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Classical studies
6 Giotto’s Arena Chapel and the Triumph of Humility
Henrike Christiane Lange | University of California, Berkeley This groundbreaking book takes readers on an eyeopening tour through one of the most celebrated monuments in the world – Giotto’s Arena Chapel. Illustrated with almost 200 colour plates, this volume enables scholars and students to rediscover a key monument of Art and Architecture history and to see it with new eyes.
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350pp Oct. 2022 9781316511046 Hardback GBP 39.99 / USD 50.00 eISBN 9781009036450
Italy, Cyprus, and Artistic Exchange in the Medieval Mediterranean
Anthi Andronikou | University of St Andrews, Scotland This monograph probes the complex Artistic contacts between Italy and Cyprus, c.1200-1400. The book, which falls within the wider discourse on Italian and Byzantine visual cultures, historicizes these contacts and contributes to a broader understanding of cultural production, transmission and convergence in the medieval Mediterranean.
350pp Sep. 2022 9781316510926 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009039055
Saints, Miracles, and Social Problems in Italian Renaissance Art
Diane Bullen Presciutti | University of Essex The book reveals how images of saints’ miracles shaped perceptions of social problems related to gender, sexuality, and honor in Renaissance Italy. It will be of interest to specialists in late medieval and early modern culture (especially Art history, social history, gender, and religion) as well as undergraduate and graduate students.
350pp Mar. 2023 9781009300834 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9781009300803
Seeing Color in Classical Art
Theory, Practice, and Reception, from Antiquity to the Present Jennifer M. S. Stager | The Johns Hopkins University, Maryland This book will appeal to scholars and researchers interested in the history of colors and optics, ancient Greek Art and its connections with wider Mediterranean contact cultures. Analyzing the dyes, pigments, stones, eArth, and metals, this book examines the traces of color a variety of media in ancient Art works.
350pp Nov. 2022 9781316516454 Hardback GBP 39.99 / USD 49.99 eISBN 9781009030212
The Imagery and Politics of Sexual Violence in Early Renaissance Italy
Péter Bokody | University of Plymouth This book is the first comprehensive study of rape in Italian painting at the dawn of the Renaissance. It examines depictions of sexual violence in religion, law, medicine, literature, politics, and history writing. It offers a historical reconstruction of multiple views that have evident relevance to our contemporary situation.
300pp Jan. 2023 9781009100687 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009122528
The Villa Farnesina
Palace of Venus in Renaissance Rome James Grantham Turner | University of California, Berkeley This book restores the original vision of the beloved Villa Farnesina–a Palace of Venus celebrating aesthetic, social and erotic pleasure, set among lush gardens with fountains, grotto, pool and banqueting-pavilion, now vanished. It will appeal to in scholars interested in Renaissance Art, Architecture and history.
400pp Sep. 2022 9781316511015 Hardback GBP 94.99 / USD 125.00 eISBN 9781009036351
Transforming the Church Interior in Renaissance Florence
Screens and Choir Spaces, from the Middle Ages to Tridentine Reform Joanne Allen | American University, Washington DC 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 CounterReformation.
366pp May. 2022 9781108833592 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108985659
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.
400pp Dec. 2022 9781107155046 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 155.00 eISBN 9781316651261
A Guide to the Geography of Pliny the Elder
Duane W. Roller | Ohio State University The first English commentary on the geographical books of Pliny the Elder’s Natural History, one of the few geographical works to survive from Greco-Roman antiquity. Analyses Pliny’s sources, toponyms, and understanding of the place of the eArth in the cosmos. Elucidates the status of geography under the High Roman Empire.
500pp Jul. 2022 9781108481809 Hardback GBP 99.99 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9781108693660
A History of Alexander the Great in World Culture
Richard Stoneman | University of Exeter Alexander the Great has for over 2000 years been one of the best recognized names from antiquity. This innovative volume explores the many facets of his legend and reception in literature, Art and culture from antiquity to the present, ranging across numerous cultures of Europe and the Middle East.
468pp Feb. 2022 9781107167698 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 155.00 eISBN 9781316711798
Athletes and Artists in the Roman Empire
The History and Organisation of the Ecumenical Synods Bram Fauconnier | Universiteit Gent, Belgium The first comprehensive study of the associations of athletes and Artists in the Roman empire. They were active across the Mediterranean world and played a key role in Greek festival culture. Due to their cultural activities and court and social connections, they left a distinctive stamp on Greco-Roman elite culture.
380pp 3 b/w illus. 1 table Jan. 2023 9781009202831 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781009202855
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.
377pp Mar. 2022 9781108816199 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 33.99 eISBN 9781108895859
Caesar Rules
The Emperor in the Changing Roman World (c. 50 BC – AD 565) Olivier Hekster | Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen The first systematic analysis of Roman emperorship encompassing the six centuries from Caesar’s accession to the death of Justinian. Richly documented and illustrated, it provides a gripping account of the different roles Roman emperors played and of how popular expectations shaped their behaviour.
348pp Nov. 2022 9781009226790 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 38.99 eISBN 9781009226776 NEW IN PAPERBACK
Children and Family in Late Antique Egyptian Monasticism
Caroline T. Schroeder | University of Oklahoma The first book about children in one of the birthplaces of Christian monasticism, Egypt. Uses diverse written and visual sources to demonstrate how early Egyptian monasteries provided an intergenerational continuity of social, cultural, and economic capital while also contesting the traditional family’s claims to these forms of social continuity.
269pp 10 b/w illus. Mar. 2022 9781316610084 Paperback GBP 23.99 / USD 31.99 Sep. 2020 9781107156876 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781316661642
Cognitive Approaches to Ancient Religious Experience
Esther Eidinow | University of Bristol Explores the religious rituals and beliefs of ancient Greece and Rome, using modern research into human cognition to better understand the experiences of men and women. Integrates literary, epigraphic, visual and archaeological evidence. Accessible to those without prior knowledge either of cognitive theory or of the ancient world.
