Presents a coherent model for understanding historical examples in Ancient Rome and their rhetorical, moral and historiographical functions.

A study of identity and social change in the Roman empire and the relationship of this knowledge to understanding of the contemporary world.

"The well-known mythographer Marina Warner has described the process of reading fairy tales and folktales as 'tasting the dragon's blood' - a magical and transf

This volume focuses on the interface between tradition and the shifting configuration of power structures in the Roman Empire. By examining various time periods

Water played an important part of ancient Roman life, from providing necessary drinking water, supplying bath complexes, to flowing in large-scale public founta