"Concern with memory permeated Roman literature, history, rhetorical training, and art and architecture. This is the first book to look at the phenomenon from a variety of perspectives, including cognitive science. There is no orthodoxy in memory studies and the approaches are b…
At the turn of the fifteenth century, Rome was in the midst of a dramatic transformation from what the fourteenth-century poet Petrarch had termed a?crumbling city? populated by?broken ruins? into a prosperous Christian capital. Scholars, artists, architects, and engineers fasci…
Die politische Rolle der stadtrömischen Plebs in der Kaiserzeit engages with the topical question of the political role of the Roman plebs in the imperial period and seeks to reconstruct how it may have looked in practice and how it can be defined. Detailed source criticism of T…
"Rome, Pollution and Propriety brings together scholars from a range of disciplines in order to examine the historical continuity of dirt, disease and hygiene in one environment, and to explore the development and transformation of these ideas alongside major chapters in the cit…
"Rome, Pollution and Propriety brings together scholars from a range of disciplines in order to examine the historical continuity of dirt, disease and hygiene in one environment, and to explore the development and transformation of these ideas alongside major chapters in the cit…
A study of the history of filth, disease, purity and cleanliness in one of Europe's oldest and most influential cities. "Rome, Pollution and Propriety brings together scholars from a range of disciplines in order to examine the historical continuity of dirt, disease and hygiene…
Breviarium ab urbe condita
by Eutropius
fromKleine und Fragmentarische Historiker der Spätantike
Le lacrime di Roma: il potere del pianto nel mondo antico
by Rey, Sarah
fromEinaudi storia