacy throughout the Western world.Spanning more than 3,000 years, Ancient Greece explores the tumultuous history of this glorious empire in vivid detail – from its Minoan...
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Dk
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2025-04-17
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Alexander the Great in Jerusalem: Myth and History discusses four different stories told in antiquity about the meeting betweenAlexander the Great and the Judeans of Jerusalem. In history, this meeting passed without noticeable events. Into the historical void stepped...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-04-03
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Galen of Pergamum (AD 129--c. 210), physician and philosopher, anatomist, logician, clinical and pharmacological theorist and researcher, and personal doctor to the emperor Marcus Aurelius, was the most influential and versatile medical author of the Graeco-Roman world....
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Oxford University Press
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2025-03-28
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Alexander the Great in Jerusalem: Myth and History discusses four different stories told in antiquity about the meeting betweenAlexander the Great and the Judeans of Jerusalem. In history, this meeting passed without noticeable events. Into the historical void stepped...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-03-21
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An exquisite abridged edition of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations by a renowned translator Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was the sixteenth emperor of Rome—and by far the most powerful man in the world. His collected thoughts, gems that have come to be...
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Basic Books
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2025-03-11
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Vasileios Balaskas explores the revival of classical drama at ancient venues as a sociopolitical apparatus of the European nation-states in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The modern use of Graeco-Roman theatres, odeons, amphitheatres, and stadiums depended on...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-02-13
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The Near East during the Hellenistic and Roman periods has been studied for centuries. This Handbook includes fifty chapters written by experts from a variety of disciplines: archaeology (including classical, near eastern, and Islamic), ancient history, anthropology,...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-02-13
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Vasileios Balaskas explores the revival of classical drama at ancient venues as a sociopolitical apparatus of the European nation-states in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The modern use of Graeco-Roman theatres, odeons, amphitheatres, and stadiums depended on...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-02-03
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The Scientific Sublime in Imperial Rome charts the role of the sublime in first-century debates about how and why we investigate the natural world. It shows how the sublimity of the study of nature--the scientific sublime--animates Manilius' Astronomica, Seneca's...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-01-20
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Early Greek hexameter poetry and its language is the focus of this book, and McConnell addresses the question of why the Greek in which this poetry is composed is so special and unique in ancient literature. It has long been maintained that various features of the...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-12-20
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An intellectual history of one of the most important contributions to Western society The Just State explores influential Greek and Roman ideas about justice and their institutional context, and discusses their legacy in later political thought. Bringing Greco-Roman and...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2024-12-17
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Early Greek hexameter poetry and its language is the focus of this book, and McConnell addresses the question of why the Greek in which this poetry is composed is so special and unique in ancient literature. It has long been maintained that various features of the...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-12-16
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Explore the detailed and personal stories of real people living throughout the Hellenistic world In A Social and Cultural History of the Hellenistic World, author Gillian Ramsey Neugebauer paints a vivid picture of the men and women of the Hellenistic period, their...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2024-12-12
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Wiley Blackwell Social and Cultural Histories of the Ancient World
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Questa ricerca affronta lo studio della ceramica figurata realizzata da alcuni pittori greci che, nel VII secolo a.C., attraversarono il Mediterraneo per venire a installarsi sulla costa ionica dell’Italia meridionale. Attraverso un esame filologico della documentazione...
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Publications du Centre Jean Bérard
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2024-11-26
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Collection du Centre Jean Bérard
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This handbook provides the first comprehensive treatment of the Greek cities in the Roman Empire. The poleis are studied here both as urban forms, with a specific organization of space and specific public buildings, and as socio-political entities, with specific...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-11-22
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
The patchwork of local languages which existed...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-11-21
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The consecration of the city of Constantinople in 330 CE on the emplacement of the Greek city of Byzantium was one of the most important moments in the whole of Graeco-Roman history.The foundation of the city responded to important changes in the social, political, and...
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Oxford University Press
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2024-11-21
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The Roman Empire's approach to religion has traditionally been described in paradoxical terms. On the one hand, Rome has often been regarded as almost proverbially tolerant, as well as highly flexible in its dealings with the diverse range of religious cults and...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-11-20
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