Ancient Religion and Cognition
348pp Aug. 2022 9781316515334 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009019927
Dissection in Classical Antiquity
A Social and Medical History Claire Bubb The first comprehensive history of dissection in classical antiquity. It reveals how the practice evolved from the social and cultural contexts of the fifth century BC to the High Roman period, before exploring in depth its contribution to the development of classical anatomical literature into Late Antiquity.
372pp 10 colour illus. Nov. 2022 9781009159470 Hardback GBP 34.99 / USD 44.99 eISBN 9781009159494
Divination and Prophecy in the Ancient Greek World
Roger D. Woodard | State University of New York, Buffalo Examines the phenomena of ancient Greek prophecy and divination, and offers a multi-disciplinary approach to the study of ancient prophecy. Considering issues such as comparativism, ethnography, cognitive function, orality, and intertextuality, the volume demonstrates their relevance to the elucidation of Greek prophetic practices.
350pp Oct. 2022 9781009221610 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009221597
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Federico Santangelo | University of Newcastle upon Tyne The first comprehensive assessment of the intersection between Roman politics, culture and divination in the late Republic, in the context of complex religious, political and intellectual developments. The book draws on a wide range of literary, iconographic and archaeological evidence.
369pp 3 b/w illus. Sep. 2022 9781009296359 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781139208659
Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean World
From Constantinople to Baghdad, 500-1000 CE Jelle Bruning | Rijksuniversiteit Leiden, The Netherlands The first volume to map the interregional political, economic and cultural networks in which Egypt functioned as it was transformed from a GraecoRoman to an Arabic-Islamic region. Brings together a wide range of disciplines, serving historians of late antiquity and Islam, archaeologists and papyrologists.
450pp 15 b/w illus. 12 maps 6 tables Sep. 2022 9781009170017 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781009170031
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Emperor and Senators in the Reign of Constantius II
Maintaining Imperial Rule Between Rome and Constantinople in the Fourth Century AD Muriel Moser | Goethe-Universität Frankfurt Am Main Sheds new light on the relationship between the emperor and his senators in the later Roman Empire, focusing on Constantius II, son of Constantine the Great. Provides new insights into imperial relations to the senates in Constantinople and Rome and the construction of late antique imperial rule and ideology.
Cambridge Classical studies
438pp Aug. 2022 9781108703710 Paperback GBP 27.99 / USD 36.99 Dec. 2018 9781108481014 Hardback GBP 94.99 / USD 131.00 eISBN 9781108646086
Housing in the Ancient Mediterranean World
Material and Textual Approaches J. A. Baird | Birkbeck College, University of London With chapters ranging from early Greek housing in Homeric poetry, to the sounds of Pompeiian villas, to graffiti in houses in Roman Syria, and the presentation of ‘domesticity’ in contemporary museum, this volume tackles the challenge of combining textual and archaeological evidence to study housing in the ancient Mediterranean world.
400pp 54 b/w illus. 16 colour illus. Jul. 2022 9781108845267 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00 eISBN 9781108954983
Isis in a Global Empire
Greek Identity through Egyptian Religion in Roman Greece Lindsey A. Mazurek | Indiana University, Bloomington This book offers academic readers a glimpse into the ways that religion, ethnicity, and globalization intersected in Rome’s provinces. By focusing on the worship of Egyptian gods in Greece, it explores how process of appropriation and experiences of geographic space and historical time defined a religious minority in Roman-ruled Greece.
292pp Feb. 2022 9781316517017 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009032209
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.
400pp Jan. 2022 9780521190329 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00 eISBN 9780511844362
Music at Social Meals in Greek and Roman Antiquity
From the Archaic Period to the Age of Augustine Charles H. Cosgrove The first comprehensive history of music at social recreations in antiquity, from private pArties to festivals, demonstrating not only its diverse pleasures but also the various personal and social purposes it served.
400pp 6 b/w illus. 15 colour illus. Dec. 2022 9781009161046 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00 eISBN 9781009161060
Music, Politics and Society in Ancient Rome
Harry Morgan | Harvard University, Massachusetts Demonstrates that music was fundamental to Roman political culture and social relations, shaping debates about class, gender, ethnicity and more. Draws on a wide range of literary texts, inscriptions and material Artefacts from the second century BCE to the end of the reign of Nero in 68 CE.
297pp 31 colour illus. Nov. 2022 9781009232333 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009232326
Negotiating Identity in the Ancient Mediterranean
The Archaic and Classical Greek Multiethnic Emporia Denise Demetriou | Michigan State University The ancient Mediterranean basin was a multicultural region with a great diversity of linguistic, religious, social and ethnic groups. This study provides a new understanding of it by examining identity construction in multiethnic commercial settlements located throughout the region and explores literary, epigraphic and archaeological evidence to investigate crosscultural interactions.
306pp 17 b/w illus. 3 maps Sep. 2022 9781009296762 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781139094634
Plants, Politics and Empire in Ancient Rome
Annalisa Marzano | University of Reading The first comprehensive and interdisciplinary treatment of Roman arboriculture and the movement of plants from one corner of the empire to the other. Incorporates historical, textual and archaeobotanical data, making this material more widely accessible, and highlights the extent to which arboriculture was a cultural and political phenomenon.
380pp 10 b/w illus. Oct. 2022 9781009100663 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781009121958
Pliny the Elder’s World
Natural History, Books 2-6 Brian Turner | Portland State University This new translation of the Natural History’s opening books lets readers immerse themselves in the natural world and universe as seen by Romans and absorbed by Western scholars through the Renaissance. Pliny’s wide range of knowledge, his quirky style and frank opinions command attention, even awe, throughout.
