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Classical World – Roman Britain 28 Domus Augustana Archäologische und bauhistorische Dokumentationsarbeiten auf dem Palatin in Rom Natascha Sojc (Author) This book is the result of an interdisciplinary research into the foundations, brickwork, brickstamps, architecture, waterworks and room decoration of Domus Augustana, one of the central tracts of the imperial palace on the Palatine in Rome. The project has brought a new chronology and interpretation of room use. 9789088900402, £35.00, <strong>Spring</strong> 2013 PB, 250p, 35 b/w, 100 col illus., Sidestone Press Roman and medieval development south of Cheapside Excavations at Bow Bells House, City of London, 2005–6 Isca Howell (Author) et al. Excavations on the south side of Cheapside found evidence for Roman timber buildings and pits dating to the later 1st and 2nd centuries AD, and a masonry building constructed after c AD 125. The main west–east road through Londinium lay immediately north of the site. Evidence for later Roman occupation was limited by modern truncation. No medieval ground surfaces survive, but the site was reoccupied from the 10th century with at least one substantial building existing by the 13th century. Pit and well groups include late 13th– or early 14th–century vessels associated with the wine trade and early 14th–century kitchenware. 9781907586170, £15.00, June 2013 PB, 120pp, col illus. throughout, Archaeology Studies series 26, Museum of London Archaeology The Iron Age and Roman landscape of Marston Vale, Bedfordshire Investigations along the A421 Improvements, M1 Junction 13 to Bedford Andrew Simmonds(Author) Ken Welsh (Author) A programme of improvements to the A421 south-west of Bedford afforded Oxford Archaeology an opportunity to investigate early settlement along a corridor of the clay landscape of Marston Vale. The majority of the remains uncovered dated from between the middle Iron Age and the late Roman period, and were consistently rural in character, consisting of a series of small farming settlements. The report describes the evolution of settlement within the Vale as evidenced by the changes to settlement forms, landscape organisation, economic strategies and material culture, brought about by the effects of an increasing population and the imposition of Roman rule. 9780904220728, £20.00, February 2013 PB, 330p, 204 illus., 57 tables, OA Monograph 19, Oxford Archaeology A Romano-British Settlement in the Waveney Valley Excavations at Schole, 1993–4 Trevor Ashwin (Editor); Andrew Tester (Editor) The Roman settlement at Scole was located at the point where the main road from Camulodunum to Venta Icenorum crossed the River Waveney. As well as describing settlement morphology and development over an extensive area, this report includes a number of specialist studies of exceptional importance — notably those dealing with a large body of waterlogged Roman structural timber, with the character and context of metalworking within the settlement, and with the environmental sequence recorded in a palaeochannel of the river. Other highlights include an account of a possible maltings complex, and a critical study of the formation of a variety of ‘dark earth’ deposits. £25.00, May 2013 PB, 275p, 204 illus, East Anglian Archaeology
Aeschylus: Suppliant Women A. J. Bowen (Author) Aeschylus’ Suppliant Women begins with a procession of girls, dressed in foreign costume and carrying boughs – tokens of supplication – arriving in Argos. Fugitives from Egypt they are in flight from their cousins, the sons of Aegyptus, who want them as wives and they seek asylum from King Pelasgus. Accepting the girls’ claim to Argive ancestry as decendants of Io, the king perceives that if he grants the petition there will be war. The sighting of an Egyptian fleet leads the girl’s father Danaus to abandon his daughters and go in search of help, leaving the girls to exchange threats and insults with the Egyptians before the king arrives in the nick of time. This vibrant and lyrical new translation of one of the lesser known of Aeschylus’ plays is accompanied a full commentary on the text and substantial introduction. Ancient Greek text with facing-page translation, introduction and commentary. Classical Texts PB, 9781908343345, £19.99, April 2013 HB, 9781908343789, £50.00, April 2013 148 x 210 mm, Classical Texts, Aris & Phillips Euripides: Electra 2nd revised edition M. J. Cropp (Author) King Agamemnon is long dead and his killers rule at Argos. Orestes returns from exile to avenge his father by killing his mother Clytemnestra and her seducer Aegisthus. His vengeance will release his sister Electra from oppression and restore Orestes to his home and kingdom. This is the only episode from Greek legend treated in surviving plays by all three of the great Athenian tragedians of the fifth century B.C. — Aeschylus in his Libation-bearers (part of the Oresteia trilogy), Sophocles and Euripides each in plays named Electra. The three plays provide a unique record of development and divergence in the content and style of Athenian tragic drama. In Euripides’ hands the story becomes a tragedy of all too human emotions and illusions. This edition of Euripides’ play was first published in 1988. The second edition is extensively revised to reflect more recent work on the text of the play and its interpretation. Ancient Greek text with facing-page translation, introduction and commentary. 9781908343697, £18.00, March 2013 PB, Classical Texts, Aris & Phillips Augustine: De Civitate Dei X P. G. Walsh (Author) This edition of St Augustine’s City of God is the only one in English to provide a text and translation as well as a detailed commentary of this most influential document in the history of western Christianity. In these books, written in the aftermath of the sack of Rome in AD 410 by the Goths, Augustine replies to the pagans, who attributed the fall of Rome to the Christian religion and its prohibition of the worship of the pagan gods. Following on from Book IX, this book discusses the issue of demons and their role in Platonism as being partly identical with the lesser gods. Having previously argued that in order to achieve the blessed life, we must worship one true God alone, Augustine’s main concern in this volume is to deliver his message that the sole path to blessedness after death is acknowledgement of the Incarnation and Christ as Mediator. Latin text with facing-page translation, introduction and commentary. PB, 9780856688485, £24.99, June 2013 HB, 9780856688492, £50.00, June 2013 Classical Texts, Aris & Phillips 29
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