In Food in the Ancient World, a respected classicist and a practising world-class chef explore a millennium of eating and drinking.

• Explores a millennium of food consumption, from c.750 BC to 200 AD.
  
  
• Shows the pivotal role food had in a world where it was linked with morality and the social order.
  
  
• Concerns people from all walks of life - impoverished citizens subsisting on cereals to the meat-eating elites.
  
  
• Describes religious sacrifices, ancient dinner parties and drinking bouts,...

Theories of Mythology provides students with both a history of theories of myth and a practical 'how-to' guide to interpreting myth, the most elementary form of narrative.

• Both a history of theories of myth and a practical 'how-to' guide to interpreting myth.
  
• Introduces the major theories of myth from the nineteenth century to the present day.
  
• Covers comparative approaches, psychoanalysis, ritual theories of myth, structuralism, and ideological analysis.
  
• Supplies readers with the theoretical tools for...

In Food in the Ancient World, a respected classicist and a practising world-class chef explore a millennium of eating and drinking.

• Explores a millennium of food consumption, from c.750 BC to 200 AD.
  
  
• Shows the pivotal role food had in a world where it was linked with morality and the social order.
  
  
• Concerns people from all walks of life - impoverished citizens subsisting on cereals to the meat-eating elites.
  
  
• Describes religious sacrifices, ancient dinner parties and drinking bouts,...

Utilizing a great variety of previously unknown cuneiform tablets, Ancient Babylonian Medicine: Theory and Practice examines the way medicine was practiced by various Babylonian professionals of the 2nd and 1st millennium B.C.

• Represents the first overview of Babylonian medicine utilizing cuneiform sources, including archives of court letters, medical recipes, and commentaries written by ancient scholars
• Attempts to reconcile the ways in which medicine and magic were related
• Assigns authorship to various types of medical literature that were previously...

This agenda-setting text has been fully revised in its second edition, with coverage extended into the Christian era. It remains the most comprehensive and engaging introduction to the sexual cultures of ancient Greece and Rome.

• Covers a wide range of subjects, including Greek pederasty and the symposium, ancient prostitution, representations of women in Greece and Rome, and the public regulation of sexual behavior
• Expanded coverage extends to the advent of Christianity, includes added illustrations, and offers student-friendly pedagogical features
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The second edition of Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient World updates Donald G. Kyle's award-winning introduction to this topic, covering the Ancient Near East up to the late Roman Empire.

- Challenges traditional scholarship on sport and spectacle in the Ancient World and debunks claims that there were no sports before the ancient Greeks

- Explores the cultural exchange of Greek sport and Roman spectacle and how each culture responded to the other's entertainment

- Features a new chapter on sport and spectacle during the Late Roman Empire, including Christian...