350pp May. 2022 9781108481755 Hardback GBP 79.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108592758
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Polis Histories, Collective Memories and the Greek World
Rosalind Thomas | University of Oxford The first comprehensive re-assessment of the phenomenon of Greek ‘local history-writing’, which emerged as a popular and important form of history in the late classical and early Hellenistic periods. Argues that these works were central to creating political and cultural identity in a changing and expanding Greek world.
502pp Jun. 2022 9781316644737 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 38.99 Apr. 2019 9781107193581 Hardback GBP 110.00 / USD 142.00 eISBN 9781108147897
Prison, Punishment and Penance in Late Antiquity
Julia Hillner | University of Sheffield The first book in English on the Roman prison, and the first on the Roman prison’s late antique incarnation as a penal institution. It describes how late Roman penal strategies, in pArticular different spatial forms of imprisonment, responded to new social values of penance and purification of society.
442pp 3 maps 4 tables Sep. 2022 9781009296410 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781139015172
Jane Draycott | University of Glasgow The first comprehensive study of prosthetics and assistive technology in ancient Greece and Rome, integrating literary, documentary, archaeological, and bioarchaeological evidence to provide as full a picture as possible of their importance for the lived experience of people with disabilities in classical antiquity.
288pp 54 colour illus. 4 tables Nov. 2022 9781009168397 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009168410
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Religious Violence in the Ancient World
From Classical Athens to Late Antiquity Jitse H. F. Dijkstra | University of Ottawa The first assessment of religious violence throughout the whole of Antiquity, with a pArticular focus on Late Antiquity where a much more nuanced picture is offered, grounded in recent cutting-edge research. Of interest to scholars of Graeco-Roman religions and Late Antiquity, historians of early Christianity and historians of religion.
446pp 12 colour illus. Mar. 2022 9781108816557 Paperback GBP 28.99 / USD 37.99 Oct. 2020 9781108494908 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108860215
Roman Ionia
Constructions of Cultural Identity in Western Asia Minor MArtin Hallmannsecker | Universität Wien, Austria Through a detailed study of Roman Ionia, this book offers insight into the perceptions and constructions of collective cultural identities in the ancient world. It will benefit scholars and students interested in the issues of regional identities and the cultural history of Ancient Greece overall.
Greek Culture in the Roman World
348pp 1 b/w illus. 19 colour illus. 6 maps 11 tables May. 2022 9781009150187 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009150194
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Roman Law in Context
Second edition David Johnston This brief survey of Roman law in practice sets the law in its social and economic context, avoiding all unnecessary legal technicalities, and shows its importance for a wider understanding of Roman history. The second edition has been extensively updated and includes a new chapter on crime and punishment.
Key Themes in Ancient history
220pp May. 2022 9781108700160 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 25.99 May. 2022 9781108476300 Hardback GBP 64.99 / USD 84.99 eISBN 9781108572873
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Roman Port Societies
The Evidence of Inscriptions Pascal Arnaud | Université Lumière Lyon II An international team of experts draws upon a rich range of Latin and Greek texts to explore the roles played by individuals at ports in activities and institutions that were central to the maritime commerce of the Roman Mediterranean. Invaluable for all scholars and students of Roman history.
British School at Rome Studies
469pp 32 b/w illus. 9 maps 7 tables Jun. 2022 9781108731942 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 38.99 Sep. 2020 9781108486224 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108665278
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Roman Tombs and the Art of Commemoration
Contextual Approaches to Funerary Customs in the Second Century CE Barbara E. Borg | University of Exeter Employs the full range of material and written evidence to explore four key questions around Roman funerary customs that alter our view of the society and its values: senators’ tombs, the change from incineration to inhumation, tombs showcasing family longevity, and the deceased’s association with the divine and apotheosis.
369pp 100 b/w illus. May. 2022 9781108460354 Paperback GBP 27.99 / USD 36.99 Apr. 2019 9781108472838 Hardback GBP 94.99 / USD 126.00 eISBN 9781108690904
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Rome, China, and the Barbarians
Ethnographic Traditions and the Transformation of Empires Randolph B. Ford | State University of New York, Albany Examines how ancient Greeks, Romans, and Chinese constructed a civilized sense of Self and a ‘barbarian’ Other, and how these notions held up in critical periods of barbarian invasion and conquest. Gives original insights into the ‘fall’ of the Western Roman Empire and the sixth-century reunification of China.
389pp 12 maps Jun. 2022 9781108463010 Paperback GBP 27.99 / USD 36.99 Apr. 2020 9781108473958 Hardback GBP 94.99 / USD 126.00 eISBN 9781108564090
Rome: An Empire of Many Nations
New Perspectives on Ethnic Diversity and Cultural Identity Second edition 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.
426pp Apr. 2022 9781009256223 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781009256193
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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.
479pp Mar. 2022 9781108725156 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 38.99 Feb. 2021 9781108485777 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108641166
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.
400pp Feb. 2022 9781108476225 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108568159
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Social Control in Late Antiquity
The Violence of Small Worlds Kate Cooper | Royal Holloway, University of London Explores power relations in the households, schools, and monasteries of late antiquity in light of social theory, in a way that will be of interest to advanced undergraduates and postgraduate historians, as well as to scholars in the humanities and social sciences with interests in religion, law, and the family.
394pp Mar. 2022 9781108742696 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 33.99 Oct. 2020 9781108479394 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108783491
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.
300pp 30 b/w illus. 5 maps May. 2022 9781316510599 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00 eISBN 9781009038935
The Authoritative Historian
Tradition and Innovation in Ancient Historiography K. Scarlett Kingsley | Agnes Scott College, Decatur Explores how Greek and Roman historians frame innovations against generic tradition. Combining close readings and broader thematic analyses, the book presents a holistic vision of the development of the genre of historiography in Greece and Rome and the historian’s dynamic position within this practice.
