Classical Greek & Roman Archaeology

The Archaeology of Greek and Roman Troy provides an overview of all excavations that have been conducted at Troy, from the nineteenth century throu...

Imagery and iconography served specific functions in public, private, and ritual spheres in the Roman world. State-sanctioned imagery communicated ...

Hippos delves deeply into all aspects of ancient Athenian horsemanship, from the scientific analysis of a horse skeleton recently excavated at Phal...

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...

From the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Terracotta Army, ancient artifacts have long fascinated the modern world. However, the importance of some discover...

How do we interpret ancient art created before written texts? Scholars usually put ancient art into conversation with ancient texts in order to int...

The site of medieval Euchaïta, on the northern edge of the central Anatolian plateau, was the centre of the cult of St Theodore Tiro ('the Recruit'...

This book examines the development of ancient Greek civilization through a path-breaking application of social scientific theories. David B. Small ...

In this book, Claudia Moser offers a new understanding of Roman religion in the Republican era through an exploration of sacrifice, its principal r...

Migration, Mobility and Place in Ancient Italy challenges prevailing conceptions of a natural tie to the land and a demographically settled world. ...

In this volume, Felipe Rojas examines how the inhabitants of Roman Anatolia interacted with the physical traces of earlier civilizations in their m...

Cosmography is defined here as the rhetoric of cosmology: the art of composing worlds. The mirage of Hyperborea, which played a substantial role in...

Neopalatial Crete - the 'Golden Age' of the Minoan Civilization - possessed palaces, exquisite artefacts, and iconography with pre-eminent females....

The cutting down of the tree in Sycamore Gap on Hadrians Wall in September 2023 caused widespread shock in Britain and beyond, and for many was fel...

In Gardens of the Roman Empire, the pioneering archaeologist Wilhelmina F. Jashemski sets out to examine the role of ancient Roman gardens in daily...

The combination of portrait statue, monumental support, and public lettering was considered emblematic of Roman public space even in antiquity. Thi...

This groundbreaking volume brings together scholars of the art and archaeology of late antiquity (c. 2001000), across cultures and regions reaching...

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

In AD 79, Mt. Vesuvius inundated Pompeii with a combination of gases, pumice, and rocks, killing thousands of people and animals and burying them i...

An examination of how the Roman past was perceived, and used, by Victorian Britain. The authority of classical texts was challenged in the mid-Vic...

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 ...