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Rhodes, University of Durham, UK Architecture Adapted by adaptor An Introduction In the second and third quarters of the fifth century BC, when Athens became both politically and Mary Emerson, Independent Scholar, UK Adapted by adaptor culturally dominant in the Greek world, Pericles Assuming no prior knowledge, this book introduces became the leading figure in the city’s public life. students to a selection of sites and temples, This was also the period when Athenian tragedy exploring them in detail and explaining all technical became the principal Greek poetic form, when a terms along the way. The book covers many of series of temples and other buildings, on Athens’ the most popular sites, including Delphi, Olympia and the Athenian acropolis and elsewhere, attracted architects, builders and sculptors ANCIENT HISTORY ANCIENT Acropolis. In this second edition there are new chapters on Western to Athens, and when Athenian red-figure pottery reached new heights Greece, covering the site of Paestum in Magna Graecia (South Italy), of skill in the scenes painted on it. This concise and accessible and the unique temple of Olympian Zeus in Acragas, Sicily. There introduction guides students through the key aspects of this most- is also an expanded discussion of the most important temples and studied period of ancient Greek history, focusing on the major greater emphasis on architectural sculpture as part of the meaning developments, political and cultural, that took place under Pericles. of the whole building. Along with an updated bibliography and a glossary, an abundance of plans, photos and drawings helps clarify UK February 2018 • US February 2018 • 144 pages • 21 bw illus the text. PB 9781350014954 • £14.99 / $23.95 Individual eBook 9781350014961 • £14.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781350014978 UK December 2017 • US December 2017 • 288 pages • 115 bw illus Series: Classical World • Bloomsbury Academic PB 9781472575289 • £16.99 / $22.95 Individual eBook 9781472575296 • £16.99 / $17.99 Library eBook 9781472575302 Bloomsbury Academic The Religious Worlds of the Laity in Late Antique Gaul Augustan Rome Lisa Kaaren Bailey, University of Auckland, New Zealand Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, University of Adapted by adaptor Cambridge, UK "…an exemplary study..." Bryn Mawr Classical Adapted by adaptor Review This thought-provoking and concise volume sets political changes during the era of Augustus in the This is the first volume to explore the role of the context of their impact on Roman values, on the laity in the key region of Gaul, through history, imaginative world of poetry, on the visual world archaeology and theology. The acts and experiences of clergy and of art, and on the fabric of the city of Rome. laity are compared: the former themselves constructed the category Written by a world expert, this is a vital book for of 'the laity', and shaped lay religious experience by this need to students at school and university level. The second edition features create categories; the laity experienced and interpreted their a new introductory section on literary figures under Augustus, a religion differently according to gender, location, piety and social final chapter on the reception of Augustus in later periods, updated status, and their decisions shaped the nature of the Church and of references to recent scholarship, new figures and an expanded list of their faith. further reading. 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