University of Toronto Press, 2025. — xxiii + 457 p. The period from September 1939 to late 1941 was crucial for Soviet foreign policy and coincided with the early stages of the Second World War, including the Great Patriotic War. In Stalin’s Great Game , Michael Jabara Carley unpacks the complexities of Soviet diplomacy during this time, addressing key issues such as the...
2nd Edition. — Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 80 p. — (LACTOR Sourcebooks in Ancient History). This volume in the LACTOR Sourcebooks in Ancient History series offers a generous selection of inscriptions from the Roman Empire during the period AD 14-117, with accompanying explanatory notes, concordances and indexes. It provides for the needs of students at schools and...
2nd Edition. — Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 135 p. — (LACTOR Sourcebooks in Ancient History). This volume in the LACTOR Sourcebooks in Ancient History offers a generous selection of primary texts on the Roman Empire during the period AD 14-117, with accompanying maps and introductory notes. It provides for the needs of students at schools and universities who are...
Routledge, 2009. — x + 182 р. This innovative book is the first comprehensive study of ancient Roman gardens to combine literary and archaeological evidence with contemporary space theory. It applies a variety of interdisciplinary methods including access analysis, literary and gender theory to offer a critical framework for interpreting Roman gardens as physical sites and...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — xviii + 408 p. This book explores new ways of analysing interactions between different linguistic, cultural, and religious communities across the Roman Empire from the reign of Nerva to the Severans (96–235 CE). Bringing together leading scholars in classics with experts in the history of Judaism, Christianity and the Near East, it looks...
Brill, 2023. — xiii + 257 p. — (Impact of Empire, 47). Integration is a buzzword in the 21st century. However, academics still do not agree on its meaning and, above all, on its consequences. This book offers numerous examples showing that the inhabitants of the Roman Mediterranean were “integrated”, i.e. were aware of the existence of a common framework of coexistence, without...
Peeters, 2005. — xii + 302 p. — (Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient Culture and Religion, 6). Between the two wars fought in Judaea against the Roman government - the 'Great War' and that of Bar Kochba - the uprisings of Diaspora Jews toward the end of Trajan's reign constitute a unique event in the history of the Second Jewish Commonwealth. It marks the first and only...
Routledge, 2016. — xxx + 401 p. Alexandria, Real and Imagined offers a complex portrait of an extraordinary city, from its foundation in the fourth century BC up to the present day: a city notable for its history of ethnic diversity, for the legacies of its past imperial grandeur - Ottoman and Arab, Byzantine, Roman and Greek - and, not least, for the memorable images of...
Peeters, 2023. — xviii + 224 p. — (Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient Culture and Religion, 24). This book focuses upon the colony Aelia Capitolina founded by Hadrian on the ruins of Jerusalem, within the general context of his politics of Empire and in particular that of the new developments which had taken place in Judaea since the beginning of his reign. Our knowledge has...
C. H. Beck, 1970. — vii + 284 p. — (Vestigia, 13). "This work is not a social history of the senatorial class from Vespasian to Hadrian, but, as its subtitle reveals, a series of prosopographical essays, of which the final chapters (112 f.) containing yearly lists of the known senatorial governors provide the meat. For the administrative and social historian especially, as the...
Oxford University Press, 2024. — 824 p. — (Oxford Handbooks). This handbook provides the first comprehensive treatment of the Greek cities in the Roman Empire. The poleis are studied here both as urban forms, with a specific organization of space and specific public buildings, and as socio-political entities, with specific institutions and social hierarchies. The contributions...
Cambridge University Press, 2024. — xxxvi + 560 p. Antioch on the Orontes was one of the most important cities of the ancient Mediterranean world. A hinge between the Mediterranean, Central Asia, and the Far East, its commercial and cultural prominence spanned centuries, from its Seleucid foundation to the Islamic conquest and beyond. This volume offers an archaeological and...
