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Archaeology................................................... 1 Ancient Near East.....…........................... 1 A 『chaeology (general)………·……………... 1 Archaeology of Europe, Near and Middle East......................... 2 Archaeology of the Americas………………… 2 Classical Archaeology................................. 3 Egyptology................................................. 4 Historical Archaeology…………………………. 5 Prehistory................................................... 5 Art.................................................................. 6 Architecture............................................... 6 Western Art............................................... 6 Classical studies........................................... 7 Ancient history.......................................... 7 Ancient philosophy................................... 16 Classical languages.................................. 21 Classical literature................................... 21 Drama and theatre...................................... 31 American theatre..................................... 31 British theatre.......................................... 31 European theatre..................................... 32 Theatre (general)..................................... 33 Music............................................................ 33 Eighteenth-century Music…………………… 33 Medieval and Renaissance Music………… 33 Music (general)........................................ 35 Music performance.................................. 36 Nineteenth-century Music………………….. 37 Opera....................................................... 39 Twentieth-century and contemporary Music………………………….. 39
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Archaeology
Archaeology
Archaeology (general)
Ancient Near East
Construing Cultural Heritage: The Stagings of an Artist
A History of Hittite Literacy
The Case of Ivar Arosenius Mats Malm
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
448pp 51 b/w illus. 1 map 35 tables 1. 2021 9781108494885 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108860161
The City of Babylon A History, c. 2000 BC – AD 116 Stephanie Dalley | University of Oxford
One of the world’s leading authorities offers an accessible and up-to-date account of a great civilisation, the city of Babylon. It lay at the heart of the empires of Hammurabi, Nebuchadnezzar and Alexander and played a crucial role in the origins of written myth, legends, law and astronomy. • A wide-ranging, up-to-date account of one of the world’s ancient civilisations with a focus on its most famous city • Integrates literary, documentary and archaeological evidence • Shows the huge progress made as a result of the discovery of thousands of new texts in recent excavations and collections
396pp 7. 2021 9781107136274 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 7. 2021 9781316501771 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 24.99 eISBN 9781316479728
The Origins of Money in the Iron Age Mediterranean World Elon D. Heymans
This book reconstructs the early history of money in the Mediterranean, adding an important chapter to our understanding of the ancient world. Integrating documentary and material sources from both the Levant and the Aegean, it explores how precious metal money emerged in the Iron Age Mediterranean. • P rovides a detailed reconstruction of the emergence and development of money before coinage in the Iron Age eastern Mediterranean • Provides in depth data and interpretation on Iron Age use of precious metal as money • Contextualizes the use and significance of early money in both the Levant and the Aegean
This study examines how an artist construed himself as cultural heritage by the turn of the 19th century, how this heritage was further construed after his death, and how the artworks can be made to further new approaches and insights through a digital archive (aroseniusarchive.se). Elements in Critical Heritage Studies 75pp 6. 2021 9781108794503 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108885652
Ethnographic Returns Memory Processes and Archive Film Anne Gustavsson
This Element explores and discusses specifically the return of digital ‘ethnographic’ images to indigenous and non indigenous people that share a common recent history of coexistence and dispute over the same territory that is to be understood in the light of the consolidation of a Nation State with a settler colonial logic. Elements in Critical Heritage Studies 75pp 9. 2021 9781108823425 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108914086
Heritage Tourism From Problems to Possibilities Yujie Zhu | Australian National University, Canberra
This Element examines the key political and ethical issues that emerge through heritage tourism as one of the world’s fastest-growing industries. It explores the implications of heritage tourism on the social and political aspects of societies. Elements in Critical Heritage Studies 75pp 6. 2021 9781108823395 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108914024
Native Americans in British Museums Living Histories Jack Davy | University of East Anglia
Drawing on interviews with Indigenous American visitors to UK museum displays and collections between 2017 and 2019, this Element highlights the most significant inadequacies of contemporary engagement with Native American visitors and communities, identifying fundamental problems rooted in the ethos of collection management and display. Elements in Critical Heritage Studies 75pp 7. 2021 9781108829434 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108909914
348pp 8. 2021 9781108838580 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108975322
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Archaeology NEW IN PAPERBACK
Understanding Islam at European Museums Magnus Berg
This Element addresses contemporary framings of Islam in European museums, focusing on how museums in Germany and the UK with collections of Islamic heritage realise the ICOM (International Council of Museums) definition of museums as institutions in the service of society. Elements in Critical Heritage Studies 75pp 8. 2021 9781108744195 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108881623
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Archaeology of Europe, Near and Middle East Migration Myths and the End of the Bronze Age in the Eastern Mediterranean A. Bernard Knapp | University of Glasgow
Living in ‘an age of migration’ inevitably has impacted the ways that archaeologists, historians and social scientists view this phenomenon. The causes of migration are multiple, complex and often historically specific. This Element looks critically at migration scenarios proposed for the end of the Bronze Age in the eastern Mediterranean. Elements in the Archaeology of Europe 75pp 4. 2021 9781108964739 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108990363
Power from Below in Premodern Societies The Dynamics of Political Complexity in the Archaeological Record T. L. Thurston | State University of New York, Buffalo
This volume presents innovative perspectives on the Archaeology of commoners, thus challenging previous models of social power centered on elites. Through case studies from around the world, it exemplifies how people in premodern societies developed strategies to sustain non-hierarchical networks and contest the rise of inequalities. • Challenges traditional narratives on social power, opening new perspectives on the past and present • Introduces a variety of case studies on the Archaeology of commoners • Reflects on the dynamic nature of power networks, discussing concepts such as heterarchy, collective action, and resistance
350pp 11. 2021 9781316515396 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009042826
Salt White Gold in Early Europe Anthony Harding | University of Exeter
This Element provides a concise account of the Archaeology of salt production in ancient Europe. It describes what salt is, where it is found, what it is used for, and its importance for human and animal health. The different periods of the past in which it was produced are described, from earliest times down to the medieval period.
Elements in the Archaeology of Europe 75pp 8. 2021 9781009017640 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00
The Monastic Landscape of Late Antique Egypt An Archaeological Reconstruction Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom | Wittenberg University, Ohio
Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom offers a new history of the field of monastic Archaeology in Egypt. Using critical theories from landscape studies, materiality and phenomenology, she analyzes archaeological, documentary, and literary sources from late antique Egypt to reconstruct how monastic settlements transformed the desertscape into a monastic landscape. • Provides both artifactual and textual evidence that works in tandem to challenge the older narrative of monasticism as isolationist and spartan • Introduces readers less familiar with Archaeology to the physical evidence for monasticism in Egypt, and will have a broad appeal to those interested in monasticism (East, West, and Buddhist monasticism) • Illustrates the benefits of applying new theoretical models to reading the built environment and Egyptian monastic landscape 454pp 78 b/w illus. 2 maps 11. 2021 9781316614082 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 4. 2018 9781107161818 Hardback GBP 110.00 / USD 135.00 eISBN 9781316676653
Archaeology of the Americas NEW IN PAPERBACK
Continuity and Change in the Native American Village Multicultural Origins and Descendants of the Fort Ancient Culture Robert A. Cook | Ohio State University
This book should appeal to those interested in how and why Native American villages formed in relation to migration, environment and agriculture. The focus is on the big picture of cultural relatedness over broad regions and the amount of social detail that can be gleaned from archaeological and biological data. • Examines how multiple forms of ethnicity enhance archaeological investigations, changing the way we think about connections between present and past • Proposes a more integrative theoretical orientation regarding cultural change and continuity which will be useful for moving toward a middle ground in anthropological theory • Combines archaeological, biological and cultural data with political implications, moving forward a more holistic study of the human past and allowing for better connections with potential descendant communities 304pp 5. 2021 9781107619111 Paperback GBP 23.99 / USD 35.99 12. 2017 9781107043794 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 103.99 eISBN 9781107339224
Archaeology
Early Mesoamerican Cities
At Home in Roman Egypt
Urbanism and Urbanization in the Formative Period Michael Love | California State University, Northridge
A Social Archaeology Anna Lucille Boozer | Bernard M. Baruch College, City University of New York
This volume presents new data, case studies, and models for approaching the subject of early Mesoamerican cities. It demonstrates how the study of urbanism in Mesoamerica, and all ancient civilizations, is entering a new and dynamic phase of scholarship. • The volume situates Mesoamerican cities in the Formative period on the world stage of early urbanism • The volume lays out the key features of the earliest evidence of urbanism in Mesoamerica and participants discuss, in detail, the unique processes of urbanism in a variety of regions • Contributors present case studies of early cities and explore panMesoamerican trends in economy, social organization, and cultural practices.
350pp 11. 2021 9781108838511 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108975124
The Archaeology of the North American Great Plains Douglas B. Bamforth | University of Colorado Boulder
People often see the Plains as a vast, empty space where cowboys and Indians fought. This book highlights a rich history of change over time on the grasslands, including continental trade connections, social change, and war and peace. It is meant for students, interested laypeople, and archaeologists. •U ses Archaeology as the basis for telling longterm, problem-oriented human history • Brings together a century of published and unpublished research into a synthetic narrative • Provides a focused synthesis of human history at a very large geographic scale
Cambridge World Archaeology 350pp 9. 2021 9780521873468 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00 eISBN 9781139029728
Classical Archaeology NEW IN PAPERBACK
Archaeology and Urban Settlement in Late Roman and Byzantine Anatolia Euchaïta-Avkat-Beyözü and its Environment John Haldon | Princeton University, New Jersey
This volume represents the results of a collaborative project that integrates archaeological survey work with other disciplines in a unified approach to the region, both to enhance understanding of the history of Byzantine provincial society and to illustrate the application of innovative approaches to field survey. • Expands the basis for discussion and understanding of the region and its history • Develops our knowledge of the evolution of provincial urban settlement in the Byzantine period • Suggests new strategies for field survey, data management and interpretation
This book introduces both specialists and nonspecialists to the lives of ordinary people in Roman Egypt. It explores the life course of these individuals by examining conception, childbirth, childhood, youth, adulthood, disability, religion, health, old age, death and the afterlife, among other themes. • Provides examples of cross-disciplinary archaeological research in action • Uses clear and straightforward prose and engaging vignettes throughout • Gathers together the most relevant material of everyday life into a single source
350pp 9. 2021 9781108830928 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108914543
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. • P resents 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 interprets Minoan art
240pp 3. 2021 9781108424509 Hardback GBP 79.99 / USD 105.00 3. 2021 9781108440493 Ppaerback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 eISBN 9781108339292
Oil, Wine, and the Cultural Economy of Ancient Greece From the Bronze Age to the Archaic Era Catherine E. Pratt | University of Western Ontario
This book is for readers interested in both ancient history and the history of olive oil and wine. Readers will appreciate this book’s in-depth account of the cultural economy of the Greek Bronze and Iron Ages through the lens of olive oil and wine as integral aspects of social and economic exchange. • It answers the questions how and why olive oil and wine became important aspects of ancient Greek culture • It includes long term environmental change as a central aspect of the narrative of oil and wine in ancient Greece • Contributes to the idea of entanglement through a consideration of value within the context of exchange
350pp 3. 2021 9781108835640 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108891165
407pp 7. 2021 9781108457224 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 38.99 11.2018 9781108471152 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 125.00 eISBN 9781108557757
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The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Athens Jenifer Neils | American School of Classical Studies, Athens
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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 504pp 2. 2021 9781108484558 Hardback GBP 84.99 / USD 110.00 2. 2021 9781108723305 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108614054
The Destruction of Cities in the Ancient Greek World Integrating the Archaeological and Literary Evidence Sylvian Fachard | American School of Classical Studies, Athens
The book studies the destruction of cities in the Ancient Greek World by comparing literary and archaeological evidence. It shows that ancient authors often exaggerated the impact of destruction. The book highlights the resilience of ancient populations and focuses on the recovery phase of cities in the long term. • Provides examples of destruction of cities in the Ancient Greek World by comparing literary and archaeological evidence • Provides a parallel and detailed reading of key historical events and study of their impact on ancient populations • Provides examples of human resilience and economic recovery following catastrophe
350pp 9. 2021 9781108495547 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108850292
The Origins of Concrete Construction in Roman Architecture Technology and Society in Republican Italy Marcello Mogetta | University of Missouri, Columbia
The book explores the social, cultural and environmental factors influencing the emergence of the technology of Roman concrete, one of the lasting legacies of the ancient world. The work is intended for scholars with a special interest in Roman history, architecture and art, as well as undergraduate and graduate students in those fields. • Draws upon a wide range of primary sources, combining the analysis and interpretation of key archaeological sites which are traditionally studied in isolation • Includes a meticulous description and interpretation of structures and associated materials whose main publications is often available only in Italian • Adopts an interdisciplinary approach, Incorporating the available scientific evidence on the physical properties and provenance of Roman building materials, presenting the data in accessible language
350pp 6. 2021 9781108845687 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99
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. • P rovides 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 594pp 3 maps 5. 2021 9781107062832 Hardback GBP 135.00 / USD 175.00 eISBN 9781107477360
Ceramic Perspectives on Ancient Egyptian Society Leslie Anne Warden
This Element seeks to demonstrate how ceramics, a data set that is more typically identified with chronology than social analysis, can forward study of Egyptian society writ large. Identifies key research questions and qualitative and quantitative methods.
Elements in Ancient Egypt in Context 75pp 6. 2021 9781108744133 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108881487
Coffin Commerce How a Funerary Materiality Formed Ancient Egypt Kathlyn M. Cooney | University of California, Los Angeles
This discussion will be centered on the wooden container for the human corpse. We will focus on the entire ‘lifespan’ of the coffin – how they were created, who bought them, how they were used in funerary rituals, where they were placed in a given tomb, and how they might have been used again for another dead person.
Elements in Ancient Egypt in Context 75pp 6. 2021 9781108823333 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108913881
Egypt and the Desert John Coleman Darnell | Yale University, Connecticut
Egypt and the Desert presents the complex relationship between the civilizations of the ancient Nile Valley and the desert territories that surround them. Themes include the invention of hieroglyphs, the desert as living entity, and how the Egyptian administered the vast barren terrain.
