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  • Mediterranean Archaeologies of Insularity in an Age of Globalization

    Recently, complex interpretations of socio-cultural change in the ancientMediterranean world have emerged that challenge earlier models. Influenced bytoday’s hyper-connected age, scholars no longer perceive the Mediterranean as astatic place where “Greco-Roman” culture was dominant, but rather see it as adynamic and connected sea where fragmentation and uncertainty, along with mobilityand ... Read more

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  • Insularity and identity in the Roman Mediterranean

    Insularity – the state or condition of being an island – has played a key role in shaping the identities of populations inhabiting islands of the Mediterranean. As entities surrounded by water and usually possessing different landscapes and ecosystems from those of the mainland, islands allow for the potential to study both the land and the sea. Archaeologically, they have the potential to reveal ... Read more

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  • Roman Crete: New Perspectives

    The last several decades have seen a dramatic increase in interest in the Roman period on the island of Crete. Ongoing and some long-standing excavations and investigations of Roman sites and buildings, intensive archaeological survey of Roman areas, and intensive research on artifacts, history, and inscriptions of the island now provide abundant data for assessing Crete alongside other Roman ... Read more

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  • The Province of Achaea in the 2nd Century CE

    The Past Present

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    Series series Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
    The Province of Achaea in the 2nd Century CE explores the conception and utilization of the Greek past in the Roman province of Achaea in the 2nd century CE, and the reception of the artistic, cultural, and intellectual outputs of this century in later periods.Achaea, often defined by international scholars as "old Greece", was the only Roman province located entirely within the confines of the ... Read more

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  • Religions of Rome: Volume 1, A History

    This book offers a radical new survey of more than a thousand years of religious life at Rome. It sets religion in its full cultural context, between the primitive hamlet of the eighth century BC and the cosmopolitan, multicultural society of the first centuries of the Christian era. The narrative account is structured around a series of broad themes: how to interpret the Romans' own theories of ... Read more

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  • The Beginnings of Rome

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  • A Companion to the Punic Wars

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    Ancient History From Inscriptions

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    Series series Approaching the Ancient World
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