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  • The Roman Republic

    by Matthew Dillon, Christopher Matthew ...
    Series series Religion & Classical Warfare
    Essays exploring the role religion played in ancient Roman warfare, including destroying enemies' gods, wartime ceremonies, and live burials.Religion was integral to the conduct of war in the ancient world and the Romans were certainly no exception. No campaign was undertaken, no battle risked, without first making sacrifice to propitiate the appropriate gods (such as Mars, god of War) or ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ancient Greeks in Their Own Words

    by Matthew Dillon ...
    In Ancient Greeks in their own Words, historian Matthew Dillon reveals the nature of everyday life in the classical world. Using a series of telling extracts from Greek literature to provide a picture of their customs, concerns and underlying values, he allows the people to speak for themselves, both in the formal language of public office and in the colloquial speech of the household and the ... Read more

    $19.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Archaic and Classical Greece

    by Matthew Dillon, Christopher Matthew, Michael Schmitz ...
    Series series Religion & Classical Warfare
    Essays examining the influence of gods, oracles, and omens in the wars of the Archaic and Classical Greek world.Religion was integral to the conduct of war in the ancient world and the Greeks were certainly no exception. No campaign was undertaken, no battle risked, without first making sacrifice to propitiate the appropriate gods (such as Ares, god of War) or consulting oracles and omens to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Roman Empire

    Edited by Matthew Dillon, Christopher Matthew ...
    Series series Religion & Classical Warfare
    Religion was integral to the conduct of war in the ancient world and the Romans were certainly no exception. No campaign was undertaken, no battle risked, without first making sacrifice to propitiate the appropriate gods (such as Mars, god of War) or consulting oracles and omens to divine their plans. Yet the link between war and religion is an area that has been regularly overlooked by modern ... Read more

    $20.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ancient Rome

    Social and Historical Documents from the Early Republic to the Death of Augustus

    by Matthew Dillon, Lynda Garland ...
    Series series Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World
    In this second edition, Ancient Rome presents an extensive range of material, from the early Republic to the death of Augustus, with two new chapters on the Second Triumvirate and The Age of Augustus. Dillon and Garland have also included more extensive late Republican and Augustan sources on social developments, as well as further information on the Gold Age of Roman literature.Providing ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • The Ancient Romans

    History and Society from the Early Republic to the Death of Augustus

    by Matthew Dillon, Lynda Garland ...
    This textbook provides comprehensive coverage of the political, military, and social history of ancient Rome from the earliest days of the Republic to its collapse and the subsequent foundations of the empire established by Augustus prior to his death in AD 14.Interspersed through the discussion of the political history of the period are crucial chapters on all aspects of Roman culture, including ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Children in Antiquity

    Perspectives and Experiences of Childhood in the Ancient Mediterranean

    Edited by Lesley A. Beaumont, Matthew Dillon, Nicola Harrington ...
    Series series Rewriting Antiquity
    This collection employs a multi-disciplinary approach treating ancient childhood in a holistic manner according to diachronic, regional and thematic perspectives. This multi-disciplinary approach encompasses classical studies, Egyptology, ancient history and the broad spectrum of archaeology, including iconography and bioarchaeology.With a chronological range of the Bronze Age to Byzantium and ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Writings of an Incoherent Man

    by Matthew Dillon ...
    This is a composition of writings I've done while drinking. I found it to be easier to write down how I feel that way. Most of these writings are about love, some about hurt and death. The short story at the end was the hardest to write about. These are all personal feelings and thoughts. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Girls and Women in Classical Greek Religion

    by Matthew Dillon ...
    It has often been thought that participation in fertility rituals was women's most important religious activity in classical Greece. Matthew Dillon's wide-ranging study makes it clear that women engaged in numerous other rites and cults, and that their role in Greek religion was actually more important than that of men. Women invoked the gods' help in becoming pregnant, venerated the god of wine, ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Ancient Greece

    Social and Historical Documents from Archaic Times to the Death of Alexander the Great

    by Matthew Dillon, Lynda Garland ...
    Series series Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World
    In this revised edition, Matthew Dillon and Lynda Garland have expanded the chronological range of Ancient Greece to include the Greek world of the fourth century. The sourcebook now ranges from the first lines of Greek literature to the death of Alexander the Great, covering all of the main historical periods and social phenomena of ancient Greece. The material is taken from a variety of sources: ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Women's Ritual Competence in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean

    Edited by Matthew Dillon, Esther Eidinow, Lisa Maurizio ...
    Contributions in this volume demonstrate how, across the ancient Mediterranean and over hundreds of years, women’s rituals intersected with the political, economic, cultural, or religious spheres of their communities in a way that has only recently started to gain sustained academic attention. The volume aims to tease out a number of different approaches and contexts, and to expand existing ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Pilgrims and Pilgrimage in Ancient Greece

    by Matthew Dillon ...
    This volume explores the religious motivations for pilgrimage and reveals the main preoccupations of worshippers in Ancient Greece.Dillon examines the main sanctuaries of Delphi, Epidauros and Olympia, as well as the less well-known oracle of Didyma in Asia Minor and the festivals at the Isthmus of Corinth. He discusses the modes of travel to the sites, means of communication between pilgrims and ... Read more

    $77.99 USD