Ancient philosophy

14 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

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

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The Scribes of Rome

A Cultural and Social History of the Scribae Benjamin HArtmann | Universität Zürich Explores the lives of Rome’s public scribes, the scribae. In analysing a wide range of source material, it examines the cultural significance of these literate experts and their work and its implication for their position in Roman society and the state. • The first book-length treatment of the subject • Adopts a thematic rather than a chronological approach • Focuses on cultural and social history within an overarching theoretical framework

250pp 8 b/w illus. 1 table 9. 2021 9781108713740 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 9. 2020 9781108493963 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108656917

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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War and Society in Early Rome

From Warlords to Generals Jeremy Armstrong | University of Auckland 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

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 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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18 Explorations in Ancient and Modern Philosophy

Volume 3 Myles Burnyeat | All Souls College, Oxford 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