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Rome, Ostia, Pompeii - Movement and Space (Paperback): Ray Laurence, David J. Newsome Rome, Ostia, Pompeii - Movement and Space (Paperback)
Ray Laurence, David J. Newsome
R1,002 Discovery Miles 10 020 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Rome, Ostia, Pompeii: Movement and Space demonstrates how studies of the Roman city are shifting focus from static architecture to activities and motion within urban spaces. This volume provides detailed case studies from the three best-known cities from Roman Italy, revealing how movement contributes to our understanding of the ways different elements of society interacted in space, and how the movement of people and materials shaped urban development. The chapters in this book examine the impressions left by the movement of people and vehicles as indentations in the archaeological and historical record, and as impressions upon the Roman urban consciousness. Through a broad range of historical issues, this volume studies movement as it is found at the city gate, in public squares and on the street, and as it is represented in texts. Its broad objective is to make movement meaningful for understanding the economic, cultural, political, religious, and infrastructural behaviours that produced different types and rhythms of interaction in the Roman city. This volume's interdisciplinary approach will inform the understanding of the city in classics, ancient history, archaeology and architectural history, as well as cultural studies, town planning, urban geography, and sociology.

Antioch in Syria - A History from Coins (300 BCE-450 CE) (Paperback): Kristina M. Neumann Antioch in Syria - A History from Coins (300 BCE-450 CE) (Paperback)
Kristina M. Neumann
R912 Discovery Miles 9 120 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Antioch in Syria critically reassesses this ancient city from its Seleucid foundation into Late Antiquity. Although Antioch's prominence is famous, Kristina M. Neumann newly exposes the gradations of imperial power and local agency mediated within its walls through a comprehensive study of the coins minted there and excavated throughout the Mediterranean and Middle East. Patterns revealed through digital mapping and Exploratory Data Analysis serve as a significant index of spatial politics and the policies of the different authorities making use of the city. Evaluating the coins against other historical material reveals that Antioch's status was not fixed, nor the people passive pawns for external powers. Instead, as imperial governments capitalised upon Antioch's location and amenities, the citizens developed in their own distinct identities and agency. Antioch of the Antiochians must therefore be elevated from traditional narratives and static characterisations, being studied and celebrated for the dynamic polis it was.

Olympia - A Cultural History (Hardcover): Judith M Barringer Olympia - A Cultural History (Hardcover)
Judith M Barringer
R906 Discovery Miles 9 060 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A comprehensive and richly illustrated history of one of the most important athletic, religious, and political sites in the ancient Greek and Roman world The memory of ancient Olympia lives on in the form of the modern Olympic Games. But in the ancient era, Olympia was renowned for far more than its athletic contests. In Olympia, Judith Barringer provides a comprehensive and richly illustrated history of one of the most important sites in the ancient Greek and Roman world, where athletic competitions took place alongside-and were closely connected with-crucial religious and political activities. Barringer describes the development of the Altis, the most sacred area of Olympia, where monuments to athletes successful in the games joined those erected to the gods and battlefield victories. Rival city-states and rulers built monuments to establish eminence, tout alliances, and join this illustrious company in a rich intergenerational dialogue. The political importance of Olympia was matched by its place as the largest sanctuary dedicated to Zeus, king of the gods. Befitting Zeus's role as god of warfare, the Olympian oracle was consulted to ensure good omens for war, and the athletic games embodied the fierce competition of battle. Other gods and heroes were worshipped at Olympia too, Hera, Artemis, and Herakles among them. Drawing on a comprehensive knowledge of the archaeological record, Barringer describes the full span of Olympia's history, from the first monumental building around 600 BC to the site's gradual eclipse in the late Christianized Roman empire. Extensively illustrated with maps and diagrams, Olympia brings the development of Olympia vividly to life for modern readers.

