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  • Cleopatra:A Biography

    A Biography

    by Duane W. Roller ...
    Series series Women in Antiquity
    Few personalities from classical antiquity are more famous--yet more poorly understood--than Cleopatra VII, queen of Egypt. In this major biography, Duane Roller reveals that Cleopatra was in fact a learned and visionary leader whose overarching goal was always the preservation of her dynasty and kingdom.Roller's authoritative account is the first to be based solely on primary materials from the ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • The Geographical Guide of Ptolemy of Alexandria

    An Analysis

    by Duane W. Roller ...
    Series series Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
    This volume offers a detailed study of Ptolemy of Alexandria’s Geographical Guide, whose eight books contain a wealth of geographical information unavailable elsewhere and represent the culmination of the Greco-Roman discipline of geography.Written near the middle of the second century ad, the Geographical Guide is the most anomalous of the surviving works of ancient geographical scholarship but ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Ancient Geography

    The Discovery of the World in Classical Greece and Rome

    by Duane W. Roller ...
    The last dedicated book on ancient geography was published more than sixty years ago. Since then new texts have appeared (such as the Artemidoros palimpsest), and new editions of existing texts (by geographical authorities who include Agatharchides, Eratosthenes, Pseudo-Skylax and Strabo) have been produced. There has been much archaeological research, especially at the perimeters of the Greek ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • A Guide to the Geography of Pliny the Elder

    Edited by Duane W. Roller ...
    This is the first thorough English commentary on the geographical books of Pliny the Elder, written in the AD 70s. Pliny's account is the longest in Latin, and represents the geographical knowledge of that era, when the Roman Empire was the dominant force in the Mediterranean world. The work serves both cultural and ideological functions: much of it is topographical, but it also demonstrates the ... Read more

    $118.89 USD

  • Diodoros of Sicily: Bibliotheke Historike

    Books 21-40: From the Battle of Ipsos (301 BC) to the Catilinarian Conspiracy (62 BC)

    by Duane W. Roller ...
    Diodoros' Bibliotheke Historike, written in the last half of the first century BC, is a major source for ancient history from earliest times to his own era. This is the first English translation of Books 21-40 (301-62 BC) in seventy years, and the first ever commentary on those portions of the text. Major topics include the history of Sicily, the career of Hannibal, the slave wars that plagued the ... Read more

    $106.59 USD

  • Cleopatra's Daughter

    and Other Royal Women of the Augustan Era

    by Duane W. Roller ...
    Series series Women in Antiquity
    The Roman emperor Augustus gave his name to the age he dominated, from the latter half of the first century BC until the second decade of the following century. Yet he shared the age with several royal women who ruled parts of the Mediterranean world, in a symbiotic relationship with Rome. This book is the first detailed portrait of these remarkable women. Previous accounts of the period have ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Geography of Strabo

    An English Translation, with Introduction and Notes

    The Geography of Strabo is the only surviving work of its type in Greek literature, and the major source for the history of Greek scholarship on geography and the formative processes of the earth. In addition, this lengthy and complex work contains a vast amount of information on other topics, including the journey of Alexander the Great, cultic history, the history of the eastern Mediterranean in ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • A Historical and Topographical Guide to the Geography of Strabo

    by Duane W. Roller ...
    Strabo's Geography, completed in the early first century AD, is the primary source for the history of Greek geography. This Guide provides the first English analysis of and commentary on this long and difficult text, and serves as a companion to the author's The Geography of Strabo, the first English translation of the work in many years. It thoroughly analyzes each of the seventeen books and ... Read more

    $50.89 USD

  • Cleopatra

    A Biography

    by Duane W. Roller, Duane W. Roller ...
    Series series Women in Antiquity
    Few personalities from classical antiquity are more famous--yet more poorly understood--than Cleopatra VII, queen of Egypt. In this major biography, Duane Roller reveals that Cleopatra was in fact a learned and visionary leader whose overarching goal was always the preservation of her dynasty and kingdom. Roller's authoritative account is the first to be based solely on primary materials from the ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • The World of Juba II and Kleopatra Selene

    Royal Scholarship on Rome's African Frontier

    by Duane W Roller ...
    Raised and educated in Rome, Juba II (48 BC- AD 23) was sent to uphold Roman interests in northwest Africa as ruler of the cliet kingdom of Mauretania. Together with his wife K'eopatra Selene, daughter of Marcus Anthonius and Kleopatra VII, he established a rich, multicultural environment at their capital, renamed Caesarea, where Egyptian, Hellenistic Greek and indigenous elements came together. ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Three Ancient Geographical Treatises in Translation

    Hanno, the King Nikomedes Periodos, and Avienus

    by Duane W. Roller ...
    Series series Routledge Classical Translations
    This volume is a translation and commentary on the works of three geographers from Greco-Roman antiquity: Hanno of Carthage, from around 500 BC; the author of the Periodos Dedicated to King Nikomedes, from the last half of the second century BC; and Avienus, from the fourth century AD.The modern translations of texts in this book represent 1,000 years of Greco-Roman geographical scholarship, and ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • New Directions in the Study of Ancient Geography

    Edited by Duane W. Roller ...
    Series series Publications of the Association of Ancient Historians
    This volume brings together five essays that represent the latest directions in the study of geography in classical antiquity. Arranged chronologically, these contributions cover several centuries and cultures, ranging from ancient Mesopotamia to the Roman Empire and deal with topics such as ancient cosmology, literary interpretations of geography, ancient navigation, and geography in the Roman ... Read more

    $28.79 USD