Ancient History: to c 500 CE

The current paradigm-changing ancient DNA revolution is offering unparalleled insights into central problems within archaeology relating to the mov...

The first work to lay out Roman strategic thinking from its start under Augustus until its final demise in 476 CE From Octavian's victory at Actiu...

This book brings together an international team of scholars to re-evaluate Roman-period architecture outside Rome and the Italian Peninsula, lookin...

This volume, with origins in a panel at the 2018 Celtic Conference in Classics, presents creative new approaches to epigraphic material, in an atte...

This book shows how a military colony became a large, impressive and prosperous city. Legendary for its walls and port, it was able to play a basic...

Tell Ahmar also known as Masuwari, Til Barsib and Kar-Shalmaneser in the first millennium BCE was first inhabited in the sixth millennium during ...

This book explores the role of material culture in the formation of corporeal aesthetics and beauty ideals in different past societies and thus con...

Writing in the ancient Mediterranean existed against a backdrop of very high levels of interaction and contact. In the societies around its shores,...

This new history of the last years of the Roman Republic sets the leading men, and women, in the complex social and political system of the time, t...

The Danubian provinces represent one of the largest macro-units within the Roman Empire, with a large and rich heritage of Roman material evidence....

The metaphor of the palimpsest has been increasingly invoked to conceptualise cities with deep, living pasts. This volume thinks through, and beyon...

Which ancient army boasted the largest fortifications, and how did the competitive build-up of military capabilities shape world history? Few reali...

The first contacts between Greece, the Aegean and India are thought to have occurred at the beginning of the sixth century BC. There is now evidenc...

Elegiac Love and Death in Vergil's 'Aeneid' poses new questions about Vergil's pervasive engagement with elegy, both amatory and funerary, througho...

'A thrilling biography, filled with the imperial ambitions and merciless intrigues' SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORECleopatra: lover, seductress, and Egypt's...

The past, present and future of the world's most popular and beloved pet, from a leading evolutionary biologist and great cat lover. ...