Prehistoric Landscape to Roman Villa - Excavations at Beddington, Surrey, 1981-7 (Paperback): Isca Howell Prehistoric Landscape to Roman Villa - Excavations at Beddington, Surrey, 1981-7 (Paperback)
Isca Howell
R342 Discovery Miles 3 420 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Excavations at Beddington have uncovered a long occupation sequence which includes Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age fields, a Late Iron Age enclosed settlement and early Roman finds. A villa was established at the site in the late 2nd century AD and included a house, bathhouse and five other buildings, two of which were barns, although there was no direct evidence of crop or livestock production. In the late 3rd century AD wings were added to the house, the bathhouse was modified and the barns were replaced by a large aisled structure. Unlike many other villa sites there is no evidence for continued occupation in the post-Roman to early Saxon period.

TRAC 2004 (Paperback): James Bruhn, Ben Croxford, Dimitris Grigoropoulos TRAC 2004 (Paperback)
James Bruhn, Ben Croxford, Dimitris Grigoropoulos
R895 R821 Discovery Miles 8 210 Save R74 (8%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The fourteenth Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference was held at the University of Durham Department of Archaeology, March 2004. The papers present and discuss information drawn from as wide a range of geographical regions of the Roman Empire as the scope of theoretical and methodological approaches applied. An equally wide selection of subject matter is illustrated, including the ancient economy, historiography and modern perceptions of the Roman world, production, supply and consumption of material culture, social identities and the experience of social space and the landscape. Contents: Preface; The economy of Roman Britain: Representation and historiography (Kevin Greene) ; Reconstructing syntheses in Romano-British cremation (Jake Weekes) ; Metalworking and Late Roman power: A Study of towns in Later Roman Britain (Adam Rogers) ; Not at random: Evidence for a regionalized coin supply? (Fleur Kemmers) ; Regional identities and the social use of ceramics (Martin Pitts) ; Social and economic aspects of glass recycling (Daniel Keller) ; Interaction and exchange in food production in the Nijmegen frontier area during the Early Roman period (Annemiek Robeerst) ; Brickworks and ladders: Explaining intra-regional diversity of late prehistoric and Roman landscapes in the territory of the Parisi (Mick A Atha) ; Beyond the temple: Blurring the boundaries of 'sacred space' (Eleanor Ghey) ; The cupae of Iberia in their monumental contexts: A study of the relationship between social status and commemoration with barrel-shaped and semi-cylindrical tombstones (Charlotte Tupman) ; The quick and the dead in the extra-urban landscape: The Roman cemetery at Ostia/ Portus as a lived environment (E J Graham) ; Houses, GIS and the micro-topology of Pompeian domestic space (Michael A Anderson) ; Unifying aspects of Roman fortresses (Mark Driessen) .

Women in the Ancient Mediterranean World - From the Palaeolithic to the Byzantines (Hardcover): Guy, D. Middleton Women in the Ancient Mediterranean World - From the Palaeolithic to the Byzantines (Hardcover)
Guy, D. Middleton
R2,875 R2,198 Discovery Miles 21 980 Save R677 (24%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In this book, Guy D. Middleton explores the fascinating lives of thirty real women of the ancient Mediterranean from the Palaeolithic to the Byzantine era. They include queens and aristocrats, such as the Pharoah Hatshepsut and the Etruscan noblewoman Seianti; Eritha and Karpathia, Bronze Age priestesses from the Aegean; a Pompeiian prostitute called Eutychis; the pagan philosopher Hypatia and the Christian saint Perpetua, from North Africa, as well as women from smaller communities. Middleton uses a wide range of archaeological and historical evidence, including burials and funerary practices, graffiti, inscriptions and painted pottery, handprints, human remains and a variety of historical texts, as well as the latest modern research. His volume weaves together the stories of real women, placing them firmly in the spotlight of history. Engagingly written and up-to-date in its scholarship, Middleton's book offers new insights for students and researchers in Ancient History, Archaeology and Mediterranean Studies, as well as in Women's History.

