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  • Urbanization and Communication Networks in the Roman Empire
    Alban Pope
    The Roman Empire occupies a singular place in world history not merely because of its vast territorial extent, military achievements, or enduring legal and cultural legacy, but because it succeeded in creating and maintaining an unprecedented degree of integration across a remarkably diverse and expansive geographical space. Stretching from the Atlantic shores of Hispania to th...
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    20,92 €

  • Religion as Political Language in Ancient Rome
    Alban Pope
    Few civilizations have left behind a political legacy as influential as that of Rome. Its institutions, legal traditions, military organization, and concepts of citizenship have attracted continuous scholarly attention from antiquity to the present. Yet one of the most fundamental dimensions of Roman public life has often been misunderstood by modern observers: the role of reli...
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    21,00 €

  • The Ideological Construction of the Roman Empire
    Alban Pope
    The Roman Empire has long occupied a central place in historical inquiry. Its military conquests, administrative sophistication, legal traditions, urban networks, and enduring cultural influence have made it one of the most extensively studied political formations in human history. Yet the remarkable longevity and resilience of Roman rule cannot be explained through military po...
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    23,29 €

  • Patronage, Censorship, and the Economics of Literary Production in Ancient Rome
    Alban Pope
    The study of classical Latin literature has long suffered from an idealized isolation, treated by subsequent centuries as a collection of pristine aesthetic monuments detached from the vulgar anxieties of subsistence, political coercion, and material scarcity. To read Virgil’s Eclogues, Horace’s Odes, or Martial’s Epigrams purely through the lens of modern literary autonomy is ...
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    21,11 €

  • Virgil’s Poetic Project and Augustan Moral Renewal
    Alban Pope
    This book explores how Virgil uses his three major works to construct a systematic, evolving discourse on the nature of virtue, authority, and moral responsibility in the new Augustan world. The trajectory of his poetic career is itself a deliberate moral and artistic ascent, mirroring the traditional rota Virgilii (the wheel of Virgil) that moves from the humble, low-style pas...
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    21,16 €

  • The Vision of Roman Ethical Life Through Aeneas’s Journey
    Alban Pope
    The transition from the fractured, blood-soaked decades of the Late Roman Republic to the nascent stability of the Augustan Principate represents one of the most profound ideological transformations in Western antiquity. Decades of civil strife had not merely dismantled the political infrastructure of the traditional res publica; they had systematically eroded the moral and spi...
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    20,94 €

  • The Creation of a Roman Political Persona Through Literature
    Alban Pope
    In the intense, highly competitive arena of Roman public life, a politician’s survival and success depended entirely on their ability to craft, project, and defend a distinct public identity. This identity, known as a persona, was not a mere passive reflection of a man’s character or ancestry; it was an actively engineered political monument. To the Roman ruling class, identity...
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    21,02 €

  • The Influence of Virgil on Roman Ethical Thought
    Alban Pope
    The study of Roman ethical thought has long been shaped by the voices of philosophers, statesmen, and historians, yet few figures have exercised as pervasive and enduring an influence as Virgil. His poetry, composed at a moment of profound political transformation and cultural self‑definition, became not merely a literary achievement but a foundational text for Roman moral imag...
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    21,27 €

  • Gratitude, Patronage, and the Ethics of Survival in Ancient Rome
    Alban Pope
    Gratitude in the Roman world was never merely a private sentiment, nor was patronage simply a social arrangement between individuals of unequal status. Together, they formed a moral, political, and economic architecture that shaped the lived experience of Romans across centuries. To speak of gratia, beneficium, and officium is to enter a conceptual universe in which emotions, o...
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    21,21 €

  • Pastoral Ethics in the Virgil’s Eclogues
    Alban Pope
    Pastoral poetry has long been associated with simplicity, serenity, and the imagined purity of rural life, yet Virgil’s Eclogues reveal a far more intricate and ethically charged landscape. Far from offering mere escapism, the ten poems construct a world in which shepherds, poets, lovers, and political subjects grapple with questions of justice, desire, community, and artistic ...
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    21,29 €

