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Contents Archaeology Ancient Near East..................................... Archaeological Science............................ Archaeology (General)............................. Archaeology of Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Pacific................... Archaeology of Europe, Near and Middle East............................ Archaeology of the Americas................... Classical Archaeology.............................. Egyptology............................................... Historical Archaeology............................. Prehistory.................................................
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Classical studies Ancient History......................................... Ancient Philosophy................................... Classical Art, Architecture........................ Classical Languages................................. Classical Literature...................................
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Drama and theatre American Theatre..................................... British Theatre.......................................... European Theatre..................................... Theatre (General).....................................
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Music Dance....................................................... Eighteenth-Century Music........................ Medieval and Renaissance Music............. Music (General)........................................ Music Criticism......................................... Nineteenth-Century Music....................... Opera........................................................ Seventeenth-Century Music..................... Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Music.............................
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Archaeology
Archaeology Ancient Near East A History of Hittite Literacy Writing and Reading in Late Bronze-Age Anatolia (1650–1200 BC) Theo van den Hout | University of Chicago
For all those interested in literacy and script usage in general and in the ancient world in particular. As the first, comprehensive overview, it sketches the development of literacy and of literature in Hittite Anatolia (2000/1650–1200 BC) and situates them in the history of the kingdom. • The first comprehensive overview of the subject, the product of a lifetime of research and thinking • Provides a good introduction to both the Hittite cuneiform and Anatolian hieroglyphic writing systems • Offers new solutions to a number of longstanding problems in the field of Hittite/Anatolian studies Cambridge World Archaeology 448pp 51 b/w illus. 1 map 35 tables September 2020 9781108494885 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108860161
Gods and Humans in the Ancient Near East Tyson L. Putthoff | University of Oklahoma
This book explores the relationship between gods and humans and between the divine nature and human nature in the Ancient Near East. It will appeal to scholars and students interested in the history, philosophy, theology and anthropology of the Near Eastern or biblical world. • Explores multiple Ancient Near Eastern views on divine aspects of human in a single volume in a way that no other work has done • Introduces each region of the Ancient Near East in a way that allows non-specialists and specialists alike to engage with the material in each chapter • Will appeal to scholars and students interested in the history, philosophy, theology and anthropology of the Near Eastern or biblical world 350pp September 2020 9781108490542 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108854139 NEW IN PAPERBACK
Greece and Mesopotamia Dialogues in Literature Johannes Haubold | University of Durham
Proposes a new approach to the study of ancient Greek and Mesopotamian literature. Ranging from Homer and Gilgamesh to Herodotus and the Babylonian-Greek author Berossos, it paints a picture of two literary cultures that, over the course of time, became profoundly entwined. All passages of Greek and Akkadian are translated. • Proposes a new, theoretically informed approach to the study of ancient Greek and Mesopotamian literature • Discusses a wide range of Greek and Mesopotamian texts, citing them both in the original language and in translation • Addresses some of the most central issues in the study of the ancient world, such as contact between the Greeks and their neighbours, the ‘invention of the barbarian’ in classical Greece and the making of hybrid identities in the Hellenistic period The W. B. Stanford Memorial Lectures 234 1 b/w illus. 3 tables May 2020 9781108820073 Paperback GBP 75.00 / USD 25.99 June 2013 9781107010765 Hardback GBP 62.99 / USD 108 eISBN 9780511863240
The Amorites and the Bronze Age Near East The Making of a Regional Identity Aaron A. Burke | University of California, Los Angeles
This study summons historical, archaeological, and iconographic data from Bronze Age Mesopotamia, the Levant, and Egypt to address the legacy of Amorites. • Provides a unique and synthetic perspective on the formation and maintenance of the identity of a familiar people group in ancient Near Eastern history and biblical studies • Articulates a working approach to identity at different levels of social hierarchy, through time, and across a large geographic region • A book-length study that exposes the role played by environmental changes and niche exploitation in the creation and maintenance of group identity 350pp December 2020 9781108495967 Hardback GPB 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108856461
The Imperialisation of Assyria An Archaeological Approach Bleda S. Düring | Universiteit Leiden
This book focuses on the archaeology of the early Assyrian Empire. Using rich archaeological datasets it explores how people participated in this empire and what might have motivated them to do so. It is argued that the empire was successful mostly because it provided incentives to those who participated. • Provides an overview of the development of empires in Mesopotamia • Provides a historical overview of how Assyria transformed from a minor polity into one of the great powers of the Amarna Age • Presents an agent based description of what types of people participated in the imperial project, why they might have done so, and what types of resources were available for them to do so 198pp 27 b/w illus. 7 tables January 2020 9781108478748 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108778701
Archaeological Science Archaeological Science An Introduction Michael P. Richards | Simon Fraser University, British Columbia
This book provides an easily accessible introduction to often complex scientific methods that are increasingly applied in archaeology. It will be invaluable to students and professionals in archaeology who need to understand these essential methods, and it explains these approaches clearly and simply using relevant archaeological examples. • Covers a wide range of methods included under the title of ‘Archaeological Science’ which is not usual for other books • Provides excellent introductions to other methods within this field beyond the specialty of the purchaser • Chapters are accessible for undergraduate and postgraduate students and professional field archaeologists 464pp 54 b/w illus. January 2020 9780521195225 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 125.00 January 2020 9780521144124 Paperback GBP 32.99 / USD 42.99 eISBN 9781139013826
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Palaeopathology Second Edition Tony Waldron | University College London
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The book is for those who examine human remains and who wish to recognise and diagnose disease in those remains. It introduces operational definitions for making diagnoses to ensure comparability between studies. The book also shows how properly to analyse results from studies of assemblages of human remains. • Provides a comprehensive account of the principals and practice of palaeopathology • Uses up-to-date medical and pathological knowledge to explain difficult concepts in straightforward language and provide references to key points • Introduces the concept of operational definitions to ensure consistency in diagnosing lesions
Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology 350pp January 2021 9781108499583 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120 January 2021 9781108730884 Paperback GBP 30.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108583961
Archaeology (General) Sacred Heritage Monastic Archaeology, Identities, Beliefs Roberta Gilchrist | University of Reading
Critically evaluates the concept of sacred heritage, drawing on multi-disciplinary, global perspectives to clarify the multiple values of sacred heritage to spiritual and humanist audiences. Forges innovative connections between medieval archaeology and heritage studies, revealing new perspectives on medieval monasticism, identity, and healing. This title is also available as Open Access. • Evaluates key concepts including authenticity, materiality, identity and heritage value in relation to medieval sacred heritage • Develops a new approach to medieval monastic archaeology through the material study of religion • Considers the role of archaeology in ‘Golden Age’ myths associated with medieval sacred sites including Glastonbury Abbey • This title is also available as Open Access 274pp 78 b/w illus. 18 maps 4 tables January 2020 9781108496544 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108678087
The Organization of Ancient Economies A Global Perspective Kenneth Hirth | Pennsylvania State University
This book is about how ancient economies were organized to get work done. It is written for eclectic readers and life-long learners interested in the broad sweep of economic history. It explores how ancient economies developed and mobilized the resources necessary to support the institutions of civilization throughout antiquity. • Provides a comparative analysis of the domestic and political economies in ancient and premodern societies • Examines and compares the economic structures of forager, pastoral and agricultural societies ranging from simple bands and tribes to complex states • Provides a framework with which to examine and compare the structures of ancient and premodern economies 350pp September 2020 9781108494700 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108859707
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Power and Landscape in Atlantic West Africa Archaeological Perspectives J. Cameron Monroe | University of California, Santa Cruz
This volume examines the archaeology of precolonial West African societies in the era of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Using both historical and archaeological tools, this collection of essays sheds light on how involvement in the commercial revolutions of the early modern period dramatically reshaped the regional contours of political organization across West Africa. • Provides a regional focus, examining West African societies in the era of the trans-Atlantic slave trade • Adopts historical and archaeological perspectives on landscape • Fills the critical gaps in the historiography of Atlantic West Africa’s political formations
410pp 69 b/w illus. 33 maps December 2020 9781108978309 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 April 2012 9781107009394 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 135.00 eISBN 9780511921032
Prehistoric Stone Tools of Eastern Africa A Guide John J. Shea
This first book about stone tools written specifically for Eastern African archaeology by an expert stoneworker, teaches students how to ‘read’ stone tools and guides archaeologists in how to identify and measure them. Written with humor and richly illustrated, it covers the full sweep of Eastern Africa’s 3.4 million-year-long prehistory. • Provides a detailed classification system for stone artifacts applicable to any and all phases of Eastern Africa’s 3.5 million-year archaeological record • Contains hundreds of detailed illustrations of important artifact-types, as well as diagrams reconstructing how prehistoric stoneworkers made tools • Presents a student’s-eye view of major issues in archaeological stone tool analysis and interpretation through short humorous fictional vignettes 317pp 52 b/w illus. 10 tables April 2020 9781108424431 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108334969
Archaeology of Europe, Near and Middle East A Comparative Study of Rock Art in Later Prehistoric Europe Richard Bradley
In prehistoric Europe natural surfaces in the landscape were often painted or carved. It happened between the adoption of farming and the origins of the state, but these images are rarely integrated into wider accounts of prehistoric archaeology. This Element reviews new research and attempts to remedy this problem.
Elements in the Archaeology of Europe 75pp 30 b/w illus. September 2020 9781108794497 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108885638
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Consciousness, Creativity, and Self at the Dawn of Settled Life Ian Hodder | Stanford University, California
Over recent years, a number of scholars have argued that the human mind underwent a cognitive revolution in the Neolithic. The proposed volume seeks to test these claims at the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in Turkey and in other Neolithic contexts in the Middle East. • Proposes a new view of cognitive evolution in the Neolithic of the Middle East • Based on detailed data collected by a large team over twenty-five years at Çatalhöyük • Brings together a new group of archaeologists and cognitive scientists 304pp 50 b/w illus. 3 tables March 2020 9781108484923 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108753616
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The Archaeology of Imperial Landscapes A Comparative Study of Empires in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean World Bleda S. Düring | Universiteit Leiden
The studies in this volume focus on how rural economies and seemingly peripheral communities were often profoundly transformed by empires. Through a comparative approach to archaeological data, it outlines patterns in widely differing imperial contexts in the ancient world. • Introduces a shift from classificatory approaches to ancient empires • Provides a bottom up study of ancient empires and their hinterlands • Presents a comparative archaeology of ancient empires that shows why empires are a meaningful category and how a comparative study of them is feasible by focusing on marginal and rural areas 386pp 46 b/w illus. 35 maps 6 tables May 2020 9781316639245 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 39.99 March 2018 9781107189706 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781316995495
Archaeology of the Americas Ancient Maya Politics A Political Anthropology of the Classic Period 150–900 CE Simon Martin | University of Pennsylvania
Ancient Maya Politics is distinctive in constituting the first book-length treatment of this issue using original texts to be published in over four decades. With a rich body of new data and a wide-ranging theoretical analysis, it debunks some long-held ideas and suggests fresh ways to look at this longenigmatic society. • Offers a thorough re-examination of Classic Maya political organization • Explores relevant political theory in ways previously unseen in Maya studies • Brings readers up to date with the latest advances in knowledge and interpretation 538pp 81 b/w illus. 9 maps 8 tables June 2020 9781108483889 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00 eISBN 9781108676694
Everyday Life in the Aztec World Frances Berdan | California State University, San Bernardino
The book will appeal to any reader interested in understanding how lives are lived in other cultures. Its focus on Aztec daily life, and the diversity of ‘lives’ in that culture, from emperor to slave, offers the reader an appreciation of the richness of this ancient civilization. • Offers Insight into ‘real life’ activities, behavior, beliefs, and decisions • Examines a wide range of people’s lives by spending whole chapters on specific categories of people • Uses vignettes based on sound scholarly understandings of Aztec culture 272pp 85 b/w illus. 4 maps September 2020 9780521516365 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.00 September 2020 9780521736220 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 eISBN 9781139031844
Human Figuration and Fragmentation in Preclassic Mesoamerica From Figurines to Sculpture Julia Guernsey | University of Texas, Austin
The arguments assembled in this book have ramifications not only for scholars working in Mesoamerica but anyone interested more generally in human representation and its significance. It is the first book to fully explore, for Mesoamerica, the relationship between human figuration, fragmentation, bodily divisibility, personhood, and community. • Provides the first study of both figurines and sculpture as key forms of Mesoamerican figuration • Presents an in-depth and sustained analysis of the deliberate fragmentation of objects and the sociocultural significance of these acts in Mesoamerican culture • Includes examples of interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary analysis of artifacts and their contexts 278pp 203 b/w illus. 1 map February February 2020 9781108478991 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108782043
The Archaeology of Ancient North America Timothy R. Pauketat | University of Illinois, UrbanaChampaign
This text introduces the archaeology of Native North Americans to a new generation of students and laypeople who demand more than stereotypes and sterile facts. Not just an evolutionary outline, this book presents a rich cultural history and a series of interrelated narratives about a continent’s people over 15,000 years. • Includes a rich illustration program of images, all reproduced in full color • Narrates the experiences of Native America in humanistic terms by emphasizing the culture and history of the people who settled the North American continent • Links the text with online resources and websites to further engage students with key evidence and theories • Future-orientated, using the content of the book to comment on present and future discussions on subjects including climate change, ethnic conflict, and globalization 512pp 304 colour illus. 1 map 16 tables February 2020 9780521762496 Hardback GBP 145.00 / USD 185.00 February 2020 9780521746274 Paperback GPB 53.99 / USD 69.99 eISBN 9781139019439
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The Mesoamerican World System, 200–1200 CE
The Textile Revolution in Bronze Age Europe
A Comparative Approach Analysis of West Mexico Peter F. Jimenez
Production, Specialisation, Consumption Serena Sabatini | Göteborgs Universitet, Sweden
Using the latest advances in world-systems analysis, this book examines the interaction networks in West Mexico from the early Classic to Post-classic period. It demonstrates how the archaeological record contains empirical evidence for the impact of global processes on local developments, in detail, in realms, and at spatial scales. • Introduces the development world-systems analysis from the last 3 decades to the present • Provides the first operationalization of the comparative approach of world-systems analysis (WSA) in archaeology • Provides examples of the effects of ancient world-system network expansion on local polities, showing how globalization affects local developments, and the transformations that stem from this process 384pp 27 b/w illus. 21 maps 2 tables August 2020 9781108481120 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108646505
Classical Archaeology NEW IN PAPERBACK
Colonization and Subalternity in Classical Greece Experience of the Nonelite Population Gabriel Zuchtriegel
By looking at social and economic structures, exploitation, violence, and subjugation in the colonies, this book aims to paint a different picture of Classical Greek culture - with some far-reaching implications on Classical philosophy, in particular Plato and Aristotle, and their modern legacy. • Proposes a new view of Classical Greece, appealing to those who are uncomfortable with elitist and classicist narratives of Ancient Greece • Uses postcolonial and subaltern studies in the field of Classical archaeology, making it an interesting resource for readers who are interested in new approaches in the field of Classical archaeology, which is traditionally rather conservative • Combines archaeological field work (such as excavation, field surveys, pottery analysis) with close readings of literary sources and political philosophy, offering new perspectives for a broader range of disciplines: archaeology and ancient history, as well as political philosophy and economic history 284pp 74 b/w illus. 6 tables March 2020 9781108409223 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 34.99 October 2017 9781108419031 Hardback GBP 80 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108292849
Minoan Crete An Introduction L. Vance Watrous | State University of New York, Buffalo
Aimed at undergraduate and graduate students, this book can be used in courses on the ancient Mediterranean world and classical archaeology. Cambridge World Archaeology 388pp 130 b/w illus. May 2019 9781108419925 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 120.00 May 2019 9781108412476 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108304481
The book is primarily for archaeologists, anthropologists, students in archaeology and anthropology, and cultural heritage workers both within and outside academia. It fills a significant gap in our understanding of Europe’s prehistory, namely the cultural, social, and economic impact of textile economies in shaping societies. • Presents a broad cultural description of Minoan Crete • Explains how and why Minoan culture differed from contemporary societies in Egypt and the Near East • Presents and interpretsMinoan art 300pp February 2021 9781108424509 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 99 February 2021 9781108440493 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 eISBN 9781108339292
Mobile Technologies in the Ancient Sahara and Beyond C. N. Duckworth | University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Through in-depth examinations of a range of technologies, this book demonstrates that the ancient and Medieval Sahara was as much a connective tissue as a barrier, and was teeming with innovation and knowledge exchange between mobile and sedentary groups. It is of value to historians, archaeologists, Africanists, and anthropologists. • The first large-scale analysis of the archaeology of Saharan technological knowledge, change and innovation • Provides in-depth analyses of a range of technologies, including irrigation, animal husbandry, weaving, and pyrotechnologies, and considers the ways in which these different technologies interacted with one another • Blends previously unpublished results of scientific and archaeological analysis with their social interpretations Trans-Saharan Archaeology 400pp September 2020 9781108830546 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108908047
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Mycenaean Greece and the Aegean World Palace and Province in the Late Bronze Age Margaretha Kramer-Hajos | Indiana University
Kramer-Hajos examines the Euboean Gulf region in Central Greece to explain its flourishing during the post-palatial period, focusing on the interactions between this ‘provincial’ coastal area and the core areas where the Mycenaean palaces were located. • A detailed case study which uses easily comprehensible aspects of network and agency theory • Explains the special role of Euboean Gulf settlements in the early Iron Age • Offers a partial explanation of the end of the Bronze Age 230pp March 2020 9781107514836 Paperback GBP 21.99 / USD 32.99 August 2016 9781107107540 Hardback GBP 87.99 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781316227718
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Power and Place in Etruria The Spatial Dynamics of a Mediterranean Civilization, 1200–500 BC Volume 1 Simon Stoddart | Magdalene College, Cambridge
This book will interest prehistorians, anthropological archaeologists, anthropologists, geographers, classicists and historians. Readers will discover an unexpected example of political history read from the spatial dynamics of settlement history. It will provide rich understanding of politics read from landscape without resorting to text or image. • Provides a novel example of landscape based state formation • Takes a quantitative approach to the evidence • Brings examples of Etruria into the modern world of scholarship 350pp October 2020 9780521380751 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781139043687
The Archaeology of the Mediterranean Iron Age A Globalising World c.1100–600 BCE Tamar Hodos | University of Bristol
This volume is for advanced undergraduates and scholars of the Mediterranean with interest in first half of the first millennium BCE.It is also for those interested explicitly in the application of globalisation theories to archaeology. It also provides a means to consider what archaeology can contribute to globalisation theory. • Restores validity to aspects of past interpretations • Draws upon contemporary theory to highlight past practices • Unites different sub-disciplines of Mediterranean archaeology into a shared narrative 375pp 34 b/w illus. 10 maps 2 tables September 2020 9780521199575 Hardback GBP 84.99 / USD 110.00 September 2020 9780521148061 Paperback GBP 28.99 / USD 36.99 eISBN 9780511979316
The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Athens Jenifer Neils | American School of Classical Studies, Athens
This book is a comprehensive introduction to ancient Athens, its topography, monuments, inhabitants, cultural institutions, religious rituals, and politics. Drawing from the newest scholarship on the city, this volume examines how the city was planned, how it functioned, and how it was transformed from a democratic polis into a Roman urbs. • Provides readers with an overview new archaeological discoveries and interpretations in the city that have occurred in the last twenty years in particular • Introduces the religious, cultural, and political institutions of ancient Athens through archaeological, literary, and epigraphic evidence • Demonstrates the impact of the Archaic and Classical periods on Athens in subsequent periods and today Cambridge Companions to the Ancient World 450pp December 2020 9781108484558 Hardback GBP 84.99 / USD 110.00 December 2020 9781108723305 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108614054
The Cosmos in Ancient Greek Religious Experience Sacred Space, Memory, and Cognition Efrosyni Boutsikas
A nuanced study for students and researchers of ancient Greek religion and archaeology. It reveals the importance of cosmological tenets in the performance of ritual and the importance of their location and time for religious education. Also of interest to historians of science, as it explains how astronomy permeated ancient daily life. • Provides a nuanced inter-disciplinary approach to the study of ancient Greek religion which incorporates astronomy (time), classical texts, and archaeology along with current digital technology • Offers palpable examples of how experience can influence cognitive processes and the formation and retrieval of memories • Introduces total environment reconstructions, which include also the sky as visible at the time of religious performances in antiquity 300pp September 2020 9781108488174 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108769082
The Origins of the Roman Economy From the Iron Age to the Early Republic in a Mediterranean Perspective Gabriele Cifani
This book focuses on the economic history of the community of Rome from the Iron Age to the early Republic, by analysing the evidence of local production, trade and consumption within a Mediterranean perspective. It is a work for archaeologists and ancient historians. • Provides a systematic review of production in Rome from the Bronze Age to the fourth century BC • Analyzes the evidence of local production, trade and consumption within a Mediterranean perspective • Includes discussion of the early Roman calendar and the origins of the modern calendar 469pp 68 b/w illus. 11 tables September 2020 9781108478953 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 140.00 eISBN 9781108781534
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The Roman Street Urban Life and Society in Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Rome Jeremy Hartnett | Wabash College, Indiana
By combining textual evidence, comparative historical material, and contemporary urban theory with architectural and art historical analysis, this book charts the street’s key role in the social and political lives of Romans and restores its rightful place as the primary venue for social performance in the ancient world. • Employs contemporary urban theory to study ancient urbanism while remaining accessible to both undergraduates and scholars • Offers a qualitative, ‘bottom-up’ view of the experience of Roman city life, aided by over 90 photographs, drawings, and rarely-seen archival materials • Brings to life the streets of ancient Roman cities through an interdisciplinary inquiry involving textual, archaeological, epigraphical, legal, and comparative evidence • Includes two extended case studies of particular streets in Pompeii and Herculaneum 353pp 93 b/w illus. 9 colour illus. 7 tables March 2020 9781107513532 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 39.99 July 2017 9781107105706 Hardback GBP 83.99 / USD 125.00 eISBN 9781316226438
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The Sanctuary at Bath in the Roman Empire Eleri H. Cousins| Lancaster University
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For academic audiences interested in the history or archaeology of religion in the Roman Empire, or in the Roman provinces, in particular Roman Britain. Offers an important new interpretation of a key archaeological site and provides new ways of thinking about religious places in imperial contexts. • Refutes the model that Roman Bath was a healing sanctuary, and proposes a new model for understanding this important archaeological site • Uses a wide array of archaeological, iconographic and epigraphic material to explore the site’s social purpose in the Roman period • Puts the Roman-period site into the broader context of religion in the western Roman Empire Cambridge Classical Studies 238pp 54 b/w illus. 3 maps January 2020 9781108493192 Hardback GBP 85 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108694735
Egyptology A History of World Egyptology Andrew Bednarski | University of Cambridge
This book appeals to amateurs and professionals interested in the history of Egyptology around the world. Its detail spanning some 150 years and twodozen countries, this multi-authored, transnational volume shows where and how the study of ancient Egypt has developed, and why people have been both interested in, and inspired by, it. • Provides a holistic study of the study of ancient Egypt • Gives individual territories involved with Egyptology’s development their own voice • Includes socio-cultural in addition to academic interactions with ancient Egypt 450pp 3 maps October 2020 9781107062832 Hardback GBP 135.00 / USD 175.00 eISBN 9781107477360
The Socio-Economics of Roman Storage
Ancient Egyptian Phonology
Agriculture, Trade, and Family Astrid Van Oyen | Cornell University, New York
Complements the author’s widely-used Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 3rd edition (Cambridge, 2014). Uses an approachable treatment for linguists and scholars/students of ancient Near Eastern languages as well as Egyptologists. • The author is one of the top authorities on Ancient Egyptian language and the author of several books on this topic, among them, Middle Egyptian, now in its third edition • New, up to date methodology is used, which enables reconstruction of the sound of Ancient Egyptian • Prioritizes language-internal evidence, allowing Egyptian to be understood independently of related languages
This is the first archaeological study to approach the central problem of storage in the Roman world holistically, across contexts and datasets, of interest to students and scholars of Roman archaeology and history and to anthropologists keen to link the scales of farmer and state. • Provides a book-length model for the use of the material turn • Brings together legacy data from contexts that are not usually considered alongside each other (e.g. villas in Central Italy; northwest Mediterranean; Pompeii; ports of Rome) and weaves them into a coherent historical narrative • Puts material culture theory to work within the case studies in an accessible way 296pp 38 b/w illus. 12 colour illus. 3 maps 8 tables May 2020 9781108495530 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108850216
Urbanisation and State Formation in the Ancient Sahara and Beyond Martin Sterry | University of Durham
An agenda-setting volume providing a new base-line of knowledge and understanding of the related processes of sedentarisation, urbanisation and state formation in the Sahara and its neighbouring regions. Calls into question older views about limited pre-Islamic oasis development and scepticism about the existence of towns and states. • The state of the field in the study of urbanisation and state formation of the Sahara and neighbouring regions • Sets the agenda for future research on sedentarisation, oasis formation, urbanisation and state formation • Collates all published historical era radiocarbon dates from the Sahara, as well as a wide range of data from a vast geographic zone Trans-Saharan Archaeology 764pp 77 b/w illus. 63 colour illus. 10 tables March 2020 9781108494441 Hardback GBP 135.00 / USD 175.00 eISBN 9781108637978
James P. Allen | Brown University, Rhode Island
242pp March 2020 9781108485555 Hardback GBP 59.99 / USD 79.99 March 2020 9781108707305 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 25.99 eISBN 9781108751827
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From the Ptolemies to the Romans Political and Economic Change in Egypt Andrew Monson | New York University
Historians, classicists, Egyptologists, and social scientists will discover in this book how the Ptolemies and the Romans transformed Egypt’s traditional agrarian institutions and social structure. The analysis weaves political and economic theory with evidence from contracts, tax records and official documents to determine what influence politics had on the economy. • Integrates history and social science to come to new conclusions about the transition between Ptolemaic and Roman rule in Egypt • Incorporates new evidence: many Egyptian sources used are inaccessible or unfamiliar to other historians • Offers a case study for the impact of Roman rule 363pp 14 b/w illus. 1 map 4 tables May 2020 9781108816397 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 33.99 February 2012 9781107014411 Hardback GBP 72.99 / USD 119 eISBN 9781139028196
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Kingship, Power, and Legitimacy in Ancient Egypt
Historical Archaeology The Hidden Language of Graphic Signs
From the Old Kingdom to the Middle Kingdom Lisa K. Sabbahy
Cryptic Writing and Meaningful Marks John Bodel | Brown University, Rhode Island
This book presents a history of ancient Egyptian kingship in the Old Kingdom and its re-formation in the early Middle Kingdom. Lisa Sabbahy examines the basis of kingship and its legitimacy. It appeals to scholars interested in ancient Egyptian history. • Offers a complete discussion of Egypt before the old kingdom • Incorporates discussion of art and architecture into kinship, offering a well-rounded view of kingship • Emphasizes the role of female goddesses, providing a different view of the religion and kingship
This book zeroes in on hidden writing and alternative systems of graphic notation. Essays by leading scholars explore forms of writing that, by their formal intricacy, deflect attention from language. The volume also examines graphs that target meaning directly, without passing through the filter of words and the medium of sound. • One of the first comparative studies of how graphs encode individual and group identity and interact with other imagery in complex communication systems • Argues that signs of meaning, from numbers to markers of personal identity, remain a key to human graphs and mark-making • Shows how writing and reading are not always about ‘speed’ or ‘efficiency’ but a slow pleasure in visual and graphic puzzles
300pp December 2020 9781108830911 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108914529
Kinship and Family in Ancient Egypt Archaeology and Anthropology in Dialogue Leire Olabarria | University of Birmingham
This book uses theories from archaeology and sociocultural anthropology to approach kinship and marriage in ancient Egypt, mainly through the notions of kinship as a process and material agency. ‘Kin group’ is used as an analytical category to explore potential ways of expressing relatedness in ancient primary sources. • Provides examples of inter-disciplinary approaches and cross-cultural comparison for the study of the past • Presents kinship as a dynamic process that should be analysed from an emic perspective • Outlines a method for the study of ancient Egyptian society through apparently static sources 292pp February 2020 9781108498777 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108670487
Seeing Perfection Ancient Egyptian Images Beyond Representation Rune Nyord | Emory University, Atlanta
This Element offers a new approach to ancient Egyptian images informed by interdisciplinary work in archaeology, anthropology, and art history. Sidestepping traditional perspectives on Egyptian art, the Element focuses squarely on the ontological status of the image in ancient thought and experience.