Weaving in Stones: Garments and Their Accessories in the Mosaic Art of Eretz Israel in Late Antiquity (Paperback): Aliza... Weaving in Stones: Garments and Their Accessories in the Mosaic Art of Eretz Israel in Late Antiquity (Paperback)
Aliza Steinberg
R1,661 Discovery Miles 16 610 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Weaving in Stones: Garments and Their Accessories in the Mosaic Art of Eretz Israel in Late Antiquity is the first book to trace and document the garments and their accessories worn by some 245 figures represented on approximately 41 mosaic floors (some only partially preserved) that once decorated both public and private structures within the historical-geographical area of Eretz Israel in Late Antiquity. After identifying, describing and cataloguing the various articles of clothing, a typological division differentiating between men's, women's and children's clothing is followed by a discussion of their iconographic formulae and significance, including how the items of clothing and accessories were employed and displayed and their ideological and social significance. The book is copiously illustrated with photographs of mosaics and other artistic media from throughout the Greek, Roman and Byzantine world, with particular emphasis on the examples from Eretz Israel.

The Undeciphered Signs of Linear B - Interpretation and Scribal Practices (Paperback): Anna P. Judson The Undeciphered Signs of Linear B - Interpretation and Scribal Practices (Paperback)
Anna P. Judson
R907 Discovery Miles 9 070 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Decades after Michael Ventris deciphered Linear B and showed that its language was Greek, nearly one-sixth of its syllabic signs' sound-values are still unknown. This book offers a new approach to establishing these undeciphered signs' possible values. Analysis of Linear B's structure and usage not only establishes these signs' most likely sound-values - providing the best possible basis for future decipherments - but also sheds light on the writing system as a whole. The undeciphered signs are also used to explore the evidence provided by palaeography for the chronology of the Linear B documents and the activities of the Mycenaean scribes. The conclusions presented in this book therefore deepen our understanding not only of the undeciphered signs but also of the Linear B writing system as a whole, the texts it was used to write, and the insight these documents bring us into the world of the Mycenaean palaces. A colour version of figures 5.1-5.4 of chapter 5 can be found under the 'Resources' tab.

Journal of Roman Pottery studies, Volume 11 (Paperback): Pamela Irving Journal of Roman Pottery studies, Volume 11 (Paperback)
Pamela Irving
R730 R683 Discovery Miles 6 830 Save R47 (6%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Contents: The Study Group for Roman Pottery Research framework document for the study of Roman pottery in Britain, 2003 (Steven Willis); A large group of 2nd-century pottery from Ironmonger Lane, in the City of London: IRL 95, context 58 (R P Symonds et al); Quantifying status: some pottery data from the Upper Thames Valley (Paul Booth); Can you trust a correlation coefficient? (Clive Orton and Ash Rennie); The distribution and exchange of pink, grog tempered pottery in the East Midlands: an update (Jeremy Taylor); Guidelines for the archiving of Roman pottery; The early Roman pottery industry in Cologne, Germany: a new kiln site in the Oppidum Ubiorum (Maureen Carroll); A Roman pottery kiln at Abernant Farm, Caerleon, Gwent (NGR ST 3680 9140) (P V Webster, K F Hartley, A G Marvell and S H Sell); Wroxeter: after Barker, after Webster (C Jane Evans); Reviews; Obituaries; Bibliography (and index to entries).

Athens and Attica: Journal of a Residence there (Paperback, Revised ed.): Christopher Wordsworth Athens and Attica: Journal of a Residence there (Paperback, Revised ed.)
Christopher Wordsworth; Edited by Gerald Brisch
R491 Discovery Miles 4 910 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Christopher Wordsworth (1807-85), the "Great Christopher" of Winchester and Trinity College, Cambridge, was a nephew of William the poet, and brother to the student who launched the University Boat Race. In 1832 he took a gap-year, after his brilliant studies in ancient Greek and Latin classics, to travel back in time over two thousand years to Pericles' Athens. The account of his tour, Athens and Attica (1836), is still the perfect scholarly companion to the history, topography, and myths of an area compact in dimension yet vast in terms of its contribution to Western civilization. "The Bazaar or Market at Athens is a long street. Looking up you command a view of the commodities. Barrels of black caviar, small pocket-looking-glasses in red pasteboard cases, onions, tobacco piled up in brown heaps, black olives, figs strung together upon a rush, pipes with amber mouthpieces and brown clay bowls, silver-chased pistols, dirks, belts, and embroidered waistcoats. Such is the present state of Athens...a few Turks still doze in the archways of the Acropolis, or recline while smoking their pipes, and leaning with their backs against the rusty cannon. A few days ago the cannon of the Acropolis fired the signal of the conclusion of the Turkish Ramazam - the last which will ever be celebrated in Athens." - Christopher Wordsworth, 1832

