The Early Byzantine Great Palace in Constantinople, while profoundly influential upon later Western architecture, remains largely unknown, however in this study, a focus upon the operation of ascription of meaning upon forms, and emulation of them in later architecture will enable a sense of the complex, in its physical and social contexts, to be established.

A volume gathering ground-breaking studies on the anthropology of the body in the Ancient Mediterranean Basin.

This volume is the first dedicated to the urbanism of pre-classical Syria.