Elements in Ancient Egypt in Context 75pp November 2020 9781108744140 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108881494
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The Power of Ritual in Prehistory Secret Societies and Origins of Social Complexity Brian Hayden | University of British Columbia, Vancouver
This is the only book in eighty years to deal with traditional secret societies from a comparative perspective. It is also the only study undertaken with an archaeological viewpoint. The conclusions will be eye-opening not only for archaeologists, but for anthropologists, students of religion, and political scientists. • Proposes a new view of ritual and religion • Summarizes the material aspects of secret societies in each chapter and gives examples of archaeological applications to prehistoric sites in one of the final chapters • Offers general discussions followed by full documentation of the characteristics of secret societies organized by specific topics 410pp 64 b/w illus. 4 maps November 2020 9781108445108 Paperback GBP 27.99 / USD 41.99 September 2018 9781108426398 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 125.00 eISBN 9781108572071
Art Western Art Architecture and the Senses in the Italian Renaissance The Varieties of Architectural Experience David Karmon | College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts
This book offers an innovative approach to Renaissance buildings and cities by reassessing the Renaissance understanding of the senses and the function of this architecture as an ‘experiential trigger.’ The experience of Renaissance architecture extends beyond scholarly investigations to engage and inspire anyone who encounters these sites. • The first book length study of Renaissance architecture that directly engages with multisensory experience • The author combines personal first-hand experience of buildings and places with historical analysis • Offers a new reading of Renaissance architecture, shifting the way we approach the field 350pp March 2021 9781108477987 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108775465
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Learning through Images in the Italian Renaissance
The Invention of Norman Visual Culture
Illustrated Manuscripts and Education in Quattrocento Florence Federico Botana
Art, Politics, and Dynastic Ambition Lisa Reilly | University of Virginia
The role played by images in the education of the young in past cultures is still a little-explored subject. This book contributes to filling the gap by demonstrating in detail how illustrated manuscripts provided education to children and adolescents in Renaissance Florence on subjects ranging from morals to mathematics. • Discusses important late medieval Tuscan vernacular texts which have not received as much attention in recent years. • Investigates in detail illustrations in manuscripts of texts treating a range of subjects from religion to mathematics. • Includes detailed archival information on manuscript owners and their families in fifteenth-century Florence 340pp July 2020 9781108491044 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108867313
The Art of Sculpture in Fifteenth-Century Italy Amy R. Bloch | State University of New York, Albany
Featuring essays by top scholars and an expansive introduction, this volume surveys fifteenth-century Italian sculpture. It offers the most comprehensive treatment of the topic to date, in its range of artists and media, and its geography: from great centers like Florence and Venice to lesser-studied cities like Milan and Naples. • Offers a complete account of fifteenth-century Italian sculpture, especially in its introduction, which surveys the century’s sculpture tout court • Essays cover a wide array of media and focus on a range of artists active throughout the Italian peninsula, from the canonical (such as Donatello and Luca della Robbia) to the less well-known (such as Bartolomeo Bellano and Antonio Rizzo) • Illuminates sculpture from traditional ‘centers’ of art-historical scholarship (such as Florence, Venice, Rome), while also alerting readers to less well-studied arenas of sculptural production (for example Milan and Naples) 454pp 112 colour illus. February 2020 9781108428842 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108579322
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The Bronze Object in the Middle Ages Ittai Weinryb
This book presents the first full length study in English of monumental bronzes in the Middle Ages, from technology of production to public reception. It is a path-breaking contribution to the study of medieval metalwork and to the re-evaluation of medieval art more broadly. • Provides a concise overview of the use of bronze in sculpture in the Middle Ages • Explores how people in the Middle Ages responded to new ideas and technologies • Represents major rethinking about the place of efficacy, agency and animation in medieval art 318pp 12 b/w illus. 108 colour illus. November 2020 9781107559103 Paperback GBP 38.99 / USD 49.99 July 2016 9781107123618 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781316402429
This book is for those concerned with the study of cultural construction and identity politics. It explores iconic examples of Norman art including the Bayeux Embroidery (Tapestry), Durham Cathedral, the Cappella Palatina and St Étienne, Caen, establishing the commonalities of Norman visual culture across Normandy, England and Sicily. • Establishes a new interpretive paradigm for the eleventh- and twelfthcentury art and architecture of the Norman world in France, England, and Sicily • Offers new ways of understanding interfaces between religious practice and cultural expression • Engages diverse media and disciplines, providing a holistic view of art and culture of the period and places 224pp February 2020 9781108488167 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108769068
Venus and the Arts of Love in Renaissance Florence Rebekah Compton | College of Charleston, South Carolina
Venus and the Arts of Love offers the first survey of Venus in the art, culture, and governance of Florence from 1300–1600. In the course of deconstructing Venus’s trajectory, this book critically examines the materials and techniques that artists employed to fulfill and even enhance the goddess’s iconographic demands. • Provides examples of inter-disciplinary art history in action • Introduces readers to technical art history, discussing pigments, binders, supports, drawings, conservation, and restoration reports in an accessible and informative manner • Offers perspectives of early modern theories of gender and sexuality 350pp January 2021 9781108842914 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108913393
Classical Studies Ancient History A Social and Economic History of the Theatre to 300 BC Volume 2 Theatre beyond Athens: Documents with Translation and Commentary Eric Csapo | University of Sydney
The first comprehensive historical study of the process by which the ancient theatre became a panhellenic and international cultural institution. Fully presents all relevant evidence, offering critical texts with translation, discussion of all important documents, and illustrations and commentary for the important material evidence. • Collects, presents and discusses in detail all the documentary and material evidence for theatre outside Athens before 300 BC • Offers the first full study of the early spread of theatrical culture • Examines the social, economic and political factors that motivated Greek and non-Greek states to embrace theatre culture 934pp 52 b/w illus. 8 colour illus. 5 maps January 2020 9780521765572 Hardback GBP 150.00 / USD 200.00 eISBN 9781139023931
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Animal Sacrifice in the Ancient Greek World Sarah Hitch | Corpus Christi College, Oxford
This volume draws together the current work of archaeologists, historians and experts in Greek literature and art to re-examine the role of animal sacrifice in Greek life across the Mediterranean, from the poems of Homer to the revival of sacrificial practice under the Roman emperor Julian in the fourth century CE. • Provides new approaches to and research data specifically on Greek sacrifice • Adopts an interdisciplinary approach with contributions from experts in language, literature and material culture • Challenges existing methodologies and explores many new topics 350pp 24 b/w illus. May 2020 9781108820202 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 August 2017 9780521191036 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105 eISBN 9781139017886
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Athenian Democracy at War David M. Pritchard | University of Queensland
Classical Athens perfected direct democracy and ancient theatre. These achievements are rightly revered. Less well known is the other side of this success story. Democratic Athens completely transformed warfare and became a superpower. This book puts the study of Athenian democracy at war on an entirely new footing. • Explores the major reasons for Athenian military success • Studies the ordinary soldiers and sailors who served in the Athenian armed forces • Provides a multifaceted account of war in Athenian democracy 311pp 17 b/w illus. March 2020 9781108435949 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 November 2018 9781108422918 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108525572
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Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City The Origins of Euergetism Marc Domingo Gygax | Princeton University, New Jersey
This is the first analysis of the origins of one of the most distinctive features of the ancient Greek citystate: the exchange of gifts and honours between benefactors and the community of citizens. It will be important not only for specialists in ancient Greek history but also for historians of later periods and for social scientists. • Analyses an historical phenomenon from an anthropological perspective • Deals with a very long period of history, enabling proper attention to the relationship between change and continuity • All the texts from ancient literary sources and inscriptions appear in translation, and Greek words are kept to a minimum and transliterated 337pp September 2020 9781108940337 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 July 2016 9780521515351 Hardback GBP 70.99 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781139031820
Benefactors and the Polis The Public Gift in the Greek Cities from the Homeric World to Late Antiquity Marc Domingo Gygax | Princeton University, New Jersey
Fresh analysis of elite public giving in the Greek cities in all periods of ancient history, highlighting it as a structural feature of polis society. Surveys the main scholarly debates on the phenomenon and continuities and changes between periods, and provides new theories and insights. • Provides a long-term perspective on the practice of public giving in the ancient Greek city • Introduces the current debates surrounding the practice both in general terms and for specific periods • Employs a range of theoretical perspectives and many different kinds of ancient evidence 348pp December 2020 9781108842051 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108895859
Children and Family in Late Antique Egyptian Monasticism Caroline T. Schroeder | University of Oklahoma
The first book about children in one of the birthplaces of Christian monasticism, Egypt. Uses diverse written and visual sources to demonstrate how early Egyptian monasteries provided an intergenerational continuity of social, cultural, and economic capital while also contesting the traditional family’s claims to these forms of social continuity. • The first book about children in one of the birthplaces of Christian monasticism • Adopts an interdisciplinary approach drawing on history, religious studies, papyrology, literary studies, gender studies, and art history • Examines the symbolism of children in literature and art as well as the social history of children 248pp 10 b/w illus. September 2020 9781107156876 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781316661642
Decrees of Fourth-Century Athens (403/2-322/1 BC) Volume 1 The Literary Evidence Peter Liddel | University of Manchester
This two-volume work comprehensively collects, translates and explains the literary evidence for decrees of the fourth-century Athenian assembly. Important for scholars and students of ancient history and politics, providing new perspectives on the working of ancient Greek direct democracy and its political legacy. • Provides a comprehensive collection, translation and analysis of references to fourth-century Athenian decrees in literary texts, with up-to-date bibliographical details for every entry • Sets epigraphical and literary evidence side-by-side and so illuminates the extent and role of stone publication in the dissemination of decrees • Offers a valuable new perspective on the workings of Athenian democracy and its legacy 1006pp March 2020 9781107184985 Hardback GBP 110.00 / USD 145.00 eISBN 9781316882726
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Decrees of Fourth-Century Athens (403/2–322/1 BC) Volume 2 Political and Cultural Perspectives Peter Liddel | University of Manchester
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This two-volume work comprehensively collects, translates and explains the literary evidence for decrees of the fourth-century Athenian assembly. Important for scholars and students of ancient history and politics, providing new perspectives on the working of ancient Greek direct democracy and its political legacy. • Provides a comprehensive collection, translation and analysis of references to fourth-century Athenian decrees in literary texts, with up-to-date bibliographical details for every entry • Sets epigraphical and literary evidence side-by-side and so illuminates the extent and role of stone publication in the dissemination of decrees • Offers a valuable new perspective on the workings of Athenian democracy and its legacy 318pp March 2020 9781107185074 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781316882788
Decrees of Fourth-Century Athens (403/2–322/1 BC) 2 Hardback Volume Set Peter Liddel | University of Manchester
This two-volume work comprehensively collects, translates and explains the literary evidence for decrees of the fourth-century Athenian Assembly. The book is important for scholars and students of ancient history and politics, and provides new perspectives on the working of ancient Greek direct democracy and its political legacy. • Presents a comprehensive collection, translation and analysis of references to fourth-century Athenian decrees in literary texts, with up-to-date bibliographical details for every entry • Sets epigraphical and literary evidence side-by-side and so illuminates the extent and role of stone publication in the dissemination of decrees • Offers a valuable new perspective on the workings of Athenian democracy and its legacy 1320pp 2 tables March 2020 9781108612425 2 Hardback books GBP 160.00 / USD 210.00 eISBN 9781108612487
Economic Theory and the Roman Monetary Economy Colin P. Elliott | Indiana University, Bloomington
Presents historians with new ways of thinking about and using economics to understand the Roman monetary system and the choices of those who used Roman money. Of interest to historians who study money in all historical periods, but especially those who study ancient Roman money. • Outlines a truly interdisciplinary approach drawn from key thinkers in multiple fields • Investigates the epistemology and applicability of quantity theory and Gresham’s Law - two widely used monetary theories • Avoids the jargon and mathematics typically associated with economics and so is more accessible to scholars and students in both the humanities and social sciences 222pp 6 b/w illus. February 2020 9781108418607 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108290531
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Empires and Exchanges in Eurasian Late Antiquity Rome, China, Iran, and the Steppe, ca. 250–750 Nicola Di Cosmo | Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey
Empires and Exchanges in Eurasian Late Antiquity offers an integrated picture of Rome, China, Iran, and the Steppes during a formative period in world history. It illuminates the interconnections and networks that tied countless local cultural expressions to far-reaching inter-regional ones. • Proposes an integrated view of Eurasia during the period ca.250–750 CE that brings together Rome, China, Iran, and the central steppe lands, allowing readers to gain a fresh approach to a coherent transformational period in world history that has not been discussed within these chronological and geographical parameters before • Brings together in an innovative way two areas that are the focus of considerable current interest, late antique studies and silk road studies, offering new methodologies for integrated study • Introduces the concept of ‘Eurasian Late Antiquity’, which is not based on the centrality of the Roman Mediterranean world, helping readers understand the commonalities, differences, and exchanges over a broad geographic area, including Rome, China, Iran, and the steppe lands between them 542pp 39 b/w illus. 9 maps August 2020 9781107476127 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 37.99 June 2018 9781107094345 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 145.00 eISBN 9781316146040
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Eurasian Empires in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages Contact and Exchange between the GraecoRoman World, Inner Asia and China Hyun Jin Kim | University of Melbourne
Studies the history, literature and archaeology of the great empires of the vast Eurasian continent from a comparative, interdisciplinary and, in particular, a Eurasian perspective. It highlights the critical role of Inner Asian empires and peoples in facilitating contacts and exchanges across Eurasia in the ancient and early medieval worlds. • Argues for the extraordinary extent to which ancient and medieval Eurasian empires were interconnected • Challenges the dichotomy of ‘settled’ and ‘nomad’, exploring how pastoralism was no barrier to sophisticated political and social organization • Highlights the role of Inner Asian empires in particular in facilitating contact and exchange between the great civilisations of Eurasia including Rome, China, Persia, India and the Near East 349pp 20 b/w illus. 6 maps 6 tables January 2020 9781316638804 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 October 2017 9781107190412 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108115865
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Exemplary Ethics in Ancient Rome Rebecca Langlands | University of Exeter
This ground-breaking study reveals the thrill and moral power of the ancient Roman story-world and its ancestral tales of bloody heroism. These famous exempla disseminated widely not only core values such as courage and loyalty, but also key ethical debates and controversies which are still relevant for us today. • Provides the first full-length study of the role of Roman exempla in ethics and education to 100 CE • Articulates a new and comprehensive model of Roman ‘exemplary ethics’ as exciting, critical, and philosophically interesting • Bases arguments on a comprehensive survey of Latin literature and extensive close readings of key works 380pp December 2020 9781108971645 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 38.99 September 2018 9781107040601 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781139629164
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Greek Narratives of the Roman Empire under the Severans Cassius Dio, Philostratus and Herodian Adam M. Kemezis | University of Alberta
Explores how Greek authors reacted to Roman political change, and how the unprecedented upheavals of the later empire were reflected in literary culture. For specialists in ancient historiography, it applies innovative literary theories of narrative to authors who have generated increased interest in recent years. • Traces the effects of political change on the broader cultural scene in the Roman Empire • Places Roman-era Greek literature in a political context • Applies the methodology of narrative world-building to ancient historiography Greek Culture in the Roman World 352pp 1 November 2020 9781107638761 Paperback GBP 28.99 / USD 37.99 October 2014 9781107062726 Hardback GBP 79.99 / USD 125.00 eISBN 9781107477308
Herodotus in the Long Nineteenth Century Thomas Harrison | University of St Andrews, Scotland
Traces the impact of Herodotus’ Histories in historical writing and an array of real-world contexts during a momentous period in world history. Engagement with Herodotus’ work permeated nationalist discourses of the period, but this also helped shape the way both Herodotus and the ancient past have been understood and interpreted. • The first detailed treatment of the reception of Herodotus (the father of history) in any particular context in English • Contains contributions from leading specialists in classical reception and on Herodotus’ Histories • Crosses disciplinary boundaries, with chapters from historians, archaeologists and classicists 350pp 14 b/w illus. 1 map March 2020 9781108472753 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108562805
Jewish Law and Early Christian Identity Betrothal, Marriage, and Infidelity in the Writings of Ephrem the Syrian Yifat Monnickendam | Tel-Aviv University
Using the writings of Ephrem, one of the earliest Syriac Christian writers, Yifat Monnickendam explores marriage, sexual relations and family law in late antique Christianity and the nature of Jewish-Christian relations. Of interest to historians of late antiquity, early Christianity and ancient Judaism. • Explores the rise of Syriac Christianity through a focus on marriage, sexual relations and family law • Uses sources from three different fields: Roman law, early Christianity and Talmudic literature • Translates all primary sources and assumes no specialized knowledge of late antique Syriac Christianity 342pp January 2020 9781108480321 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108648431
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Libertas and the Practice of Politics in the Late Roman Republic Valentina Arena | University College London
New study of the conflicting uses of libertas in the political struggles of the late Roman Republic. By reconstructing Roman political thought and reviewing the debates over specific policies, it shows the causal relation between the idea of libertas and the practice of politics of the late Republic. • Shows how the role of ideas such as liberty matters in the study of Roman politics • Provides a detailed historical account of the idea of Roman libertas, which is often regarded in modern political thought as the foundation of Republicanism • Contains in-depth analysis of Roman political thinking against the background of Classical and Hellenistic Greek thought 334pp 5 b/w illus. November 2020 9781108958301 Paperback GBP 27.99 / USD 36.99 January 2013 9781107028173 Hardback GBP 73.99 / USD 113.00 eISBN 9781139235754
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M. I. Finley An Ancient Historian and his Impact Daniel Jew
This definitive assessment of the most famous twentieth-century ancient historian engages with his impact beyond as well as within the academy, analysing the means and nature of his impact, and telling how a scholar expelled from the United States for communist links became a part of the British establishment. • A prolonged critical engagement with Finley’s work, unparalleled in treatments of other scholars, and important for all those tackling the major ancient historical problems which his work addressed • The first serious attempt to understand the impact made by a humanities scholar, engaging those who desire themselves to achieve impact by their work in the arts and humanities and revealing to policy-makers how impact has been achieved in the past • Tells a fascinating story of Finley’s life and his changing interests and is an engaging biographical history of a great scholar Cambridge Classical Studies 351pp 9 b/w illus. 3 tables January 2020 9781316603536 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 October 2016 9781107149267 Hardback GBP 70.99 / USD 110 eISBN 9781316569276
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Performance, Memory, and Processions in Ancient Rome
Public Opinion and Politics in the Late Roman Republic
The Pompa Circensis from the Late Republic to Late Antiquity Jacob A. Latham | University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Cristina Rosillo-López | Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain
The pompa circensis was a political pageant and a religious ritual that produced a republican, imperial, and even Christian image of the city. In this book, Jacob A. Latham explores the play between performance and itinerary, tracing the transformations of the circus procession from the late Republic to late antiquity. • Addresses a huge gap in scholarship, and allows one of Rome’s three great processions to stand alongside the triumph and funeral procession, which have received a lot more scholarly attention (especially the triumph) • Builds upon and extends previous important work emphasizing performance, memory, and the spatial context of processions, while offering new insights into the experience of participants and spectators • Addresses the essential elements of the procession and its development over time but more importantly emphasizes neglected aspects of ancient processions, such as non-elite participants, the itinerary, and the effect on and import to the audience 367pp 86 b/w illus. January 2020 9781107576667 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 October 2016 9781107130715 Hardback GBP 92.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781316442616
Plato’s Pigs and Other Ruminations Ancient Guides to Living with Nature M. D. Usher | University of Vermont
Plato’s Pigs is a rarity: a compelling, engaging book of broad learning and careful scholarship that is fully accessible to general audiences. Its subject - the origin of modern ideas about systems and sustainability in Classical life and thought - is timely, and its arguments important for human flourishing in the Anthropocene. • Introduces readers interested in the environment, ecology, and sustainable living to the important contributions made to these topics by the ancient Greeks and Romans • Engages seriously with modern science and ecology as well as the Classical sources • Full of lively anecdotal detail based on personal experience 320pp October 2020 9781108839587 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108884518
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Pollution and Religion in Ancient Rome Jack J. Lennon | University College London
Comprehensive examination of a major feature within pre-Christian Roman religion - the role of pollution and ritual impurity. Employs comparative material from modern anthropology and proposes that concerns over pollution and purification were integral to Roman religion and ritual. • Discusses a largely unexplored aspect of Roman religion • Incorporates up-to-date works from other relevant disciplines, including anthropology, Greek religion and biblical studies • Accessible key primary source materials, which are provided in translation 239pp November 2020 9781108958318 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD32.99 August 2013 9781107037908 Hardback GBP 67.00 / USD 103.00 eISBN 9781139795432
This book investigates the working mechanisms of public opinion in the politics of Late Republican Rome. It explores the political interaction (and sometimes opposition) between the elite and the people through rumours, gossip, political literature, popular verses and graffiti, and also argues for a wider conception of political participation by the people. • Argues that public opinion existed in the Late Roman Republic and analyses its working mechanisms • Explores a wider approach to the political participation of the people • Applies the spatial turn to politics in order to locate informal politics in its actual archaeological settings 282pp October 2020 9781316508442 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 June 2017 9781107145078 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781316535158 NEW IN PAPERBACK
Reading Roman Friendship Craig A. Williams | Brooklyn College, City University of New York
This book explores the ways in which friendship was performed by Romans through readings of a wide range of literary texts - poems, novels and philosophical writings, letters both by emperors and by soldiers and commemorations on epitaphs commissioned by men, women, citizens and slaves. A richly varied and perhaps surprising picture emerges. • Interprets Roman friendship with attention to gender • Discusses not only literary texts but burial practices and epitaphs, giving readers a fuller picture of Roman culture than they can obtain from reading Latin literature alone • Avoids overly technical language and translates and explains all Latin texts in a smooth and readable style 388pp 14 b/w illus. May 2020 9781108820189 Paperback GBP 27.99 / USD 35.99 October 2012 9781107003651 Hardback GBP 80.99 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9780511777134
Religious Violence in the Ancient World From Classical Athens to Late Antiquity Jitse H. F. Dijkstra | University of Ottawa
The first assessment of religious violence throughout the whole of Antiquity, with a particular focus on Late Antiquity where a much more nuanced picture is offered, grounded in recent cutting-edge research. Of interest to scholars of Graeco-Roman religions and Late Antiquity, historians of early Christianity and historians of religion. • Adopts a nuanced and sophisticated approach to religious violence, grounded in Religious Studies • Considers the phenomenon in all its complexity and diversity across the whole of Antiquity • Contains a representative set of case studies, placing the developments of Late Antiquity in a long-term perspective while also highlighting specific local and historical factors 400pp 12 colour illus. October 2020 9781108494908 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108860215
