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Body in Antiquity uses evidence drawn from diverse sources to gain insights into the medical practices and beliefs of the ancient
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Image, Text and Culture in Classical Antiquity
Medicine and the Body in Antiquity

Approaches to the
Byzantine Family
Children and Asceticism

in Late Antiquity
Edited by Leslie Brubaker, Birmingham University,

UK and Shaun Tougher, Cardiff University, UK
Continuity, Family Dynamics

and the Rise of Christianity
BIRMINGHAM BYZANTINE AND OTTOMAN STUDIES: CS14
Ville Vuolanto, University of Oslo, Norway

and University of Tampere, Finland
The book is well produced and well edited. The authors

present the current scholarship in their areas of expertise in a
consistently accessible way that will make this book an ideal
resource for students and scholars of the Byzantine family,
and a standard reference point for any future explorations
on Byzantine and medieval families.
Bryn Mawr Classical Review
The study of the family is one of the major lacunas in
Byzantine Studies. Angeliki Laiou remarked in 1989 that the
study of the Byzantine family is still in its infancy, and this
assertion remains true today. The present volume addresses
this lacuna. It comprises 19 chapters written by international
experts in the field which take a variety of approaches to the
study of the Byzantine family, and embrace a chronological
span from the later Roman to the late Byzantine Empire.
Includes 44 b&w illustrations
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Arianism: Roman Heresy

and Barbarian Creed
Edited by Guido M. Berndt, Friedrich-AlexanderUniversitt Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
and Roland Steinacher, Austrian Academy
of Sciences, Austria
This is the first volume to attempt a comprehensive
introduction to and overview of the evolution of the Arian
churches in the Roman world of Late Antiquity and their
political importance in the late Roman kingdoms of the
5th6th centuries, ruled by barbarian warrior elites. Bringing
together researchers from the disciplines of theology, history
and archaeology, and providing an extensive bibliography,
it constitutes a breakthrough in a field largely neglected in
historical studies.
October 2014
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The Bishop of Rome

in Late Antiquity
Edited by Geoffrey D. Dunn,
Australian Catholic University, Australia
The essays in this volume examine the bishop of Rome
in late antiquity from the time of Constantine in the fourth
century to the death of Gregory the Great in the seventh.
The volume canvasses a wide range of opinions about the
nature of papal power by concentrating on how the holders
of the office exercised their episcopal responsibilities and
prerogatives within the city or in relation to both civic
administration and churches in other areas.
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Ville Vuolanto has already made a name for himself as one of

the foremost scholars working on the family in Late Antiquity.
In his new book, he brings his formidable knowledge of early
Christianity and current sociological, historical, and theological
methodologies to offer an innovative and sophisticated
approach to the study of strategies of continuity among the
newly Christianized elites of the late Roman Empire. Children
and Asceticism in Late Antiquity is a fascinating study of the
way elite Christians confronted and ultimately reconciled the
competing ideologies of ascetic Christianity and traditional
ideas of familial pietas and continuity.
Judith Evans Grubbs, Emory University, USA
This is the first book to scrutinise the interplay between
family, children and asceticism in the rise of Christianity.
Drawing on texts of Christian authors of the late fourth
and early fifth centuries the volume approaches the study
of family dynamics and childhood from both ideological
and social historical perspectives. It examines the place
of children in the family in Christian ideology and explores
how families in the late Roman world adapted these ideals
in practice.
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Christians, Gnostics and

Philosophers in Late Antiquity
Mark Edwards, Christ Church, Oxford, UK
VARIORUM COLLECTED STUDIES SERIES: CS1014
Gnosticism, Christianity and late antique philosophy are

often studied separately; when studied together they are
too often conflated. These articles set out to show that
we misunderstand all three phenomena if we take either
approach. We cannot interpret, or even identify, Christian
Gnosticism without Platonic evidence; we may even discover
that Gnosticism throws unexpected light on the Platonic
imagination. At the same time, if we read writers like
Origen simply as Christian Platonists, or bring Christians
and philosophers together under the porous umbrella
of monotheism, we ignore fundamental features of
both traditions.
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THE WORLDS OF EASTERN CHRISTIANITY, 3001500: CS14
The Christian communities of the Middle East distinguish

themselves through their unique languages, their ethnic
identities and their doctrinal stances. Whereas the history
of doctrinal disputes has been a topic of old in Western
scholarship, it is only in more recent times that scholars
have begun to investigate how the Christian communities of
the Nile-to-Oxus region perceived themselves and how they
asserted their distinct identities vis--vis their neighbours
and maintained a sense of communal integrity in response to
cultural change and foreign domination. This volume brings
together a number of key studies, many specially translated
into English for this volume, which deal with this question
of Eastern Christian self-definition. Included in the volume
is an extensive bibliography on the topic of Eastern Christian
self-understanding.
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Cult Places and Cult

Personnel in the Roman Empire
Duncan Fishwick, University of Alberta, Canada

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Communal Identity and

Self-Portrayal in the Worlds of
Eastern Christianity, 3001500
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The twenty-one studies assembled in this volume focus on

the apparatus and practitioners of religions in the Western
Roman Empire, the enclaves, temples, altars and monuments
that served the cults of a wide range of divinities through
the medium of priests and worshippers. Discussion focuses
on the analysis or reconstruction of the centers at which
devotees gathered and draws on the full range of available
evidence. While literary authorities remain of primary
concern, these are for the most part overshadowed by other
categories of evidence, in particular archaeology, epigraphy,
numismatics and iconography, sources in some cases
confirmed by the latest geophysical techniques electrical
resistivity tomography or ground-probing radar.
March 2014
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Cult, Ritual, Divinity and

Belief in the Roman World
The papers in this selection of studies range in subject

matter from early Judaic magic to an inscribed monument
of the Neo-Classical period. The principal emphasis of
the collection is nevertheless on religious developments
under the High Roman Empire: problems arising from the
interpretation of oriental cults imported from the Hellenistic
East but primarily the development of imperial cult, the
one universal religion of the empire before the coming
of Christianity.
March 2012
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ASHGATE STUDIES IN PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY IN LATE ANTIQUITY

