Roman Monogamy
Mating in Rome was polygynous; marriage was monogamous.
The City of Corinth and Urbanism in Late Antique Greece
This dissertation is a history of the city of Corinth in Late Antiquity, an examination of urban life between the third and sixth centuries after Christ.
Integrating Late Roman Cities, Countryside and Trade
What this paper proposes are two models of two different economic aspects of the late imperial period which are generated from an analysis of the same socio-economic background factors.
Making late Roman taxpayers pay: imperial government strategies and practice
Means of enforcement constitute only one factor of a model for late Roman tax collection and this concern with enforcement, in turn, cannot be sepa- rated from the peculiar Roman notions of fiscal justice.
Building materials and techniques in the Eastern Mediterranean from the Hellenistic period to the fourth century AD
This thesis deals primarily with the materials and techniques found in the Eastern Empire up to the 4th century AD, putting them into their proper historical and developmental context. The first chapter examines the development of architecture in general from the very earliest times until the beginning of the Roman Empire, with particular attention to the architecture in Roman Italy.
Kapeleion: casual and commercial wine consumption in classical Greece
The symposion is consistently referred to as the framework around which all studies of Classical Greek drinking are built, regardless of a body of archaeological and literary evidence to suggest that this type of drinking was enjoyed primarily by a small minority of the elite male, and perhaps predominantly Athenian, population (although various forms of ritualised drinking were widespread throughout the Greek world).
Roman Pisidia: a study of development and change
The first part of this thesis is concerned with the assimilation of Pisidia into the Roman Empire, reviewed against a background of general expansion and development…The second part of the thesis is concerned with aspects of later Antiquity, beginning with the archaeological evidence for Christianity in Pisidia.
Sexual virtue on display I: the cults of pudicitia and honours for women
This book begins with a chapter about pudicitia as publicly celebrated and rewarded in Roman society. A striking aspect of pudicitia was its association with public and visual display by married women to rhe community, both through their appearance and demeanour and through their cultivation of pudicitia as a goddess.
Contacts and trade at Late Bronze Age Hazor: aspects of intercultural relationships and identity in the Eastern Mediterranean
The city of Hazor appears to have been one of the largest in Canaan in the Late Bronze Age, yet no real attempt to trace the source of its affluence has been made. No city can prosper in isolation; hence intercultural relationships are of greatest importance for a city’s development.
Space Organization and Representation of Chinese Etiquette Culture in the Ancient Pingyao City
The organization and layout of the ancient Pingyao city are reviewed from the aspect of Chinese etiquette culture.