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Portraying the Individual in the Roman East Local Imperial Entanglements in Sculpture, Mosaics, and Paintings (1st?4th Centuries AD)
, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2026 Hardback, Pages: xxii + 345 p. Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:81 b/w, 282 col., 1 tables b/w. Language(s):English. new. ISBN 9782503622750.
Summary While the statues and busts of Rome have long captivated scholarly attention, the extraordinary diversity of portraits produced across the empire's so-called peripheries has remained underexplored. As new discoveries and research projects, such as the Palmyra Portrait Project, expand our understanding of provincial visual culture, fresh questions emerge about the nature, function, and interpretation of Roman period portraiture. This volume revisits portraiture by looking beyond the Roman empire?s core to its vibrant borderlands, revealing how traditions of representing the individual varied dramatically across cities, regions, and time. The contributions gathered here examine both adherence to, and departures from, mainstream portrait conventions, highlighting the creative negotiations between local identities and imperial visual norms, engaging with a wide range of media ? sculpture, mosaics, and paintings ? and addressing issues such as workshop practices and the circulation of resources. Case studies explore reworking and reuse, the reconstruction of display contexts, and the development of regional visual languages over time. In shifting the lens from centre to regional situations, this volume reveals portraits as powerful expressions of identities and cultural entanglement across the ancient Mediterranean and West Asia. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations Portraying the Individual in the Roman East: Local?Imperial Entanglements in Sculpture, Mosaics, and Paintings (1st?4th Centuries AD) Rubina Raja 1. Roman ?Mummy Portraits? ? Panel Paintings, Painted Shrouds, and Stucco Masks: The Appropriation of the Graeco-Roman ?Individual Portrait? by the Death Industry of Roman Egypt Christopher H. Hallet 2. Portrait Mummies from Antino polis as Evidence for lite Interaction between Egypt and Syria Barbara E. Borg 3. Locally Crafted Empires: The Case of the Palmyrene Portrait Habit and the Legacy of Greek Art Rubina Raja 4. Putting Portraits in the Big Picture: Otacilia Severa and Faustina the Elder in Palmyra Olympia Bobou, Dario Calomino, Julia Lenghan, and Rubina Raja 5. Theoi Sebastoi Olympioi: Hellenising Imperial Images in the Greek East R. R. R. Smith 6. Portraying the Emperor ? Seeing the Emperor: Between Typology and Individuality in a Colossal Portrait in Sagalassos Jane Fejfer, Jeroen Poblome, anf Peter Talloen 7. The Portrait Statues from the Artemision at Messene ? Expressing Identity and Representing Power Olympia Bobou and Christopher Dickenson 8. Funerary Portraits from Hierapolis in Syria Michael Bl mer 9. The Other Half of the Empire: On Early Depictions of Individuals in Sepulchral Art in the West Dietrich Boschung 10. Funerary Portraits on the Rhine in the First Half of the First Century AD: Sartorial Expressions of Cultural Awareness and Ethnic Belonging Maureen Caroll 11. Citizens, Emperors, and Gods: Portraiture in the Roman Central Balkans Nade?da Gavrilovi? Vitas 12. From Periphery to Centre Stage: ?Zenobia in Chains? (1859) by Harriet Hosmer and ?The Death of Cleopatra? (1876) by Edmonia Lewis Amalie Skovm ller
Bathing at the Edge of the Roman Empire. Baths and Bathing Habits in the North-Western Corner of Continental Europe
, Brepols, 2023 Paperback, 304 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:229 b/w, 13 col., 13 tables b/w., 8 maps color, Language: English. ISBN 9782503600666.
Summary Roman bathhouses are considered to be prime markers when studying romanization in the provinces of the Empire, as these very specific ? and archaeologically recognizable ? buildings, together with their associated ideas about the body and personal health, introduced a decidedly Roman habit into regions that had hitherto been unfamiliar with (communal) bathhouses and heating technology. While traditionally, studies into Roman baths and bathing have focused on large public baths in the cities of the empire, however, those from the area that now roughly corresponds to modern-day Belgium have often been neglected in recent research as this was an area with few important urban centres. This book for the first time investigates the introduction, spread, and eventual disappearance of Roman-style baths and of bathing habits in this north-western corner of the Roman Empire. A detailed analysis of the architecture, technology, and decoration of both public and private baths is combined with a discussion on the role of bathing in the area's romanization, and supplemented by a fully illustrated catalogue of all bathhouses in the area of study. In doing so, the volume sheds new light not only on the evolution of baths and bathing in this region, but also on their broader role in larger historic processes such as cultural change across the Empire. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations Key to All Plans Preface Introduction Chapter 1 Communal Baths ? a Roman Phenomenon? Chapter 2 Earlier Research on Roman Bathing in the North-West Chapter 3 The Roman Continental North-West, a Blank Spot for Baths? Chapter 4 The Architecture of the Baths Chapter 5 Technology of the Baths Chapter 6 Building Material and Decoration Chapter 7 Bathing and Society Conclusions Catalogue Appendices Works Cited Index
Caesar's Visions and Impact on the Roman Empire. Revisiting the Archaeological and Historical Record of the 40s BC
, Brepols, 2025 Hardback, Pages: x + 236, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:11 b/w, 55 col., 2 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9782503619309.
