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30 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

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