Classical World
The Tribe of Witches Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 195
ISBN: 9781842173190
Pub Date: 10 Apr 2008
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w illus
Description:
Until now the old religions of Britain have only been looked at in a piecemeal way. This book presents a detailed and focused investigation of the religion of the Dobunni and the Hwicce peoples who occupied the Severn valley and the Cotswolds immediately before and after the Roman occupation. It uncovers some secrets of the old religion of Britain that have lain hidden in reams of unconnected and largely forgotten information, from a variety of sources.
TRAC 2007 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 162
ISBN: 9781842173220
Pub Date: 10 Apr 2008
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: TRAC
Illustrations: b/w illus
Description:
A selection of papers from the seventeenth Theoretical Roman Archaeology conference 2007, held at University College London. Sessions included Developing Identity in Roman Studies?; The archaeology of ethnic conflict: Race, equality and power in the Roman world; Roman Archaeologies in Context; The Archaeological Potential of Londinium and Experiencing the Sacred.
JJP Supplement 10 (2008) Journal of Juristic Papyrology Cover
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9788391825099
Pub Date: 14 Feb 2008
Imprint: Journal of Juristic Papyrology
Series: JJP Supplements
Description:
Table of Contents Préface (par Eva Cantarella) Avant-propos I. Sources du Droit 1. La loi dans lantiquité 2.
Black Sea in Antiquity Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 396
ISBN: 9788779342668
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2008
Series: Black Sea Studies
Illustrations: b/w illus & maps
Description:
This volume addresses a wide range of issues concerning the economic exchanges that took place within the Black Sea region, and between the Black Sea and Mediterranean areas from about 700 BC to AD 200. The contributing scholars of ancient history and archaeology consider old and new evidence in order to shed new light on central aspects of the economic relationship that existed between these two eminently important regions in antiquity. The authors offer novel approaches and propound a number of fresh interpretations to key questions concerning the relationship between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean.
A Roman Drainage Culvert, Great Fire Destruction Debris and Other Evidence from Hillside Sites North-East of London Bridge Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 79
ISBN: 9781901992694
Pub Date: 24 Jan 2008
Series: MoLAS Archaeology Studies Series
Description:
Two 1998 excavations provide important new evidence of Roman and later development on the terraced ground north of the Thames and south of Cornhill. The Monument House site lay just north-east of the Roman bridgehead, immediately behind river quays and warehouses. First-century landscaping and gravel quarries were followed by timber buildings.
RRP: £8.95
Greek and Latin from an Indo-European Perspective Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 2
ISBN: 9780906014318
Pub Date: 14 Jan 2008
Series: Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society Supplementary Volume
Description:
This volume presents new work exploring how the study of historical linguistics can advance our understanding of Greek and Latin and, conversely, how the classical languages can help us to reconstruct Proto-Indo-European and the culture of its speakers. Classical and Indo-European linguistics have been particularly exciting areas of research in recent years, and this book is intended to provide insight into some of the main areas of current debate. It stems from an international conference held in Cambridge in 2005 and includes contributions from keynote speakers Andreas Willi and Joshua Katz.
RRP: £45.00
Greece Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 255
ISBN: 9789602134375
Pub Date: 06 Jan 2008
Imprint: Ekdotike Athenon
Illustrations: 272 illus
Description:
This guide aims to be a strong incentive to the inquisitive voyager to Greece. Its purpose is to give, with the assistance of carefully selected photographs of the best quality, a basic outline of the directions which the traveller should follow in roaming the land; or more simply still what not to miss.
Testing the Hinterland Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 320
ISBN: 9781902937373
Pub Date: 20 Dec 2007
Series: McDonald Institute Monographs
Illustrations: 457 b/w illus, 50 col illus, CD
Description:
The Boeotia Survey in Greece is widely recognised as a milestone in Mediterranean landscape archaeology in the sophistication and rigour of its methodologies, and in the scale of the 25-year investigation. This first volume of the project's publication deals with the landscape that formed part of the territory of the ancient city of Thespiai. This landscape acted as the laboratory in which the project refined its methodology: the entire territory was traversed systematically by survey teams, and artefacts were collected not only from every archaeological site located but also as 'off-site' material indicative of land use practices such as manuring.
