Classical studies
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