Series Editors: Mark Edwards, Christ Church, University of Oxford, UK and Lewis Ayres, Durham University, UK
The Ashgate Studies in Philosophy and Theology in Late Antiquity series focuses on major theologians, not as representatives of a tradition, whether Christian or classical, but as individuals
immersed in the intellectual culture of their day. Each book concentrates on the arguments, not merely the opinions, of a single Christian writer or group of writers from the period AD 100600
and compares and contrasts these arguments with those of pagan contemporaries who addressed similar questions. By study of the political, cultural and social milieu, contributors to the
series show what external factors led to the convergence or divergence of Christianity and pagan thought in particular localities or periods. Pagan and Christian teachings are set out in a clear
and systematic form making it possible to bring to light the true originality of the authors thought and to estimate the value of his work for modern times. This high profile research series offers
an important contribution to areas of contemporary research in the patristic period, as well as providing new links into later periods, particularly the medieval and reformation.
Divination and Theurgy

in Neoplatonism
Oracles of the Gods
Crystal Addey, University of St Andrews, UK
A very interesting exploration of the importance of oracles,
divination and other religious practices to the philosophers
of Late Antiquity, viewed against the general religious
background of the period.
Dominic OMeara, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
This book explores the extensive links between oracles and
philosophy in Late Antiquity, particularly focusing on the
roles of oracles and other forms of divination in third and
fourth century CE Neoplatonism. Examining some of the
most significant debates between pagan philosophers and
Christian intellectuals on the nature of oracles as a central
yet contested element of religious tradition, Addey focuses
particularly on Porphyrys Philosophy from Oracles and
Iamblichus De Mysteriis.
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Image, Word and God in

the Early Christian Centuries
Mark Edwards, University of Oxford, UK
Edwards is a scholar of distinction who offers many gems
to the determined reader not least the observation in
the conclusion that if Christian Churches are to have any
images at all then those images ought logically to receive
the veneration due to the prototype rather than be treated
as merely pedagogical artefacts.
Theology
This book investigates the concept of logos in pagan,
Jewish and Christian thought, with a view to elucidating
the polyphonic functions which the word acquired when
used in theological discourse. Edwards presents a survey of
theological applications of the term Logos in Greek, Jewish
and Christian thought from Plato to Augustine and Proclus.
Bringing together materials which are rarely synthesized
in modern study, this book shows how Greek and biblical
thought part company in their appraisal of the capacity of
reason to grasp the nature of God, and how in consequence
verbal revelation plays a more significant role in biblical
teaching.
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Individuality in Late Antiquity
Porphyry in Fragments
Edited by Johannes Zachhuber, Trinity College,

University of Oxford, UK and Alexis Torrance,
Princeton University, USA
Reception of an Anti-Christian Text

in Late Antiquity
Ariane Magny, Thompson Rivers University, Canada
This valuable book forms part of a growing emphasis on the

history of individuality and the self in late antiquity. It provides
a corrective to Foucaults Care of the Self, and shows that the
western narrative that takes Augustine as its starting point
is not the only game in town. Developing the discussion
in Aristotles Categories, late antique Neoplatonists and
Christians alike debated the philosophical basis of individuality.
In the fourth century, Trinitarian theology presented a special
challenge, and other aspects of the problem came to the fore
with the growing ascetic theory of the self and the difficulties
surrounding the Christian doctrine of bodily resurrection. The
editors have drawn on the best scholarship in philosophy,
theology, and the history of Christian thought to show the
centrality of these issues and the intensity of the discussion.
Anyone interested in the roots of modern theories of the
individual will find this book crucial reading.
The Greek philosopher Porphyry of Tyre had a reputation

as the fiercest critic of Christianity. It was well-deserved:
he composed fifteen discourses against the Christians, so
offensive that Christian emperors ordered them to be burnt.
We thus rely on the testimonies of three prominent Christian
writers to know what Porphyry wrote. Porphyry in Fragments
argues that Porphyrys actual thoughts became mixed with
the thoughts of the Christians who preserved his ideas, as
well as those of other Christian opponents.
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Averil Cameron, Oxford University, UK

Late antiquity is increasingly recognised as a period of
important cultural transformation. One of its crucial aspects
is the emergence of a new awareness of human individuality.
In this book, the authors assess the influence of seminal
thinkers, including the Gnostics, Plotinus, and Augustine,
but also of cultural and religious practices such as astrology
and monasticism, as well as, more generally, the role
played by intellectual disciplines such as grammar and
Christian theology. The volume serves as a comprehensive
introduction to late antique understandings of human
individuality.
March 2014
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The Spirit of Augustines

Early Theology
Contextualizing Augustines Pneumatology
Chad Tyler Gerber, Walsh University, USA
The Spirit of Augustines Early Theology is a helpful book
that illuminates the way in which Augustine deepens his
understanding of God. It successfully argues for continuity
within Augustines pneumatology. One might say the ancient
theologian continually organized the pieces of a puzzle he
knew well, all the while adding new pieces as soon as he
realized their worth. Gerbers own consideration of the Spirit
as the love of God in Augustines earlier work admirably helps
modern scholars organize our understanding of Augustines
thought and even adds a few new pieces to our puzzle.
The Marginalia Review of Books
This book-length study of Augustines pneumatology

examines his earliest extant writings, penned during the
years surrounding his famed return to the Catholic Church
and the height of his efforts to synthesize Catholic theology.
Careful analysis of these initial texts casts fresh light upon
Augustines more mature and well-known theology of the
Holy Spirit while also illuminating ongoing discussions
about his early thought.
February 2012
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THE FORMATION OF THE CLASSICAL ISLAMIC

WORLD
DIGITAL RESEARCH IN THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES
The origins and rise of Islam, in its dimensions of imperial power, world religion and multi-faceted culture, have engaged the
attention of modern scholarship, and these fields have seen rapid development. Research on the period has become far more
specialised and its results scattered through a widening range of periodicals and collective volumes. This work is of interest
and concern to an ever-broadening audience: not only the rapidly growing body of students of early Islam itself, but also many
working in the fields of Byzantine, eastern Christian, Jewish, Mediterranean and European history.
The Formation of the Classical Islamic World is a library reference collection that makes available the most important articles
and research papers in its subject. International scholars representing a whole range of methodologies and disciplines, have
joined to collaborate on what is the most ambitious endeavour of its kind in the modern study of Islam.
By reprinting material from a wide range of sources that are traditionally difficult to find, this series constitutes a major
resource for libraries. All articles not previously published in English have been specially translated for this series, and each
contains a specially-written introduction to the subject, a bibliographical guide and an index. The collection is planned to
consist of 48 thematically ordered volumes. The articles are selected not only for their current role in breaking new ground, but
also for their place as seminal contributions to the formation of the field, and their utility in providing access to the subject for
students and specialists in other fields.
The Articulation of Early Islamic