Elements in Ancient Egypt in Context 75pp 6. 2021 9781108820530 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108900683
Archaeology
The Nile Mobility and Management Judith Bunbury | University of Cambridge
The Nile is one example of a large river interacting with a civilisation. A number of other rivers in China, in Mesopotamia and elsewhere share similarities with the Nile. Students of these other rivers may be interested in this Element. Elements in Ancient Egypt in Context 75pp 9. 2021 9781108826488 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108919913
Historical Archaeology The Hidden Language of Graphic Signs Cryptic Writing and Meaningful Marks John Bodel | Brown University, Rhode Island
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. •O ne 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
330pp 8. 2021 9781108840613 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108886505
Prehistory NEW IN PAPERBACK
Death Rituals, Social Order and the Archaeology of Immortality in the Ancient World
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Human Mobility and Technological Transfer in the Prehistoric Mediterranean Evangelia Kiriatzi
This book presents key case studies for human and technological mobility across the eastern Mediterranean in later Prehistory. It will be of interest primarily to Mediterranean archaeologists, though also to historians and anthropologists, as this region has been such a crucial theatre for exploring questions of mobility in Archaeology generally. • Presents ‘deep history’ of mobilities, as tracked through technologies • Showcases how Archaeology can contribute to much wider questions concerning the roles of mobilities and materialities in globalisation • Leverages rich datasets from the Mediterranean to inform theoretical debates on mobility • Readers will be able to think through mobility with detailed case studies
British School at Athens Studies in Greek Antiquity 296pp 26 b/w illus. 11 maps 2 tables 4. 2021 9781316509043 Paperback GBP 27.99 / USD 33.99 5. 2017 9781107142435 Hardback GBP 82.99 / USD 107.99 eISBN 9781316536063
Palaeolithic Europe A Demographic and Social Prehistory Jennifer C. French | University of Liverpool
This book combines archaeological, palaeoanthropological, and paleogenetic data to present a unique demographic perspective on this period of early Prehistory, combining social and evolutionary approaches. It will be of interest to advanced students and researchers in Archaeology and biological anthropology. • Provides an up-to-date analysis and synthesis of the European Palaeolithic • Combines evolutionary theory with a gender-aware, socially oriented approach to the Palaeolithic archaeological record • Presents a unique demographic perspective on the European Palaeolithic based around four ‘demographic stages’ • Centres women and children in the discussion and analysis of the Palaeolithic Cambridge World Archaeology 350pp 9. 2021 9781108492065 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108590891
‘Death Shall Have No Dominion’ Colin Renfrew | University of Cambridge
The twenty-seven essays in this volume, edited and written by leading archaeologists and prehistorians, consider how prehistoric humans attempted to recognise, understand and conceptualise death. Together they trace the emergence of death as a concept and contributing factor to the formation of communities and social hierarchies, and sometimes the creation of divinities. • Deals with a universal feature of the human condition: death • Geographically wide in scope, with insightful examples from most parts of the world • Social implications of mortality and the reactions of society to it are coherently considered 467pp 163 b/w illus. 13 maps 7 tables 8. 2021 9781107443143 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 11. 2015 9781107082731 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 123.99 eISBN 9781316014509
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Ritual, Play and Belief, in Evolution and Early Human Societies Colin Renfrew | University of Cambridge
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The origins of religion and ritual in humans hold a longstanding fascination, and have been the focus of centuries of thought in Archaeology, anthropology, theology, evolutionary psychology and more. Here ritual and the development of human societies are related to the critical human and animal legacy of play and performance. • Takes a worldwide and interdisciplinary view of the early religions of the world, bringing together leading experts from Archaeology, developmental psychology and zoology • Explores relationships between play and ritual, and between ritual and religion, in animals and humans in both the present and in Prehistory, updating the classic work of Huizinga and incorporates recent developments in the salient fields • Proposes a new model of relationships between performance, imitation, gesture, learning, ritual, music and ritual, appealing to those interested in the evolution of religion, development of human societies, and cognitive evolution 353pp 137 b/w illus. 1 table 6. 2021 9781316507803 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 39.99 12. 2017 9781107143562 Hardback GBP 94.99 / USD 123.99 eISBN 9781316534663
Art Architecture The Cambridge Guide to the Architecture of Christianity Richard A. Etlin | University of Maryland, College Park
The most comprehensive and up-to date reference work on this topic, The Cambridge Guide to the Architecture of Christianity will serve as a primary reference resource for scholars, practitioners, and students. • The most up to date and comprehensive overview of Christian Architecture, East and West, from its origins in Late Antiquity up to the present day currently available • Explores the development of Christian Architecture in tandem with the evolution of Christian liturgy and ritual practices over nearly two millenia • Written by an international team of top scholars
850pp 574 b/w illus. 70 colour illus. 11. 2021 9781108471510 Hardback GBP 425.00 / USD 550.00 eISBN 9781108558914
Western Art Architecture and the Senses in the Italian Renaissance The Varieties of Architectural Experience David Karmon
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 5. 2021 9781108477987 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108775465
Between the Pagan Past and Christian Present in Byzantine Visual Culture Statues in Constantinople, 4th-13th Centuries CE Paroma Chatterjee
This book is about the importance of pre-Christian, pagan statues in Byzantine Art which has so far focused heavily on the sacred icons of Christ and the saints. It will interest those seeking an accessible and interesting study on topics such as Art, history, religion, literature and ideas related to the Roman Empire. • Brings to light the importance of statues in Byzantine Art • Contributes to several disciplines such as classics, literature, religion, and history along with Art history • Is accessible to readers without specialized training 350pp 9. 2021 9781108833585 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108985628
Pontormo and the Art of Devotion in Renaissance Italy Jessica A. Maratsos | Pembroke College, Cambridge
Through its examination of the religious paintings by Pontormo, this book offers a new way to understand the fraught relationship between Artistic innovation and Christian traditions in the first half of the sixteenth century, a period marked by dramatic change and controversy in both of these cultural spheres. • Provides examples of creative cross-pollination between different Artistic media • Introduces and challenges well-established ideas about the Renaissance period • Utilizes extensive formal analysis and draws comparisons between works of Art 272pp 9. 2021 9781316510551 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009037952
Art / Classical studies
The Art Collector in Early Modern Italy
Transforming the Church Interior in Renaissance Florence
Andrea Odoni and his Venetian Palace Monika Schmitter | University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Screens and Choir Spaces, from the Middle Ages to Tridentine Reform Joanne Allen | American University, Washington DC
Art historians, historians, curators, collectors, Italophiles, and lovers of Venice will appreciate this book about the sixteenth-century Art collector, Andrea Odoni, an immigrant and a non-noble citizen of Venice, who became famous for his palace, his possessions, and especially his portrait by Lorenzo Lotto that depicts him as a collector. • Recreates in the imagination through words and images the material culture of the Renaissance home in Venice • Examines how non-dominant elites and immigrants used culture to make names for themselves • Shows how works of Art can present cultural and social arguments
In Renaissance Florence, churches were once internally divided by monumental screens, impressive Artistic structures which separated the laity from the clergy. This book reconstructs the social and visual effects of these layouts and examines the religious and aesthetic motivations behind the elimination of screens in the Counter-Reformation. • Reconstructs the original spatial layout of church interiors, explaining common architectural forms (with a glossary), Artistic features, patterns of patronage, and devotional and functional aspects • Introduces readers to the functions of screens as divisive, inclusive, or controlling devices which determined how laymen, laywomen, and clergy interacted in the church interior • ChArts in detail how and why the internal screens were removed from the churches of Florence in the later sixteenth century, explaining the motivations of crucial figures and the influence of the Council of Trent
340pp 9. 2021 9781108844086 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108933315
The Intellectual Education of the Italian Renaissance Artist Angela Dressen
This book provides an overview of the history of education in the Renaissance, looks where the Artist fits into it, and provides specific examples for Artists and texts they used. It will appeal to scholars and advanced students of early modern Italian Art, intellectual, cultural ,and social history. • This book offers new insides at the intersection of Art History, History of Education, and Intellectual History in regard to Renaissance Italy • This book gives an overview of the history of education in the Renaissance, looks where the Artist fits into it, and provides specific examples for Artists and texts they used • Makes the concepts and context available for a broad readership, with or without prior knowledge 394pp 9. 2021 9781108831321 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108916899
The Making of Medieval Rome A New Profile of the City, 400 – 1420 Hendrik Dey | Hunter College, City University of New York
A wide-ranging synthesis of decades’ worth of specialized research and remarkable archaeological discoveries, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in how and why the ancient imperial capital transformed into the spiritual heArt of Western Christendom. • Synthesizes four decades’ worth of medieval Archaeology in Rome, showing readers how modern Archaeology has changed our understanding of Rome’s urban development over the full medieval millennium • Presents a sweeping urban panorama that combines the cityscape with the lives of the people who shaped and animated it • Includes a rich illustration program that brings Rome’s material environment vividly into focus 400pp 9. 2021 9781108838535 Hardback GBP 39.99 / USD 49.99 eISBN 9781108975162
350pp 3. 2022 9781108833592 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108985659
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 292pp 3. 2021 9781108842914 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108913393
Classical studies Ancient history A Commentary on Panegyrici Latini II(12) An Oration Delivered by Pacatus Drepanius before the Emperor Theodosius I in the Senate at Rome, AD 389 Roger Rees | University of St Andrews, Scotland
The renowned Gallic poet Pacatus Drepanius journeyed to Rome in the summer of AD 389 to deliver a speech to the Emperor Theodosius; both men stood for the first time before the Roman Senators. This edition provides a complete Latin text and English translation, with extensive introduction and full commentary. • Makes an important but neglected speech available to classicists and ancient historians • Considers the place of the speech in the rhetorical tradition • Argues that epideictic oratory deserves to be taken seriously as a literary form
400pp 1. 2022 9781107155046 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 155.00 eISBN 9781316651261
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Antioch in Syria A History from Coins (300 BCE–450 CE) Kristina M. Neumann | University of Houston
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Challenging traditional scholarship and methodologies, this volume employs digital technologies to explore the abundant record of coins minted in Antioch in Syria. The result is a new political, financial, and social history of the ancient city essential for specialists of Ancient history and numismatics while remaining accessible to students. • Demonstrates the efficacy of applying a digital perspective to old evidence and outstanding historical questions • Interrogates coins as an index of political, financial, and social change and situates this evidence within its broader historical context • Investigates the complex relationship between a conquered city of the Middle East and its imperial rulers
376pp 104 b/w illus. 53 maps 27 tables 9. 2021 9781108837149 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108938471
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Boiotia in Antiquity Selected Papers Albert Schachter | McGill University, Montréal
Boiotia was - next to Athens and SpArta - one of the most important regions of ancient Greece. Albert Schachter, a leading expert on the region, has for many decades been publishing seminal work on its history, institutions, and literature. This volume conveniently brings together twenty-three papers, two previously unpublished, and others revised and updated. • Deals with aspects of Greek history from the point of view of the Boiotians, rather than, as is usually the case, from that of the Athenians and/or SpArtans • Uses source material drawn from inscriptions, Archaeology, numismatics and Art, as well as literature • Provides readers with a clearer view of what happened in Boiotia at crucial times in its history 462pp 5 b/w illus. 1 map 7. 2021 9781107650435 Paperback GBP 32.99 / USD 42.99 5. 2016 9781107053243 Hardback GBP 94.99 / USD 129.99 eISBN 9781107282049
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Authority and Expertise in Ancient Scientific Culture Jason König | University of St Andrews, Scotland
How did ancient scientific and knowledge-ordering writers make their work authoritative? This volume answers that question for a wide range of ancient disciplines, from mathematics and medicine through to law, historiography and philosophy - focusing mainly, but not exclusively, on the literature of the Roman Empire. • Brings a wide range of ancient disciplines into dialogue with each other, including not just ‘scientific’ fields, but also areas like law, historiography and generalship which are not usually studied within the history of ancient science • Pays attention not just to self-assertive styles of authority-construction but also to the importance of various kinds of self-effacement and anticompetitiveness • Provides original readings of a wide range of individual texts which may be less familiar to scholars and thereby helps to further the recent expansion of interest in ancient knowledge-ordering writing
485pp 1 b/w illus. 7. 2021 9781107629646 Paperback GBP 32.99 / USD 42.99 9. 2017 9781107060067 Hardback GBP 111.00 / USD 142.99 eISBN 9781107446724
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 2. 2021 9781108842051 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108895859
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Caria and Crete in Antiquity Cultural Interaction between Anatolia and the Aegean Naomi Carless Unwin
Mythologies shaped identities; this book examines what regional mythologies reveal about the social and cultural orientation of Caria in antiquity. Although the Carians were an Anatolian people, their integration into the mythological framework of the Greek world reveals that interaction with the Aegean was a fundamental aspect of their history. • Undertakes a comprehensive examination of the relationship between Caria and the Aegean, challenging the theoretical divide between Anatolian and Aegean cultures • Adopts a methodological approach to the study of mythology which considers both the origins and social functions of myths • Breaks down the mechanisms of cultural interaction, with an emphasis on individual agency for the transmission of cultural forms 286pp 8. 2021 9781316645420 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 7. 2017 9781107194175 Hardback GBP 76.00 / USD 97.99 eISBN 9781108151801
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Central Greece and the Politics of Power in the Fourth Century BC John Buckler
Approaches Greek political and military history in the fourth century BC from the perspective of Thebes and neighbouring Phocis. The authors uncover the dynamic tension between local affairs and the wider transformation of the Greek world on the eve of Macedonian conquest. • Important contribution to the interpretation of a controversial era in Greek history • Explores in detail the politics of a previously-neglected area of Greece • Examines the interaction between regional politics and panhellenic affairs - a new approach to this period in history 329pp 10. 2021 9781009113861 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 5. 2017 9780521837057 Hardback GBP 68.00 / USD 88.99 eISBN 9780511482717
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Comparing the Ptolemaic and Seleucid Empires Integration, Communication, and Resistance Christelle Fischer-Bovet | University of Southern California
Systematic comparison of the Seleucid and Ptolemaic empires, whose formation was similar in many ways. Focuses on forms of communication; settlement policies and the relationship between local and immigrant populations; and the forms of collaboration with and resistance of local elites against immigrant populations and government institutions. • Demonstrates the mutual political and ideological entanglement of the two main Hellenistic empires but also some crucial differences between them • Highlights the vital role of local contexts in the process of empire formation under foreign domination • Provides a theoretically informed analysis of empire formation and transformation in the ancient world
400pp 9. 2021 9781108479257 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108782890
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Disabilities and the Disabled in the Roman World A Social and Cultural History Christian Laes | Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium
The first ever monograph in English on an important section of the population of the Roman world which has too often been neglected. A methodological introduction is followed by a headto-toe approach, dealing with mental problems, visual impairment, deafness, muteness, speech and mobility impairment. • The first scholarly study of the subject in English • Comprehensively engages with literary sources, legal texts, epigraphy and papyrology, as well as with material evidence such as iconography • Adopts an explicitly comparative approach which constantly seeks dialogue with new approaches and studies concerning other periods
250pp 6. 2021 9781316615010 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 24.99 12. 2018 9781107162907 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781316678480
Emperors and Political Culture in Cassius Dio’s Roman History Caillan Davenport | Macquarie University, Sydney
A historical and historiographical study of the historian Cassius Dio and his account of political culture under the Roman Empire. Essential for students and scholars seeking to understand how Dio represented Roman emperors and their relationship with key groups such as courtiers, soldiers, and the people. • Presents an in-depth analysis of the content and themes of Dio’s imperial narrative • Analyses the Roman History using a variety of methodological and theoretical approaches • Provides translations of all passages from Greek and Latin texts 348pp 8. 2021 9781108831000 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108923019
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Empire and Ideology in the Graeco-Roman World Selected Papers Benjamin Isaac | Tel-Aviv University
In this collection of papers, distinguished historian Benjamin Isaac examines the Roman concepts of state and empire and mechanisms of control and integration. He also discusses ethnic and cultural relationships in the Roman Empire and the limits of tolerance and integration, as well as attitudes to foreigners and minorities, including Jews. • Provides new and unconventional perspectives on the nature of Roman imperial rule, ancient warfare, and attitudes towards Jews and other minorities in the Roman world • Demonstrates how modern issues of power conflicts and religious and racist strife can be understood through comparison with ancient precedents • Unites some recent published papers with several entirely new chapters to provide readers with an up-to-date and comprehensive view of Isaac’s work
382pp 1 map 7. 2021 9781316501672 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 10. 2017 9781107135895 Hardback GBP 95.99 / USD 123.99 eISBN 9781316476963
Empire and Religion in the Roman World Harriet I. Flower | Princeton University, New Jersey
Cutting-edge essays from distinguished scholars exploring key facets of the Roman Empire. Three major themes prevail: the interaction between boundaries and intricate networks of connections; the ways in which the Roman world promoted religious change, especially the rise of Christianity; and the violence endemic within and beyond communities. •D istinguished contributors demonstrate the results which can be achieved from an interdisciplinary approach to the Roman empire • Illustrates networks and local cultures in the Roman empire and shows connections between various approaches • Examines social change caused by disease, climate, religious innovation, and violence
300pp 8. 2021 9781108831925 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108932981
Julius Caesar and the Roman People Robert Morstein-Marx | University of California, Santa Barbara
A thorough reconsideration of Julius Caesar’s career throughout the crisis of the Roman Republic. Argues that Caesar was not an aspiring autocrat seeking to overthrow the Republic, but an unusually successful republican political leader against whom a determined opposition ultimately preferred to wage civil war rather than accept political defeat. • R ejects teleological explanations of Caesar’s rise or of the crisis of the Republic • Re-orients the perspective from which major events are told from the traditional aristocratic viewpoint which emphasizes the dominance of the Senate to a ‘popular’ viewpoint which emphasizes the power and sovereignty of the People • Offers a timely reflection on the development of a devastating political crisis caused by intense polarization and norm-breaking, leading to justified fear and pre-emptive aggressive action
700pp 8. 2021 9781108837842 Hardback GBP 44.99 / USD 59.99 eISBN 9781108943260
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Kellis A Roman-Period Village in Egypt’s Dakhleh Oasis Colin A. Hope | Monash University, Victoria
