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  • Performance, Memory, and Processions in Ancient Rome

    The Pompa Circensis from the Late Republic to Late Antiquity

    by Jacob A. Latham ...
    The pompa circensis, the procession which preceded the chariot races in the arena, was both a prominent political pageant and a hallowed religious ritual. Traversing a landscape of memory, the procession wove together spaces and institutions, monuments and performers, gods and humans into an image of the city, whose contours shifted as Rome changed. In the late Republic, the parade produced an ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Death and Rebirth in Late Antiquity

    by David Eastman, Mark D. Ellison, Jennifer Awes Freeman, Felicity Harley-McGowan, John J. Herrmann, Jr., David G. Hunter, Jacob Latham, Michael Peppard, William Tabbernee, Annewies van den Hoek, Andrew McGowan0, Lee M. Jefferson1 ...
    Death and rebirth was of vital importance to early Christians in late antiquity. In late antiquity, death was all encompassing. Mortality rates were high, plague and disease in urban areas struck at will, and one lived on the knife’s edge regarding one’s health. Religion filled a crucial role in this environment, offering an option for those who sought cure and comfort. Following death, the ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

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  • Rome's Vestal Virgins

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Cicero

    Edited by Catherine Steel ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Cicero was one of classical antiquity's most prolific, varied and self-revealing authors. His letters, speeches, treatises and poetry chart a political career marked by personal struggle and failure and the collapse of the republican system of government to which he was intellectually and emotionally committed. They were read, studied and imitated throughout antiquity and subsequently became ... Read more

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  • Rome, the Greek World, and the East

    Volume 1: The Roman Republic and the Augustan Revolution

    by Fergus Millar ...
    Series series Studies in the History of Greece and Rome
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  • Portraits from the French Renaissance and the Wars of Religion

    by André Thevet ...
    Translated by Edward Benson ...
    Series series Early Modern Studies
    Available for the first time in English, these thirteen selections from André Thevet’s Les vrais pourtraits et vies des hommes illustres offer a glimpse of France during a time of great upheaval. Originally published in 1584, Thevet’s collection contains over two hundred biographical sketches, detailing the lives of important persons from antiquity to the sixteenth century. Edward Benson and Roger ... Read more

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  • Ancient Libraries

    Edited by Jason König, Katerina Oikonomopoulou, Greg Woolf ...
    The circulation of books was the motor of classical civilization. However, books were both expensive and rare, and so libraries - private and public, royal and civic - played key roles in articulating intellectual life. This collection, written by an international team of scholars, presents a fundamental reassessment of how ancient libraries came into being, how they were organized and how they ... Read more

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  • Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture

    Edited by Jonathan Edmondson, Alison Keith ...
    Series Book 46 - Phoenix Supplementary Volumes
    Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture investigates the social symbolism and cultural poetics of dress in the ancient Roman world in the period from 200 BCE-400 CE. Editors Jonathan Edmondson and Alison Keith and the contributors to this volume explore the diffusion of Roman dress protocols at Rome and in the Roman imperial context by looking at Rome's North African provinces in particular, ... Read more

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  • On Roman Religion

    Lived Religion and the Individual in Ancient Rome

    by Jörg Rüpke ...
    Series Book 67 - Cornell Studies in Classical Philology
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  • The Last Pagans of Rome

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  • The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine

    Time, History, and the Fasti

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