Classics and Greco-Roman Archaeology

For intermediate students.

"The first work of its kind to reflect significant advances in linguistics made in recent decades, it provides students, teachers and academics with a comprehensive yet user-friendly treatment."

For intermediate students.

An "innovative reference that makes use of many of the advances that have taken place in linguistics during the last half century."

Clear, concise grammar for intermediate level students.

A lucid account of the most important constructions.

Covers Latin from its beginning until 200 AD.

Contents: 1: What do we mean by polis? -- 2: The birth of Athens and the roots of democracy -- 3: Draconian laws -- 4: Solonian laws -- 5: How tyranny helped the establishment of democracy -- 6: Cleisthenes and the birth of democracy -- 7: The Persian Wars and the link between democracy and the naval empire -- 8: Democracy and pentekontaeitia -- 9: Democracy and the effects of the Peloponnesian War -- 10: Democracy and the decline of the polis -- 11: Athenian democracy in the Hellenistic and Roman age.

Contents: Christianity and Rome -- The Great Persecution -- The Conversion of Constantine -- Constantine and the Imperial Church -- The Donatist Schism -- The Doctrine of the Trinity -- Scripture and Liturgy -- The Ecclesiastical Hierarchy -- Emperor and Bishop -- Asceticism and Monasticism -- Christianization -- Paideia : Christianity and Classical Culture -- Christians, Jews and Manichees -- Gender and Society -- Holy Men and Holy Women -- Pilgrimage and Relics -- Missionaries and Kings -- The City of God -- The Christological Controversies -- Christianity and the Barbarian Invasions -- Epilogue : The Dawn of Medieval Christendom.

Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Eating, Drinking and Reading: Food and Drink in Ancient Literature -- 3. Grain, Grapes and Olives: The Mediterranean Triad and More -- 4. Eating, Drinking and Believing: Food, Drink and Religion -- 5. Eating, Drinking and Sharing: The Social Context of Food and Drink -- 6. Eating, Drinking and Fighting: Food and Drink in the Military -- 7. Eating, Drinking and Living Healthy: Food, Drink and Medicine.

Contents: Sexuality and the Gods -- Deities of Desire: Their Nature and Effects -- Anxiety, Suspicion and Blame -- Pederasty and Male Homoerotic Relations -- Female Homosocial and Homoerotic Relations -- Philosophical and Medical Models of Sexuality -- Virginity, Chastity and Modesty -- Marital Sexuality -- Transgression and Deviance -- Prostitution.

"This sourcebook illustrates the dramatic political, social and religious transformations of Late Antiquity through the words of the men and women who experienced them. Drawing from Greek, Latin, Syriac, Hebrew, Coptic, Persian, Arabic and Armenian sources, the carefully chosen passages illuminate the lives of emperors, abbesses, aristocrats, slaves, children, barbarian chieftains, and saints . The Roman Empire is kept at the centre of the discussion, with chapters devoted to its government, cities, army, law, medicine, domestic life, philosophy, Christianity, polytheism, and Jews. Further chapters deal with the peoples who surrounded the Roman state: Persians, Huns, northern "Germanic" barbarians, and the followers of Islam."

Contents: Introduction Chapter 1: The city's origins -- Chapter 2: The 'lived-in' city -- Chapter 3: The city of leisure and commerce -- Chapter 4: The city by day and by night -- Chapter 5: Spectacles of the city -- Chapter 6: Religious spaces -- Chapter 7: The political city -- Chapter 8: The written city -- Chapter 9: The Emperor's city -- Chapter 10: The city in later literature Epilogue: Ancient Rome today.

"[I]ncludes an updated review of sexuality in Greece and Rome, an expanded bibliography and numerous new passages with original translations."

"By their social and material context as markers of graves, dedications and public signs of honour, inscriptions shed light on women who are largely overlooked by the literary sources. The wide range of inscriptions and graffiti included in this book show women participating not only in their families and households but also in the social and professional life of their cities."

Contents: Part 1. Rome's beginnings -- Women and the legendary past -- Women and the early kings -- The Tarquins -- Etruscan women -- Part 2. The Early and Middle Republic. The early laws and women : the Twelve Tables -- Courageous women of the Early Republic -- Women and religious life -- Gender tensions -- The Punic Wars -- Women and property -- Women of the upper and lower classes -- Women in Roman comedy -- Part 3. The Late Republic. Women and powerful men -- Some remarkable Roman women of the Late Republic -- Weddings -- Women in the inscriptional record -- Agricultural workers -- Part 4. The Julio-Claudian period. Augustan marriage legislation -- Women of the imperial households -- The Latin elegiac poets -- Women in the inscriptional record -- The housekeeper of the villa -- Religion and magic -- Part 5. The Later Empire -- Women of the Imperial households -- Women throughout the Empire -- Wealthy women -- Lower-class women -- The female body -- Adultery and prostitution -- Religion.

"Features the extant writings of major female authors from the Greco-Roman world, brought together for the first time in a single volume, in both their original languages and translated into English with accompanying commentaries."