Publius Nigidius Figulus, renowned senator-scholar of the late Roman Republic, wrote numerous works on a wide variety of topics, of which only 130 fragments survive. This is the first collection of academic articles on this mysterious figure, who no...Lasīt vairāk
The classicist and historian Alan Cameron (1938-2017) was one of the scholars who most contributed to the refoundation of late-antique studies. In this tribute fourteen new studies, which range from the first century AD to the ninth, pay him homage....Lasīt vairāk
The essays in this volume explore the many aspects of the political in the plays of Greek comic dramatist Aristophanes (5th century BCE), posing a variety of questions and approaching them through diverse methodological lenses. They demonstrate th...Lasīt vairāk
This book attempts to blaze a trail for the cross-disciplinary humanistic study of pain and pleasure, with literature scholars, historians and philosophers all setting out to understand how the Greeks and Romans experienced and reasoned about the sen...Lasīt vairāk
In Plutarchs Pragmatic Biographies, Susan Jacobs argues that the Parallel Lives portray historical leaders solving problems familiar to statesmen and generals. By linking victories and defeats to moral character, strategic insights and pract...Lasīt vairāk
In Popular Medicine in Graeco-Roman Antiquity: Explorations an international group of scholars aims to give a fresh start to the study of the wide range of practices that people in Antiquity actually engaged in when they were faced with ill he...Lasīt vairāk
Nine papers from a March 2011 conference in New York look at the the Red Sea as the cradle of Romes ancient India trade, and comparative perspectives on that trade. Their topics are Red Sea trade and the state; Trajans Canal: river navigation from...Lasīt vairāk
Marking the centenary of the birth of M.I. Finley, the famous historian of the ancient world and a refugee from McCarthyism, a combined group of ancient and American historians here set out to analyse his political and intellectual evolution....Lasīt vairāk
Historians, archaeologists, classicists, and geologists join forces to reconstruct the environment of the classical world. The topics include energy consumption in the Roman world; megadroughts, El-Nino, and the invasion of late-Roman Europe by the H...Lasīt vairāk
Mental Disorders in the Classical World seeks to show through interdisciplinary work how the first medical scientists and their lay contemporaries conceptualized mental disorders and attempted to diagnose, understand and treat them....Lasīt vairāk
In Trading Communities, Taco Terpstra shows that long-distance trade in the Roman Empire was conducted through foreign trading communities living overseas, held together by ethnic and geographical identity....Lasīt vairāk
This work is devoted to a study fo Roman logistics from the Punic Wars through the Principate. It explores various aspects of supply: rations, trains, foraging, supply lines; administration and logistics in warfare. The book traces the increasing sop...Lasīt vairāk
In this masterful study, Barrett (classics, Cornell U.) engages with a large body of artifacts to formulate a picture of the creation, use, users, and possible meanings of the ubiquitous ceramic figurines excavated on the Greek island of Delos. Barre...Lasīt vairāk
Summary: Despite the crucial role played by both law and architecture in Roman culture, the Romans never developed a type of building that was specifically and exclusively reserved for the administration of justice: courthouses did not exist in Roman...Lasīt vairāk
Liu (classical studies, DePauw University) takes a new look at the collegia centonariorum of the Roman Empire in the west. Long assumed to be some sort of fire-fighting organizations, she argues that they were instead trade guilds made up predominant...Lasīt vairāk
The starting point generally acknowledged for the revival of Greek studies in the West is 1397, when the Byzantine Manuel Chrysoloras began to teach Greek in Florence. With his Erotemata, Chrysoloras gave Westerners a tool to learn Greek; the search...Lasīt vairāk
Aelius Aristides (AD 117-181) may not be the most respected of the Greek orators, but the extent of his surviving works provides a vital window into the history of Greek culture in the second-century Roman Empire. Harris (history, Columbia U.) and Ho...Lasīt vairāk
Drawn from those delivered at The Italian Academy at Columbia U. in December 2004, these ten essays focus on Petrarchs hermeneutics and philology as expressed in the interplay between his texts and their material preparation and reception. Topics in...Lasīt vairāk
Marzano (archaeology, Oxford U.) analyzes wide range of texts and artifacts to find how elite villas in Roman central Italy related to their socio-economic surroundings. Through close observations of such elements as the placement and quality of slav...Lasīt vairāk
Hollander (history, Iowa State U.) has here extensively revised his dissertation Roman Money in the Late Republic, submitted to Columbia University in 2002, since which time a few passages have slipped out into separate publication. He investigates t...Lasīt vairāk
