The Cambridge Dictionary of Classical Civilization - Softcover

Shipley, Graham; Vanderspoel, John; Mattingly, David; Foxhall, Lin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 052173150X ISBN 13: 9780521731508

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

An authoritative and highly-illustrated companion to the worlds of ancient Greece and Rome.

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About the Authors

Graham Shipley is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Leicester. His previous publications include A History of Samos, 800–188 BC (Clarendon, 1987) and The Greek World after Alexander, 323–30 BC (Routledge, 2000). He is the author of numerous articles on the ancient city and has made major contributions to the Laconia Survey volumes at the British School at Athens. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.

John Vanderspoel is Professor of Late Antiquity at the University of Calgary. He is the author of Themistius and the Imperial Court (University of Michigan Press, 1995) and numerous articles on Roman history and intellectual and religious developments in the imperial Roman period. He was the founding editor of The Ancient History Bulletin.

David Mattingly is Professor of Roman Archaeology at the University of Leicester. He is author or editor of numerous books, including Tripoitania (Batsford, 1995), Life, Death and Entertainment in the Roman World (with David Potter, University of Michigan Press, 1999), Economies Beyond Agriculture in the Classical World (with John Salmon, Routledge, 2000) and An Atlas of Roman Britain (with Barri Jones, Oxbow, 2002). He is a Fellow of the British Academy and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.

Lin Foxhall is Professor of Greek Archaeology and History at the University of Leicester. She is the editor of Thinking Men (with John Salmon, Routledge, 1998) and Money, Labour and Land (Routledge, 2002). She is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 052173150X
• ISBN 13: 9780521731508
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1010