RRP: £65.00
The Greek and Latin Inscriptions in the Burdur Archaeological Museum Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 330
ISBN: 9781898249184
Pub Date: 20 Dec 2007
Series: British Institute at Ankara Monograph
Illustrations: 361 b/w pls, 2 illus, 1 col map
Description:
The Burdur Archaeological Museum holds material from a mountainous area of southwest Turkey where Pisidians in antiquity mingled with Phrygians, Lycians and other ancient peoples, coming to terms first with Greek and then with Roman culture. This volume presents its rich holdings of ancient inscriptions, ranging from Hellenistic royal letters and Roman imperial regulations to the votive offerings and gravestones of rural people. Larger cities such as Sagalassos and Kibyra are close to or just beyond the boundaries of Burdur province.
RRP: £60.00
Within These Walls Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 193
ISBN: 9781901992687
Pub Date: 19 Dec 2007
Series: MoLAS Monograph
Description:
Roman and later activity was recorded north of Newgate, with the Roman defensive wall and a medieval bastion preserved in the new development. Stream channels gave way to early Roman settlement, with the city's defensive wall built in the late 2nd century AD. The defensive ditch was redug in the Late Saxon period and the Roman wall repaired, with the area becoming the site of the Greyfriars Friary in 1225.
RRP: £24.95
Etruscan Bucchero in the British Museum Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9780861591657
Pub Date: 18 Dec 2007
Series: British Museum Research Publications
Illustrations: 245 illus
Description:
Bucchero is the most distinctive class of ceramic produced in Etruria, Italy, between the 7th and the 5th centuries BC. This publication aims to provide a complete up-to-date listing and description of the collection of bucchero in the British Museum; a collection that consists of over three hundred items including examples of all the important regional productions of bucchero. A previous partial publication of the collection in 1932 is now out-dated and in need of replacement.
JJP Supplement 7 (2007) Journal of Juristic Papyrology Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 346
ISBN: 9788391825068
Pub Date: 12 Dec 2007
Imprint: Journal of Juristic Papyrology
Series: JJP Supplements
Description:
Contents include: The place of Nomos Arsinoites in the Egyptian administrative system under the Roman rule; Nomos Arsinoites - its nomarchai, strategoi and basilikoi grammateis. The Arsinoite merides; The Arsinoite toparchies; Komogrammateiai as administrative units. Village officials (komogrammateis, presbyteroi acting as komogrammateis, amphodokomogrammateis, komarchai); Pagi in the Arsinoite nome: Unification of the administrative structures.
Roman Waterfront Development at 12 Arthur Street, City of London Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 78
ISBN: 9781901992625
Pub Date: 12 Dec 2007
Series: MoLAS Archaeology Studies Series
Description:
Archaeological excavations at 12 Arthur Street in 2001-2 produced new evidence for the Roman riverfront development which constitutes an important addition to our knowledge of Roman London's foreshore, its waterfront, quays and buildings. This study brings to light new evidence for the Claudian waterfront and construction of the terracing along the natural slope of the riverbank. Post-Boudican and Hadrianic developments included the construction of two, more solid, timber quays built in c.
RRP: £8.95
Papers of the Langford Latin Seminar 13 Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 392
ISBN: 9780905205502
Pub Date: 10 Dec 2007
Imprint: Francis Cairns Publications
Series: ARCA, Classical and Medieval Texts, Papers and Monographs
Description:
These 13 papers by an international group of scholars examine Greek and Roman poetry and prose.
The Best Training Ground for Archaeologists Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 688
ISBN: 9781842172803
Pub Date: 10 Dec 2007
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
To his contemporaries, Francis John Haverfield was the 'father of Romano-British studies', and his death on September 30th 1919 was greeted with widespread lamentation. In the decades immediately following his death, Haverfield's reputation survived largely undiminished, in fact his view of the Romanisation of Britain became so widely accepted that it held sway for almost a century, and is only now being re-examined by both positive and negative interpreters of his views. What is clear however, is that his immense contribution to the study of Roman Britain is worthy of attention.
Ennius Perennis Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 172
ISBN: 9780906014301
Pub Date: 30 Nov 2007
Series: Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society Supplementary Volume
Description:
Ennius Perennis: the Annals and Beyond is a collection of eight essays by an international group of scholars on different aspects of the poetry and legacy of Quintus Ennius (239-169 BC). Ennius' epic poem the Annals and his many other works, including tragedies, satires and epigrams, survive only in mystifying fragments, but his influence on Latin poetry was enormous. He is now beginning to be appreciated, thanks both to excellent critical editions and to more enlightened literary and historical approaches, as a complex and varied poet and a fascinating representative of an era of intense cultural and political change.
RRP: £45.00