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List of figuresList of contributorsForeword: What is This History to Be?, Brent D. ShawAcknowledgements, Cyril Courrier and Julio Cesar Magalhães de OliveiraAbbreviationsIntroduction1.Ancient history from below: an introduction, Julio Cesar Magalhães de Oliveira and Cyril CourrierPart 1: Who is below? Subaltern conditions, languages and communities2.Subaltern community formation in antiquity: some methodological reflections, Kostas Vlassopoulos3.Southern Gaul from below: the limits and possibilities of epigraphic documentation, Cyril Courrier and Nicolas TranPart 2: Experiences of poverty, dependency and work 4.Poverty, debt, and dependent labour in the ancient Greek world: thinking through some issues in doing ancient history from below, Claire Taylor5.Destitute, homeless and (almost) invisible: urban poverty and the rental market in the Roman world, Cristina Rosillo-López 6.Roman agriculture from above and below: words and things, Kim BowesPart 3: Gender, ethnicity and subalternity7.Hellenicity from below: subalternity and ethnicity in classical Greece and beyond, Gabriel Zuchtriegel8.Subaltern masculinities: Pompeian graffiti and excluded memories in the early Principate, Renata Senna GarraffoniPart 4: Politics from below: subaltern agency and collective action9.Metics, slaves and citizens in classical Athens: rethinking the polis from below, Fábio Augusto Morales 10.What is below? The case of the Athenian riot of 508/7 BC, Alex Gottesman11.Slave agency in Livy's history of Rome: between rebellion and counterconspiracy, Fábio Duarte Joly 12.The crowd in late antiquity: problems and possibilities of an inquiry, Julio Cesar Magalhães de OliveiraEpilogueAgency, past, present and future, Pedro Paulo A. Funari Index

"The first volume of its kind in the field of comparative ancient legal history. Written in an accessible and clear-cut style by a collaborative team of world-renowned scholars, it provides general and specialist audiences with a fresh, original, framework for exploring key themes and concepts in ancient law and history"--

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- PART ONE Introduction -- 1 Levels of Greek and Roman Literacy -- 2 The Functions of Literacy in the Graeco-Roman World -- PART TWO The Literacy and Illiteracy of the Greeks -- 3 The Spread of Literacy in Archaic Times -- 4 The Classical Growth of Literacy and Its Limits -- 5 The Hellenistic State and Elementary Education -- PART THREE Literacy and Illiteracy in the Roman World -- 6 Archaic Italy and the Middle Republic -- 7 The Late Republic and the High Empire, 100 B.C.-250 A.D. -- 8 Literacy in Late Antiquity -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index

"The first volume of its kind in the field of comparative ancient legal history. Written in an accessible and clear-cut style by a collaborative team of world-renowned scholars, it provides general and specialist audiences with a fresh, original, framework for exploring key themes and concepts in ancient law and history"--

"Introduces historians of pre-modern periods to a powerful, probability-based approach to uncertainty, drawing on techniques widely used in the social and natural sciences. Showcases how these practices can be applied to a wide range of problems in ancient history, whilst a substantial introduction explains the method"--

New York Times best-selling author Leland Gregory is one of Andrews McMeel Publishing's most successful noncartoon humorists. Silly, shocking, weird, hilariously funny--and outrageously true--the short anecdotes inside his anthologies of human stupidity are culled from print, online, and broadcast media from all over the world. Inside Stupid Ancient History, Gregory chronicles Greek philosophers, Roman conquerors, and historic mythconceptions, including: -- To fight off Roman ships in 300 BC, Carthaginians catapulted live snakes at them. -- The Athenian lawmaker Draco died of suffocation when gifts of cloaks were showered upon him by grateful citizens at an Aegina theater in 620 BC. -- In ancient Rome, long before the advent of the Christian Bible, Roman men swore to "tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth" by placing their right hand on their testicles. It is from this ritual that we derived the term "testimony." -- Of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, The Temple of Artemis in Ephesus burned to the ground in 356 BC. The arsonist was executed; and to make sure his wish for everlasting fame wouldn't come true, it was ordered that his name be stricken from all records and never mentioned again. But people will talk. Despite all efforts, his name leaked, and Herostratus is remembered as one of the most notorious firebugs in history.

