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Luxury and Wealth in Sparta and the Peloponnese (2022)
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Hodkinson, S., & Gallou, C. (Eds.). (2022). Luxury and Wealth in Sparta and the Peloponnese. Swansea: Classical Press of Wales

A Spartan lifestyle proverbially describes austerity; ancient Greek luxury was associated with Ionia and the oriental world. The contributions to this book, first presented at a conference held by the University of Nottingham’s Centre for Spartan and... Read More about Luxury and Wealth in Sparta and the Peloponnese.

Manual of Roman Everyday Writing. Volume 1, Scripts and Texts (2021)
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Mullen, A., & Bowman, A. (2021). Manual of Roman Everyday Writing. Volume 1, Scripts and Texts. Nottingham: LatinNow ePubs

Volume 1 describes the kinds of documents that are written in Latin cursive script and tabulates the main published collections and individual items of texts in cursive script from across the Roman world, ranging in provenance from northern England t... Read More about Manual of Roman Everyday Writing. Volume 1, Scripts and Texts.

Houses and Society in Norwich, 1350-1660: Urban Buildings in an Age of Transition (2020)
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King, C. (2020). Houses and Society in Norwich, 1350-1660: Urban Buildings in an Age of Transition. Boydell and Brewer. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv105bbb4

Norwich was second only to London in size and economic significance from the late Middle Ages through to the mid-seventeenth century. This book brings together, for the first time, the rich archaeological evidence for urban households and domestic li... Read More about Houses and Society in Norwich, 1350-1660: Urban Buildings in an Age of Transition.

Oppian's "Halieutica": Charting a Didactic Epic (2020)
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Kneebone, E. (2020). Oppian's "Halieutica": Charting a Didactic Epic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108892728

Oppian's Halieutica is a dazzling five-book Greek didactic poem about the sea and its wily, chaotic inhabitants. This book offers the first sustained reading of the poem as a didactic epic that meditates on the place of human beings within the cosmos... Read More about Oppian's "Halieutica": Charting a Didactic Epic.

The Tabula Lugdunensis: A Critical Edition with Translation and Commentary (2020)
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Emperor of Rome, 10 B.C.-54 A.D., C. (2020). The Tabula Lugdunensis: A Critical Edition with Translation and Commentary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108682091

Unearthed in 1528 at Lyon, the Tabula Lugdunensis preserves the longest speech of a Roman emperor to survive in epigraphic form. In AD 48 Claudius addressed the senate to press a petition by elites of north-western Gaul to hold senatorial rank and of... Read More about The Tabula Lugdunensis: A Critical Edition with Translation and Commentary.

Butrint 5: Life and Death at a Mediterranean Port: the non-ceramic finds from the Triconch Palace (2019)
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Bowden, W. (2019). Butrint 5: Life and Death at a Mediterranean Port: the non-ceramic finds from the Triconch Palace. Oxford: Oxbow Books

This is the second volume arising from the 1994-2003 excavations of the Triconch Palace at Butrint (Albania), which charted the history of a major Mediterranean waterfront site from the 2nd to the 15th centuries AD. The sequence (published as Butrint... Read More about Butrint 5: Life and Death at a Mediterranean Port: the non-ceramic finds from the Triconch Palace.