The Busy Periphery: Urban Systems of the Balkan and Danube Provinces (2nd - 3rd c. AD) (Paperback): Damjan Donev The Busy Periphery: Urban Systems of the Balkan and Danube Provinces (2nd - 3rd c. AD) (Paperback)
Damjan Donev
R1,636 Discovery Miles 16 360 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Busy Periphery: Urban Systems of the Balkan and Danube Provinces (2nd - 3rd c. AD) considers the reconstruction of the urban geography of the Balkan and Danube provinces at the time of the Severan dynasty. Four basic parameters governed the focus of research: the origin and socio-economic character of the settlements, their size, micro-location, and the size of their administrative territories. The principal goal was to map the variable developments of the urban network, both between and within the sub-regions that constituted this part of the Roman Empire. This line of inquiry helped in bridging the gap between the regional and the general. In the process of explaining the apparent gaps in the urban map of the study-region or the differential growth of the individual towns and settlements, we were inevitably faced with the question of the role of towns in Roman provincial society and in the economy in general, and with the interpretation of the basic prerequisites for their emergence and prosperity.

TRAC 2002 - Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, Kent 2002 (Paperback): Gillian Carr,... TRAC 2002 - Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, Kent 2002 (Paperback)
Gillian Carr, Ellen Swift, Jake Weekes
R897 R823 Discovery Miles 8 230 Save R74 (8%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This selection of twelve papers from the twelfth annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference illustrates the broad range of different theoretical approaches applied to Roman archaeology today; one trend, though, is apparent: a wider engagement with interdisciplinary research, drawing theoretical ideas from many diverse fields of study, including philosophy, psychology, history of art, and consumer theory.

The Cambridge Ancient History (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition): Alan K. Bowman, Edward Champlin, Andrew Lintott The Cambridge Ancient History (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
Alan K. Bowman, Edward Champlin, Andrew Lintott
R7,994 Discovery Miles 79 940 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The period described in this volume begins in the year after the death of Julius Caesar and ends in the year after the fall of Nero. Its main theme is the transformation of the political configuration of the state to a dynastic monarchy and the establishment of the Roman Empire. Central to the period is the achievement of the first emperor, Augustus.

The House of Augustus - A Historical Detective Story (Hardcover): T.P. Wiseman The House of Augustus - A Historical Detective Story (Hardcover)
T.P. Wiseman
R954 R793 Discovery Miles 7 930 Save R161 (17%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A radical reexamination of the textual and archaeological evidence about Augustus and the Palatine Caesar Augustus (63 BC-AD 14), who is usually thought of as the first Roman emperor, lived on the Palatine Hill, the place from which the word "palace" originates. A startling reassessment of textual and archaeological evidence, The House of Augustus demonstrates that Augustus was never an emperor in any meaningful sense of the word, that he never had a palace, and that the so-called "Casa di Augusto" excavated on the Palatine was a lavish aristocratic house destroyed by the young Caesar in order to build the temple of Apollo. Exploring the Palatine from its first occupation to the present, T. P. Wiseman proposes a reexamination of the "Augustan Age," including much of its literature. Wiseman shows how the political and ideological background of Augustus' rise to power offers a radically different interpretation of the ancient evidence about the Augustan Palatine. Taking a long historical perspective in order to better understand the topography, Wiseman considers the legendary stories of Rome's origins-in particular Romulus' foundation and inauguration of the city on the summit of the Palatine. He examines the new temple of Apollo and the piazza it overlooked, as well as the portico around it with its library used as a hall for Senate meetings, and he illustrates how Commander Caesar, who became Caesar Augustus, was the champion of the Roman people against an oppressive oligarchy corrupting the Republic. A decisive intervention in a critical debate among ancient historians and archaeologists, The House of Augustus recalibrates our views of a crucially important period and a revered public space.

