Roman Theater and Society

By William Slater

Imports and Immigrants

By Gail L. Hoffman

While scholars have long acknowledged the importance of artistic relationships between ancient Greece and the Near East, recent discourse on multi-culturalism and diversity has ignited new debate o...

Public Office in Early Rome

By Roberta L. Stewart, Roberta Stewart

Studies of Roman politics have traditionally emphasized individual personalities or groups of personalities and have explained political behavior in terms of contests for individual power or group...

Bathing in Public in the Roman World

By Garrett G. Fagan

For the Roman, bathing was a social event. Public baths, in fact, were one of the few places where large numbers of Romans gathered daily in an informal context. This book is the first to study th...

Alexander the Great

By Elizabeth Baynham

In recent years much attention has been given to evaluating the surviving ancient histories of Alexander and their own sources. In order to understand what any ancient historian preserved about Ale...

Disabled Veterans in History Corporealities Discourses of Disability

By David A. Gerber

Making and Spending Money Along the Bosporus

By Constantin Marinescu

Pompeis Difficile Est

By James Lee Franklin

"Cicero used the phrase Pompeis difficile est to describe the intensity of political life in ancient Pompeii. Drawing on thousands of fragmentary writings - campaign posters, graffiti, inscriptions...

Information Gathering in Classical Greece

By Frank Santi Russell

"Cloak-and-dagger work was as much a part of the ancient world as the modern. While gadgets may change, the principles do not: espionage in antiquity was just as dangerous, its stakes just as high....

The Earth Is Our Book Geographical Knowledge in the Latin West ca. 400 1000 Recentiores Later Latin Texts and Contexts

By Natalia Lozovsky