State Structures
Education and Learning

in the Early Islamic World
Edited by Fred M. Donner, University of Chicago, USA
Edited by Claude Gilliot, Universit de Provence, France
This volume reprints nineteen articles that deal with the

formation of the first Islamic state under the rightly-guided
and Umayyad caliphs (632750 CE). The articles (five of which
originally appeared in languages other than English and are
translated here) trace the crystallization of key institutions
of the growing empire and treat such fundamental issues as
taxation, military institutions, administrative organization and
practices, the barid or official courier and intelligence service,
succession, the ruling elites and their income, and questions
of legitimation. The volume includes an introduction by the
editor that offers an overview of the processes involved and
helps place each article in its proper context. It also offers an
extensive bibliography of further works relevant to the theme
of the volume.
[Gilliot] provides an excellent overview of the history of

Western scholarship on Islamic education and surveys the
results reached under the topical sections of this collected
work. In addition, he provides a substantial bibliography on
pre-modern Islamic education in general, including references
not only to Western scholarship on the topic but also to the
main works in Arabic.
Journal of Islamic Studies
468 pages
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Adaptations of Early Temple Architecture

in South and Southeast Asia
Sambit Datta, Curtin University, Australia
and David Beynon, Deakin University, Australia
Series Editor: Lawrence I. Conrad, formerly University of Hamburg, Germany
February 2012
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Digital Archetypes
Studying education and learning in the formative period

of Islam is not immediately easy. Most sources are from
a later period, and frequently project the assumptions
and conditions of their own day on to the earlier period.
The studies in this volume have been selected for the
critical approaches and methods of their authors, and are
arranged under five headings: the pedagogical tradition;
scholarship and attestation; orality and literacy; authorship
and transmission; and libraries. Together with the editors
introductory essay, they present a broad picture of the
beginnings and evolution of education and learning in
the Islamic world.
Datta and Beynon demonstrate the substantial benefits

that digital methods can bring to the analysis of architectural
and cultural history. Asian scholars will particularly welcome
their new insights into old questions about the historical
connections between the various South and Southeast
Asian polities and the processes of Indianisation that
are thought to have shaped Southeast Asian cultures.
William Logan, Deakin University, Australia
This multi-disciplinary study of early archetypal Brahmanic,
Hindu and Buddhist temple architectures examines how
the styles from northwest India were adapted as they
spread into Southeast Asia. It unravels the specifically
compositional and architectural linkages along the trading
routes of South and Southeast Asia, and the common
themes and influences to be seen in the early temples of
Java, Cambodia and Champa. Using digital reconstruction
and recovery of three-dimensional temple forms, the authors
have developed a digital dataset of early Indian antecedents,
tested new technologies for the acquisition of built heritage
and developed new methods for comparative analysis of built
form geometry.
June 2014
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Dreams, Healing,
and Medicine in Greece
From Antiquity to the Present
Edited by Steven M. Oberhelman,
Texas A&M University, USA
this volume does successfully what a collection of
essays should do: offer a comprehensive coverage of
the topic, with different sources, media and perspectives.
Late Antiquity on the Eve

of Islam
This volume centers on dreams in Greek medicine from

the fifth-century B.C.E. Hippocratic Regimen down to the
modern era. Medicine is here defined in a wider sense than
just formal medical praxis, and includes non-formal medical
healing methods such as folk pharmacopeia, religion,
magical methods (e.g., amulets, exorcisms, and spells), and
home remedies. This volume examines how in Greek culture
dreams have played an integral part in formal and non-formal
means of healing. The papers are organized into three major
diachronic periods: classical Greek through late Roman, the
Byzantine era, and from the Turkish period to the modern day.
Edited by Averil Cameron, University of Oxford, UK
August 2012
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The work included here remains influential

This volume reflects the huge upsurge of interest in the Near
East and early Islam currently taking place among historians
of late antiquity. At the same time, Islamicists and Quranic
scholars are also increasingly seeking to place the life of
Muhammad and the Quran in a late antique background.
Averil Cameron, herself one of the leading scholars of late
antiquity and Byzantium, has chosen eleven key articles that
together give a rounded picture of the most important trends
in late antique scholarship over the last decades, and provide
a coherent context for the emergence of the new religion. A
substantial introduction, with a detailed bibliography, surveys
the present state of the field, as well as discussing some
recent themes in Quranic and early Islamic scholarship
from the point of view of a late antique historian.
April 2013
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Dressing Judeans and
Christians in Antiquity
Edited by Kristi Upson-Saia, Occidental College, USA,
Carly Daniel-Hughes, Concordia University, Canada
and Alicia J. Batten, Conrad Grebel University
College, Canada
Dress codes are often more implicit than explicit and are hard
to identify and nuance in past societies. This volume explores
the language of dress inherent in a range of literary and
rhetorical writings among Mediterranean Judean and Christian
communities of late antiquity and highlights relationships
between the clothed body and the social body, ideas of
masculinity and femininity and the worlds of earth and heaven.
It offers a new and fascinating dimension to the field of late
antique Judaism and Christianity, and to the history of dress.
Mary Harlow, University of Leicester, UK
This volume aims to understand religious aspects of dress in
the ancient world by examining a diverse range of religious
sources, including literature, art, performance, coinage,
economic markets, and memories. Contributors demonstrate
how dress developed as a topos within Judean and Christian
rhetoric, symbolism, and performance, and show how
religious meanings were entangled with other social logics,
revealing the many layers of meaning attached to ancient
dress, as well as the extent to which dress was implicated
in numerous domains of religious life.
Includes 16 colour illustrations
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Essays in Honor of John M. Riddle