400pp Jan. 2023 9781009159456 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00 eISBN 9781009159463
Sitta von Reden | Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany Comprehensive introduction to the ancient Greek economy. Covers the whole of the Greek world from the Iron Age to the Hellenistic period, with separate chapters on key themes. Essential for students and scholars of Ancient history and of interest to readers concerned with economic cultures and global economic issues.
Cambridge Companions to the Ancient World
360pp Aug. 2022 9781108404846 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 Aug. 2022 9781108417266 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108265249
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The Future of Rome
Roman, Greek, Jewish and Christian Visions Jonathan J. Price | Tel-Aviv University Demonstrates that Romans, Greeks, Jews and Christians imagined the future of Rome in strikingly different ways, revealing profound differences in their conceptions of history and historical time, the purpose of history, the meaning of written words and oral traditions.
325pp Mar. 2022 9781108797009 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 33.99 Oct. 2020 9781108494816 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108860000
The Greeks and Their Histories
Myth, History, and Society Hans-Joachim Gehrke | Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany Like every society, the Greek communities needed a unifying concept of their past, an ‘intentional history’. In direct interaction with poets, they formed an aesthetic network in which myths were considered as historical events. This volume considers how Greeks’ histories were consciously employed to help shape political and social realities.
Classical Scholarship in Translation
180pp Mar. 2023 9781316519783 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009022279
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.
Classical Scholarship in Translation
348pp Jan. 2022 9781108841030 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108888479
The Lives of Ancient Villages
Rural Society in Roman Anatolia Peter Thonemann | University of Oxford This is the first detailed ethnographic analysis of the kinship structure, religious life, culture and ethics of an ancient rural community. It will be essential reading for all historians of the Greco-Roman world, and will also be of interest to anthropologists interested in kinship and premodern rural societies.
Greek Culture in the Roman World
396pp 20 b/w illus. 50 colour illus. 2 maps 10 tables Nov. 2022 9781009123211 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009128452
The Roman Elite and the End of the Republic
The <i>Boni</i>, the Nobles and Cicero Henrik Mouritsen | King’s College London Reconfiguring the social and political landscape of the late Roman republic, this book discovers the boni as a distinct social and economic class. This has important implications for our understanding of the process that led to the fall of the republic.
348pp Nov. 2022 9781009180658 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009180665
The Senatus Consultum de Cn. Pisone Patre
Text, Translation, and Commentary Alison E. Cooley | University of Warwick New edition, with introduction, translation, and commentary, of one of the most important documents from the early Principate, offering insights into how contemporary observers understood and contributed to the shaping of the emergence of dynastic rule at Rome, complementing the perspective given in Tacitus’ Annales.
250pp Mar. 2023 9781108714563 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 25.99 Mar. 2023 9781108494458 Hardback GBP 64.99 / USD 84.99 eISBN 9781108638050
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The Social Dynamics of Roman Imperial Imagery
Amy Russell | Brown University, Rhode Island The visual language of the Roman Empire was remarkably consistent. These images were made, used, and reinterpreted at all social levels, and often for local purposes. From a historical and archaeological perspective, this book explores the visual contribution of ordinary people across Rome’s empire.
308pp Mar. 2022 9781108799720 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 33.99 Nov. 2020 9781108835121 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108891714
The Uncertain Past
Probability in Ancient history Myles Lavan | University of St Andrews, Scotland Introduces historians of pre-modern periods to a powerful, probability-based approach to uncertainty, drawing on techniques widely used in the social and natural sciences. Showcases how these practices can be applied to a wide range of problems in Ancient history, whilst a substantial introduction explains the method.
348pp 60 b/w illus. 10 maps 80 tables Dec. 2022 9781009100656 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781009121873
Thecla and Medieval Sainthood
The Acts of Paul and Thecla in Eastern and Western Hagiography Ghazzal Dabiri | University of Maryland, College Park Saint Thecla, an immensely popular figure of early Christianity, inspired bishops, saints, emperors, church fathers, ordinary readers, and hagiographers who viewed her as an exemplary model. This volume explores the impact of her story on medieval hagiography written in a variety of languages across Eurasia and North Africa.
320pp May. 2022 9781316519219 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009008631
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Writing and Society in Ancient Cyprus
Philippa M. Steele | Magdalene College, Cambridge A pioneering treatment of the development and importance of writing in ancient Cypriot society, throughout the second and first millennia BC. Exploring questions of literacy and identity, the book will be useful to scholars and students (epigraphists, linguists, archaeologists, historians) and to anyone interested in Cyprus or in writing systems.
Cambridge Classical studies
290pp 74 b/w illus. 3 maps 11 tables May. 2022 9781316620915 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 Oct. 2018 9781107169678 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781316729977
Ancient philosophy
Historia Animalium Book X
Aristotle’s Endoxon, Topos and Dialectic on On Failure to Reproduce Lesley Dean-Jones | University of Texas, Austin New edition arguing that the book is a summary by Aristotle of a fourth-century medical treatise. The treatise makes clear advances over Hippocratic gynaecology, and Aristotle’s comments on it illustrate the early stages of his reproductive theory. HA X is a central text for ancient gynaecology and Aristotelian methodology.
Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries
376pp Sep. 2022 9781107015159 Hardback GBP 110.00 / USD 145.00 eISBN 9781139057721
A New History of Greek Mathematics
Reviel Netz | Stanford University, California A comprehensive history of Greek mathematics (pure and applied, including the history of astronomy) from its beginnings to its legacy in Byzantium, Islamic science and the scientific revolution. Explores comparative and sociological perspectives and engages the reader with joy of encountering some of the finest mathematics ever created.
