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  • The Lives and Deaths of Women in Ancient Pompeii

    de Brenda Longfellow ...
    A study of women’s lives in the public sphere of the ancient city of Pompeii.Pompeii’s well-preserved remains provide a unique opportunity for the close study of ancient lives. Drawing on statues, inscriptions, graffiti, wall paintings, and the architecture of tombs, sanctuaries, houses, and public spaces, The Lives and Deaths of Women in Ancient Pompeii examines the public lives of women in ... Leer más

    $49.49 USD

  • Women's Lives, Women's Voices

    Roman Material Culture and Female Agency in the Bay of Naples

    Edición de Brenda Longfellow, Molly Swetnam-Burland ...
    Literary evidence is often silent about the lives of women in antiquity, particularly those from the buried cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. Even when women are considered, they are often seen through the lens of their male counterparts. In this collection, Brenda Longfellow and Molly Swetnam-Burland have gathered an outstanding group of scholars to give voice to both the elite and ordinary ... Leer más

    $49.49 USD

  • The Perils of Pedagogy

    The Works of John Greyson

    de Brenda Longfellow, Scott MacKenzie, Thomas Waugh ...
    Whether addressing HIV/AIDS, the policing of bathroom sex, censorship, or anti-globalization movements, John Greyson has imbued his work with cutting humour, eroticism, and postmodern aesthetics. Mashing up high art, opera, community activism, and pop culture, Greyson challenges his audience to consider new ways that images can intervene in both political and public spheres.Emerging on the Toronto ... Leer más

    $41.39 USD

  • Roman Artists, Patrons, and Public Consumption

    Familiar Works Reconsidered

    de Brenda Longfellow, Ellen Perry ...
    In recent decades, the study of Roman art has shifted focus dramatically from issues of connoisseurship, typology, and chronology to analyses of objects within their contemporary contexts and local environments. Scholars challenge the notion, formerly taken for granted, that extant historical texts—the writings of Vitruvius, for example—can directly inform the study of architectural remains. Roman ... Leer más

    $46.79 USD

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  • Twelve Caesars

    Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern

    de Mary Beard ...
    Series series Bollingen Series
    From the bestselling author of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, the fascinating story of how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power for more than 2,000 yearsWhat does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of politicians we deplore? In this book—against a background of today’s “sculpture ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

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  • Medusa's Gaze

    The Extraordinary Journey of the Tazza Farnese

    de Marina Belozerskaya ...
    Series series Emblems of Antiquity
    The Tazza Farnese is one of the most admired objects from classical antiquity. A libation bowl carved from banded agate, it features Medusa's head on its outside and, inside, an assembly of Egyptian gods. For more than two millennia, these radiant figures have mesmerized emperors and artists, popes and thieves, merchants and museum goers. In this, the first book-length account of this renowned ... Leer más

    $42.29 USD

  • The World of Pompeii

    Edición de Pedar Foss ...
    Series series Routledge Worlds
    This all embracing survey of Pompeii provides the most comprehensive survey of the region available. With contributions by well-known experts in the field, this book studies not only Pompeii, but also – for the first time – the buried surrounding cities of Campania. The World of Pompeii includes the latest understanding of the region, based on the up-to-date findings of recent archaeological work ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

  • Rome

    de Andrew Leach ...
    Series series Cities in World History
    Andrew Leach’s Rome is the first book in Polity’s exciting new ‘Cities in World History’ series, which aims to provide the general reader and traveller with historically informed companions to the world’s greatest cities. Most city guides are good on practical details but very thin when it comes to recounting the histories of cities and contextualizing the buildings and sites for which they are ... Leer más

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  • The Etruscans

    Lost Civilizations

    de Lucy Shipley ...
    Series Libro 6 - Lost Civilizations
    The Etruscans were a powerful and influential civilization in ancient Italy. But despite their prominence, they are often misrepresented as mysterious – a strange, unknowable people whose language and culture have largely vanished. Lucy Shipley’s history of the Etruscans presents a different picture: of a people who traded with Greece and shaped the development of Rome, who inspired Renaissance ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • A Companion to Roman Italy

    Edición de Alison E. Cooley ...
    Series series Wiley Companions to the Ancient World
    A Companion to Roman Italy investigates the impact of Rome in all its forms—political, cultural, social, and economic—upon Italy's various regions, as well as the extent to which unification occurred as Rome became the capital of Italy.The collection presents new archaeological data relating to the sites of Roman ItalyContributions discuss new theories of how to understand cultural change in the ... Leer más

    $166.00 USD

  • The Tombs of Pompeii

    Organization, Space, and Society

    de Virginia Campbell ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Ancient History
    This book offers a comprehensive overview of the tombs of Pompeii and its immediate environs, examining the funerary culture of the population, delving into the importance of social class and self-representation, and developing a broad understanding of Pompeii’s funerary epigraphy and business. The Pompeian corpus of evidence has heretofore been studied in a piecemeal fashion, not conducive to ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Monemvasia

    A Byzantine City State

    de Haris A. Kalligas ...
    This lavishly illustrated book stands out in its field as the only book currently available on the best-preserved Byzantine city in the Peloponnese – Monemvasia. Haris A. Kalligas, a world authority on Monemvasia’s history and architecture, here explores the city’s foundation, its status as a powerful maritime centre of Byzantium, and its gradual decline after the fall of the Empire.Founded on a ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD