Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture & Representation
Ancestry played a continuous role in the construction and portrayal of Roman emperorship in the first three centuries AD. Emperors and Ancestors is the first systematic analysis of the different ways ... Read more
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One of the great maxims of history is that it is written by the victors, and nowhere does this find greater support than in the later Roman Empire. Between 284 and 395 AD, no fewer than 37 men claimed ... Read more
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Emperors and Usurpers provides an historical commentary for the final books of Cassius Dio's Roman history, with a focus on Dio's role as author and historian, his historical method, and his attitude ... Read more
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What is commonly called the kingdom of Pontos flourished for over two hundred years in the coastal regions of the Black Sea. At its peak in the early first century BC, it included much of the southern ... Read more
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The Greek Anthology is our principal source for an entire genre of ancient Greek literature, the epigram (short poems).
The first large-scale translation from the Greek Anthology in nearly a cent ... Read more
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Ed Sanders; Chiara Thumiger; Christopher Carey; Nick Lowe
Pages
368 Pages
Format
Hardcover
Size
162 x 240 mm
Pub date
Feb 2013
This edited volume brings together eighteen articles which examine the role of eros as an emotion in ancient Greek culture. Arising out of a conference held at University College London in 2009, the v ... Read more
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Werner Herzog's 2011 film Cave of Forgotten Dreams, about the painted caves at Chauvet, France brought a glimpse of Europe's extraordinary prehistory to a popular audience. But paleolithic cave painti ... Read more
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Eurydice (c.410-340s BCE) played a part in the public life of ancient Macedonia, the first royal Macedonian woman known to have done so, though hardly the last.
She was the wife of Amyntas III, the m ... Read more
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The elder Faustina (c. 97 - 140 AD) was the wife of Antonius Pius and the aunt of Marcus Aurelius, and her more prominent daughter, Faustina II (130 - 175), the wife of Marcus Aurelius and the mother ... Read more
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Figured Tombstones from Macedonia, Fifth-First Century BC brings together for the first time a substantial body of material from ancient Macedonia, comprising stone funerary monuments, or stelai, whic ... Read more
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