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  • MEDITERRANEAN TIMESCAPES
    RAY LAURENCE / FRANCESCO TRIFILÒ
    This book, built around the study of the representation of age and identity in 23,000 Latin funerary epitaphs from the Western Mediterranean in the Roman era, sets out how the use of age in inscriptions, and in turn, time, varied across this region. Discrepancies between the use of time to represent identity in death allow readers to begin to understand the differences between ...

    $1,160.00

  • ROMAN ARCHAEOLOGY FOR HISTORIANS
    RAY LAURENCE
    Roman Archaeology for Historians provides students of Roman history with a guide to the contribution of archaeology to the study of their subject. It discusses the issues with the use of material and textual evidence to explain the Roman past, and the importance of viewing this evidence in context. It also surveys the different approaches to the archaeological material of the p...

    $1,120.00

  • ROMAN POMPEII
    RAY LAURENCE
    In this fully revised and updated edition of Roman Pompeii, Dr. Laurence looks at the latest archaeological and literary evidence relating to the city of Pompeii from the viewpoint of architect, geographer and social scientist. Enhancing our general understanding of the Roman world, this new edition includes new chapters that reveal how the young learnt the culture of the city ...

    $1,260.00

  • GROWING UP AND GROWING OLD IN ANCIENT ROME
    MARY HARLOW / RAY LAURENCE
    Throughout history, every culture has had its own ideas on what growing up and growing old means, with variations between chronological, biological and social ageing, and with different emphases on the critical stages and transitions from birth to death.This volume is the first to highlight the role of age in determining behaviour, and expectations of behaviour, across the life...

    $1,160.00

  • CULTURAL IDENTITY IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE
    BERRY, DR JOANNE / BERRY, JOANNE / LAURENCE, RAY
    This provocative and often controversial volume examines concepts of ethnicity, citizenship and nationhood, to determine what constituted cultural identity in the Roman Empire. The contributors draw together the most recent research and use diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives from archaeology, classical studies and ancient history to challenge our basic assumpti...

    $1,100.00

  • THE ROADS OF ROMAN ITALY
    RAY LAURENCE
    The Roads of Roman Italy offers a complete re-evaluation of both the evidence and the interpretation of Roman land transport. The book utilises archaeological, epigraphic and literary evidence for Roman communications, drawing on recent approaches to the human landscape developed by geographers. Among the topics considered are: * the relationship between the road and the human ...

    $1,320.00