A Companion to Food in the Ancient World presents a comprehensive overview of the cultural aspects relating to the production, preparation, and consumption of food and drink in antiquity.

- Provides an up-to-date overview of the study of food in the ancient world

- Addresses all aspects of food production, distribution, preparation, and consumption during antiquity

- Features original scholarship from some of the most influential North American and European specialists in Classical history, ancient history, and archaeology

- Covers a wide geographical...

A Companion to Roman Italy investigates the impact of Rome in all its forms--political, cultural, social, and economic--upon Italy's various regions, as well as the extent to which unification occurred as Rome became the capital of Italy.

• The collection presents new archaeological data relating to the sites of Roman Italy
• Contributions discuss new theories of how to understand cultural change in the Italian peninsula
• Combines detailed case-studies of particular sites with wider-ranging thematic chapters
• Leading...

A Companion to Ancient Thrace presents a series of essays that reveal the newly recognized complexity of the social and cultural phenomena of the peoples inhabiting the Balkan periphery of the Classical world.

- Features a rich and detailed overview of Thracian history from the Early Iron Age to Late Antiquity

- Includes contributions from leading scholars in the archaeology, art history, and general history of Thrace

- Balances consideration of material evidence relating to Ancient Thrace with more traditional literary sources

- Integrates a study of...

• First collection of its kind to provide introductory essays to the fragments of his lost plays and to the remaining fragments of one satyr-play, the Ichneutae, in addition to each of his extant tragedies
• Features new essays on Sophoclean drama that go well beyond the current state of scholarship on Sophocles
• Presents readings that historicize Sophocles in relation to the...

A Companion to Women in the Ancient World presents an interdisciplinary, methodologically-based collection of newly-commissioned essays from prominent scholars on the study of women in the ancient world.

• The first interdisciplinary, methodologically-based collection of readings to address the study of women in the ancient world
• Explores a broad range of topics relating to women in antiquity,...

• Discusses the life and works of Augustine within their full historical context, rather than privileging the theological context
• Presents Augustine's life, works and leading ideas in the cultural context of the late Roman world, providing a...

• Offers a broad survey of the Punic Wars from a variety of perspectives
• Features contributions from an outstanding cast of international scholars with unrivalled expertise
• Includes chapters on military and naval techniques, strategies, logistics, and Hannibal as a charismatic general and leader
• Gives balanced coverage of both Carthage and Rome

A Companion to the City of Rome provides an authoritative and up–to–date overview of current research on the development of the city of Rome from its legendary foundations as a settlement on the banks of the Tiber up until circa AD 600. Featuring original contributions from a wide range of top scholars at the forefront of new developments in their respective fields; essays integrate the latest archaeological, topographical, and historical evidence to address all aspects of the physical structure of the city and lives of its inhabitants. After an overview of source materials,...

• The only detailed up-to-date introduction to provide a scholarly overview of ancient Assyria in English within the last fifty years
• Brings together a team of respected Assyriology scholars from around the world
• Provides detailed illustrations of Assyrian society and life, including cities, art, religion,...