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  • THE ROMAN EMPIRE
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    THE ROMAN EMPIRE
    MATTHEW DILLON / CHRISTOPHER MATTHEW
    Religion was integral to the conduct of war in the ancient world and the Romans were certainly no exception. No campaign was undertaken, no battle risked, without first making sacrifice to propitiate the appropriate gods (such as Mars, god of War) or consulting oracles and omens to divine their plans. Yet the link between war and religion is an area that has been regularly over...

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  • THE ANCIENT ROMANS
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    THE ANCIENT ROMANS
    MATTHEW DILLON / LYNDA GARLAND
    This textbook provides comprehensive coverage of the political, military, and social history of ancient Rome from the earliest days of the Republic to its collapse and the subsequent foundations of the empire established by Augustus prior to his death in AD 14. Interspersed through the discussion of the political history of the period are crucial chapters on all aspects of Roma...

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  • CHILDREN IN ANTIQUITY
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    CHILDREN IN ANTIQUITY
    LESLEY A. BEAUMONT / NICOLA HARRINGTON / MATTHEW DILLON
    This collection employs a multi-disciplinary approach treating ancient childhood in a holistic manner according to diachronic, regional and thematic perspectives. This multi-disciplinary approach encompasses classical studies, Egyptology, ancient history and the broad spectrum of archaeology, including iconography and bioarchaeology. With a chronological range of the Bronze Age...

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  • OMENS AND ORACLES
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    OMENS AND ORACLES
    MATTHEW DILLON
    Addressing the role which divination played in ancient Greek society, this volume deals with various forms of prophecy and how each was utilised and for what purpose. Chapters bring together key types of divining, such as from birds, celestial phenomena, the entrails of sacrificed animals and dreams. Oracular centres delivered prophetic pronouncements to enquirers, but in addit...

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  • ANCIENT ROME
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    ANCIENT ROME
    MATTHEW DILLON / LYNDA GARLAND
    In this second edition, Ancient Rome presents an extensive range of material, from the early Republic to the death of Augustus, with two new chapters on the Second Triumvirate and The Age of Augustus. Dillon and Garland have also included more extensive late Republican and Augustan sources on social developments, as well as further information on the Gold Age of Roman literatur...

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  • PILGRIMS AND PILGRIMAGE IN ANCIENT GREECE
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    PILGRIMS AND PILGRIMAGE IN ANCIENT GREECE
    MATTHEW DILLON
    This volume explores the religious motivations for pilgrimage and reveals the main preoccupations of worshippers in Ancient Greece. Dillon examines the main sanctuaries of Delphi, Epidauros and Olympia, as well as the less well-known oracle of Didyma in Asia Minor and the festivals at the Isthmus of Corinth. He discusses the modes of travel to the sites, means of communication ...

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  • ANCIENT GREECE
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    ANCIENT GREECE
    MATTHEW DILLON / LYNDA GARLAND
    In this revised edition, Matthew Dillon and Lynda Garland have expanded the chronological range of Ancient Greece to include the Greek world of the fourth century. The sourcebook now ranges from the first lines of Greek literature to the death of Alexander the Great, covering all of the main historical periods and social phenomena of ancient Greece. The material is taken from a...

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  • GIRLS AND WOMEN IN CLASSICAL GREEK RELIGION
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    GIRLS AND WOMEN IN CLASSICAL GREEK RELIGION
    MATTHEW DILLON
    It has often been thought that participation in fertility rituals was women's most important religious activity in classical Greece. Matthew Dillon's wide-ranging study makes it clear that women engaged in numerous other rites and cults, and that their role in Greek religion was actually more important than that of men. Women invoked the gods' help in becoming pregnant, venerat...

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  • ARCHAIC AND CLASSICAL GREECE
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    ARCHAIC AND CLASSICAL GREECE
    MATTHEW DILLON / CHRISTOPHER MATTHEW / MICHAEL SCHMITZ
    Essays examining the influence of gods, oracles, and omens in the wars of the Archaic and Classical Greek world. Religion was integral to the conduct of war in the ancient world and the Greeks were certainly no exception. No campaign was undertaken, no battle risked, without first making sacrifice to propitiate the appropriate gods (such as Ares, god of War) or consulting oracl...

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  • THE ROMAN REPUBLIC
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    THE ROMAN REPUBLIC
    MATTHEW DILLON / CHRISTOPHER MATTHEW
    Essays exploring the role religion played in ancient Roman warfare, including destroying enemies’ gods, wartime ceremonies, and live burials. Religion was integral to the conduct of war in the ancient world and the Romans were certainly no exception. No campaign was undertaken, no battle risked, without first making sacrifice to propitiate the appropriate gods (such as Mars, go...

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  • RELIGION & CLASSICAL WARFARE: THE ROMAN EMPIRE
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    RELIGION & CLASSICAL WARFARE: THE ROMAN EMPIRE
    MATTHEW DILLON / CHRISTOPHER MATTHEW
    Religion was integral to the conduct of war in the ancient world and the Romans were certainly no exception. No campaign was undertaken, no battle risked, without first making sacrifice to propitiate the appropriate gods (such as Mars, god of War) or consulting oracles and omens to divine their plans. Yet the link between war and religion is an area that has been regularly over...

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