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Revisiting Delphi Religion and Storytelling in Ancient Greece Julia Kindt | University of Sydney
This book speaks to all admirers of Delphi and its famous prophecies, whether they are experts on ancient Greek religion, students of the ancient world, or just lovers of a good story. It highlights key themes of oracle stories and finds religious meaning in the infamous oracular ambiguity. • The first extended exploration of the link between religion and narrative in the Delphic Oracle stories • Further opens up the study of ancient Greek religion to questions of ‘theology’ and religious thought • Combines breadth and detail with methodological innovation and synthesis Cambridge Classical Studies 231pp 1 b/w illus. January 2020 9781316606155 Paperback GBP 21.99 / USD 28.99 September 2016 9781107151574 Hardback GBP 70.99 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781316585047 NEW IN PAPERBACK
Roman Festivals in the Greek East From the Early Empire to the Middle Byzantine Era Fritz Graf | Ohio State University
This book explores how Roman religious festivals were celebrated in the Greek East, how they changed in the centuries between Augustus and the Middle Byzantine Era, and how this influenced the Christian liturgical calendar. Of interest to scholars of the religions of Rome, Greece, and the Near East, including Judaism and Christianity. • Provides a new approach to the spread of Roman culture in the Greek East • Presents a fresh view of the Christianisation of the Roman Empire • Shows how developments of the late Roman festival calendar shaped the Christian festival calendar Greek Culture in the Roman World 379pp November 2020 9781107465053 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 38.99 November 2015 9781107092112 Hardback GBP 82.99 / USD 132.00 eISBN 9781316135778
Roman Frugality Modes of Moderation from the Archaic Age to the Early Empire and Beyond Ingo Gildenhard | University of Cambridge
Explores how the ancient Romans negotiated the interface of economics and ethics and handled needs and wants throughout their history. Focuses on the desirability of individual and collective self-restraint in the pursuit of wealth, physical pleasures (food, drink, sex) and power. • Provides an in-depth study of a key, yet frequently overlooked phenomenon of Roman cultural history • Studies frugality from a range of disciplinary perspectives (ancient history, archaeology, economic history, philology) • Links the phenomenon of Roman frugality to the post-classical history of economic thought Cambridge Classical Studies 428pp 1 b/w illus. July 2020 9781108840163 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108879088
Roman Phrygia Culture and Society Peter Thonemann | University of Oxford
This multidisciplinary collection of essays transforms our understanding of ancient inner Anatolia, one of the most fascinating and understudied regions of the Roman empire. With essays on law, religion, architecture and art history, this book will be essential reading for all social and cultural historians of the Roman world. • Provides the first comprehensive picture of a fascinating and neglected region of the Roman empire • Features a wide range of thematic, cultural and art-historical approaches • Includes essays by major specialists in the field Greek Culture in the Roman World 324pp 76 b/w illus. 3 maps 1 table November 2020 9781108465373 Paperback GBP 27.99 / USD 36.99 August 2013 9781107031289 Hardback GBP 73.99 / USD 112.00 eISBN 9781139381574
Roman Port Societies The Evidence of Inscriptions Pascal Arnaud | Université Lumière Lyon II
An international team of experts draws upon a rich range of Latin and Greek texts to explore the roles played by individuals at ports in activities and institutions that were central to the maritime commerce of the Roman Mediterranean. Invaluable for all scholars and students of Roman history. • One of the first detailed analyses of the social composition of Roman ports • Provides an important complement to our archaeological understanding of Roman ports • Advocates the importance of the archaeological context of the inscriptions, as well as an ontological approach to the study of the texts themselves British School at Rome Studies 448pp 44 b/w illus. 9 maps 7 tables September 2020 9781108486224 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108665278
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Rome and the Third Macedonian War Paul J. Burton | Australian National University, Canberra
The historian Polybius recognised the significance of Rome’s victory in the Third Macedonian War: it effectively made Rome an almost global power beyond compare. Paul J. Burton provides a very readable full-length narrative of the war and its aftermath, the first in English. Aimed at students, scholars and military history enthusiasts. • The only comprehensive English treatment of the war, its causes, and its after-effects • Uses modern International Relations theory to clarify the causes of the war • Provides full background to the events surrounding the war, increasing accessibility to non-specialist and general readers 255pp January 2020 9781107506961 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 25.99 October 2017 9781107104440 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781316221631
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Rome, China, and the Barbarians
Simplicity and Humility in Late Antique Christian Thought
Ethnographic Traditions and the Transformation of Empires Randolph B. Ford | State University of New York, Albany
Elites and the Challenges of Apostolic Life Jaclyn L. Maxwell | Ohio University
Examines how ancient Greeks, Romans, and Chinese constructed a civilized sense of Self and a ‘barbarian’ Other, and how these notions held up in critical periods of barbarian invasion and conquest. Gives original insights into the ‘fall’ of the Western Roman Empire and the sixth-century reunification of China. • Gives a comparative reassessment of ethnographic practices and world views in these ancient civilizations and their reception in late antiquity • Puts forward an original theory for the understanding of the critical, yet unexplored, divergence in ancient imperial trajectories • Makes use of primary texts in all of the original languages, with translations by the author 388pp 12 maps April 2020 9781108473958 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108564090
Rulers and Ruled in Ancient Greece, Rome, and China Hans Beck | Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany
Explores the creative potential of juxtaposing the cultural foundations of the Mediterranean world and ancient China. Embarking from the observation that Greek, Roman, and Han-Chinese societies were governed by comparable features, the contributors to this volume explain the dynamic interplay between political rulers and the ruled masses. • Captures the political cultures of the two largest civilizations in antiquity • Focusses on the relation between political leaders and the masses • Fosters a new comparative approach to the ancient world 448pp December 2020 9781108485777 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108641166
Serving Athena The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities Julia L. Shear | Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington
The first full-length treatment of the Panathenaia, the most important festival in ancient Athens. Investigates how individuals participated in this long-lived, all-Athenian celebration, and how their participation constructed and fostered both group and social identity. Essential for anyone working on ancient Greece and especially Greek religion. • The first monograph-length treatment of the festival of the Panathenaia, integrating written evidence with evidence from material culture • Covers the entire course of the Panathenaia’s long history, fully engaging with the Hellenistic and Roman periods as well as the Archaic and Classical • Applies theories of social identity to the ancient Greek material 500pp February 2021 9781108485272 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00 eISBN 9781108750943
The social values of upper-class Christians in Late Antiquity often contrasted with the modest backgrounds of their religion’s founders – the apostles. Drawing on examples from the Cappadocian Fathers, John Chrysostom, and other late antique authors, this book examines their attitudes toward the apostles and the virtues of simplicity and humility. • Focuses on the development of the important Christian virtues of simplicity and humility • Emphasizes the importance of social and cultural context when studying Christian ideas • Explores how upper-class Christian authors in Late Antiquity made sense of their socioeconomic standing in contrast with that of the apostles 216pp April 2021 9781108832267 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108935739
Skilled Labour and Professionalism in Ancient Greece and Rome Edmund Stewart | University of Nottingham
This book is a history of ancient professionals: the makers of ancient Greek and Roman artworks, the authors of classical literature and the performers at ancient dramatic, musical and athletic contests. These individuals were specialist workers deemed to possess rare skills, for which they had undergone a period of training. • Provides a definition of professionalism and other terminology in the introduction and throughout • Provides a detailed discussion of specialization in ancient Athens and Ostia and details 276 distinct occupations in Athens • Provides surveys and case studies of major professions, including ancient theatrical performers, doctors, philosophers, sculptors and artists 350pp 20 b/w illus. September 2020 9781108839471 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108878135
Social Control in Late Antiquity The Violence of Small Worlds Kate Cooper | Royal Holloway, University of London
Explores power relations in the households, schools, and monasteries of late antiquity in light of social theory, in a way that will be of interest to advanced undergraduates and postgraduate historians, as well as to scholars in the humanities and social sciences with interests in religion, law, and the family. • Sheds light on the small-scale environments such as households, schools, and monasteries, where ancient people spent much of their daily lives • Documents the experience of low-status people including women, children, and slaves • Offers an interdisciplinary view of late Roman social life informed by modern social science 348pp October 2020 9781108479394 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108783491
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The Geography of Strabo An English Translation, with Introduction and Notes Duane W. Roller | Ohio State University
First serviceable English translation in nearly a century of the only surviving work of its type in Greek literature. The major source for studying ancient geography and an important source for the journey of Alexander the Great, Greek cultic history, and early scientific theories about the nature of the world. • The first English translation of this important author in nearly a century • The only work of its genre surviving in Greek literature, and the primary source for the history of Greek geography • An important source for the journey of Alexander the Great, Greek understanding of the scientific nature of the ancient world, and criticism of the Homeric poems 909pp 2 maps 1 table August 2020 9781316625675 Paperback GBP 34.99 / USD 45.99 May 2014 9781107038257 Hardback GBP 142.00 / USD 227.00 eISBN 9781139814706
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The Athenian Empire Using Coins as Sources Lisa Kallet | University of Oxford
This extensively illustrated book addresses the significance of coins as historical documents in the larger narrative of the empire and those who came into conflict with it. While written principally for an undergraduate audience, much of the coin evidence is new and will also interest a more advanced readership. • Presents a new narrative of the Athenian empire with an emphasis on its economic and monetary foundations and drawing heavily on significant recent research • Includes images of nearly 100 Greek coinages that illuminate the detailed history of Aegean Greece in the fifth century BC • Written accessibly for undergraduate students and their instructors Guides to the Coinage of the Ancient World 200pp 198 b/w illus. 2 maps 3 tables October 2020 9781107015371 Hardback GBP 54.99 / USD 71.99 October 2020 9781107686700 Paperback GBP 17.99 / USD 22.99 eISBN 9781139058476
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The Early Roman Expansion into Italy Elite Negotiation and Family Agendas Nicola Terrenato | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
The book presents a radical new interpretation of Roman expansion in Italy. Argues that the process was achieved by means of a grand bargain among local elites rather than through military conquest. Using archaeological, epigraphic, and historical evidence, it reconstructs the family interactions that tied together Italian aristocrats to form a new state. • Proposes a radical new interpretation of early Roman imperialism • Integrates archaeological data to a much greater extent than previous treatments • Written in accessible and non-technical language so as to appeal to a wide readership
The Founder of Manichaeism Rethinking the Life of Mani Iain Gardner | University of Sydney
A study of the life of Mani using the very latest research, new texts and archaeological discoveries. The history of Manichaeism has been revolutionised by spectacular finds in Egypt, Central Asia and China, to be established as a pivotal Silk Road religion and conduit for ideas between east and west. • Uses the life of Mani to explore the key historical basis and origins of one of the world’s most influential religions • Argues for a critical understanding and evaluation of the sources for the Mani-biography, thereby overturning many long-established and conventional views • Introduces new texts that have only recently come to light or are still in the process of being edited 142pp March 2020 9781108499071 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108614962
The Fragmentary Latin Histories of Late Antiquity (AD 300–620) Edition, Translation and Commentary Lieve Van Hoof | Universiteit Gent, Belgium
The first systematic collection of fragmentary Latin historians from the period AD 300–620. Translations and commentaries make them accessible and propose new interpretations. The volume also reconsiders the evolution of historiography in the transition from Antiquity to the Middle Ages. • Gathers the previously neglected fragmentary Latin historians and makes their work accessible through translations and commentaries • Analyses in detail the historical information transmitted by the fragments • Sheds new light on the development of Latin historiography in the period 342pp June 2020 9781108420273 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 115.00 eISBN 9781108333047
The Future of Rome Roman, Greek, Jewish and Christian Visions Jonathan J. Price | Tel-Aviv University
Demonstrates that Romans, Greeks, Jews and Christians imagined the future of Rome in strikingly different ways, revealing profound differences in their conceptions of history and historical time, the purpose of history, the meaning of written words and oral traditions. • A cutting-edge volume on a topic never before systematically explored • Reveals profound differences between the views of the different peoples living under the Roman Empire on the same fundamental question • Explores concepts of historical time and other modes of time 320pp September 2020 9781108494816 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108860000
347pp 23 b/w illus. 21 maps August 2020 9781108436854 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 May 2019 9781108422673 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108525190
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The Legend of Seleucus
The Psychology of the Athenian Hoplite
Kingship, Narrative and Mythmaking in the Ancient World Daniel Ogden | University of Exeter
The Culture of Combat in Classical Athens Jason Crowley | University of Manchester
A reconstruction of the fascinating legend that developed around the figure of Seleucus, the most accomplished of the successors to Alexander the Great, investigating the rich symbolism of its constituent episodes, in which divine birth, enchanted talismans, marvellous omens, pathological desires, ghostly vengeance and dragons feature prominently. • Contextualises the legendary material surrounding Seleucus within a wide range of traditional narratives, both Greek and non-Greek, contemporary, previous and subsequent • Supplies full translations, making this effectively a valuable sourcebook for readers to explore the legend • Explores fully the relationship of Seleucus’ legend with the legends attaching to Alexander the Great and will therefore be of particular significance to those interested in the Alexander Romance as well as Alexander more generally 400pp November 2020 9781316616529 Paperback GBP 30.99 / USD 39.99 April 2017 9781107164789 Hardback GBP 94.99 / USD 126.00 eISBN 9781316691236
Applies cutting-edge theories of combat motivation in order to reveal to the specialist and non-specialist reader alike how, without training, monetary incentives or coercive discipline, the amateur Athenian hoplite repeatedly stifled his fears and unhesitatingly engaged his enemies in savage close-quarters combat. • Establishes and systematically applies an analytic and heuristic model of combat motivation in order to demonstrate exactly why the Athenian hoplite was such an impressive warrior • Adopts a comparative approach and analyses a wide range of modern data in order to situate the Athenian hoplite’s experience of combat in the wider context of military history and to compare his capacity for combat with that of more modern soldiers • By examining the hoplite’s relationships with his immediate comrades, his military unit, his city-state and his leaders, the book offers a thorough examination of Athenian society, religion and politics 250pp 15 b/w illus. December 2020 9781108971515 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 August 2012 9781107020610 Hardback GBP 72.99 / USD 113.00 eISBN 9781139105767
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The Metallurgy of Roman Silver Coinage From the Reform of Nero to the Reform of Trajan Kevin Butcher | University of Warwick
The quality of Rome’s silver coinage is regarded as an indicator of the financial health of the empire: the traditional view is that quality declined almost continuously due to over-expenditure. The results presented in this book challenge this view, and offer new models supported by new scientific data. • Proposes a new view of the Roman monetary economy, moving away from ‘primitivist’ approaches to Roman coinage • Presents the first reliable set of analyses of the silver content of Roman coinage, the first reliable set of data on metal sources and production technology, and a new set of metrological data • Provides a history of analyses and a survey of different techniques, thereby enabling readers to understand why appropriate sampling methods are fundamental to obtaining useful results 841pp 227 b/w illus. 24 colour illus. 118 tables May 2020 9781108816380 Paperback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99 April 2015 9781107027121 Hardback GBP 125.00 / USD 193.00 eISBN 9781139225274
The Nero-Antichrist Founding and Fashioning a Paradigm Shushma Malik | Roehampton University, London
Refutes the commonly-held perception that Nero should be understood as the Antichrist figure in the Bible, and argues instead that this paradigm was a product of late antiquity. The paradigm’s success facilitated its revival in the nineteenth century against the backdrop of the era’s fin-de-siècle anxieties and religious controversies. • Provides the first detailed assessment of the Nero-Antichrist from the perspective of ancient history • Traces the history of the Nero-Antichrist using key case studies from late antiquity and the nineteenth century • Explores Nero’s reception history in relation to the Antichrist in homily, exegesis, literature, film, and TV Classics after Antiquity 242pp April 2020 9781108491495 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108868921
Using Coins as Sources Liv Mariah Yarrow | Brooklyn College, City University of New York
Introduces students of ancient history to the various ways in which coins can help illuminate the history of the Roman republic, with over 200 larger-than-life-size illustrations and detailed captions. Demystifies the more technical aspects of the field of numismatics and culminates in a how-to guide for further research for non-specialists. • Provides a sourcebook of over 200 coins fundamental to understanding the history of the period, illustrating each one and accompanying it with a detailed caption • Explains in jargon-free language how coins can illuminate many key topics within the history of the Roman republic and explains all necessary technical terms • Contains maps, a detailed timeline, a glossary and a how-to guide for further research Guides to the Coinage of the Ancient World 200pp December 2020 9781107013735 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 December 2020 9781107654709 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 25.99 eISBN 9781139005173
The Scribes of Rome A Cultural and Social History of the Scribae Benjamin Hartmann | Universität Zürich
Explores the lives of Rome’s public scribes, the scribae. In analysing a wide range of source material, it examines the cultural significance of these literate experts and their work and its implication for their position in Roman society and the state. • The first book-length treatment of the subject • Adopts a thematic rather than a chronological approach • Focuses on cultural and social history within an overarching theoretical framework 252pp 8 b/w illus. 1 table September 2020 9781108493963 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108656917
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The Social Dynamics of Roman Imperial Imagery Amy Russell | Brown University, Rhode Island
The visual language of the Roman Empire was remarkably consistent. These images were made, used, and reinterpreted at all social levels, and often for local purposes. From a historical and archaeological perspective, this book explores the visual contribution of ordinary people across Rome’s empire. • Explores the contributions of all levels of society to imperial imagery and image-making around the Mediterranean • Moves beyond top-down and bottom-up communication to consider peer-to-peer interactions • Introduces theories of social dynamics with wide potential application to the study of ancient history 348pp October 2020 9781108835121 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108891714
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The Social World of Intellectuals in the Roman Empire Sophists, Philosophers, and Christians Kendra Eshleman | Boston College, Massachusetts
Explores how social networks shaped the identity of sophists, philosophers, and Christians in the early Roman Empire. Taking a sociological focus, this book redresses a bias toward intellectual concerns, enriches understanding of the Second Sophistic and reframes the formation of Christian ‘orthodoxy’. • Offers a fresh view on the formation of early Christian ‘orthodoxy’ • Contributes to a growing body of work on social networks and the politics of group identity in antiquity • Provides a more rounded view of the Second Sophistic Greek Culture in the Roman World 303pp 2 b/w illus. November 2020 9781107624412 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 48.00 November 2012 9781107026384 Hardback GBP 67.99 / USD 119.00 eISBN 9781139207300
The Tabula Lugdunensis A Critical Edition with Translation and Commentary S. J. V. Malloch | University of Nottingham
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Theodosius II Rethinking the Roman Empire in Late Antiquity Christopher Kelly | University of Cambridge
Theodosius II was the longest reigning Roman emperor. Although often dismissed as mediocre and ineffectual, he ruled an empire which retained its vitality and integrity while the West was broken up by barbarian invasions. This book explores Theodosius’ success in a century that stands between the classical world and Byzantium. • Re-evaluates the reign of Rome’s longest serving emperor • Proposes a new view of the fifth century AD, offering fresh insight into the transition from the classical world to Byzantium • Focuses on the Roman Empire in the East, which has tended to be neglected in the rush to understand the decline and fall of the Roman Empire in the West Cambridge Classical Studies 340pp 1 b/w illus. May 2020 9781108816410 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 August 2013 9781107038585 Hardback GBP 73.99 / USD 112.00 eISBN 9781139839075
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Theologies of Ancient Greek Religion Esther Eidinow | University of Nottingham
This wide-ranging investigation of the theorising about the divine that is implicit and explicit in the religious practices and literary and philosophical texts of the ancient Greeks, shows that Greeks thought hard about what gods must be like and what the appropriate ways to worship them were. • Constitutes the first prolonged attempt to understand the theology implicit in Greek literary texts and Greek religious actions • Treats both the implicit theology of cult practice and instructions/ stories about cult practice, and the explicit theology of the philosophers • Gives a new basis for thinking about continuity and change in Greek religion Cambridge Classical Studies 441pp 16 b/w illus. January 2020 9781316607503 Paperback GBP 28.99 / USD 37.99 August 2016 9781107153479 Hardback GBP 82.99 / USD 132.00 eISBN 9781316597811
The Tabula Lugdunensis preserves part of a speech delivered to the senate in AD 48 by the Emperor Claudius supporting a petition by elites of north-western Gaul to hold senatorial rank and office. This edition contains a newly-edited text, an English translation, and a comprehensive introduction and commentary. • The fullest scholarly treatment of the Tabula Lugdunensis in English • Presents a newly edited Latin text of the speech of Claudius preserved on the Tabula and a translation into English • Includes a comprehensive introduction and commentary addressing relevant historical, archaeological, and philological issues arising from the speech of Claudius and its epigraphic medium 220pp 7 b/w illus. 2 maps September 2020 9781108484190 Hardback GBP 79.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108682091
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Visual Style and Constructing Identity in the Hellenistic World Nemrud Dağ and Commagene under Antiochos I Miguel John Versluys | Rijksuniversiteit Leiden, The Netherlands
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This book provides a new interpretation of Nemrud Dağ, a key Hellenistic monument with both Greek and Persian elements. It develops a novel approach to understanding relations between visual style and constructing identity in antiquity, and will be important for those interested in cultural dynamics, dynastic propaganda and ancient globalisation. • Provides a fresh interpretation of a spectacular but under-explored Hellenistic monument, showing its importance for numerous artistic, political and cultural debates • Focuses on the construction of identity through visual style, making the volume of interest to archaeologists, cultural historians, art historians and anthropologists • Argues for a global perspective on the history and archaeology of the late Hellenistic world Greek Culture in the Roman World 332pp November 2020 9781316506776 Paperback GBP 27.99 / USD 36.99 June 2017 9781107141971 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781316494035
Warfare in the Roman World A. D. Lee | University of Nottingham
Situates warfare in its broader political, social and economic context in the Roman world, and is distinctive in integrating consideration of developments during Late Antiquity alongside those during earlier periods of Roman history. Important for all students, instructors and scholars of ancient and military history. • Situates warfare in its broader political, social and economic context in the Roman world • Gives fuller attention to developments during Late Antiquity alongside earlier periods of Roman history • Adopts a thematic approach which better reveals continuities and changes across a millennium of Roman history Key Themes in Ancient History 200pp 6 b/w illus. 5 maps September 2020 9781107014282 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 September 2020 9781107638280 Paperback GBP 17.99 / USD 23.99 eISBN 9781139013680
Women and Society in the Roman World A Sourcebook of Inscriptions from the Roman West Emily A. Hemelrijk | Universiteit van Amsterdam
Offers a lively view into a wide range of activities, occupations and social and family roles of women in the cities of the Roman West on the basis of translated inscriptions. Makes this material accessible for students, scholars and anyone interested in the history of women and gender. • The most wide-ranging and comprehensive sourcebook of inscriptions relating to the lives of women published to date • Presents a representative sample of inscriptions by, for and about women, with brief introductions, accessible translations and references to further reading • The accompanying webpage provides the original texts in the same order as in the book with added layout and punctuation 450pp 72 b/w illus. 3 maps October 2020 9781107142459 Hardback GBP 99.99 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9781316536087
Xenophon and the Athenian Democracy The Education of an Elite Citizenry Matthew R. Christ | Indiana University
