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  • How to Eat

    An Ancient Guide for Healthy Living

    by Claire Bubb, Hippocrates ...
    Series series Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
    A delicious feast of ancient Greek and Roman writings on living well by eating wellToday, we’re stuffed with dietary recommendations from every direction. Social media, advertising, food packaging, diet books, doctors—all have advice on what, how much, and when to eat. This would have been no surprise to ancient Greeks and Romans. Their doctors were intensely interested in food, offered highly ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Medicine and the Law Under the Roman Empire

    Edited by Claire Bubb, Michael Peachin ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Roman Society & Law
    What happens when we juxtapose medicine and law in the ancient Roman world? This innovative collection of scholarly research shows how both fields were shaped by the particular needs and desires of their practitioners and users. It approaches the study of these fields through three avenues. First, it argues that the literatures produced by elite practitioners, like Galen or Ulpian, were not merely ... Read more

    $110.69 USD

  • Dissection in Classical Antiquity

    A Social and Medical History

    by Claire Bubb ...
    Dissection is a practice with a long history stretching back to antiquity and has played a crucial role in the development of anatomical knowledge. This absorbing book takes the story back to classical antiquity, employing a wide range of textual and material evidence. Claire Bubb reveals how dissection was practised from the Hippocratic authors of the fifth century BC through Aristotle and the ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

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    How to Eat

    An Ancient Guide for Healthy Living

    by Claire Bubb ...
    Narrated by Abigail Reno ...
    Series series Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers

    Unabridged

    2 hours 39 min

    Today, we're stuffed with dietary recommendations from every direction. Social media, advertising, food packaging, diet books, doctors—all have advice on what, how much, and when to eat. This would have been no surprise to ancient Greeks and Romans. Their doctors were intensely interested in food, offered highly prescriptive dietary advice, and developed detailed systems to categorize foods and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    A Study of Elite Communities

    by William A. Johnson ...
    Series series Classical Culture and Society
    In Readers and Reading Culture in the High Roman Empire, William Johnson examines the system and culture of reading among the elite in second-century Rome. The investigation proceeds in case-study fashion using the principal surviving witnesses, beginning with the communities of Pliny and Tacitus (with a look at Pliny's teacher, Quintilian) from the time of the emperor Trajan. Johnson then moves ... Read more

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  • Knowledge, Text and Practice in Ancient Technical Writing

    Edited by Marco Formisano, Philip van der Eijk ...
    The relationship between theory and practice, in other words between norms indicated in a text and their extra-textual application, is one of the most fascinating issues in the history and theory of science. Yet this aspect has often been taken for granted and never explored in depth. The essays contained in this volume provide a complex and nuanced discussion of this relationship as it emerges in ... Read more

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  • Pliny's Encyclopedia

    The Reception of the Natural History

    by Aude Doody ...
    The Elder Pliny's Natural History is one of the largest and most extraordinary works to survive from antiquity. It has often been referred to as an encyclopedia, usually without full awareness of what such a characterisation implies. In this book, Dr Doody examines this concept and its applicability to the work, paying far more attention than ever before to the varying ways in which it has been ... Read more

    $109.09 USD

  • Handbook for Classical Research

    by David Schaps ...
    One of the glories of the Greco-Roman classics is the opportunity that they give us to consider a great culture in its entirety; but our ability to do that depends on our ability to work comfortably with very varied fields of scholarship. The Handbook for Classical Research offers guidance to students needing to learn more about the different fields and subfields of classical research, and its ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Apuleius and Africa

    Edited by Benjamin Todd Lee, Ellen Finkelpearl, Luca Graverini ...
    Series series Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
    The Metamorphoses or Golden Ass of Apuleius (ca. 170 CE) is a Latin novel written by a native of Madauros in Roman North Africa, roughly equal to modern Tunisia together with parts of Libya and Algeria. Apuleius’ novel is based on the model of a lost Greek novel; it narrates the adventures of a Greek character with a Roman name who spends the bulk of the novel transformed into an animal, traveling ... Read more

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  • Politics in the Roman Republic

    by Henrik Mouritsen ...
    Series series Key Themes in Ancient History
    The politics of the Roman Republic has in recent decades been the subject of intense debate, covering issues such as the degree of democracy and popular influence, 'parties' and ideology, politics as public ritual, and the character of Rome's political culture. This engaging book examines all these issues afresh, and presents an original synthesis of Rome's political institutions and practices. It ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Epigraphic Evidence

    Ancient History From Inscriptions

    Edited by John Bodel ...
    Series series Approaching the Ancient World
    Epigraphic Evidence is an accessible guide to the responsible use of Greek and Latin inscriptions as sources for ancient history. It introduces the types of historical information supplied by inscriptional texts and the methods with which they can be used. It outlines the limitations as well as the advantages of the different types of evidence covered. Epigraphic Evidence includes a general ... Read more

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  • A Short History of Medicine

    by F. González-Crussi ...
    Series Book 28 - Modern Library Chronicles
    In this lively, learned, and wholly engrossing volume, F. González-Crussi presents a brief yet authoritative five-hundred-year history of the science, the philosophy, and the controversies of modern medicine. While this illuminating work mainly explores Western medicine over the past five centuries, González-Crussi also describes how modern medicine’s roots extend to both Greco-Roman antiquity and ... Read more

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