Ancient History: to c 500 CE

In a moonlit graveyard somewhere in southern Italy, a soldier removes his clothes in readiness to transform himself into a wolf. He depends upon th...

In The Classical Art of Command, Joseph Roisman examines eight of history's best-known generals and commanders from the Classical Age of Greece. Th...

The Imperial Women of Rome explores the constraints and activities of the women who were part of Rome's imperial families from 35 BCE to 235 CE, th...

Did the ancient Greeks and Romans use psychoactive cannabis? Scholars say that hemp was commonplace in the ancient world, but there is no consensus...

This richly illustrated, four-colour textbook introduces the art and archaeology of ancient Greece, from the Bronze Age through to the Roman conque...

This volume gathers all available evidence for the martyrdoms of Perpetua and Felicitas, two Christian women who became, in the centuries after the...

A groundbreaking new chronological study of the role played by the Navy in the successful development of the Roman Empire. Both welcome and useful...

Der Sammelband lenkt den Blick erstmals konsequent auf Frontos späte Briefbücher. Ziel ist ein Neuansatz gegenüber der Forschung, die Frontos Brief...

Thucydides called his account of two decades of war between Athens and Sparta a possession for all time, and indeed it is the first and still the m...

Within the world of the Bible, prophets and prophetesses were sometimes ardent proponents of royal and priestly rhetoric and deeds, but they could ...

This interdisciplinary study is the first book to provide a complete survey of r Nland Mahvihra from the perspective of its educational curricula a...

Part of the Chiltern Classics range.This edition of Homer's epic, Iliad, is from the Alexander Pope Translation, tells the story of the final year ...

At the centre of the Roman empire stood the emperor and the court surrounding him. The systematic investigation of this court in its own right, how...

The Imperial Women of Rome explores the constraints and activities of the women who were part of Rome's imperial families from 35 BCE to 235 CE, th...

A sweeping new history of the city of Rome, told through its emperors and the monuments they built to make their mark on one of the great capitals ...

An assessment of how important the sea was in the development of the ancient world. How important has the sea been in the development of human his...

In these reflections on the mercurial qualities of style in Ovid's Meta-morphoses, Garth Tissol contends that stylistic features of the ever-shifti...