Roman Ionia

Martin Hallmannsecker

• Paperback | Engels | Greek Culture in the Roman World
• How did the cities of Ionia construct and express a distinct sense of Ionian identity under Roman rule? With the creation of the Roman province of Asi... Lees meer

Hellenism in Byzantium

Anthony Kaldellis

• Hardcover | Engels | Greek Culture in the Roman World
• This text was the first systematic study of what it meant to be 'Greek' in late antiquity and Byzantium, an identity that could alternatively become n... Lees meer

The End of Greek Athletics in Late Antiquity

Sofie Remijsen

• Paperback | Engels | Greek Culture in the Roman World
• This book presents the first comprehensive study of how and why athletic contests, a characteristic aspect of Greek culture for over a millennium, dis... Lees meer

Narrative and Identity in the Ancient Greek Novel

Tim Whitmarsh

• Hardcover | Engels | Greek Culture in the Roman World
• The Greek romance was for the Roman period what epic was for the Archaic period or drama for the Classical: the central literary vehicle for articulat... Lees meer

Reading Fiction with Lucian

Karen Ní Mheallaigh

• Hardcover | Engels | Greek Culture in the Roman World
• This book offers a captivating new interpretation of Lucian as a fictional theorist and writer to stand alongside the novelists of the day, bringing t... Lees meer

The Death of Myth on Roman Sarcophagi

Mont Allen

• Hardcover | Engels | Greek Culture in the Roman World
• A strange thing happened to Roman sarcophagi in the third century: their Greek mythic imagery vanished. Since the beginning of their production a cent... Lees meer

Women and Visual Replication in Roman Imperial Art and Culture

Jennifer Trimble

• Paperback | Engels | Greek Culture in the Roman World
• Why did Roman portrait statues, famed for their individuality, repeatedly employ the same body forms? The complex issue of the Roman copying of Greek ... Lees meer

Late Hellenistic Greek Literature in Dialogue

• Paperback | Engels | Greek Culture in the Roman World
• Late Hellenistic Greek literature, both prose and poetry, stands out for its richness and diversity. Recent work has tended to take an author-by-autho... Lees meer

The Moon in the Greek and Roman Imagination

Karen Ní Mheallaigh

• Hardcover | Engels | Greek Culture in the Roman World
• The Moon exerted a powerful influence on ancient intellectual history, as a playground for the scientific imagination. This book explores the history ... Lees meer

The Sense of Sight in Rabbinic Culture

Rachel Neis

• Hardcover | Engels | Greek Culture in the Roman World
• This book studies the significance of sight in rabbinic cultures across Palestine and Mesopotamia (approximately first to seventh centuries). It track... Lees meer

Reading Fiction with Lucian

Karen Ní Mheallaigh

• Paperback | Engels | Greek Culture in the Roman World
• This book offers a captivating new interpretation of Lucian as a fictional theorist and writer to stand alongside the novelists of the day, bringing t... Lees meer

Local Knowledge and Microidentities in the Imperial Greek World

• Paperback | Engels | Greek Culture in the Roman World
• This volume explores the proposition that the absorption of the Greek world into the Roman empire created a new emphasis upon local identities, much a... Lees meer

Athletics and Literature in the Roman Empire

Jason König

• Paperback | Engels | Greek Culture in the Roman World
• Greek athletics flourished more in the Roman empire than ever before. Jason König offers an exciting new cultural history of the athletics of this per... Lees meer

Women and Visual Replication in Roman Imperial Art and Culture

Jennifer Trimble

• Hardcover | Engels | Greek Culture in the Roman World
• Why did Roman portrait statues, famed for their individuality, repeatedly employ the same body forms? The complex issue of the Roman copying of Greek ... Lees meer

Greek Epigram and Byzantine Culture

Steven D Smith

• Hardcover | Engels | Greek Culture in the Roman World
• Sexy, scintillating, and sometimes scandalous, Greek epigrams from the age of the Emperor Justinian commemorate the survival of the sensual in a world... Lees meer

Homer Between History and Fiction in Imperial Greek Literature

Lawrence Kim

• Hardcover | Engels | Greek Culture in the Roman World
• Did Homer tell the 'truth' about the Trojan War? If so, how much, and if not, why not? The issue was hardly academic to the Greeks living under the Ro... Lees meer

The Making of Roman India

Grant Parker

• Paperback | Engels | Greek Culture in the Roman World
• Latin and especially Greek texts of the imperial period contain a wealth of references to 'India'. Professor Parker offers a survey of such texts, rea... Lees meer

Local Knowledge and Microidentities in the Imperial Greek World

• Hardcover | Engels | Greek Culture in the Roman World
• This volume explores the proposition that the absorption of the Greek world into the Roman empire created a new emphasis upon local identities, much a... Lees meer

The Maeander Valley

Peter Thonemann

• Hardcover | Engels | Greek Culture in the Roman World
• This is a study of the long-term historical geography of Asia Minor, from the fourth century BC to the thirteenth century AD. Using an astonishing bre... Lees meer

Religious Identity in Late Antiquity

Isabella Sandwell

• Hardcover | Engels | Greek Culture in the Roman World
• Studies of religious interaction in the fourth century AD have often assumed that the categories of 'pagan', 'Christian' and 'Jew' can be straightforw... Lees meer

Galen and the World of Knowledge

• Hardcover | Engels | Greek Culture in the Roman World
• Galen is the most important medical writer in Graeco-Roman antiquity, and also extremely valuable for understanding Graeco-Roman thought and society i... Lees meer

Homer in Stone

David Petrain

• Paperback | Engels | Greek Culture in the Roman World
• The Tabulae Iliacae are a group of carved stone plaques created in the context of early Imperial Rome that use miniature images and text to retell sto... Lees meer

Describing Greece

William Hutton

• Hardcover | Engels | Greek Culture in the Roman World
• William Hutton provides the first exhaustive literary study of the Periegesis Hellados, the most important example of non-fictional travel literature ... Lees meer

Roman Ionia

Martin Hallmannsecker

• Hardcover | Engels | Greek Culture in the Roman World
• How did the cities of Ionia construct and express a distinct sense of Ionian identity under Roman rule? With the creation of the Roman province of Asi... Lees meer