540pp 58 b/w illus. 2 maps Sep. 2022 9781108833844 Hardback GBP 34.99 / USD 44.99 eISBN 9781108982801
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Aristotle on Language and Style
The Concept of Lexis Ana Kotarcic | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium The first systematic analysis of Aristotle’s concept of lexis, which is approached on three interconnected levels: the first dealing with language as a system, the second with actual language usage, and the third with prescriptions for the kind of language to be used in poetic and rhetorical compositions.
238pp Mar. 2022 9781108730785 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 Nov. 2020 9781108499521 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108583442
Aristotle: On Generation and Corruption Book II
Introduction, Translation, and Interpretative Essays Panos Dimas | Universitetet i Oslo Generation and Corruption II is concerned with Aristotle’s theory of elements and their perpetual generation and corruption. Its themes and methodology form a crucial pArt of his work on natural science and philosophy of science. This volume provides a new English translation accompanied by an introduction and critical essays.
13000pp Nov. 2022 9781009239981 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009239936
Cicero and the People’s Will
Philosophy and Power at the End of the Roman Republic Lex Paulson The first book to trace Cicero’s role in inventing ‘the will of the people’ and the will as an engine of self-creation. Adept at Greek philosophy and defender of a dying republic, Cicero’s ideal of rational elitism has both shaped and fractured the modern world.
300pp Nov. 2022 9781316514115 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009082587
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Cosmos in the Ancient World
Phillip Sidney Horky | University of Durham A comprehensive, multi-disciplinary discussion of the notion of kosmos as order, arrangement, and ornament in Greco-Roman antiquity. This book traces this concept from its inception in Homer, through its canonisation by Plato, to its ultimate transformation by the early Christians.
370pp Jun. 2022 9781108438223 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 38.99 Jul. 2019 9781108423649 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108529082
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.
248pp Jan. 2022 9781108845052 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108954402
Explorations in Ancient and Modern Philosophy (Vols 3-4 2-Volume 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.
950pp Sep. 2022 9781009047777 2 Hardback books GBP 175.00 / USD 230.00
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Galen and the Arabic Reception of Plato’s Timaeus
Aileen R. Das | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Explores the Timaeus’ impact on pre-modern Greek and Arabic conceptualizations of medicine and will appeal to classicists, medievalists, and historians of philosophy, science, and the Middle East. Its five case studies examine how thinkers such as Galen and Avicenna used Plato’s dialogue to define their expertise and professional identities.
257pp Mar. 2022 9781108730730 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 33.99 Nov. 2020 9781108499484 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108583107
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.
348pp May. 2022 9781316513484 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009072670
Later Stoicism 155 BC to AD 200
An Introduction and Collection of Sources in Translation Brad Inwood | Yale University, Connecticut The most comprehensive collection of passages from later Stoic thinkers, providing fresh, philosophically sensitive translations and up-todate commentary. Includes Panaetius, Posidonius and a host of lesser known philosophers alongside generous selections from the works of Seneca, Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius.
596pp May. 2022 9781107029798 Hardback GBP 130.00 / USD 170.00 eISBN 9781139342599
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Music and Philosophy in the Roman Empire
Francesco Pelosi | Università degli Studi, Pisa Is music just matter of hearing and producing notes? This book explores different ways in which, in the Roman Imperial period, music was rather a fundamental pArt of complex philosophical discourses and the object of in-depth philosophical analyses, ranging from cosmology to ethics and from epistemology to theology.
367pp Mar. 2022 9781108940955 Paperback GBP 27.99 / USD 36.99 Dec. 2020 9781108832274 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108935753
Platonic Love from Antiquity to the Renaissance
Carl Séan O’Brien | Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany Platonic love is a concept that has profoundly shaped Western literature, philosophy and intellectual history for centuries. This wide-ranging work provides a reliable guide to its various facets developed in antiquity before exploring its role in the theological debates of the Middle Ages and philosophical speculations of the Italian Renaissance.
450pp Sep. 2022 9781108423229 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108525596
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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.
300pp Feb. 2022 9781316511114 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009036610
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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.
205pp Mar. 2022 9781108926058 Paperback GBP 23.99 / USD 31.99 Jan. 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.
330pp Mar. 2022 9781108725279 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 33.99 Feb. 2021 9781108485845 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108641579
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Pseudo-Aristotle: De Mundo (On the Cosmos)
A Commentary Pavel Gregorić De mundo is a protreptic to philosophy and a work of both cosmology and theology, inspired by Aristotle. It is unique in presenting both a scientific explanation of the universe and a philosophical account focusing on the supreme cause of the universe’s coherence and stability, God.
257pp 8 b/w illus. 2 maps Mar. 2022 9781108819855 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 33.99 Dec. 2020 9781108834780 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108876964
Classical Art, Architecture
Architecture in Ancient Central Italy
Connections in Etruscan and Early Roman Building Charlotte R. Potts | University of Oxford Argues that buildings in early Italy serve as windows into the minds and lives of those who made and used them, and demonstrates that Architecture was closely connected to communities, to the natural world, and to the cosmos, and had the power to shape society as much as reflect it.
British School at Rome Studies
224pp 42 colour illus. 5 maps Apr. 2022 9781108845281 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108955232
Living Theatre in the Ancient Roman House
Theatricalism in the Domestic Sphere Richard C. Beacham | King’s College London The book will appeal to readers interested in Graeco-Roman visual-culture, life in Rome and Pompeii, and the use of 3-D visualisation to explore cultural heritage. Richly illustrated, it is the first major study exploring the crucial importance of theatre in ancient domestic practice, décor and Architecture.
450pp Oct. 2022 9781316510940 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 155.00 eISBN 9781009039093
The Death of Myth on Roman Sarcophagi
Allegory and Visual Narrative in the Late Empire Mont Allen | Southern Illinois University, Carbondale This book will appeal to those interested in the power of funerary Art to shape views of life and death; in how ancient peoples used mythology to make sense of their world and their final depArture from it; and in the relationship between late Roman and early Christian imagery.