TRAC 99 - Proceedings of Ninth Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, Durham (Paperback): Garrick Fincham, Geoff Harrison,... TRAC 99 - Proceedings of Ninth Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, Durham (Paperback)
Garrick Fincham, Geoff Harrison, Rene Rodgers Holland, Louise Revell
R893 R819 Discovery Miles 8 190 Save R74 (8%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This text contains 13 papers from the annual TRAC conference, now in its ninth year. With a range of subject matters, the papers reflect the diversity of research being carried out in Roman archaeology.

Olympia - Cult, Sport and Ancient Festival (Hardcover, American ed.): Ulrich Sinn Olympia - Cult, Sport and Ancient Festival (Hardcover, American ed.)
Ulrich Sinn; Translated by Thomas Thornton
R1,262 Discovery Miles 12 620 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In antiquity Olympia stood for sports. A victory at the Olympic games led to lifelong honours and often to a political career and wealth. Alcibiades, a multifaceted politician from Athens, sponsored all seven chariots in a race to guarantee that one of his horses would definitely win and he would get the honour. Alexander the Great and other kings and emperors, as well as wealthy and powerful men and women, financed the games by erecting religious and civic monuments. Olympia's monuments are associated with the best-known artists of its time. The Zeus temple became one of the Seven Wonders of the World. Olympia also had an oracle, which was another major tourist attraction. Numerous ancient sources provide lively reports about Olympia: activities in the sports arenas, the rites of the games, the reactions of the visitors. They also detail sometimes unpleasant daily realities: the crowds, the dust, the heat and the thirst. Still, many mysteries remain: When and why was the Olympian fire extinguished? Why are there so many arms found in a place that is famous for its Olympian peace? Olympia is situated in the western corner of Greece; why is it filled with oriental art? Some answers can be found in archaeological excavations. The author, Ulrich Sinn, has been responsible for major archaeological work; some of the latest is described in this book for the first time.

An Epigraphical Survey in the Kibyra-Olbasa Region conducted by A S Hall (Hardcover): Alan S. Hall, N.P. Milner An Epigraphical Survey in the Kibyra-Olbasa Region conducted by A S Hall (Hardcover)
Alan S. Hall, N.P. Milner
R1,067 R971 Discovery Miles 9 710 Save R96 (9%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Kibyra-Olbasa region, in the uplands of south-west Anatolia, was home to a mixture of people - Kabalians, Milyans, Pisidians and others - while the city of Kibyra spoke four languages: Lydian, Solymian, Pisidian and Greek. This volume presents (with text, translations and brief commentary) some 160 ancient stones and inscriptions recorded by the late Alan Hall in 1984 and 1985 which attest to the influence of the Hellenistic and Roman kingdoms. Over one hundred are previously unpublished, others fully revised. A companion volume is being prepared by G H R Horsley and R A Kearsley.

Potters at Work in Ancient Corinth - Industry, Religion, and the Penteskouphia Pinakes (Paperback): Eleni Hasaki Potters at Work in Ancient Corinth - Industry, Religion, and the Penteskouphia Pinakes (Paperback)
Eleni Hasaki
R2,133 Discovery Miles 21 330 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

An unparalleled assemblage of Archaic black-figure painted pinakes (plaques) was uncovered near Penteskouphia, a village west of ancient Corinth, over a century ago. The pinakes - represented by over 1,200 fragments - and their depictions of gods, warriors, animals, and the potters themselves, provide a uniquely rich source of information about Greek art, technology, and society. In this volume, the findspot of the pinakes is identified in a contribution by Ioulia Tzonou and James Herbst, and the assemblage as a whole is fully contextualized within the Archaic world. Then, by focusing specifically on the images of potters at work, the author illuminates the relationship between Corinthian and Athenian art, the technology used in ancient pottery production, and religious anxiety in the 6th century B.C. The first comprehensive register of all known Penteskouphia pinakes complements the well-illustrated discussion.