Edited by Anne Van Arsdall and Timothy Graham,
both at University of New Mexico, USA
MEDICINE IN THE MEDIEVAL MEDITERRANEAN
the collections unifying factor is the individual texts

resonance with aspects of Riddles work, and as such it is
wide-ranging, perhaps dauntingly so. But its breadth speaks
to the flourishing of scholarship in the history of medicine,
attested to by the appearance of new book series such as the
one to which this volume belongs. Historians of medicine
have both returned to the manuscripts with renewed energy
and embraced the scholarly possibilities presented by new
technology, and this forwards and backwards gaze is a fitting
tribute to Riddles legacy.
British Journal for the History of Science
Herbs and Healers from the Ancient Mediterranean through
the Medieval West brings together eleven papers by leading
scholars in ancient and medieval medicine and pharmacy,
honoring John M. Riddle, a pioneer of the study of early
medicine. The volumes scope demonstrates the breadth
of current research in the field, examining both practical
medical arts and medical theory from the ancient world into
early modern times. It includes new findings about known
and anonymous ancient healers, and outlines a cutting-edge
Internet-based system for ongoing academic collaboration.
Exegesis and Theology

in Early Christianity
Frances Young, University of Birmingham, UK
This collection of articles brings together a number of

working papers which were significant in the development of
Frances Youngs understanding of patristic exegesis, studies
not included in her ground-breaking book, Biblical Exegesis
and the Formation of Christian Culture (1997). Also included
is a selection of papers on theology, church order and
methodology, which combined with the former demonstrates
the authors scholarly approach to patristic material.
Includes 20 previously published essays
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Herbs and Healers from

the Ancient Mediterranean
through the Medieval West
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IMAGE, TEXT AND

CULTURE IN CLASSICAL
ANTIQUITY
Series Editor: Michael Squire, Kings College, London, UK
Since the Renaissance and arguably much earlier European
culture has looked to the Classical world for inspiration and
enlightenment, and measured its own achievements by the
standards of the classical world. In order to better comprehend
this culture, both on its own terms and in light of subsequent
generations, this new series provides an innovative and
interdisciplinary forum for original research into the arts,
literature and cultural history of the Classical World. Attuned
to the ways in which different cultural forms mediate different
understandings of the Classical past, the series explores both
the problems and opportunities of reconstructing classical
culture from its surviving archaeological and literary traces.
By crossing traditional disciplinary and subdisciplinary
boundaries within and beyond the field of Classics, and
drawing on approaches developed outside its historicist
parameters, the series engages a broad readership from a
range of academic perspectives.
To submit a proposal please contact Publisher, Tom Gray,
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Iconoclasm from Antiquity

to Modernity
Edited by Kristine Kolrud, Stockholm University,
Sweden and Marina Prusac, University of Oslo, Norway
The phenomenon of iconoclasm, expressed through hostile
actions towards images, has occurred in many different
cultures throughout history. The destruction and mutilation
of images is often motivated by a blend of political and
religious ideas and beliefs, and the distinction between
various kinds of iconoclasms is not absolute. In order to
explore further the long and varied history of iconoclasm the
contributors to this volume consider iconoclastic reactions
to various types of objects, both in the very recent and
distant past. Whilst the texts are addressed primarily to those
researching the Western world, the volume contains material
which will also be of interest to students of the Middle East.
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Icons in Time, Persons in Eternity
Orthodox Theology and the Aesthetics
of the Christian Image
Cornelia A. Tsakiridou, La Salle University, USA
The ambition of this book is enormous and for the most part
[it] comes off brilliantly. It ought to spark some completely
fresh discussions of aesthetics and ontology Formidable as
the book is, it should be required reading for anyone seeking
to grasp the aesthetics of the icon and their rootedness in a
consistent and challenging Christian ontology and anyone
looking for a creative theological interaction with the art of the
20th Century.
Rowan Williams, Art and Christianity
Marlowes Ovid
The Impotency Poem from

Ancient Latin to Restoration
English Literature
The Elegies in the Marlowe Canon

M.L. Stapleton, Indiana University-Purdue University
Fort Wayne, USA
Hannah Lavery, The Open University, UK

The first book length study of the motif of impotency in
poetry from early antiquity through to the late Restoration,
this book explores the impotency poem as a recognisable
form of poetry in the longer tradition of erotic elegy. Hannah
Lavery demonstrates that impotency poems can be seen on
one level to represent bawdy escapism, but on the other to
offer positions of resistance and opposition to social and
political concerns contemporary to a particular time.
Icons in Time, Persons in Eternity presents a critical,

interdisciplinary examination of contemporary theological
and philosophical studies of the Christian image and
redefines this within the Orthodox tradition by exploring the
ontological and aesthetic implications of Byzantine Orthodox
ascetic and mystical theology. It finds Modernist interest in
the aesthetic peculiarity of icons significant, and essential
for re-evaluating their relationship to non-representational
art. The reader will find in these pages reasons to reconcile
Modernism with the Christian image and Orthodox tradition
with creative form in art.
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Medicine and the Body in Antiquity is a new series which
aims to foster interdisciplinary research that broadens our
understanding of past beliefs about the body and its care.
The intention of the series is to use evidence drawn from
diverse sources (textual, archaeological, epigraphic) in
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practices and beliefs of the ancient Mediterranean. The series
approaches medical history from a broad thematic perspective
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range of disciplines outside ancient history and archaeology
such as art history, religious studies, medicine, the natural
sciences and music. The series will also aim to bring research
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The first book of its kind, Marlowes Ovid explores and
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own dramatic and poetic works. Stapleton carefully
considers Marlowes Elegies in the context of his
seven known dramatic works and his epyllion, Hero
and Leander, and offers a different way to read Marlowe.
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Manure Matters
Historical, Archaeological
and Ethnographic Perspectives
This is a topic that richly deserves detailed consideration
of this sort since it is relevant to all agrarian regimens, and
is a rich subject for comparative work. As the authors show,
unlike many aspects of agrarian history manuring practices
leave archaeological, documentary, and literary evidence. It
will be a valuable source of reference, as well as a stimulus to
archaeologists and historians to think more deeply about this
vital topic.
Richard Britnell, University of Durham, UK
In pre-industrial societies in which the majority of the
population lived directly off the land, few issues were more
important than the maintenance of soil fertility. Manure really
mattered, as without access to biodegradable wastes from
production processes or to synthetic agrochemicals, early
farmers continuously developed strategies aimed at adding
nutritional value to their fields using locally available natural
materials. In this book, international scholars working
on social, cultural, and economic issues relating to past
manure and manuring, use textual, linguistic, archaeological,
scientific and ethnographic evidence as the basis for their
analyses spanning the Neolithic through to the modern
period, with studies from the Middle East, Britain and
Atlantic Europe and India.
Mutations of Hellenism
in Late Antiquity
Polymnia Athanassiadi, University of Athens, Greece
The studies in this volume, which deal with social and

