Constantine the Great (285–337) played a crucial role in mediating between the pagan, imperial past of the city of Rome, which he conquered in 312, and its future as a Christian capital. In this learned and highly readable book, R. Ross Holloway examines Constantine’s remarkable building program in Rome. Holloway begins by examining the Christian Church in the period before the Peace of 313, when Constantine and his co-emperor Licinius ended the persecution of the Christians. He then focuses on the structure, style, and significance of important monuments: the Arch of Constantine and the two great Christian basilicas, St. John’s in the Lateran and St. Peter’s, as well as the imperial mausoleum at Tor Pignatara. In a final chapter Holloway advances a new interpretation of the archaeology of the Tomb of St. Peter beneath the high altar of St. Peter’s Basilica. The tomb, he concludes, was not the original resting place of the remains venerated as those of the Apostle but was created only in 251 by Pope Cornelius. Drawing on the most up-to-date archaeological evidence, he describes a cityscape that was at once Christian and pagan, mirroring the personality of its ruler. “This book takes on a period of immense historical change and explains how Constantine came to accept Christianity, not only as a spiritual force but as a political institution that reconstituted the empire. It is important for scholars and students alike.”—Eve D’Ambra, Vassar College Constantine the Great (285–337) played a crucial role in mediating between the pagan, imperial past of the city of Rome, which he conquered in 312, and its future as a Christian capital. In this learned and highly readable book, R. Ross Holloway examines Constantine’s remarkable building program in Rome. Holloway begins by examining the Christian Church in the period before the Peace of 313, when Constantine and his co-emperor Licinius ended the persecution of the Christians. He then focuses on the structure, style, and significance of important monuments: the Arch of Constantine and the two great Christian basilicas, St. John’s in the Lateran and St. Peter’s, as well as the imperial mausoleum at Tor Pignatara. In a final chapter Holloway advances a new interpretation of the archaeology of the Tomb of St. Peter beneath the high altar of St. Peter’s Basilica. The tomb, he concludes, was not the original resting place of the remains venerated as those of the Apostle but was created only in 251 by Pope Cornelius. Drawing on the most up-to-date archaeological evidence, he describes a cityscape that was at once Christian and pagan, mirroring the personality of its ruler. “This book takes on a period of immense historical change and explains how Constantine came to accept Christianity, not only as a spiritual force but as a political institution that reconstituted the empire. It is important for scholars and students alike.”—Eve D’Ambra, Vassar College

Constantine and Rome

History

Holloway, R. Ross

Ancient Civilizations

Yale University Press

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an informa company.

The Archaeology of Ancient Sicily

Routledge

Morgantina Studies, Volume II: The Coins (Princeton Legacy Library)

This volume continues documenting the well-known excavations at Morgantina, a Greek town in central Sicily, in a presentation of the largest body of coins ever unearthed at an Italian site and published as a group. The excavations, conducted by Princeton University, The University of Illinois, and The University of Virginia between 1955 and 1981, produced nearly 10,000 identifiable coins--most of them at of Sicilian Greek and Roman issues, struck before the end of the first century B.C. The numismatic evidence not only made possible the initial identification fo the side as Morgantina, but has subsequently opened the way to reconstructing the history of early Roman Republican coinage and the bronze coinage of Greek Sicily. The catalogue presents a full list of the coins found at Morgantina through the 1981 season, with discussion of significant issues and illustrations of 679 specimens. A completed corpus and study of the coins struck at Morgantina is also included. Theodore V. Buttrey is Professor Emeritus of Classical Studies at the University of Michigan. Kenan T. Erim is Professor of Classical Archaeology at New York University. Thomas. D. Groves is a graduate student in the Department of Classical Archaeology at Princeton University. R. Ross Holloway is Professor of Classical Archaeology at Brown University.Originally published in 1990.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Business & Money

Buttrey, Theodore V

Erim, Kenan T.

Groves, Thomas D.

Economics

Princeton University Press

This volume continues documenting the well-known excavations at Morgantina, a Greek town in central Sicily, in a presentation of the largest body of coins ever unearthed at an Italian site and published as a group. The excavations, conducted by Princeton University, The University of Illinois, and The University of Virginia between 1955 and 1981, produced nearly 10,000 identifiable coins--most of them at of Sicilian Greek and Roman issues, struck before the end of the first century B.C. The numismatic evidence not only made possible the initial identification fo the side as Morgantina, but has subsequently opened the way to reconstructing the history of early Roman Republican coinage and the bronze coinage of Greek Sicily. The catalogue presents a full list of the coins found at Morgantina through the 1981 season, with discussion of significant issues and illustrations of 679 specimens. A completed corpus and study of the coins struck at Morgantina is also included. Theodore V. Buttrey is Professor Emeritus of Classical Studies at the University of Michigan. Kenan T. Erim is Professor of Classical Archaeology at New York University. Thomas. D. Groves is a graduate student in the Department of Classical Archaeology at Princeton University. R. Ross Holloway is Professor of Classical Archaeology at Brown University.Originally published in 1990.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

A View of Greek Art

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology & the Ancient World

A catalogue of the entire WHeaton College collection as of 1981. The text deals solely with the basic numismatic data and plates of the collection, are also included.

Wheaton College Collection of Greek and Roman Coins (Ancient Coins in North American Collections)

Bishop, J. David

American Numismatic Society

This report presents the results of the first phase of excavation at the site of La Muculufa, Sicily. Richly illustrated throughout, this volume documents the pottery, chipped stone, worked bone, and mammalian fauna from the 1982 and '83 seasons.

La Muculufa: The Early Bronze Age Cemetery

Lukesh, S. S.

Joukowsky, M. S.

This volume of 102 pages with 140 black and white illustrations presents the results of the excavations of 1990 and 1991 conducted by the Superintendency for Cultural Property of the Province of Palermo in collaboration with Brown University at the site of the Bronze Age Citadel at I Faraglioni on the island of Ustica. The walls of the citadel are the best preserved defenses of this period known in Italy or Sicily. Other discoveries include the first known stone sculpture of the Sicilian Middle Bronze Age, a detailed record of domestic architecture and a large repertoire of the pottery of the site, which is related to that of the Milazzese Culture of the Lipari Islands.

Ustica I: Excavations of 1990 and 1991 (Archaeologia Transatlantica, 14)

Europe

Ancient Greek coinage can claim to be as much about art as economics. Many Greek coins are original works of art and, in some cases, the signed originals of important engravers. This catalogue presents the collection of Mr Henry Augustus Greene, bought during the first thirty years of the twentieth century.

Ancient Greek Coins: Catalogue of the Museum of Art (Archaeologia Transatlantica)

Sculpture

This collection of essays is as eclectic as the title suggests, with papers including: Iberian warrior figurines and the warrior image in Western Mediterranean sculpture; Financing and design - the development of the Parthenon Program and the Parthenon building accounts; and The mutilation of statuary in Classical Greece. Each paper is extensively illustrated.

Miscellanea Mediterranea (Archaeologia Transatlantica, 18)

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Constantine and Rome

The Archaeology of Ancient Sicily

Morgantina Studies, Volume II: The Coins (Princeton Legacy Library)

Morgantina Studies, Volume II: The Coins (Princeton Legacy Library)

A View of Greek Art

Wheaton College Collection of Greek and Roman Coins (Ancient Coins in North American Collections)

La Muculufa: The Early Bronze Age Cemetery

Ustica I: Excavations of 1990 and 1991 (Archaeologia Transatlantica, 14)

Ancient Greek Coins: Catalogue of the Museum of Art (Archaeologia Transatlantica)

Miscellanea Mediterranea (Archaeologia Transatlantica, 18)