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"In a series of short and humorous essays, Insane Emperors, Sunken Cities, and Earthquake Machines features more answers to questions that ancient historian Garrett Ryan is frequently asked in the classroom, in online forums, and on his popular YouTube channel Told in Stone"-- Provided by publisher.

"With chapters on the upbringing of satyrs, the reverse-transformation of Eros from young man to baby, working children and young men in Roman Egypt, tales of the misbehaviour of Alexander the Great and some Late Antique students, this volume offers much to engage the interest of ancient historians, classicists and historians of age and ageing in other periods. The book also includes discussions on the careful presentation of freedmen, dressed women and men, wicked imperial stepmothers, obstreperous old Athenians, and some very old grandparents. From the mythological to the more ordinary, chapters investigate attitudes to age and ageing in the ancient world, intergenerational relationships, and the intersections with gender, class and status."--Page [4] of cover.

• Approaching the ancient world
• The birth of civilization : the ancient Near East, 5000-1200 BC
• Pyramids and power, the creation of an Egyptian state, 3500-1500 BC
• Stability and expansion, Egypt in the Middle and New Kingdoms, 1985-1000 BC
• Interlude 1 : the Amarna Letters
• Living in New Kingdom Egypt
• The ancient Near East, 1200-500 BC
• "The Sea between the Lands" : the Mediterranean as the cradle of the classical world
• Civilizations of the Bronze Age Aegean, 2000-1100 BC
• The birth of a new Greece, 1100-700 BC
• "Travelling Heroes" : the Greeks in a wider world, 800-600 BC
• Interlude 2 : Sappho and lyric poetry
• Hoplites and tyrants : the emergence of the city-state
• Craftsmanship and creativity in Archaic Greece
• The Persian Wars
• The Greek way of life
• Experiencing the supernatural : the spiritual world of the Greeks
• Interlude 3 : "After this all becomes possible" : creating classical art, 500-460 BC
• Democracy and empire, Athens in the fifth century
• Rethinking the world : from Aeschylus to Aristotle
• Interlude 4 : rhetoric
• The struggle for power, 431-338 BC
• Alexander the Great and the transformation of the Greek world
• Tensions and creativity : the Hellenistic world, 330-323 BC
• Interlude 5 : Celts and Parthians
• The Etruscans and early Rome
• Rome becomes a Mediterranean power
• Rome, a republic under stress, 133-55 BC
• Interlude 6 : voices from the republic
• The failure of Republican politics, 55-31 BC
• Interlude 7 : women in the Roman republic
• Augustus and the founding of empire
• Consolidating the Roman Empire, AD 14-161
• Interlude 8 : the Sebasteion at Aphrodisias
• Running and defending an empire
• Social and economic life in the empire
• Interlude 9 : the Romans as builders
• The flourishing of Greek culture
• An empire in crisis, AD 161-313
• Constantine and his successors
• The Christian emperor
• The collapse of the classical West, AD 395-600
• The emergence of the Byzantine Empire
• Legacies.

• Dedication
• Foreword to the Third edition
• Author's Preface
• Acknowledgements
• List of Plates
• List of Maps
• List of Figures
• 1. Approaching the Ancient World
• 2. The Birth of Civilization: The Ancient Near East, 5000- 1200 BC
• 3. Pyramids and Power, the Creation of an Egyptian State, 3500-1985 BC
• 4. Stability and Expansion, Egypt in the Middle and New Kingdoms, 1985- 1000 BC.

• Interlude 1: The Amarna Letters
• 5. Living in New Kingdom Egypt
• 6. The Ancient Near East, 1200- 500 BC
• 7. 'The Sea between the Lands', the Mediterranean as the Cradle of the Classical World
• 8. Civilizations of the Bronze Age Aegean, 2000 -1100 BC
• 9. The Birth of a New Greece 1100
• 700 BC
• 10. 'Travelling Heroes', The Greeks in a Wider World, 800-600 BC
• Interlude 2: Sappho and Lyric Poetry
• 11. Hoplites and Tyrants: The Emergence of the City State
• 12. Craftsmanship and Creativity in Archaic Greece
• 13. The Persian Wars
• 14. The Greek Way of Life
• 15. Experiencing the Supernatural: the Spiritual World of the Greeks
• Interlude 3: 'After this all becomes possible.' Creating Classical Art, 500
• 460 BC
• 16. Democracy and Empire, Athens in the Fifth Century
• 17. Rethinking the World: From Aeschylus to Aristotle
• Interlude 4: Rhetoric
• 18. The Struggle for Power, 431- 338 BC
• 19. Alexander the Great and the Transformation of the Greek World
• 20. Tensions and Creativity: The Hellenistic World, 323 -30 BC.

