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Craft Traditions of the Ancient Mediterranean
Material Culture, Knowledge Networks, and Technological Change
Series: Routledge Studies in Archaeology
This edited volume investigates knowledge networks based on materials and associated technologies in Prehistoric Europe and the Classical Mediterranean. It emphasises the significance of material objects to the construction, maintenance, and collapse of networks of various forms – which are central...
To Be Published September 14th 2013 by Routledge
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Money, Labour and Land
Approaches to the economics of ancient Greece
The cultural wealth of the classical Greek world was matched by its material wealth, and there is abundant textual and archaeological evidence for both. However, radically different theoretical and methodological approaches have been used to interpret this evidence, and conflicts continue to rage...
Published March 19th 2012 by Routledge
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Thinking Men
Masculinity and its Self-Representation in the Classical Tradition
Series: Leicester-Nottingham Studies in Ancient Society
Thinking Men explores artistic and intellectual expression in the classical world as the self representation of man. It starts from the premise that the history of classical antiquity as the ancients tell it is a history of men. However, the focus of this volume is the creation, re-creation and...
Published November 3rd 2011 by Routledge
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When Men Were Men
Masculinity, Power and Identity in Classical Antiquity
Series: Leicester-Nottingham Studies in Ancient Society
When Men Were Men questions the deep-set assumption that men's history speaks and has always spoken for all of us, by exploring the history of classical antiquity as an explicitly masculine story.With a preface by Sarah Pomeroy, this study employs different methodologies and focuses on a broad...
Published January 30th 2011 by Routledge