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Product Description: In this volume, twelve specialists examine the role of graphic signs such as cross signs, christograms, and monograms in the late Roman and post-Roman worlds and the contexts that facilitated their dissemination in diverse media. The essays collected here explore the rise and spread of graphic signs in relation to socio-cultural transformations during Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages, focusing in particular on evolving perceptions and projections of authority...read more

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Product Description: The empires of the ancient Near East and Mediterranean invented cosmopolitan politics. In the first millennia BCE and CE, a succession of territorially extensive states incorporated populations of unprecedented cultural diversity...read more

This volume includes James Adams, “The Latin of the Magerius Mosaic”; Graeme Bourke, “Classical Sophism and Philosophy in Pseudo-Plutarch On the Training of Children”; Eleanor Cowan, “Caesar’s One Fatal Wound: Suetonius Div. Iul. 82.3”; Christopher Eckerman, “Catullus’ Bacchylides and His Muses in Carmen 61”; Lowell Edmunds, “Pliny the Younger on His Verse and Martial’s Non-Recognition of Pliny as a Poet”; Lucia Floridi, “The Construction of a Homoerotic Discourse in the Epigrams of Ausonius”; Benjamin Garstad, “Rome in the Alexander Romance”; Alexi Grishin, “A Nominal Acronym in Eclogue 9”; Mark Heerink, “Hylas, Hercules, and Valerius Flaccus’ Reaction to the Aeneid”; Miguel Herrero, “‘Trust the God’: Tharsein in Ancient Greek Religion”; Jefferds Huyck, “Another Sort of Misogyny: Aeneid 9.140–141”; Christopher Jones, “The Greek Letters Ascribed to Brutus”; Alexandros Kampakoglou, “Staging the Divine: Epiphany and Apotheosis in Callimachus HE 1121–1124”; Tom Keeline and Stuart McManus, “Benjamin Larnell, Indian Latinist”; Yosef Liebersohn, “Crito’s Character in Plato’s Crito”; Jordi Pàmias, “Acusilaus of Argos and the Bronze Tablets”; Karen Rosenbecker, “Just Desserts: Reversals of Fortune, Feces, Flatus, and Food in Aristophanes’ Wealth”; Massimilliano Vitiello, “Emperor Theodosius’ Liberty and the Roman Past”; and Jarrett Welsh, “Verse Quotations from Festus.”

Dynasty continues where Rubicon ended: with the murder of Julius Caesar. This is the period of the first and perhaps greatest Roman emperors-from the rise of Augustus to the death of Nero. Holland's expansive history features five wonderfully vivid (and in three cases, thoroughly depraved) emperors-Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero-along with numerous fascinating secondary characters. Intrigue, murder, naked ambition, treachery, greed, gluttony, lust, incest, pageantry, and decadence-the tale of these five Caesars continues to cast a mesmerizing spell across the millennia.

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Product Description: This volume draws together for the first time all the fieldwork known to have taken place from the earliest located trenches in the 1720s up until the modern campaigns of Fulford. It integrates this work with a new geophysical survey of 217ha to provide a new overarching narrative for the town...read more