• Interlude 5: Celts and Parthians
• 21. The Etruscans and Early Rome
• 22. Rome Becomes a Mediterranean Power
• 23. Rome, A Republic Under Stress
• Interlude 6: Voices from the Republic
• 24. The Failure of Republican Politics
• Interlude 7: Women in the Roman Republic
• 25. Augustus and the Founding of Empire
• 26. Consolidating the Roman Empire, AD 14-161
• Interlude 8: The Sebasteion at Aphrodisias
• 27. Running and Defending an Empire
• 28. Social and Economic Life in the Empire
• Interlude 9: The Romans as Builders
• 29. The Flourishing of Greek Culture
• 30. An Empire in Crisis, AD 161-313
• 31. The Early Christian Communities, AD 33-313
• 32. Constantine and His Successors
• 33. The Christian Emperor
• 34. The Collapse of the Classical West, 395-600
• 35. The Emergence of the Byzantine Empire
• 36. Legacies
• What to Read Next
• Date Chart
• List of Events
• Index.

Egypt, Greece, and Rome is regarded as one of the best general histories of the ancient world. It is written for the general reader and the student coming to the subject for the first time and provides a reliable and highly accessible point of entry to the period. Beginning with the early Middle Eastern civilizations of Sumer, and continuing right through to the Islamic invasions and the birth of modern Europe after the collapse of the Roman empire, the book ranges beyond political history to cover art and architecture, philosophy, literature, society, and economy. A wide range of maps, illust.

This work incorporates the updates and revisions made to the latest edition of the acclaimed 'Oxford Classical Dictionary', from which this abridged Companion derives. A revised chronology, bibliography, and thematic listing of entries supplement the A to Z entries. It also contains over 40 new or completely rewritten entries on Greek and Roman society and culture, including ancient perceptions of colour, gender, ghosts, masculinity, sacred laws, and theatricality, as well as new feature entries on topics such as emotions, madness, and ancient conceptions of the senses.

"Cette monographie propose une analyse detaillee de l'architecture et du decor des edifices de l'insula V d'Herculanum. Fouille entre 1931 et 1938, ce quartier d'habitations occupe une surface au sol de 3800 m² environ. L'etude est menee dans une perspective diachronique, afin de mettre en lumiere toutes les transformations successives du bati et de l'ornatus des habitations. Le choix d'une analyse a l'echelle de l'insula, permet d'envisager les phases successives de lotissement et de modifications du parcellaire. On constate ainsi que loin de rester figees, les limites des habitations fluctuaient par regroupement, fusion, fragmentation d'edifices, en fonction des besoins de leurs occupants. Cette etude de l'histoire structurale de l'insula V s'accompagne aussi d'observations sur les programmes ornementaux et les choix operes a ce sujet par les proprietaires des edifices, entre conservation de decors anciens et renovation totale ou partielle des habitations. Ces recherches croisees alimentent des reflexions a caractere plus sociales et anthropologiques, sur les modes d'habiter dans une petite cite d'Italie au debut de notre ere. Un des enjeux les plus problematiques suscites par l'analyse de l'espace domestique concerne l'articulation entre le contenant - une structure architecturale dont les limites sont a priori assez fixes et en tout cas rigides - et le contenu , a savoir la familia, une entite dynamique, aux limites mouvantes. L'espace domestique tend a s'adapter aux evolutions de la cellule familiale, qui presente alternativement des tendances a l'inflation, puis a la fragmentation. Pour les villes d'epoque romaine, et Herculanum en particulier, un objectif est donc d'envisager quels ajustements du point de vue de l'architecture des habitations ces metamorphoses continuelles des cellules familiales pouvaient generer. Quels types de solutions pouvaient etre mis en oeuvre, et quelles en etaient les consequences du point de vue de l'architecture et de l'ornatus des maisons ? Cet ouvrage envisage ainsi l'etude de l'architecture domestique non a l'echelle d'une seule unite d'habitation, mais a l'echelle d'une insula toute entiere afin d'envisager une analyse globale aussi bien synchronique que diachronique." -- back cover

