Classical Studies

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The Laws of the Roman People

Public Law in the Expansion and Decline of the Roman Republic

By Caroline Williamson
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, History, Law, Law and Society, Political Science, Political History

A major contribution to understanding the role of public law-making in the Roman Republic

The Athenian Experiment

Building an Imagined Political Community in Ancient Attica, 508-490 B.C.

By Greg Anderson
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, History, Political Science

This book rewrites the political and public history of Athens

The Case for the Prosecution in the Ciceronian Era

By Michael C. Alexander
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, Law, Political Science

A reconstruction of the case for the prosecution in the eleven trials in which Cicero delivered an extant defense speech

Citizens on Stage

Comedy and Political Culture in the Athenian Democracy

By James F. McGlew
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Political Science, Theater and Performance

Examines Old Comedy's representation of the citizen in fifth-century democratic Athens

Theodoret of Cyrrhus

The Bishop and the Holy Man

By Theresa Evelynne Urbainczyk
Subjects: Classical Studies, History, Political Science, Religion

Authoritatively places the fifth-century bishop Theodoret and his work in the proper historical and literary context

Speaking the Same Language

Speech and Audience in Thucydides' Spartan Debates

By Paula Debnar
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, History, Political Science, Political Communication

The first systematic study of the internal audiences in Thucydides and the first to focus on Spartan discourse throughout the History

Shamanism, History, and the State

Edited by Nicholas Thomas & Caroline Humphrey
Subjects: Anthropology, History, Political Science, Classical Studies

Nine case studies of shamanic practice in widely different cultures

Roman Political Ideas and Practice

By F. E. Adcock
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, History, Political Science
Series: Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures

Studies Roman politics from the early kings, through the Republic, to the age of dictatorships

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