The Julian Basilica: Architecture, Sculpture, Epigraphy - Corinth XXII (Hardcover): Paul D. Scotton, Catherine de Grazia... The Julian Basilica: Architecture, Sculpture, Epigraphy - Corinth XXII (Hardcover)
Paul D. Scotton, Catherine de Grazia Vanderpool, Carolynn Roncaglia
R4,093 Discovery Miles 40 930 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Early-20th-century explorations of the Roman Forum at Ancient Corinth revealed a massive early imperial building now known as the Julian Basilica. The structure stood on a podium over four meters high, and it dominated the east end of the forum in size, aspect, and function until its destruction in the 4th century A.D. Within it was one of the largest known shrines to the imperial cult and the likely site of the imperial court of law for the Roman province of Achaia. The basilica housed 11 or more large-scale statues most likely to members of the Julio-Claudian family (including Augustus, Augustus's heirs Gaius and Lucius, and arguably Divus Iulius, Germanicus, Nero Caesar, and Claudius), as well as an altar to Divus Augustus and dedications to the genius Augusti, the gens Augusta, and other family members. This richly illustrated volume provides a contextual study of this important building, the remains of which were first published by Saul Weinberg in 1960 (Corinth I.5). Scotton treats the architectural remains, Vanderpool the sculptural remains, and Roncaglia the epigraphical material, each providing extensive catalogues with new photos, in addition to color reconstructions of the basilica and its grand interior.

Border Communities at the Edge of the Roman Empire - Processes of Change in the Civitas Cananefatium (Hardcover, 0): Jasper... Border Communities at the Edge of the Roman Empire - Processes of Change in the Civitas Cananefatium (Hardcover, 0)
Jasper Bruin
R4,187 Discovery Miles 41 870 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In Roman times, the area between the Lower Rhine and the Meuse in the present day province of South Holland in the Netherlands, was known as the administrative district of the community of the Cananefates (the civitas Cananefatium). The formation of this community, as well as the changes that took place within this group, were researched by means of a systematic analysis of the archaeological remains. In order to understand the role of the Roman state in these processes, the urban and military communities were also studied. In this way an overview was created of an administrative region in which aspects such as the interaction between the different groups, the character of the rural community and the differences with other rural groups along the borders of the Roman Empire could be studied.

The Making of the Doric Temple - Architecture, Religion, and Social Change in Archaic Greece (Hardcover): Gabriel Zuchtriegel The Making of the Doric Temple - Architecture, Religion, and Social Change in Archaic Greece (Hardcover)
Gabriel Zuchtriegel
R2,257 Discovery Miles 22 570 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

In this volume, Gabriel Zuchtriegel revisits the idea of Doric architecture as the paradigm of architectural and artistic evolutionism. Bringing together old and new archaeological data, some for the first time, he posits that Doric architecture has little to do with a wood-to-stone evolution. Rather, he argues, it originated in tandem with a disruptive shift in urbanism, land use, and colonization in Archaic Greece. Zuchtriegel presents momentous architectural change as part of a broader transformation that involved religion, politics, economics, and philosophy. As Greek elites colonized, explored, and mapped the Mediterranean, they sought a new home for the gods in the changing landscapes of the sixth-century BC Greek world. Doric architecture provided an answer to this challenge, as becomes evident from parallel developments in architecture, art, land division, urban planning, athletics, warfare, and cosmology. Building on recent developments in geography, gender, and postcolonial studies, this volume offers a radically new interpretation of architecture and society in Archaic Greece.