Summary Conqueror of Gaul, textbook author, demagogue, gravedigger of the Republic, first emperor: Caesar, and in particular the Caesar of the 40s BC, is equally Roman superstar and notorious dictator, and certainly one of the most controversial figures of Roman history. Bringing together specialists of various disciplines and representatives of different schools of thought, this volume offers a fresh appreciation of both Caesar as an historical character and of a period that irrevocably turned Rome into a military, political, and cultural centre and a point of reference for the ancient Mediterranean world. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations 1. Caesar's Visions and Impact on the Roman Empire: Revisiting the Archaeological and Historical Record for the 40s BC Kre?imir Matijevi?, Rubina Raja, and J rg R pke 2. Caesar's Dictatura Perpetua Revisited, in Light of the Newly Published Fragment of the Consular Fasti Robert Morstein-Marx 3. Caesar's monumentum and his Vision for Rome. Missing Entrances and Conjectural Connections: Probing the Boundaries of Rome's First Imperial Forum Christopher H. Hallet and Rubina Raja 4. Caesar from the Campus Martius to the vici: Towards a New Idea of the Roman People? Valentina Arena 5. Preservation and Change: The Ambiguous Legacy of the Syracusan ????????? after Caesar's Policies Sofia Bianchi Mancini 6. Valerius Maximus on Julius Caesar and Public Speech in the 40s BC Henriette van der Blom 7. 'Like Bellona Brandishing her Blood-Stained Lash' (VII.568): The Demonization of Caesar in Lucan's Bellum civile Nicola H mke 8. Complex Dynamics: Cleopatra and her Relationship with Caesar, Antony, and Octavian in Ludvig Holberg's Biography of Cleopatra (1745) Trine Arlund Hass 9. The Horizon of Rome: Julius Caesar's Rise to the Top and the End of the Republic Martin Jehne 10. Caesar's Impact on his Successors in the Triumviral Period Kre?imir Matijevi? 11. Some Caesarian Precedents Michael Koortbojian 12. God and Foundational Figure: Veneration of Caesar as the First Roman Axial Age Religion J rg R pke 13. Julius Caesar's Transformation of the Roman Currency Bernhard E. Woytek Index locorum Index of Names Index of Places
Coin Finds and Monetization in the Roman Northwest
, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2025 Hardback, xvi + 172 pages, Size:152 x 229 mm, Illustrations:51 b/w, 21 tables b/w., Language: English, *new. ISBN 9780897224314.
The expansion of Rome into northwestern Europe brought with it the presence and the increased usage of coinage both within the empire and in the Barbaricum. Coin Finds and Monetization in the Roman Northwest presents a study of coin finds and the monetary economy of northwestern continental Europe over much of the Roman period (c. 50 BC?AD 274). One of the largest datasets of coin finds ever assembled is deployed to analyze distribution patterns and fluctuations over time and space. It is clear that the Roman state made a concerted effort to manage coinage and the monetary economy during its rule in northwestern Europe, to the extent that was possible. Regionality is, however, a key feature of the coined monetary economy that resulted from deliberate action or the state?s inability to respond to demand, underscoring how centralized and empire-wide factors had an impact in the study region. Publication of this book has been aided by a grant from the von Bothmer Publication Fund of the Archaeological Institute of America. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Figures List of Tables Preface Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Introduction The Scope of the Study The Numismatic Dataset Using Coin Finds Approaching the Monetary Integration of the Roman Northwest Roman Taxation The Methodology Chapter 2: The First Century The Julio-Claudians Nero and the Flavians The Monetary Economy in the First Century Conclusion Chapter 3: The Short Second Century The Beginning The End The Monetary Economy in the Short Second Century Conclusion Chapter 4: A New Era in the Third Century The Severan Denarius A New Coinage System The Monetary Economy in the Third Century Conclusion Chapter 5: Monetizing the Roman Northwest An Overview of the Monetary Economy in the Northwest A State Monetary Approach List of Abbreviations Bibliography Index
Aspects of the Roman East. Volume I - Papers in Honour of Professor Fergus Millar FBA.
, BREPOLS, 2007 PAPERBACK , XIV+230 p., 160 x 240 mm,Languages: English . ISBN 9782503526256.
This is the first of two volumes of papers by scholars actively engaged in the study of the Roman East in honour of Professor Fergus Millar FBA, formerly Camden Professor of Ancient History at the University of Oxford and the leading scholar of Roman History of his generation. The first volume mainly from contributors based in the Northern Hemisphere contain studies on the Roman Near East, Egypt and early Byzantium. A second volume containing papers by scholars mainly based in the Southern Hemisphere is in preparation. Richard Alston, 'Fraying Round the Edges: Models of Change on the Margin'; Samuel Lieu, 'Rome on the Euphrates - The Final Siege of Dura-Europos'; David Noy, 'The Jews of Roman Syria: The Synagogues of Dura-Europos and Apamea'; Nigel Pollard, 'Colonial and Cultural Identities in Parthian and Roman Dura-Europos'; Geoffrey Greatrex, 'Roman frontiers and foreign policy in the East'; Frank Beetham (Trans.), 'A Byzantine Life of Constantine (BHG 365) (Annotated by Samuel N. C. Lieu)'