University of Toronto Press, 2024. — xxiii + 591 p. In the spring of 1936, the Soviet effort to build an anti-Nazi alliance was failing. Stalin continued nevertheless to support diplomatic efforts to stop Nazi aggression in Europe. In Stalin’s Failed Alliance , the sequel to Stalin’s Gamble , Michael Jabara Carley continues his re-evaluation of European diplomacy during the...
Antique Collectors’ Club, 2007. — 384 p. Whilst many books have been published about war, the role of the prisoner of war has been largely ignored or paid scant attention. This book, along with the author's other title - The Arts and Crafts of Napoleonic and American Prisoners of War 1756–1816 - aims to correct this imbalance, and is the result of the author's quest over thirty...
Routledge, 2024. — xviii + 99 p. This book showcases the unique shape of urban development that took hold during the Roman Empire, beginning in the Mediterranean basin before spreading out across Europe, and offers a fresh perspective on the cities and territories of the Roman West. With the expansion of Rome came a particular form of social organisation: the Roman city. This...
J. R. Collis Publications, 1992. — xiii + 202 p. — (Sheffield Archaeological Monographs 7). New evidence and research has challenged old assumptions for the early Iron Age kingdoms of Edom and Moab in southern Jordan; the sixteen essays in this volume focus on the archaeological, textual and literary sources for this region between the thirteenth and seventh centuries BC, and...
2nd edition. — Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. — xx + 338 p. This new edition broadens the scope of Fantham’s study of literary production and its reception in Rome. Scholars of ancient literature have often focused on the works and lives of major authors rather than on such questions as how these works were produced and who read them. In Roman Literary Culture , Elaine...
University of Toronto Press, 2023. — xxii + 614 p. Shedding light on the origins of the Second World War in Europe, Stalin’s Gamble aims to create a historical narrative of the relations of the USSR with Britain, France, the United States, Poland, Germany, Italy, Czechoslovakia, and Romania during the 1930s. The book explores the Soviet Union’s efforts to organize a defensive...
University of Toronto Press, 2012. — xvi + 397 p. — (Phoenix Supplementary Volume 50). Apuleius and Antonine Rome features outstanding scholarship by Keith Bradley on the Latin author Apuleius of Madauros and on the second-century Roman world in which Apuleius lived. Bradley discusses Apuleius’ work in the context of social relations (especially the family and household),...
University of Toronto Press, 2024. — xvi + 451 p. — (Phoenix Supplementary Volume 62). Marguerite Yourcenar is best known as the author of the 1951 novel Mémoires d’Hadrien , her recreation of the life of the Roman emperor Hadrian. The work can be examined from the perspective of the issues raised by writing Roman imperial biography at large and the many ways in which Mémoires...
Northeastern University Press; published by University Press of New England, 2007. — x + 314 p. This book is the first look at the colorful yet largely unknown story of Russian emigres who worked in the American film industry, and the representation of Russians and Soviets in Hollywood movies. Among the artists who gravitated towards Hollywood in the 1920s and '30s were the...
DeGruyter, 2024. — xii + 218 p. — (Studies in Ancient Civil War 1). The second century BCE was a time of prolonged debate at Rome about the changing nature of warfare. From the outbreak of the Second Punic War in 218 to Rome’s first civil war in 88 BCE, warfare shifted from the struggle against a great external enemy to a conflict against internal parties. This book argues that...
D.C. Heath, 1994. — xiv + 661 p. Focusing on internal developments in Imperial Russia, this book provides even-handed coverage of the period, with thorough attention to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Political history is balanced with a clear vision of social and economic change.
Oxbow Books, 2024. — x + 165 p. Richard Bradley's latest thought provoking re-examination of familiar monumental archaeology drawing on latest discussions of multi-temporality and the implications of new levels of analysis afforded by developments in archaeological sciences such as DNA, radiocarbon dating and isotopes . This book is concerned with the origins, uses and...
