Author : Michael Scott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 43,77 MB
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 1107009154
An interdisciplinary study of the dynamic relationship between space and society through case studies across the ancient Greek and Roman worlds.
Author : Michael Scott
Publisher :
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 37,36 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Cultural geography
ISBN : 9781139842372
"We cannot properly understand history without a full appreciation of the spaces through which its actors moved, whether in the home or in the public sphere, and the ways in which they thought about and represented the spaces of their worlds. In this book Michael Scott employs the full range of literary, epigraphic and archaeological evidence in order to demonstrate the many different ways in which spatial analysis can illuminate our understanding of Greek and Roman society and the ways in which these societies thought of, and interacted with, the spaces they occupied and created. Through a series of innovative case studies of texts, physical spaces and cultural constructs, ranging geographically across North Africa, Greece and Roman Italy, as well as an up-to-date introduction on spatial scholarship, this book provides an ideal starting point for students and non-specialists"--
Author : Michael Scott
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 34,7 MB
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Cultural geography
ISBN : 9781139839990
We cannot properly understand history without a full appreciation of the spaces through which its actors moved, whether in the home or in the public sphere, and the ways in which they thought about and represented the spaces of their worlds. In this book Michael Scott employs the full range of literary, epigraphic and archaeological evidence in order to demonstrate the many different ways in which spatial analysis can illuminate our understanding of Greek and Roman society and the ways in which these societies thought of, and interacted with, the spaces they occupied and created. Through a series of innovative case studies of texts, physical spaces and cultural constructs, ranging geographically across North Africa, Greece and Roman Italy, as well as an up-to-date introduction on spatial scholarship, this book provides an ideal starting point for students and non-specialists.
Author : James Clackson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 30,95 MB
Release : 2015-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1316297802
Texts written in Latin, Greek and other languages provide ancient historians with their primary evidence, but the role of language as a source for understanding the ancient world is often overlooked. Language played a key role in state-formation and the spread of Christianity, the construction of ethnicity, and negotiating positions of social status and group membership. Language could reinforce social norms and shed light on taboos. This book presents an accessible account of ways in which linguistic evidence can illuminate topics such as imperialism, ethnicity, social mobility, religion, gender and sexuality in the ancient world, without assuming the reader has any knowledge of Greek or Latin, or of linguistic jargon. It describes the rise of Greek and Latin at the expense of other languages spoken around the Mediterranean and details the social meanings of different styles, and the attitudes of ancient speakers towards linguistic differences.
Author : Jerry Toner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 26,20 MB
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1108754465
Modern risk studies have viewed the inhabitants of the ancient world as being both dominated by fate and exposed to fewer risks, but this very readable and groundbreaking new book challenges these views. It shows that the Romans inhabited a world full of danger and also that they not only understood uncertainty but employed a variety of ways to help to affect future outcomes. The first section focuses on the range of cultural attitudes and traditional practices that served to help control risk, particularly among the non-elite population. The book also examines the increasingly sophisticated areas of expertise, such as the law, logistics and maritime loans, which served to limit uncertainty in a systematic manner. Religious expertise in the form of dream interpretation and oracles also developed new ways of dealing with the future and the implicit biases of these sources can reveal much about ancient attitudes to risk.
Author : A. D. Lee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 24,36 MB
Release : 2020-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 110701428X
Thematic treatment of the broader impact of warfare in the Roman world, integrating Late Antiquity alongside the Republic and Principate.
Author :
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 23,95 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN : 0521810728
Author : Catherine Cooper
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 33,76 MB
Release : 2020-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9004440755
This book highlights the diversity of current methodologies in Classical Archaeology. It includes papers about archaeology and art history, museum objects and fieldwork data, texts and material culture, archaeological theory and historiography, and technical and literary analysis, across Classical Antiquity.
Author : Emma Dench
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 42,42 MB
Release : 2018-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1108696007
This book evaluates a hundred years of scholarship on how empire transformed the Roman world, and advances a new theory of how the empire worked and was experienced. It engages extensively with Rome's Republican empire as well as the 'Empire of the Caesars', examines a broad range of ancient evidence (material, documentary, and literary) that illuminates multiple perspectives, and emphasizes the much longer history of imperial rule within which the Roman Empire emerged. Steering a course between overemphasis on resistance and overemphasis on consensus, it highlights the political, social, religious and cultural consequences of an imperial system within which functions of state were substantially delegated to, or more often simply assumed by, local agencies and institutions. The book is accessible and of value to a wide range of undergraduate and graduate students as well as of interest to all scholars concerned with the rise and fall of the Roman Empire.
Author : Sara Forsdyke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 10,15 MB
Release : 2021-06-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1107032342
Recovers the voices, experiences and agency of enslaved people in ancient Greece.