intellectual history, religion and historical methodology,
explore the mutation of an anthropocentric culture into a
theocentric one between the second and the fifth centuries
A.D. Athanassiadi focuses on the processes of osmosis,
interaction and acculturation, which shaped the change
in priorities among the newly created textual communities
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Narbonne and its Territory
in Late Antiquity
Orientations of
Avicennas Philosophy
From the Visigoths to the Arabs
Essays on his Life, Method, Heritage
Frank Riess, Birkbeck College, London, UK
Dimitri Gutas, Yale University, USA
Riess monograph exhibits the virtues of a regionalist

approach while, at the same time, persuasively arguing for
Narbonnes relevance to the greater political, military, and
diplomatic affairs of the post-Roman Mediterranean world.
This work centres on the post-Roman period of Narbonne
and its territory, up to its capture by the Arabs in 720,
encompassing not only recent archaeological findings
but also perspectives of French, Spanish and Catalan
historiography that have fashioned distinct national narratives.
Seeking to remove Narbonne from any subsequent birth of
France, Catalonia and Spain, the book presents a geopolitical
region that took shape from the late fifth century, evolving
towards the end of the eighth century into an autonomous
province of the nascent Carolingian Empire.
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The One-Sex Body on Trial:
The Classical and Early
Modern Evidence
Helen King, Open University, UK
THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE IN CONTEXT
Elegantly argued and endlessly fascinating, King has

marshalled an impressive range of material to show that
the two-sex body is not a modern phenomenon. Two-sex
and one-sex ways of thinking about the body have existed
alongside one another since antiquity, and the choice about
which model to privilege depended on the rhetorical needs
of individual authors.
By far the most influential work on the history of the body,
across a wide range of academic disciplines, remains that
of Thomas Laqueur. This book puts on trial the one-sex/
two-sex model of Laqueurs Making Sex: Body and Gender
from the Greeks to Freud through a detailed exploration of
the ways in which two classical stories of sexual difference
were told, retold and remade from the mid-sixteenth to the
nineteenth century.
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Archaeological Approaches to Movement

and Mobility
Edited by Jim Leary, University of Reading, UK
This volume, a major new research tool, brings together

seventeen studies on Avicenna by Dimitri Gutas, written
over the past twenty-five years. They aim to establish
Avicennas historical and philosophical context as a means
to determining his philosophical project and the orientations
of his thought. They deal with his life and works, his method,
his epistemology, and his later reception in the Islamic world,
ending with an essay on the state of the field of Avicennan
studies and future agenda.
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Ovidian Bibliofictions
and the Tudor Book
Metamorphosing Classical Heroines in
Late Medieval and Renaissance England
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Lindsay Ann Reid, National University of Ireland, Galway

MATERIAL READINGS IN EARLY MODERN CULTURE
Focusing on the postclassical discourses that Ovids poetry

stimulated, this study explores how Ovids English protgs
including Isabella Whitney, William Shakespeare and Michael
Drayton replicated and expanded upon the Roman poets
distinctive and frequently remarked bookishness in their own
adaptations of his works. Reid analyzes how Ovidian-inspired
mythologies and bibliographical aetiologies informed the
sixteenth-century creation, reproduction, and representation
of books, and provides alternative models for thinking about
the dynamics of reception, adaptation, and imitatio.
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The strength of this volume is the effort of the authors

to integrate the theoretical reflections on movement of
Martin Heidegger, Tim Ingold, Chris Tilley and Ian Hodder
with archaeological data from the Old World, Iceland, and
Australia. This makes it a valuable contribution to the
growing discussion on the significance of mobility in
the past, present and future of humanity.
Hans Barnard, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, USA
The new mobilities paradigm has yet to have the same
impact on archaeology as it has in other disciplines in the
social sciences on geography, sociology and anthropology
in particular yet mobility is fundamental to archaeology: all
people move. Moving away from archaeologys traditional
focus upon place or location, this volume treats mobility as a
central theme in archaeology. The chapters are wide-ranging
and methodological as well as theoretical, focusing on the
flows of people, ideas, objects and information in the past;
they also focus on archaeologys distinctiveness.
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Perception, Conscience and Will

in Ancient Philosophy
Richard Sorabji, University of Oxford, UK
This is a most welcome and significant addition to the

Variorum Collected Studies series. ... we are treated here
to a feast of insightful reflections on all of these topics,
many of the discussions being retractations of others,
to make up a dynamic whole.
Richard Sorabji here presents a selection of his previouslypublished papers on four topics in ancient philosophy: two
on the mind-body relation, nine on sense perception, and one
each on moral conscience and on the will. The substantial
introduction updates and interconnects the papers and fills
out the picture by reference to other writings by himself and
others, and to further thoughts. The picture of the four main
topics shows that each continued to develop throughout the
1200 year course of Ancient Greek Philosophy up to 600 CE.
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Perspectives on Public Space
in Rome, from Antiquity to the
Present Day
Edited by Gregory Smith and Jan Gadeyne, Visiting
Critics at Cornell University College of Architecture,
Art and Planning, Rome Program
This volume contains a wealth of information some of
the essays are bound to become set reading for students,
scholars, and anyone wanting to understand how Rome
evolved from classical monument to medieval maze and
back again.
Urban History
Divided into five chronological sections (Antiquity, Middle
Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Modern and Contemporary)
this volume provides readers interested in urban history
with a collection of essays on the evolution of public space
in that paradigmatic western city which is Rome. Scholars
specialized in different historical periods contributed
chapters, in order to find common themes which weave
their way through one of the most complex urban histories
of western civilization. Through this long-term chronological
approach the volume offers a truly unique insight into the
urban development of one of Europes most important cities.
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Gerd Van Riel, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Studies on the Imperial Monuments

