This is the first detailed ethnographic analysis of the kinship structure, religious life, culture and ethics of an ancient rural community. It will be essential reading for all historians of the Greco-Roman world, and will also be of interest to anthropologists interested in kinship and pre-modern rural societies.
Peter Thonemann Book order



- 2022
- 2020
An Ancient Dream Manual
- 256 pages
- 9 hours of reading
Accompanying the new translation of Artemidorus' The Interpretation of Dreams in the Oxford World's Classics series, this volume aims to provide the non- specialist reader with a readable and engaging road-map to this vast and complex text and to the theory and practice of dream-interpretation in antiquity.
- 2016
The Hellenistic World
- 260 pages
- 10 hours of reading
An accessible, vivid and up-to-date student-level introduction to the coinage and history of the Hellenistic world (323-31 BC).