The first comprehensive account of the ancient village of Kellis in the Dakhleh Oasis of the Egyptian Western Desert. Incorporates the wealth of recent archaeological discoveries from public and private buildings to Artefacts to numerous documents and provides a rich picture of life in Egypt in the Roman period. • Provides the first holistic account of the discoveries at Kellis • Describes in non-technical language the wider importance of these discoveries • The diversity of material discussed allows the volume to serve as a guide to the Archaeology of Roman Egypt
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400pp 12. 2021 9780521190329 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00 12. 2021 Hardback eISBN 9780511844362
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Land and Taxes in Ptolemaic Egypt An Edition, Translation and Commentary for the Edfu Land Survey ( P. Haun. IV 70) Thorolf Christensen | University of Cambridge
The first edition with introduction and commentary of a unique second-century BC land survey written on papyrus in Greek which, coming from Edfu in Upper Egypt, provides a new picture of landholding and taxation in the area. This volume is essential for all scholars of ancient Egypt and Hellenistic history. • Provides the first edition of the first Hellenistic land survey to survive on papyrus from southern Egypt • Includes an introduction to the importance of the text within the context of land and taxation in Upper, or southern, Egypt • Offers new evidence for the widespread existence of private land in the south and involves some substantial modification of the prevailing picture of landholding in Hellenistic Egypt
Cambridge Classical studies 201pp 19 b/w illus. 1 map 31 tables 8. 2021 9781316612057 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 10. 2017 9781107159105 Hardback GBP 80.99 / USD 103.99 eISBN 9781316671245
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Local Knowledge and Microidentities in the Imperial Greek World Tim Whitmarsh | University of Oxford
This exciting 2010 collection of essays offers a reappraisal of current ideas about Greek identity under the Roman empire. Drawing on extensive discussions of sources and modern theories of the tension between global and local identities, the authors argue that regional identities were both produced and challenged by Roman imperialism. • Extends discussion of Greek identity to include regionalism to provide a richer model of identity • Uses a mixture of traditional methodologies and those drawn from studies of contemporary globalisation • International team of contributors, all experts in their field
Greek Culture in the Roman World 242pp 14 b/w illus. 2 maps 1. 2021 9781108984973 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 7. 2010 9780521761468 Hardback GBP 58.99 / USD 86.99 eISBN 9780511778599
Memory, Family, and Community in Roman Ephesos Angela Kalinowski | University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Using epigraphic and archaeological evidence concerning an elite Ephesian family, the Vedii over seven generations this study brings to light complex social and economic relations, and the religious and cultural life of Ephesos. • The first detailed ‘history’ of an elite family’s social and political relations in a city of the eastern Roman Empire • Synthesizes different types of evidence, including Archaeology, inscriptions, literary texts and the landscape • One of very few English Language books on the history of Ephesos, one of the most important cities in the eastern Roman Empire 400pp 7. 2021 9781108477871 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 7. 2021 Hardback eISBN 9781108775137
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Migration, Mobility and Place in Ancient Italy Elena Isayev | University of Exeter
This book examines the nature of human mobility, attitudes to it, and constructions of place over the last millennium BC in Rome and Italy. It demonstrates that there were high rates of mobility, challenging the perception of sites and communities as static and ethnically oriented entities. • Provides a new approach to Romano-Italian history, but through mobilities and trajectories rather than through site and ethnicity • Traces through empirical study the high rate of mobility in the ancient world and flexible attitudes to those who were on the move, challenging stereotypes about ancient communities as largely static, sedentary and defined by ethnic concerns • Applies contemporary theories from disciplines such as geography, anthropology and Art to help address the complex issues of how we understand human mobility and constructions of place
551pp 7. 2021 9781107576384 Paperback GBP 32.99 / USD 42.99 8. 2017 9781107130616 Hardback GBP 111.00 / USD 142.99 eISBN 9781316440612
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Monasteries and the Care of Souls in Late Antique Christianity Cognition and Discipline Paul C. Dilley | University of Iowa
This book explores the personal practices and group rituals for monitoring and training the thoughts of ancient Christian monks. It focuses on the earliest sources for communal monasticism, many translated into English for the first time, while drawing on cognitive studies to understand key disciplines like prayer and collective repentance. • Demonstrates the central significance of monitoring and regulating thoughts in the early monastic care of souls, exploring institutional procedures and personal practices • Makes use of cognitive studies to enlighten our understanding of key monastic activities, including meditation, prayer, and the fear of God • Analyses a number of important early Coptic texts, many of which are offered in English for the first time, alongside more familiar works in the Greek and Latin monastic traditions 362pp 4. 2021 9781316635322 Paperback GBP 27.99 / USD 33.99
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7. 2017 9781107184015 Hardback GBP 95.99 / USD 123.99 eISBN 9781316875094
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Nero Emperor and Court John F. Drinkwater | University of Nottingham
Nero always attracts attention. This book, based on the most recent research and offering radically new interpretations of his character and reign - of the Fire, Christian ‘persecution’, the Golden House, and his ‘madness’ - will appeal to every type of reader, academic and general. • Argues for a new view of Nero’s principate by focusing on those around him and by directly addressing key topics, such as his mental health and the imperial fiscal system, which are usually side-lined or avoided • Takes a pArticular interest in the role of women in central Roman imperial politics and administration • Assumes little or no prior knowledge of the topic or period and is written in accessible and non-technical language
467pp 11 b/w illus. 5 maps 4 tables 4. 2021 9781108460071 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 25.99 3. 2019 9781108472647 Hardback GBP 32.99 / USD 44.99 eISBN 9781108560870
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One God Pagan Monotheism in the Roman Empire Stephen Mitchell | University of Exeter
Graeco-Roman religion in its classic form was polytheistic, but monotheistic ideas enjoyed wide currency in ancient philosophy. This book establishes a new framework for understanding the relationship between polytheistic and monotheistic religious cultures between the first and fourth centuries AD. • Re-examines monotheistic developments and ideas within pagan Graeco-Roman religion and questions the usefulness of the concept of ‘monotheism’ outside Jewish and Christian contexts • Discusses the latest theoretical approaches • Includes chapters by eight leading international scholars of ancient religion and early Christianity
249pp 1 b/w illus. 1. 2021 9781108984966 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 4. 2010 9780521194167 Hardback GBP 73.99 / USD 106.99 eISBN 9780511730115
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Oratory and Political Career in the Late Roman Republic Henriette van der Blom | University of Birmingham
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Nicolaus of Damascus: The Life of Augustus and The Autobiography Edited with Introduction, Translations and Historical Commentary Nicolaus of Damascus
Text, translation and commentary for an ancient biographical work on the first Roman emperor Augustus by his contemporary and friend Nicolaus of Damascus, the chief minister of Herod the Great. For all scholars interested in the development of ancient biography, the assassination of Caesar and the early history of Augustus. • The first critical text of the Life of Augustus in almost a century, based on a re-examination of the manuscript tradition and providing a full apparatus criticus • Provides an edition and translation of the fragments of the author’s autobiography, which is virtually unavailable in English • The introduction and commentary provide an historiographical analysis of the text that is crucial to understanding its value as an historical document 500pp 7. 2021 9781107428324 Paperback GBP 39.99 / USD 52.99 12. 2016 9781107075610 Hardback GBP 111.00 / USD 162.99 eISBN 9781139871839
This book offers a new perspective on the role of oratory in Roman Republican politics through its unique focus on the oratorical performances of orators other than Cicero and the ways in which these performances shaped their political careers. • Provides detailed discussions of the oratory of six of the most influential politicians of the late Roman Republic, most of which has never been discussed in detail before • Includes appendices listing oratorical performances of case study figures, providing an overview of an oratorical career and the source references for each oratorical performance • Focuses on orators other than Cicero and provides a corrective to the current understanding of Roman oratory through Cicero’s speeches
391pp 1 b/w illus. 7. 2021 9781107687219 Paperback GBP 27.99 / USD 36.99 8. 2016 9781107051935 Hardback GBP 83.99 / USD 107.99 eISBN 9781107280281
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Polis and Revolution Responding to Oligarchy in Classical Athens Julia L. Shear | American School of Classical studies, Athens
Towards the end of the fifth century BC, Athens underwent two revolutions which both resulted in the establishment of oligarchic regimes. In this book, Julia Shear explores how democracy was restored and the city rebuilt in the aftermath of these coups and examines how the Athenians responded both individually and corporately. • The only comprehensive book-length treatment of the two oligarchic revolutions to date • Offers an innovative approach to the study of the revolutions by applying new theories of memory politics • All Greek is translated and technical terms are explained, so the book is accessible to non-specialists
384pp 19 b/w illus. 11 tables 1. 2021 9781108984843 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 38.99 4. 2011 9780521760447 Hardback GBP 85.99 / USD 121.99 eISBN 9780511974106
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Popular Culture in the Ancient World
Roman Artisans and the Urban Economy
Lucy Grig | University of Edinburgh
Cameron Hawkins
This book provides a fascinating and innovative insight into popular culture in the ancient world. It covers a diverse range of subjects and objects - from dice oracles to dressing up, from toys to theological speculation - and will appeal to scholars and students not just of classics but also of history and cultural studies. • The first English-language book to examine popular culture across the ancient world • Includes a substantial introduction, laying out the field and its methodology • Provides a solid introduction as well as a detailed study for advanced scholars
This book offers the first comprehensive study of economic conditions and economic life in Roman cities during the late Republic and early Empire. Inspired by comparative historical evidence and contemporary economic theory, it explores the performance of the Roman economy and the economic importance of key institutions like slavery, manumission, reputation and gender. • Provides the first comprehensive study of the economics of urban production in the Roman world, making this book a required read for those interested in Roman economic history • Pays close attention to the relationship between social and economic behaviour, which will hold considerable appeal for students of Roman culture and society • Offers an analysis that is informed both by comparative historical evidence and by contemporary economic theory, which will appeal to those interested in new approaches to ancient evidence
379pp 6 b/w illus. 7. 2021 9781107427532 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 8. 2016 9781107074897 Hardback GBP 83.99 / USD 107.99 eISBN 9781139871402
Private Associations in the Ancient Greek World Regulations and the Creation of Group Identity Vincent Gabrielsen | University of Copenhagen
Private associations abounded in the ancient Greek world and beyond, and this volume provides the first large-scale study of the strategies of governance which they employed. It explores them in their wider social, political, religious and global contexts and is valuable for historians, social scientists and theologians alike. • The first full-scale analysis of the rules and regulations of private associations in the ancient Greek world and the values underlying them • Includes clear, accessible examples to shed light on the complex relationship between the private and public spheres • Engages in comparative historical analysis encompassing the wider Eurasian world 320pp 3 tables 9. 2021 9781108838993 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108979344
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Religion, Society and Culture at Dura-Europos Ted Kaizer | University of Durham
This book advances our understanding of the religion, society and culture of Dura-Europos, the small town on the Euphrates known as the ‘Pompeii of the Syrian desert’ and one of the best sources for day-to-day life in a community on the periphery of the Roman world. • Adopts an interdisciplinary and theoretically informed approach to the subject • Addresses the current scholarly interest in the Roman Near East, whose sites are currently suffering heavy damage due to the unrest in Syria and Iraq • Boasts a broad and international range of contributors
Yale Classical studies 332pp 64 b/w illus. 7. 2021 9781107560239 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 11. 2016 9781107123793 Hardback GBP 75.99 / USD 98.99 eISBN 9781316403488
319pp 7 b/w illus. 6 tables 7. 2021 9781107535732 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 7. 2016 9781107115446 Hardback GBP 88.99 / USD 114.99 eISBN 9781316335888
Roman Egypt A History Roger S. Bagnall | New York University
Ideal new history for students and a general audience interested in the seven centuries when the Roman Empire ruled Egypt. An international group of authors provides chronological and thematic treatments of this often overlooked period of history, supported by a wealth of illustrations and quotations from primary sources. • Provides an accessible account of an important period in Egypt’s Ancient history • Includes a wealth of visual illustration and excerpts from ancient texts • Draws on diverse expertise and viewpoints both from within and from outside Egypt 342pp 4 b/w illus. 70 colour illus. 6 maps 9. 2021 9781108844901 Hardback GBP 84.99 / USD 110.00 9. 2021 9781108949002 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 25.99 eISBN 9781108953948
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Roman Geographies of the Nile From the Late Republic to the Early Empire Andy Merrills | University of Leicester
The River Nile fascinated the Romans and appeared in maps, written descriptions, philosophical texts, poems and landscape paintings. This book examines these representations and their interdependence. It thereby proposes a new approach to the study of ancient geography, providing an accessible introduction to the field for a variety of audiences. • Explores the full range of ways in which the physical world was represented in classical society through six case studies, including cArtography, triumphal display, landscape painting, itineraries, natural philosophy and poetry • Proposes a new view of classical geographical thinking, which moves beyond traditional ‘geographical’ texts, and reveals the influence of other media in shaping attitudes to the wider world • Brings together various different traditions of scholarship for the first time, allowing readers to see how Art historical, philological, philosophical and archaeological approaches to the study of ancient conceptions of space are inter-related
354pp 28 b/w illus. 8. 2021 9781316628287 Paperback GBP 27.99 / USD 36.99 5. 2017 9781107177284 Hardback GBP 95.99 / USD 123.99 eISBN 9781316822661
Rome: An Empire of Many Nations New Perspectives on Ethnic Diversity and Cultural Identity Jonathan J. Price | Tel-Aviv University
Explores the nature of the vast multinational Roman Empire through the identities of ethnic groups and the experiences of single individuals. The chapters range across the many cultures, languages, religions and literatures of the Empire, with a special focus on the Jews as a test-case for the larger issues. • Provides a vigorous new perspective of Empire and imperialism, from the point of view of ethnicity and the subjects of the Empire • Demonstrates the benefits of adopting a multi-disciplinary approach to the issues • Includes numerous new insights from a wide range of distinguished contributors
424pp 9. 2021 9781108479455 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108785563
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. •C aptures 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 2. 2021 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 3. 2021 9781108485272 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00 eISBN 9781108750943
Simplicity and Humility in Late Antique Christian Thought Elites and the Challenges of Apostolic Life Jaclyn L. Maxwell | Ohio University
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 3. 2021 9781108832267 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108935739
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Slave Systems Ancient and Modern Enrico Dal Lago | National University of Ireland, Galway
Ancient and modern historians debate the possibility of comparing specific features of slavery in ancient Greece and Rome and in the modern Atlantic world and the United States. The results demonstrate the inheritance from antiquity of slavery in the modern world and the fundamental similarity of the issues and problems. • Offers case-studies comparing features of ancient and modern slavery • Takes an up-to-date and multi-disciplinary approach to the methodology of comparative history • Provides a comprehensive current bibliography on comparative slavery
389pp 10. 2021 9781009113847 Paperback GBP 27.99 / USD 36.99 3. 2008 9780521881838 Hardback GBP 85.99 / USD 121.99 eISBN 9780511482748
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Slavery in the Late Antique World, 150 – 700 CE Chris L. de Wet
This volume investigates the settings of slaveholding and representations of slave experience in late antiquity. The essays, written by a diverse team of international scholars, scrutinize the ideological, moral, cultural, and symbolic aspects of slavery alongside the status and living conditions of late antique slaves. • Provides complex and nuanced understanding of slavery in Late Antiquity • Analyses the different discourses of slavery (i.e. the use of metaphors, rhetoric, etc.) • Offers case studies of slavery in specific geographical, ethnic and religious contexts
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400pp 2. 2022 9781108476225 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108568159
Slaves and Slavery in Ancient Greece Sara Forsdyke | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
A comprehensive account of the experiences of enslaved people in ancient Greece, from the moment of enslavement through death or the achievement of freedom. Focuses on the perspectives of the enslaved rather than slave owners, and shows the strategies they adopted to maximize their autonomy. • Highlights the contribution of slaves to ancient Greek society • Presents a method for investigating the lives of slaves that draws on both ancient and comparative evidence for slavery • Provides a comprehensive account of the experiences of slaves from the moment of enslavement to their death or achievement of freedom and examines the ideologies of and modes of control employed by slave-owners
Key Themes in Ancient history 200pp 6. 2021 9781107032347 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 6. 2021 9781107658899 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 24.99 eISBN 9781139505772
The Attalids of Pergamon and Anatolia Money, Culture, and State Power Noah Kaye | Michigan State University
Reveals how the iconoclastic Attalid dynasty of the ancient city of Pergamon ruled the Anatolian peninsula – and influenced our entire imagination of the Classical world – with only budgets, coins, and clever bureaucratic maneuvers, casting a single empire around Greek cities on the Aegean coast and indigenous villages on the steppe. • Provides a complete overview of how the Attalid empire functioned, from its fiscal system to its cultural propaganda – highlighting precisely how the two interacted • Unveils the Attalids as proudly Anatolian kings, offering a new perspective on the limits of Hellenism in the East and therefore a new take on the definition of the Classical world and the multiculturalism of the Hellenistic world • Synthesizes new evidence from epigraphy, numismatics, Archaeology, Art history, and classical philology 300pp 30 b/w illus. 5 maps 4. 2022 9781316510599 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00 eISBN 9781009038935
The Falls of Rome Crises, Resilience, and Resurgence in Late Antiquity Michele Renee Salzman | University of California, Riverside
This book is essential reading for understanding what happened to Rome at the end of antiquity. By focusing on the actions of senatorial aristocrats, I explore the restoration of the city of Rome and the slow growth of the influence of the papacy at the beginning of the middle ages. • Provides examples of how theological texts and fragments can be read for political and social history • Bridges the gap between periods generally kept apArt, that is the ancient and medieval worlds • Studies the institution of the Senate and the late Roman senatorial aristocracy in action 462pp 9. 2021 9781107111424 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781316275924
The Hera of Zeus Intimate Enemy, Ultimate Spouse Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge | Collège de France, Paris
Rethinks the configuration of power and the workings of polytheism in ancient Greece through exploring the tensions inhabiting the figure of the goddess Hera, who was the intimate but hostile wife of Zeus and the queen on Olympus as well as in the cities inhabited by her worshippers. • Provides a new approach to the goddess Hera, in relationship to Zeus, far away from the canonical portrait of the angry and jealous wife • Introduces an analysis of Greek polytheism which takes into account narratives and cults • Mobilises a range of literary, epigraphic, archaeological and iconographic evidence Classical Scholarship in Translation 348pp 11. 2021 9781108841030 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108888479