at Mrida and Tarragona
Van Riels thought-provoking book is a pleasure to read. His

grasp of over a century of scholarship impressive, yet it does
not obstruct the argument, which is always admirably clear.
His discussions of Platos well-known texts are intelligent
and nuanced, and often have an unexpected twist. Most
importantly, it gives a new and powerful impetus to the
important debate about Platos god or, as Van Riel has
convinced me, gods.
This book presents a comprehensive study into Platos

theological doctrines, offering an important re-valuation
of the status of Platos gods and the relation between
metaphysics and theology according to Plato. Starting from
an examination of Platos views of religion and the relation
between religion and morality, Gerd Van Riel investigates
Platos innovative ways of speaking about the gods. This
book is invaluable to readers interested in philosophical
theology and intellectual history.
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The Platonic Heritage

Further Studies in the History of Platonism
and Early Christianity
Philosophy and Religion in Neoplatonism

Andrew Smith, University College Dublin, Ireland
John Dillon, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
Analyzing the complex thought of these three ancient authors

requires careful scholarship, which Smith is uniquely qualified
to offer. Even so, suggesting the purchase of such a collection
requires a defense in our increasingly digital age. However,
not every library has electronic access to every lesser known
journal, and certainly not to chapters in edited volumes. Even
researchers with privileges at a world-class research library
will appreciate having such distilled riches at their fingertips
in one volume.
Religious Studies Review
Religious Studies Review

In this third collection of articles by John Dillon, the subjects
covered range from Plato himself and the Old Academy,
through Philo and Middle Platonism, to the Neoplatonists
and beyond. Individual topics include atomism in the
Old Academy, Philos concept of immateriality, Plutarchs
and Julians views on theology, and peculiar features of
Iamblichus exegeses of Plato and Aristotle, but also the
broader questions of the social position of the philosopher
in second century A.D. society, and the nature of ancient
biography.
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These essays are devoted to Neoplatonism and especially to

Plotinus and Porphyry. They deal with Plotinus development
of the Platonic Forms, and include a lengthy assessment
of Porphyrys contribution to the Platonic tradition. Topics
covered include the importance of practical ethical activity,
Plotinus speculations on time and eternity as well as
his observations on human consciousness. A closer
examination of the role of religion, magic and myth in
the life of the philosopher reveals a much richer and more
nuanced appreciation of their importance and highlights
the contribution of Iamblichus.
January 2012
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The studies included in this volume focus on the monuments

of two cities in Roman Spain, Emerita (now Mrida) and
Tarraco (now Tarragona). Duncan Fishwick provides
historiographic surveys of the monuments before discussing
the architectonic significance of the provincial forum at
Emerita, the influence of the provincial governor in its
construction, and the evidence for an Ara Providentiae and a
templum minus. He investigates the discovery of the Temple
of Augustus in Tarragona and turns his attention to present
opinion on the successive stages of construction and design.
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Questions of Gender
in Byzantine Society
Edited by Bronwen Neil, Australian Catholic
University, Australia and Lynda Garland, University
of New England, Australia
Plotinus, Porphyry
and Iamblichus
Dillon, long-time professor at Trinity College Dublin, has been

a leading authority on Platonism since the publication of his
The Middle Platonists (1977). This volume reflects the
depth derived from a life immersed in the study of this field.
For all but those with access to the finest research libraries,
this should be compelling, but even for many of those, having
a decade of Dillon ready to hand will be worth the price.
Precinct, Temple and

Altar in Roman Spain
ASHGATE STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHICAL

THEOLOGY
Platos Gods
Gender was a key social indicator in Byzantine society,

as in many others. While studies of gender in the western
medieval period have appeared regularly in the past decade,
similar studies of Byzantium have lagged behind. Masculine
and feminine roles were not always as clearly defined as
in the West, while eunuchs made up a third gender in the
imperial court. The present collection of essays uncovers
gender roles in the imperial family, in monastic institutions
of both genders, in the Orthodox Church, and in the nascent
cult of Mary in the East. It puts the spotlight on flashpoints
over a millennium of Byzantine rule, from Constantine
the Great to Irene and the Palaiologoi, and covers a wide
geographical range, from Byzantine Italy to Syria.
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Reason, Faith and Otherness
in Neoplatonic and Early
Christian Thought
Kevin Corrigan, Emory University, USA
This book brings together a selection of Kevin Corrigans

works published over the course of some 27 years. Its
predominant theme is the encounter with otherness in
ancient, medieval and modern thought and it ranges in scope
from the Presocratics, through Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus and
the late ancient period, on the one hand, and early Christian
thought, especially Gregory of Nyssa, Augustine and, much
later, Aquinas, on the other. Among the key questions
examined are the relation between faith and reason; the
nature of creation and insight, being and existence and the
problem of evil (particularly here in Dostoevskys adaptation
of a Platonic perspective).
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Roman Antiquities in
Renaissance France, 151565
The Sasanian World through

Georgian Eyes
Richard Cooper, University of Oxford, UK
Caucasia and the Iranian Commonwealth

in Late Antique Georgian Literature
Making use of new and original material based on first-hand

sources, this book interrogates the vogue for collecting,
discussing, depicting and putting to political and cultural use
Roman antiquities in the French Renaissance. It surveys a
range of activity from the labours of collectors and patrons to
royal entries, considers attacks on the craze for the antique,
and sets literary instances among a much wider spectrum
of artistic endeavour.
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Edited by Richard Brilliant, Columbia University,