Greek Culture in the Roman World
325pp Oct. 2022 9781316510919 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009039031
Classical languages
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Aegean Linear Script(s)
Rethinking the Relationship Between Linear A and Linear B Ester Salgarella | St John’s College, Cambridge Uses an interdisciplinary approach to throw light on the transmission process of Linear A to Linear B script, by combining structural and linguistic analyses with epigraphic, palaeographic and archaeological investigations and by placing the writing practice in its socio-historical setting. Of interest to linguists, archaeologists and historians.
Cambridge Classical studies
436pp May. 2022 9781108742672 Paperback GBP 32.99 / USD 42.99 Oct. 2020 9781108479387 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108783477
Early Latin
Constructs, Diversity, Reception J. N. Adams | All Souls College, Oxford The most detailed and comprehensive study to date of early Latin language, literary and nonliterary, featuring twenty-nine chapters by an international team of scholars. Defines linguistic features of different literary genres, and addresses problems such as the limits of periodisation and the definition of the very concept of ‘early Latin’.
900pp Feb. 2023 9781108476584 Hardback GBP 130.00 / USD 170.00 eISBN 9781108671132
Expositio Notarum
A. C. Dionisotti | King’s College London This unique, unpublished text offers a juxtaposition of the classical and the late antique Roman world in a new document used in teaching in North Africa c. AD 400. it also reveals a significant strand in the Latin glossaries surviving from the AngloSaxon and early medieval period.
Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries
350pp 10 b/w illus. 10 tables Sep. 2022 9781316514795 Hardback GBP 110.00 / USD 145.00 eISBN 9781009090889
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Migration, Mobility and Language Contact in and around the Ancient Mediterranean
James Clackson | University of Cambridge The first volume to show the different ways in which surviving linguistic evidence can be used to track movements of people in the ancient world. Discusses cases for the period from the seventh century BC to the fourth century AD, ranging from Spain to Egypt, from Sicily to Pannonia.
Cambridge Classical studies
376pp 7 b/w illus. 1 map 8 tables Jun. 2022 9781108726351 Paperback GBP 27.99 / USD 36.99 May. 2020 9781108488440 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108763943
Politeness in Ancient Greek and Latin
Luis Unceta Gómez | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid The first major study of politeness in Ancient Greece and Rome, introducing the linguistic framework and showcasing a range of methods, topics, and genres. The individual chapters focus on canonical authors as well as on under-studied texts by ancient scholars and court proceedings.
380pp Sep. 2022 9781009123037 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781009127271 TEXTBOOK
Reading Homer
Iliad Books 16 and 18 Joint Association of Classical Teachers’ Greek Course Homer’s Iliad is the acknowledged masterpiece of Greek literature. Reading Homer makes it accessible to students who have only recently begun learning the language. It builds on their existing knowledge and enables them to appreciate the poem in its context.
Reading Greek
288pp Oct. 2022 9780521170888 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 25.99 Oct. 2022 9781107000933 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781139051545
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.
300pp Feb. 2022 9781316517154 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009042970
Classical literature
Beyond Death in the Oresteia
Poetics, Ethics, and Politics Amit Shilo | University of California, Santa Barbara The diverse afterlife scenarios that pervade the Oresteia have never been examined together. This innovative study argues that they transform its thematic, ethical, and political issues. A new approach to a central work of world literature, this book is crucial reading for students and scholars of Greek literature and religion.
216pp Sep. 2022 9781108832748 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108963862
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Brecht and Tragedy
Radicalism, Traditionalism, Eristics MArtin Revermann | University of Toronto A wide-ranging, detailed and engaging study of Brecht’s complex relationship with Greek tragedy and the tragic tradition, which also makes significant archival material available for the first time. Of great interest to any student of theatre (of any period and/or geography), to comparatists and to students of intellectual history.
Classics after Antiquity
492pp 36 b/w illus. 4 colour illus. Aug. 2022 9781108747455 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 38.99 Dec. 2021 9781108489683 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108779210
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Baukje van den Berg The first volume to explore the rich tradition of commentaries on ancient texts produced and circulating in Byzantium from the twelfth to the fifteenth century. Examines different types of commentaries on ancient poetry and prose within the context of the study and teaching of grammar, rhetoric, philosophy and science.
360pp Sep. 2022 9781316514658 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781009085762
Carpe Diem
The Poetics of Presence in Greek and Latin Literature Robert A. Rohland | Trinity College, Cambridge Carpe diem – ‘eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die!’ – is a prominent motif throughout ancient literature and beyond. This wide-ranging, interdisciplinary study reveals its significance in ancient poetry and Art, especially in creating the almost magical impression that something is happening here and now.
Cambridge Classical studies
320pp 17 colour illus. Oct. 2022 9781009018555 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 Oct. 2022 9781316510827 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009039789
Catullan Questions Revisited
T. P. Wiseman | University of Exeter A new insight into the brilliant poet who loved an aristocratic girl, attacked Julius Caesar and became a satirical playwright. For anyone interested in poetry and ancient Rome, Peter Wiseman combines textual, historical and even archaeological evidence to explode the orthodox view of Catullus’ life and work.
200pp Dec. 2022 9781009235747 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009235761
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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.
227pp Mar. 2022 9781108813747 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Jan. 2021 9781108839815 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108885195
Cicero and the Early Latin Poets
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.
300pp Apr. 2022 9781316516089 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009031820
Civil War and the Collapse of the Social Bond
The Roman Tradition at the HeArt of the Modern Michèle Lowrie | University of Chicago Representations of civil war in classical and Christian Latin and their reception in French literature reveal the formative influence of the Roman civil wars on the modern imagination. Optimistic solutions defer resolution beyond the end of history. Within history, a decadent empire resolves republican discord at a terrible price.
