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Rome and the Worlds beyond its Frontiers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 274

Rome and the Worlds beyond its Frontiers

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-10-05
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Rome and the Worlds Beyond Its Frontiers examines interactions between those within and those beyond the boundaries of Rome, with an eye to the question of contested identities and identity formations.

Rulers and Ruled in Ancient Greece, Rome, and China
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 481

Rulers and Ruled in Ancient Greece, Rome, and China

A comparative study of the ancient Mediterranean and Han China, seen through the lens of political culture.

Frontiers in the Roman World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 391

Frontiers in the Roman World

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-05-10
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This volume presents the proceedings of the ninth workshop of the international network 'Impact of Empire', which concentrates on the history of the Roman Empire. It focuses on different ways in which Rome created, changed and influenced (perceptions of) frontiers.

Women and War in Antiquity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 355

Women and War in Antiquity

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-12-15
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  • Publisher: JHU Press

Women in ancient Greece and Rome played a much more active role in battle than previously assumed. The martial virtues—courage, loyalty, cunning, and strength—were central to male identity in the ancient world, and antique literature is replete with depictions of men cultivating and exercising these virtues on the battlefield. In Women and War in Antiquity, sixteen scholars reexamine classical sources to uncover the complex but hitherto unexplored relationship between women and war in ancient Greece and Rome. They reveal that women played a much more active role in battle than previously assumed, embodying martial virtues in both real and mythological combat. The essays in the collection...

The Roman Empire in Context
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 549

The Roman Empire in Context

Through a series of original essays by leading international scholars, The Roman Empire in Context: Historical and Comparative Perspectives offers a comparative historical analysis of the Roman empire’s role and achievement and, more broadly, establishes Rome’s significance within comparative studies. Fills a gap in comparative historical analysis of the Roman empire’s role and achievement Features contributions from more than a dozen distinguished scholars from around the world Explores the relevance of important comparativist themes of state, empire, and civilization to ancient Rome

Probability and Statistical Physics in St. Petersburg
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 482

Probability and Statistical Physics in St. Petersburg

This book brings a reader to the cutting edge of several important directions of the contemporary probability theory, which in many cases are strongly motivated by problems in statistical physics. The authors of these articles are leading experts in the field and the reader will get an exceptional panorama of the field from the point of view of scientists who played, and continue to play, a pivotal role in the development of the new methods and ideas, interlinking it with geometry, complex analysis, conformal field theory, etc., making modern probability one of the most vibrant areas in mathematics.

Ritual Dynamics and Religious Change in the Roman Empire
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 392

Ritual Dynamics and Religious Change in the Roman Empire

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009-05-20
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This volume presents the proceedings of the eighth workshop of the international network 'Impact of Empire', which concentrates on the history of the Roman Empire. It focuses on the impact the Roman Empire had on changes in ritual and further religious behaviour in the empire.

Finding Fairness
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 333

Finding Fairness

In this ambitious work, Justin Jennings explores the origins, endurance, and elasticity of ideas about fairness and how these ideas have shaped the development of societies at critical moments over the last 20,000 years. He argues that humans have an innate expectation for fairness, a disposition that evolved during the Pleistocene era as a means of adapting to an unpredictable and often cruel climate. This deep-seated desire to do what felt right then impacted how our species transitioned into smaller territories, settled into villages, formed cities, expanded empires, and navigated capitalism. Paradoxically, the predilection to find fair solutions often led to entrenched inequities over ti...

Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 525

Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean World

Maps Egypt's political, economic and cultural connections throughout the Mediterranean and beyond between 500 and 1000 CE.