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By Christer Bruun,Jonathan Edmondson

ISBN-10: 0190860308

ISBN-13: 9780190860301

ISBN-10: 0195336461

ISBN-13: 9780195336467

Epigraphy, or the learn of inscriptions, is necessary for somebody looking to comprehend the Roman international, whether or not they regard themselves as literary students, historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, non secular students or paintings in a box that touches at the Roman international from c. 500 BCE to 500 CE and past. The Oxford instruction manual of Roman Epigraphy is the fullest number of scholarship at the research and heritage of Latin epigraphy produced to this point. particularly that only a choice of inscriptions, notwithstanding, this quantity seeks to teach why inscriptions subject and reveal to classicists and old historians how one can paintings with the resources. for that reason, the 35 chapters, written via senior and emerging students in Roman heritage, classics, and epigraphy, disguise every thing from typograph to the significance of inscriptions for realizing many elements of Roman tradition, from Roman public existence, to slavery, to the jobs and lives of girls, to the army, and to lifestyles within the provinces. scholars and students alike will locate the guide a crritical software for increasing their wisdom of the Roman world.

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