The Mute Stones Speak - The Story of Archaeology in Italy (Paperback, Second Edition): Paul MacKendrick The Mute Stones Speak - The Story of Archaeology in Italy (Paperback, Second Edition)
Paul MacKendrick
R805 R705 Discovery Miles 7 050 Save R100 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Second Edition

"MacKendrick writes so enthusiastically that all laymen who have a serious interest in scholarship and antiquity will delight in following his story." —New York Times Book Review

"An intelligible, well-told tale that recounts . . . what excavators and scholars using the full repertory of modern skills and techniques have in recent years discovered about the remains of an ancient civilization in Italy and what the discoveries mean." —C. H. Kraeling


The First Black Archaeologist - A Life of John Wesley Gilbert (Hardcover): John W.I. Lee The First Black Archaeologist - A Life of John Wesley Gilbert (Hardcover)
John W.I. Lee
R1,027 R947 Discovery Miles 9 470 Save R80 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

An inspiring portrait of an overlooked pioneer in Black history and American archaeology The First Black Archaeologist reveals the untold story of a pioneering African American classical scholar, teacher, community leader, and missionary. Born into slavery in rural Georgia, John Wesley Gilbert (1863-1923) gained national prominence in the early 1900s, but his accomplishments are little known today. Using evidence from archives across the U.S. and Europe, from contemporary publications, and from newly discovered documents, this book chronicles, for the first time, Gilbert's remarkable journey. As we follow Gilbert from the segregated public schools of Augusta, Georgia, to the lecture halls of Brown University, to his hiring as the first black faculty member of Augusta's Paine Institute, and through his travels in Greece, western Europe, and the Belgian Congo, we learn about the development of African American intellectual and religious culture, and about the enormous achievements of an entire generation of black students and educators. Readers interested in the early development of American archaeology in Greece will find an entirely new perspective here, as Gilbert was one of the first Americans of any race to do archaeological work in Greece. Those interested in African American history and culture will gain an invaluable new perspective on a leading yet hidden figure of the late 1800s and early 1900s, whose life and work touched many different aspects of the African American experience.

The Fall of Rome - And the End of Civilization (Paperback, New ed): Bryan Ward-Perkins The Fall of Rome - And the End of Civilization (Paperback, New ed)
Bryan Ward-Perkins
R424 R345 Discovery Miles 3 450 Save R79 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Was the fall of Rome a great catastrophe that cast the West into darkness for centuries to come? Or, as scholars argue today, was there no crisis at all, but simply a peaceful blending of barbarians into Roman culture, an essentially positive transformation?
In The Fall of Rome, eminent historian Bryan Ward-Perkins argues that the "peaceful" theory of Rome's "transformation" is badly in error. Indeed, he sees the fall of Rome as a time of horror and dislocation that destroyed a great civilization, throwing the inhabitants of the West back to a standard of living typical of prehistoric times. Attacking contemporary theories with relish and making use of modern archaeological evidence, he looks at both the wider explanations for the disintegration of the Roman world and also the consequences for the lives of everyday Romans, who were caught in a world of marauding barbarians, and economic collapse. The book recaptures the drama and violence of the last days of the Roman world, and reminds us of the very real terrors of barbarian occupation. Equally important, Ward-Perkins contends that a key problem with the new way of looking at the end of the ancient world is that all difficulty and awkwardness is smoothed out into a steady and positive transformation of society. Nothing ever goes badly wrong in this vision of the past. The evidence shows otherwise.
Up-to-date and brilliantly written, combining a lively narrative with the latest research and thirty illustrations, this superb volume reclaims the drama, the violence, and the tragedy of the fall of Rome.

Excavations at Sabratha 1948-1951. Volume II - The Finds Part 1 (Arabic, English, Paperback): John Dore, Nina Keay, Hazel Dodge Excavations at Sabratha 1948-1951. Volume II - The Finds Part 1 (Arabic, English, Paperback)
John Dore, Nina Keay, Hazel Dodge
R1,242 R1,124 Discovery Miles 11 240 Save R118 (10%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is the first report on the finds from K. Kenyon's and J. B. Ward-Perkins' excavations at Sabratha from 1948-1951, and contains full discussion and catalogues. This volume constitutes a landmark in the study of Punic and Roman pottery from Sabratha and Tripolitania, not only covering new dated types but also quantified studies and analysis It will be a lasting reference to the pottry from this area, and invaluable also for what it brings to the historical picture of this city.

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