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Images of America: Hermann (Paperback)

Hermann Missouri was named for Hermann der Cherusker a German folk hero of the first century who led a successful battle against the Romans that many feel changed the course of history. In 1837 the German Settlement Society of Philadelphia whose... more

Recovering the Scandal of the Cross: Atonement in New Testament and Contemporary Contexts (Paperback)

For the first-century Roman world the cross was first and foremost an instrument of shameful and violent execution. But early Christians who had seen their world upended by the atoning power of the cross of Christ came to view it in an entirely... more

If You Were Me and Lived In... Historical: If You Were Me and Lived in... Colonial America : An Introduction to Civilizations Throughout Time (Hardcover)

Join Carole P. Roman and travel through time to visit the most interesting civilizations throughout history in the first four books of her new series. Learn what kind of food you might eat in Ancient Greece the clothes you wore in 15th century... more

The Old Gray Homestead (Paperback)

Frances Keyes was a 20th century American author and a convert to Roman Catholicism. Her works frequently featured Catholic themes and beliefs. Mrs. Keyes first book The Old Gray Homestead was published in 1919. The Gray s farm is falling apart... more

Society for New Testament Studies Monogr Jesus Defeat of Death: Persuading Mark s Early Readers Book 125 (Paperback)

Peter Bolt explores the impact of Mark s Gospel on early readers in the first-century Graeco-Roman world. Focusing upon the thirteen characters in Mark who come to Jesus for healing or exorcism Bolt analyzes their crucial role in the communication... more

Cambridge Companions to Literature The Cambridge Companion to Tacitus (Paperback)

Tacitus is universally recognized as ancient Rome s greatest writer of history and his account of the Roman Empire in the first century AD has been fundamental in shaping the modern perception of Rome and its emperors. This Companion provides a new... more

The History of Rome (Books I-VIII) (Paperback)

An epic endeavor by a man genuinely enamored of his native Rome Livy s The History of Rome was originally written in 142 books spanning the entire history of the Roman people up to Livy s day in the time of Augustus in the first century BC. While... more

Romans in Context (Paperback)

Using crucial chapters from Paul s magnum opus as points of theological departure Delano Palmer provides in-depth discussion on important themes like the role of first-century women in pastoral work and the nature and duration of spiritual... more

Glaucia the Greek Slave : A Tale of Athens in the First Century

After the death of their father Glaucia and Laon are taken to Rome to be sold as slaves to pay his debts. Glaucia is sold to Valeria the proud daughter of Fabrizzio Gracchi a wealthy Roman philosopher who has decided to move his family to Athens so... more

Baudelaire Judged by Spanish Critics 1857-1957 (Paperback)

Baudelaire was practically unknown in Spain until the last two decades of the nineteenth century when the first important criticism of his work was published by two famous critics Juan Valera and Clarín. Valera attacked Les Fleurs du mal on... more

New Surveys in the Classics: Roman Landscape: Culture and Identity (Paperback)

This book tackles how and why landscape (farms gardens countryside) set the scene in the first centuries BCE and CE for Romans keen to talk up and about (but also to scrutinize and understand) what it meant to be a citizen. It investigates what... more

The Roman Revolution of Constantine (Paperback)

The reign of the emperor Constantine (306-337) was as revolutionary for the transformation of Rome s Mediterranean empire as that of Augustus the first emperor three centuries earlier. The abandonment of Rome signaled the increasing importance of... more

Melusine of Lusignan (Paperback)

This volume of original essays is the first collection devoted to the monumental Roman de Melusine (1393) by Jean d Arras. A masterwork of late fourteenth-century French prose fiction Melusine tells of the powerful medieval dynasty of Lusignan from... more

Eyewitness to Crucifixion : The Romans the Cross and the Sacrifice of Jesus (Paperback)

Examine for yourself the historical context of your Christian faith as seen through first-century eyes so you can clearly say with Paul “May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ� (Galatians 6:14). more

The Unknown First Chapter (Paperback)

The world has reached the twenty-first century. All my grandparents were born in the nineteenth century. Within that time span just a little over one hundred years the world has changed beyond recognition. more

Loyalty and Dissidence in Roman Egypt: The Case of the ACTA Alexandrinorum (Paperback)

The Acta Alexandrinorum are a fascinating collection of texts dealing with relations between the Alexandrians and the Roman emperors in the first century AD. This was a turbulent time in the life of the capital city of the new province of Egypt not... more

New Studies in Archaeology Coins and Power in Late Iron Age Britain (Paperback)

This book deals with Britain in the centuries immediately before the Roman conquest: a period when the first individuals appeared in British history and when a series of dynasties emerged to take control of much of Southern Britain. Combining... more

The Zealots (Hardcover)

When two friends take different paths their lives are changed forever. ...Political angst of Roman rule has never been more harrowing than in first-century Judea. No man knows what is in his friend s heart. Talmud Pesachim One murderous event after... more

Conversations with Sakratt Warrior Queen of the Visigoths: And Other Imaginary Friends (Paperback)

I had to travel to the fifth century AD to speak with Sakratt Warrior Queen of the Visigoths whose territory was being invaded by the Roman Empire. But most of my other imaginary friends appear in the twenty-first century. We discuss contemporary... more

Backgrounds to Augustan Poetry: Gallus Elegy and Rome (Paperback)

