The circulation of books was the motor of classical civilization. But books were both
expensive and rare, and so libraries-private and public, royal and civic-played key roles in …

This book is a study both of anachronism in antiquity and of anachronism as a vehicle for
understanding antiquity. We have tried to make it accessible to readers outside Classics with …

This book approaches its topic from three angles: diachronic semantics, a panorama of
science and scientific writing in Latin from antiquity up to the present, and linguistic forays …

Isidore of Seville and his Reception in the early Middle Ages Isidore of Seville and his
Reception in the Early Middle Ages Page 2 Late Antique and Early Medieval Iberia …

Roman Domestic Medical Practice in Central Italy examines the roles that the home, the
garden and the members of the household (freeborn, freed and slave) played in the …

Sept. 22nd, 529 has been regarded by some scholars as the symbolic coupure marking the
end of antiquity in the Eastern Roman Empire: 1 the date corresponds to Justinian's closing …

Risk and “the Matter of the Mother” i want to begin with the moment I started working on this
manuscript—during the first months that the pandemic engulfed the United States. Just …

Plutarch's sympotic works are experiments in form: his Table Talk is the earliest extant text to
fuse the Platonic–Xenophontic symposium with encyclopedic content, while his Seven …

El filósofo alquímico “Christianos”(finales del siglo VI [?]–VIII dC) demuestra que el
conocimiento alquímico es un don de Dios y describe las virtudes que un filósofo-alquimista …

The Roman official and intellectual Pliny the Elder's Natural History constitutes our primary
source on the figural arts in Classical antiquity. Since the Middle Ages, Pliny's …