The circulation of books was the motor of classical civilization. However, books were both expens...

Greek athletics flourished more in the Roman Empire than it ever had before. This book offers an ...

Saints and Symposiasts

In this book Jason Konig offers for the first time an accessible yet comprehensive account of the...

The Romans commanded the largest and most complex empire the world had ever seen, or would see un...

Greek traditions of writing about food and the symposium had a long and rich afterlife in the fir...

There is a rich body of encyclopaedic writing which survives from the two millennia before the En...

Examination of Greek athletics in the Roman Empire and how they were represented in the literatur...

The Romans commanded the largest and most complex empire the world had ever seen, or would see un...

How did ancient scientific writers make their work authoritative? This volume answers that questi...

Late Hellenistic Greek literature, both prose and poetry, stands out for its richness and diversi...

There is a rich body of encyclopaedic writing which survives from the two millennia before the En...