Conquest and Empire: The Reign of Alexander the Great — Series: Canto: (Cambridge University Press) Publisher's Comments: An acclaimed historical survey of the reign of Alexander the Great draws on ancient sources to present a new account of the turbulent period, focusing on the acquisition and control of empire and a detailed account of Alexander's battles and campaigns. Details...

Creative Imitation and Latin Literature: (Cambridge University Press) Publisher's Comments: Contributors to this volume analyze selected passages from various Greek, Latin and English authors to demonstrate how Latin authors created new works by imitating earlier passages of literature. Details...

Curse Tablets and Binding Spells from the Ancient World: (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: In the ancient Greco-Roman world, it was common practice to curse or bind an enemy or rival by writing an incantation on a tablet and dedicating it to a god or spirit. These curses or binding spells, commonly called defixiones were intended to bring other p... Details...

Death-Ritual and Social Structure in Classical Antiquity- Series: Key Themes in Ancient History: (Cambridge University Press) Publisher's Comments: The chief purpose of this book is to show how burials may be used as a uniquely informative source for Greek and Roman social history. Burials permit a far wider range of inference and insight than the literary texts produced by and for a narrow social elit... Details...

Dictionary of Ancient Deities: (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: Nothing reveals more about a civilization than the gods and goddesses it worships. For thousands of years men and women have fashioned stories about divine beings to explain their most mysterious, terrifying, and exalted experiences. And yet today the names... Details...

Dictionary of Roman Religion: (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: Long overshadowed by Greek mythology or treated peripherally in general texts on the ancient Roman world, Roman religion is finally accorded its due and set in its full context as no other reference source has done before. While perhaps most familiar in the... Details...

Dio Chrysostom: Politics, Letters, and Philosophy: (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: Dio Chrysostom is a major representative of the flourishing world of the Greeks under Rome. He offers an impressive range of high-quality writing, social comment, and appraisal of Rome's Empire at its height. This volume presents eleven new assessments by a... Details...

Dio Chrysostom: Politics, Letters, and Philosophy: (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: Dio Chrysostom is a major representative of the flourishing world of the Greeks under Rome. He offers an impressive range of high-quality writing, social comment, and appraisal of Rome's Empire at its height. This volume presents eleven new assessments by a... Details...

Discontinuous Syntax: Hyperbaton in Greek: (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: The interface between syntax and meaning, both semantic and pragmatic, has emerged as perhaps the richest and most fascinating area of current linguistics theory. This study applies some of these ideas to hyperbaton, offering an original new theory with bro... Details...

Discovering the Roman Family: Studies in Roman Social History: (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: These essays on various aspects of family life in ancient Rome offer an especially timely and provocative new characterization of how this most elementary component of Roman society was structured. Recognizing that a traditional nuclear model is necessary f... Details...