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Adriaan Lanni draws on contemporary legal thinking to present a new model of the legal system of classical Athens. She...

Drawing on the evidence of anthropology as well as ancient literature and inscriptions, Gagarin examines the emergence of law in...

Secret Societies of the Middle Ages explores the foundations of modern secret societies, examining the history and known facts of...

Now available to an English-speaking audience, this book presents a groundbreaking theoretical analysis of memory, identity and culture. It investigates...

Roman Britain: A Sourcebook has established itself as the only comprehensive collection of source material on the subject. It incorporates...

A stirring defense of the faith by one of Christianity's ablest defenders, this is a A re-issue of the classic...

The notion and understanding of law penetrated society in Ancient Rome to a degree unparalleled in modern times. The poet...

An intellectual adventure through ancient France revealing how Caesar’s conquest of Gaul changed the course of French culture, forever transforming...

What made the Romans laugh? Was ancient Rome a carnival, filled with practical jokes and hearty chuckles? Or was it...

As the greatest Roman orator of his time, Cicero delivered over one hundred speeches in the law courts, in the...

This revised and updated edition includes a brand new foreword by Richard LaFleur and more than fifteen hundred new entries and...

The ancient Athenian legal system is both excitingly familiar and disturbingly alien to the modern reader. It functions within a...

Roman Law in Context explains how Roman law worked for those who lived by it, by viewing it in the...

This book offers an examination of Cicero's speech, the Pro Balbo, which was delivered during a momentous period of Roman...

This book tells the story of Ancient Rome from the perspective of a traveler and explains many of the customs...

Long before the rise of Islam in the early seventh century, Arabia had come to form an integral part of...

Ranging from the Symposium to the Apology, this is a concise butauthoritative guide to the most important and widely studied...

Of all aspects of Roman culture, the gladiatorial contests for which the Romans built their amphitheatres are at once the...

Late Antiquity (ca. 250-650) witnessed the transition from Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages in the Mediterranean and Near Eastern...