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  • Treason in Roman and Germanic Law

    Collected Papers

    by Floyd Seyward Lear ...
    "Treason" is a word with many connotations, a word applied to a host of varied offenses throughout the history of humanity. These essays by Floyd Seyward Lear analyze the development of the political theory of treason from its beginning in Roman Law to its transformation in the Germanic custom of the early Middle Ages.The author has presented treason as a political idea, possessing historical ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

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  • Rome:An Empire's Story

    An Empire's Story

    by Greg Woolf ...
    The very idea of empire was created in ancient Rome and even today traces of its monuments, literature, and institutions can be found across Europe, the Near East, and North Africa--and sometimes even further afield. In Rome, historian Greg Woolf expertly recounts how this mammoth empire was created, how it was sustained in crisis, and how it shaped the world of its rulers and subjects--a story ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Roman Army Units in the Western Provinces (1)

    31 BC–AD 195

    by Dr Raffaele D’Amato ...
    Series Book 506 - Men-at-Arms
    At its height the Roman Empire stretched across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, maintained by an army of modest size but great diversity.In popular culture these soldiers are often portrayed in a generic fashion, but continuing research indicates significant variations in Roman armour and equipment not only between different legions and the provincially-raised auxiliary cohorts that made ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Studies in History and Jurisprudence: Volume 2 (Illustrated Edition)

    by Viscount James Bryce ...
    *Includes Volume 2 of Bryces essays and articles on the Roman and British Empires, constitutional history and theory in the United States, sovereignty, the law of nature, and legal history. Viscount James Bryce (1838-1922) was a British academic, jurist, historian and Liberal politician who was well known and respected on both sides of the Atlantic. Bryce's intellectual distinction and political ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The Roman World 44 BC-AD 180

    by Martin Goodman ...
    Series series The Routledge History of the Ancient World
    The Roman World 44 BC – AD 180 deals with the transformation of the Mediterranean regions, northern Europe and the Near East by the military autocrats who ruled Rome during this period. The book traces the impact of imperial politics on life in the city of Rome itself and in the rest of the empire, arguing that, despite long periods of apparent peace, this was a society controlled as much by fear ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • The Day Commodus Killed a Rhino

    Understanding the Roman Games

    by Jerry Toner ...
    Series series Witness to Ancient History
    In ancient times, the Roman games—that heady cocktail of mass slaughter, gladiatorial combat, and chariot racing—made strong political, social, and cultural statements.The Roman emperor Commodus wanted to kill a rhinoceros with a bow and arrow, and he wanted to do it in the Colosseum. Commodus’s passion for hunting animals was so fervent that he dreamt of shooting a tiger, an elephant, and a ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Metamorphoses

    Books I-III

    by Ovid ...
    Series series The Metamorphoses
    The Metamorphoses of Ovid are a compendium of the Mythological narratives of ancient Greece and Rome, which embrace a large amount of information upon almost every subject connected with the learning, traditions, manners, and customs of antiquity. In this translation, the text of the Delphin edition has been used.For better understanding of the different narratives and allusions, explanations have ... Read more

    $2.72 USD

  • Between Pagan and Christian

    by Christopher Prestige Jones ...
    For the early Christians, “pagan” referred to a multitude of unbelievers: Greek and Roman devotees of the Olympian gods, and “barbarians” such as Arabs and Germans with their own array of deities. But while these groups were clearly outsiders or idolaters, who and what was pagan depended on the outlook of the observer, as Christopher Jones shows in this fresh and penetrating analysis. Treating ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Roman and Greek History

    Essays for Students and Seekers

    by Sudha Hamilton, Robert Hamilton ...
    Series series Vol 1.
    Why does history fascinate us and why, in particular, does ancient Greek and Roman history seem to have such a powerful hold on our modern psyches? Is it the huge and heroic characters, like Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar, who strut across the stage with such ruthless aplomb or is it the fact that nearly all of our laws and institutions are derived from these Greek and Roman civilisations? ... Read more

    $3.53 USD

  • Women in the Ancient Near East

    A Sourcebook

    Edited by Mark Chavalas ...
    Series series Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World
    Women in the Ancient Near East provides a collection of primary sources that further our understanding of women from Mesopotamian and Near Eastern civilizations, from the earliest historical and literary texts in the third millennium BC to the end of Mesopotamian political autonomy in the sixth century BC. This book is a valuable resource for historians of the Near East and for those studying ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Baetica Felix

    People and Prosperity in Southern Spain from Caesar to Septimius Severus

    by Evan W. Haley ...
    Baetica, the present-day region of Andalusia in southern Spain, was the wealthiest province of the Roman Empire. Its society was dynamic and marked by upward social and economic mobility, as the imperial peace allowed the emergence of a substantial middle social and economic stratum. Indeed, so mutually beneficial was the imposition of Roman rule on the local population of Baetica that it demands ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • A History of the Roman People

    by Celia E. Schultz, Allen M. Ward, F. M. Heichelheim, C. A. Yeo ...
    A History of the Roman People offers students a comprehensive, up-to-date, readable introduction to the whole span of Roman history. Richly illustrated, this fully updated volume takes readers through the mists of Roman prehistory and a survey of the peoples of pre-Roman Italy to a balanced, thoughtful account of the complexities of the Roman Republic, its evolution into a full-fledged empire, and ... Read more

    $165.99 USD