USA and Dale Kinney, Bryn Mawr College, USA
Brilliant and Kinney, as indefatigable pioneers in the field of
spolia-studies, have inspired many colleagues to think and
rethink their positions and notions; this collection of essays
attests to that inspiration. As with many such volumes this
book does not present one theme or one line of thought
which other scholars can use, but the chapters are showcases
for specific problems, inducing the reader to apply various
approaches in their own field of research. On top of that the
book is well-sized, with b&w illustrations of good quality.
Reviews in History
This book offers a range of views on spolia and appropriation
in art and architecture from fourth-century Rome to the
late twentieth century. Using case studies from different
historical moments and cultures, contributors test the limits
of spolia as a critical category and seek to define its specific
character in relation to other forms of artistic appropriation.
Several authors explore the ethical issues raised by
spoliation and their implications for the evaluation
and interpretation of new work made with spolia.
Georgian literary sources for Late Antiquity are commonly

held to be later productions devoid of historical value. As
a result, scholarship outside the Republic of Georgia has
privileged Graeco-Roman and even Armenian narratives.
However, when investigated within the dual contexts of
a regional literary canon and the active participation of
Caucasias diverse peoples in the Iranian Commonwealth,
early Georgian texts emerge as rich repositories of late
antique attitudes and outlooks.
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Intestinal Parasites in
Past Populations
Edited by Piers D. Mitchell, University of Cambridge, UK
Spolia and Appropriation in Art and

Architecture from Constantine to
Sherrie Levine
Stephen H. Rapp Jr., Sam Houston State University, USA
This book brings together experts from around the world

to explore how sanitation affected our ancestors. By its
end, readers will realise that toilets were in use in ancient
Mesopotamia even before the invention of writing, and that
flushing toilets with anatomic seats were a technology of
ancient Greece at the time of the minotaur myth. While past
views on sanitation were different to those of today, it is clear
than many societies took sanitation far more seriously than
previously thought.
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Settlement and Soldiers

in the Roman Near East
David Kennedy, University of Western Australia
the quality of the papers is excellent, and all of them

are well worth reprinting and re-reading. this volume
is invaluable and strongly recommended.
This collection of studies on the Roman Near East
represents Professor Kennedys academic assessment
of the region, which began with his doctoral thesis on
the contribution of Syria to the Roman army. Although
the thesis was never published, several articles owe their
genesis to work done then or soon after and are included
here (VI, VII, IX, XII). The two prominent sub-themes in
this collection are the Roman military and various aspects
of society and settlement settlement types, farming,
logistical underpinning and communications.
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Shakespeares Erotic Mythology
and Ovidian Renaissance Culture
Edited by Agns Lafont, Universit Paul Valery
Montpellier III, France
This collection of essays adds much to our knowledge
of the many ways in which Ovid, the sexiest poet of late
Antiquity, influenced Shakespeare, the sexiest poet of the
late sixteenth century. One would like to think that this
timely and important volume consisting of essays that are
all of equal strength could encourage further research in the
creative appropriation of Ovid in England through continental
routes of influence, especially with a critical eye on how Ovid
shaped fictions and languages of sexuality, and how crucial
the impact of his writing was on the expanding notions of
the body in early modernity.
CATHIERS
Taking cross-disciplinary and comparative approaches
to the volumes subject, this exciting collection of essays
offers a reassessment of Shakespeares erotic and Ovidian
mythology within classical and continental aesthetic
contexts. Through extensive examination of mythological
visual and textual material, scholars explore the transmission
and reinvention of Ovidian eroticism in Shakespeares plays
to show how early modern artists and audiences collectively
engaged in redefining ways of thinking pleasure.
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Shifting Cultural Frontiers

in Late Antiquity
Edited by David Brakke and Deborah M. Deliyannis,
both at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA and
Edward Watts, University of California, San Diego, USA
The editors have produced a very fine resource with this
volume. It covers many thematic and geographical aspects
of late-antique culture, which makes for a pleasing variety
Classical Review
Shifting Cultural Frontiers in Late Antiquity explores the
transformation of classical culture in late antiquity by
studying cultures at the borders of empires, of social
classes, of public and private spaces, of literary genres, of
linguistic communities, and of the modern disciplines that
study antiquity. Although canonical figures of late ancient
studies appear in its pages, by looking away from the core
and toward the periphery, whether spatially or intellectually,
the volume offers fresh insights into how ancient patterns of
thinking and creating became reconfigured into the diverse
cultures of the medieval.
Shifting Genres in Late Antiquity
Studies on Plotinus and al-Kindi
Edited by Geoffrey Greatrex, University of Ottawa,

Canada and Hugh Elton, Trent University, Canada,
with the assistance of Lucas McMahon, Canada
Peter Adamson, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitt,

Germany
This volume examines the transformation that took place in

a wide range of genres in Late Antiquity. Aspects of sacred
and secular literature are discussed, alongside chapters
on technical writing, monody, epigraphy, epistolography
and visual representation. What emerges is the flexibility of
genres in the period: late antique authors were not slavish
followers of their classical predecessors, but were capable
of engaging with existing models and adapting them to
their own purposes.
The Social War, 91 to 88 BCE
This book collects papers on the greatest philosopher of

late antiquity and founder of Neoplatonism, Plotinus (d.270),
and the founding figure of philosophy in the Islamic world:
al-Kindi (d. ca. 873). A number of the contributions focus
on the text that joins the two: the Theology of Aristotle,
in fact an Arabic version of Plotinus Enneads produced
in al- Kindis translation circle. Adamson argues that this
translation is best understood as a reinterpretation of
Plotinus designed to appeal to contemporary readers in the
culture of the Abbasid era. Other papers look at al-Kindis
thought, exploring his ideas concerning metaphysics, free
will, astrology, and optics. The traditions of Plotinus and
al-Kindi are also treated, with papers on Plotinus student
Porphyry and his Arabic reception, and on followers of
al-Kindi. Adamson argues that we can identify a Kindian
tradition in the 9th10th centuries. He discusses the
philosophical presuppositions of this movement, and
the use of al-Kindis ideas made by one representative
of the Kindian tradition, the Persian thinker Miskawayh.
A History of the Italian Insurgency

against the Roman Republic
January 2015
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Christopher J. Dart, University of Melbourne, Australia

January 2015
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Ancient sources preserve scant information about the

conflict, but the Social War is widely recognised as having
been immensely important in the unification of Roman Italy.
In response to the conflicting accounts and contradictory
interpretations of modern scholarship, this book provides a
new, comprehensive reassessment of the events surrounding
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Studies on the Melitian

