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Taylor & Francis The Animal and the Human in Ancient and Modern Thought
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Marcus Aurelius
Book SynopsisMarcus Aurelius, the philosopher-emperor who ruled the Roman Empire between AD 161 and 180, is one of the best recorded individuals from antiquity. Even his face became more than usually familiar: the imperial coinage displayed his portrait for over 40 years, from the clean-shaven young heir of Antonius to the war-weary, heavily bearded ruler who died at his post in his late fifties.His correspondence with his tutor Fronto, and even more the private notebook he kept for his last ten years, the Meditations, provides a unique series of vivid and revealing glimpses into the character and peoccupations of this emporer who spent many years in terrible wars against northern tribes.In this accessible and scholarly study, Professor Birley paints a portrait of an emporer who was human and just - an embodiment of the pagan virtues of Rome.Table of Contents1 The Age of the Antonines 2 Family and Early Years 3 Aurelius Caesar 4 The Education of an Heir Apparent 5 The Stoic Prince 6 The First Years as Emperor 7 Triumph and Crisis 8 The Northern Wars 9 The Last Years 10 Marcus to Himself 11 Epilogue
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Foundations for a Humanitarian Economy
Book SynopsisThe modern global economy and discipline of economics place mathematical calculation above human concern. However, a re-reading of Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy can positively highlight the contrast in values and spirit of the early medieval European world with our own scientific age.This book discusses the historical and cultural contexts that influenced Boethius' writing and explores how Consolation offers a radically different understanding of economic concepts: wealth from inner happiness and virtues, poverty from hoarding outer possessions, self-sufficiency in the greater whole, enlightenment through misfortune, and development as fruition from the Good. These economic considerations resonate with a range of heterodox economic perspectives, such as Ecological and Buddhist Economics. The fundamental revaluations gained through Boethius pose a critique of mainstream neoclassical and neoliberal economics: to consumerism, avarice, growth and technologTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. The Consolation in Context 3. The Consolation of Philosophy 4. Consolation as Economy's Foundation 5. Conclusion
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Cambridge University Press In the Footsteps of the Etruscans
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Cambridge University Press Senses Cognition and Ritual Experience in the Roman World
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Johns Hopkins University Press Seneca The Tragedies Volume 1 Complete Roman
Book SynopsisThe volume includes Trojan Women, Thyestes, Phaedra, Medea, and Agamemnon, plus a preface.Trade ReviewSlavitt's ability is clearly in evidence... These translations are rendered in lucid, contemporary English, bringing before us the atrocities, horrors, and grotesqueries of Imperial Rome. Classical Outlook Slavitt's translation is... lively and sometimes witty. Times Literary Supplement A good, sensational Senecan read. Queen's QuarterlyTable of ContentsPrefaceTrojan Women (Troades)ThyestesPhaedraMedeaAgamemnon
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Evolution of Western Private Law
Book SynopsisThe result is a work that incorporates all the ideas that Watson has put forward during his twenty-five years studying comparative law and the development of legal systems, combining a remarkable range of sources with superb insight.Trade ReviewThe Evolution of Western Private Law is an innovative look at the development of the Western legal tradition. It makes an important contribution to the literature on legal history, and Watson has carefully examined the sources and the relevant legal documents. Although highly detailed and somewhat technical, Watson writes with great clarity. -- Gerald J. Russello Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgementsAbbreviations1. Legislation2. Jurists3. Judges4. Custom5. Legislation and Jurists: French Delit6. Jurists, Judges, Custom, Legislation: Water Rights7. Legal Transplants I: The Cause of the Reception of Roman Law8. Legal Transplants 2: Other Reception of Roman Law9. The Case of English Common law10. Humanism, The Law of Reason, Codification11. ConclusionsNotesGlossaryIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Etruscan Dress
