Collection of 13 essays delivered at a conference held at Columbia University in March 2012.

When the Romans adopted Greek literary genres and artistic techniques, they did not slavishly imitate their models but created vibrant and original works of lit

The papers collected in this volume provide invaluable insights into the results of different interactions between “Romans” and Others. Articles dealing wit

Follow the way social attitudes and historical events—among them, slavery and materialism, wars and plagues—influenced how glassworking developed in the Rom

Reflections of Romanity: Discourses of Subjectivity in Imperial Rome, by Richard Alston and Efrossini Spentzou, challenges and provokes debate about how we unde