  • Poets, Philosophers, and the Birth of Greek Moral Thought
    Alban Pope
    The story of Greek moral thought begins long before philosophy had a name, before the first thinkers whom later ages would call philosophoi attempted to give rational accounts of virtue, justice, or the good life. It begins in a world shaped by song, ritual, and memory, a world in which the earliest moral insights were not argued but narrated, not demonstrated but performed. Th...
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  • Myth and Ethics in Ancient Greece and Rome
    Alban Pope
    Mythological narrative has always occupied a paradoxical position in the study of antiquity. It is at once familiar and elusive, foundational yet protean, a body of stories that shaped the ancient world while continually reshaping themselves in response to new cultural pressures. To speak of myth in ancient Greece and Rome is to enter a landscape where narrative, ritual, memory...
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    21,23 €

  • Homer and Hesiod as Sources of Moral and Theological Insight in Ancient Greece
    Alban Pope
    The ancient Greeks lived in a world where the boundaries between story, memory, and truth were porous, and where the spoken word carried the weight of tradition, identity, and moral instruction. Before the rise of philosophy, before the systematic inquiries of Plato and Aristotle, and long before the codification of law or the spread of literacy, the Greeks turned to their poet...
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    21,30 €

  • The Iliad in Athenian Civic and Cultural Education
    Alban Pope
    To understand the cultural and civic life of classical Athens, one must begin with the texts that Athenians themselves treated as foundational. Among these, the Iliad occupied a position of unrivaled authority. It was not merely a poem, nor simply a relic of a distant heroic age; it was a living cultural force, a shared reference point, and a pedagogical instrument woven into t...
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    21,27 €

  • Homer and the Greek Conceptions of Poetic Authority
    Alban Pope
    To speak of Homer is to speak of the origins of poetic authority in the Greek world, for no other figure-real or imagined-so thoroughly shaped the ancient understanding of what it meant to speak with power, truth, and cultural legitimacy. The name 'Homer' functions less as a biographical marker than as a symbolic center around which the Greeks organized their ideas about the pa...
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    21,27 €

  • The Pedagogical Use of the Iliad in Rhetorical and Philosophical Education
    Alban Pope
    From the earliest centuries of Greek literacy, the Iliad occupied a place of extraordinary authority, shaping not only the imaginative horizons of Greek culture but also the very structures through which young people learned to think, speak, and reason. To write about the pedagogical use of the Iliad in rhetorical and philosophical education is therefore to enter a long and int...
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    21,29 €

  • Homer and the Ancient Greek Paideia
    Alban Pope
    Homer stands at the beginning of the Greek imagination, not simply as a poet but as the architect of a cultural universe that shaped centuries of ethical, intellectual, and civic development. To speak of Greek paideia-the formation of character, intellect, and citizenship-is to speak of Homer, because no other body of literature so thoroughly permeated the educational, moral, a...
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    21,26 €

  • The Roman Wars and the Mediterranean
    Alban Pope
    From the earliest centuries of its existence, Rome was a community shaped by conflict. War was not merely an occasional undertaking but a defining rhythm of civic life, a recurring obligation of its citizens, and a central pillar of its political culture. Yet the story of Rome’s wars is not simply the story of battles, generals, and conquests. It is the story of how a small cit...
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    21,23 €

  • The Roman Principate
    Alban Pope
    The Roman Principate has long occupied an ambiguous space in the history of political systems, suspended between the language of republican continuity and the reality of monarchical power. From Augustus onward, emperors insisted that they were not kings, that the res publica had been restored, and that the constitutional order of the Republic endured. Yet the political stabilit...
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    21,24 €

  • Rome’s Identity as a Militarized Republic and Later Empire
    Alban Pope
    From its earliest memories to its final transformations, Rome imagined itself, organized itself, and justified itself through the language and logic of war. Few civilizations have so consistently defined political legitimacy, social hierarchy, and collective purpose through military service and military success. To speak of Rome is to speak of a society in which the boundaries ...
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    21,20 €