Classics after Antiquity
360pp 7 colour illus. Nov. 2022 9781316516447 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781009029995
Classics and Celtic Literary Modernism
Yeats, Joyce, MacDiarmid and Jones Gregory Baker | Catholic University of America, Washington DC Traces multivocal receptions of classics across political and linguistic nationalisms of twentiethcentury Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and shows how they provoked experimental literary forms of modernist collusion and resistance - aesthetic idioms whose use of antiquity interrogated the aims of Celtic ‘nationbuilding’ in the British Isles.
Classics after Antiquity
320pp Feb. 2022 9781108844864 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108953825
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Feeling and Classical Philology
Knowing Antiquity in German Scholarship, 1770–1920 Constanze Güthenke | University of Oxford Nineteenth-century German classical philology underpins many structures of the modern humanities. This book shows how a language of love and a longing for closeness with a personified antiquity has lastingly shaped modern professional reading habits, notions of biography, and the self-image of scholars and teachers.
Classics after Antiquity
241pp May. 2022 9781107504295 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Mar. 2020 9781107104235 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781316219331
Greek and Latin Poetry of Late Antiquity
Form, Tradition, and Context Berenice Verhelst | Universiteit van Amsterdam Adopts and promotes a bilingual focus on the Greek and Latin poetry of late antiquity. Sheds light on the literary developments regarded as typical of the period and explores the poetic and aesthetic ideals that affected individual Greek and Latin poems.
300pp Jun. 2022 9781316516058 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009031769
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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.
Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
294pp 10 b/w illus. 2 maps Jan. 2022 9781108926041 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 Jan. 2022 9781108843980 Hardback GBP 79.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108921336
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Greek Theater in Ancient Sicily
Kathryn G. Bosher | Northwestern University, Illinois Provides a new and broader perspective on ancient theater by focusing on its origins and development in Sicily and southern Italy, especially in connection with comedy. Examining the fragments of Epicharmus, cult traditions, vase paintings and theater Archaeology, Kathryn G. Bosher explores the link between politics and Art on the island.
247pp 15 b/w illus. 2 maps Mar. 2022 9781108725651 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 Jan. 2021 9781108493871 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108663878
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Herodotus: Histories Book I
Carolyn Dewald | Bard College, New York An indispensable tool for teaching and reading Herodotus’ first book in Greek. The Commentary provides considerable help with matters of language. It also explores Herodotus’ literary strategies, his value as a historian and the attention he devotes to the customs, beliefs, concrete realities, and myths of other cultures.
Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
556pp Sep. 2022 9780521692700 Paperback GBP 32.99 / USD 42.99 Sep. 2022 9780521871730 Hardback GBP 99.99 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9781139021081
Homer, Parmenides, and the Road to Demonstration
Benjamin Folit-Weinberg | University of Bristol Parmenides invented extended deductive argumentation and the practice of demonstration, a transformative event in the history of thought. This book uncovers the origins of this development in Homeric poetic imagery and pArticularly Parmenides’ adaptation of the image of the hodos, the road and the journey.
Cambridge Classical studies
348pp 17 b/w illus. 5 tables Jun. 2022 9781009048484 Paperback GBP 34.99 / USD 44.99 Jun. 2022 9781316517819 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781009047562
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Homer: Iliad Book I
Seth L. Schein | University of California, Davis An edition, fully accessible to undergraduates and graduate students, of the opening book of Homer’s Iliad. Provides extensive help with language, meter, and style while also situating the poem in its historical and poetic contexts and helping readers to appreciate it as literature.
Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
256pp Jun. 2022 9781108412964 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 25.99 Jun. 2022 9781108420082 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108329088
Late Hellenistic Greek Literature in Dialogue
Jason König | University of St Andrews, Scotland Argues for the need to rethink the place of late Hellenistic literature within the wider landscape of Greek and Roman literary history. Explores a wide range of texts and genres, in prose and verse, showing how they engaged with their social, cultural and political contexts and with each other.
Greek Culture in the Roman World
380pp May. 2022 9781316516683 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781009030878
Letters in Plautus
Writing Between the Lines Emilia A. Barbiero | New York University Illuminates the origins of the earliest surviving poetry written in Latin and addresses a question that has vexed readers of Plautine comedy since the birth of modern philology: how did Plautus translate? Of interest to scholars of Latin poetry, the Roman Republic, book history and the history of western drama.
300pp Dec. 2022 9781009168519 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009168502
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Music and Metamorphosis in Graeco-Roman Thought
Pauline A. LeVen | Yale University, Connecticut Examines aesthetic and ontological questions raised by Greco-Roman myths of human metamorphosis into non-human musical beings. Placing the myths within their ancient intellectual contexts, it reads them in dialogue with contemporary questions about what it means to be human. Aimed at classicists, musicologists, and scholars of the posthumanities.
289pp Mar. 2022 9781316602638 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Dec. 2020 9781107148741 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781316563069
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Oppian’s Halieutica
ChArting a Didactic Epic Emily Kneebone | University of Nottingham Demonstrates the sophistication, influence, and cultural centrality of an understudied imperial Greek didactic epic. Written for students and scholars of imperial Greek literature and culture (including the ancient novel), ancient heroic and didactic epic poetry, and those interested in human-animal relations in the ancient world.
Greek Culture in the Roman World
467pp Mar. 2022 9781108744041 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 38.99 Oct. 2020 9781108840835 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108892728
Pindar and Greek Religion
Theologies of Mortality in the Victory Odes Hanne Eisenfeld | Boston College, Massachusetts Argues that Pindar’s victory songs, when viewed within their contemporary religious landscapes, are engaged in theological work and reinterprets the value of mortality in the epinician corpus. Essential reading for scholars of ancient religion and history, and of comparative literature.