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The Journey of Christianity to India in Late Antiquity Networks and the Movement of Culture Nathanael J. Andrade | State University of New York, Binghamton
Explores how ancient and late antique Christianity traveled through Asia by examining the social networks that connected the ancient and late antique Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean, central Asia, and Iran. Focuses in pArticular on the narrative tradition regarding the apostle Judas Thomas. • Proposes a new understanding of Christianity traveled from the Roman Mediterranean to India and central Asia • Suggests new ways of conceiving how the various societies of the Mediterranean, East Africa, Indian Ocean, and Asian hinterland were connected in antiquity • Interrogates the significance of both literary evidence and the evidence of material culture for the question 314pp 3 maps 10. 2021 9781108409551 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 4. 2018 9781108419123 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108296953
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The Politics of Munificence in the Roman Empire Citizens, Elites and Benefactors in Asia Minor Arjan Zuiderhoek | Universiteit Gent, Belgium
In the first two centuries AD, the eastern Roman provinces experienced a proliferation of elite public generosity (gifts of buildings, festivals, distributions in exchange for public honours) unmatched in their previous or later history. This is a study of the motivations behind those public benefactions. • Offers a substantial reassessment of the nature of public munificence in the Graeco-Roman world • Provides a detailed case study of an important area of the Roman Empire • Investigates and explains the rise of public giving in Asia Minor, relating it clearly to wider long-term developments in the Roman Empire
Greek Culture in the Roman World 204pp 2. 2021 9781108994033 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 5. 2009 9780521519304 Hardback GBP 80.99 / USD 120.99 eISBN 9780511576508
The Roman Republic to 49 BCE 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 howto 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 308pp 5. 2021 9781107013735 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 5. 2021 9781107654709 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 25.99 eISBN 9781139005173
The Slow Fall of Babel Languages and Identities in Late Antique Christianity Yuliya Minets
Explores the gradual transformation of the virtually monolingual edifice of classical culture in late antiquity as the increasingly Christianized elites discovered the existence of multiple other languages in the world and attempted to incorporate their speakers meaningfully into the holistic and distinctly Christian picture of the universe. • Explores how an increasing awareness of linguistic diversity contributed to the development of distinct Christian and specific confessional identities in late antiquity • Demonstrates the cultural significance of the remarks on speech differences and the problems of their interpretation in ancient documents and everyday life • Introduces several new terms and concepts which could be applied to other areas of social and cultural linguistics and historical research
400pp 12. 2021 9781108833462 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108980821
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Votive Body PArts in Greek and Roman Religion Jessica Hughes | The Open University, Milton Keynes
This book examines a type of object that was widespread and very popular in classical antiquity votive offerings in the shape of pArts of the human body, using them to explore how beliefs about the body changed throughout the period. Of interest to scholars and students of classics as well as religious studies. • Examines votive offerings from all over the classical world, enabling readers to perceive important changes in beliefs and traditions • Brings votive body pArts into a conversation with other visual and literary sources from the classical world and emphasises their importance for a wide range of topics in classics • Demonstrates how votives intersect with modern theories about the body and draws connections between ancient and modern perceptions of the body
Cambridge Classical studies 233pp 84 b/w illus. 8. 2021 9781316610428 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 6. 2017 9781107157835 Hardback GBP 79.99 / USD 102.99 eISBN 9781316662403
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The Scribes of Rome
War and Society in Early Rome
A Cultural and Social History of the Scribae Benjamin HArtmann | Universität Zürich
From Warlords to Generals Jeremy Armstrong | University of Auckland
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
Combines the rich, but problematic, literary tradition for early Rome with the ever-growing archaeological record to present a new interpretation of early Roman warfare and how it related to the city’s various social, political, religious, and economic institutions. • Proposes a new approach to understanding early Roman society through the lens of warfare • Combines literary and archaeological evidence, offering a multifaceted approach to the problems of early Rome and their possible solutions • Reinserts the human element into early Roman warfare
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331pp 9 b/w illus. 3 maps 1 table 7. 2021 9781107474550 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 4. 2016 9781107093577 Hardback GBP 71.99 / USD 92.99 eISBN 9781316145241
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Xenophon and the Athenian Democracy The Education of an Elite Citizenry Matthew R. Christ | Indiana University
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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
225pp 9. 2021 9781108797757 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 3. 2020 9781108495769 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108862998
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Aenesidemus of Cnossus Testimonia Roberto Polito | University of Cambridge
The first ever collection of all the ancient texts describing the philosophy of Aenesidemus of Cnossus, considered to be the inspiration for Sextus Empiricus, the main surviving representative of ancient Scepticism. Provides an extensive philosophical and historical commentary. An essential reference work for the study of Ancient philosophy. • First ever edition of the testimonia on the Sceptic Aenesidemus • Provides extensive philosophical and historical commentary on the texts • Covers a wide historical range of texts from Aenesidemus through Sextus Empiricus to Byzantium
Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries 403pp 1 b/w illus. 4. 2021 9781009014885 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 10. 2014 9780521190251 Hardback GBP 91.99 / USD 119.99 eISBN 9781139022361
Aristotle on How Animals Move The De incessu animalium : Text, Translation, and Interpretative Essays Andrea Falcon | Concordia University, Montréal
The De incessu animalium forms an integral pArt of Aristotle’s biological corpus and allows us to see, with some clarity and detail, his methodology at work. This volume contains a new critical edition of the Greek text and an English translation, as well as a comprehensive range of interpretative essays. • Provides a new critical edition of the Greek text based on a full inspection of the Greek manuscripts as well as a new English translation • The interpretative essays provide an in-depth discussion of all the philosophical issues raised by the treatise • The Introduction and historical essays provide a good stArting guide to Aristotle’s biology 320pp 6. 2021 9781108491334 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108868228
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 5. 2021 9780521193979 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781139047982
Aristotle on Women Physiology, Psychology, and Politics Sophia M. Connell | Birkbeck College, University of London
This Element provides an account of Aristotle on women which combines what is found in his scientific biology with his practical philosophy. Scholars have often debated how these two fields are related. The current study shows that according to Aristotelian biology, women are set up for intelligence and tend to be milder-tempered than men. Elements in Ancient philosophy 75pp 8. 2021 9781108713467 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108581950
Authority and Authoritative Texts in the Platonist Tradition Michael Erler | Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany
All disciplines can count on a noble founder, and the representation of this founder as an authority is key in order to construe a discipline’s identity. This innovative volume explores how Plato and other authorities were represented in one of the most longlasting traditions of all time. • Provides a fresh view of different models of authority throughout the history of Platonism • Offers a comprehensive and up-to-date exploration of the Platonist tradition • Sheds light on a series of issues whose impact goes beyond the Platonist tradition 320pp 3. 2021 9781108844000 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108921596
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Body and Soul in Hellenistic Philosophy 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
274pp 6. 2021 9781108725255 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 11. 2020 9781108485821 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108641487
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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
253pp 9. 2021 9781108430517 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 9. 2020 9781108420563 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108354745
Cosmology and Biology in Ancient philosophy From Thales to Avicenna Ricardo Salles | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
In antiquity living beings are inextricably linked to the cosmos as a whole. A full understanding of one therefore requires a full account of the other, and vice versa. This volume addresses philosophical issues arising from this double relation. • Argues for a fresh approach to ancient biology and cosmology as interconnected disciplines • Brings together leading specialists in the field • Focuses on philosophical issues arising from the relation between ancient biology and cosmology 320pp 6. 2021 9781108836579 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108873970
Diogenes Laertius: Lives of Eminent Philosophers An Edited Translation Stephen White | University of Texas, Austin
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
524pp 6. 2021 9780521883351 Hardback GBP 110.00 / USD 145.00 eISBN 9781139047111
Epicurus in Rome Philosophical Perspectives in the Ciceronian Age Sergio Yona | University of Missouri, Columbia
Examines the role and influence of Greek philosophy in the final days of the Roman republic. Focuses primarily on the works and views of Cicero, premier politician and Roman philosopher of the day, and Lucretius, foremost among the representatives and supporters of Epicureanism at the time. • Provides a more holistic sense of the status and nature of Epicureanism in late republican Rome • Explores contradictory opinions regarding philosophy in Rome and the degree to which it was compatible with traditional Roman culture • Features a distinguished international cast of contributors 248pp 10. 2021 9781108845052 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108954402
Expanding Horizons in the History of Science The Comparative Approach G. E. R. Lloyd | Needham Research Institute, Cambridge
This book challenges a Western modernist perspective for the history of science. The study of ancient societies and modern indigenous groups enables us to critique many of our own assumptions. The realities to be accounted for are multidimensional and all such accounts are to some extent value-laden. • Develops a new framework for the history of science • Adopts a multi-disciplinary approach using findings from anthropology, the philosophy of language and the philosophy and historiography of science • Investigates science in contemporary indigenous, as well as ancient, societies, thereby expanding the horizons of the history of science 200pp 20 b/w illus. 8. 2021 9781316516249 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009029285
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Explorations in Ancient and Modern Philosophy Volume 3 Myles Burnyeat | All Souls College, Oxford
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Collects important papers, some previously unpublished, written by one of the greatest modern scholars of Ancient philosophy. Volume 3 introduces Plato and the Republic, explains his importance to John StuArt Mill, and shows how ancient philosophical thinking can be applied to contemporary questions about key philosophical and psychological topics. • Collects significant papers published in the later period of Myles Burnyeat’s distinguished career • Volume 3 includes essays providing authoritative and accessible introductions to Plato’s Republic, his mathematics, and his subsequent reception in nineteenth-century Britain • Includes the previously unpublished lecture series, ‘The Archaeology of Feeling’, which demonstrates the relevance of ancient philosophical approaches to contemporary problems
500pp 12. 2021 9781316517932 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00 eISBN 9781009047982
Explorations in Ancient and Modern Philosophy (Vols 3-4 2-Volume Set) 2 Volumes Hardback Set Myles Burnyeat | All Souls College, Oxford
These volumes collect important papers by one of the greatest modern scholars of Ancient philosophy. Some offer detailed technical interpretations of important concepts in Plato and Aristotle, while others examine Plato’s subsequent interpretation and explore the origins of contemporary questions about key philosophical and psychological topics. • Collects significant papers published in the later period of Myles Burnyeat’s distinguished career • Covers a wide range of topics in the interpretation of Plato and Aristotle, in Plato’s later reception in late antiquity and nineteenthcentury Britain, and in ancient science • Includes the previously unpublished lecture series, ‘The Archaeology of Feeling’, which demonstrates the relevance of ancient philosophical approaches to contemporary problems 950pp 12. 2021 9781009047777 2 Hardback books GBP 175.00 / USD 230.00
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From Stoicism to Platonism The Development of Philosophy, 100 BCE–100 CE Troels Engberg-Pedersen | University of Copenhagen
A team of experts explores the change in philosophy from around 100 BCE, when monistic Stoicism was the strongest dogmatic school in philosophy, to around 100 CE, when dualistic Platonism began to gain the upper hand - with huge consequences for all later Western philosophy and for Christianity. • Expert scholars explore one of the most fruitful and important periods in the history of Western philosophy • Brings together the study of Greco-Roman philosophical texts and Hellenistic Jewish and early Christian texts with a philosophical profile • Questions the categories traditionally used to describe philosophy in the period
409pp 8. 2021 9781316617366 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 38.99 2. 2017 9781107166196 Hardback GBP 95.99 / USD 123.99 eISBN 9781316694459
Galen’s Epistemology Experience, Reason, and Method in Ancient Medicine R. J. Hankinson | University of Texas, Austin
Galen’s project of scientific medicine entails philosophical issues such as the relation between experience and reason, the criteria of truth, and the methods of inquiry and justification. This volume explores his contributions to (mainly scientific) epistemology as well as their legacy in the Islamic world. • Shows how Galen’s medical inquiries and polemics went hand in hand with his philosophical investigations • Considers the legacy of Galen’s contributions to epistemology in the Islamic world • Presents ancient texts in translation to maximise accessibility to scholars and students 348pp 4. 2022 9781316513484 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009072670
Immortality in Ancient philosophy A. G. Long | University of St Andrews, Scotland
How did the ancients understand immortality? This collection of original research ranges widely from early Greek philosophy through the Platonist tradition to Augustine, and will benefit all those interested in immortality and divinity in Ancient philosophy and theology. • Provides a philosophically and philologically rigorous overview of immortality in Ancient philosophy • Explores a key concept which, despite its importance in Ancient philosophy and abiding interest for philosophers, is rarely given the same level of attention as the soul, happiness or virtue • Ranges widely from the Presocratics to Augustine 300pp 6. 2021 9781108832281 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108935777
Law and Philosophy in the Late Roman Republic René Brouwer | Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
This pioneering book critically analyses one of the most creative interactions in the history of mankind the encounter of Roman jurists and Hellenistic thinkers in the second and first century BCE - and argues for its lasting influence on both law and philosophy. • Gives an account of the little known but crucially important ‘scientific revolution’ in the late second century BCE • Uses a critical analysis of the extant sources to show how both Roman law and Hellenistic philosophy were changed in fundamental ways by their interaction • Deals with the lasting legacies of this interaction for both law and philosophy in the twenty-first century 190pp 6. 2021 9781108491488 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108868907
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Ludic Proof
Plato’s Academy
Greek Mathematics and the Alexandrian Aesthetic Reviel Netz | Stanford University, California
Its Workings and its History Paul Kalligas | University of Athens, Greece
This book describes the relationship between science and poetry in the Hellenistic period by analysing the stylistic features of Hellenistic mathematics and then showing how they can be understood within the context of Hellenistic poetry. The result transforms our understanding of the origins of Western mathematics. • First book to understand scientific writing in a literary context • First book to introduce the mathematical corpus into discussions of Hellenistic culture • Offers a new understanding of the development of Greek mathematics
271pp 7. 2021 9781009069809 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 5. 2009 9780521898942 Hardback GBP 70.99 / USD 97.99 eISBN 9780511581472
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Mortal and Divine in Early Greek Epistemology A Study of Hesiod, Xenophanes and Parmenides Shaul Tor | King’s College London
This book explores how different forms of reasoning and of divine disclosure played equally integral and harmonious roles in the emergence of systematic epistemology in archaic Greece, and pArticularly in Hesiod, Xenophanes and Parmenides. Provides a fresh perspective on longstanding questions of rationality and irrationality, philosophy and religion. • Develops new interpretative approaches which show how we can see the early Greek philosophers as being both ‘religious’ and ‘philosophical’ • Rethinks the relations between early Greek philosophy and religion • Adopts an interdisciplinary approach, integrating and pursuing simultaneously logical and philological analysis, cultural and religious history, and literary criticism
Cambridge Classical studies 420pp 7. 2021 9781009069847 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 38.99 12. 2017 9781107028166 Hardback GBP 95.99 / USD 124.99 eISBN 9781139235747
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. • Explores the interaction of philosophy and religion in Plato’s dialogues • Shows that ancient Greek philosophy was not a secular discipline • Argues for the importance of the phenomenon of divine epiphany and of the various Mysteries for understanding Plato’s thought 308pp eISBN 9781108938815
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 446pp 12 b/w illus. 8 maps 7. 2021 9781108445153 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 38.99 12. 2020 9781108426442 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108554664
Plato’s Charmides An Interpretative Commentary Voula Tsouna | University of California, Santa Barbara
A close text commentary on Plato’s Charmides, which has been regarded as difficult and enigmatic. Examines the philosophical and dramatic features of the dialogue in great detail and shows how the philosophical issues, the characters and the dialectic play into one another and evolve across the dialogue. • Illuminates this difficult and enigmatic dialogue by means of a close and systematic text commentary • Shows how the interplay of the philosophical issues, the characters and the dialectic evolve across the dialogue • Includes a new translation
300pp 2. 2022 9781316511114 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009036610
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 1. 2021 9781108843997 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108921572
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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
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348pp 2. 2021 9781108485845 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108641579
The Sophists Mauro Bonazzi | Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
This translated volume presents a new vision of the Sophists. It assesses specific contributions of thinkers like Protagoras, Gorgias and Antiphon, and how they shifted the focus of Ancient philosophy from the cosmos to man through their questioning of the nature of knowledge and language and the grounds of morality and politics. • Provides an updated translation of Mauro Bonazzi’s I Sofisti • Offers a response to the prevalent criticism of the Sophists, that they were charlatans and poor teachers, by positioning them as agents of fundamental change in the history of Ancient philosophy • Offers both an overall interpretation of Sophistry as a whole and an assessment of specific thinkers like Protagoras, Gorgias and Antiphon New Surveys in the Classics 160pp 1. 2021 9781108706216 Paperback GBP 16.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108613187
The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle’s Biology Sophia M. Connell | Birkbeck College, University of London
In this first substantial, comprehensive introduction to Aristotle’s biology, leading scholars discuss the key texts and topics and demonstrate how fundamental his ideas in this area are for understanding his broader philosophy and theology. Suitable for undergraduate and graduate students as well as non-specialist scholars. • Introduces key themes in Aristotle’s biology • Connects Aristotle’s biology to modern biology • Provides a full history of scholarship on Aristotle’s biological works from antiquity onwards Cambridge Companions to Philosophy 300pp 5. 2021 9781107197732 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 5. 2021 9781316647875 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 eISBN 9781108181792
The Method of Hypothesis and the Nature of Soul in Plato’s Phaedo John Palmer | University of Florida
This study of Plato’s Phaedo promotes better understanding of its arguments for the soul’s immortality by showing how Plato intended them, not as proofs, but as properly dialectical arguments functioning in accordance with the method of hypothesis.
