Leicester-Nottingham Studies in Ancient Society is a collection of titles published from conferences held at the two universities. The books in the series include papers written by eminent British classics and archaeology scholars on a diversity of subjects relating to the ancient world.
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By Dr John Rich, John Rich, Graham Shipley
June 29, 1995
The role of warfare is central to our understanding of the ancient Greek world. In this book and the companion work, War and Society in the Roman World, the wider social context of war is explored. This volume examines its impact on Greek society from Homeric times to the age of Alexander and his ...
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By Dr John Rich, John Rich, Graham Shipley
June 01, 1995
This volume focuses on the changing relationship between warfare and the Roman citizenry; from the Republic, when war was at the heart of Roman life, through to the Principate, when it was confined to professional soldiers, and to the Late Empire and the Roman army's eventual failure....
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By Dr John Rich, John Rich
October 03, 1996
The city was the nexus of the Roman Empire in its early centuries. The City in Late Antiquity charts the change undergone by cities as the Empire was weakened by the third-century crisis, and later disintegrated under external pressures. The old picture of the classical city as everywhere in ...
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By Lin Foxhall, John Salmon
November 04, 2011
Thinking Men explores artistic and intellectual expression in the classical world as the self representation of man. It starts from the premise that the history of classical antiquity as the ancients tell it is a history of men. However, the focus of this volume is the creation, re-creation and ...
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By Lin Foxhall, John Salmon
January 31, 2011
When Men Were Men questions the deep-set assumption that men's history speaks and has always spoken for all of us, by exploring the history of classical antiquity as an explicitly masculine story.With a preface by Sarah Pomeroy, this study employs different methodologies and focuses on a broad ...
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By John Salmon, Graham Shipley
July 11, 2011
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....
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By David J. Mattingly, John Salmon
January 06, 2011
This book presents a challenge to the long held view that the predominantly agricultural economies of ancient Greece and Rome were underdeveloped. It shows that the exploitation of natural resources, manufacturing and the building trade all made significant contributions to classical economies. It ...
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By John Rich, Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
September 03, 1992
The ancient Greco-Roman world was a world of citie, in a distinctive sense of communities in which countryside was dominated by urban centre.This volume of papers written by influential archaeologists and historians seeks to bring together the two disciplines in exploring the city-country ...
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By Dr John Rich, John Rich, Graham Shipley
June 24, 1993
This volume focuses on the changing relationship between warfare and the Roman citizen body, from the Republic, when war was at the heart of Roman life, through to the Principate, when it was confined to professional soldiers and expansion largely ceased, and finally on to the Late Empire and the ...