300pp Sep. 2022 9781108831192 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108923507
Poetry and Number in Graeco-Roman Antiquity
Max Leventhal | Downing College, Cambridge Ranges widely across Greek and Latin poetry to demonstrate the various roles played by number and how the treatment of counting and arithmetic was bound up with wider conceptions of the nature of poetry. Aimed at both classicists and those interested in the cultural history of mathematics.
Cambridge Classical studies
248pp May. 2022 9781009124171 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 May. 2022 9781009123044 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009127295
Queering Medieval Latin Rhetoric
Silence, Subversion, and Sexual Heterodoxy David Townsend | University of Toronto Students of classical rhetoric and medieval literature alike will find here a fresh approach to questions of sexual identity long debated by historians. Townsend’s engaging, accessible close readings of medieval Latin poetry, prose romance, and monastic devotional texts combine philological precision with insights drawn from queer theory.
Cultures of Latin from Antiquity to the Enlightenment
136pp Dec. 2022 9781009206877 Paperback GBP 17.99 / USD 23.99 Dec. 2022 9781009206877 Hardback GBP 17.99 / USD 23.99 eISBN 9781009206860
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A New Translation of the Complete Works Second edition Diane J. Rayor | Grand Valley State University, Michigan Sappho, the earliest and most famous Greek woman poet, sang her songs about love, friendship, rivalry, and family around 600 BCE on the island of Lesbos. Everything that survives - substantial poems and fragments, including three recently discovered poems - is here presented in a graceful modern translation, together with professional recordings.
214pp 2 b/w illus. Feb. 2023 9781108926973 Paperback GBP 12.99 / USD 16.95 Feb. 2023 9781108831680 Hardback GBP 50.00 / USD 65.00 eISBN 9781108917896
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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.
Cambridge Classical studies
320pp Jul. 2022 9781108725774 Paperback GBP 39.99 / USD 52.99 Jul. 2022 9781108477604 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108770040
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Representing the Unruly Body Sarah Olsen | Williams College, Massachusetts This is the first investigation of solo dancers in Archaic and Classical Greek literature. It demonstrates that dancing alone signifies transgression and vulnerability in the Greek cultural imagination, and that the solo dancer is a powerful figure for literary exploration and experimentation in a wide variety of Greek genres.
257pp Mar. 2022 9781108719124 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 Dec. 2020 9781108485036 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108755221
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Terence: Andria
Sander M. Goldberg | University of California, Los Angeles Terence’s first play is noteworthy for its muting of female voices, take on slavery and freedom, and experimentation with a secondary plot line. This edition combines detailed attention to grammar, syntax, and meter with a performance-based analysis enabling students to appreciate the text as a play.
Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
320pp Sep. 2022 9781009200660 Paperback GBP 23.99 / USD 31.99 Sep. 2022 9781009200653 Hardback GBP 79.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781009200639
The Cambridge Companion to Plutarch
Frances B. Titchener | Utah State University Plutarch is one of the most prolific and important writers from antiquity. This volume provides an engaging introduction to all aspects of his work, treating both the Parallel Lives and the essays known collectively as Moralia. It also includes an introduction to their substantial and important reception history.
Cambridge Companions to Literature
502pp Nov. 2022 9780521176569 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 Nov. 2022 9780521766227 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9780511986451
The Cambridge Companion to Thucydides
Polly Low | University of Durham A wide-ranging and accessible introduction to one of the earliest and most influential works in the western historical tradition. Essential reading for students in Classics and Ancient history, and also of interest to those working on political theory, international theory and historiography.
Cambridge Companions to Literature
400pp Jan. 2023 9781107514607 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 32.99 Jan. 2023 9781107107052 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 115.00 eISBN 9781316227442
The Christian Invention of Time
Temporality and the Literature of Late Antiquity Simon Goldhill | University of Cambridge With trademark versatility and brilliance, worldrenowned 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.
Greek Culture in the Roman World
516pp Feb. 2022 9781316512906 Hardback GBP 34.99 / USD 44.99 eISBN 9781009071260 NEW IN PAPERBACK
The Mortal Voice in the Tragedies of Aeschylus
Sarah Nooter | University of Chicago This book argues that the voice is a crucial link between bodies, thought, and mortal identity in the tragedies of Aeschylus. It first presents conceptions of the voice in Greek poetry and philosophy and then shows how Aeschylus’ tragedies gain meaning from the rubric and performance of voice.
319pp Aug. 2022 9781316508978 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 Oct. 2017 9781107145511 Hardback GBP 79.99 / USD 103.00 eISBN 9781316535882
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The Resurrection of Homer in Imperial Greek Epic
Quintus Smyrnaeus’ Posthomerica and the Poetics of Impersonation Emma Greensmith | University of Oxford The first literary and cultural reading of Quintus Smyrnaeus’ Posthomerica, a major Greek epic from the height of the Roman Empire which tells the story ‘in between’ Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, and reveals the aesthetic and identity politics of the era. Important for understanding Homer and epic in Greco-Roman culture.
Greek Culture in the Roman World
400pp 1 b/w illus. Mar. 2022 9781108820653 Paperback GBP 27.99 / USD 36.99 Oct. 2020 9781108830331 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108907200
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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.
369pp Mar. 2022 9781108723237 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 33.99 Jan. 2021 9781108481762 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108667678
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Theophrastus: Characters
James Diggle | University of Cambridge Theophrastus: Characters is a work of supreme importance and interest both as a pioneering text of world literature and as a document illustrating many aspects of ancient society. This edition makes it accessible to students by offering full help with understanding its sometimes difficult language and often enigmatic references.
Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
260pp May. 2022 9781108932790 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 May. 2022 9781108831284 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108937818
