Foreign Cults in Rome
Foreign Cults in Rome

Author: Eric Orlin

Publisher: OUP USA

Published: 2010-08-27

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 0199731551

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Introduction -- Foreign cults in Rome -- Cult introductions of the third century -- Foreign priests in Rome -- Prodigies and expiations -- Ludi -- Establishing boundaries in the second century -- The challenges of the first century.

Solon of Athens
Solon of Athens

Author: Ron Owens

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2010-06-18

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 1836241151

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Addresses the historical, social and political contexts within which Solon of Athens instituted wide-ranging reforms to the Athenian constitution (594-93 BCE), the impact of those reforms on the political self-awareness of the archaic Athenians themselves, and the ethical and political philosophies that drove reform.