Classical Studies

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Ancient Bovillae

History, Art, and Archaeology of a Lost City in the Roman Hinterland

Edited by Peter Hatlie
Subjects: Archaeology, Roman, Classical Studies, Roman, History, European History

The first comprehensive study in English of the ancient Roman city and its decline

Beyond the River, Under the Eye of Rome

By Timothy C Hart
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, History, European History

Explores how Roman perceptions of Danubian peoples influenced some of the most politically and socially significant events of Roman antiquity

Writing Imperial History

Tacitus from Agricola to Annales

By Bram L.H. ten Berge
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, History, European History

Analyzes how Tacitus contributed to our current understanding of history and reveals the themes that permeated his writing

Lucian’s Laughing Gods

Religion, Philosophy, and Popular Culture in the Roman East

By Inger NI Kuin
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, History, European History

The first English-language monograph about religion and Lucian of Samosata

The Black Widows of the Eternal City

The True Story of Rome's Most Infamous Poisoners

By Craig A. Monson
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Classical Studies, Roman, History, European History

An intriguing and well-researched account behind the dozens of female poisoners in seventeenth-century Rome

Adoption, Memory, and Cold War Greece

Kid pro quo?

By Gonda Van Steen
Subjects: American Studies, History, American History, European History, Classical Studies, Greek, Literary Studies, European Literature

Reveals the history of how 3,000 Greek children were shipped to the United States for adoption in the postwar period

Roman Siege Warfare

By Josh Levithan
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, History, European History, Archaeology

Key reading for the discerning history buff or academic specialist

Textual Rivals

Self-Presentation in Herodotus’ Histories

By David Branscome
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, History, European History, Historical Methods and Theory

An investigation of what a Herodotean inquirer can do, and what he should do

Pompeii's Living Statues

Ancient Roman Lives Stolen from Death

By Eugene Dwyer
Subjects: Archaeology, Roman, History, European History, Classical Studies, Roman

An intriguing look at contemporary views regarding the casts of victims from Mt. Vesuvius' eruption

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