Christianity, Philosophy, and Roman Power

Lea Niccolai

• Hardcover | Engels | Greek Culture in the Roman World
• This book rethinks the Christianisation of the late Roman empire as a crisis of knowledge, pointing to competitive cultural re-assessment as a major d... 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

Visual Style and Constructing Identity in the Hellenistic World

Miguel John Versluys

• Hardcover | Engels | Greek Culture in the Roman World
• Located in the small kingdom of Commagene at the upper Euphrates, the late Hellenistic monument of Nemrud Dağ (c.50 BC) has been undeservedly neglecte... 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

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

Saints and Church Spaces in the Late Antique Mediterranean

Ann Marie Yasin

• Paperback | Engels | Greek Culture in the Roman World
• This book explores the intersection between two key developments of the fourth through seventh centuries CE: the construction of monumental churches a... Lees meer

Saints and Church Spaces in the Late Antique Mediterranean

Ann Marie Yasin

• Hardcover | Engels | Greek Culture in the Roman World
• This book explores the intersection between two key developments of the fourth through seventh centuries CE: the construction of monumental churches a... Lees meer

Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Augustan Rome

• Hardcover | Engels | Greek Culture in the Roman World
• The Greek author Dionysius of Halicarnassus came to Rome in 30/29 BC. He learnt Latin, developed a network of students, patrons and colleagues, and st... 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

Athletics and Literature in the Roman Empire

Jason Konig

• Hardcover | 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

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 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

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

Author and Audience in Vitruvius' De architectura

Marden Fitzpatrick Nichols

• Hardcover | Engels | Greek Culture in the Roman World
• Vitruvius' De architectura is the only extant classical text on architecture, and its impact on Renaissance masters including Leonardo da Vinci is wel... 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

The Making of Roman India

Grant Parker, 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

The Social World of Intellectuals in the Roman Empire

Kendra Eshleman

• Hardcover | Engels | Greek Culture in the Roman World
• This book examines the role of social networks in the formation of identity among sophists, philosophers and Christians in the early Roman Empire. Mem... Lees meer

The Aesthetics of Hope in Late Greek Imperial Literature

Dawn Lavalle Norman

• Hardcover | Engels | Greek Culture in the Roman World
• This book sheds light on a relatively dark period of literary history, the late third century CE, a period that falls between the Second Sophistic and... 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

The Christian Invention of Time

Simon Goldhill

• Hardcover | Engels | Greek Culture in the Roman World
• Time is integral to human culture. Over the last two centuries people's relationship with time has been transformed through industrialisation, trade a... Lees meer

Greece and the Augustan Cultural Revolution

A J S Spawforth

• Hardcover | Engels | Greek Culture in the Roman World
• This book examines the impact of the Roman cultural revolution under Augustus on the Roman province of Greece. It argues that the transformation of Ro... Lees meer

The Making of Roman India

Grant Parker

• Hardcover | 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

Roman Festivals in the Greek East

Fritz Graf

• Hardcover | Engels | Greek Culture in the Roman World
• This study explores the development of ancient festival culture in the Greek East of the Roman Empire, paying particular attention to the fundamental ... 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