Elements in Ancient philosophy 75pp 2. 2021 9781108930871 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108946254
Classical Art, Architecture The Cult of Castor and Pollux in Ancient Rome Myth, Ritual, and Society Amber GArtrell | University College London
This book analyses the cult of the Dioscuri and its development, utilising new methodological approaches and a wide range of ancient evidence. This development reveals the significant interactions between Roman religion, politics and society. This book will be of use to scholars and students of ancient religion and history. • Provides an in-depth chronological exploration of the Cult of the Dioscuri in Rome • The development of the cult of the Dioscuri is explored alongside historical events as well as social and cultural changes • My research draws upon a wide range of evidence, including ancient literature, Archaeology, numismatics and Art works 275pp 4. 2021 9781108477550 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108763837
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Asyndeton and its Interpretation in Latin Literature
Adapting Greek Tragedy
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 nonliterary 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
780pp 6. 2021 9781108837859 Hardback GBP 130.00 / USD 170.00 eISBN 9781108943284
Contemporary Contexts for Ancient Texts Vayos Liapis | Open University of Cyprus
Fifteen leading scholars and practitioners of theatre systematically explore, from a variety of perspectives, contemporary adaptations of Greek tragedy. The volume offers both a survey of recent developments and much-needed theoretical grounding in what is an increasingly dynamic approach to an ancient dramatic genre. • Offers a comprehensive treatment of the growing body of contemporary adaptations of Greek tragedy • Uses contemporary adaptations of Greek tragedy as a tool to explore Artistic engagement with ideological, political and moral issues in today’s world • Features original interviews with three internationally leading theatre Artists
446pp 4. 2021 9781107155701 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781316659168
Ancient Greek Lists Catalogue and Inventory Across Genres Athena Kirk | Cornell University, New York
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Origins of the Greek Verb Andreas Willi | University of Oxford
By applying various techniques of linguistic reconstruction to a wide range of philological data, Origins of the Greek Verb presents a completely new and uniquely detailed model of the evolution of the Indo-European verbal system from the early proto-language down to the period of the first texts written in Greek. • Offers a new and uniquely detailed model for the evolution of the Indo-European verbal system from the early protolanguage down to the period of the first texts written in Greek • Presents key concepts clearly and in a form that is accessible to the non-specialist • Combines ample collections of primary data with in-depth philological interpretation, paying equal attention to form and meaning
745pp 32 b/w illus. 14 tables 8. 2021 9781316646878 Paperback GBP 44.99 / USD 59.99 1. 2018 9781107195554 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 155.00 eISBN 9781108164207
Tense-Switching in Classical Greek A Cognitive Approach Arjan A. Nijk | Rijksuniversiteit Leiden, The Netherlands
Provides classicists and linguists in general with a complete account of the ‘historical present’ in Classical Greek. With its combination of philological and statistical methods and its crosslinguistic scope, it is essential for any scholar working on tense, aspect, deixis, viewpoint and discourse analysis. • Gives a complete overview of the phenomenon based on a corpus of texts that is unprecedented in size in this field of research • Uses cross-linguistic examples and provides translations of Classical Greek throughout • Combines philological and statistical methods
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 3. 2021 9781108841139 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108887397
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Approaches to Lucretius Traditions and Innovations in Reading the De Rerum Natura Donncha O’Rourke | University of Edinburgh
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
338pp 2 b/w illus. 7. 2021 9781108433105 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 7. 2020 9781108421966 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108379854
300pp 2. 2022 9781316517154 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009042970
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Archaic Greek Epigram and Dedication Representation and Reperformance Joseph W. Day | Wabash College, Indiana
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Archaic Greeks honored gods by offering dedications, often inscribed with epigrams. This book reconstructs ancient encounters with such dedications, arguing that, while the rite of offering was represented verbally and visually, reading and viewing produced effects of religious ritual. Epigram and dedication memorialized the dedicator’s rite by generating its reperformance. • Restores epigrams on dedications to an important place within Greek religion • Re-examines key epigrams from differing perspectives in different chapters • Translates all Greek
343pp 19 b/w illus. 2 tables 1. 2021 9781108984850 Paperback GBP 27.99 / USD 36.99 10. 2010 9780521896306 Hardback GBP 70.99 / USD 92.99 eISBN 9780511781896
Choral Constructions in Greek Culture The Idea of the Chorus in the Poetry, Art and Social Practices of the Archaic and Early Classical Period Deborah Tarn Steiner | Columbia University, New York
Wide-ranging exploration of representations of chorality in the poetry, Art and material remains of early Greece in order to demonstrate the centrality of the activity in the social, religious and technological practices of individuals and communities. • Adopts a multi-disciplinary approach that considers texts, images and cultural practices and continuities between them • Offers a synthetic approach to the phenomenon of chorality in early Greece rather than considering its manifestation in only one genre • Does not privilege manifestations of choral activity in one medium over another, but makes clear the interactions between them 320pp 4. 2021 9781107110687 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781316275436
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Aristophanes the Democrat The Politics of Satirical Comedy during the Peloponnesian War Keith Sidwell | University of Calgary
Challenging the current view that Old Comedy is politically neutral, Keith Sidwell argues that poets belonged to recognisable political circles and used their comedy to disparage their political enemies, including rival poets who belonged to different groups. He rereads the principal works of Aristophanes and his rivals in this light. • New reading of the motivations behind and undercurrents of Greek Old Comedy • Contains new evaluations of the major plays of Aristophanes • Includes an appendix dealing with the external evidence for the history of Old Comedy
423pp 8. 2021 9781009073202 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 38.99 10. 2009 9780521519984 Hardback GBP 78.00 / USD 111.99 eISBN 9780511657382
Catullus and Roman Comedy Theatricality and Personal Drama in the Late Republic Christopher B. Polt | Boston College, Massachusetts
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
232pp 1. 2021 9781108839815 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108885195
Hannah Čulík-Baird | Boston University
The writings of Cicero contain hundreds of quotations of Latin poetry. This book examines his citations of Latin poets, such as Ennius, Pacuvius, Accius, and Lucilius, writing in diverse poetic genres and demonstrates the importance of poetry as an ethical, historical, and linguistic resource in the late Roman Republic. • Demonstrates the importance of Latin poetry to Roman intellectual life in the late Republic • Examines and theorizes fragments and fragmentation in classical antiquity and their relationship to quotation • Documents perceptible quotations of poetry (Latin and Greek) in the works of Cicero as a resource for further study 300pp 4. 2022 9781316516089 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009031820
Cicero: Pro Milone Thomas J. Keeline | Washington University, St Louis
Examining what is arguably Cicero’s best speech, this is an edition with text, introduction and commentary for students at the undergraduate and graduate levels, as well professional scholars. Helps students understand and appreciate the Pro Milone as both a literary masterpiece and a historical document. • Provides comprehensive help with reading the Latin text and understanding its grammar and Cicero’s style • Explains all historical references so that students can understand the speech’s cultural context and importance • Aims to meet the needs of students at all levels as well as providing an invaluable resource for instructors and scholars Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics 400pp 5. 2021 9781107179738 Hardback GBP 79.99 / USD 105.00 5. 2021 9781316631447 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 eISBN 9781316841013
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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
284pp 9. 2021 9781108813198 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 10. 2020 9781108839464 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108878098
Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece A Philology of Worlds Renaud Gagné | University of Cambridge
Wherever the idea of a world appears, there is an expression of cosmography. Cosmography, here, is defined as the rhetoric of cosmology: the Art of composing worlds. This book pursues an anthropological and literary trajectory through ancient Greek cosmography through the diverse and strikingly rich history of Hyperborea. • Defines original conceptual tools and methodology for studying the representation of worlds in ancient Greece • Develops an approach of open-ended exchange between Classics and Anthropology which can fruitfully be applied in other cases • Traces a thematic trajectory across genres and centuries through a vast array of rich documents which are made to shed light on each other
Cambridge Classical studies 568pp 16 b/w illus. 4. 2021 9781108833233 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108973755
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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
282pp 9. 2021 9781108797030 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 9. 2020 9781108494830 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108860048
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Conflict and Consensus in Early Greek Hexameter Poetry
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Creative Lives in Classical Antiquity Poets, Artists and Biography Richard Fletcher | Ohio State University
This book examines how the biographical traditions of ancient poets and Artists parallel the creative processes of biographers themselves, both within antiquity and beyond. Each chapter explores a range of biographical material that highlights the complexity of how readers and viewers imagine the lives of ancient creator-figures. • Proposes new methods for addressing the inherent creativity of biographical processes • Expands traditional discourses about biography to focus on biographers and their own Artistic license • Considers multiple types of creative individuals (poets, Artists, philosophers, and so on) together • Readers will be able to compare different yet related traditions
Cambridge Classical studies 383pp 6 b/w illus. 8. 2021 9781316612040 Paperback GBP 27.99 / USD 36.99 11. 2016 9781107159082 Hardback GBP 79.99 / USD 102.99 eISBN 9781316670651
Paola Bassino
A fresh and wide-ranging exploration of the themes of conflict and consensus across the early Greek hexameter tradition in all of its variety. The book focuses to an unprecedented extent on issues of poetics and metapoetics, thus offering new insights into the processes of reception and canonisation of Greek epic. • The first comprehensive analysis of themes central to the early Greek hexameter tradition • Focuses on issues of poetics and metapoetics • Contributes to our understanding of the processes of reception and canonisation of early Greek epic poetry
238pp 8. 2021 9781316625989 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 6. 2017 9781107175747 Hardback GBP 79.99 / USD 102.99 eISBN 9781316800034
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Decimus Laberius The Fragments Costas Panayotakis | University of Glasgow
First English translation of, and detailed commentary on the fragments of Laberius, who composed mimes, a form of scripted comic drama that was political, satirical, and amusingly obscene. It was very popular in the first century BC and in late antiquity, and shaped medieval theatre and the Italian commedia dell’Arte. • Provides the first English translation of and commentary on the fragments • Discusses the context within which each fragment is cited by grammarians and lexicographers • Includes an account of the origins and chronological development of mime as a genre from the third century BC to late antiquity Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries 542pp 8. 2021 9781009073196 Paperback GBP 39.99 / USD 52.99 11. 2010 9780521885232 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 151.99
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Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture Volume 1 Greek Poetry before 400 BC Ewen Bowie | University of Oxford
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Brings together the many, often seminal, contributions of a leading Hellenist to our understanding of early Greek literature, above all elegiac poetry, but also early Greek epic, iambic, melic and epigrammatic poetry. An invaluable resource for scholars, enhanced by Ewen Bowie’s Introduction and extensive indexes. • Brings together a wide range of essays, some of whose original published versions are very hard for many scholars and students to access • Covers a wide range of poetic genres, revealing many similarities in poetic practice • Presents all quotations from ancient Greek literary and epigraphic texts both in Greek and in translation
650pp 11. 2021 9781107058088 Hardback GBP 135.00 / USD 175.00 eISBN 9781107415423
Explorations in Latin Literature Volume 2 Elegy, Lyric and Other Topics Denis Feeney | Princeton University, New Jersey
A collection of essays from one of the world’s greatest scholars of Latin literature and Roman culture. Covers ancient epic, historiography, lyric, elegy, and drama, with a pArticular focus on ancient literary criticism, comparative religion, historicism and the technology of the ancient book. With a foreword by Stephen Hinds. • Covers a wide range of ancient literature, showcasing a variety of theoretical approaches • Shows how ancient texts can benefit from an interdisciplinary perspective that goes beyond formal analysis • Illuminates how discussion and debate within classics has evolved in the last generation
400pp 8. 2021 9781108481854 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108680196
Explorations in Latin Literature 2 Hardback Volume Set Denis Feeney | Princeton University, New Jersey
A collection of essays from one of the world’s greatest scholars of Latin literature and Roman culture. Covers ancient epic, historiography, lyric, elegy, and drama, with a pArticular focus on ancient literary criticism, comparative religion, historicism and the technology of the ancient book. With a Foreword by Stephen Hinds. • Covers a wide range of ancient literature, showcasing a variety of theoretical approaches • Shows how ancient texts can benefit from an interdisciplinary perspective that goes beyond formal analysis • Illuminates how discussion and debate within classics has evolved in the last generation
800pp 10. 2021 9781108668200 2 Hardback books GBP 160.00 / USD 208.00
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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 296pp 2 b/w illus. 7. 2021 9781108817059 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 2. 2020 9781108495141 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108861199
Gods and Mortals in Early Greek and Near Eastern Mythology Adrian Kelly | University of Oxford
Addresses one of the most important current questions in the study of antiquity – the contribution of the Near East to the mythology of Ancient Greece. Leading specialists from both fields come together to consider both shared and unique stories about gods and their relationships with humankind. • Surveys the state of scholarship on early Greek and the Ancient Near Eastern literature, bringing together leading specialists in both disciplines • Provides new case studies of individual instances of cultural interaction • Offers new directions in methodological developments 400pp 5. 2021 9781108480246 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108648028
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Greek Epigram and Byzantine Culture Gender, Desire, and Denial in the Age of Justinian Steven D. Smith | Hofstra University, New York
Sexy, scintillating, and sometimes scandalous, Greek epigrams from the age of the Emperor Justinian commemorate the survival of the sensual in a world transformed by Christianity. This book will appeal to literary scholars and historians interested in Greek poetry, Late Antiquity, Byzantine studies, Early Christianity, gender, and sexuality. • Presents a compelling interpretation of Greek poetry that bridges classical and early Byzantine culture • Focuses on gender and desire • Traces the relationship between literary fantasy and Roman Imperial power Greek Culture in the Roman World 289pp 7 b/w illus. 1 map 8. 2021 9781108727167 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 5. 2019 9781108480239 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108647939
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Greek Epitaphic Poetry A Selection Richard Hunter | University of Cambridge
Thousands of Greek verse epitaphs, covering a millennium of history, survive inscribed on stone. They shed rich light on ancient moral values, religious ideas and gender relations and attitudes, and many are of very high literary quality. This commentary on a selection of these poems is suitable for students. • The Commentary provides students with extensive help in understanding the Greek • Enables a full understanding of the poems by considering them from literary, historical and archaeological perspectives • Helps students and other readers new to the poems by focusing on those which are well preserved and therefore properly legible
Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics 320pp 10 b/w illus. 2 maps 3. 2022 9781108843980 Hardback GBP 79.99 / USD 105.00 3. 2022 9781108926041 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 eISBN 9781108921336
Greek Theater in Ancient Sicily
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Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century A Survey from ca. 400 BC to ca. AD 400 Vayos Liapis
Accessible survey exploring, for the first time in English, both textual and non-textual evidence for the development of Greek tragedy after the fifth century BC. Ranges widely across topics from theatre performance, music and dance to transmission and reception later in antiquity. Essential for classicists and theatre scholars and practitioners. • Offers a single-volume overview of the history of Greek tragedy after its perceived heyday in the fifth century BC, the first of its kind in English • The book is comprehensive in its treatment, including all available textual evidence and every aspect of the history of tragedy • Upsets the deep-seated view of Greek tragedy as a genre that, essentially, died with Euripides, and shows its continuing vitality in later times 429pp 1 b/w illus. 3 tables 7. 2021 9781009069830 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 38.99 12. 2018 9781107038554 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 125.00 eISBN 9781139833936
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. • Looks beyond Athens to Sicily and southern Italy, giving a new and more holistic view of the origins and development of theater in antiquity • Discusses the different categories of literary, Artistic and archaeological evidence • Explores the relationship between tyranny and theater on Sicily
300pp 15 b/w illus. 2 maps 1. 2021 9781108493871 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108663878
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Greek Theatre between Antiquity and Independence A History of Reinvention from the Third Century BC to 1830 Walter Puchner | University of Athens, Greece
The first general history, by the world expert, of Greek theatre from Hellenistic times to the foundation of Modern Greece in 1830, marked by significant discontinuities. After the end of antiquity no real dramas were produced until theatre was rediscovered in Renaissance Crete and redeveloped throughout the Greek diaspora. • The first book to offer a history of Greek theatre and drama over a critical two thousand-year period of its existence • Unlike most theatre historiography, this book emphasizes the ruptures and discontinuities in Greek theatre history (in marked contrast to the continuity of the spoken language) • Reveals stArtling new discoveries of Greek theatrical activity throughout the diaspora of the Ottoman and early national periods, thereby confirming that theatre and dramatic literature retained a prominent role in Greek culture before the foundation of Modern Greece
375pp 7. 2021 9781107681521 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 6. 2017 9781107059474 Hardback GBP 79.99 / USD 102.99 eISBN 9781107445024
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Hesiod and Classical Greek Poetry Reception and Transformation in the Fifth Century BCE Zoe Stamatopoulou | Washington University, St Louis
Hesiod was regarded by the Greeks as a foundational figure of their culture, alongside Homer. This book examines the rich and varied engagement of fifth-century lyric and drama with the poetic corpus attributed to Hesiod as well as with the poetic figure of Hesiod. • Gives an overview of the variety, complexity and richness involved in poetic receptions of the Hesiodic corpus in the fifth century BCE • Takes into account recent research on performance and re-performance in antiquity as well as on gender studies, intertextuality and ancient reception • Proposes new interpretations of familiar texts and revisits old ones
280pp 8. 2021 9781316615041 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 6. 2017 9781107162990 Hardrback GBP 79.99 / USD 102.99 eISBN 9781316678541
Horace: Odes Book III A. J. Woodman | University of Virginia
Aimed primarily at undergraduates and postgraduates but will also be useful to their teachers and to professional scholars. Its principal aims are to explain Horace’s Latin and to elucidate the Articulation of his odes. It presents a new text and adopts an approach independent of that of earlier commentators. • A very full modern edition in English of one of the most famous books of poetry in Latin literature • Helps students, as well as their teachers and professional scholars, understand the difficult language and the literary and historical contexts • Presents a new text and adopts an approach independent of that of previous commentators Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics 320pp 12. 2021 9781108481243 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 12. 2021 9781108740548 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 eISBN 9781108666558
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Horace: Satires Book II Horace