"Sortie des presses d'une compagnie de libraires parisiens, L'Antiquité expliquée et représentée en figures de Bernard de Montfaucon compte parmi les grands musées de papier de l'ère moderne. Elle imprime pour un large public une nouvelle manière de percevoir l'Antiquité. Pour ce faire, les œuvres des cabinets des collectionneurs et les monuments ont été dessinés, reproduits par la gravure et accompagnés d'explications par l'auteur. Dans le même moment, de nouvelles découvertes élargissent la connaissance du passé et lui donnent corps en le faisant surgir du sol. L'écho de cet essai d'archéologie se poursuit jusqu'à nos jours. Le présent livre rassemble les contributions de spécialistes reconnus, mettant à disposition des documents nouveaux et des points de vue inédits sur la genèse et la réception du livre. Juliette Jestaz a extrait de sa thèse de l'École des chartes (1995) plusieurs pièces qu'elle a mises à jour pour cet ouvrage."-- Provided by publisher

Private associations abounded in the ancient Greek world and beyond, and this volume provides the first large-scale study of the strategies of governance which they employed. It explores them in their wider social, political, religious and global contexts and is valuable for historians, social scientists and theologians alike.

• Associations' regulations from the ancient Greek world and beyond: an Introduction / Vincent Gabrielsen and Mario C. D. Paganini
• Admission procedures and financial contributions in private associations: norms and deviations / Nikolaos Giannakopoulos
• Regulations on absence and obligatory participation in ancient associations / Benedikt Eckhardt
• The place of purity: groups and associations, authority and sanctuaries / Jan-Mathieu Carbon
• Associations and place: regulating meeting-places and sanctuaries / Stella Skaltsa
• Greek thorybos, Roman eustatheia: the normative universe of Athenian cult associations / Ilias Arnaoutoglou
• Private affairs in a public domain: regulating behavioural code towards benefactresses and planning a strategy of social impact in Mantinean associations / Sophia Zoumbaki
• A world full of associations: rules and community values in early Roman Egypt / Micaela Langellotti
• Ordo corporatorum: the rules of Roman associations and the collegia at Ostia in the second and third centuries AD / Nicolas Tran
• Rules and regulations of associations: the Eurasian comparandum / Kasper G. Evers
• Conclusion: associations in their world / Vincent Gabrielsen and Mario C. D. Paganini.

"Private associations abounded in the ancient Greek world and beyond, and this volume provides the first large-scale study of the strategies of governance which they employed. Emphasis is placed on the values fostered by the regulations of associations, the complexities of the private-public divide (and that divide's impact on polis institutions) and the dynamics of regional and global networks and group identity. The attested links between rules and religious sanctions also illuminate the relationship between legal history and religion. Moreover, possible links between ancient associations and the early Christian churches will prove particularly valuable for scholars of the New Testament. The book concludes by using the regulations of associations to explore a novel and revealing aspect of the interaction between the Mediterranean world, India and China. Vincent Gabrielsen is Professor of Ancient History at the SAXO-Institute of the University of Copenhagen. He specialises in Greek and Hellenistic history and epigraphy and was Director of 'The Copenhagen Associations Project' and is now Director of 'The Rhodes Centennial Project'. Mario C.D. Paganini is a Postdoc Research Associate at the Austrian Academy of Science"-- Provided by publisher.

"Due to their proximity, the interactions between Greece and the Near East were regular throughout antiquity, but the period of the 8th/7th centuries BCE is generally called the "Orientalizing Age" (from the Greek perspective) because of the marked influence that the Near East had on Greek thought, myth, and art during this time. Many of the mythological monsters we today think of as Greek had their origins to the east, including the griffin, a hybrid creature usually composed of the body, tail, and rear legs of a lion and the head, wings, and sometimes talons of an eagle. During this period, griffins were frequently included as protomes on Greek cauldrons, that is, an adornment featuring the head of a creature along the rim of the huge vessel. These griffin cauldrons have been discovered over much of the Mediterranean region, from Cyprus to Burgundy and the Loire valley of France, especially in sanctuaries of all sizes and elite tombs. Papalexandrou explores the 7th century as a time of wonder and radical innovation in the material and visual cultures of the Mediterranean with the griffin cauldrons as his case study, examining the possible reasons for their popularity, how and by whom they were used, their religious significance, and how they traveled across the region"-- Provided by publisher.

