First published by Macmillan in 1910 and frequently reprinted thereafter, this selection includes the Latin text of Letters 5, 7, 11, 12, 15, 18, 21, 27, 28, 33, 40, 43, 44, 47, 51, 53-57, 63, 76-80,
In this book Philip A. Shaw considers evidence for Germanic goddesses in England and on the Continent, arguing on the basis of linguistic and onomastic evidence that modern scholarship has tended to f
The conversion to Christianity was a key cultural process that saw the transformation of Europe from classical to medieval world. The growth of the Church has been closely linked with the development
Imperialism, nationalism, religion and race: this' narrative charts the tensions that destroyed Alexandria's ancient walls, leading to the loss of an entire classical heritage, and beginning a thousan
In time for the bimillennium of Ovid's relegation to Tomis on the Black Sea by the emperor Augustus in 8 AD, Jo-Marie Claassen here revises and integrates into a more popular format two decades of sch
The development of key methodologies for the study of battlefields in the USA in the 1980s inspired a generation of British and European archaeologists to turn their attention to sites in their own co
Josephus, author of the Jewish War and the Jewish Antiquities, belongs equally to Jewish and to Greco-Roman history. A well-to-do priest and Pharisee at Jerusalem, he was a contemporary and chronicler
Archaeologists Breen (U. of Ulster) and Rhodes (National Trust for Scotland and Open U., Scotland) began this quest by questioning their own career choices, elite Western scholars blithely doing field
This useful edition of Suetonius' Life of Augustus, one of twelve imperial biographies contained in that author's De vita Caesarum, was first published by Oxford University Press in 1927. It includes
Du Plessis (U. of Edinburgh School of Law, Scotland) provides a non-specialist audience with a basic overview of Roman private law during the first three centuries of the Common Era. After describing
Cicero's poetry has often been adversely criticised. This book presents a collection of all of the surviving lines of Cicero's works. The poems are closely analyzed and a full introduction and comment
This book, keyed to the Penguin translation, introduces three of Terence's most entertaining and widely read plays. The selection demonstrates his versatility as a playwright: the brilliant farce of T
This interesting monograph on European castles examines the archaeological and cultural significance of the rise of castle structures and attendant ideas of martial and political authority in the peri
Litigants in ancient Athens were obliged to represent themselves, and cases were decided on the basis of speeches delivered by the opposing parties. Inexperienced litigants would turn for help to prof
McKeown (ancient history, U. of Birmingham, UK) examines the way Anglophone historical interpretations of ancient, particularly Roman, slavery have varied over the years from 1930 to the present time.
This selection from Livy's Book XXI covers the great Carthaginiangeneral Hannibal's campaigns against Rome, from the siege of Sagintumto the battle of the Trebia.Specifically designed for use inschool
This book contains the Russian text of Pushkin's Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin. The text is accompanied with English language introduction and notes on the text.
This book, written by a group of active field archaeologists, is designed particularly for students at A-level and on university courses, as well as for those with a general interest in the ancient wo
