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  • Pompeii

    The Living City

    by Alex Butterworth, Ray Laurence ...
    "Splendidly recreate[s] the bustling life of this Roman town, as well as the eruption . . . a first-rate and compelling history of an ancient city." — Publishers WeeklyThe ash of Mt. Vesuvius preserves a living record of the complex and exhilarating society it instantly obliterated two thousand years ago. In this highly readable, lavishly illustrated book, Alex Butterworth and Ray Laurence marshal ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Roman Pompeii

    Space and Society

    by Ray Laurence ...
    In this fully revised and updated edition of Roman Pompeii, Dr. Laurence looks at the latest archaeological and literary evidence relating to the city of Pompeii from the viewpoint of architect, geographer and social scientist.Enhancing our general understanding of the Roman world, this new edition includes new chapters that reveal how the young learnt the culture of the city and to investigate ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Growing Up and Growing Old in Ancient Rome

    A Life Course Approach

    by Mary Harlow, Ray Laurence ...
    Throughout history, every culture has had its own ideas on what growing up and growing old means, with variations between chronological, biological and social ageing, and with different emphases on the critical stages and transitions from birth to death. This volume is the first to highlight the role of age in determining behaviour, and expectations of behaviour, across the life span of an ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Roman Passions

    A History of Pleasure in Imperial Rome

    by Professor Ray Laurence ...
    By the time of the emperors, the Romans had created the world's first global empire stretching from Morocco in the West to Iraq in the East, and from Britain in the North to Egypt in the South. It was an empire delineated by rivers – the Euphrates, the Danube and the Rhine – the Atlantic Ocean, and the deserts of North Africa.Within this territory was the Mediterranean, a liquid continent that ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Mediterranean Timescapes

    Chronological Age and Cultural Practice in the Roman Empire

    by Ray Laurence, Francesco Trifilò ...
    This book, built around the study of the representation of age and identity in 23,000 Latin funerary epitaphs from the Western Mediterranean in the Roman era, sets out how the use of age in inscriptions, and in turn, time, varied across this region.Discrepancies between the use of time to represent identity in death allow readers to begin to understand the differences between the cultures of Roman ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • A Cultural History of Shopping in Antiquity

    Edited by Professor Mary Harlow, Professor Ray Laurence ...
    Series series The Cultural Histories Series
    A Cultural History of Shopping was a Library Journal Best in Reference selection for 2022.Covering the period from 500 BCE to 500 CE, this is the first book to address the cultural history of shoppers and shopping in antiquity. Evidence for the existence of shops has been found across many archaeological sites in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East but the study of shops and retailing in ant ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • The Roads of Roman Italy

    Mobility and Cultural Change

    by Ray Laurence ...
    The Roads of Roman Italy offers a complete re-evaluation of both the evidence and the interpretation of Roman land transport. The book utilises archaeological, epigraphic and literary evidence for Roman communications, drawing on recent approaches to the human landscape developed by geographers. Among the topics considered are:* the relationship between the road and the human landscape* the ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Written Space in the Latin West, 200 BC to AD 300

    Edited by Dr Gareth Sears, Dr Peter Keegan, Professor Ray Laurence ...
    This volume explores the creation of 'written spaces' through the accretion of monumental inscriptions and non-official graffiti in the Latin-speaking West between c.200 BC and AD 300. The shift to an epigraphic culture demonstrates new mentalities regarding the use of language, the relationship between local elites and the population, and between local elites and the imperial power. The creation ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Cultural Identity in the Roman Empire

    Edited by Dr Joanne Berry, Joanne Berry, Ray Laurence ...
    This provocative and often controversial volume examines concepts of ethnicity, citizenship and nationhood, to determine what constituted cultural identity in the Roman Empire. The contributors draw together the most recent research and use diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives from archaeology, classical studies and ancient history to challenge our basic assumptions of Romanization ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The City in the Roman West, c.250 BC–c.AD 250

    by Ray Laurence, Simon Esmonde Cleary, Gareth Sears ...
    The city is widely regarded as the most characteristic expression of the social, cultural and economic formations of the Roman Empire. This was especially true in the Latin-speaking West, where urbanism was much less deeply ingrained than in the Greek-speaking East but where networks of cities grew up during the centuries following conquest and occupation. This well-illustrated synthesis provides ... Read more

    $44.29 USD

  • Roman Archaeology for Historians

    by Ray Laurence ...
    Series series Approaching the Ancient World
    Roman Archaeology for Historians provides students of Roman history with a guide to the contribution of archaeology to the study of their subject. It discusses the issues with the use of material and textual evidence to explain the Roman past, and the importance of viewing this evidence in context. It also surveys the different approaches to the archaeological material of the period and examines ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Travel and Geography in the Roman Empire

    Edited by Colin Adams, Ray Laurence ...
    The remains of Roman roads are a powerful reminder of the travel and communications system that was needed to rule a vast and diverse empire. Yet few people have questioned just how the Romans - both military and civilians - travelled, or examined their geographical understanding in an era which offered a greatly increased potential for moving around, and a much bigger choice of destinations. This ... Read more

    $77.99 USD