Book SynopsisFor this paperback edition, an updated bibliographical essay discusses the latest research and discoveries in the field.Trade ReviewPerhaps the greatest contribution of this book is its comparisons of Etruscan dress to Greek and Near Eastern, especially Cypriote, antecedents. Likewise, her presentations of the contrasts between Greek and Etruscan, as well as between Roman and Etruscan dress, neatly pinpoints and summarizes the stylistic differences. American Journal of Archaeology Highlights include judiciously selected illustrations, a superb, up-to-date bibliography, and a remarkably concise, informative chronological table of Greek and Etruscan dress. Library Journal A fine introduction to a very complex area which has received too little attention in the past. The material is rich and varied; the argument is learned, intricate, and wide ranging... This is a major work of scholarship, and well deserves a place among the indispensable works in English on Etruscan topics. Archaeological News This is still the only book on its subject... Bonfante's encyclopedic knowledge and enthusiasms make the Etruscans accessible to anyone who wants to find out what they were like. -- David Ridgway Times Higher Education Supplement 2004 Essential for any teacher or student interested in the Etruscans. For students, moreover, it serves as a model on how to 'read' archaeological finds of fabric and representations of garments in order to elicit valuable insights into Etruscan culture. -- Judith Lynn Sebesta New England Classical Journal 2004 Bonfante's new bibliography is useful and shows clearly that new generations of scholars are active in the field of textile and dress studies. -- L. B. van der Meer BABesch 2006Table of ContentsContents:Introduction Chronological Table of Greek and Etruscan Dress1. Fabrics and Patterns 2. Perizoma and Belts 3. Chiton and Tunic 4. Mantles 5. Shoes 6. Hats, Hair Styles, and Beards 7. Foreign Influences and Local Styles Appedix I: Strange Costumes and Special Problems Appendix II: Vocabulary
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Random House USA Inc Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Empire of the Self
Book SynopsisHe demonstrates a significant point of contact between two writers generally thought to be antagonists-the idea that imperial speech structures reveal the self.Trade ReviewThis [review] can hardly do justice to the scope and richness of Star's argument in each chapter, to the thoroughness with which he discusses his chosen texts, and to the creativity with which he exploits his simultaneous treatments of Seneca and Petronius. This book makes a major contribution to the modern bibliography of selfhood and self-formation in the early empire, and it will doubtless generate further debate in so vibrant an area of study. -- Gareth Williams Classical Journal With this book, Star contributes to a growing body of scholarship on the construction of the self in classical antiquity. Choice If this book only managed to demonstrate -- as it unquestionably does -- the complementary intertexuality of the Satyricon with Senecan philosophy, that alone would be a noteworthy achievement. But in fact The Empire of the Self is rife with compelling readings of its target texts that have ramifications beyond a narrow understanding of either author of their relationship to one another. Star's study offers its readers valuable insights into the governing metaphors and preoccupations of the Roman intelligentsia in the mid-first century CE. -- Amanda Wilcox Bryn Mawr Classical Review Star has performed a valuable service in presenting a fresh approach to familiar authors which helps the discussion to move beyond some of the established academic truisms of the last few decades, and identifying the common conceptual ground that they share. He offers us a fresh perspective on both Seneca's and Petronius' views of self-fashioning, making a major contribution to several recent areas of interest within classics. Both graduate students and scholars working on Neronian literature or Roman concepts of identity will benefit from reading Star's argument. HermathenaTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Soul-Shaping Speech1. Senecan Philosophy and the Psychology of Command2. Self-Address in Senecan Tragedy3. Self-Address in the SatyriconPart II: Soul-Revealing Speech4. Political Speech in Declementia5. Soul, Speech, and Politics in the Apocolocyntosisand the Satyricon6. Writing, Body, and MoneyEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Ex Oriente Lex
Book SynopsisA preface by editors Deborah Lyons and Kurt Raaflaub details the importance of Westbrook's work for the field of classics, while Sophie Demare-Lafont's incisive introduction places Westbrook's ideas within the wider context of ancient law.Trade ReviewIndividually and cumulatively (his) essays encourage a re-examination of shared cultural heritage often fiercely resisted by classicist. -- Rockwell CJ It is the singular admiration for his diagnostic skills which attracts readers of ancient Near Eastern law to his scholarship, and as a result he will not be forgotten... The Ds CommentaryTable of ContentsEditors' NotePrefaceIntroduction1. The Trial Scene in the Iliad2. Penelope's Dowry and Odysseus' Kingship3. Drakon's Homicide Law4. Barbarians at the Gates5. The Nature and Origins of the Twelve Tables6. Restrictions on Alienation of Property in Early Roman Law7. The Coherence of the Lex Aquilia8. Vitae Necisque Potestas9. The Origin of Laesio Enormis10. Codification and Canonization11. Reflections on the Law of Homicide in the Ancient World12. The Early History of LawAbbreviationsBibliographyIndex
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Bloomsbury Academic Selections from Ovid Amores II
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Bloomsbury Academic Selections from Horace Satires
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Bloomsbury Academic Selections from Tacitus Histories I
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Bloomsbury Academic Selections from Tacitus Annals I
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Bloomsbury Academic Selections from Ovid Heroides
