Ancient History: to c 500 CE

Gender, Manumission, and the Roman Freedwoman examines the distinct problem posed by the manumission of female slaves in ancient Rome. The sexual i...

What do forgeries do? Forgery Beyond Deceit: Fabrication, Value, and the Desire for Ancient Rome explores that question with a focus on forgery in ...

Exposed to multiple languages as a result of annexation, migration, pilgrimage and its position on key trade routes, the Roman Palestine of Late An...

The existence of an Indo-European linguistic family, allowing for the fact that several languages widely dispersed across Eurasia share numerous tr...

The Religious History of the Roman Empire: The Republican Centuries is the second Oxford Readings in Classical Studies volume on the religious hist...

This book examines foundation myths told about the Ionian cities during the archaic and classical periods. It uses these myths to explore the compl...

The Roman Forum was in many ways the heart of the Roman Empire. Today, the Forum exists in a fragmentary state, having been destroyed and plundered...

The Tales and Sayings of the Desert Fathers (Apophthegmata Patrum) are a key source of evidence for the practice and theory respectively of eremiti...

Our lives are filled with objectsones that we carry with us, that define our homes, that serve practical purposes, and that hold sentimental value....

This book examines the interplay between astronomy and dynastic power in the course of ancient Egyptian history, focusing on the fundamental role o...

Several decades of scholarship have demonstrated that Roman thinkers developed in new and stimulating directions the systems of thought they inheri...

This is a new critical edition, with translation and commentary, of the Scholia in Apocalypsin, which were falsely attributed to Origen a century a...

The Black Sea lies at the junction of three major cultural areas: Europe, Central Asia and the Near East. It plays a crucial role in enduring discu...

With its emphasis on the dynasty's concern for control of the sea both the Mediterranean and the Red Sea and the Nile, this book offers a new and...

Divination was an important and distinctive aspect of religion in both ancient China and ancient Greece, and this book will provide the first syste...