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Key Themes in Ancient History Series

26 primary works • 26 total works
Key Themes In Ancient History aims to provide readable, informed and original studies of various basic topics, designed in the first instance for students and teachers of Classics and Ancient History, but also for those engaged in related disciplines. Each volume is devoted to a general theme in Greek, Roman, or where appropriate, Graeco-Roman hist…
Literacy and Orality in Ancient Greece
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3.74 · 38 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1992 · 9 editions
This book explores the role of written and oral co…

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    Death-Ritual and Social Structure in Classical Antiquity
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    3.59     · 27 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1992 · 6 editions
    The chief purpose of this book is to show how buri…

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    Slavery and Society at Rome
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    3.75     · 83 Ratings · 10 Reviews · published 1994 · 10 editions
    This book is about the life of the slave in classi…

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    Public Order in Ancient Rome
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    3.71     · 14 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1995 · 9 editions
    The absence of a professional police force in the …

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    Law, Violence, and Community in Classical Athens
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    3.20     · 10 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1995 · 6 editions
    This book examines the legal regulation of violenc…

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    الصداقة في العصور القديمة
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    3.75     · 24 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 1997 · 10 editions
    يتناول الكتاب تاريخ الصداقة عند الإغريق والرومان م…

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    Food and Society in Classical Antiquity
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    4.00     · 26 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 1995 · 10 editions
    This is a broad-based, comprehensive general study…

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    Religions of the Ancient Greeks
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    3.59     · 66 Ratings · 9 Reviews · published 1999 · 6 editions
    This is a book about the religious life of the Gre…

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    Roman Law in Context
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    3.83     · 23 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1995 · 13 editions
    This book explains the rules of Roman law in the l…

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    Christianity and Roman Society
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    3.49     · 43 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2004 · 7 editions
    Did Christianity transform the Roman world in whic…

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    Trade in Classical Antiquity
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    3.44     · 18 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2003 · 18 editions
    Historians have long argued about the place of tra…

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    Law and Crime in the Roman World
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    3.60     · 10 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2007 · 12 editions
    What was crime in ancient Rome? Was it defined by …

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    Ancient Greek Political Thought in Practice
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    3.94     · 31 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 2009 · 19 editions
    Ancient Greece was a place of tremendous political…

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    الزهد في العالم الإغريقي - الروماني
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    3.52     · 23 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 2009 · 11 editions
    يتمثل الزهد في التقشف وعدم الالتفات إلى مغريات الح…

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    Domestic Space in Classical Antiquity
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    3.00     · 7 Ratings · published 2010 · 12 editions
    Housing is shaped by culturally-specific expectati…

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    Money in Classical Antiquity
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    4.36     · 11 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2010 · 11 editions
    This is the first book to offer a comprehensive an…

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    Geography in Classical Antiquity
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    3.89     · 9 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2012 · 10 editions
    What were the limits of knowledge of the physical …

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    Space and Society in the Greek and Roman Worlds
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    4.00     · 5 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2012 · 6 editions
    We cannot properly understand history without a fu…

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    Studying Gender in Classical Antiquity
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    3.41     · 22 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 2013 · 8 editions
    This book investigates how varying practices of ge…

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    The Ancient Jews from Alexander to Muhammad
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    4.14     · 21 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2014 · 11 editions
    This is an accessible and up-to-date account of th…

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    Language and Society in the Greek and Roman Worlds
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    4.12     · 16 Ratings · published 2015 · 8 editions
    Texts written in Latin, Greek and other languages …

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    The Ancient City
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    3.58     · 12 Ratings · 4 Reviews · 5 editions
    Greece and Rome were quintessentially urban societ…

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    Politics in the Roman Republic
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    4.54     · 26 Ratings · 7 Reviews · 5 editions
    The politics of the Roman Republic has in recent d…

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    Science Writing in Greco-Roman Antiquity
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    4.00     · 1 Ratings · 5 editions
    We access Greek and Roman scientific ideas mainly …

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    Roman Political Thought
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    4.18     · 11 Ratings · 2 Reviews · 5 editions
    What can the Romans teach us about politics? This …

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    Empire and Political Cultures in the Roman World
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    3.57     · 7 Ratings · 5 editions
    This book evaluates a hundred years of scholarship…

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