The satires in Book II are some of the trickiest poems of ancient Rome’s trickiest poet. For intermediate and advanced students, this edition explains difficult issues of grammar, syntax, wordchoice, genre, period, and style. It also offers fresh insights into the unique aspects of Horatian satire. • This edition contains some of the most difficult but also the most widely read and taught Latin poems • Explains the difficulties of Horace’s Latin for intermediate and advanced students • The introduction and commentary provide explore the numerous possibilities for interpreting the poems
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Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics 364pp 2. 2021 9780521444941 Hardback GBP 79.99 / USD 105.00 2. 2021 9780521449472 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 eISBN 9781139014694
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Juvenal and the Poetics of Anonymity Tom Geue | University of St Andrews, Scotland
Argues that the mysterious Roman satirist Juvenal actively worked to wipe all trace of the author from the text as a way of processing and publicising a dangerous political climate. Will interest scholars of the literature and history of imperial Rome and those working in authorship and anonymity studies. • Presents a bold new solution to the longstanding puzzle of the absence of the authorial self from Juvenal’s Satires • Engages in close readings from across the Juvenalian corpus, including the under-read later satires • Broadens our concepts of authorship and literary production in the Roman Empire Cambridge Classical studies 366pp 8. 2021 9781108402859 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 11. 2017 9781108416344 Hardback GBP 79.99 / USD 102.99 eISBN 9781108236348
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Imagining Reperformance in Ancient Culture Studies in the Traditions of Drama and Lyric Richard Hunter | University of Cambridge
This book studies the idea and practice of reperformance as it affects ancient lyric poetry and drama, and especially how poets and critics use this idea to create a deep temporal sense. All chapters are informed by recent developments in performance studies, and all Greek and Latin is translated. • Clarifies what is meant by ‘reperformance’ and addresses current misunderstandings and simplifications • Explores a wide range of lyric and dramatic genres in both Greek and Latin • All Greek and Latin is translated, making it suitable for students and scholars who are not trained classicists
Cambridge Classical studies 351pp 7 b/w illus. 8. 2021 9781316607473 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 6. 2017 9781107151475 Hardback GBP 76.00 / USD 97.99 eISBN 9781316597798
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Knowledge, Text and Practice in Ancient Technical Writing Marco Formisano | Universiteit Gent, Belgium
This book sheds new light on the problematic relationship between theory and practice in ancient Greek and Roman culture. Various fields of knowledge are discussed, including agriculture, Architecture, the Art of love, astronomy, ethics, mechanics, medicine, pharmacology. The main focus is on the interaction between texts and the transmission of knowledge. • Introduces a much more nuanced way to approach the relationship between theory and practice in ancient science and technology • Discusses various fields of knowledge, from the Art of love to Architecture, medicine and agriculture from the perspective of the relationship between theory and practice • Emphasises the centrality of the text and of writing to the transmission of knowledge 296pp 12 b/w illus. 8. 2021 9781316620625 Paperback GBP 27.99 / USD 36.99 4. 2017 9781107169432 Hardback GBP 79.99 / USD 102.99 eISBN 9781316718575
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Imagining the Chorus in Augustan Poetry Lauren Curtis| Bard College, New York
This book argues that in the work of Horace, Virgil, and Propertius, the language and imagery of the chorus Articulate some of their most pressing concerns surrounding social and literary belonging in a rapidly changing Roman world. • Traces the history of the chorus from ancient Greece to Rome, and for the first time stresses its significance for Roman poetry • Explores key aspects of Augustan authors’ treatment of the chorus such as authorship, community, ritual, and gender • Sheds much new light on Horace, Virgil, and Propertius
284pp 8. 2021 9781316638606 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 9. 2017 9781107188785 Hardback GBP 79.99 / USD 102.99 eISBN 9781316986677
Music and Memory in the Ancient Greek and Roman Worlds Lauren Curtis | Bard College, New York
Explores the deep connection between music and memory in Graeco-Roman culture, and how this connection was understood and experienced by ancient authors, Artists, performers, and audiences. Reveals how musical memory formed a fundamental pArt of social, cultural, ritual, and political life in ancient Greek- and Latin-speaking communities. • First full study of the relationship between music and the communication, construction, and transformation of memory in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds • Introduces multiple methodological frameworks, many new to Classics • Explores the intersection of music and memory across multiple media and disciplines 320pp 29 b/w illus. 9. 2021 9781108831666 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108917858
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Philostratus Ewen Bowie | Corpus Christi College, Oxford
The first volume of its kind to be devoted to the works of Philostratus, the great essayist, biographer and historian of Greek culture in the Roman world. The papers contained cover his remarkable range, from hagiographic fiction to historical dialogue, and from prescriptions for gymnastics to the lives of the Sophists. • Provides fresh new readings of each of Philostratus’ works • Offers introductory overviews of the entire corpus, enabling readers to think about individual works in context • Includes a new translation of the Dialexis 2
Greek Culture in the Roman World 413pp 2. 2021 9781108994552 Paperback GBP 31.99 / USD 41.99 4. 2009 9780521827201 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 138.99 eISBN 9781108992329
Reception in the GrecoRoman World Literary Studies in Theory and Practice Marco Fantuzzi | Roehampton University, London
The embrace of reception theory has been one of the hallmarks of studies of Classical literature over the last 30 years. This volume, containing essays by 15 internationally renowned scholars, builds on the critical insights gained from this revolution to consider reception within Greek antiquity itself. • Applies the insights generated by 30 years of reception studies to the study of classical Greek literature • Extends the idea of Greek literary reception well beyond Greek literature itself • Explores the metaphors and tactics Greeks and Romans adopted to express their relationships with their canonical forebears
Cambridge Classical studies 478pp 7 tables 5. 2021 9781316518588 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108993845
Poetry and Poetics in the Presocratic Philosophers Reading Xenophanes, Parmenides and Empedocles as Literature Tom Mackenzie | University College London
The first book-length, literary-critical study of the Presocratic philosopher-poets, Xenophanes, Parmenides and Empedocles. Sheds new light on these authors’ philosophical projects and enriches our appreciation of their works as literary Artefacts, also arguing that they played an important role in the development of Greek poetics. • Enriches our appreciation of these texts as cultural Artefacts through the application of the methods of literary criticism • Builds on insights from literary criticism and the philosophy of literature to provide a theoretical basis on which to consider these texts as literature • Reassesses the significance of these authors for our understanding of vthe history of Greek poetics
300pp 4. 2021 9781108843935 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108921084
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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
Greek Culture in the Roman World 324pp 1 b/w illus. 9. 2021 9781108797023 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 9. 2020 9781108494823 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108860024
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Rethinking the Gods Philosophical Readings of Religion in the PostHellenistic Period Peter van Nuffelen | Universiteit Gent, Belgium
From the first century BC onwards religion was embraced as a source of philosophical knowledge. This book shows how that approach increased the authority of religion and how it further developed in Christianity, thus contributing to current debates about the origins of modern ideas about religion. • Proposes a new understanding of how philosophy relates to religion in the Roman Empire • Integrates the study of philosophy and literature and shows the benefits of such an approach • Provides ancient parallels for modern religious legitimisation of power
Greek Culture in the Roman World 281pp 1. 2021 9781108984959 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 33.99 1. 2011 9781107012035 Hardback GBP 70.99 / USD 102.99 eISBN 9780511997785
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Rome, Empire of Plunder The Dynamics of Cultural Appropriation Matthew P. Loar | University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Provides a theoretically-informed and interdisciplinary investigation of cultural appropriation by Rome and Romans, ranging from the second century BCE to the fourth century CE, and from Spain to Egypt. Scholars, graduate students, and undergraduates will find that it provides an innovative and accessible introduction to this increasingly important topic. • Examines Roman cultural appropriation from literary, historical, and archaeological perspectives, providing a more complete and nuanced picture • Applies a range of contemporary theories of appropriation and cultural interaction • Discusses Roman appropriations from, and interactions with, various cultures across the Mediterranean, avoiding focus on Greece alone 337pp 13 b/w illus. 3 maps 4. 2021 9781108406048 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 10. 2017 9781108418423 Hardback GBP 95.99 / USD 123.99 eISBN 9781108290012
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Seneca’s Characters Fictional Identities and Implied Human Selves Erica M. Bexley | University of Durham
This book addresses the much-neglected topic of fictional character and its relationship to actual human identity. Through the lens of Senecan tragedy, it tackles questions of behavioural coherence, imitative exemplarity, physical appearance, psychology, and autonomy. It offers fresh insight into Seneca’s powerful tragic aesthetics. • Provides the first full-length study of fictional character in Senecan tragedy • Employs sophisticated theories of fictional character to bring fresh insight and complexity to a previously under-theorised area of scholarship • Combines literary and philosophical analysis to connect the various pArts of Seneca’s corpus into a unified whole
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Cambridge Classical studies 320pp 4. 2022 9781108477604 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 4. 2022 9781108725774 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108770040
The Ancient Aesthetics of Deception The Ethics of Enchantment from Gorgias to Heliodorus Jonas Grethlein | Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany
A bold new history of ancient aesthetics which offers a nuanced understanding of the effects, in Greek literature, of representation. It argues that the key concept of apatē (meaning both ‘deception’ and ‘aesthetic illusion’) was used by writers from the Classical to the Imperial periods to entwine aesthetics with ethics. • Author is one of the leading classicists working at the interface of classics, aesthetics and ethics • Strong interdisciplinary appeal: classics, literary theory and the philosophy of aesthetics • Important and ground-breaking: recovers a wholly neglected strand of aesthetic reflection in antiquity, which will transform work in this field 332pp 9. 2021 9781316518816 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009003513
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Sophocles: Oedipus the King P. J. Finglass | University of Bristol
This major new edition of Sophocles’ Oedipus the King, the first full-scale edition for a hundred and thirty years, takes a fresh look at a landmark in world literature; a newly constituted text is accompanied by a detailed introduction and commentary, as well as a full scholarly translation. • Provides the first full-scale analysis since the nineteenth century of Sophocles’ masterpiece • Presents a new edition of the Greek text alongside a much more accurate critical apparatus and a full scholarly translation • Includes a detailed Introduction and Commentary which deal with literary, dramatic, textual, and metrical approaches to the play, as well as with its reception in antiquity
Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries 722pp 7. 2021 9781108411264 Paperback GBP 39.99 / USD 54.99 5. 2018 9781108419512 Hardback GBP 135.00 / USD 170.00 eISBN 9781108303439
The Rhesus Attributed to Euripides Marco Fantuzzi | Roehampton University, London
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
Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries 900pp 1. 2021 9781107026025 Hardback GBP 130.00 / USD 170.00 eISBN 9781139199032
The Cambridge Companion to Catullus Ian Du Quesnay | University of Cambridge
Aimed not only at a broad readership of classical scholars and students but also at all those interested in one of the most loved and influential poets of ancient Rome. Discusses Catullus’ poetry, his laterepublican background, and his scholarly and literary reception. • Comprehensive introduction to one of the most popular poets of classical antiquity • Treats the major themes of and contexts for Catullus’ poetry and considers its afterlife from antiquity to the present • Features an international cast of leading scholars as its contributors Cambridge Companions to Literature 410pp 4. 2021 9781107193567 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 4. 2021 9781316644713 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 eISBN 9781108147859
The Cambridge Companion to Sappho P. J. Finglass | University of Bristol
A detailed up-to-date survey of the most important woman writer from Greco-Roman antiquity. Examines the nature and context of her poetic achievement, the transmission, loss and rediscovery of her poetry, and the reception of that poetry in cultures far removed from ancient Greece, including Latin America, India, China, and Japan. • Explores the life and work of the most important woman writer of the Greco-Roman world • Takes into account recent papyrological finds which have added new poems to the corpus • Investigates the world-wide impact of Sappho’s poetry, across cultures far removed from ancient Greece in space and time Cambridge Companions to Literature 384pp 4. 2021 9781107189058 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 120.00 4. 2021 9781316638774 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781316986974
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The Christian Invention of Time Temporality and the Literature of Late Antiquity Simon Goldhill | University of Cambridge
With trademark versatility and brilliance, world-renowned classicist Simon Goldhill explores how Christianity transformed humanity’s relationship with time in late antiquity. New ways of conceptualizing and experiencing time were developed, and even today we live in the shadow of this revolution. • Offers the first complete account, through the concept of time, of a fundamental transformation of Western culture • Enjoyably and informatively traverses the literature of late antiquity • Brings new perspectives and original understandings to the idea of temporality
Greek Culture in the Roman World 450pp 12. 2021 9781316512906 Hardback GBP 34.99 / USD 44.99 eISBN 9781009071260
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The Fall of Cities in the Mediterranean
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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 336pp 5 b/w illus. 6 colour illus. 7. 2021 9781108716284 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 10. 2020 9781108483032 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108685726
Commemoration in Literature, Folk-Song, and Liturgy Mary R. Bachvarova | Willamette University, Oregon
The Politics and Poetics of Cicero’s Brutus
Intended for cultural historians and literary scholars, this volume offers new insights into the trope of the fallen city in folk-song and a variety of literary genres. The scope is expanded beyond arguing for a continuous Mediterranean tradition, allowing for the exploration of the repurposing of city lament themes. • Discusses a broad range of literary and folk genres from the second millennium BCE to the beginning of the twentieth century CE, opening up new areas of research • Extends the study of collective memory through a focus on the hitherto neglected genre and motif of city lament • All texts discussed are translated and specialized terms are explained
The Invention of Literary History Christopher S. van den Berg | Amherst College, Massachusetts
295pp 1 map 8. 2021 9781009073219 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 2. 2016 9781107031968 Hardback GBP 71.99 / USD 98.99 eISBN 9781139424387
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The Grotesque in Roman Love Elegy Mariapia Pietropaolo | McMaster University, Ontario
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
242pp 11. 2021 9781108738644 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 9. 2020 9781108488693 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108771658
Cicero’s Brutus (46 BCE), a magisterial dialogue on Rome’s oratorical and political history, was written amidst Julius Caesar’s rise to power. This book examines how Cicero, in responding to the civic crisis and contemporary intellectual developments, ultimately created the first complex account of literary history in the European tradition. • Closely examines the rhetoric of a Roman dialogue to uncover its intellectual and political complexity • Considers the political difficulties individuals face in a time of civic crisis • Argues for an important if overlooked milestone in the history of literary theory and literary historiography
348pp 9. 2021 9781108495950 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108856447
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 1. 2021 9781108481762 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108667678
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Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War Book VI Christopher Pelling | University of Oxford
Up-to-date edition of the former of the two dramatic books of Thucydides’ Peloponnesian War to deal with the Sicilian Expedition that ended so catastrophically for Athens (415-413 BCE). Aimed principally at undergraduates and graduate student studying Ancient Greek. Published simultaneously with an edition of Book 7. • Guides the reader through the first pArt of one of the most crucial and dramatic episodes in Thucydides’ History: the Sicilian Expedition • The Introduction helps the reader appreciate the narrative skill of the book and its place within the Architecture of the wider work • The Commentary provides undergraduate-level students with considerable help with understanding the Greek
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Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics 320pp 1. 2022 9781107176911 Hardback GBP 79.99 / USD 105.00 1. 2022 9781316630211 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 eISBN 9781316819067
Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War Book VII Christopher Pelling | University of Oxford
Up-to-date edition of the latter of the two dramatic books of Thucydides’ Peloponnesian War to deal with the Sicilian Expedition that ended so catastrophically for Athens (415-413 BCE). Aimed principally at undergraduates and graduate student studying Ancient Greek. Published simultaneously with an edition of Book 6. • Guides the reader through the second pArt of one of the most crucial and dramatic episodes in Thucydides’ History: the Sicilian Expedition • The Introduction helps the reader appreciate the narrative skill of the book and its place within the Architecture of the wider work • The Commentary provides undergraduate-level students with considerable help with understanding the Greek Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics 320pp 2. 2022 9781107176928 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 2. 2022 9781316630228 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781316819081
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Tragic Pleasure from Homer to Plato Rana Saadi Liebert | Bard College, New York
This book develops an embodied model of aesthetic engagement derived from Greek poetry and Plato’s philosophy, and uses this model to resolve an intractable paradox in aesthetic theory: the appeal of tragedy. It will be of interest to classicists, philosophers, and scholars in other fields concerned with aesthetics and emotions. • Presents a new solution to an unresolved problem in aesthetic theory, using archaic poetry and philosophy to contribute to modern debates about aesthetics • Proposes a new interpretation of Plato’s famous critique of poetry and the Arts, improving our understanding of the foundations for his hostility • Offers a new, psychosomatic model of aesthetic engagement based on ancient sources, providing a corrective to cognitively oriented approaches to aesthetic value
228pp 8. 2021 9781316635698 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 4. 2017 9781107184442 Hardback GBP 79.99 / USD 102.99 eISBN 9781316877036
Unspoken Rome Absence in Latin Literature and its Reception Tom Geue | University of St Andrews, Scotland
Showcases innovative approaches to Latin literature by reading textual absence as a generative force for literary interpretation and reception. Includes chapters by a wide range of scholars, covering some of the main authors of the Latin literary tradition, often in dialogue with modern literature and philosophy. • Analyses textual absence and fragmentation as a phenomenon that can help rather than hinder our understanding of Latin literature • Bridges the gap between historicism and formalism in the study of Latin literature • Explores classical reception as integral to the practice of reading Latin literature rather than functioning as an appendix to the discipline. 376pp 9. 2021 9781108843041 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108913843
Wonder and the Marvellous from Homer to the Hellenistic World Jessica Lightfoot | University of Birmingham
Shows that wonder and wonders constituted a central theme in Greek culture from Homer to the Hellenistic period. Argues for its importance in discussions of the purpose of philosophy and literature and in expressions of the relationships between the human and the divine and between self and other. • Provides the first full length study of wonder in Greek culture • Presents examples and case studies from a vast range of Greek texts and genres within both philosophy and literature • Assesses the impact of ancient ideas of wonder in later periods and cultures Cambridge Classical studies 300pp 9. 2021 9781316518830 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 9. 2021 9781009009140 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009003551
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 9. 2021 9781108479974 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108846875
