Alan Keir Bowman FBA is the Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford. Born in 1944 Bowman was educated at Manchester Grammar School, The Queen's...
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THE CONTENTS: 1) The tyranny of the evidence: a discussion of the possible uses of literacy in Etruria and Latium in the archaic age.2) Ancient literacy and the function of the written word in Roman religion.3) Statistics or states of mind?4) Literacy and the parietal inscriptions of Pompeii.5) L'ec...
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Journal of Roman Archaeology
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This book consists of a series of studies, each by a specialist in a different period or area of the ancient history of the Mediterranean world and northern Europe, examining the relationship between power and the use of writing in ancient society. The studies range in date from c. 600 B.C. to A.D. ...
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Cambridge University Press
0521587360
9780521587365
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Alan K. Bowman
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British Museum Press
0714109924
9780714109923
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This volume presents a collection of studies focussing on population and settlement patterns in the Roman empire in the perspective of the economic development of the Mediterranean world between 100 BC and AD 350. The analyses offered here highlight the issues of regional and temporal variation in I...
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Oxford University Press
0199602352
9780199602353
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This volume covers the history of the Roman Empire from the accession of Septimius Severus in AD 193 to the death of Constantine in AD 337. This period was one of the most critical in the history of the Mediterranean world. It begins with the establishment of the Severan dynasty as a result of civil...
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Cambridge University Press
0521301998
9780521301992
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Egypt After the Pharoahs treats the period which witnessed the arrival of the Greeks and Hellenistic culture in Egypt, the reign of the Ptolemies from Ptolemy I to Cleopatra, the conquest by Rome, the scientific and cultural achievements of Alexandria, and the rise of Christianity. The rich social, ...
Alan K. Bowman
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University of California Press
0520059301
9780520059306
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This collection of essays is the first volume in a new series, Oxford Studies on the Roman Economy. Edited by the series editors, it focuses on the economic performance of the Roman empire, analysing the extent to which Roman political domination of the Mediterranean and north-west Europe created th...
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Oxford University Press
0199679290
9780199679294
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This collection of essays is the first volume in a new series, Oxford Studies on the Roman Economy. Edited by the series editors, it focuses on the economic performance of the Roman empire, analysing the extent to which Roman political domination of the Mediterranean and north-west Europe created th...
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Oxford University Press
0199562598
9780199562596
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Alan Bowman
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