Kategoria BISAC: History >> Ancient - Rome

From one of the world's leading authorities on the subject, an innovative and comprehensive account of religion in the ancient Roman and Mediterranean world

In this ambitious and authoritative book, Jorg Rupke provides a comprehensive and strikingly original narrative history of ancient Roman and Mediterranean religion over more than a millennium--from the late Bronze Age through the Roman imperial period and up to full-fledged Christianization. While focused primarily on the city of Rome, Pantheon fully integrates the many religious traditions found in the...

What was really going on at Roman banquets? In this lively new book, veteran Romanist Matthew Roller looks at a little-explored feature of Roman culture: dining posture. In ancient Rome, where dining was an indicator of social position as well as an extended social occasion, dining posture offered a telling window into the day-to-day lives of the city's inhabitants.

This book investigates the meaning and importance of the three principal dining postures--reclining, sitting, and standing--in the period 200 B.C.-200 A.D. It explores the social values and distinctions associated...

The Valley of Sagittarius and the Peligna Dell between the fourth and first centuries BC: Trends and Delvelopments of Romanization. In the Peligna Valley, there is a poor understanding of Romanization as a phenomenon. The state of the documentation is very substantial but it is fragmentary and unsystematic in large parts. This book examines the most significant discoveries and studies in the Sagittarius valley and Peligna Dell from the beginning of the modern era to the present time. The theme of Romanization is introduced and defined from an historical point of view and the...

This monograph focuses on Greek architectural terracottas coming from recent excavations at the urban sanctuary of Kaulonia, a polis on the eastern coast of Calabria. The work outlines the phenomenon of architectural terracottas in their diachronic development, clarifying the manner in which their production first arose, reconstructing the range of distribution of the products of Kaulonia (among the most important in Magna Graecia), and highlighting their links with other materials of the same class in Greece and Southern Italy. It also examines significant aspects of production and...

With contributions by Sergio Cascella, Emiliano Arena and Benedetto Carroccio.

Nonostante il suo nome non ricorra frequentemente nelle fonti letterarie antiche, la città greco-romana di Kalè Akté - Calacte, nel sito dell’odierna Caronia in provincia di Messina,  offre innumerevoli spunti di studio che la rendono non meno importante di altri centri antichi più noti e fin qui esplorati in maniera sistematica, quanto a manifestazioni di cultura materiale, tecniche urbanistiche, espressioni artistiche e culturali, produzioni artigianali e...

Il volume si occupa di un contesto che parte dal 238 a.C. e giunge al 700 d.C, affrontando lo studio - diacronico e sincronico - della ceramica rinvenuta nel corso del survey del territorio di Nora (Cagliari - Sardegna Meridionale). La ceramica fornisce l’impulso alla ricostruzione dello sviluppo del paesaggio di Nora, sottolineando la presenza di fattorie, ville, necropoli e cave, che erano localizzate nel territorio alle spalle della città. La grande quantità di ceramica, proveniente da tutta l’area mediterranea, mostra un ricco ed attivo panorama, che...

The book focuses on the Castelnovian cultural complex, which developed during the recent Mesolithic between south-eastern France, Italy and western Slovenia. Namely, it aims at the reconstruction of settlement dynamics and lithic technical systems in the Emilia region (Northern Italy) within the wider context of southern Europe. To reach these objectives all the collections of the museums from this area have been examined, amounting to a total of 55 sites, some of which are here published for the first time.The results obtained confirm the appearance in Emilia during the Castelnovian of...

This is the abstract of a thesis submitted by Dr. George Currie which summarizes nearly every example from ancient sources where Roman soldiers were disciplined. In his introduction, he writes:

Modern writers on the subject of public antiquities of the Romans have usually emphasized the strictness of Roman military discipline but occasionally a dissenting voice has raised a question as to the strict rigor practiced by the Romans in dealing with their soldiers. The purpose of this discussion is to state the facts in the matter in an exhaustive study of the sources of...