Fresh examination of how Xenophon instructs his elite readers concerning the values, knowledge, and practical skills they need to lead the Athenian democracy. Of interest to all those concerned with the role of elites in democracies, ancient and modern. • Explores the significant continuities in Xenophon’s political thinking across his Athenian works • Contextualizes Xenophon’s writings in the aftermath of the disastrous reign of the oligarchic Thirty (404/ 3 BC), and explores their significance for contemporary elite Athenian readers • Translates all Greek into English and uses clear language throughout in order to maximize accessibility 260pp September 2020 9781108495769 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108862998
Ancient Philosophy Aristotle on Inquiry Erotetic Frameworks and Domain Specific Norms James G. Lennox | University of Pittsburgh
Examines how Aristotle’s philosophical reflections on scientific knowledge impact his actual scientific inquiries, arguing that he believes in a general, question-guided framework applicable to all scientific inquiries and domain-specific norms reflecting differences in the target of inquiry and in the means of observation available to researchers. • Provides a rich picture of Aristotle as a natural scientist employing different methods of inquiry depending on differences in the objects of study and our access to them • Argues that the Posterior Analytics provides a framework for all scientific inquiries, to be supplemented by domain-specific norms, and is not Aristotle’s last work on scientific method • Combines a presentation of Aristotle’s general theory of inquiry with five case studies of how this shapes his studies of animals, the soul, the heavens, elemental compounds and respiration 348pp February 2021 9780521193979 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781139047982
Aristotle on Language and Style The Concept of Lexis Ana Kotarcic | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
The first systematic analysis of Aristotle’s concept of lexis, which is approached on three interconnected levels: the first dealing with language as a system, the second with actual language usage, and the third with prescriptions for the kind of language to be used in poetic and rhetorical compositions. • The first systematic analysis of Aristotle’s concept of lexis • Discusses other major concepts featuring in Aristotle’s works, like mimēsis, phantasia and energeia, to show the importance of lexis for his thought in general • Written accessibly for a wide range of scholars and students, with all Greek and Latin translated 288pp October 2020 9781108499521 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108583442
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Aristotle’s Generation of Animals A Critical Guide Andrea Falcon | Concordia University, Montréal
Provides a critical and philosophically informed exploration of this, one of the most mature, sophisticated, and carefully crafted scientific writings, in which Aristotle gives an account of animal reproductive processes. Important for scholars and students of ancient philosophy and of the history and philosophy of science. • The first volume entirely devoted to this very important and sophisticated work • Examines many aspects of the work and opens up new avenues of inquiry • Provides in-depth discussion of Aristotle’s embryological, zoological, and medical views Cambridge Critical Guides 305pp 3 b/w illus. 1 table January 2020 9781107589582 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 January 2018 9781107132931 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781316459386
Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics Book X Translation and Commentary Joachim Aufderheide | King’s College London
A hybrid between traditional commentary and monograph exploring the final, most arresting book of Aristotle’s Ethics in a philosophically rigorous yet interpretatively open way. The new translation makes each argument clear, while the commentary explores Aristotle’s motivations and methods and grounds his thinking in its intellectual context. • The first modern commentary on Book X of the Nicomachean Ethics • Contains a new translation that brings out Aristotle’s most important arguments while remaining balanced on key debates • Enables readers to experience Aristotle as a philosopher who reacts to, and engages with, his predecessors and contemporaries by setting his thinking in its intellectual context 296pp January 2020 9781107104402 Hardback GBP 94.99 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781316221594
Body and Soul in Hellenistic Philosophy
Calcidius on Plato’s Timaeus Greek Philosophy, Latin Reception, and Christian Contexts Gretchen Reydams-Schils | University of Notre Dame, Indiana
The first study to assess in its entirety the fourthcentury Latin commentary on Plato’s Timaeus by the otherwise unknown Calcidius, as well as features of his Latin translation. The text represents a distinctive cultural encounter between the Greek and the Roman philosophical traditions, and between non-Christian and Christian currents of thought. • The first analysis of the text in its entirety • Sheds new light on the interactions between the so-called ‘pagan’ and Christian traditions • Presents an overview of the reception of Plato’s cosmology in his Timaeus, also in the Latin tradition 232pp September 2020 9781108420563 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108354745
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Cicero on Politics and the Limits of Reason The Republic and Laws Jed W. Atkins | Duke University, North Carolina
Written for scholars and advanced students working in both classics and political theory, this book provides a new interpretation of Cicero’s central works of political philosophy. It demonstrates that Cicero’s Republic and Laws are critical for understanding the history of the concepts of rights, the mixed constitution and natural law. • The only recent book in English that provides in-depth analysis of both Cicero’s Republic and Laws • Provides a new interpretation of Cicero’s central works of political philosophy that pays close attention to both dialogue form and philosophy • Discusses the early development of the concepts of rights, the mixed constitution and natural law, appealing to readers interested in the history of political thought as well as to classicists Cambridge Classical Studies 284pp May 2020 9781108816403 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 October 2013 9781107043589 Hardback GBP 67.99 / USD 108.00 eISBN 9781107338722
Brad Inwood | Yale University, Connecticut
The relationship of soul to body was one of the earliest and most persistent questions in ancient thought. The essays cover connected issues from the period immediately after Aristotle to the second century CE. Doctors from Herophilus to Galen are covered, as are the Peripatetic, Epicurean, Stoic and Platonist traditions. • A collection of new essays on the soul-body relationship in the philosophy of the Hellenistic period • Includes discussion of Stoics, Epicureans, and other Hellenistic philosophical schools • Features discussion of Hellenistic medical texts and their relationship with philosophical issues 262pp June 2020 9781108485821 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108641487
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Cosmology and Politics in Plato’s Later Works Dominic J. O’Meara | Université de Fribourg, Switzerland
Knowledge of the structure of the cosmos, Plato suggests, is important in organizing a human community which aims at happiness. Dominic J. O’Meara investigates this theme in Plato’s later works, the Timaeus, Statesman ,and Laws, situating them in their artistic and religious context. • Investigates, for the first time, Plato’s views on the relation between cosmic structure and human happiness • Makes the arguments and interpretations accessible to non-specialists as well as specialists 169pp January 2020 9781316634431 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 25.99 October 2017 9781107183278 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781316869581
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Diogenes Laertius: Lives of Eminent Philosophers
Music and Philosophy in the Roman Empire
An Edited Translation Stephen White | University of Texas, Austin
Francesco Pelosi | Università degli Studi, Pisa
An up-to-date and accessible translation of this important work, which recounts ‘brief lives’ of eminent ancient philosophers. Diogenes Laertius traces the development of Greek philosophy from its origins to full maturity, exploring the activities, thoughts, and writings of leading Pythagoreans, Aristotelians, Cynics, Stoics, Epicureans, and Skeptics. • Offers an accessible translation of a key third-century work which stands as the preeminent surviving ancient history of Greek philosophy • Informed by huge progress in recent philosophical and historical scholarship, making it fully up to date • Presents ancient philosophy as a way of life for leading figures including Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Epicurus, as well as leading Atomists, Cynics, Stoics, and Skeptics 700pp January 2021 9780521883351 Hardback GBP 150.00 / USD 195.00 eISBN 9781139047111
Galen and the Arabic Reception of Plato’s Timaeus Aileen R. Das | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Explores the Timaeus’ impact on pre-modern Greek and Arabic conceptualizations of medicine and will appeal to classicists, medievalists, and historians of philosophy, science, and the Middle East. Its five case studies examine how thinkers such as Galen and Avicenna used Plato’s dialogue to define their expertise and professional identities. • Explores diverse historical contexts in assessing Galen’s impact on medieval Arabic readings of Plato’s Timaeus • Promotes a reception-based approach to the study of Greco-Roman texts and ideas in medieval Islamic, Christian, and Jewish contexts • Employs methodologies from Science, Technology and Society Studies (STS) to examine how Plato’s Timaeus provoked new ways of thinking about knowledge categories 320pp October 2020 9781108499484 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108583107
Heat, Pneuma, and Soul in Ancient Philosophy and Science Hynek Bartoš | Charles University, Prague
Ancient theories of the soul were influenced decisively by general assumptions about basic properties of living things, especially ‘heat’ and ‘breath’ (pneuma). This volume considers the relationship of the notions of heat, breath (pneuma), and soul in ancient Greek philosophy and science from the Presocratics to Aristotle. • Gives a comprehensive overview of the theories of ancient Greek philosophers on the soul and life • Explores connections between ancient philosophy and ancient medicine in the context of Greek psychology • Includes a distinguished international range of contributors 388pp March 2020 9781108476737 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108651714
Is music just matter of hearing and producing notes? This book explores different ways in which, in the Roman Imperial period, music was rather a fundamental part of complex philosophical discourses and the object of in-depth philosophical analyses, ranging from cosmology to ethics and from epistemology to theology. • Offers a fresh understanding of post-Hellenistic and late antique philosophy through a thorough analysis of the numerous philosophical uses of musical notions in the works from this period • Adopts both a diachronic and a thematic approach • Accessible to readers with little or no Greek 376pp February 2021 9781108832274 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108935753
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Philosophical Life in Cicero’s Letters Sean McConnell | University of East Anglia
This first book in English dedicated to philosophy in Cicero’s letters addresses classicists, philosophers, political theorists, and historians. Cicero’s political and philosophical activities are reassessed, with special attention given to the civil war and Caesar. A new picture emerges of Cicero the philosopher and philosophy’s place in Roman political culture. • The first book in English dedicated to philosophy in Cicero’s letters • Integrates philosophical discussion with wider political and literary concerns • Comprises selected in-depth case studies which are thematically linked Cambridge Classical Studies 268pp May 2020 9781108820233 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 April 2014 9781107040816 Hardback GBP 67.99 / USD 108 eISBN 9781139629379
Philosophy and Religion in Plato’s Dialogues Andrea Nightingale | Stanford University, California
Challenges the dominant idea that Plato is a secular thinker and shows how he uses specific aspects of Greek religion in his philosophy, especially the epiphanies of gods to humans, the Eleusinian Mysteries, and the Orphic mysteries. 320pp March 2021 9781108837309 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108938815
Plato’s Ion Poetry, Expertise and Inspiration Franco Trivigno | Universitetet i Oslo
This Element defends an interpretation of Plato’s Ion on which its primary concern is with audience reception of poetry. The dialogue presents the character of Ion as a comedic figure, a self-ignorant fool whose foolishness is a function of his passive relation to Homer.
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Plato’s Academy Its Workings and its History Paul Kalligas | University of Athens, Greece
A comprehensive, interdisciplinary history of Plato’s Academy, the most prominent philosophical school in antiquity, which lasted for about 300 years. Also includes the first complete annotated translation in English of Philodemus’ History of the Academy, preserved on a papyrus from Herculaneum. • Provides a comprehensive account of the history and evolution of Plato’s Academy over the 300 years of its existence • Adopts an interdisciplinary approach involving archaeologists, classicists and historians of philosophy and science • Presents Philodemus’ History of the Academy for the first time in an annotated English translation 444pp 12 b/w illus. 8 maps March 2020 9781108426442 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108554664
Posthuman Transformation in Ancient Mediterranean Thought Becoming Angels and Demons M. David Litwa | Australian Catholic University, Melbourne
Investigates posthuman transformation (becoming angels and demons) among poets, philosophers, and theologians of the ancient Mediterranean world. Brings together Hellenic, Jewish, Christian, and gnostic authors, and connects their visions of moral transformation to modern transhumanist visions of biotechnical enhancement. • Connects ancient and modern theories of posthuman transformation • Shows how the themes of posthuman transformation cross religious lines in antiquity as well as modern academic disciplines • Accessibly written in a narrative format which assumes little prior knowledge of the historical themes and characters 248pp January 2021 9781108843997 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108921572
Productive Knowledge in Ancient Philosophy The Concept of Technê Thomas Kjeller Johansen | Universitetet i Oslo
Sets out for the first time the ancient views and debates about productive knowledge or technê through the whole period of antiquity, covering all the major schools of ancient philosophy. Readers will come to understand the central role that technê played in ancient intellectual life. • Explains in detail what ancient philosophers thought technê was • Shows the wide use of technê as a model for ethics, rhetoric, the arts, politics and cosmology • Traces debates through the history of ancient philosophy from the fifth century BC to the fifth century AD 348pp December 2020 9781108485845 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108641579
Pseudo-Aristotle: De Mundo (On the Cosmos) A Commentary Pavel Gregorić
De mundo is a protreptic to philosophy and a work of both cosmology and theology, inspired by Aristotle. It is unique in presenting both a scientific explanation of the universe and a philosophical account focusing on the supreme cause of the universe’s coherence and stability, God. • One of the first extended studies of De mundo to focus on its philosophical content rather than issues of authorship, dating and style • Argues that the work provides an interpretation of Aristotle’s position about God and his relation to the universe which is at once philosophically compelling and methodologically interesting for the author’s use of analogy • Offers a glimpse into the philosophical debates in the Hellenistic period and late antiquity, but also into the genre of popular philosophy characteristic of the time 320pp 8 b/w illus. 2 maps November 2020 9781108834780 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108876964
Relative Change Matthew Duncombe | University of Nottingham
A relative change occurs when some item changes a relation. This Element examines how Plato, Aristotle, Stoics and Sextus Empiricus approached relative change. Elements in Ancient Philosophy 75pp September 2020 9781108713429 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108581660
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Religion and Identity in Porphyry of Tyre The Limits of Hellenism in Late Antiquity Aaron P. Johnson | Lee University, Tennessee
Explores the critical engagement of Porphyry of Tyre with the processes of Hellenism in late antiquity. Based on a careful treatment of all the relevant remains of Porphyry’s work, the book argues for a complex unity of thought in the philosopher’s work in terms of philosophical translation. • The first comprehensive treatment of the works of Porphyry relevant for understanding his religious and cultural philosophy • Proposes a new interpretation of the whole corpus of his work in terms of a complex unity of thought • Examines Porphyry as a product of Hellenism, while at the same time recognizing the complexities of ancient processes of cultural exchange and ethnic identifications Greek Culture in the Roman World 384pp 1 table December 2020 9781108971669 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 38.99 March 2013 9781107012738 Hardback GBP 79.99 / USD 119.00 eISBN 9780511998546
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Classical Art, Architecture Aegean Bronze Age Art Meaning in the Making Carl Knappett | University of Toronto
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This book provides a novel take on the art of the ancient Aegean world. It is written for archaeologists and historians of the Mediterranean and the Classical world, and for a wider humanities and social sciences audience interested in how the material turn can be put to use in practice to offer new interpretations. • Introduces a new framework for the study of protohistoric art and embeds it within broader theoretical currents • Includes five case study chapters that offer an original set of methods for addressing visual and material culture processually, in close connection to ancient artifacts from the Aegean • Contains an abundant color ilustration program that provides rich visual material in support of the arguments 350pp 89 b/w illus. 1 map June 2020 9781108429436 Hardback GBP 34.99 / USD 45.00 eISBN 9781108554695
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Architecture and Politics in Republican Rome Penelope J. E. Davies | University of Texas, Austin
This book provides a comprehensive account of the relationship between the architecture of Republican Rome and its politics. It covers the early Republic, the plebeians’ struggle for equality, the years of Mediterranean expansion, and the gradual unraveling of senatorial control. The book closes with the dictatorship of Caesar, the first Republican to propose large-scale city planning. • Provides the first monographic treatment of Republican architecture in Rome, elucidating a body of material that is copious but poorly understood • Offers a reading of Republican architecture within its political context, adding a depth of meaning to the buildings • Offers a reasoned explanation of the development of Roman urbanism in the Republic, going beyond seeing Republican architecture simply as a formal precursor to imperial Rome 376pp 45 b/w illus. 200 colour illus. 18 maps July 2020 9781107476110 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 December 2017 9781107094314 Hardback GBP 44.99 / USD 58.99 eISBN 9781316146026
Empires of Faith in Late Antiquity Histories of Art and Religion from India to Ireland Jaś Elsner | University of Oxford
Reveals the rewards of exploring the relationship between art and religion in the first millennium, and the problems of comparing the visual cultures of emergent and established religions of the period in Eurasia - Buddhism, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, Islam, Judaism, Christianity, and the pagan religions of the Roman world. • Uses case studies to demonstrate the challenges of comparing art and religion across Eurasia in the first millennium • Shows how images need to be brought into discussion of these topics alongside texts and scriptures • Reveals the limitations to scholarship imposed by modern attitudes founded in the fraught history of Eurasia in the last 150 years and enables new starting points to be adopted 530pp March 2020 9781108473071 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00 eISBN 9781108564465
Figurines in Hellenistic Babylonia Miniaturization and Cultural Hybridity Stephanie M. Langin-Hooper | Southern Methodist University, Texas
This volume investigates the impact of Greek art, particularly Hellenistic sculpture motifs and styles on the figurines of Babylonia after the conquests of Alexander the Great. It provides practical applications of two branches of anthropology theory, cultural hybridity and miniaturization, which are explored in detailed case studies. • Provides a comprehensive exploration of miniaturization theory, and adds new advances to the study of tiny objects • Explores cross-cultural interaction and cultural hybridity in dialogue with another theory/methodology (miniaturization) and shows how these concepts can be used together to better understand ancient objects • Provides many case study examples of how to interpret figurines based on their materiality and affective properties 350pp 12 b/w illus. 109 colour illus. 1 map March 2020 9781108488143 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108769020
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Greek Myths in Roman Art and Culture Imagery, Values and Identity in Italy, 50 BC–AD 250 Zahra Newby | University of Warwick
This book explores the representations of Greek myths in Roman art, including public, domestic and funerary contexts. It shows the crucial role Greek culture played in forming Roman identity, and how this changed over time. The book is aimed at scholars and students of Roman art and of Roman social and cultural history. • A comprehensive treatment of the representation of myths in Roman art • Brings together current scholarship on a range of separate areas, such as wall-painting, funerary art and sarcophagi • Proposes a new reading of mythological art as indicating an important shift in Roman social and cultural values • Integrates the study of art into the broader social and cultural history of Rome Greek Culture in the Roman World 415pp 125 b/w illus. January 2020 9781107420731 Paperback GBP 28.99 / USD 37.99 September 2016 9781107072244 Hardback GBP 82.99 / USD 132.00 eISBN 9781139680387
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Painting, Poetry, and the Invention of Tenderness in the Early Roman Empire Herica Valladares | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
This book’s subject and interdisciplinary approach will interest scholars in several subfields of Classics: art history, archaeology, literary and cultural studies. Its focus on pictorial and poetic representations of love stories will also appeal to academics who study the history of emotions, and the wider public intrigued by ancient Rome. • Analyses Roman wall painting and Latin love elegy through an interdisciplinary lens that highlights previously unexamined connections between early imperial art and literature • Prior knowledge of Greek and Roman art and literature is not assumed; all Greek and Latin passages are translated into English • Delineates the emergence and dissemination of a new amatory ideal in early imperial art and literature, calling attention to long overlooked connections between Roman representations of love stories and later poetic and pictorial iterations of these narratives 300pp December 2020 9781108835411 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108883917
Rhetoric and Innovation in Hellenistic Art Kristen Seaman | University of Oregon
The intended readers of this book are students and scholars in the fields of art history, classics, archaeology and ancient history, as well as others who read books in these areas. Drawing upon art, archaeology, literature, and history, it examines well-known artworks that interest a range of readers. • Explores how rhetoric helped Hellenistic art to look different from the Greek art of previous periods • Uses famous artworks from Pergamon and Alexandria as focal points • Reconstructs the historical context of Hellenistic courts and patronage 206pp 50 b/w illus. 8 colour illus. 1 map April 2020 9781108490917 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108859202
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The Afterlives of Greek Sculpture Interaction, Transformation, and Destruction Rachel Kousser | Brooklyn College, City University of New York
This study is the first comprehensive historical account of the afterlives of ancient Greek monumental sculptures. It sheds new light on the creation of Hellenic cultural identity and the formation of collective memory in the Classical and Hellenistic eras. • The first comprehensive historical account of the afterlives of Greek monumental sculptures • Offers new insights into the formation of Greek cultural identity and its relationship to art • Provides a fresh perspective on the role of the image in Greek society 333pp 92 b/w illus. 14 colour illus. March 2020 9781107694682 Paperback GBP 20.99 / USD 31.99 July 2017 9781107040724 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781139629287
The Basilica of Saint John Lateran to 1600 L. Bosman | Universiteit van Amsterdam
The first inter-disciplinary study to examine the origins, construction and development of the world’s first cathedral, founded by the Emperor Constantine. Brings together the work of leading specialists on the archaeology, architectural history, art, geophysics, history and liturgy of the building and its setting. • The first inter-disciplinary study of the world’s first cathedral, exploring its development over one and a half millennia • Draws on innovative specialist techniques, such as ground-penetrating radar and digital visualization/provocation, which are fully explained • Sets the Lateran Archbasilica in its wider topographical setting British School at Rome Studies 600pp September 2020 9781108839761 Hardback GBP 110.00 / USD 140.00 eISBN 9781108885096
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The Lives and Worship of Idols from the Iron Age to Late Antiquity Philip Kiernan | Kennesaw State University, Georgia
The Frame in Classical Art
This book explores how Roman cult images were created, used, and eventually destroyed, from the Iron Age to Late Antiquity. Useful to both undergraduates and faculty readers studying ancient art, Roman archaeology, ancient religion, the European Iron Age, and Late Antiquity. • Using a biographical approach and cross-cultural models, the book presents a picture of cult image and idol use in temples from the Iron Age to late antiquity • Makes important artworks and sites accessible that have hitherto only been published in languages other than English, while providing a good summary of Iron Age and Roman provincial religious art • Examines evidence of Roman provincial images of the gods as well as how statues were staged inside Romano-Celtic temples
This book argues for the integral role of framing within Graeco-Roman art, as well as exploring the relationship between the frames of classical antiquity and those of more modern art and aesthetics. It is aimed at students and scholars of art history, aesthetics, visual studies and classics, as well as cultural and intellectual history. • Allows for an analysis and interpretation of details and aspects of classical image-making that have been overlooked or under-theorised • Puts classical art history in dialogue with contemporary art-historical theory and approaches from deconstructionism, anthropology, sociology and linguistics • Encourages intellectual dialogue across periods and art-historical categories, with a focus on framing pictorial space, the body, religion, and the relationship between image and text
377pp 94 b/w illus. June 2020 9781108487344 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108766555
A Cultural History Verity Platt | Cornell University, New York
735pp 221 b/w illus. October 2020 9781316614815 Paperback GBP 39.99 / USD 49.99 April 2017 9781107162365 Hardback GBP 110.00 / USD 142.00 eISBN 9781316677155
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Classical Languages Aegean Linear Script(s) Rethinking the Relationship Between Linear A and Linear B Ester Salgarella | St John’s College, Cambridge
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Uses an interdisciplinary approach to throw light on the transmission process of Linear A to Linear B script, by combining structural and linguistic analyses with epigraphic, palaeographic and archaeological investigations and by placing the writing practice in its socio-historical setting. Of interest to linguists, archaeologists and historians. • Proposes a new framework of interpretation for the relationship between Linear A and Linear B • Shows how linguistics and archaeology are intrinsically related and intertwined in the study of inscriptions, as inscribed objects are both archaeological artefacts and carriers of written texts • Illustrates the implications of an interdisciplinary approach for our understanding of the historical context of the Bronze Age Aegean, in the absence of any contemporary literary evidence
Migration, Mobility and Language Contact in and around the Ancient Mediterranean James Clackson | University of Cambridge