Oxbow Books, 2024. — xv + 207 p. Develops and expands current research into the concept of economic circularity, whereby societies reduce waste by recycling, reusing, and repairing raw materials and finished products. Economic circularity is the ability of a society to reduce waste by recycling, reusing, and repairing raw materials and finished products. This concept has gained...
Ashgate, 2009. — xii + 231 p., 90 ill. This important book puts forward a new interpretation of Roman decorative art, focusing on the function of decoration in the social context. It examines the three principal areas of social display and conspicuous consumption in the Roman world: social space, entertainment, and dress, and discusses the significance of the decoration of...
Cambridge University Press, 1992. — xxiii + 335 p. One of the leading Soviet archaeologists describes the development of ancient mining and metallurgy in the northern half of Eurasia. While the first traces of metallurgical activity date from between the seventh and the sixth millennium BC, significant mining developed only in the fifth millennium BC, in the northern Balkans...
Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024. — ix + 107 p. This book presents practical demonstrations of numerically calculating or obtaining Fourier Transform. In particular, the authors demonstrate how to obtain frequencies that are present in numerical data and utilizes Mathematica to illustrate the calculations. This book also contains numerical solution of differential equation of...
Cambridge University Press, 2024. — xii + 228 p. How do the senses shape the way we perceive, understand, and remember ritual experiences? This book applies cognitive and sensory approaches to Roman rituals, reconnecting readers with religious experiences as members of an embodied audience. These approaches allow us to move beyond the literate elites to examine broader...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — xiv + 482 p. A complex and captivating portrait of Mark Antony that offers a fresh perspective on the fall of the Roman Republic In his lifetime, Mark Antony was a famous man. Ally and avenger of Julius Caesar, rhetorical target of Cicero, lover of Cleopatra, and mortal enemy of Octavian (the future emperor Augustus), Antony played a leading...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — xii + 284 p. In classical Latin, luxuria means 'desire for luxury'; it is linked with the ideas of excess and deviation from a standard. It is in most cases labelled as a vice which contrasts with the innate frugal nature of the Romans. Latin authors do not see it as endemic but as an import from the East in the aftermath of military...
Second edition. — The Classical Press of Wales, 2023. — xxxiv + 373 p. The hellenistic royal families, from Alexander the Great to the last Cleopatra, took part in dynastic in-fighting that was vicious, colourful and instructive. In this they anticipated by centuries the better known excesses under Roman potentates such as Claudius and Nero. This new enhanced and revised...
St. Martin’s Press, 2023. — 320 p. A manifesto that outlines the progressive vision, recent history and worldview―by the founder of The Young Turks and co-founder of Justice Democrats. The media can't stop talking about the gridlock in Washington, as if a handful of stubborn Republicans are the only thing standing between us and a fully-functional democracy. The reality is that...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — xiv + 349 p. What happens when we juxtapose medicine and law in the ancient Roman world? This innovative collection of scholarly research shows how both fields were shaped by the particular needs and desires of their practitioners and users. It approaches the study of these fields through three avenues. First, it argues that the literatures...
Springer, 2023. — 765 p. This book concerns matrix and operator equations that are widely applied in various disciplines of science to formulate challenging problems and solve them in a faithful way. The main aim of this contributed book is to study several important matrix and operator equalities and equations in a systematic and self-contained fashion. Some powerful methods...
2nd edition. — Springer, 2023. — 683 p. This volume in the Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science, Second Edition, covers recent developments in classical areas of ergodic theory, including the asymptotic properties of measurable dynamical systems, spectral theory, entropy, ergodic theorems, joinings, isomorphism theory, recurrence, nonsingular systems. It enlightens...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019. — 272 p. In 1981, emboldened by Ronald Reagan's election, a group of some fifty Republican operatives, evangelicals, oil barons, and gun lobbyists met in a Washington suburb to coordinate their attack on civil liberties and the social safety net. These men and women called their coalition the Council for National Policy. Over four decades, this...
