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  • Latinization, Local Languages, and Literacies in the Roman West

    by Alex Mullen, Anna Willi ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents
    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 across the western provinces in the Iron Age was radically reconfigured by the rise of Latin. Latinization, Local Languages and ... Read more

    $125.99 USD

  • Social Factors in the Latinization of the Roman West

    Edited by Alex Mullen ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents
    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. Latinization is a strangely overlooked topic. Historians have noted it has been 'taken for granted' and viewed as an unremarkable by-product of 'Romanization', despite its central ... Read more

    $132.29 USD

  • Languages and Communities in the Late-Roman and Post-Imperial Western Provinces

    Edited by Alex Mullen, George Woudhuysen ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents
    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. Languages are central to the creation and expression of identities and cultures, as well as to life itself, yet the linguistic variegation of the later-Roman and post-imperial period ... Read more

    $132.29 USD

  • Southern Gaul and the Mediterranean

    Multilingualism and Multiple Identities in the Iron Age and Roman Periods

    by Alex Mullen ...
    Series series Cambridge Classical Studies
    The interactions of the Celtic-speaking communities of Southern Gaul with the Mediterranean world have intrigued commentators since antiquity. This book combines sociolinguistics and archaeology to bring to life the multilingualism and multiple identities of the region from the foundation of the Greek colony of Massalia in 600 BC to the final phases of Roman Imperial power. It builds on the ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

  • The Language of Roman Letters

    Bilingual Epistolography from Cicero to Fronto

    by Olivia Elder, Alex Mullen ...
    Series series Cambridge Classical Studies
    Roman letters demonstrate that language has imperium: the power to resolve problems, to negotiate relationships and to construct identities. This book combines sociolinguistic and historical approaches to explore how that power is deployed by the bilingual elite of the Roman Republic and Empire, offering the first systematic analysis of Greek code-switches in the letters of Cicero, Pliny, Marcus ... Read more

    $103.39 USD

  • Multilingualism in the Graeco-Roman Worlds

    Edited by Alex Mullen, Patrick James ...
    Through words and images employed both by individuals and by a range of communities across the Graeco-Roman worlds, this book explores the complexity of multilingual representations of identity. Starting with the advent of literacy in the Mediterranean, it encompasses not just the Greek and Roman empires but also the transformation of the Graeco-Roman world under Islam and within the medieval mind ... Read more

    $126.29 USD

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    The Spectacle of Roman Power

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  • Pantheon

    A New History of Roman Religion

    Translated by David M. B. Richardson ...
    by Jörg Rüpke ...
    From one of the world's leading authorities on the subject, an innovative and comprehensive account of religion in the ancient Roman and Mediterranean worldIn this ambitious and authoritative book, Jörg Rüpke provides a comprehensive and strikingly original narrative history of ancient Roman and Mediterranean religion over more than a millennium—from the late Bronze Age through the Roman imperial ... Read more

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  • Epigraphic Evidence

    Ancient History From Inscriptions

    Edited by John Bodel ...
    Series series Approaching the Ancient World
    Epigraphic Evidence is an accessible guide to the responsible use of Greek and Latin inscriptions as sources for ancient history. It introduces the types of historical information supplied by inscriptional texts and the methods with which they can be used. It outlines the limitations as well as the advantages of the different types of evidence covered. Epigraphic Evidence includes a general ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • A Companion to Families in the Greek and Roman Worlds

    Edited by Beryl Rawson ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
    A Companion to Families in the Greek and Roman Worlds draws from both established and current scholarship to offer a broad overview of the field, engage in contemporary debates, and pose stimulating questions about future development in the study of families.Provides up-to-date research on family structure from archaeology, art, social, cultural, and economic historyIncludes contributions from ... Read more

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  • The Dancing Lares and the Serpent in the Garden

    Religion at the Roman Street Corner

    by Harriet I. Flower ...
    The most pervasive gods in ancient Rome had no traditional mythology attached to them, nor was their worship organized by elites. Throughout the Roman world, neighborhood street corners, farm boundaries, and household hearths featured small shrines to the beloved lares, a pair of cheerful little dancing gods. These shrines were maintained primarily by ordinary Romans, and often by slaves and ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy

    by Alison E. Cooley ...
    This book advances our understanding of the place of Latin inscriptions in the Roman world. It enables readers, especially those new to the subject, to appreciate both the potential and the limitations of inscriptions as historical source material, by considering the diversity of epigraphic culture in the Roman world and how it has been transmitted to the twenty-first century. The first chapter ... Read more

    $40.99 USD