Drama and theatre
Drama and theatre
British theatre
American theatre
Criticism, Performance, and the Passions in the Eighteenth Century
Performance and Modernity Enacting Change on the Globalizing Stage Julia A. Walker | Washington University, St Louis
This book demonstrates how the experience of change in the modern period was first registered in bodily metaphors that took shape on stage. In new styles of performance-acting, dance, music, pageantry, avant-garde provocations, film and video-it finds fresh evidence for how modernity has been understood and lived. • Offers a resolution to long-standing debates about the “ontology of performance,” proposing that it lies in the shifting material contours of bodies set in motion • Pioneers an original approach to the study of modernism, focusing on performance as an Art form attuned to capturing the experience of ‘the new’ as one of temporal change • Reframes theatre history by shifting focus from individual actors to period styles that reflect emerging cultural concerns across broad geographical and historical spectra
320pp 10. 2021 9781108833066 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108966870
The Cambridge Companion to American theatre since 1945 Julia ListengArten | University of Central Florida
Provides an overview and analysis of practices of American theatre since the end of the World War II, tracing major shifts in Broadway and offBroadway theatres, the emergence of key theatre movements and the regional theatre, and the growing influence of popular entertainments and digital technologies. • Traces contemporary American theatre practice back to historical practices • Identifies and explores collaborative models and how they have evolved • Contextualizes American theatre practice within economic markets
Cambridge Companions to Theatre and Performance 300pp 9. 2021 9781108480260 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 9. 2021 9781108727211 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108648134
The Art of Transition James Harriman-Smith | University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Eighteenth-century theatre critics reserved their highest praise for the transitions of a play, recognising its most striking passages as moments of larger sequential transformation. Through a recovery of this perspective, scholars of theatre and literary culture gain renewed understanding of performance, the passions, and criticism in the 1700s. • Presents transition as a new lens through which to analyse eighteenthcentury performance and its reception • Provides accessible and innovative discussion of canonical and noncanonical works • Traces the joint evolution of theatrical criticism and trends in performance practice and theory
252pp 3. 2021 9781108835497 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108890847
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David Garrick and the Mediation of Celebrity Leslie Ritchie | Queen’s University, Ontario
Uncovers new material concerning David Garrick’s ownership and manipulation of the media that will interest readers of theatre history, journalism and media studies, celebrity studies, advertising and social history. It gives the first view of Garrick as media entrepreneur, and quantifies and analyses Garrick’s mediation of his own celebrity. • Proposes a new interpretation of David Garrick as an entrepreneurial manufacturer of his own celebrity, and views celebrity as the product of iterative media exposure • Uses recent technologies, databases, and quantitative research, as well as archival materials and rare sources • Reveals previously anonymous publicity writing and theatrical criticism by David Garrick
314pp 11 b/w illus. 3 tables 3. 2021 9781108469197 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 1. 2019 9781108475877 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108661942
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Theatres of Feeling Affect, Performance, and the EighteenthCentury Stage Jean I. Marsden | University of Connecticut
This engaging account of theatregoing in the later eighteenth century explores the playhouse as a source of emotion during a period when the ability to feel demonstrated moral worth. Theatres of Feeling delivers a new approach to dramatic literature and performance, moving beyond more limited studies of text or performance. • Delivers a book-length study of emotion and affect in later eighteenthcentury theatre • Studies first-hand accounts, reviews and illustrations to explore the response to drama in the period • Provides a series of case studies that investigate affect in plays that explore British liberty, empire, and the evils of antisemitism
235pp 3. 2021 9781108466998 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 28.99 6. 2019 9781108476133 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99
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Tom Stoppard in Context David Kornhaber | University of Texas, Austin
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Tom Stoppard in Context provides cultural, historical, and intellectual contexts to help readers enjoy one of the most important modern playwrights. More than thirty essays on topics ranging from science to screenwriting help illuminate Stoppard’s rich body of work. • Over thirty essays covering Stoppard’s interests and influences give readers context for understanding his life and career • Includes a substantial section on Stoppard’s political commitments and human rights work • Highlights the range of Stoppard’s career in screenwriting, radio, television, journalism, and fiction
Literature in Context 400pp 6. 2021 9781108420105 Hardback GBP 84.99 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108303736
European theatre Bertolt Brecht in Context Stephen Brockmann | Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania
Bertolt Brecht in Context examines Brecht’s significance and contributions as a writer and the most influential playwright of the twentieth century, along with his continued impact on theater around the world. It also examines Brecht’s contributions to revolutionary thought and to poetry and his response to twentieth-century German history. • Examines Bertolt Brecht’s emergence and significance as a writer • Enables readers to understand Brecht’s major contributions through succinct and approachable language • Includes international Brecht scholarship, helping English-speaking readers to understand Brecht’s significance in the non-Englishspeaking world
Literature in Context 372pp 6. 2021 9781108426466 Hardback GBP 84.99 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108608800
Mussolini’s Theatre Fascist Experiments in Art and Politics Patricia Gaborik
A vividly written portrait of Benito Mussolini, whose passion for the theatre profoundly shaped his ideology and actions as head of fascist Italy This consistently illuminating book transforms our understanding of fascism as a whole, and will have strong appeal to readers in both theatre studies and modern Italian history. • Provides an inter- and multidisciplinary study • Combines lively narrative with critical analysis, making both history and theory accessible to readers • Replete with primary sources, including anecdotes, archival documentation, and literary and performance analysis 326pp 5. 2021 9781108830591 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108902427
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 2. 2021 9781107000391 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9780511722257
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Women and Embodied Mythmaking in Irish Theatre Shonagh Hill | University College Dublin
Ibsen in Context Narve Fulsås
Ibsen in Context identifies thirty different contexts for understanding Ibsen’s life and career at home, and considers how his works have been received abroad. The collection offers a rich interdisciplinary understanding, with chapters ranging across cultural and aesthetic contexts including feminism, scientific discovery, music, and visual Arts. • Short essays on key topics within Ibsen Studies provide students and scholars with an easily digestible reference work • Offers readers access to fresh contributions to Ibsen studies, including a unique amount of material on the playwright’s Scandinavian contexts and some of his most important foreign receptions • Takes an interdisciplinary approach, with contributions from literary scholars, historians, and philosophers Literature in Context 400pp 4. 2021 9781108422208 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108381130
Explores how women in Irish theatre in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have employed mythic narratives to expose the gap between women’s material lives and idealised myths of femininity. This book will speak to students and academics with an interest in theatre, Irish studies and gender studies. • Presents a tradition of women in Irish theatre that spans the twentieth and twenty-first centuries • Proposes a genealogy of women’s performance by tracing the connections, resonances, and divergences in their mythmaking • Critically analyses works that have received little scholarly attention, introducing readers to a wealth of new material and drawing on extensive original and archival research 267pp 7. 2021 9781108706841 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 8. 2019 9781108485333 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108756327
Drama and theatre / Music
Theatre (general) International Theatre Festivals and Twenty-First-Century Interculturalism Ric Knowles | University of Guelph, Ontario
International theatre and live-Arts festivals too often come under the exclusive purview of tourism and city branding. Exploring their potential to foster communication across cultural difference, this book demonstrates how they might better serve one of the most urgent processes of our times: intercultural negotiation and exchange. • Offers a resolution to the confusions that currently beset festival scholarship, proposing a new system for classifying festivals into easily identifiable types • Outlines a radical alternative to festival scholarship’s ethnocentric focus on ancient Athens and 20th-century Edinburgh, establishing a new paradigm based on Indigenous models • Takes an interdisciplinary approach, building on findings across the Arts, humanities, social sciences and business
Theatre and Performance Theory 280pp 12. 2021 9781316517246 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009043632
The Cambridge Companion to the Circus Gillian Arrighi | University of Newcastle, New South Wales
An authoritative introduction to the specialised histories of the modern circus, its unique aesthetics, and its contemporary manifestations and scholarship, from its origins in commercial equestrian performance, to contemporary inflections of circus Arts in major international festivals, educational environments, and social justice settings. • Provides accessible texts to readers looking to understand the histories and performances of the modern circus • Introduces the research methods and trans-disciplinary trends that are contributing to the development of Circus Studies • Specialised reading and video lists are provided in every chapter
Cambridge Companions to Theatre and Performance 320pp 7. 2021 9781108485166 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 7. 2021 9781108719223 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108750127
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The Faust Legend From Marlowe and Goethe to Contemporary Drama and Film Sara Munson Deats | University of South Florida
Explores dramatic and filmic adaptations of the Faust legend from Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus and Goethe’s Faust to lesser known works. With detailed comparison and analysis tracing the development of the Faust topos, it will appeal to students of early modern drama, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century German literature, and film studies. • Explores dramatic and filmic adaptations of the Faust legend, from seminal dramatic works on the subject, to lesser known plays and films • Compares Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s adaptation of the Faust legend • Provides an analysis of the ways in which the Faust legend has been adapted to reflect topical questions of the period in which they were written
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The Globalization of Theatre 1870–1930 The Theatrical Networks of Maurice E. Bandmann Christopher B. Balme | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munchen
Actor and manager, Maurice E. Bandmann (1872–1922) toured theatre throughout the British Empire and beyond. His career represents a significant shift towards the globalization of theatre in the twentieth century. This book explores Bandmann’s impact on global theatre history and provides a new approach to the theatrical study of this era. • Reveals a significant globalizing tendency in early twentieth-century theatre, as exemplified by one of the key entrepreneurs involved • Discusses the concepts of global and transnational history as they relate to theatre history • Demonstrates the methodological usefulness of both actor-networktheory and historical network analysis to theatre history • Re-evaluates musical comedy as a global genre in the early twentieth century
Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre 290pp 40 b/w illus. 7 tables 9. 2021 9781108738200 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 10. 2019 9781108487894 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108768252
The Theatre of Sa’dallah Wannous A Critical Study of the Syrian Playwright and Public Intellectual Sonja Mejcher-Atassi | American University of Beirut
The Theatre of Sa’dallah Wannous is the first book in English to provide a clear sense of the complexities of Wannous’ life and work, offering new perspectives on his significance as a playwright and public intellectual in both the Arab world and in world theatre. • Introduces Sa’dallah Wannous to a global readership • Situates Arab theatre and cultural production in world theatre and literature • Contributes to a better understanding of the Arab world through a focus on cultural production and theatre
Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre 290pp 5. 2021 9781108838566 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108973182
Music Eighteenth-century Music Dr. Charles Burney and the Organ Pierre Dubois
No better introduction to the aesthetic ethos of the eighteenth-century English organ can be found than in Charles Burney’s remarks disseminated in his various writings. This Element traces the evolution of the English organ back to the Restoration and setting Burney’s remarks on the instrument in their historical context. Elements in Music and Musicians 1750–1850 75pp 3. 2021 9781108972864 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108973212
276pp 7 b/w illus. 8. 2021 9781108469173 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 9. 2019 9781108475853 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108614290
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Musical Authorship from Schütz to Bach Stephen Rose | Royal Holloway, University of London
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Aimed at students and researchers of Music history, publishing history and cultural history, this study illuminates ideas of creativity and individuality in the seventeenth century. Its interdisciplinary approach shows how notions of the Musical author were defined via the making, ownership, performance and reception of Music. • Takes an interdisciplinary and thematic approach to historical concepts of authorship and creativity from Schütz to Bach • Uncovers new archival evidence about how the Music trade was regulated and presents a vivid picture of the negotiations involved in the production and reception of Music • Combines detailed study of surviving printed and manuscript Music with bigger debates about individuality and authority in the period
Musical Performance and Reception 259pp 14 b/w illus. 2 tables 12 Music examples 8. 2021 9781108431286 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 5. 2019 9781108421072 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108363280
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The Cambridge Haydn Encyclopedia Caryl Clark | University of Toronto
Synthesizes current knowledge and provides new interpretive insights into Joseph Haydn’s life, work and cultural influence. This conceptdriven encyclopedia lends itself to integrative, interdisciplinary thinking and will be of interest to scholars, students, conductors, performers, concertgoers, and Music-lovers. • Summarizes and synthesizes current Haydn research, and points to directions for future scholarship • Organized around more than eighty concepts with numerous crossreferences to broaden themes and take readers on rewarding journeys of discovery • Includes seven substantial essays by leading scholars to illuminate connections between the A-Z of concepts and suggest ways to rethink familiar categories
52432 b/w illus. 1 table 23 Music examplespp 7. 2021 9781107567429 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 9. 2019 9781107129016 Hardback GBP 130.00 / USD 170.00 eISBN 9781316422847
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Composing Community in Late Medieval Music Self-Reference, Pedagogy, and Practice Jane D. Hatter | University of Utah
Self-referential Music illuminates connections between Musicians and reveals similarities between their networks and those of other professionals, especially visual Artists. This book will appeal to readers interested in Music and culture of the late medieval and early modern eras - Musicians, Musicologists, and historians of Art and culture. • Allows readers to understand how Musical culture and celebrity functioned in late medieval and early modern Europe • Will appeal to a wide interdisciplinary audience of scholars studying late medieval Art, literature and religion as well as Musicologists and cultural historians • Enhances appreciation of how Music fits into broader social trends of the late medieval period Music in Context 299pp 8. 2021 9781108465595 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 2. 2019 9781108474917 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108643597
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Discovering Medieval Song Latin Poetry and Music in the Conductus Mark Everist | University of Southampton
The Conductus is a non-liturgical Latin song that dominated European culture in the Middle Ages. This comprehensive book uses cutting-edge research to show how poetry and Music interact, exploring the role of the Conductus in medieval society, and providing new perspectives on this important body of Music and poetry. • Provides an all-encompassing view of the Conductus, a key but largely unexplored body of non-liturgical Music, from the twelfth to the fourteenth century • Surveys monophonic and polyphonic works even-handedly and treats both poetry and Music with equal weight, avoiding Musicological or literary prejudices about the genre • Enables, for the first time, a full understanding of this important repertory for those interested in early Music and medieval poetry and culture 409pp 23 b/w illus. 22 tables 58 Music examples 11. 2021 9781009074971 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 8. 2018 9781107010390 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9780511852138
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Musical Notation in the West James Grier | University of Western Ontario
Over the last millennium, Musical notation has become a powerful system of symbolic, non-verbal communication among Musicians that permits the translation of Musical events into visual symbols. This book traces the historical development of the system in the western world, from its origins in the Carolingian Empire to the present. • Traces the historical development of individual features of Musical notation as well as addressing thematic elements for a broad view of its progression • Discusses the practical implications of historical developments in Musical notation to assess how Musicians have adapted aspects of notation for everyday use • Investigates the topic of Musical as opposed to notational innovation comparing instances where Musical developments stimulated notational attributes, or notational innovations made practicable advances in Musical style
Cambridge Introductions to Music 284pp 2. 2021 9780521898164 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 2. 2021 9780521726429 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 24.99 eISBN 9781139034821
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Singing to the Lyre in Renaissance Italy Memory, Performance, and Oral Poetry Blake Wilson | Dickinson College, Pennsylvania
Vernacular poetry in Renaissance Italy was typically created and disseminated by improvising singer-poets. This is the first comprehensive study of cantare ad lyram (singing to the lyre), the dominant form of solo singing in Italy prior to the mid-sixteenth century, and of the related oral practices of memory and improvisation. • Expands traditional views of Renaissance Musical and literary culture by highlighting the synergy between writing and orality • Proposes a new view of Italian Renaissance Musical and literary culture in which oral practices are detailed and presented as having inherent qualities • Brings together a wealth of documents and secondary sources unfamiliar to most scholars of Italian Renaissance culture
485pp 11 b/w illus. 8. 2021 9781108738415 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 11. 2019 9781108488075 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00 eISBN 9781108768887
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The Requiem of Tomás Luis de Victoria (1603) Owen Rees | University of Oxford
A significant addition to the scholarship available in English on Victoria and his Music, this study encompasses the genesis, style, and impact of the six-voice Requiem. It will be of interest to students and scholars studying the Renaissance and sacred and courtly rituals in the early-modern period more generally, as well as enquiring listeners. • The first detailed study of this well-loved work, exploring its genesis and impact, and placing it in the context of international repertories of Requiem Masses of the period • Presents a detailed picture of the role of Music in Habsburg funeral rites in the early-modern period and allows for an interdisciplinary appreciation of these rituals • Includes online access to a new authoritative edition of the Requiem (1603)
Music in Context 276pp 7 b/w illus. 2 tables 10 Music examples 9. 2021 9781107676213 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 3. 2019 9781107054424 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781107294301
Music (general) A Semiotic Approach to Open Notations Ambiguity as Opportunity Tristan McKay
This Element considers intersections of ambiguity, authority, and identity in works with open notations, where performers play a radical and active role as co-creators. Tristan McKay develops a semiotic approach to open notation analysis and demonstrates it with in-depth analyses of works by Earle Brown, Will Redman, and Leah Asher.
Elements in Music since 1945 75pp 4. 2021 9781108813327 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108884389
Baroque Music in Post-War Cinema Performance Practice and Musical Style Donald Greig | University of Nottingham
This Element gives a wide perspective of preexisting Music in narrative cinema, placing baroque Music in the context of its reception to explore its mobilisation in post-war cinema. Analyses of various films raise issues of baroque style and form to question why Eighteenth-century Music remains an exception to dominant film-Music discourses.