• Rome and the North-Western Mediterranean
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Contributors
• Introduction: The Agency of Integration and Connectivity in the North-Western Mediterranean
• Rome, Italy and The West
• 1 Rome and the Western Mediterranean (150-70 BC): Empire and War
• 2 Non-Roman Coins in Italy: The Influence of Western Connections (3rd-1st centuries BC)
• 3 Military Connectivity between Romans and Non-Romans in the West
• 4 Transactions, Trading Practices and Structures in the Western Mediterranean: The Impact of Roman Hegemony

• 5 Ligurians, Gatekeepers of the West 197-118 BC
• Hispania Citerior and Transalpine Gaul
• 6 Initial Indications of a Roman Presence East of the Pyrenees: A Possible Transition Zone between Gaul and Iberia in the Late 3rd and Early 2nd Centuries BC
• 7 Numantia. A Green and Pleasant Land. Not Once the Romans Arrived!
• 8 Trading Networks in Transalpine Gaul before and after the Conquest of 125 BC
• 9 Late Iron Age Iberians from Coastal North-Eastern Hispania and Rome
• 10 Late Iron Age Iberians and Rome in the Segre Valley (North-East Hispania): Transformation and Integration

• 11 Tolosa Tectosagum: A Wide-Ranging Connectivity Hub between Transalpine Gaul, Aquitania and Hispania Citerior
• 12 Coinage from North-East Hispania Citerior and Rome, c. 150-70 BC
• 13 A Fistful of Denarii. Coinage, Conquest and Connectivity in Southern Gaul (c. 150-c. 70 BC)
• Seaborne Connectivity
• 14 Shipwrecks and Trade in the North-Western Mediterranean during the 3rd and 2nd Centuries BC: The Sea as an Agent of Connectivity
• 15 Emporion and its Port during the 2nd Century BC

• 16 Exploring the 'Cultural Revolution' in Ancient Sicily between Hellenisation and Romanisation: A Reassessment
• 17 Between Carthage and Rome: Artisans, Businessmen and Colonists in Roman Republican Sardinia (150-50 BC)
• 18 Rome and the Political Dimension of Piracy in the North-Western Mediterranean
• 19 Between Traders and Pirates. Connectivity in the Balearic Islands from the Second Punic War to the Mid-1st Century BC
• 20 Rome and the North-Western Mediterranean: Ports-of-Call and Sea Routes
• Epilogue

• 21 The Roman and Italian Economic Diaspora as a Factor of Connectivity between Italy and the Eastern Mediterranean, 150-70 BC
• 22 A Message in a Bottle Crossing the North-Western Mediterranean
• Index

• Prologue : The wild and the tamed : ancient views of civilization
• Part I. The Greeks. 1. The dawn of Greek civilization
• 2. The rise of the Hellenes
• 3. New things : the first Greek city-states
• 4. As rich as Croesus : early Greek and the East
• 5. Great Greeks : the Greek settlement of the West
• 6. Meet the (western) neighbours
• 7. 'Lord of all men'? The threat of Persia
• 8. The same but different : Athens and Sparta
• 9. 'Unprecedented suffering'? The Pelponnesian War
• 10. Examined lives and golden mouths
• 11. 'A brilliant flash of lightning' : Alexander of Macedon
• 12. Game of thrones, or The world after Alexander
• Part II. The Romans. 13. 'Senatus populusque Romanus'
• 14. Boots on the ground : building the Roman empire
• 15. Hail Caesar! The advent of the autocrats
• 16. 'Fierce Rome, captive'? The lure of Greece
• 17. What did the Romans do for their empire?
• 18. 'Barbarians' at the gate
• 19. The 'Jesus movement'
• 20. United we stand : the final century
• 21. Divided we fall : a tale of two empires.

The magnificent civilization created by the ancient Greeks and Romans is the greatest legacy of the classical world. However, narratives about the "civilized" Greek and Roman empires resisting the barbarians at the gate are far from accurate. Tony Spawforth, an esteemed scholar, author, and media contributor, follows the thread of civilization through more than six millennia of history. His story reveals that Greek and Roman civilization, to varying degrees, was supremely and surprisingly receptive to external influences, particularly from the East. From the rise of the Mycenaean world of the sixteenth century B.C., Spawforth traces a path through the ancient Aegean to the zenith of the Hellenic state and the rise of the Roman empire, the coming of Christianity and the consequences of the first caliphate. Deeply informed, provocative, and entirely fresh, this is the first and only accessible work that tells the extraordinary story of the classical world in its entirety.