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Bloomsbury Academic Selections from Horace Odes III
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Bloomsbury Academic Selections from Virgil Aeneid VIII
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Bloomsbury Academic Selections from Apuleius Metamorphoses V
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Basic Books Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint
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Basic Books Roman Warfare
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Westholme Publishing The Sasanian Empire at War: Persia, Rome, and the Rise of Islam, 224-651
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Archaeopress A Study of the Deposition and Distribution of
Book SynopsisThis book collects together data concerning copper alloy vessels from Roman Britain and relates this evidence to prevailing theories of consumption, identity and culture change in Britain during this time. The aims of this study are to collect a catalogue of copper alloy vessels from England and Wales, categorise them by form, typology, context, chronology and geographic distribution, offer interpretations concerning their cultural associations, manners of consumption, functionality and development over time before commenting upon their value as small finds material reflective of culture change more broadly within Britain during the Roman period. Copper alloy vessels from the Roman period in Britain have not been the subject of focused scholarly study for over 50 years and have never had a focused examination in English. This report not only rectifies this gap in the literature, but proceeds to directly apply this data analysis to the greater theoretical discourse of the development of material culture in Britain during the Roman period, thereby demonstrating the validity and importance of small finds studies to the larger historiographic and theoretical discourse.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction and Review of Previous Research Concerning Roman Britain and Copper alloy Vessels Chapter 2: Materials, Methods and Approaches Chapter 3: Structured Deposits Chapter 4: Grave Deposits Chapter 5: Site Finds Chapter 6: Single Finds Reported through the Portable Antiquities Scheme Chapter 7: Synthetic Discussion Addressing Research Questions 1-3 Chapter 8: Copper Alloy Vessels and Identity in Roman Britain Bibliography
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Oxbow Books House of the Surgeon, Pompeii: Excavations in the
Book SynopsisThe House of the Surgeon represents the first major publication of an important series of excavations undertaken by the Anglo-American Project in Pompeii (1994-2006) at the ancient city of Pompeii in a city block known as Insula VI 1. This is one of the largest, most comprehensive, and most important sub-surface, pre-79 AD excavations ever to have been undertaken at Pompeii. The methodology employed to the systematic examination of an entire city block, involving extensive artefact and ecofact recovery, using the latest scientific methods, has generated one of the single largest bodies of archaeological data ever produced on the development of ancient Pompeii, from the earliest traces of human habitation until its destruction. The first major section of this data is now made available in form of a study of the most famous and prominent of the houses on the block. The Casa del Chirurgo (House of the Surgeon) has been one of the most frequently cited houses in the ancient city since its discovery in 1771. The results of the exhaustive study of the house within its urban context not only challenge many of the conclusions of previous research, but also make it possible at last for this important property to contribute information to the full history of Pompeii’s urban development, illuminating the chronology of urban change, the processes involved in ancient domestic construction, aspects of the ancient environment, and changing socio-political and economic conditions within Italy throughout the middle to late Republic and early Empire.Trade Review…this is an excellent report, containing a wealth of new data expertly martialled, described and illustrated. * Antiquity *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface Foreword: The Old Certainties are Crumbling Rick Jones 1. Pompeii’s Insula VI 1 and the Casa del Chirurgo Michael A. Anderson and Damian Robinson 2. The Anglo-American Project in Pompeii Damian Robinson, Michael A. Anderson, H.E.M. Cool, Robyn Veal, and Charlene Murphy 3. Digging the Casa del Chirurgo Michael A. Anderson and Damian Robinson 4. The Stratigraphic and Structural Sequence of the Casa del Chirurgo Michael A. Anderson and Damian Robinson 5. Room by Room Discussion of Stratigraphy and Architecture Michael A. Anderson and Damian Robinson 6. Glass Vessels and Small Finds H. E. M. Cool 7. Report on the Coinage Recovered from the AAPP Excavations in the Casa del Chirurgo Richard Hobbs 8. Plaster Fragments from the Cisterns of the Casa del Chirurgo: a window onto the house’s lost decoration Helen White 9. Pavements of Mortar, Mosaic and Marble Inlay Will Wootton 10. The Faunal Remains Jane Richardson 11. Archaeobotanical Remains Charlene Murphy 12. Fuel and Timber in the Casa del Chirurgo Robyn Veal 13. The Ancient Campanian Environment and Results from the Casa del Chirurgo Robyn Veal and Charlene Murphy 14 Conclusions Michael A. Anderson Appendix I: Stratigraphic Unit Listing and Chapter 5 Concordance Appendix II: Harris Matrices for Areas Excavated Bibliography Index