The first volume to show the different ways in which surviving linguistic evidence can be used to track movements of people in the ancient world. Discusses cases for the period from the seventh century BC to the fourth century AD, ranging from Spain to Egypt, from Sicily to Pannonia. • The first volume to link linguistic evidence and population movement in the ancient world • Features contributors from different disciplinary backgrounds, showing how different disciplines make sense of the available evidence • Includes material from minority languages spoken around the ancient Mediterranean, including Etruscan, Oscan and others Cambridge Classical Studies 374pp 7 b/w illus. 1 map 8 tables May 2020 9781108488440 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108763943
Cambridge Classical Studies 400pp October 2020 9781108479387 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108783477
The Undeciphered Signs of Linear B
Asyndeton and its Interpretation in Latin Literature
Provides valuable insights into the development and use of the Linear B writing system and important methodological advances in investigating the Linear B texts’ chronology and the activities of their writers. Of value to classicists, Mycenaean Greek archaeologists, and linguists working on writing systems. • Establishes an accurate and up-to-date corpus of the Linear B undeciphered signs • The first complete analysis of the undeciphered signs which takes into account their place within the syllabary as a whole • Wide-ranging analysis of the development and use of the Linear B writing system
History, Patterns, Textual Criticism J. N. Adams | All Souls College, Oxford
The most comprehensive account of asyndetic coordination in Latin, genre by genre, ever attempted. Discusses diverse literary and non-literary genres from early Latin to the early Empire, and includes material from Greek and Italic languages. Essential for all scholars of Latin and editors of classical texts. • Analyses asyndeta in a variety of Latin genres spread over half a millennium, thereby allowing comparisons to be made between different writers and genres over time • Allows informed judgments to be made about the influence of Greek writers or genres on Roman, e.g. of Homer on Virgil, New Comedy on Plautus • Offers a typology of Latin asyndetic pairs according to grammatical, semantic and structural features 500pp April 2021 9781108837859 Hardback GBP 110.00 / USD 145.00 eISBN 9781108943284
Interpretation and Scribal Practices Anna P. Judson | Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Cambridge Classical Studies 348pp 187 b/w illus. 2 maps 22 tables September 2020 9781108494724 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108859745
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Expressions of Time in Ancient Greek Coulter H. George | University of Virginia
English speakers find it hard to explain why they say something happens at a particular time, but on a certain day, and in a given year; however this book does just that for Ancient Greek, describing not only variation among Classical authors, but also diachronic change in the following centuries. • Revises our understanding of Greek case usage • Refines the description of adverbial phrases of time • Shows how Greek changed in the post-Classical period, especially as it came into contact with Latin and Semitic languages
Cambridge Classical Studies 341pp 22 tables May 2020 9781108820257 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 June 2014 9781107003941 Hardback GBP 73.99 / USD 125.00 eISBN 9780511782312
A Guide to NeoLatin Literature Victoria Moul | King’s College London
The first available work devoted specifically to the enormous wealth and variety of neo-Latin literature, including major works by Petrarch, More and Milton. It offers both essential background to the understanding of this material and chapters devoted to individual forms. All Latin is translated throughout the volume. • The first full-scale guide to focus specifically on neo-Latin literature, accessible to all scholars and students, even if they do not know Latin • Combines chapters on individual literary forms with others on themes and topics of common importance • Provides advice on accessing and using manuscript and early printed sources, as well as a uniquely detailed bibliography of the available secondary literature 516pp 2 b/w illus. May 2020 9781108820066 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 38.99 February 2017 9781107029293 Hardback GBP 84.99 / USD 140.00 eISBN 9781139248914
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A Hellenistic Anthology Second Edition Neil Hopkinson | Trinity College, Cambridge
Makes accessible a wide range of important poetic texts from the third and second centuries BC. It provides help with the background to these writers and with the Greek of these often allusive and challenging works. This second edition has been thoroughly updated and substantially expanded. • Helps students gain an overall picture of the range of poetry produced during this important but often unfamiliar period so that they can relate the authors and poems one with another • Provides full notes on matters of syntax and unfamiliar vocabulary and with allusions to Homer and other poets • This second edition has been thoroughly updated and includes three hundred more lines of Greek text Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics 300pp 3 maps September 2020 9781108472401 Hardback GBP 79.99 / USD 105.00 September 2020 9781108459563 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 eISBN 9781108560375
A Literary Commentary on Panegyrici Latini VI(7) An Oration Delivered before the Emperor Constantine in Trier, ca. AD 310 Catherine Ware | University College Cork
This oration from AD 310, which covers Maximian’s rebellion, Constantine’s claim of descent from Claudius II and his vision of Apollo, is crucial for understanding Constantine’s early career. The commentary examines the literary context and the role of the classical literary and rhetorical tradition in creating a new imperial persona. • Provides full commentary on the speech, examining in detail the presentation of key events • Illustrates the continuing importance of the classical tradition in late antique Gaul, the role of rhetoric, the knowledge of earlier authors and the use of allusion and intertextuality • Places the speech in the context of the corpus as a whole, showing how the orator uses earlier speeches to shape the persona of Constantine 336pp December 2020 9781107123694 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 115.00 eISBN 9781316421796
Achilles Tatius: Leucippe and Clitophon Books I–II Tim Whitmarsh | University of Cambridge
The first modern commentary in English on this most sophisticated and brilliant of ancient Greek novels. With its freewheeling plotline, its setting on the edge of the Greek world, its ironic play with the reader’s expectations and its sallies into obscenity, it will appeal strongly to students and instructors. • Helps students understand the late, sometimes colloquial Greek of the novel • Explains and illustrates Achilles’ different stylistic techniques and registers, his use of allusion and the interconnectedness of the novel as a whole • Clarifies the different gender, sexual, cultural etc. politics of an ancient novel for a student readership highly attuned to these issues
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Aesthetic Experiences and Classical Antiquity The Significance of Form in Narratives and Pictures Jonas Grethlein | Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany
This study proposes a new dialogue between the fields of Classics and aesthetics. It uses ancient narratives and pictures, comparing them with modern material, in order to explore the specific nature of aesthetic experience. • Brings a new approach to the field of aesthetics, using ancient narratives and pictures to explore the influence of form on our responses • Provides a combination of close readings of ancient material and theoretical discussion • Compares ancient and modern material, balancing historicist approaches with transhistorical arguments 315pp January 2020 9781316642573 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 November 2017 9781107192652 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108131582
Ancient Greek Lists Catalogue and Inventory Across Genres Athena Kirk | Cornell University, New York
Ancient Greek Lists brings together catalogic texts from a variety of genres, both literary and epigraphic, arguing that the list form was the ancient mode of expressing value through text. Of immense value to students and scholars of Classical literature, ancient history, and ancient languages. • Illuminates Greek literary and epigraphic lists, catalogues, and inventories by analyzing them as a single cultural phenomenon • Gives an overview of inscribed inventories with examples from several corpora, examining many under-studied texts • Theorizes list texts as capable of expressing infinite value 272pp March 2021 9781108841139 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108887397
Apollonius Rhodius, Herodotus and Historiography A. D. Morrison | University of Manchester
Examines the relationship of Apollonius of Rhodes’ Argonautica with Herodotus’ Histories. Argues that it uses Herodotean historiography as a key intertext in order to manipulate the reader’s generic expectations for an epic poem and to complicate the relationship between the contemporary Hellenistic Mediterranean and the distant mythological past. • Provides a systematic treatment of the presence of Herodotus in the Argonautica • Explores the implications of Herodotus’ presence for political readings of the poem • Argues that Herodotus is used to modify the interaction between the Argonautica and the Homeric epics 254pp January 2020 9781108492324 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108697989
Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics 294pp 3 b/w illus. June 2020 9781107190368 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 June 2020 9781316640593 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 eISBN 9781108105378
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Approaches to Lucretius
Catullus and Roman Comedy
Traditions and Innovations in Reading the De Rerum Natura Donncha O’Rourke | University of Edinburgh
Theatricality and Personal Drama in the Late Republic Christopher B. Polt | Boston College, Massachusetts
Re-examines a range of critical approaches to which this influential poem has given rise and which in turn have shaped its interpretation, including textual criticism, the text’s strategies for engaging the reader with its author and his message, ‘atomology’, intertextuality, and the political and ideological questions that the poem raises. • Gathers an international team of scholars to present a range of approaches to Lucretius • Structured around key methodologies in the interpretation of Lucretius • Innovates within and beyond existing critical approaches to Lucretius
Argues that the largest extant theatrical tradition of the third and second centuries BCE continued to be vital for writers of the first century BCE, especially in helping them to communicate strange and difficult ideas about their personal anxieties and concerns to public audience. • Analyzes Catullus’ engagement with Roman comedy, revealing the intersection of two genres and literary periods that have often been understudied • Provides a fresh interpretation of Catullus’ poetic program in light of the comic elements he incorporates • Relates Catullus’ literary practice with contemporary assumptions and ideas about theater’s role in elite Roman social life
320pp 2 b/w illus. July 2020 9781108421966 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108379854
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Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazusae Philosophizing Theatre and the Politics of Perception in Late Fifth-Century Athens Ashley Clements | Trinity College, Dublin
Offers scholars of Greek literature new evidence of Aristophanes’ polemical use of philosophy in poetic competition; ancient philosophers new evidence of the popular reception of Parmenides; and scholars in theatre studies new evidence that explicit theorizing about theatre begins with a comic appropriation of Eleatic ideas about reality and illusion. • Provides a new philosophical close reading of the dramatic framework of a major play by Aristophanes • Contributes to our understanding of the popular reception and pragmatic use of philosophical ideas during the late fifth century BC, and also of Plato’s later reception of Aristophanic comedy • Restores Thesmophoriazusae to its proper status as a philosophical comedy, revealing hitherto unrecognized evidence of Aristophanes’ selective and tendentious comic appropriation of Eleatic ideas Cambridge Classical Studies 243pp May 2020 9781108820240 Paperback GBP 21.99 / USD 28.99 April 2014 9781107040823 Hardback GBP 67.99 / USD 108.00 eISBN 9781139629386
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Carthage in Virgil’s Aeneid Staging the Enemy under Augustus Elena Giusti | University of Warwick
Explores the ideological use of Carthage in the most authoritative of the Augustan literary texts, the Aeneid of Virgil. Addressed to students and scholars of the classical world interested in the literature and ideology produced under autocratic regimes, the representations of enemies and the relationship between history, poetry, and myth. • Provides a new literary and historicist reading of Virgil’s Aeneid and its Augustan context • Investigates afresh the ideology of Caesar Augustus in relation to the wider history of ideologies and autocratic regimes • Engages in a range of approaches of great current interest, such as the representation of the other and the erasure of subalterns from classical texts Cambridge Classical Studies 348pp January 2020 9781108404181 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 March 2018 9781108416801 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108241960
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Catullus Through his Books Dramas of Composition John Kyrin Schafer | Wake Forest University, North Carolina
Seeks to transform our understanding of the beloved Latin poet by confronting centuriesold problems about his surviving text and the relationship between his poetry and his depicted life circumstances. Argues that Catullus produced three books of poems, whose design explains the notoriously jarring shifts in his work. • Introduces a new theory of Catullus’ poetic corpus as three distinct, authorially arranged poetry collections • Calls attention to the text’s depictions of its own genesis, especially at the openings and close of each work, as gestures of authorial selffashioning and metapoetic commentary • Situates its analysis of Catullus’ books within Roman literary culture and book-writing and reading practices 320pp 1 b/w illus. 15 tables March 2020 9781108472241 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108559584
Cicero’s Political Personae Joanna Kenty
Argues that Cicero assumed eight distinctive personae in the speeches of the latter half of his career to maximize political leverage and persuasion. Provides new insights into his political manoeuvring and the subtleties of his Latin prose. Accessible to students and non-specialists as well as scholars. • Addresses all of the speeches from the second half of Cicero’s career • Explores Cicero’s use of literary and rhetorical techniques to intervene in specific political and historical circumstances • Includes close philological readings of ancient texts with an appreciation for linguistic subtleties 300pp September 2020 9781108839464 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108878098
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Classical Literature on Screen Affinities of Imagination Martin M. Winkler | George Mason University, Virginia
This book argues for a new approach to the creative affinities between ancient verbal and modern visual narratives. Examines screen adaptations of classical epic, tragedy, comedy, myth, and history using ancient theories of drama and rhetoric. Demonstrates the undiminished vitality and importance of classical antiquity in our visually oriented media. • Interprets adaptations of major classical authors from Homer to Heliodorus by important and popular American and European filmmakers • Focuses on the ways in which ancient texts and their screen adaptations evoke comparable emotions and employ comparable plot situations and stylistic emphases • Accessible to students and researchers alike through an avoidance of jargon and translations of all foreign-language texts 424pp 54 b/w illus. January 2020 9781316641873 Paperback GBP 28.99 / USD 37.99 September 2017 9781107191280 Hardback GBP 94.99 / USD 126.00 eISBN 9781108123358
Classical Philology and Theology Entanglement, Disavowal, and the Godlike Scholar Catherine Conybeare | Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania
Modern disciplinary silos tend to separate classical philology and theology. This book explores for the first time the deep and significant interactions between them, revealing the often hidden or disavowed reliance of two major ways of understanding the world. • Explores the crucial history of two major disciplines and their interactions • Develops fascinating test cases which reveal the two disciplines’ reliance on one another • Showcases the distinct and contrasting approaches of nine distinguished scholars 288pp September 2020 9781108494830 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108860048
Dionysus after Nietzsche The Birth of Tragedy in Twentieth-Century Literature and Thought Adam Lecznar | University College London
This exciting book explores the fate of ancient Greek gods, philosophy and tragedy amongst the wars and revolutions of the twentieth century. It focuses on Friedrich Nietzsche’s influence on a diverse array of novelists, scholars, poets, philosophers and playwrights who used antiquity to rethink their post-industrial and postcolonial modernity. • Argues for the centrality of Nietzsche to modern understandings of ancient Greece • Explores how different cultural traditions responded to the Greeks after Nietzsche • Proposes a new approach to classical reception studies Classics after Antiquity 256pp April 2020 9781108482561 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108696890
Ennius’ Annals Poetry and History Cynthia Damon | University of Pennsylvania
Advances the study of Ennius’ Annals, a foundational but now fragmentary work of Latin literature, by exploring the cross-fertilization of recent critical approaches to Latin poetry and historiography and by reflecting on the tools and methods conducive to future literary and historical research on the poem. • Combines consideration of Ennius’ innovations as a writer of history in verse form with consideration of the reception and transmission of the Annals • Illustrates the progress that can be made in interpreting the Annals independent of any commitment to broad assumptions about the nature of the poem or the arrangement of its surviving fragments • Offers a new format for citing the fragments of the Annals, without abandoning the numeration used in the now-standard edition of the poem 353pp 2 tables April 2020 9781108481724 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108650908
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Dionysius: The Epic Fragments Volume 56 Amin Benaissa | University of Oxford
The most comprehensive edition of the fragments of Dionysius, a key Greek epic poet of the first century CE. It provides an extensive introduction, an integrated translation, and in-depth linguistic and literary commentary. The book is essential for all scholars interested in Greek epic poetry, as well as in Hellenistic and imperial Greek poetry. • A comprehensive and accessible edition of Dionysius’ poetic fragments, our most crucial evidence for the development of Greek epic poetry in the early imperial period • Includes new fragments and takes into account recent re-evaluation of the papyri, resulting in a substantially improved and more reliable text • Provides a facing-page English translation with a detailed commentary on linguistic and literary aspects of individual fragments
Richard Hunter | University of Cambridge
Euripides’ Cyclops is the only example of Attic satyr-drama which survives intact and brilliantly dramatises the famous story from Homer’s Odyssey of how Odysseus blinded the Cyclops after making him drunk. This full literary and linguistic commentary on the play is suitable for both advanced students and scholars. • The first full commentary on the play in English for four decades • Provides extensive linguistic help for student readers in particular • The Introduction and Commentary provide a detailed account of the play considering textual, linguistic, historical and literary issues Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics 278pp 2 b/w illus. July 2020 9781316510513 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 July 2020 9781108399999 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108227148
Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries 366pp November 2020 9781316631157 Paperback GBP 32.99 / USD 42.99 January 2018 9781107178977 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 115.00 eISBN 9781316831786
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Experience and Teleology in Ancient Historiography Futures Past from Herodotus to Augustine Jonas Grethlein | Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany
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This new approach to the temporal dynamic of historiography will appeal to classicists, ancient historians and scholars interested in the theory of history. Its application to major Greek and Roman historians yields a new and often surprising take on individual authors and the history of ancient historiography in general. • Develops a new approach to the narrative form of historiography • Offers fresh and original readings of major Greek and Roman historians • Encourages a fruitful dialogue between reflections on the theory of history and close readings of texts 434pp May 2020 9781108820264 Paperback GBP 28.99 / USD 37.99 October 2013 9781107040281 Hardback GBP 84.99 / USD 137 eISBN 9781139628815
Feeling and Classical Philology Knowing Antiquity in German Scholarship, 1770–1920 Constanze Güthenke | University of Oxford
Nineteenth-century German classical philology underpins many structures of the modern humanities. This book shows how a language of love and a longing for closeness with a personified antiquity has lastingly shaped modern professional reading habits, notions of biography, and the self-image of scholars and teachers. • Revises standard narratives about the history of the discipline of classical studies, emphasizing the role of the emotions • Explains foundational debates of the discipline of classics in Germany which have influenced the subsequent development of the humanities in general • Provides a new critical interpretation that questions the continuing importance of biography in historical and philological scholarship Classics after Antiquity 238pp March 2020 9781107104235 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781316219331
Female Characters in Fragmentary Greek Tragedy P. J. Finglass | University of Bristol
The study of female characters has long been central to tragic scholarship, and this volume sheds new light by focusing on the neglected evidence of the fragments. This innovative collection is of value to all readers interested in Greek theatre, fragmentary literature, and the representation of women in antiquity. • Provides the first large-scale investigation of female characters in Greek tragedy from the perspective of the fragmentary plays • Offers a new methodological model for how to bring fragmentary tragedy into the mainstream of literary scholarship • Makes texts that are often thought to be the preserve of philological specialists accessible to a wide audience of students and scholars 300pp 2 b/w illus. July 2020 9781108495141 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108861199
Gargilius Martialis: The Agricultural Fragments James L. Zainaldin | Harvard University, Massachusetts
The agricultural writings of the third-century Roman author Gargilius Martialis provide an important perspective on ancient agriculture, scientific and technical authorship in Greece and Rome, and the history and sociolinguistics of Latin. This edition undertakes to explain Gargilius’ agricultural writings and make them more accessible. • Provides a new edition of the Latin text and the first English translation of Gargilius Martialis’ agricultural fragments • The introduction explains the position of Gargilius’ writings in the tradition of agricultural writing at Rome and deals with linguistic, literary, historical, technical/scientific, and philosophical issues • The commentary fully explains the content, structure and language of the Latin text and presents much material of broader interest to classical scholars Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries 402pp 3 b/w illus. 16 colour illus. 5 tables April 2020 9781108499897 Hardback GBP 110.00 / USD 145.00 eISBN 9781108759489
Greek and Latin Letters in Late Antiquity The Christianisation of a Literary Form Pauline Allen | University of Pretoria
The first general book on Greek and Latin letterwriting in Late Antiquity (400-600 CE). Allen and Neil examine early Christian Greek and Latin literary letters, their nature and function, the mechanics of their production and dissemination and their crucial importance to the society of their time. • The first ever comprehensive treatment of Greek and Latin letterwriting in Late Antiquity • Takes the reader through the genre of the letter, the process of writing letters and the materials used, and their dissemination down to our own times • Demonstrates that, with the Christianisation of the letter, its pagan antecedents were not ignored but adapted 224pp September 2020 9781316510131 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 September 2020 9781316649503 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 24.99 eISBN 9781108186834
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Greek Comedy and the Discourse of Genres Emmanuela Bakola | King’s College London
Innovative treatment of Greek comedy, showing that an essential characteristic at the heart of its identity is its voracious and multifarious dialogue with a large spectrum of literary, sub-literary and paraliterary traditions which surround and shape it. Explores comedy’s interactions with numerous other genres within a unified interpretative framework. • Provides the most wide-ranging treatment of Old Comedy from the viewpoint of its multifarious dialogues with other literary, subliterary and paraliterary traditions • Explores comedy’s interactions with certain literary traditions through new or hitherto underexplored approaches • Illustrates how self-reflexivity, a feature of comedy across periods and cultures, is inextricably connected to intergeneric discourse 420pp 13 b/w illus. May 2020 9781108820080 Paperback GBP 28.99 / USD 37.99 April 2013 9781107033313 Hardback GBP 81.00 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9781139519601
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Greek Theater in Ancient Sicily Kathryn G. Bosher | Northwestern University, Illinois
Provides a new and broader perspective on ancient theater by focusing on its origins and development in Sicily and southern Italy, especially in connection with comedy. Examining the fragments of Epicharmus, cult traditions, vase paintings and theater archaeology, Kathryn G. Bosher explores the link between politics and art on the island. 300pp 15 b/w illus. 2 maps December 2020 9781108493871 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108663878
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Hellenistic Epigram Contexts of Exploration Francis Cairns | Florida State University
This book offers scholars and students of Hellenistic and Roman literature an overview of Hellenistic epigram. In fourteen themed chapters, it foregrounds the literary, linguistic, historical, epigraphic, social, political, ethnic, cultic, onomastic, local, topographical and patronage contexts of Hellenistic epigrams. Many epigrams are analysed in detail and new interpretations proposed. • Offers detailed studies of individual epigrams throughout • Allows readers to become involved holistically in individual epigrams • Studies individual epigrams in thematic groupings • Allows readers to expand their understanding to analogous epigrams 534pp January 2020 9781316617878 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 38.99 October 2016 9781107168503 Hardback GBP 82.99 / USD 132.00 eISBN 9781316717479
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Hellenistic Epigrams A Selection Alexander Sens | Georgetown University, Washington DC
Greek ‘literary’ epigrams constitute one of the most versatile and dynamic poetic forms in the Hellenistic period. This edition introduces students to this variable genre. It provides substantial grammatical and linguistic help to less experienced readers of Greek, whilst its interpretive material will also be of interest to scholars. • Provides substantial help with difficult grammar and vocabulary suitable for the advanced undergraduate and graduate student • Illustrates the way the individual poems play with generic conventions to create meaning • Each poem is preceded by an interpretive essay discussing the relationship of form to content Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics 320pp November 2020 9780521849555 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 November 2020 9780521614818 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 eISBN 9781139024839
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Landscape and the Spaces of Metaphor in Ancient Literary Theory and Criticism Nancy Worman | Barnard College, Columbia University
