Imperial Projections

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The creators of popular culture have often appropriated elements of Roman history and society. This text looks at how ancient Rome has been depicted and what the portrayals tell us about contempora...

Remembering Defeat

By Andrew Wolpert

"In 404 B.C.E. the Peloponnesian War finally came to an end when the Athenians, starved into submission, were forced to accept Sparta's terms of surrender. Shortly afterward a group of thirty consp...

Hippocrates Medicine and Culture

By Jacques Jouanna

The Writing of Orpheus

By Marcel Detienne

The Roman Gaze

By David Fredrick

"The Roman Gaze: Vision, Power, and the Body uses the concept of "the gaze," derived from psychoanalytic criticism, to examine literary, visual, and material evidence that reveals the contributions...

Athenian Identity and Civic Ideology

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Roman Architecture and Society Ancient Society and History

By James C. Jr Anderson

Amarna Diplomacy

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Published in 1992, William L. Moran's translation of "The Amarna Letters" raised as many questions as it answered. The editors of this text have brought together social scientists and historians to...

Old Age in the Roman World

By Tim G. Parkin

A Dictionary of Jewish Palestinian Aramaic of the Byzantine Period Publications of The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project

By Michael Sokoloff