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Oxbow Books Iron Age and Roman Coin Hoards in Britain
Book SynopsisMore coin hoards have been recorded from Roman Britain than from any other province of the Empire. This comprehensive and lavishly illustrated volume provides a survey of over 3260 hoards of Iron Age and Roman coins found in England and Wales with a detailed analysis and discussion.Theories of hoarding and deposition and examined, national and regional patterns in the landscape settings of coin hoards presented, together with an analysis of those hoards whose findspots were surveyed and of those hoards found in archaeological excavations. It also includes an unprecedented examination of the containers in which coin hoards were buried and the objects found with them. The patterns of hoarding in Britain from the late 2nd century BC to the 5th century AD are discussed. The volume also provides a survey of Britain in the 3rd century AD, as a peak of over 700 hoards are known from the period from AD 253–296. This has been a particular focus of the project which has been a collaborative research project between the University of Leicester and the British Museum funded by the AHRC. The aim has been to understand the reasons behind the burial and non-recovery of these finds. A comprehensive online database (https://finds.org.uk/database) underpins the project, which also undertook a comprehensive GIS analysis of all the hoards and field surveys of a sample of them.Trade ReviewThe online database is here analysed with informative maps, diagrams and tables, seeking answers to what, when, where and why. * British Archaeology *Filled with maps, graphs, and imagies of both spectacular and not-so-spectacular hoards, this is clearly an ambitious piece of work and should be considerd essential reading for anyone interested in the phenomenon. * Current Archaeology *Altogether the work is an exceptional illustration of the successes that digital approaches to the ancient world can produce. Bland, Chadwick, Ghey, and Haselgrove deserve the highest praise for their contributions to hoard studies and for advancing understanding of the complexities of Iron Age and Roman Britain. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *The presentation is excellent and the treatment of the subject is comprehensive and exhaustive...sets a model for other studies from other periods and for this alone the team who have produced this volume are to be thanked and congratulated. * Archaeologia Cambrensis - Cambrian Archaeological Association *Table of ContentsForeword 1. Introduction 2. Overview and analysis of the dataset 3. Theories of Hoarding and Deposition 4. National and regional patterns in the landscape settings of coin hoards 5. Analysis of excavated hoards 6. Coin hoards as archaeological objects: material and context 7. Coin hoards and society: chronological syntheses 8. Coin hoards and society: debating the third century: crisis or continuity? 9. Summary and conclusionsBibliographyIndex
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Archaeopress Excavations at Chester. Roman Land Division and a
Book SynopsisExcavations at Chester. Roman land division and a probable villa in the hinterland of Deva reports on excavations carried out by Northern Archaeological Associates (NAA) at Saighton Camp a former British Army training camp located to the south of the Roman legionary fortress of Chester (Deva Victrix) which revealed important and extensive Roman period remains. Part of a high-status settlement of second- to fourth-century date, together with a regular field system laid out over more than 20 hectares, were encountered.The excavated settlement appears to be an ancillary area to a much larger site, the centre of which lies to the south and is believed to be a villa. This is the closest such site to Chester, and villas are notably rare in the region. The field system was probably laid out by the legion at Deva as part of the prata legionis, agricultural lands they controlled around the fortress.
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Archaeopress Publishing Slingers and Sling Bullets in the Roman Civil
Book SynopsisSlingers were an element in the Roman army over many centuries. Their activities are frequently reported in literary accounts of battles and sieges during the civil wars of the Late Republic. Sling bullets, in stone, clay and lead, have been found at many scenes of conflict. Lead bullets often bear brief inscriptions addressed to the recipients, naming military units, their commanders and centurions; others carry sexual insults. This is an ever-expanding body of ancient evidence. Yet some books on the Roman army scarcely mention slingers. This monograph seeks to redress the balance and draws attention to their role and effectiveness. It covers the period between the Social Warof 90-89 BC and the close of the civil wars at the battle of Actium in 31 BC, encompassing thecampaigns of Julius Caesar in Gaul between 58 and 50 BC, including his expeditions to Britain, the wars between Caesar and Pompey the Great (and his sons) in 49-45 BC, and between Caesar's heirs and successors in 44-31 BC, including Mark Antony and the future emperor Augustus.
