Emotion, Restraint, and Community in Ancient Rome (Classical Culture and Society): (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: Emotion, Restraint, and Community is an essay in cultural psychology. By examining the ways in which emotions, and talk about emotions, reinforce cultural norms, it aims to understand the interplay between the emotions and the ethics of the Roman upper clas... Details...

Emperor Worship and Roman Religion (Oxford Classical Monographs): (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: While Roman religion worshipped a number of gods, one kind in particular aroused the fury of early Christians and the wonder of scholars: the cult of Roman emperors alive or dead. Was the divinity of emperors a glue that held the Empire together? Were ruler... Details...

Empire of Honour: The Art of Government in the Roman World: (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: Jon Lendon offers a bold new analysis of how Roman government worked in the first four centuries AD. He contends that a despotism rooted in force and fear enjoyed widespread support among the ruling classes of the provinces on the basis of an aristocratic c... Details...

Engendering Rome Women in Latin Epic Series: Roman Literature and its Contexts: (Cambridge University Press) Publisher's Comments: This study examines the role of female characters in the Roman epic poetry of Virgil, Ovid and other writers. Its five chapters argue that the feminized landscapes, militaristic women, and beautiful female corpses of the Roman epic tradition should be inter... Details...

English Literature and Ancient Languages: (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: This is a study of the presence of Greek and Latin in British literature since the Renaissance. While the influence of Greek and Roman literature on British literature has been extensively surveyed, the role of those ancient languages themselves within mode... Details...

Epistemology- Series: Companions to Ancient Thought (No. 1): (Cambridge University Press) Publisher's Comments: A broad range of epistemological views, from the extreme relativism of Protagoras to the skepticism of the Pyrrhonists, is explored in critical essays that span sixth century B.C. to the second and third centuries A.D. Details...

Ethics- Series: Companions to Ancient Thought (No. 4): (Cambridge University Press) Publisher's Comments: A sophisticated and accessible introduction to the moral theories of the ancient world. Details...

Eusebius: Life of Constantine: (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: The emperor Constantine changed the world by making the Roman Empire Christian. Eusebius wrote his life and preserved his letters so that his policy would continue. This English translation is the first based on modern critical editions. Its Introduction an... Details...

Families in Classical and Hellenistic Greece: Representations and Realities: (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: This highly original and authoritative account of the Greek family supersedes the only existing study in English by W. K. Lacey (published in 1968) and provides the first comprehensive survey of the subject. Taking account of a mass of literary, inscription... Details...

Family and Familia in Roman Law and Life: (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: Roman families were infinitely diverse, but the basis of Roman civil law was the familia, a strictly-defined group consisting of a head, paterfamilias, and his descendants in the male line. Recent work on the Roman family mainly ignores the familia, in favo... Details...