Explores a previously uncharted area of ancient literary theory and criticism by examining how metaphors of place and spaces of metaphor shape discussions of literary style in Greece and beyond. Figurative imagery highlighting details of significant landscapes provide writers with a vivid and influential vocabulary for distinguishing among styles. • Proposes a new approach to ancient criticism and theory, focusing on imagery rather than argument and highlighting how a figurative discourse develops out of familiar landscape settings • The interpretive frame is broad and innovative, appealing to readers interested in landscape and metaphor in antiquity and beyond • Provides detailed readings of lesser-known but important texts 380pp May 2020 9781108814478 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 January 2016 9780521769556 Hardback GBP 70.99 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781139032827
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Latin Literature and its Transmission Richard Hunter | University of Cambridge
A series of innovative studies in the textual and literary criticism of Latin literature, exploring how these two branches of the discipline are mutually supportive. The contributors include many leading scholars in the field. Individual essays are devoted to Catullus, Cicero, Horace, Lucretius, Ovid, Tacitus and Virgil. • Covers topics in both the textual and literary criticism of Latin literature, showing how the two broad approaches are in fact mutually supportive • Presents essays on Republican and Imperial Latin literature, as well as the reception of the classics • All significant quotations of Greek and Latin are translated Cambridge Classical Studies 380pp 14 b/w illus. 1 table January 2020 9781107538115 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 November 2015 9781107116276 Hardback GBP 82.99 / USD 132.00 eISBN 9781316337066
Libanius: Ten Mythological and Historical Declamations Introduction, Translation, and Notes Robert J. Penella | Fordham University, New York
Translations of ten rhetorical declamations of the fourth-century AD sophist Libanius of Antioch and some related texts, with introductions. Each one involves a mythological or historical figure giving a speech in court or trying to persuade an audience, and they are of great rhetorical, educational and cultural interest. • The first modern language translation of nine declamations of Libanius and two related Byzantine translations • Analyzes the declamations’ themes, argumentative strategies, and structure • The texts included effectively illustrate the ways in which prominent mythological and historical figures were turned into fiction in Late Antiquity 420pp January 2020 9781108481373 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108611459
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Literature and Culture in the Roman Empire, 96–235 Cross-Cultural Interactions Alice König | University of St Andrews, Scotland
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Explores new ways of understanding texts, practices and ideas that connected different cultural and religious groups in the Roman Empire in the era from Nerva to the Severans (96–235 CE). Its sixteen chapters are written by leading scholars of classics, early Christianity, Jewish and Near Eastern history. • Sheds new light on commonalities and differences between cultural groups in the Roman Empire, 96–235 • Experiments with new approaches to the study of intertextuality and literary interaction • Examines a wide range of literary and non-literary sources, with nuanced historical analysis 424pp 6 b/w illus. 1 map April 2020 9781108493932 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108637336
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Livy: Ab urbe condita Book XXII John Briscoe
Book XXII, narrating Hannibal’s defeats of Rome at Trasimene and Cannae, is Livy’s most dramatic book in which he transformed Polybius’ source material into a rhetorical masterpiece. A new text is provided and the introduction and commentary treat historical, religious, literary and linguistic matters. It is suitable for students at all levels. • Provides the first detailed commentary on this book for half a century • Provides a new text as well as an Introduction and Commentary suitable for undergraduates and graduate students • Gives full treatment of historical, linguistic and stylistic matters as well as aids to translation Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics 320pp 4 maps October 2020 9781108480147 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 October 2020 9781108727082 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 eISBN 9781108647540
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Lucan and the Sublime Power, Representation and Aesthetic Experience Henry J. M. Day
The first comprehensive study of the sublime in Lucan, integrating theorisations from Longinus to Lyotard to explore the concept’s ethical ambivalences and establish the Bellum Civile as a central text in the history of the sublime. Of interest to classicists and readers in comparative literature, reception studies and critical theory. • The first systematic study of the sublime in Lucan, establishing the Bellum Civile as one of the Western tradition’s major texts of the sublime • Offers a new appreciation of the Bellum Civile, grounded in the poem’s aesthetics • Integrates ancient and modern approaches to the sublime, responding to growing interest across the humanities in the tradition of philosophical aesthetics and in the sublime in particular Cambridge Classical Studies 272pp May 2020 9781108816427 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 January 2013 9781107020603 Hardback GBP 67.99 / USD 113.00 eISBN 9781139105750
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Magistracy and the Historiography of the Roman Republic Politics in Prose Ayelet Haimson Lushkov | University of Texas, Austin
The first study of the literary representation of Roman republican magistracy. Applying current literary critical methods to historical narratives, its approach provides a richer account of political phenomena in the round. It will appeal to researchers and students of classical literature, political theory, ancient history, and cultural studies. • Proposes a new, literary approach to understanding Roman republican politics • Departs from typical legal and constitutional definitions of magistracy, offering a more rounded view of the meaning of political office • Draws on and advances recent methodological debates in classics, showing new and wider applications of recent theories of exemplarity and intertextuality 213pp May 2020 9781108820097 Paperback GBP 21.99 / USD 28.99 February 2015 9781107040908 Hardback GBP 72.99 / USD 112.00 eISBN 9781139644303
Music and Metamorphosis in Graeco-Roman Thought Pauline A. LeVen | Yale University, Connecticut
Examines aesthetic and ontological questions raised by Greco-Roman myths of human metamorphosis into non-human musical beings. Placing the myths within their ancient intellectual contexts, it reads them in dialogue with contemporary questions about what it means to be human. Aimed at classicists, musicologists, and scholars of the posthumanities. • Examines important questions of musical aesthetics from a new perspective (that of mythical narratives of musical metamorphosis) and in a period rarely examined (the first to third centuries CE) • Engages with contemporary critical theory (in the posthumanities, animal studies, and sound studies) from an ancient perspective • Provides for the first time an intellectual history of musical metamorphosis 228pp November 2020 9781107148741 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781316563069
Oppian’s Halieutica Charting a Didactic Epic Emily Kneebone | University of Nottingham
Demonstrates the sophistication, influence, and cultural centrality of an understudied imperial Greek didactic epic. Written for students and scholars of imperial Greek literature and culture (including the ancient novel), ancient heroic and didactic epic poetry, and those interested in human-animal relations in the ancient world. • Offers the first sustained and comprehensive literary reading of the Halieutica • Contextualises the poem within a range of ancient perspectives and debates • Addresses the poem’s place within ancient attitudes towards humananimal relations Greek Culture in the Roman World 432pp September 2020 9781108840835 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108892728
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Ovid on Screen
Plato: Menexenus
A Montage of Attractions Martin M. Winkler | George Mason University, Virginia
David Sansone | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Demonstrates the creative affinities between ancient verbal and modern visual modes of narrative through the example of Ovid’s influence on cinema history in both theory (Sergei Eisenstein, Gabriele D’Annunzio) and practice. Ranges from classic Hollywood and European films to modernism, animation, and contemporary digital media and special effects. • Systematically traces and interprets the importance of Ovid in the age of the moving image in general and for film history in particular • Helps readers understand literature and visual arts as related forms of storytelling, with roots in classical antiquity • Written in an accessible and jargon-free style by one of the most distinguished scholars of antiquity and film 462pp 24 b/w illus. 54 colour illus. January 2020 9781108485401 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00 eISBN 9781108756891
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Pindar and the Emergence of Literature Boris Maslov | University of Chicago
For much of Western history, Pindar’s work was recognized as the pinnacle of lyric poetry. This book presents an introduction to different aspects of Pindar’s art, while demonstrating its importance for the coming into being of literature as it has been conceived of in the West. • Discusses all major aspects of Pindar’s art and thus serves as a starting point for all readers interested in his poetry • Presents a new, historically and theoretically informed account of the rise of literature in late Archaic Greece • Provides a new method of writing literary history based on the tradition of historical poetics 383pp 4 tables January 2020 9781107539099 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 October 2015 9781107116634 Hardback GBP 82.99 / USD 132.00 eISBN 9781316337707
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Plagiarism in Latin Literature Scott McGill | Rice University, Houston
Several Latin texts provide evidence for accusations and denials of plagiarism. Plagiarism in Latin Literature explores varied sources, including Terence, Martial, Seneca the Elder and Macrobius’ Virgil criticism to offer new insights into the history of plagiarism and related issues, including Roman notions of literary property, authorship and textual reuse. • Proposes a new appraisal of the history of plagiarism • Expands the study of imitation in Latin literature by examining the difference between imitation and plagiarism • Examines a wide range of authors and texts across Latin literary history 255pp September 2020 9781108820172 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 July 2012 9781107019379 Hardback GBP 72.99 / USD 113.00 eISBN 9781139088350
In Menexenus Plato depicts an elderly Socrates reciting an inspiring funeral oration learned from his teacher Aspasia, although such a scenario is entirely fictional. The work reveals Plato’s mastery of prose style and his critique of rhetoric and democratic ideology. Suitable for intermediate and advanced students of ancient Greek. • Integrates literary, rhetorical, and historical discussion and comments in order to show how Plato uses rhetorical means to misrepresent and distort historical reality • Provides grammatical help for students as well as introducing techniques of discourse analysis • Helps students appreciate the radically divergent interpretations of the text proposed by scholars Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics 202pp August 2020 9781108499408 Hardback GBP 79.99 / USD 105.00 August 2020 9781108730563 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 eISBN 9781108582544
Plautus: Pseudolus David Christenson | University of Arizona
This edition is designed to facilitate reading of Pseudolus, one of Plautus’ most innovative and delightful plays and a lens into Roman slave society. It assumes no specialised knowledge of early Latin, Plautus’ social-historical milieu, or ancient comedy and provides students with all the help needed to understand the Latin. • Introduces and explains Plautus’ early Latin, including unfamiliar colloquial and idiomatic features • Helps the students appreciate the complexity, targets, and social relevance of Plautine humour • Provides a guide to Plautine metrics and music while avoiding overly technical language and explanations Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics 414pp July 2020 9780521766241 Hardback GBP 79.99 / USD 105.00 July 2020 9780521149716 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 eISBN 9781139028363
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Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy Fabian Meinel | Université d’Aix-Marseille
Pollution is a striking and ubiquitous feature of Greek tragedy. This book undertakes the first detailed analysis of its important role in the plays and will appeal to scholars and students of Greek tragedy at all levels and anyone interested in the concept of ritual pollution. • Investigates the ubiquity of pollution in Greek tragedy • Undertakes detailed readings of key tragedies such as Aeschylus’ Oresteia, Sophocles’ Theban plays and Euripides’ Hippolytus • Provides new perspectives on ritual pollution in ancient Greece of interest to historians and anthropologists as well as classicists 292pp May 2020 9781108820103 Paperback GBP 23.99 / USD 30.99 March 2015 9781107044463 Hardback GBP 72.99 / USD 112.00 eISBN 9781107360570
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Preposterous Poetics The Politics and Aesthetics of Form in Late Antiquity Simon Goldhill | University of Cambridge
Explores how literary form changes when Christianity and rabbinic Judaism take shape. By reading little-known but hugely influential texts, this book opens a new and exciting vision of how the literature of the first millennium shaped culture. • Introduces a broad range of literature never before studied together that throws crucial light on the development of Western culture • Shows how crucial and influential texts have been ignored by the formation of modern disciplines • Employs a brilliant new methodological exposition of how literary form changes due to religious changes
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Greek Culture in the Roman World 315pp 1 b/w illus. September 2020 9781108494823 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108860024
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Roman Literature under Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian Literary Interactions, AD 96–138 Alice König | University of St Andrews, Scotland
The first holistic study of Roman literature and literary culture under Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian (AD 96–138). Authors treated include Frontinus, Juvenal, Martial, Pliny the Younger, Plutarch, Quintilian, Suetonius and Tacitus. Key topics and approaches include recitation, allusion, intertextuality, ‘extratextuality’ and socioliterary interactions. • The first holistic study of literature under Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian (AD 96–138), reaching beyond individual authors and genres • Presents a wide range of novel and stimulating approaches to a spread of contemporary texts and topics • Raises new methodological approaches to intertextuality and ‘interactions’ in literary culture, introducing readers to current debates 489pp 1 b/w illus. August 2020 9781108430531 Paperback GBP 34.99 / USD 45.99 March 2018 9781108420594 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00 eISBN 9781108354813
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Saints and Symposiasts The Literature of Food and the Symposium in Greco-Roman and Early Christian Culture Jason König | University of St Andrews, Scotland
Explores the afterlife of the classical Greek symposium in the Greco-Roman and early Christian culture of the Roman Empire. Argues that writing about consumption and conversation continued to matter, communicating distinctive ideas about how to talk and think, and distinctive and often destabilising visions of human identity and holiness. • Extends our understanding of the symposium beyond the Archaic and Classical periods • Discusses the Greco-Roman and early Christian literature of the Roman Empire side by side • Provides a cultural-historical approach to the literary material discussed, setting it against the background of the social history of dining in the Roman Empire Greek Culture in the Roman World 429pp 9 b/w illus. May 2020 9781108820196 Paperback GBP 28.99 / USD 37.99 August 2012 9780521886857 Hardback GBP 77.00 / USD 129.00 eISBN 9781139047180
Scale, Space and Canon in Ancient Literary Culture Reviel Netz | Stanford University, California
How many authors were there in antiquity? Where did they work? How was the ‘canon’ made? This book provides an account of ancient culture in terms of such quantifiable questions. The end result explains why the Greeks were unique in creating a culture based on pluralistic debate. • Provides a bold new overarching history of ancient literary culture as a whole • Combines both literary and specialized/scientific genres • Provides a mass of statistics on ancient culture and so will become a source of reference as well as a starting-point for debate concerning its quantitative analysis 902pp 13 b/w illus. 30 maps 82 tables February 2020 9781108481472 Hardback GBP 44.99 / USD 59.99 eISBN 9781108686945
Solo Dance in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature Representing the Unruly Body Sarah Olsen | Williams College, Massachusetts
This is the first investigation of solo dancers in Archaic and Classical Greek literature. It demonstrates that dancing alone signifies transgression and vulnerability in the Greek cultural imagination, and that the solo dancer is a powerful figure for literary exploration and experimentation in a wide variety of Greek genres. • Offers the first investigation of solo dance in Archaic and Classical Greek literature and culture • Interrogates the relationship between dance and literature across a range of genres • Compares ancient Greek representations of dance to performances and theories drawn from other times and places 320pp December 2020 9781108485036 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108755221
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The Annals of Tacitus: Book 11 Tacitus
This edition of Annals 11, the first scholarly edition in English in over a hundred years, contains a full and detailed introduction, a newly established Latin text with apparatus, and a comprehensive commentary that illuminates historical, historiographical, textual, linguistic and literary issues that arise from the narrative. • First full, scholarly treatment of Annals 11 in English for more than a hundred years • Provides a newly-edited text with apparatus • The introduction and commentary discuss a wide range of philological and historical issues Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries 560pp 1 table May 2020 9781108820165 Paperback GBP 34.99 / USD 45.99 July 2013 9781107011106 Hardback GBP 108.00 / USD 182.00 eISBN 9780511894596
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The Rhesus Attributed to Euripides
The Grotesque in Roman Love Elegy
Marco Fantuzzi | Roehampton University, London
Mariapia Pietropaolo | McMaster University, Ontario
Full scholarly edition of the only complete poetic text from the fourth century BC, which bridges the classical age of tragedy and Hellenistic poetry and is a tragi-comic play paralleling the comic-tragic plays of Menander. Emphasises its intertextual engagement with its models and attempts to break free of them. • Explores the play in the context of the drama and culture of the fourth century BC • Discusses the full significance of the many comic scenes and situations, especially in relation to similar scenes in Menander • Demonstrates how the play’s use of intertextuality foreshadows the Hellenistic practice of allusion and imitation and the refinement of philological scholarship
Explores the theme of corporeal, intellectual, and social degradation in Latin elegy from the vantage point of its aesthetic of grotesque imagery. Shows how and why the simultaneous occurrence of feelings of repugnance and admiration is a fundamental aesthetic premise of the genre. • Introduces the fundamental aspects of grotesque aesthetics and shows their relevance to the genre of love elegy • Demonstrates that grotesque and refined images constitute the polarities of a dialectic – epistemological and ontological as well as artistic – that is at the core of Roman love elegy • Uses close readings of well-known poems to reveal hidden complexities in their composition in the light of these new insights
Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries 900pp September 2020 9781107026025 Hardback GBP 130 / USD 170.00 May 2019 9781107129016 Hardback GBP 130.00 / USD 170.00 eISBN 9781139199032
The Cambridge Guide to Homer Corinne Ondine Pache
The Cambridge Guide to Homer traces the influence and meaning of Homeric poetry from its earliest incarnation as ancient Greek song to its current status in world literature, presenting the information in a synthetic manner that allows the reader to gain an understanding of the different strands of Homeric studies. • Includes longer essays for broader synthesis, and shorter essays to explore topics in more depth • The book is divided into three main sections, giving readers an immediate sense of the connection between different approaches to Homeric epic - textual, archaeological, and reception • Accessible to general readers as well as specialists 724pp 35 b/w illus. March 2020 9781107027190 Hardback GBP 150.00 / USD 195.00 eISBN 9781139225649
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The End of Dialogue in Antiquity Simon Goldhill | University of Cambridge
Dialogue was invented as a written genre by fifthcentury Greeks but in the ancient Christian empire became a largely forgotten form. It raises profound questions of freedom, openness, power and authority. This volume investigates why dialogue matters. Who wrote dialogues and why? Who repressed dialogues and why? • The first book to cover the history of dialogue as a genre in antiquity • Features world-class contributors, experts in their field, led by a wellestablished and successful editor • Encourages closer reflection on dialogue in its wider social, cultural and religious contexts in today’s world 274pp August 2020 9781108823845 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 January 2009 9780521887748 Hardback GBP 67.00 / USD 103.00 eISBN 9780511575464
248pp September 2020 9781108488693 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108771658
The Homeric Hymn to Hermes Oliver Thomas | University of Nottingham
An essential point of reference for advanced students and researchers interested in ancient Greek poetry or religion. It contains a new text of the Homeric Hymn to Hermes, an English translation, detailed commentary on points of interest, and an introductory discussion of the poem’s origin and significance. • Presents a new edition of the text based on a thorough reanalysis of the manuscripts • Adopts a wide range of interpretative methods throughout the commentary, from politeness theory to cognitive science • Changes our understanding of how writers in the Greek epic tradition could interact, and of the kinds of relationship between worshippers and a god which were considered appropriate within ancient Greek religion Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries 542pp July 2020 9781107012042 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 155.00 eISBN 9780511997792
The Moon in the Greek and Roman Imagination Myth, Literature, Science and Philosophy Karen ní Mheallaigh | University of Exeter
This is a book for readers who are fascinated by the Moon and the earliest speculations about life on other worlds. It takes the reader on a journey from the earliest Greek poetry, philosophy and science, through Plutarch’s mystical doctrines to the thrilling lunar adventures of Lucian of Samosata. • Proposes a new understanding of the Moon’s formative influence on ancient intellectual history • Explores diverse sources of evidence from scientific, philosophical, and literary angles, as appropriate to the author or figure in question • Introduces aspects of the ancient understanding of the Moon that were influential on early modern thought Greek Culture in the Roman World 341pp 5 b/w illus. 6 colour illus. September 2020 9781108483032 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108685726
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The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome Latin Poetic Responses to Early Imperial Iconography Nandini B. Pandey | University of Wisconsin, Madison
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A revisionary re-examination of Augustan ‘propaganda’ as the product of dynamic, critical interactions among Roman audiences, artists, and poets from Vergil to Ovid. It sheds new light on the meaning and perception of political iconography for scholars and students of this pivotal period in Roman history, literature, and culture. • Conducts fresh readings of Augustan poetry in the light of politics and visual culture • Builds on the best of recent Latin scholarship to offer a synthetic, interdisciplinary new approach to Augustan poetry • Offers a new model for understanding the relation between poetry and power as Rome transitioned from a republic into a monarchy 316pp 29 b/w illus. August 2020 9781108435635 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 October 2018 9781108422659 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108525152
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The Reception of Cicero in the Early Roman Empire The Rhetorical Schoolroom and the Creation of a Cultural Legend Thomas J. Keeline | Washington University, St Louis
Cicero was one of the most important figures of the late Roman Republic. This book explores what was remembered of his life and works in the early Roman Empire, and why. Focuses on the crucial role played by rhetorical education in turning him into a literary and political symbol. • Presents a comprehensive study of Cicero’s reception in the early Roman Empire, the foundational period for his subsequent reception • Shows the importance of ancient rhetorical education in mediating and indeed creating memories • Sheds new light on both well-worn and less studied texts 387pp January 2020 9781108444958 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 July 2018 9781108426237 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108590594
The Resurrection of Homer in Imperial Greek Epic Quintus Smyrnaeus’ Posthomerica and the Poetics of Impersonation Emma Greensmith | University of Oxford
The first literary and cultural reading of Quintus Smyrnaeus’ Posthomerica, a major Greek epic from the height of the Roman Empire which tells the story ‘in between’ Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, and reveals the aesthetic and identity politics of the era. Important for understanding Homer and epic in Greco-Roman culture. • Provides a literary and cultural-historical analysis of the Posthomerica, which has too often fallen outside of contextualized study due to a lack of precise information about its providence • Connects Quintus’ Posthomerica with a far wider range of ancient literature: not only poetry but also (and unlike previous scholarship) prose historiography, rhetoric, educational papyri; and not only Greek, but also Latin • Moves away from the individualized study of imperial Greek authors to a joined-up understanding of this era of epic as a corpus engaging dialogically with the same issues of empire and cultural change Greek Culture in the Roman World 380pp 1 b/w illus. October 2020 9781108830331 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108907200
The Rhetoric of Roman Transportation Vehicles in Latin Literature Jared Hudson | Harvard University, Massachusetts
Offers the first systematic study of Roman vehicles in Latin literary texts. Examining key modes of transport including carts, carriages, chariots, and litters, Jared Hudson shows how Roman authors articulate ideas about power, gender, and empire through vivid vehicular portrayals. • Offers the first systematic examination of the literary portrayal of Roman vehicles • Analyzes recurring depictions of Roman transportation across a wide range of Latin texts • Contributes to the Latin lexicography of Roman vehicles 348pp January 2021 9781108481762 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108667678
The Vernacular Aristotle Translation as Reception in Medieval and Renaissance Italy Eugenio Refini | New York University
Explores the ways in which Aristotle’s legacy was appropriated and reshaped by vernacular readers in Medieval and Renaissance Italy. Focusing on the ethical implications of the theory and practice of translation, it illuminates the cultural and social dynamics that legitimated the vernacular as a language of knowledge. • Provides the first wide-ranging account of the vernacular reception of Aristotle in Italy in the period 1250–1500, challenging traditional accounts focused primarily on the Latinate tradition • Proposes to consider ‘translation’ and ‘reception’ as inextricably interconnected • Combines theoretical questions with the analysis of previously unexplored materials Classics after Antiquity 292pp 19 b/w illus. February 2020 9781108481816 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108693684
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Venantius Fortunatus: Vita Sancti Martini Prologue and Books I–II N. M. Kay
A critical edition of part of Venantius Fortunatus’ Vita Sancti Martini, which paraphrases in epic verse Sulpicius Severus’ famous prose hagiography of St Martin and represents one of the last flowerings of a recognisably classical Latin tradition. Deals extensively with matters of exegesis, textual criticism, language, metre and much else. • The first full commentary on the first part of Vita Sancti Martini, an important poetic work of late antiquity • Provides a new text and apparatus criticus and the first English translation of the first part of Vita Sancti Martini • Includes the texts of the relevant parts of the Vitae Martini of Sulpicius Severus and Paulinus of Périgueux, on which the poem was based Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries 584pp February 2020 9781108425841 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 156.00 eISBN 9781108654258