Elements in Music since 1945 75pp 3. 2021 9781108827867 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108900614
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Chinese Street Music Complicating Musical Community Samuel Horlor
This Element addresses community in Chinese street Music as a quality rather than as an entity to which people belong, exploring its ebbs and flows as associations between people, other bodies and the wider street Music environment intersect with its various theoretical implications. Elements in Twenty-First Century Music Practice 75pp 4. 2021 9781108822930 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108913232
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The Pioneering Role of the Boston Pops Orchestra Emilio Audissino | University of Southampton
This Element offers a historical survey of the pioneering agency that the Boston Pops had under John Williams’s tenure in the legitimisation of film Music as a viable repertoire for concert programmes. The case study is complemented with more general discussions on the aesthetic of film Music in concert. Elements in Music since 1945 75pp 10. 2021 9781009009096 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781009006941
Music performance The Cambridge Companion to the Drum Kit Matt Brennan | University of Glasgow
This is a first-of-its-kind text: a collaborative volume dedicated solely to scholarly consideration of the drum kit. It features an array of perspectives on the social, material, and performative dimensions of the drum kit, with original contributions by emerging and established scholars and drummers. • Provides an overview and stArting point for understanding the emerging field of drum kit studies • Will appeal to students, instructors and performers in multiple areas within Music scholarship, popular Music studies and cultural studies • A valuable resource for entry-level readers and their teachers
Cambridge Companions to Music 320pp 6. 2021 9781108489836 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 6. 2021 9781108747653 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108779517
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Historical Performance in Music Colin Lawson | Royal College of Music, London
Reimagine to Revitalise New Approaches to Performance Practices Across Cultures Charulatha Mani
Focusing on vocal ornamentation found in the classical Music of South India and Monteverdi’s operas, the author highlights the longstanding hybridity and plurality of Musical cultures and implications for the decolonisation of Music performance and education.
Elements in Twenty-First Century Music Practice 75pp 8. 2021 9781108829731 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108903905
The Marks of a Maestro Annotating MozArt’s ‘Jupiter’ Symphony Raymond Holden
This element examines the annotated scores of ten iconic conductors as didactic and interpretative tools and explores the ways in which the performance styles of these conductors are reflected in their annotated scores and marked orchestral pArts of MozArt’s Symphony No. 41, K. 551 (‘Jupiter’).
Elements in Twenty-First Century Music Practice 75pp 3. 2021 9781108822442 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108902601
An accessible yet scholarly resource for students, teachers and performers, providing a vital reference tool for enabling the understanding and practice of period performance. This ground breaking Encyclopedia covers the development of style, technique and instruments, as well as the work of performers, scholars, composers and theorists. • This is a comprehensive, up-to-date and illuminating resource for information about the theory and practice of historical Musical performance • The book is valuable scholarly reference tool for performers, teachers, students and specialists • Covers topics including style, techniques, practices, and the development of instruments, and key figures including directors, performers, theorists, composers and editors 765pp 18 b/w illus. 5 tables 50 Music examples 2. 2021 9781107108080 Hardback GBP 125.00 / USD 175.00 2. 2021 9781107518476 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781316257678
The Empire at the Opéra Theatre, Power and Music in Second Empire Paris Mark Everist | University of Southampton
During the Second Empire, from 1854 until 1870, the state had power over the Opéra in ways that were without precedent. The Opéra effectively became a branch of government. The result was a stagnation of the Opéra’s repertory, and beneficiaries were the composers of larger-scale works for competing theatre organisations.
Elements in Musical Theatre 75pp 1. 2021 9781108829380 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108909815
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Nineteenth-century Music 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
300pp 6. 2021 9781108831758 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108924207
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Brahms’s Elegies The Poetics of Loss in Nineteenth-Century German Culture Nicole Grimes | University of California, Irvine
Exploring the philosophical dimensions of Brahms’s Music, this book analyzes his elegiac works and their relationship to German literature. Of interest to Musicology, German studies and cultural history scholars, it illuminates how Brahms’s Music relates to aesthetics and modernity from Hölderlin, Schiller, and Goethe to the Frankfurt School. • Investigates Brahms’s literary preoccupations and incorporates much information gleaned from the composer’s library, to establish his cultural context • Explores the philosophical dimensions of Brahms’s Music and will appeal to those interested in the intersection of Music and philosophy • A significant amount of source material is translated into English for the first time which will benefit those interested in the cultural context of Brahms’s Music but are unable to read the original German texts
Music in Context 293pp 16 b/w illus. 12 tables 25 Music examples 8. 2021 9781108464765 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 1. 2019 9781108474498 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108589758
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Brahms in Context Natasha Loges | Royal College of Music, London
This collection of essays by internationally renowned scholars offers fresh perspectives on the nineteenth-century German composer Johannes Brahms. It brings together thirty-nine short and incisive chapters on the historical, social and cultural contexts in which Brahms lived and worked and will appeal to students, researchers and Music lovers. • An innovative study of Brahms which moves beyond traditional accounts of his life and work • Features work from international scholars with expertise in Music, visual Arts, legal history, scientific history and other disciplines • Includes illuminating extracts from unpublished letters and rarely seen specialist sources such as publishing ledgers
Composers in Context 435pp 8. 2021 9781316615195 Paperback GBP 23.99 / USD 31.99 9. 2019 9781107163416 Hardback GBP 79.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781316681374
Joe Davies
Representing the latest research on Clara Schumann’s social and Musical contexts and her creative output, this book reconsiders the composer’s songs and instrumental Music, and her legacy as a pianist and teacher. It will be of interest to scholars and students of Nineteenth-century Music, cultural history and gender studies. • Explores the social contexts of Clara Schumann’s Artistic career and provides a deeper understanding of the people, places, events and ideas that shaped her outlook • Situates Schumann’s Music within the context of developments in Music theory and analysis • Highlights her influence both within her immediate circle and on the wider sphere of Nineteenth-century Musical culture
Cambridge Composer Studies 320pp 1. 2022 9781108489843 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108779531
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 4. 2021 9781108429191 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108692267
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Liszt in Context
8. 2019 9781107111257 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781316275863
Joanne Cormac | University of Nottingham
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This book explores the social, political, philosophical and professional currents that influenced Liszt’s career. It reveals the rich contextual tapestry against which Liszt composed some of the most iconic, popular, and also contentious Music of his time, and explains his importance to Romanticism and nineteenth-century European culture. • Offers perspectives on Liszt’s world from Musicologists all over the world • Highlights the many and varied contexts in which Liszt created and performed his Music • Demonstrates Liszt’s prominent role within contemporary events and debates
Composers in Context 400pp 10. 2021 9781108421843 Hardback GBP 84.99 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108378253
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Mendelssohn, Time and Memory The Romantic Conception of Cyclic Form Benedict Taylor | University of Oxford
Music possesses for many listeners an uncanny ability to express our experience of time. This book explores the conceptions of time, memory and history found in the instrumental compositions of Felix Mendelssohn, presenting an intriguing new perspective on his ever-popular Music. • Presents the most extended consideration of cyclic form yet, allowing full consideration of this important nineteenth-century idea • Considers Music in relation to notions of subjectivity, time, history and memory, providing a significant contribution towards the current interest in these topics • Connects Mendelssohn’s Music to wider cultural and philosophical ideas
313pp 12 b/w illus. 6 tables 88 Music examples 7. 2021 9781108970532 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 10. 2011 9781107005785 Hardback GBP 73.99 / USD 106.99 eISBN 9780511794384
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Nineteenth-Century Opera and the Scientific Imagination David Trippett | University of Cambridge
This innovative book will appeal to anyone interested in the cultural, Musical and scientific history of the nineteenth century - from undergraduates to professional researchers. Chapters explore topics such as hypnosis, vocal physiology, stage machinery, histories of listening and the interaction of opera with nineteenthcentury scientific theories. • Establishes a new interdisciplinary field of opera and science studies to inform and shape future work that brings Musicology and opera studies closer to the history and philosophy of science • Brings together contributors from history and philosophy of science and from Musicology, and includes chapters on vocal physiology, material culture, sensory communication, stage technologies, theories of listening, electricity, hypnotism, and biological degeneration • Continues the development of new ways of thinking about the history of material culture for Music studies and includes well-grounded examples of how historians can work in this hybrid field
397pp 25 b/w illus. 2 tables 15 Music examples 7. 2021 9781107529021 Paperback GBP 23.99 / USD 31.99
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Saint-Saëns and the Stage Operas, Plays, Pageants, a Ballet and a Film Hugh Macdonald | Washington University, St Louis
Designed as a resource for opera lovers, opera professionals, and Music students, this book provides a guide to Saint-Saëns’s twelve operas and a variety of other stage works for those who are curious to know more. It will enhance listeners’ experience of recordings of Saint-Saëns, which are enjoying increased popularity as his centenary approaches. • The first ever book devoted to Saint-Saëns’s stage works as a whole • Offers a timely contribution to the study of Saint-Saëns - both for the 2021 centenary of his death and in response to increased interest in his stage works • Provides essential historical context and critical assessments of all twelve of Saint-Saëns’ operas and other stage works Cambridge Studies in Opera 448pp 17 b/w illus. 186 Music examples 9. 2021 9781108445092 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 3. 2019 9781108426381 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108550925
The Cambridge Companion to Music and Romanticism Benedict Taylor | University of Edinburgh
This accessible Companion showcases the importance of Music within Romantic culture and thought in the ‘long’ nineteenth century. It incorporates a variety of disciplinary approaches, and is alive to current debates across the humanities. • Presents Romanticism as a constellation of cultural ideas and concerns that intersect with Music, rather than a single Musical style or period • Offers a multi-disciplinary account of Music’s relationship to Romanticism • Provides a fresh approach for the next generation of students, reflecting current thinking on this topic Cambridge Companions to Music 320pp 8. 2021 9781108475433 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 8. 2021 9781108466875 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108647342
The Cambridge Companion to Schubert’s ‘Winterreise’ Marjorie W. Hirsch | Williams College, Massachusetts
This Companion is designed for upper-level undergraduates and masters students. It explores the Music and contexts of Schubert’s venerated song cycle Winterreise (1827) - twenty-four settings of poems by Wilhelm Müller depicting a solitary wanderer’s alienation, disorientation, and despair suffered amidst a bleak, frigid landscape. • Demonstrates the rich complexity of Schubert’s masterful late song cycle and makes this challenging Musical work more accessible to students and other listeners • Explores Winterreise in its political, biographical, cultural, sociological, Musical, literary, psychological and scientific contexts • Brings together different analytical approaches and visual tools to show the reader how multiple disciplinary perspectives can enhance understanding of this influential work
Cambridge Companions to Music 320pp 2. 2021 9781108832847 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 2. 2021 9781108965804 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99
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Opera in Postwar Venice Cultural Politics and the Avant-Garde Harriet Boyd-Bennett | University of Nottingham
Boyd-Bennett investigates the relationship of Music and politics in the aftermath of war and dictatorship. Bringing locality into the study of twentieth-century Music by focussing on the Italian and Venetian contexts, she shows how Music culture was deeply imbedded in the most pressing social and cultural concerns of the post-war period. • Connects Music and Music culture directly to the most pressing social and cultural concerns of the postwar period • Provides a fresh perspective to very well-known repertoire • Brings to light previously overlooked repertoire, and previously unseen archival material
Cambridge Studies in Opera 242pp 8 b/w illus. 8 Music examples 9. 2021 9781316620571 Paperback GBP 23.99 / USD 31.99 9. 2018 9781107169272 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781316718476
The Cambridge Companion to Seventeenth-Century Opera 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 9. 2021 9780521823593 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 9. 2021 9780521530460 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781139033077
Seventeenth-century Music Music and Power at the Court of Louis XIII Sounding the Liturgy in Early Modern France Peter Bennett | Case Western Reserve University, Ohio
This book considers the role that sacred Music played in legitimating Louis XIII’s power, and examines how the Old Testament figure of David, model king, Musician and psalmist, became central to Musical strategies that presented Louis as God’s chosen representative on EArth. • Provides the first book-length cultural history of sacred Music and liturgy as it intersects with power at the court of Louis XIII • Considers many new Musical liturgical sources for the first time • Sets the conclusions against the broader field of ‘the Arts’ and power during the reign of Louis XIV
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Music in the London Theatre from Purcell to Handel Colin Timms | University of Birmingham
The book is concerned with Musical settings (c.1650–1750) for voices and instruments of mostly secular texts that were performed in English theatres. It is of value to those with an interest in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English Music, literature, drama or theatre, showing how these Arts intersected. • Discusses a wide range of Musical works performed in English theatres between c.1650 and 1750 • Explores what constituted good verse for setting to Music • Explores how widely and deeply ancient historical subjects were known to Handel’s audiences and how he used them in his Italian Operas
268pp 2 b/w illus. 16 Music examples 2. 2021 9781107154643 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 6. 2017 9781316608289 Hardback GBP 7999 / USD 103.99 eISBN 9781316650813
Twentieth-century and contemporary Music Elliott CArter’s Late Music John Link
The first comprehensive study of the late Music of one of the most influential composers of the last half century, this book includes detailed essays on all of CArter’s major works after 1995, with special emphasis on his settings of contemporary modernist poetry from Ashbery to Zukofsky. • Includes analytical essays on all of CArter’s major works from 1995 to his death in 2012 • Chapters focus on CArter’s aesthetics, harmony and rhythm, and reception history • Includes numerous Musical examples with analysis Music since 1900 320pp 2. 2022 9780521769761 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00 eISBN 9781139019873
Prokofiev’s Soviet Operas Nathan Seinen | The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Prokofiev’s last four Operas are major works of his career in the Soviet Union, yet the original versions remain unfamiliar since they exist only in manuscript form. This book offers bold new interpretations, draws on a wide range of primary and secondary sources, and includes comparisons with works of literature, film, and theatre. • Blends critical interpretations of Prokofiev’s last four Operas in their unpublished original versions with examination of the contexts of their composition and reception • Presents many new insights, incorporates a wealth of archival evidence, and draws on recent scholarship in Slavonic studies • Will appeal to readers interested in Opera, Music’s interactions with politics, and the history of Russia and the Soviet Union Music since 1900 269pp 7. 2021 9781107088788 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 7. 2021 9781107460799 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781316105214
350pp 5. 2021 9781108830638 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99
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Schoenberg’s Atonal Music Musical Idea, Basic Image, and Specters of Tonal Function Jack Boss | University of Oregon
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The ‘prequel’ to Schoenberg’s Twelve-Tone Music (Cambridge, 2014), this book demonstrates that the term ‘atonal’ is effective in describing Schoenberg’s Music from 1908–21. Written for Music scholars, performers and conductors, it features detailed analyses that will help them understand the core logic of some of the most difficult pieces of Music. • Analyses several pieces to indicate exactly how the details of an atonal piece relate to its central idea or image • Uses Schenkerian analysis to demonstrate significant differences between tonal and atonal Music • Shows the expressive role that tonality played in Schoenberg’s atonal Music after it was banished as a structural device • Includes numerous Musical examples and illustrations to support both the author’s analyses and the reader’s own interpretations
Music since 1900 405pp 132 Music examples 8. 2021 9781108409933 Paperback GBP 23.99 / USD 31.99 4. 2019 9781108419130 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108296991
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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 371pp 10 b/w illus. 12. 2021 9781108409520 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 1. 2020 9781108419116 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108296939
The Cambridge Companion to Video Game Music Melanie Fritsch | Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
Video game Music has been permeating popular culture for over forty years. Now, reaching billions of listeners, game Music encompasses a diverse spectrum of Musical materials and practices. This book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date survey of game Music, featuring contributions from a diverse group of scholars and industry professionals. • The first comprehensive and accessible overview of the field • Suitable for students and newcomers to the discipline • Includes history, contexts, case studies and theoretical approaches Cambridge Companions to Music 372pp 4. 2021 9781108473026 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 4. 2021 9781108460897 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108670289
The Cambridge Companion to Women in Music since 1900 Laura Hamer
This Companion surveys women’s work as composers, performers, educators and Music technologists and how it has evolved since 1900. It considers the impact of gender on women’s pArticipation in the Musical profession, including access to training, gendered criticism, sexualization, and notions of ‘appropriate’ Musical roles. • Includes perspectives from a broad range of Musical genres • Considers the impact of gender upon women’s pArticipation in the Musical profession • Includes contributions from female Musical practitioners Cambridge Companions to Music 320pp 5. 2021 9781108470285 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 5. 2021 9781108455787 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108556491
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 twentieth-century 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 578pp 2 tables 19 Music examples 8. 2021 9781107140875 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 155.00 eISBN 9781316493205
Thomas Adès Studies Edward Venn | University of Leeds
This benchmark collection of essays contain authoritative accounts of Thomas Adès’s major compositions from a variety of analytical, critical, cultural and historical perspectives. It will appeal not only to Adès specialists, but to those with an interest in contemporary Music more broadly. • The first collection of scholarly essays on this acclaimed contemporary composer • A wide-ranging overview of Adès’s work, covering almost all of his Music • Approaches Adès’s Music from a variety of theoretical and critical perspectives Cambridge Composer Studies 350pp 10. 2021 9781108486651 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108761451
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