The preamble to the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide recognizes that at all periods of history genocide has inflicted great losses on humanity . Studies of the phenomenon of genocide have, however, tended to concentrate on the modern world. The original contributions in this volume turn the focus to the question of genocide and mass violence in the ancient world, with a particular emphasis on the worlds of Greece, Rome and the Near East. This volume presents a range of views on the challenges of applying the modern concept of genocide to an ancient context. It also considers the causes, motivations, and justifications of ancient mass violence, as well as contemporary responses to, and critiques of, such violence, along with how mass violence was represented and remembered in ancient literature and iconography. In addition, chapters analyse what drove the perpetrators of mass violence, and the processes of victimization, as well as the consequences of mass violence and ravaging warfare, including in particular mass enslavement and sexual violence

A collection of miscellaneous pamphlets. ; Aschbach, J. Die Anicier und die romische dichterin Proba . 1870. -- Gude, H. A history of Olynthus . 1933. -- Haderli, R. Die hellenischen astynomen und agoranomen vornehmlich im alten Athen . 1886. -- Jordan, H. (Henrici Iordani) De vicis vrbia Romae commentation . 1865. -- Jordan, H. Osservezioni sul tempio di Giove Capitolino . 1876. -- Lange, L. Uber zahl uad amtsgewalt der consulartribunen . 1856. -- McDonald, W. F. Ambitua; a history of political corruption in the Roman republic . [1929] -- Michaelis, A. T. F. Osservezioni fatte in alcune isole dell'Arcipelago da A. Hichaelis . 1864. -- O'Connor, C. J. . The Graecostasia of the Roman forum and its vicinity . 1904. -- Richardson, B. E. Old age among the ancient Greeks . 1933. -- Robinson, D. M. Ancient Sinope . 1906. -- Welcker, F. G. Pnyx oder Pelaegikon? . 1854. -- Wheeler, J. R. [Coronelli's mapa of Athena . 1896. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; 2

A collection of miscellaneous pamphlets. ; Barker, A. W. A classification of the chitons worn by Greek women as shown in works of art . 1923. -- Harcum, C. G. Roman cooks . 1914. -- Haywood, R. M. Studies on Scipio Africanus . 1933. -- Peeks, M. B. . The general civil and military administration of Noricum and Raetia . 1907. -- Vries, M. de Pallake . 1927. -- Wilson, L. M. . The Roman toga . 1924. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; 2

In this review of Andrew Drummond's The Dreadful History and Judgement of God on Thomas Müntzer (Verso Books, 2024), Paul Buhle explores how the influence of this Christian priest reverberated throughout the centuries, inspiring generations of future revolutionaries—including Karl Marx himself.

A collection of miscellaneous pamphlets. ; Brandt, L. R. Social aspects of Greek life in the sixth century B.C. . 1921. -- Brewster, E. H. Roman craftsmen and tradesmen of the early Empire . 1317. -- Gorman, Sister M. E. The nurse in Greek life . 1917. -- Smith, E. M. Naukratis . 1926. --Smith, F. D. Athenian political commissions .C1921 ; Mode of access: Internet. ; 2

A collection of miscellaneous pamphlets. ; Ahrens, H. L. De Athenarum statu politico et literario inde abAchaici foederis interitu usque ad Antoninorum tempora . 1829. -- Cauer, F. Parteien und politiker in Megara und Athen. Studien zur gescaichte griechenlands im zeitalter der tyrannis . 1890. -- Dareste de la Chavanne, R. De forma et conditione Siciliae provinciae Romanae disseruit R. Dareste . 1850. -- Fisch, K. Die sociale frage im alten Rom bis zum untergang der republic. Oeffentlicher vortrag, gehalten . 1882. -- Forchammer, P. W. Mykena und der ursprung der Mykenischen funde .1880. --Freund, W. . Wanderungen auf klassischem boden. Zur einfuh rung in die kulturgeschichte der griechen und romer . 1889 --Hoffmann, E. Patricische und plebeische curien. Ein beitrag zum romischen staatsrechte . 1879. -- Preuner, A. Ueber das Palatium insbesondere als residenz der romischen konige und kaiser . 1875. -- Reber, F. Die lage der Curia Hostilia und der Curia, Julia. Habilitationsschrift . 1858. -- Saallfeld, G. A.E.A. Italograeca. Kulturgeschichtliche studien auf sprachwissenschaftlicher grundlage gewonnen . 1882. --Schilllbach, R. Zwei reisebiler aus Arkadien . 1865. -- Stumpf, P. De Nesiotarum republica, commentatio quam ad sollemnia anniverseria Gymnasii regii Maximilianei celebranda . 1881. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; 2

This collection of essays explores the lives and roles of women in antiquity. A recurring theme is the relationship between private and public, and many of the essays find that women's public roles developed as a result of their private lives, specifically their family relationships. Despite the public lives that some upper-class Greek and Roman women led, they maintained their female identity and respectability. Moreover, the role of women, even of those active in the public sphere, generally remained complementary to that of men. Essays on Hellenistic queens and Spartan and Roman women document how women exerted political power and show how political upheaval created opportunities for them to exercise powers previously reserved for men. Essays on the writings of Sappho and Nossis focus on the interaction between women's public and private discourses. The collection also includes discussion of Athenian and Roman marriage and the intrusion of the state into the sexual lives of Greek, Roman, and Jewish women as well as an investigation of scientific opinion about female physiology. -- From publisher's description

This book highlights and explains consistent differences in both the framing and content of the various pre-first millennium BC law collections of Mesopotamia, Egypt and Hatti. The differences between collections are placed in the broader background of the worldview and political make-up of the societies and individuals that created them, and their historical context