Xenophon of Athens A Socratic on Sparta Noreen Humble | University of Calgary
Re-evaluates Xenophon’s supposed admiration of Sparta and argues that his work, the Lacedaimoniôn Politeia, is a critical and philosophical examination of Spartan sociocultural practices driven by his Socratic ideas. Also demonstrates remarkable points of convergence with his fellow Socratic Plato, as well as connections with Isocrates too. • Provides a detailed new reading of Xenophon’s Lacedaimoniôn Politeia, including a text and new translation • Situates Xenophon’s oeuvre as a whole within a biographical framework, setting his encounters with Socrates at the heart of his writing project • Argues that Xenophon adopted a much more critical view of Sparta than has usually been assumed 380pp March 2021 9781108479974 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108846875
Virgil: Aeneid Book XI Scott McGill | Rice University, Houston
A complete treatment of Aeneid XI, with a thorough introduction to key characters, context, and metre, and a detailed line-by-line commentary which will aid readers’ understanding of Virgil’s language and syntax. Indispensable for students and instructors reading this important book, which includes the funeral of Pallas and the death of Camilla. • A complete but accessible edition of an important, yet sometimes overlooked, book of this epic poem • Provides detailed syntactical and lexical help for students, including translations where necessary, so that they can appreciate Virgil’s language • Contains an introduction which discusses key characters and themes, metrical issues, and textual transmission, and provides context both within and beyond the rest of the poem Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics 314pp January 2020 9781107071339 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 January 2020 9781107416789 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781107775527
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Virgil’s Ascanius Imagining the Future in the Aeneid Anne Rogerson | University of Sydney
This book sheds new light on Virgil’s Aeneid via a detailed study of Ascanius, Aeneas’ young son and ancestor of the emperor Augustus. In a work that will appeal to students of literature, history and childhood studies, Rogerson shows how the characterisation of Ascanius reflects contemporary concerns about Rome’s future. • The first book-length study of Ascanius in the Aeneid • Contributes to current debates on characterisation, epic narrative, metapoetics, and ancient childhood • Promotes a balanced approach to the politics of Virgil’s poetry
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Writing and the Modern Stage Theater beyond Drama Julia Jarcho | New York University
With a focus on twentieth-century work, this book offers a new understanding of what text can do in theater. Written for scholars and students of modern drama, theater studies, modernist literature, and critical theory, it revises dominant views of Henry James, Gertrude Stein, Samuel Beckett, Theodor Adorno, and contemporary theater artists. • Revises the common understanding of writing’s place in modern theater and particularly examines the role of the playwright in actively shaping new conceptions of theater’s radical potential • Re-examines canonical texts of modern theater and drama studies, offering a new account of their significance and relationship to each other • Offers a new argument for the relevance of Theodor Adorno’s philosophy to theater studies, revealing a modern tradition of ‘negative theatrics’ 285pp 1 b/w illus. May 2020 9781107584815 Paperback GBP 21.99 / USD 27.99 April 2017 9781107132351 Hardback GBP 67.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781316450888
Cambridge Classical Studies 245pp January 2020 9781107535695 Paperback GBP 21.99 / USD 28.99 February 2017 9781107115392 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781316335840
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British Theatre British Enlightenment Theatre Dramatizing Difference Bridget Orr | Vanderbilt University, Tennessee
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The first study of popular eighteenth-century English theatre to engage with voices of radical dissent that argued for religious toleration, attacked imperial invasion and forced conversion of indigenous peoples and challenged social hierarchy. This book tells the story of freemasons who served as theatrical ‘shock troops of the Enlightenment’. • Situates Restoration and eighteenth-century English plays in relation to Enlightenment ideas • Shows how eighteenth-century English drama gave voice to radical critique on behalf of oppressed groups including colonized peoples, the Irish, Muslims and the labouring classes • Reveals for the first time how central freemasonry was to eighteenthcentury theatre 294pp 6 b/w illus. January 2020 9781108499712 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108584494
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Copyright and the Value of Performance, 1770–1911 Derek Miller | Harvard University, Massachusetts
Copyright for performances of theater and music was invented in the nineteenth century. Courtroom battles over new laws helped define the value of dramatic and musical performances both economically and artistically. Scholars of theater and performance, music, and law will learn how copyright changes the artistic forms it seeks to control. • Traces the development of performance rights in Anglo-American copyright law • Demonstrates the interdependence of legal theory and artistic debates, focusing on the law’s contingency, rather than solely on legal outcomes • Explains how copyright reshaped the theater and music industries Theatre and Performance Theory 291pp April 2020 9781108441698 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 August 2018 9781108425889 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108349284
The Players’ Advice to Hamlet The Rhetorical Acting Method from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment David Wiles | University of Exeter
Explores the art of acting in Europe between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, demonstrating how stage acting was understood as a branch of rhetoric. This book distinguishes the methods of professionals from the theories of intellectual amateurs, and argues that the present has much to learn from premodern debates. • Explains how premodern actors worked on their scripts, and what they argued about, distinguishing theory from what actors actually did • Covers both England and Europe over a period of 250 years • Explores how Roman rhetoric provided the bones of a resilient theatrical system of performance, rather than a set of conventions for writing 378pp 18 b/w illus. February 2020 9781108498876 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108689502
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Theatre and Governance in Britain, 1500–1900 Democracy, Disorder and the State Tony Fisher
This book offers a critical re-examination of theatre’s relation to the public sphere and shows how theatre was assimilated to the interests of government by suppressing various ‘democratic’ disorders associated with the stage. It will interest those working in the area of theatre history and its relation to social history and politics. • Proposes a new reading of well-known controversies over the social history of the stage, allowing a better understanding of the complex interplay between theatre, politics, economics and government • Presents a theoretical as well as historical methodology, using the tools of ‘discourse analysis’ and concept of ‘governmentality’ developed by Michel Foucault • Offers a critical, systematic and historically-grounded reappraisal of the ‘anti-theatrical prejudice’ proposed by Jonah Barish, revealing that prejudice targeted ‘common’ tastes generally, rather than theatre as such 292pp May 2020 9781316633311 Paperback GBP 21.99 / USD 27.99 June 2017 9781107182158 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781316855966
European Theatre Performance, Modernity and the Plays of J. M. Synge Helene Lecossois | Université de Lille
Offers new perspectives on Synge’s well-known plays by situating them in less familiar historical contexts. Exploring concepts of performance, modernity and progress, this book opens up Synge criticism to the insights of performance studies. It will be of interest to scholars and students of Irish studies, English drama, theatre and performance. • Highlights the performativity of Irish Revivalist dramatist J. M. Synge’s plays in the context of fin-de-siècle capitalist modernity • Places well-known plays by Synge alongside less familiar historical contexts to offer new perspectives on the corpus of his work • Combines performance theory and detailed, contextualized case studies to highlight aspects of performativity and modernity 250pp 6 b/w illus. October 2020 9781108487795 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108767996
Theatre in Market Economies Michael McKinnie | Queen Mary University of London
Examines the relationship between theatre, economics, and politics during the past two decades. Its interdisciplinary approach - bringing together theatre studies, political economy, geography, and more - will attract readers specialising in theatre studies and those interested in the complex interplay between culture, economics, and politics. • Brings a theatrical perspective to issues normally considered the preserve of the social sciences • Offers an interdisciplinary analysis of the relationship between theatre, economics, and politics • Draws on thinking from a variety of fields, including theatre studies, performance studies, economics, political economy, geography, and cultural theory Theatre and Performance Theory 225pp April 2021 9781107000391 Hardback GBP 64.99 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9780511722257
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Performing Endurance Art and Politics since 1960 Lara Shalson | King’s College London
Offers a formal account and theory of endurance as a practice in performance art and protest. Discusses influential performances by Marina Abramović, Chris Burden, Tehching Hsieh, Yoko Ono, and others, as well as 1960s lunch counter sit-ins and twenty-first-century protest camps. Essential reading in performance theory, art history, and political activism. • Offers new interpretations of influential performance art works and important political protest actions • Argues for the ethics and politics of endurance as a form that engages with key questions of embodiment and relationality • Tracks major debates in performance studies, theatre studies, and art history and offers new directions 220pp 10 b/w illus. November 2020 9781108445160 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 October 2018 9781108426459 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108551007
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Real Theatre Essays in Experience Paul Rae | University of Melbourne
From forgetting lines to watching Phantom of the Opera, this book uses a range of musicals, plays and experimental performances to show what theatre is made of and how we experience it. Its broad scope will appeal to theatre-goers, while its performance analyses, informed by assemblage theory, will be invaluable for students and theatre scholars. • Provides a new, joined-up way of thinking about theatrical events, expanding the scope of what counts in understanding the theatre and the dynamic relations between its component parts • Presents a comprehensive and critical assessment of the ‘new realisms’ in critical theory for an understanding of theatre • Covers a wide range of theatrical performances, from the mainstream to the experimental Theatre and Performance Theory 249pp 11 b/w illus. November 2020 9781316637340 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 December 2018 9781107186590 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781316890752
The Cambridge Companion to Theatre and Science Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr | University of Oxford
This Companion is for undergraduates, postgraduates, scholars, and theatre makers as well as general readers interested in the relationship between theatre and science.It covers topics such as climate change drama, theatre technology, animal studies, and performance and cognition, as well as many periods of theatre history. • Provides a broad chronological span, considering theatre and science from their early pre-modern interactions to the present day • Covers a wide range of topics, including issues such as climate change, animal studies, and cognition • Brings together examples of performance and texts to highlight the importance of considering both in academic discussion of theatre’s interaction with science Cambridge Companions to Literature 300pp 8 b/w illus. October 2020 9781108476522 Hardback GBP 64.99 / USD 84.99 October 2020 9781108700986 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108676533
Music Dance Musicology and Dance Historical and Critical Perspectives Davinia Caddy
Explores well-known European music through the lens of dance, including music by Purcell, Bach, Haydn, Wagner, Mahler, Fauré, and Debussy. It features genres such as cantatas, concertos, opera, ballet, and Protestant hymns, in contexts including the stage and ballroom, high art and popular entertainment, and professional and amateur performances. • A collection of essays that focuses on dance and dance music and adds to the growing awareness of the body’s contribution to the process of music making • Examines well-known pieces from the repertory of Western art music through the lens of dance • Recognizes the importance of engaging music in the context of not only words and social context, but in relationship to dance, the visual arts, and philosophy 320pp 12 b/w illus. 7 tables 25 music examples August 2020 9781108476188 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108567947
The Cambridge Companion to International Theatre Festivals Ric Knowles | University of Guelph, Ontario
Presents an up-to-date, contextualized account of the global reach and impact of the ‘festivalization’ of culture. It analyses festivals as sites of intercultural negotiation and exchange and reveals their role in Africa, Asia, Australia, the Arab world, Europe and the Americas. • Offers a wide ranging overview of the global reach of theatre and performance festivals • Re-contextualizes the study of festivals within humanities scholarship and emergent global conditions • Identifies international festivals as potential sites of intercultural negotiation and exchange within a globalized world Cambridge Companions to Literature 368pp June 2020 9781108425483 Hardback GBP 64.99 / USD 84.99 June 2020 9781108442398 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 24.99 eISBN 9781108348447
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Exploring Bach’s B-minor Mass Yo Tomita | Queen’s University Belfast
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This collection of essays presents a thorough and systematic study of Bach’s B-minor Mass by leading scholars in the field. It includes a range of discussions relating to the Mass’s historical background and contexts, structure, sources and editions, and its reception in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. • A systematic study of Bach’s B-minor Mass by the leading scholars in the field, summarising the achievements of scholars in the past while also offering new directions of research • Demonstrates the use of new methodologies and techniques as a model for Bach scholarship in the future • Readers will gain an appreciation of how musicological research has progressed • The inclusion of numerous music examples, illustrations of musical sources and historical documents makes it a valuable reference book 344pp 28 b/w illus. 67 music examples April 2020 9781108749961 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 October 2013 9781107007901 Hardback GBP 73.99 / USD 113.00 eISBN 9781139047661
George Frideric Handel Collected Documents Volume 4 1742-1750 Donald Burrows | The Open University, Milton Keynes
Handel’s life and career are intricately documented in a wide range of contemporary sources. This multi-volume major publication is the most up-to-date and comprehensive collection of these documents available. Presented in an accessible form, the volumes include English translations of foreign-language texts and commentaries incorporating the results of recent research. • A major reference work that includes recently discovered documents as well as the established repertory • Provides complete chronological coverage of contemporary material relating to Handel’s life and music, his performers and environment, including opera performances and music publishing • Includes archive material from an extensive variety of sources on topics such as musical patronage in Rome, the circumstances of the eighteenth-century music professions and concert life in Britain 986pp March 2020 9781107080218 Hardback GBP 140.00 / USD 180.00 eISBN 9781139946087
Instrumental Music in Late Eighteenth-Century Naples Politics, Patronage and Artistic Culture Anthony R. DelDonna | Georgetown University, Washington DC
This book demonstrates the cultivation of instrumental genres by Neapolitan musicians and its significant stature at the royal court. Drawing on archival documents and musical sources, it paints a compelling history of local instrumental music culture and contributes to a wider ethnographic portrait of Naples in the late eighteenth-century. • Introduces readers to new material about Neapolitan instrumental music, musicians and culture, including recently discovered instrumental works of Paisiello, Cimarosa, Guglielmi, Hadrava and Pleyel • Discusses musicological and theoretical concepts, pedagogical methods and analytical techniques within a cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary approach • Presents the significant role of Naples within eighteenth century European culture, demonstrating how politics, patronage, and artistic culture were intertwined 300pp 1 b/w illus. 3 tables 43 music examples December 2020 9781108477611 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108770064
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Mozart in Vienna The Final Decade Simon P. Keefe | University of Sheffield
This biography focuses on Mozart’s career as a performer-composer in Vienna. Covering all of his greatest Viennese works, and many others that are often marginalized, it highlights his remarkable ability to engage with the competing demands of singers and instrumentalists, publishing and public performance, and concerts and dramatic productions. • An authoritative biography of Mozart’s last decade, covering all of his major Viennese works and including many that have often been marginalized in the biographical and critical literature • Explores the relationship between Mozart’s life in Vienna and the music he composed, providing biographical detail and critical musical analysis • Pays particular attention to ways in which issues around performance affected compositional processes 717pp 255 music examples March 2020 9781107539174 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 29.99 September 2017 9781107116719 Hardback GBP 34.99 / USD 44.99 eISBN 9781316337752
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Music and Culture in the Middle Ages and Beyond Liturgy, Sources, Symbolism Benjamin Brand | University of North Texas
The essays in this volume offer diverse, innovative perspectives on three aspects of medieval music and culture: the liturgy, musical and archival sources, and musical symbolism. Written by a roster of prominent scholars of various generations, they illustrate the enduring relevance of primarysource research in the study of medieval music. • Features an unusually prominent roster of contributors, including three past presidents of the American Musicological Society, three Kinkeldey Award recipients, two Slim Award recipients, and a Stevenson Award recipient • The essays are diverse in their geographical and chronological scope • Despite the variety of their topics and approaches, all the contributions share a concern with interdisciplinarity and primary sources that make it distinctive within the field of musicology • The essays engage with their topics in a way that is accessible to nonspecialists, avoiding excessive technical language 378pp 18 tables 31 music examples February 2020 9781108792639 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 October 2016 9781107158375 Hardback GBP 70.99 / USD 110.00 ISBN 9781316663837
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Music and Musicians at the Collegiate Church of St Omer Crucible of Song, 1350–1550 Andrew Kirkman | University of Birmingham
Northern France and the Low Countries formed the crucible of Europe’s most sophisticated music in the later Middle Ages. That music and its makers were sought from France to Italy and Bohemia. Focusing on the rich musical institution of one wealthy medieval church, this book reveals the values and social structures that shaped its cultivation. • The first in-depth study of a leading late-medieval song school whose alumni were employed at major institutions throughout Europe • Reveals the detailed ritual and social workings of a large late medieval church, and the ways it articulated larger political forces as well as theological concerns relating to death and remembrance • Shows how and why music was made in a late medieval church’s musical establishment, and how this music was able to achieve a high state of sophistication and international influence 320pp 16 b/w illus. 1 map September 2020 9781108839723 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108884990 NEW IN PAPERBACK
Music and the moderni, 1300–1350 The a rs nova in Theory and Practice Karen Desmond | Brandeis University, Massachusetts
Through a close reading of the words of fourteenth-century musicians and theorists, Karen Desmond explores the crucial contributions of mathematician Jean des Murs to the ars nova, the ‘new art’ of its time. This book will appeal to scholars of early music, medieval studies and late medieval intellectual history. • Integrates the analysis of music compositions with the in-depth study of medieval music theory • Situates the important contribution Jean des Murs made to the history of music, with significant implications for how we understand the chronology of the ars nova • A core bibliographic item for scholars and postgraduate students with interests in early music, music theory, and notation 324pp 27 b/w illus. 13 tables 22 music examples April 2020 9781316617793 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 August 2018 9781107167094 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781316711545
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Plague and Music in the Renaissance Remi Chiu | Loyola University Maryland
Using a wide variety of primary sources, this book explores Renaissance musical responses to pestilence. It will fascinate musicologists and historians interested in the role of music in the fight against plague by revealing how medical knowledge, spiritual beliefs and public rituals surrounding the disease informed musical composition. • Presents an original perspective on both musical and medical history and shows how each affected the other • The book’s interdisciplinary approach will appeal both to musicologists and to scholars of the history of medicine, art history, literary studies and religious studies • Includes detailed musical analysis to show how music and composers responded to thinking and practices surrounding pestilence
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Polyphony in Medieval Paris The Art of Composing with Plainchant Catherine A. Bradley | Universitetet i Oslo
Presents new methodologies to explore medieval processes of musical and poetic creation, from plainchant and vernacular French songs to organa, motets and clausulae. Engages with questions of text-music relationships, liturgy, and the development of notational technologies, exploring authorship, originality, practices of quotation and reworking. • Proposes a new view of the origins of the motet, a key genre in medieval music that is still flourishing today • Develops methodological blue-prints to analyse medieval polyphony • Cuts across established disciplinary, linguistic, and generic boundaries Music in Context 299pp 4 b/w illus. 20 tables 61 music examples January 2020 9781108407571 Paperback GBP 23.99 / USD 29.99 August 2018 9781108418584 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108290456
Renaissance Polyphony Fabrice Fitch
This engaging study introduces Renaissance polyphony to a modern audience. Combining a detailed, nuanced appreciation of musical style and practice and a sense of what lies beyond the notes, be they playful or profound. It will enhance the listening experience of students and listeners at all levels of expertise. • Offers students new approaches to key questions in the study of Renaissance music, whilst offering a balanced account of existing scholarship • Focuses on specifically musical topics, with an emphasis on hearing and listening • Provides a foundation for listeners to encounter polyphonic music in an informed way and gain insight into the meanings behind and beyond the note Cambridge Introductions to Music 292pp August 2020 9780521899338 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD89.99 August 2020 9780521728171 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781139017299
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The Cambridge History of Fifteenth-Century Music Anna Maria Busse Berger | University of California, Davis
Through forty-five creative and concise essays by an international team of authors, this Cambridge History brings the fifteenth century to life for both specialists and general readers. The chapters range from overviews of major themes to provocative reassessments of humanism, the work concept, improvisation, and other central topics. • Offers authoritative overviews as well as provocative reassessments • Combines the best qualities of survey texts and scholarly literature • Provides a multidisciplinary perspective without neglecting the musical texts The Cambridge History of Music 911pp 50 b/w illus. 20 tables 97 music examples January 2020 9781108791885 Paperback GBP 27.99 / USD 41.99 July 2015 9781107015241 Hardback GBP 125.00 / USD 256.00 eISBN 9781139057813
294pp 10 b/w illus. 99 music examples January 2020 9781107521421 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 June 2017 9781107109254 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 104.00 eISBN 9781316271476
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The Cultural Life of the Early Polyphonic Mass Medieval Context to Modern Revival Andrew Kirkman | Rutgers University, New Jersey
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The ‘cyclic’ polyphonic Mass has long been seen as the pre-eminent musical genre of the late Middle Ages. This study explores its meaning both from the perspective of its contemporary composers and users, and from that of the modern age, enhancing our appreciation of the genre for today’s world. • Examines the role of polyphonic music in late-medieval liturgy, opening up new views of late-medieval religious practice to liturgists and chant scholars • Fosters a historical awareness of the role of sound in enhancing key rituals and symbolism of the late Middle Ages • Enhances appreciation of the genre for listeners today by demonstrating its enduring legacy 297pp May 2020 9781108794893 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 April 2010 9780521114127 Hardback GBP 84.99 / USD 137 eISBN 9781108889070
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Women and Music in Sixteenth-Century Ferrara Laurie Stras | University of Huddersfield
With new information on four generations of women musicians, this book expands and alters the narratives that scholars and musicians have told about music in sixteenth-century Ferrara. A radical perspective on a familiar repertoire, it proposes a new way of thinking with consequences for music history and performance practice. • Presents a wealth of new archival evidence regarding sixteenth-century music • Examines the music of sixteenth-century Ferrara from three different perspectives: culture; theory; practice • Treats several generations of women’s biographies alongside their musical activities, and brings their stories from the periphery to the centre of the historical narrative New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism 415pp 5 b/w illus. 2 tables 88 music examples May 2020 9781108815482 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 September 2018 9781107154070 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781316650455
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Native American Song at the Frontiers of Early Modern Music Olivia A. Bloechl | University of California, Los Angeles
Drawing on evidence from a wide array of musical, linguistic, and visual sources, this book demonstrates that early American colonization shaped European music cultures in fundamental ways. It offers a fresh, politically and transculturally informed approach to the study of music in the early colonial Atlantic world. • Adapts postcolonial and other cultural theory to the study of early music and early colonization • Uses evidence from a variety of musical, linguistic and visual sources to present a convincing argument which challenges conventional wisdom about this aspect of European music history • Engages with both familiar and unfamiliar primary sources New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism 301pp October 2020 9781108940832 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 March 2008 9780521866057 Hardback GBP 61.99 / USD 96.99 eISBN 9781108935685