Atria Book, 2023. — 352 p. The author behind the “eye-popping” (CNN) #1 New York Times bestseller A Warning presents an urgent look at how our deeply divided nation is setting the stage for “The Next Trump.” Donald Trump will be president again, whether he is on the ballot or not. That is because Trumpism is overtaking the Republican Party and will mount a vigorous comeback,...
Routledge, 2011. — xii + 196 p. This book discusses the role of the trickster figure in contemporary film against the cultural imperatives and social issues of modernity and postmodernity, and argues that cinematic tricksters always reflect psychological, economic and social change in society. It covers a range of films, from Charlie Chaplin’s classics such as Modern Times...
L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2001. — 235 p. ' Erotica Pompeiana is the translation into English of a book first reviewed in Classical Review 45 (1995) by Roger Ling, who has revised the translation of this enlarged edition. The collection of erotic graffiti found throughout Pompeii is divided into chapters dealing with different aspects of sexual attachment, accompanied by high...
Routledge, 2017. — 311 p. — (British School at Athens - Modern Greek and Byzantine Studies Series, Vol. 3). Since its rediscovery in the early 20th century, through spectacular finds such as those by Sir Arthur Evans at Knossos, Minoan Crete has captured the imagination not only of archaeologists but also of a wider public. This is shown, among other things, by its appearance...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — x + 191 p. Imperial Cults: Religion and Politics in the Early Han and Roman Empires is a comparative study of the transformation of imperial cult and imperial authority in the early Han and Roman empires. The book begins with a simple observation: that during the reigns of the Emperor Wu of Han and Octavian Augustus of Rome, the rulers undertook...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — xviii + 308 p. World and Hour in Roman Minds: Exploratory Essays seeks to penetrate Romans' consciousness of space and time, aspects of antiquity currently attracting intense interest. Historian Richard Talbert presents here a cohesive selection of nineteen essays, published over the course of thirty years, all but one previously appearing in...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — x + 230 p. Strongly-held values can stabilize a society. They can also splinter it. In Restraint, Conflict, and the Fall of the Roman Republic , Paul Belonick explores the moral paradoxes of Republican Rome. He describes how aristocrats engaged in "performative politics," aggressively seeking self-advancement with a competitiveness that fueled...
Palgrave Macmillan Stuttgart, 2023. — xii + 421 p. The history of the Roman Republic was a military success story. Texts, monuments and rituals commemorated Rome's victories, and this emphasis on its own triumphs formed a basis for the Roman nobility's claim to leadership. However, the Romans also suffered numerous heavy defeats during the Republic. This study is the first to...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. — xii + 244 p. This book assesses a narrow but vital – and so far understudied – part of Roman women's lives: puberty, preparation for pregnancy, pregnancy and childbirth. Bringing together for the first time the material and textual sources for this key life stage, it describes the scientific, educational, medical and emotional aspects of the journey...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — xxviii + 324 p. What did people in the early Christian period think about the pagan inscriptions filling their late antique cities? Like public advertisements lining our streets today, these inscriptions were everywhere and communicated specific messages to literate late Roman viewers, often providing a very different view of the classical past...
Liverpool University Press, 2020. — xii + 300 p. Imperial Panegyric from Diocletian to Honorius examines one of the most important literatures of the late Roman period - speeches of praise addressed to the reigning emperor - and the panegyrical culture of the late Roman world more generally. Unlike much previous work on this topic, Imperial Panegyric takes a consciously...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023. — xviii + 458 p. Traces how the day has served as a key organizing concept in Roman culture—and beyond. How did ancient Romans keep track of time? What constituted a day in ancient Rome was not the same twenty-four hours we know today. In The Ordered Day , James Ker traces how the day served as a key organizing concept, both in antiquity...
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — xiv + 272 p. The Senatus Consultum de Cn. Pisone Patre is a senatorial decree issued in AD 20 following the trial of Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso, the governor of Syria, who was accused of rebellion against Tiberius following the death of his heir Germanicus. It survives on several inscriptions and is among the most important documents from the...