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		Ammianus and the Historia Augusta
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		Sir Ronald Syme
		Oxford University Press 2001 249 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0198143443
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	Forgery or not, the collection of biographies of emperors and usurpers from Hadrian to Numerianus (117 to 284 CE) known as the Historia Augusta has exercised classical scholars for centuries and raises intriguing questions of authorial motive and historiography. Symes brings peerless scholarship in Roman history and prosography to bear on the bogus Historia and the single 'artful impostor' who wrote it, assessing the history in relation to that of Ammianus Marcellinus and other writers such as Jerome and Marius Maximus and identifying contemporary events and people named in the Historia Augusta. (1968)
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		Ptolemaic Alexandria
		(Three volumes)		Sandpiper Editions
		PM Fraser
		Oxford University Press 2001 2133 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0198142781
		Published Price £120.00		Our Price £96.00
	This account of Alexandrian life in the Ptolemaic period remains unsurpassed in the scope of its sources and the depth of detail in which Fraser examines the first 300 years of Alexander the Great's most successful city. Part I provides a framework for the study of Alexandrian cultural achievement and covers topics ranging from the topography of the city and the character of its population to the 'manufactured' religious cult of Serapis. Part II comprises a masterful survey of every branch of Alexandrian scientific and creative writing and, in particular, the poetry of Callimachus. An Epilogue discusses the transition to Roman dominion. [1972]
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		A Study of Cassius Dio
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		Fergus Millar
		Oxford University Press 1999 254 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0198143362
		Published Price £12.99		Our Price £10.99
	Dio's 'Roman History' is one of the most important sources for the study of classical Rome, but comparatively little attention has been devoted to Cassius Dio Cocceianus himself, a Greek from Bithynia who was consul in AD 229. This book discusses Dio's background and career and analyzes both the composition of the 'History' and the nature of the political and historical views expressed in it. Millar looks in detail at Dio's eyewitness account of his own period and also shows how the 'History' reflects the fusion of two traditions - Greek civilization and Roman government. (1964)
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		The Troad
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		JM Cook
		Oxford University Press 1999 534 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 0198131658
		Published Price £19.99		Our Price £15.99
	This topographical and archaeological study of the region in which ancient Troy was situated, is based on field work carried out between 1960 and 1969. Taking the geographical account of Strabo as a starting point, Cook describes the ancient remains of the region, identifies new sites and discusses the sources in which they are mentioned. He then surveys travellers' literature since the journey of Bellonius in 1548 and the various maps made of the Troad. The book concludes with a discussion of the pattern of habitation from ancient times to the present century. (1973)
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		Aristeas of Proconnesus
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		JDP Bolton
		Oxford University Press 1999 272 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 019814332X
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	A shadowy figure from the 7th century BC, Aristeas of Proconnesus was author of the 'Arimaspea', a poem describing his journey to central Asia in search of the Hyperboreans, and encounters with the Scythians, the Issodonians and their tales of one-eyed Arimaspi, griffins, swan-maidens and caves of the wind. The poem survives only in fragments quoted by Herodotus and other ancient authors. This study draws together all those fragments to examine both the status of the poem in antiquity and the evidence about Aristeas, his remarkable journey and his connection with Pythagoras. (1962)
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		Sancti Romani Melodi Cantica
		Cantica Genuina		Sandpiper Editions
		P Maas; CA Trypanis
		Oxford University Press 1997 546 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0198152442
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	Romanos, called the Melodist (fl.c.AD 540), is the greatest poet of the Greek Orthodox church, and one of the most distinguished writers of the early Middle Ages. The present volume was the first full critical edition of all the poet's genuine cantica. It re-examines and reassesses earlier scholarship, and includes a number of hitherto unpublished cantica by Romanos. Greek text with English critical apparatus. (1963)
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