In the first century BC Latin poetry underwent considerable changes - from the neoteric poetics of Catullus and his contemporaries through the development of elegy to the Roman themes that the Augustan poets finally adopted as their subject.... more

The Elder Pliny s Chapters On The History Of Art (Paperback)

The Elder Pliny s Chapters On The History Of Art is a book that explores the history of art as written by the ancient Roman author Pliny the Elder. Pliny was a prolific writer who lived in the first century AD and is best known for his Naturalis... more

Oxford Theology and Religion Monographs Theodore the Stoudite: The Ordering of Holiness (Paperback)

This is the first modern study in English of the life and thought of the ninth-century Byzantine theologian and monastic reformer Theodore the Stoudite. Cholij provides a guide to and a complete analysis of all the primary source material attributed... more

The Aeneid -Virgil Original Edition(Annotated) (Paperback)

The Aeneid is a Latin epic poem written by Virgil in the 1st century BC (between 29 and 19 BC) that tells the legendary story of Aeneas a Trojan who traveled to Italy where he became the ancestor of the Romans. It is written in dactylic hexameter.... more

Cambridge Companions to Literature The Cambridge Companion to Tacitus (Hardcover)

Tacitus is universally recognized as ancient Rome s greatest writer of history and his account of the Roman Empire in the first century AD has been fundamental in shaping the modern perception of Rome and its emperors. This Companion provides a new... more

Cicero Clodius and Milo : Roman Political Life in the First Century B.C. a Lecture Delivered Before the Harvard Classical Club April 25 1900 (Paperback)

Cicero Clodius and Milo: Roman Political Life in the First Century B.C. a Lecture Delivered Before the Harvard Classical Club April 25 1900 more

Cushwa Center Studies of Catholicism in Twentieth-Century Am: On the Irish Waterfront (Hardcover)

Site of the world s busiest and most lucrative harbor throughout the first half of the twentieth century the Port of New York was also the historic preserve of Irish American gangsters politicians longshoremen s union leaders and powerful Roman... more

Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentari Posidonius: Volume 2 Commentary Part 1 Book 14 (Paperback)

Posidonius was one of the most important philosophers and intellectuals writing in the Greco-Roman world of the first half of the first century B.C. This book is a commentary on the surviving testimonia and fragments of his work collected in volume... more

Through the Pillars of Herakles: Greco-Roman Exploration of the Atlantic (Paperback)

In this first study of the Greek and Roman exploration for over half a century Duane W. Roller presents an important examination of the impact of the Greeks and Romans on the world through the Pillars of Herakles and beyond the Mediterranean. Roller... more

Pre-Fall Marriage God s Original Will - A Workbook of Main Points and Probing Questions (Paperback)

The Question Do you want to build your marriage on the fallen rubble of first century Roman culture where a wife was the property of her husband or do you want to build it on the foundation of God s original will? This workbook of main points and... more

Apollonius of Tyana: The Philosopher Explorer and Social Reformer of the First Century A.D (Paperback)

Through the life of Apollonius of Tyana Mead in this 1901 work brings in to focus a previously unknown time in history. Very little was known about the lives and motivations of those living in the first century A.D. Nor was there much information... more

Valerius Flaccus Argonautica (Paperback)

Swollen seas erotic monsters Greek passion gone Latin deftly This 1st-century AD Latin version of the earlier Greek epic features exotic lands wondrous monsters and a sea voyage over swells of young love. Valerius Flaccus lent sharp Roman... more

Roman Poets in Modern Guise: The Reception of Roman Poetry Since World War I (Hardcover)

Identifies and explores Roman modes of poetry as received by twentieth- and twenty-first-century Anglo-American German and French poets. Analogies with Rome have been a powerful motif in American thought - and poetry - since the Founding Fathers.... more

A History of the Island of Anglesey from Its First Invasion by the Romans Until Finally Acceded to the Crown of England : Together with a Distinct Description of the Towns Harbours Villages and Other Remarkable Places in It (Paperback)

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution Gale initiated a... more

Introduzione Alle Antichita Di Ventotene: Ricerche Archeologiche Nell isola Di Ventotene 1 (Paperback)

Ventotene is a small island located in the Tyrrhenian sea known in Antiquity as Pandateria. The site hosts the ruins of a large Roman villa for otium dated to the Augustan age where during the first century AD many women related to imperial families... more

Pliny on Art and Society: The Elder Pliny s Chapters On The History Of Art (Paperback)

Pliny sketches a theory of advancing moral decline and extravagance in the course of which he gives a detailed account of six centuries of classical art and a fascinating sketch of the world of the rich Roman collector. Isager s is the first full... more

Papal Infallibility : A Protestant Evaluation of an Ecumenical Issue (Paperback)

First major book-length study on this subject written by a Protestant in more than a century. / The dogma of papal infallibility has become increasingly problematic for Roman Catholics and it is a major point of division in Christian ecumenical... more

Routledge Revivals A History of Europe (Routledge Revivals) (Hardcover)

First published in 1939 this is a reissue of Henri Pirenne s extremely popular and influential history of Europe in the Middle Ages. It begins with the Barbarian and Musulman invasions in the fifth century AD which signalled the end of the Roman... more

Familia Caesaris: A Social Study of the Emperor s Freedmen and Slaves (Paperback)

The slave and freed slave classes are of the first importance for any study of the social structure of the Roman world in the first and second centuries AD. Among them the emperor s own slaves and freedmen the Familia Caesaris deserve special... more