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Policing the Roman Empire

Soldiers, Administration, and Public Order
Christopher Fuhrmann
$74.00
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Hardback,  Nov 2011 ISBN13: 9780199737840ISBN10: 0199737843 The first synoptic analysis of Roman policing in over a hundred years, and the first ever in English
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Rome, Ostia, Pompeii

Movement and Space
Ray Laurence, David J. Newsome
$150.00
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Hardback,  Nov 2011 ISBN13: 9780199583126ISBN10: 0199583129 Provides detailed case studies underpinned by the latest theoretical developments in urban studies.
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Sibylline Sisters

Virgil's Presence in Contemporary Women's Writing
Fiona Cox
$99.00
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Hardback,  Nov 2011 ISBN13: 9780199582969ISBN10: 0199582963 A comprehensive look at contemporary women writers (Margaret Drabble, A. S. Byatt, Ruth Fainlight, Michele Roberts, Carol Ann Duffy, U. A. Fanthorpe, Josephine Balmer, Eavan Boland, Joyce Carol Oates, Janet Lembke, Ursula Le Guinand, Christa Wolf, Helene Cixous, Charlotte Delbo and Monique Wittig) and their use of Virgil

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Pompeii in the Public Imagination from its Rediscovery to Today

Shelley Hales, Joanna Paul
$160.00
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Hardback,  Nov 2011 ISBN13: 9780199569366ISBN10: 0199569363 Offers a broad view of the influence of Pompeii on the Western imagination, allowing readers to compare its impact at different times in history and for different audiences

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Literary Revision as Social Performance in Ancient Rome
Sean Alexander Gurd
$74.00
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Hardback,  Nov 2011 ISBN13: 9780199837519ISBN10: 0199837511 First substantive study of the cultural and social importance of literary revision among ancient Greek and Roman authors

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A Commentary on The Satyrica of Petronius

Gareth Schmeling
$185.00
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Hardback,  Oct 2011 ISBN13: 9780199567713ISBN10: 0199567719 The most comprehensive volume to date on Petronius, and a careful analysis of his language and characters.
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Petitions, Litigation, and Social Control in Roman Egypt

Benjamin Kelly
$150.00
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Hardback,  Oct 2011 ISBN13: 9780199599615ISBN10: 0199599610 Provides a detailed case-study of the actual social impact of the legal system in one particular Roman province.

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The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology

Roger S. Bagnall
$50.00
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Paperback,  Oct 2011 ISBN13: 9780199843695ISBN10: 0199843694 The first major reference work on papyrology written in English

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Cleopatra

A Biography
Duane W. Roller
$16.95
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Paperback,  Oct 2011 ISBN13: 9780199829965ISBN10: 0199829969 An authoritative biography of the most powerful woman of the ancient Mediterranean world

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The Oxford Handbook of Cuneiform Culture

Karen Radner, Eleanor Robson
$150.00
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Hardback,  Sep 2011 ISBN13: 9780199557301ISBN10: 0199557306 Restores coherence and context to the study of Assyriology through its emphasis on textual sources which are at the same time material artifacts

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