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American Academy in Rome Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, Volume
Book SynopsisThis volume represents the American Academy in Rome, its fellows, and the international community who use its excellent facilities. The Memoirs present a selection of articles on topics such as Roman archaeology, ancient and modern Italian history, Latin literature, and Italian art and architectural history.Volume 61 includes the following essays and articles: “Athens, Etruria, Rome, Baltimore: Reconstructing the Biography of an Ancient Greek Vase,” by Sheramy D. Bundrick; “Made from Life: A Roman Terracotta Portrait in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,” by Peter Schertz, Pamela Hatchfield, Richard Newman, and Reno Pisano, with Rajiv Gupta and Benjamin Reichardt; “Forgery and the Antiquarian Tradition: The Identification of Horace’s Sabine Villa at Vacone,” by Matthew Notarian, Dylan Bloy, and Gary D. Farney; “Before and Below the Baths of Trajan (Rome),” by Rita Volpe; “Philostratus’ Gymnasticus: The Ethics of an Athletic Aesthetic,” by Heather L. Reid; “Baldassarre Peruzzi at Saint Peter’s: The American Academy Plan and Peruzzi’s modello of 1521,” by Peter W. Parsons; “Giovanni Battista Palumba’s Mythological Progeny,” by Giancarlo Fiorenza; “The School of Athens: Theologians Reconciling Philosophy and Astrology,” by Mary Quinlan-McGrath; “From Palace to Paradise: The Transformation of the Palazzo Sanseverino into the Gesù Nuovo in Naples,” by Maria Ann Conelli; and “Vasi, Piranesi, and the Accademia degli Arcadi: Toward a Definition of Arcadianism in the Visual Arts,” by Susan M. Dixon. The volume closes with a special section, “New Work on the Archaeology of Late Antique Rome,” which includes three pieces: “Late Antique Restoration and Consolidation of the Aqua Claudia,” by Valeria Bartoloni and Laura Braccalenti; “Hemicycle of the Circus Maximus: Synthesis of the Late Antique Phases Revealed by Recent Investigations,” by Marialetizia Buonfiglio, Stefania Pergola, and Gian Luca Zanzi, with an Appendix by Domenica Dininno and Alessandro Vecchione; and “Piazza Augusto Imperatore, Excavations 2007–2011: The Late Antique Transformations,” by Caterina Maria Coletti and Ersilia Maria Loreti.
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University of Pennsylvania Press Guide to the Etruscan and Roman Worlds at the
Book SynopsisThe University Museum's classical collections are among the largest, most diverse, and most systematically collected of those of any museum in the United States. Of particular importance is the Etruscan material, spanning the entire history of the Etruscan peoples, from the ninth to the second centuries B.C. The strengths of the Roman collection are its glass, coins, sculpture, and the excavated objects from the Italian sites of Colonia Minturnae and the Sanctuary of Diana at Nemi. The Guide covers religion, daily life, language, commerce and trade, and death and burial among the Etruscans and Romans, and the legacy of the classical world in Western culture. It celebrates the completion of a suite of galleries at the University Museum—Worlds Intertwined: Etruscans, Greeks, and Romans—and is a companion guide to The Ancient Greek World (1995).
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Les Belles Lettres Zosime, Histoire Nouvelle: Tome II, 1re Partie:
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Les Belles Lettres Dion Cassius, Histoire Romaine: Livres 48 Et 49
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Les Belles Lettres Dion Cassius, Histoire Romaine: Livres 38, 39 &
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Les Belles Lettres Pompei Et La Campanie Antique
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Les Belles Lettres Vitruve, Traite d'Architecture: de Architectura
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Les Belles Lettres L' Histoire Auguste: Les Paiens Et Les Chretiens
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Les Belles Lettres Rome Devant La Defaite: (753-264 Avant J.-C.)
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Les Belles Lettres Le Vote Populaire a Rome
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Les Belles Lettres Plutarque, Vie d'Antoine
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Classiques Garnier Scandales, Justice Et Politique a Rome: Textes
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Brepols N.V. Aspects of the Roman East. Volume I: Papers in
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Brepols N.V. Aspects of the Roman East: II
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Brepols N.V. The Strange Death of Pagan Rome: Reflections on a
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Brepols N.V. The Great Persecution: A Historical
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