In Roman law you were what you wore. This legal principle became highly significant because, beginning in the first cent
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Bona Dea, also known as Fauna, was a very important goddess of female initiations in Rome, and several features of hers
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It has often been stated that Roman Britain was quintessentially a rural society, with the vast majority of the populati
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Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture investigates the social symbolism and cultural poetics of dress in the anci
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"Through a set of original essays, this volume showcases new directions in the well-established field of the study
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Sarah Pomeroy's groundbreaking Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves introduced scholars, students, and general read
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Originally the Sarum Lectures delivered at the University of Oxford in 1960-61, this volume deals with the Hellenistic a
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By their social and material context as markers of graves, dedications and public signs of honour, inscriptions offer a
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Using a variety of historical sources and methodological approaches, this book presents the first large-scale study of s
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