Tak. - Rome 1

A fascinating exploration of women's role in Roman religion that facilitates a better understanding of their importance in Rome's cultural formation. Roman women were the procreators and nurturers o……続きを見る

The eminent classicist delivers "an evocative history of Europe's first great road" from Rome to the heel of Italy in this "slim but evocative volume" ( The Guardian, UK). The 1st century Roman poet……続きを見る

Trade in antiquity - its scale, status, pattern and context - is the subject of lively debate among historians. But no analysis has made a special investigation of trade in essential food stuffs. Fa……続きを見る

Bathing culture was one of the pillars of Roman society and bathhouses are one of the largest categories of a particular type of construction excavated in the Roman world. The large number of surviv……続きを見る

Magic was a fundamental part of the Greco-Roman world. Curses, erotic spells, healing charms, divination, and other supernatural methods of trying to change the universe were everyday methods of cop……続きを見る

The Roman army, well-known for its discipline, organization, and invention in both weapons and tactics, allowed Rome to build and defend a vast empire which for centuries would dominate the Mediterr……続きを見る

Do the Romans have anything to teach us about the way that they saw the world, and the way they ran their empire? How did they deal with questions of frontiers and migration, so often in the news to……続きを見る

The Servian commentaries on Vergil are doubly distinguished: they are among the very few ancient commentaries on classical Latin texts to survive essentially intact; and they exist in two radically ……続きを見る