Classical Studies

The Jews in the Roman Empire..

Ammianus Marcellinus, Greek by birth but writing in Latin c. AD 390, was the last great Roman historian. His writings are an indispensable basis for our knowledge of the late Roman world...

This is the first  full-length study of Demetrius of Alexandria (189–232 CE), who generated a neglected, yet remarkable hagiographic program that secured him a positive legacy throughout the Middle Ages and the modern era. Drawing upon Patristic, Coptic, and Arabic sources spanning a millennium, the..

This outstanding introductory survey collects, presents and examines, for the very first time, the portraits and representations of Alexander the Great on the ancient coins of the Greek and Roman period...

This outstanding introductory survey collects, presents and examines, for the very first time, the portraits and representations of Alexander the Great on the ancient coins of the Greek and Roman period...

In this new edition, with a new preface and an updated bibliography, the author provides a comprehensive survey of the evolution and growth of the remarkable military enterprise of the Roman army...

In this new edition, with a new preface and an updated bibliography, the author provides a comprehensive survey of the evolution and growth of the remarkable military enterprise of the Roman army...

This book provides both a detailed introduction to the vivid and exciting period of `late antiquity' and a direct challenge to conventional views of the end of the Empire...

This book provides both a detailed introduction to the vivid and exciting period of `late antiquity' and a direct challenge to conventional views of the end of the Empire...

Translated from the Greek for the first time, these 41 myths and legends by Antoninus Liberalis form a laconic but picaresque collection of tales about metamorphoses. Celoria's commentary furnishe s parallels and provides much explanatory material..

The wealth of documentary sources preserved by Egypt's papyri makes the country a privileged observation ground for the study of ancient multilingualism. Papyri capture more linguistic registers than other ancient and medieval sources, ranging as they do from very private documents not meant by the..

The wealth of documentary sources preserved by Egypt's papyri makes the country a privileged observation ground for the study of ancient multilingualism. Papyri capture more linguistic registers than other ancient and medieval sources, ranging as they do from very private documents not meant by the..