Schism in Egypt (AD 306335)
Hans Hauben, University of Leuven, Belgium, edited
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ric Rebillard, Cornell University, USA
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Index
A
Adamson, Peter..............................................................10
Addey, Crystal...................................................................3
Approaches to the Byzantine Family..............................2
Arianism: Roman Heresy and Barbarian Creed.............2
Arsdall, Anne Van.............................................................5
Articulation of Early Islamic State Structures, The.......4
Athanassiadi, Polymnia...................................................6
Augenti, Andrea..............................................................11
Hauben, Hans.................................................................10
Herbs and Healers from the Ancient Mediterranean
through the Medieval West...........................................5
Questions of Gender in Byzantine Society.....................8
B
Baker, Patricia...................................................................6
Batten, Alicia J..................................................................5
Berndt, Guido M...............................................................2
Beynon, David...................................................................4
Bishop of Rome in Late Antiquity, The...........................2
Brakke, David..................................................................10
Brilliant, Richard..............................................................9
Brubaker, Leslie................................................................2
C
Cameron, Averil................................................................4
Children and Asceticism in Late Antiquity.....................2
Christians, Gnostics and Philosophers in Late
Antiquity..........................................................................2
Christie, Neil...................................................................11
Communal Identity and Self-Portrayal in the Worlds
of Eastern Christianity, 3001500.................................2
Conrad, Lawrence I..........................................................4
Cooper, Richard................................................................9
Corrigan, Kevin.................................................................9
Cult Places and Cult Personnel in the Roman Empire...2
Cult, Ritual, Divinity and Belief in the Roman World....2
D
Daniel-Hughes, Carly.......................................................5
Dart, Christopher J.........................................................10
Datta, Sambit....................................................................4
Deliyannis, Deborah M................................................ 10
Digital Archetypes.............................................................4
Dillon, John.......................................................................8
Divination and Theurgy in Neoplatonism......................3
Donner, Fred M..................................................................4
Dreams, Healing, and Medicine in Greece.....................4
Dressing Judeans and Christians in Antiquity.............5
Dunn, Geoffrey D..............................................................2
Iconoclasm from Antiquity to Modernity.......................5

Icons in Time, Persons in Eternity..................................6
Image, Word and God in the Early Christian Centuries....3
Impotency Poem from Ancient Latin to Restoration
English Literature, The..................................................6
Individuality in Late Antiquity..........................................3
J
Jones, Richard..................................................................6
K
Kennedy, David.................................................................9
King, Helen........................................................................7
Kinney, Dale......................................................................9
Kolrud, Kristine.................................................................5
L
Lafont, Agns..................................................................10
Late Antiquity on the Eve of Islam..................................4
Lavery, Hannah.................................................................6
Leary, Jim...........................................................................7
M
Magny, Ariane...................................................................3
Manure Matters.................................................................6
Marlowes Ovid..................................................................6
McMahon, Lucas............................................................10
Mitchell, Piers D...............................................................9
Mutations of Hellenism in Late Antiquity......................6
N
Narbonne and its Territory in Late Antiquity..................7
Neil, Bronwen...................................................................8
Nuffelen, Peter Van........................................................10
Education and Learning in the Early Islamic World.......4

Edwards, Mark..............................................................2, 3
Elton, Hugh......................................................................10
Exegesis and Theology in Early Christianity..................5
Oberhelman, Steven M....................................................4

One-Sex Body on Trial: The Classical and Early
Modern Evidence............................................................7
Orientations of Avicennas Philosophy..........................7
Ovidian Bibliofictions and the Tudor Book.....................7
F
Fishwick, Duncan.........................................................2, 8
G
Gadeyne, Jan.....................................................................8
Gantner, Clemens...........................................................11
Garland, Lynda..................................................................8
Gerber, Chad Tyler............................................................3
Gilliot, Claude...................................................................4
Graham, Timothy..............................................................5
Greatrex, Geoffrey...........................................................10
Gutas, Dimitri....................................................................7
12
P
Past Mobilities...................................................................7
Payne, Richard................................................................11
Perception, Conscience and Will in Ancient
Philosophy......................................................................7
Perspectives on Public Space in Rome,
from Antiquity to the Present Day...............................8
Platonic Heritage, The......................................................8
Platos Gods.......................................................................8
Plotinus, Porphyry and Iamblichus.................................8
Pohl, Walter.....................................................................11
Porphyry in Fragments.....................................................3
Precinct, Temple and Altar in Roman Spain...................8
Prusac, Marina..................................................................5
R
Rapp, Jr., Stephen H........................................................9
Reason, Faith and Otherness in Neoplatonic and
Early Christian Thought................................................9
Rebillard, ric..................................................................11
Reuse Value........................................................................9
Riel, Gerd Van...................................................................8
Riess, Frank.......................................................................7
Roggema, Barbara...........................................................2
Roman Antiquities in Renaissance France, 151565.....9
S
Sanitation, Latrines and Intestinal Parasites in
Past Populations............................................................9
Sasanian World through Georgian Eyes, The.................9
Settlement and Soldiers in the Roman Near East.........9
Shakespeares Erotic Mythology and Ovidian
Renaissance Culture....................................................10
Shifting Cultural Frontiers in Late Antiquity................10
Shifting Genres in Late Antiquity..................................10
Smith, Andrew..................................................................8
Smith, Gregory..................................................................8
Social War, 91 to 88 BCE, The.........................................10
Sorabji, Richard................................................................7
Spirit of Augustines Early Theology, The.......................3
Squire, Michael.................................................................5
Stapleton, M.L...................................................................6
Steinacher, Roland...........................................................2
Studies on Plotinus and al-Kindi...................................10
Studies on the Melitian Schism in Egypt (AD 306335)...10
T
Torrance, Alexis................................................................3
Tougher, Shaun.................................................................2
Transformations of Religious Practices in Late
Antiquity........................................................................11
Truthfulness, Realism, Historicity.................................11
Tsakiridou, Cornelia A......................................................6
Turner, Peter....................................................................11
U
Upson-Saia, Kristi............................................................5
V
Visions of Community in the Post-Roman World........11
Vrbes Extinctae................................................................11
Vuolanto, Ville...................................................................2
W
Watts, Edward.................................................................10
Y
Young, Frances..................................................................5
Z
Zachhuber, Johannes.......................................................3
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