Author: Ascani, Karen ; Gabrielsen, Vincent; Kvist, Karen ; & Rasmussen, Anders Holm ; editors:
Title: Ancient History Matters : Studies Presented to Jens Erik Skydsgaard on His 70th Birthday
Description: Roma, L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2002. orig. cloth, dustwrapper.. 29x19cm. 333 pp. Series: Analecta Romana Instituti Danici. Supplementum, 30. Weighs 1.7 kilos.. Textual illustrations.. ISBN: 8882651908. Minor wear. A rubberstamp to title-page. VG. ¶ A festschrift containing 33 papers [29 in English, 2 in French, 2 in Italian]. Includes: Proto-industrialization in Roman Gaul / C.R. Whittaker -- The Moses Finley approach to slavery and slave society / Erik Christiansen -- Fish in the ancient economy / Tønnes Bekker-Nielsen -- Rural landscape change in Hellenistic Greece / Graham Shipley -- Water and farming in classical Greece : evidence, method and perspective / Jens A. Krasilnikoff -- Attic Eschatia / Michael H. Jameson -- The kontoporeía - a route from Argos to Korinth / Berit Wells -- Da Roma alle foci del Garigliano : per un parco regionale della Via Appia Antica / Lorenzo Quilici -- Anonyma Therina : summer crops in Theophrastus and in modern Greece / Hamish Forbes & Lin Foxhall -- Pour une approche des cadastres romains en Grèce : remarques rétrospectives / Panagiotis N. Doukellis -- Estate managers in Ancient Greek agriculture / Jesper Carlsen -- "Where of old all the mills of the city have been constructed" : the capacity of the Janiculum mills in Rome / Orjan Wikander -- Pliny on poison, agriculture and art / Jacob Isager -- Gods and agriculture : evidence from an agrarian settlement in the north-western Crimea / Lise Hannestad / Halikarnassos and the Well of Aphrodite : on EM 199, text and provenance / Signe Isager -- The Attalid kingdom and the cult of Cybele at Pessinous / Anders Holm Rasmussen -- Ars haruspicina and ars nesciendi : some reflections on a sheep’s liver / Susanne William Rasmussen -- Omens, prophecies and oracles in ancient decision-making / Jørgen Christian Meyer ; etc.

Keywords: 8882651908 Classical Antiquity, Ancient Greece, Roman Empire, Philology, Literary History, Archaeology, Rome, ,