  • Alexander the Great and the Art of Conquest
    Alban Pope
    To write about Alexander the Great is to enter a landscape where history and legend have been intertwined for more than two millennia, each generation reshaping him to suit its own anxieties, ambitions, and ideals. He is remembered as the young king who carved an empire from the Balkans to the Indus, the commander whose tactical brilliance still animates military academies, the...
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    21,27 €

  • History of Warfare in the Ancient World
    Alban Pope
    War is one of the oldest and most persistent forces shaping human civilization, yet its origins, meanings, and transformations in the ancient world remain endlessly complex. To write a history of ancient warfare is not simply to recount battles or list the achievements of kings; it is to explore how early societies understood power, survival, identity, and the divine. It is to ...
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  • Alexander the Great in Historiography
    Alban Pope
    Few figures in world history have generated such a vast, contradictory, and enduring body of interpretation as Alexander III of Macedon. From the moment of his death in Babylon in 323 BCE, the struggle to define who he was-and what his astonishing career meant-began in earnest. That struggle has never ceased. Across more than two millennia, Alexander has been celebrated as a he...
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    21,26 €

  • Religion and the Supernatural in Ancient Greece and Rome
    Alban Pope
    To approach the religious worlds of ancient Greece and Rome is to enter a landscape where the boundaries between the natural and the supernatural were not merely porous but fundamentally intertwined. The people of the ancient Mediterranean inhabited a cosmos alive with divine presence, where gods shaped the rhythms of civic life, spirits animated the natural world, and unseen f...
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    21,13 €

  • Science in the Ancient World
    Alban Pope
    Science in the Ancient World explores the remarkable intellectual achievements that laid the foundations of scientific thought long before the modern age. Spanning civilizations from Mesopotamia and Egypt to Greece, Rome, India, and China, this book reveals how ancient scholars sought to understand the universe through observation, mathematics, philosophy, and practical experim...
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    21,13 €

  • Religion, Philosophy, and the Study of Nature in the Ancient World
    Alban Pope
    Religion, Philosophy, and the Study of Nature in the Ancient World explores how the earliest civilizations sought to understand the cosmos through a remarkable synthesis of religious belief, philosophical speculation, and systematic observation. From the mythic cosmologies of the ancient Near East to the groundbreaking inquiries of Greek philosophers, the book traces the emerge...
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    17,09 €

  • Law, Tradition, and Power in Ancient Rome
    Alban Pope
    Law, Tradition, and Power in Ancient Rome is a sweeping, deeply engaging exploration of how the Roman world built one of the most influential legal and political systems in human history-and how that system, in turn, shaped the rise, transformation, and endurance of Roman power. Moving from the city’s mythical foundations to the complexities of late antiquity, the book reveals ...
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    15,96 €

  • Hellenistic and Roman Political Thought
    Alban Pope
    This book sets out to explore one of the most fertile and transformative periods in the history of political thought: the long arc stretching from the fragmentation of the classical Greek polis after the death of Alexander the Great to the complex intellectual world of the late Roman Empire. It is a period marked by profound political upheaval, territorial expansion on an unpre...
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    27,54 €

  • Major Trends in Ancient and Medieval Political Thought
    Alban Pope
    From the first myths of divine kingship to the birth of the modern state, this book traces the extraordinary 3,000‑year journey of political ideas-and the people, crises, and cultures that shaped them.This sweeping study offers a vivid narrative of how human beings have imagined power, justice, and community from antiquity to the dawn of modernity. Beginning with the cosmologic...
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    27,35 €

  • A Study of Ancient Roman Historiography
    Alban Pope
    From the fall of kings to the rise of emperors, from the fires of civil war to the triumph of Christianity, the story of Rome has never stopped shaping the way we think about power, identity, and the meaning of history itself.This book offers a sweeping, vivid journey through the evolution of Roman historical writing-from the earliest annalists to the last great chroniclers of ...
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    27,65 €


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