Reviews
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posted with permission: Editor’s Note: This is a revised version of a review that originally appeared in CJ-Online last May. See the author’s note 1 for the differences between the two versions. Roman Urban Street Networks: Streets and the Organization of Space in Four Cities. By Alan Kaiser. Routledge Studies in Archaeology, 2. New York…
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Andrew Erskine. Roman Imperialism. Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press, 2010. xxiv + 208 pp. $115.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7486-1962-7; $37.50 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7486-1963-4. Reviewed by Jack Wells (Emory and Henry College) Published on H-War (December, 2012) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey Andrew Erskine’s _Roman Imperialism_ provides an overview of how and why the city-state of Rome conquered the…
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2012.12.26: B. H. McLean, New Testament Greek: an Introduction. 2012.12.25: Stefanie Samida, Heinrich Schliemann. UTB Profile 2012.12.24: Candida R. Moss, Ancient Christian Martyrdom: Diverse Practices, Theologies, and Traditions. Anchor Yale Bible reference library. 2012.12.23: Pamela Gordon, The Invention and Gendering of Epicurus. 2012.12.22: Eleni Fournaraki, Zinon Papakonstantinou, Sport, Bodily Culture and Classical Antiquity in Modern…
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posted with permission: Friendship and Empire: Roman Diplomacy and Imperialism in the Middle Republic (353–146 BC). By Paul J. Burton. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xi + 393. Hardcover, £65.00/$110.00. ISBN 978-0-521-19000-8. Reviewed by Nathan Rosenstein, The Ohio State University William Harris’ War and Imperialism in Republican Rome (1979) followed shortly…
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posted with permission: Review–Discussion: Alexander’s Diadochs and their Destructive Wars Dividing the Spoils: the War for Alexander the Great’s Empire. By Robin Waterfield. Ancient Warfare and Civilization. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. xv + 273. £18.99/$27.95. ISBN 978-0-19-957392-9 (UK); 978-0-19-539523-5 (US). Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great…
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