Music Criticism Music and the Sonorous Sublime in European Culture, 1680–1880 Sarah Hibberd | University of Bristol
A historically situated study of the relationship between music, sound and the sublime, this book embraces familiar works and composers, such as Handel, C. P. E. Bach, Haydn and Wagner, but also explores less familiar repertory and source material. Performers and audiences are also considered as agents and sites of sublime experience. • Expands and transforms our understanding of the sublime, liberating the musical sublime from its aura of transcendence, and from a German-focused context • Considers the wider political and sensory context for the sublime, and the role of performers and audiences in transmitting and experiencing the sublime • Focuses on three interrelated concerns - bodily experience, knowledge, politics and ethics 318pp 5 b/w illus. 46 music examples May 2020 9781108486590 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108761253
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The Cambridge Companion to Rhythm Russell Hartenberger | University of Toronto
The Cambridge Companion to Rhythm examines rhythm and the richness of musical time from the perspective of performers, composers, analysts, and listeners. It surveys influential writings on the topic and considers the subject across a wide range of genres and cultures. • Provides an overview of the use of rhythm in Western and non-Western music for a wider understanding of how rhythm functions in different musical contexts • Examines rhythm in many forms of contemporary genres including jazz, hip hop, rock, and classical music and provides practical tips on performing music of all kinds • Explores the increasing significance of rhythm in all kinds of music and how this importance is likely to develop in future Cambridge Companions to Music 354pp 20 b/w illus. 24 tables 76 music examples September 2020 9781108492928 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 September 2020 9781108730129 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108631730
Nineteenth-Century Music Beethoven Studies 4 Keith Chapin | Cardiff University
250 years after the composer’s birth, Beethoven Studies 4 offers new perspectives on Beethoven and his music, from the aesthetic to the performative, the analytical to the historical. The stimulating original research will appeal to scholars and practitioners alike. • A stimulating collection of original essays to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth • Features new, cutting-edge research, demonstrating the broadening scholarly perspectives on Beethoven and his music • Authors include younger scholars alongside established authorities, exemplifying the continuing vitality of Beethoven research Cambridge Composer Studies 320pp 12 b/w illus. 7 tables 32 music examples September 2020 9781108428521 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108552813
Beethoven’s Symphonies Arranged for the Chamber Sociability, Reception, and Canon Formation Nancy November | University of Auckland
Classical symphonies are often considered as works for full orchestra, demanding fidelity to the composers’ orchestral scores in performance, listening and study. This book resituates the cultural context, uncovering a largely untapped wealth of early nineteenth-century domestic musicmaking and chamber ensemble arrangements of Beethoven’s works. • Enhances understanding of nineteenth-century reception and canon formation by focusing on nineteenth-century arrangers, publishers, performers, and sociability • Investigates a largely untapped wealth of early nineteenth-century arrangements of symphonies by Beethoven, revealing how they would have been experienced by the majority of his contemporaries • Explores how conceptions of Beethoven’s symphonies, and their arrangement, changed across the nineteenth century
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Cheap Print and Popular Song in the Nineteenth Century A Cultural History of the Songster Paul Watt | Monash University, Victoria
This book is essential reading for scholars and students who want to understand how songs functioned, were consumed and transmitted around the world from around 1790 to 1910. • Contains new data on the dissemination and consumption of popular song, which will give a broader context of the ways in which songsters functioned • Provides ideas about patterns of consumption and material culture • Chapters cover topics from US, UK, Australia, making the book internationally relevant 264pp 19 b/w illus. May 2020 9781316612521 Paperback GBP 21.99 / USD 27.99 March 2017 9781107159914 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781316672037
Fauré Studies Carlo Caballero | University of Colorado Boulder
Showcases new research by leading scholars on the life and music of Gabriel Fauré, contemporary of Monet and Mallarmé and one of the most influential of all French composers. This book encompasses hermeneutics, musical analysis, aesthetic theory, critical theory, and social history. • Showcases the latest research on Gabriel Fauré, representing a new surge of scholarly interest in this influential French composer of the fin de siècle • Includes a wide range of scholarly approaches from music theory to aesthetics • Provides a valuable insight and evaluation of Fauré research from the composer’s lifetime to the present day Cambridge Composer Studies 320pp 8 b/w illus. 4 tables 37 music examples October 2020 9781108429191 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108692267
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Jacques Offenbach and the Making of Modern Culture Laurence Senelick | Tufts University, Massachusetts
Exploring musical theatre, nineteenth-century culture, modern stagecraft, and the development of modern sexual mores, this book presents a global view of the influence of Offenbach and his comic operas. The volume demonstrates his central role in theatrical innovation and his impact on wider society and culture. • Presents a global view of the works of Offenbach, a key figure in nineteenth-century culture, and highly influential for the theatrical innovation of the twentieth century • Demonstrates the impact of Offenbach’s work to the spheres of literature, art, film, politics, and society • Reveals the role of comedy and irreverence, as exhibited in Offenbach’s operas, in the development of modern culture 370pp 36 b/w illus. April 2020 9781108814027 Paperback GBP 23.99 / USD 31.99 September 2017 9780521871808 Hardback GBP 94.99 / USD 126.00 eISBN 9781139029643
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Mahler in Context Charles Youmans | Pennsylvania State University
A collection of specially commissioned essays exploring the institutions, artists, thinkers, cultural and socio-political conditions, and relationships that shaped Mahler’s creative output. Focusing the context, the volume provides a sense of the complex crosscurrents against which Mahler was reacting as conductor, composer, and human being. • Explores the educational and social environments within which the young Mahler had to define himself and build his career • Describes the settings in which Mahler developed and practiced his abilities as a performer, and sheds new light on a vital dimension of his activity as a creative artist • Highlights the many external influences that profoundly affected his creative activity, from print culture, intertextuality and visual arts to philosophical and literary influences
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Composers in Context 350pp 9 b/w illus. 7 music examples October 2020 9781108423779 Hardback GBP 84.99 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108529365
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Music and Fantasy in the Age of Berlioz Francesca Brittan | Case Western Reserve University, Ohio
This book explores the evolution of, and interactions between, fantasy and music in Romantic France, providing new contexts for the study of Berlioz and his contemporaries. The volume will appeal to readers beyond the musicological community, drawing together musical, literary, scientific, and visual materials, and applying theoretical and historical approaches. • Rethinks French romanticism as a form of magical materialism in which sound played a crucial role • Demonstrates that fantasy should be understood not only as a literary genre but as a much broader imaginative mode with textual, sonorous, and aesthetic implications • Reveals compositional contexts that enhance our understanding of the music of Berlioz and others, including Liszt and Stravinsky • Appeals to readers beyond the musicological community, drawing together musical, literary, scientific, and visual materials New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism 375pp 8 b/w illus. 1 table 40 music examples January 2020 9781316501818 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 September 2017 9781107136328 Hardback GBP 94.99 / USD 126.00 eISBN 9781316479803
The Cambridge Companion to the Eroica Symphony Nancy November | University of Auckland
An insightful overview of Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony from three main angles: genesis, analysis and reception. It not only summarises previous research but also includes many fresh insights, based on new evidence. The Companion presents a range of approaches, by twelve leading scholars in Beethoven research. • Addresses key topics associated with the symphony, including political context, dedication, sources of inspiration, ‘heroism’ and the idea of a ‘watershed’ work • New and exciting perspectives on a much-studied work, accessibly presented by twelve leading scholars in Beethoven research • Uses recent evidence as well as previously studied material to provide new research and fresh insights within the framework of a stimulating overview Cambridge Companions to Music 290pp 4 b/w illus. 27 music examples June 2020 9781108422581 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 June 2020 9781108435574 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 24.99 eISBN 9781108524995
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The Other Worlds of Hector Berlioz Travels with the Orchestra Inge van Rij | Victoria University of Wellington
The negotiation between worlds that is characteristic of Berlioz’s writings also plays out in his music. Inge van Rij’s book combines historical, critical and analytical approaches to a selection of key works by the composer to offer new ways of thinking about the sights and sounds of the orchestra. • Situates Berlioz’s music and writings in relation to multiple frameworks, including travel writing, technology, and museum culture • Proposes a new approach to the orchestra as an entity crossing physical and metaphysical dimensions • Approaches nineteenth-century European art music from a postcolonial perspective to deconstruct Western assumptions 369pp 8 b/w illus. 4 tables 77 music examples April 2020 9781108814010 Paperback GBP 23.99 / USD 31.99 February 2015 9780521896467 Hardback GBP 84.99 / USD 134.00 eISBN 9781139030090
Opera Carmen Abroad Bizet’s Opera on the Global Stage Richard Langham Smith | Royal College of Music, London
A transnational history of the performance, reception, translation, adaptation and appropriation of Bizet’s Carmen from 1875 to 1945. This volume explores how Bizet’s opera swiftly travelled the globe, and how the story, the music, the staging and the singers appealed to audiences in diverse contexts. • Explores how Bizet’s Carmen swiftly travelled the globe, and how the story, the music, the staging and the singers appealed to audiences in diverse contexts • Reveals how opera travels, is translated, adapted and appropriated for different artistic, political and social ends • The global map and interactive timeline on www.carmenabroad.org provides an engaging supplement to this voyage of discovery 350pp 24 b/w illus. 11 tables July 2020 9781108481618 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108674515
The Cambridge Companion to Seventeenth-Century Opera A Critical Guide Jacqueline Waeber | Duke University, North Carolina
This Companion offers an in-depth introduction to the early history of opera by focusing on its foundational century. From opera’s Italian origins to its growth through Europe and the Americas, the volume charts the changing landscape – on stage and beyond – which shaped the way early opera was produced and received. • A much-needed introduction to one of the most defining areas of Western music history - the birth of opera • Reviews current scholarship in seventeenth-century opera studies and showcases the most salient topics through which to comprehend its early history • By bringing together music, theatre and literature, the volume engages with a range of disciplinary perspectives which can be explored across the humanities Cambridge Companions to Music 320pp 11 b/w illus. 7 music examples December 2020 9780521823593 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 December 2020 9780521530460 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781139033077
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The Cambridge Companion to Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen Mark Berry | Royal Holloway, University of London
An essential Companion for those both familiar and unfamiliar with Der Ring des Nibelungen. It provides a concise introduction to both the composer and the work. Subsequent chapters focus on musical topicssuch as ‘leitmotif’ and ‘structure’, as well as popular culture, Nazism, notable stage productions and critical analysis of the work. • Opening with a concise introduction to Wagner as a cultural figure, this Companion provides a thorough overview of the Ring before analysing key aspects of the work • Includes a history of notable stage productions from the world premiere in 1876 to the most recent stagings in Bayreuth and elsewhere • Offers new approaches to interpretation, exploring themes such as gender, anti-Semitism, and environmentalism Cambridge Companions to Music 350pp 5 b/w illus. 30 music examples September 2020 9781107108516 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 September 2020 9781107519473 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781316258033
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The Cambridge Verdi Encyclopedia Roberta Montemorra Marvin | University of Iowa
A fascinating and comprehensive resource for information on Verdi’s works, his life and career, and his cultural influence. The Encyclopedia reflects the very latest scholarship, presented by an international array of experts, and will have a broad appeal for opera lovers, students and scholars. • Contains close to 1,000 entries on Verdi and his music, including the people, places, concepts and practices associated with him • Includes entries by major international authorities from a variety of disciplines, presenting the most up-to-date scholarship • Three appendices offer supplementary information on Verdi’s works and a basic chronology of his life 617pp 10 b/w illus. April 2020 9781108814140 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 29.99 January 2014 9780521519625 Hardback GBP 79.99 / USD 129 eISBN 9781139023481
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The Rival Sirens Performance and Identity on Handel’s Operatic Stage Suzanne Aspden | University of Oxford
This new approach to the operas of Handel examines the vital and intertwined roles of singers, audiences and local cultural context in creating eighteenth-century opera. It emphasises cultural context and aspects of performance, offering a range of interpretative tools not previously exploited in studies of the century’s opera before Mozart. • Proposes a new view of the intertwined roles of cultural context, audiences and performers in creating eighteenth-century opera • Opens up new interpretative possibilities for understanding the creation of eighteenth-century opera in general • Interprets music through its function as theatrical performance, offering the reader a tool for interpretation of eighteenth-century opera beyond the formalist approach, which has restricted appreciation of the genre • Offers a new approach to Handel’s operas, centred on theatrical context, helping readers form a clearer appreciation of the cultural functions of his operas Cambridge Studies in Opera 307pp 9 b/w illus. 54 music examples June 2020 9781108829243 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 37.99 April 2013 9781107033375 Hardback GBP 76.00 / USD 113.00 eISBN 9781139519663
Seventeenth-Century Music Music, Dance, and Drama in Early Modern English Schools Amanda Eubanks Winkler | Syracuse University, New York
This is the first book to systematically analyze the role the performing arts played in English schools after the Reformation. Amanda Eubanks Winkler deploys an innovative methodology to understand school-based performance that combines rigorous archival research with phenomenological and performance studies approaches. • Provides a fresh perspective on lesser-known and popular canonical works performed at English schools, including Blow’s Venus and Adonis and Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas • Develops an innovative methodology to understand schoolbased performance that combines rigorous archival research with phenomenological and performance studies approaches • Deepens our understanding of early modern child performers, the schoolroom as a site of performance, and embodied pedagogical traditions 258pp 17 b/w illus. 1 table 12 music examples June 2020 9781108490863 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108858984
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Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Music A Huge Revolution of Theatrical Commerce Walter Mocchi and the Italian Musical Theatre Business in South America Matteo Paoletti | Università degli Studi di Genova
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In the early twentieth century, South America became the most important market for European opera and musical theatre and this Element explores Walter Mocchi’s transoceanic role in this revolution. He staged world premieres of works by Italian superstars in Argentina, offering an early example of what Stephen Greenblatt calls ‘cultural mobility’. Elements in Musical Theatre 75pp August 2020 9781108790482 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108855990
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Delius and the Sound of Place Daniel M. Grimley | University of Oxford
This book examines the role of place in Delius’ works, challenging existing views on their complex historical and musical contexts. It will appeal to readers familiar with Delius’ music, and to those seeking a detailed guide to selected pieces, as well as those new to his work. • A richly interdisciplinary study of Delius’ life and times • Focuses on Delius’ American works, and addresses their complex historical and musical legacies • Challenges the notion of place as an easy or straightforward category, and reveals a richer and more productive relationship with music Music in Context 336pp 2 b/w illus. 61 music examples October 2020 9781108455947 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 December 2018 9781108470391 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108657846
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Duke Ellington Studies John Howland | Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim
This book explores the rich and influential career of one of jazz music’s central figures, from his work as a composer to his cultural legacy in jazz, popular music and modern media. Leading authors offer clear, engaging, and scholarly insights into Duke Ellington’s work and critical reception, from musical, historical, and international perspectives. • Covers Ellington’s career from the 1920s to the 1960s, and explores the work and legacy of one of the world’s most influential jazz composers • Bridges new scholarly directions in jazz studies with broader crossdisciplinary issues in historical inquiry, music analysis, media studies, and cultural studies • Clearly written and accessible to scholars and non-specialists alike, chapters are structured chronologically and adopt cutting-edge perspectives to explore a diverse range of themes Cambridge Composer Studies 332pp February 2020 9781108792530 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 May 2017 9780521764049 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781139028226
Ernest Bloch Studies Alexander Knapp | School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Drawing on firsthand recollections of those who knew and worked with the composer, this collection is the most comprehensive study to date of Bloch’s life, musical achievement and reception. Contributors present the latest research on Bloch’s works and compositional practice, setting his output in its historical and cultural contexts. • Essays by leading scholars on Bloch cover all periods of his creative output and its reception around the world • Offers unique insights, through firsthand knowledge, into the composer’s character and personal development • Provides a reliable and comprehensive resource for Bloch and his music, correcting errors in previous sources Cambridge Composer Studies 311pp 12 b/w illus. 1 table 34 music examples February 2020 9781108792622 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 January 2017 9781107039094 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781139856454
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Ideology in Britten’s Operas J. P. E. Harper-Scott | Royal Holloway, University of London
This thematic examination of Britten’s operas focuses on the way that ideology is presented on stage. As well as being a record of the ideological world of mid-twentieth-century Britain, these operas continue to diagnose problems in our own time. This book argues that it is timely - if uncomfortable - for current audiences to readdress his music. • A first of its kind interpretation of Britten’s operas in the light of theories of ideology • Provides comprehensive analytical, historical, and critical-theoretical interpretations of Britten’s operas • Offers a richly detailed picture of the ideological situation of Britten’s own time and its continued ramifications in the early twenty-first century Music since 1900 345pp 17 b/w illus. 19 music examples October 2020 9781108402873 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 September 2018 9781108416368 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108236386
James MacMillan Studies George Parsons
This volume opens up the music and conceptual world of Sir James MacMillan. In it an international team of scholars analyses a broad selection of MacMillan’s works. It engages with central features of MacMillan’s compositions, especially the intersections between religion, spirituality and compositional approaches. • Provides a benchmark for current and future scholarship on Sir James MacMillan; showcasing the current trends of academic research on this influential twenty-first-century composer • Features analytical engagement with many of MacMillan’s works, including major and frequently performed compositions • Analyses a central feature of MacMillan’s work, the interface of theology, spirituality and music, from a number of different perspectives Cambridge Composer Studies 300pp 3 tables 76 music examples August 2020 9781108492539 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108592154
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Peter Maxwell Davies, Selected Writings Peter Maxwell Davies
Including articles, essays, letters, broadcasts and interviews, some previously unpublished, this volume brings together more than seventy written and spoken-word sources to illuminate the life and work of the composer Peter Maxwell Davies. This book will appeal to music specialists and others interested in British post-war culture. • Brings together an extensive and varied collection of Davies’s written and spoken-word items - spanning his entire career - for the first time in one volume • Chronological structure allows readers easily to navigate the themes and stages of Davies’s work • Offers valuable insights into significant and often overlooked aspects of his output, including several hard-to-access or previously unpublished sources Music since 1900 348pp 3 b/w illus. 8 music examples May 2020 9781316610534 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 November 2017 9781107157996 Hardback GBP 94.99 / USD 126.00 eISBN 9781316662519
Richard Strauss in Context Morten Kristiansen
A collection of specifically commissioned essays on a range of topics that contextualize the life and works of Richard Strauss, one of the most prolific composers of the past 150 years. Moving beyond biography, the chapters within explore facets of the music profession that are broadly applicable to musical studies of the era. • Readers will benefit from a variety of perspectives and approaches to contextualizing the life and works of Richard Strauss • Written by a team of experts, chapters focus on context rather than biography, analysis, or other traditional areas of inquiry • Organised around key themes which range from family, friends and collaborators, to artefacts and legacy Composers in Context 400pp November 2020 9781108422000 Hardback GBP 84.99 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108379939
Stravinsky in Context Graham Griffiths | City, University of London
Igor Stravinsky’s strikingly original compositions continue to fascinate scholars and music-lovers across the globe. This volume brings together a collection of 35 short, specially commissioned essays that illuminate the varied contexts from which emerged Stravinsky’s impressive catalogue of innovative and richly creative music. • Thirty-five specially commissioned short essays explore the varied and eventful life-tapestry from which Stravinsky’s compositions emerged • Offers a range of perspectives on this supremely cosmopolitan composer, revealing the impact upon Stravinsky’s creativity of his association with many of the 20th century’s leading artistic figures • Each essay is followed by an ‘Author’s Recommendation’ that highlights a particularly relevant Stravinsky work as the ideal complement to the experience of reading the chapter
The Beatles and Sixties Britain Marcus Collins | Loughborough University
Marcus Collins writes for anyone interested in the Beatles, the sixties and the relationship between the two. This book’s extensive research shows how the Beatles acted as the sand in the oyster of 1960s Britain: their disruptive presence inciting a wholesale re-examination of social, political and cultural norms. • Provides readers with an accessible, rigorously researched study of a band and a decade that have long been subject to myths and misrepresentation • Shows how the Beatles acted as the sand in the oyster of sixties Britain: a disruptive presence inciting a re-examination of key institutions and core beliefs • Provides a new answer to the perennial question of the Beatles’ relationship to the ‘swinging sixties’ and the ‘permissive society’ 382pp 10 b/w illus. 15 tables March 2020 9781108477246 Hardback GBP 90.00 \ USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108769426
The Beatles in Context Kenneth Womack | Monmouth University, New Jersey
Provides a guide to the contexts of The Beatles’ unparalleled cultural achievements, from their early performances to cultural legacy. Wideranging chapters are devoted to the many and varied influences on their lives and works and demonstrate the profound and enduring nature of the band’s relationship with people, place, media and politics. • Documents the varied contexts of The Beatles’ unparalleled cultural achievements • Focuses on the people and places central to The Beatles’ careers, the visual media that contributed to their enduring success, the culture and politics of their time, and their reception and legacy • Includes a biographical chronology and a list of resources for further reading Composers in Context 372pp 10 b/w illus. January 2020 9781108419116 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108296939
The Cambridge Stravinsky Encyclopedia Edward Campbell | University of Aberdeen
Details the life, works, writings and aesthetic relationships of Igor Stravinsky, whose music epitomises the stylistic crisis of twentiethcentury music. His Russian, neo-classical and serial periods along with his writings and wide-ranging creative engagements are presented in over 430 entries by more than fifty international contributors. • Includes over 430 concise but detailed entries on Stravinsky’s work and creative and personal relationships • Provides comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of Stravinsky’s musical works, writings and creative collaboration from a range of international perspectives • Explores Stravinsky’s inter-disciplinary work and engagements with other musicians, writers, visual artists, dancers and impresarios 580pp 2 tables 19 music examples December 2020 9781107140875 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 155.00 eISBN 9781316493205
Composers in Context 400pp 10 b/w illus. November 2020 9781108422192 Hardback GBP 84.99 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108381086
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The Quilting Points of Musical Modernism Revolution, Reaction, and William Walton J. P. E. Harper-Scott | Royal Holloway, University of London
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J. P. E. Harper-Scott’s book proposes a new theory of musical modernism, bringing contemporary philosophy into contact with music theory and interpretation. It explores the capacity for music to challenge cultural and political ideas and provides a critique of modern music histories. • Proposes a new model for understanding musical modernism • Applies contemporary philosophy to establish broad interpretative contexts for music • Brings the capacity for music to challenge cultural and political presuppositions into clearer focus Music in Context 299pp 1 b/w illus. 25 tables 26 music examples January 2020 9781108746830 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 34.99 August 2012 9780521765213 Hardback GBP 72.99 / USD 125.00 eISBN 9781139023894
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