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  • Dress and the Roman Woman

    Self-Presentation and Society

    de Kelly Olson ...
    In ancient Rome, the subtlest details in dress helped to distinguish between levels of social and moral hierarchy. Clothes were a key part of the sign systems of Roman civilization – a central aspect of its visual language, for women as well as men.This engaging book collects and examines artistic evidence and literary references to female clothing, cosmetics and ornament in Roman antiquity, ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Dress in Mediterranean Antiquity

    Greeks, Romans, Jews, Christians

    Edición de Alicia J. Batten, Professor Kelly Olson ...
    Insights from anthropology, religious studies, biblical studies, sociology, classics, and Jewish studies are here combined to provide a cutting-edge guide to dress and religion in the Greco-Roman World and the Mediterranean basin. Clothing, jewellery, cosmetics, and hairstyles are among the many aspects examined to show the variety of functions of dress in communication and in both establishing ... Leer más

    $178.99 USD

  • Masculinity and Dress in Roman Antiquity

    de Kelly Olson ...
    Series series Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
    In Masculinity and Dress in Roman Antiquity, Olson argues that clothing functioned as part of the process of communication by which elite male influence, masculinity, and sexuality were made known and acknowledged, and furthermore that these concepts interconnected in socially significant ways. This volume also sets out the details of masculine dress from literary and artistic evidence and the ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

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  • The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon: An Elusive World Wonder Traced

    An Elusive World Wonder Traced

    de Stephanie Dalley ...
    The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon is an exciting story of detection involving legends, expert decipherment of ancient texts, and a vivid description of a little-known civilization. Recognised in ancient times as one of the Seven Wonders of the World, the legendary Hanging Garden of Babylon and its location still remains a mystery steeped in shadow and puzzling myths. In this remarkable ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • In Search of the Phoenicians

    de Josephine Quinn ...
    Series series Miriam S. Balmuth Lectures in Ancient History and Archaeology
    Who were the ancient Phoenicians, and did they actually exist?The Phoenicians traveled the Mediterranean long before the Greeks and Romans, trading, establishing settlements, and refining the art of navigation. But who these legendary sailors really were has long remained a mystery. In Search of the Phoenicians makes the startling claim that the “Phoenicians” never actually existed. Taking readers ... Leer más

    $31.69 USD

  • Blood in the Arena

    The Spectacle of Roman Power

    de Alison Futrell ...
    "Fresh perspectives [on] the study of the Roman amphitheater . . . providing important insights into the psychological dimensions" of gladiatorial combat ( Classical World).From the center of Imperial Rome to the farthest reaches of ancient Britain, Gaul, and Spain, amphitheaters marked the landscape of the Western Roman Empire. Built to bring Roman institutions and the spectacle of Roman power to ... Leer más

    $0.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • What Did Jesus Look Like?

    de Professor Joan E. Taylor ...
    Jesus Christ is arguably the most famous man who ever lived. His image adorns countless churches, icons, and paintings. He is the subject of millions of statues, sculptures, devotional objects and works of art. Everyone can conjure an image of Jesus: usually as a handsome, white man with flowing locks and pristine linen robes.But what did Jesus really look like? Is our popular image of Jesus ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • Eager for Glory

    The Untold Story of Drusus the Elder, Conqueror of Germania

    de Lindsay Powell ...
    "The first biography of an important personality from the beginnings of Rome's empire" (Graham Sumner, coauthor of Arms and Armour of the Imperial Roman Soldier).Nero Claudius Drusus Germanicus (Drusus the Elder) was the first conqueror of Germania (the Netherlands and Germany) and one of ancient Rome's most beloved military heroes. Yet there has never been a full volume dedicated to his ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • A Companion to Ancient History

    Edición de Andrew Erskine ...
    Series Libro 199 - Wiley Companions to the Ancient World
    This Companion provides a comprehensive introduction to key topics in the study of ancient history.Examines the forms of evidence, problems, approaches, and major themes in the study of ancient historyComprises more than 40 essays, written by leading international scholarsMoves beyond the primary focus on Greece and Rome with coverage of the various cultures within the ancient MediterraneanDraws ... Leer más

    $48.00 USD

  • Rome's Vestal Virgins

    de Robin Lorsch Wildfang ...
    Comprehensive and thoroughly up-to-date, this volume offers a brand new analysis of the Vestal Virgins’ ritual function in Roman religion.Undertaking a detailed and careful analysis of ancient literary sources, Wildfang argues that the Vestals’ virginity must be understood on a variety of different levels and provides a solution to the problem of the Vestals’ peculiar legal status in ancient Rome ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Byzantine Intersectionality

    Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages

    de Roland Betancourt ...
    A fascinating history of marginalized identities in the medieval worldWhile the term “intersectionality” was coined in 1989, the existence of marginalized identities extends back over millennia. Byzantine Intersectionality reveals the fascinating, little-examined conversations in medieval thought and visual culture around sexual and reproductive consent, bullying and slut-shaming, homosocial and ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Gladiators

    Violence and Spectacle in Ancient Rome

    de Roger Dunkle ...
    The games comprised gladiatorial fights, staged animal hunts (venationes) and the executions of convicted criminals and prisoners of war. Besides entertaining the crowd, the games delivered a powerful message of Roman power: as a reminder of the wars in which Rome had acquired its empire, the distant regions of its far-flung empire (from where they had obtained wild beasts for the venatio), and ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD