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Edom in Judah

Trade, Migration, and Kinship in the Late Iron Age Southern Levant

Danielson, Andrew J. | University of British Columbia

For kingdoms such as Judah and Edom during the late Iron Age, this period was also one of opportunity due to their location at the intersection of lucrative trade networks connecting the Mediterranean and Arabian worlds. This Element explores the multifaceted interactions in this landscape.

Elements in The Archaeology of Ancient Israel

75pp

Nov. 2024 9781009424349 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Nov. 2024 9781009517188 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

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From Ritual to God in the Ancient Near East

Tracing the Origins of Religion

Laneri, Nicola | University of Catania, Italy

This book traces the transformation of the belief systems that shaped life in ancient Near Eastern communities, from prehistoric times until the advent of religious monotheism in the Levant during the first millennium BCE. It offers new insights into the symbolic value embodied in the religious materiality produced in the ancient Near East.

266pp

Archaeological theory, method

Anthropological

Archaeology Underwater

Lemke, Ashley | University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

This Element will explore the world of anthropological archaeology underwater, focusing on submerged sites, and review the techniques, data, and theoretical perspectives which are offering new insights into the human story. Elements in Anthropological Archaeology in the 21st CenturyL 96pp

Oct. 2024 9781009327336 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Oct. 2024 9781009494649 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

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Collective Action and the Reframing of Early Mesoamerica

Carballo, David M. | Boston University

May 2024 9781009306645 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00

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Personal Names in Cuneiform Texts from Babylonia (c. 750–100 BCE)

An Introduction

Waerzeggers, Caroline | Rijksuniversiteit Leiden, The Netherlands

This book is for students and researchers of ancient Middle Eastern history who work with cuneiform texts from Babylonia (c. 750-100 BCE). These sources contain large numbers of personal names of different linguistic origins. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

346pp 60 b/w illus.

Jan. 2024 9781009291088 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

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Worldmaking and Cuneiform Antiquity

An Anthropology of Science

Rochberg, Francesca | University of California, Berkeley

Extends an anthropology of science to the historical world of cuneiform texts of ancient Babylonia. Exploring how Babylonian science has been understood, she proposes a new direction for scholarship by recognizing the world of ancient science, not as a less developed form of modern science, but as legitimate and real in its own right.

350pp

Jan. 2025 9781009522335 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009522298

This Element reviews approaches to collective action drawing on perspectives from across the globe and case studies from Mesoamerica. It highlights how institutions and systems of governance matter, vary over space and time, and can oscillate between more pluralistic and more autocratic forms within the same society, culture, or polity. Elements in Anthropological Archaeology in the 21st Century 100pp

Feb. 2024 9781009338707 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Feb. 2024 9781009476027 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

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First Cities

Planning Lessons for the 21st Century

Saitta, Dean | University of Denver

This Element describes and synthesizes archaeological knowledge of humankind’s first cities for the purpose of strengthening a comparative understanding of urbanism across space and time. Case studies are drawn from ancient Mesopotamia, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Elements in Anthropological Archaeology in the 21st Century 94pp

Apr. 2024 9781009338745 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Apr. 2024 9781009475914 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

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Identity Studies in Archaeology

Blake, Emma | School of Anthropology, University of Arizona

This Element explores the origins, current state, and future of the archaeological study of identity. Through European case studies from prehistory to the present, it charts identity’s evolving place in anthropological archaeology. Elements in Anthropological Archaeology in the 21st Century 75pp

Nov. 2024 9781009459709 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Nov. 2024 9781009459754 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009459747

Perspectivism in Archaeology

Insights into Indigenous Theories of Reality

Laguens, Andrés | University of Córdoba, Argentina

Perspectivism is an archaeological approach that distinguishes recurrent characteristics found in Amerindian mythology. This book explores the foundations of perspectivism and its theoretical and methodological possibilities. It demonstrates applications of its precepts through case studies of ancient societies of the Andes and Patagonia. 262pp

Feb. 2024 9781009393911 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

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Archaeology (general)

A Historical Ethnography of the Enga Economy of Papua New Guinea

Wiessner, Polly | Arizona State University

The question addressed in this Element is: What happens to a society when, in the absence of influence from foreign populations, constraints are released by a new crop making possible significant surplus production?

Elements in Ancient and Pre-modern Economies

96pp

Five Innovations That Changed Human History Transitions and Impacts

Derricourt, Robin | University of New South Wales, Sydney

Drawing on both historical sources and archaeological discoveries, this book explores the origins and earliest development of five major achievements in our deep history, and their impacts on human lives. The topics presented are the taming and control of fire, horse domestication, writing, printing, and the revolution of wireless communication.

304pp

Jun. 2024 9781009368766 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Jun. 2024 9781009485951 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009368773

Ancient Maya Economies

Hutson, Scott R. | University of Kentucky

Ancient Maya Economies synthesizes the state of the art across seven components: geographical and historical background, ritual economy, households, specialization, exchange, political economies, and future directions.

Elements in Ancient and Pre-modern Economies

75pp

Nov. 2024 9781009523394 Paperback GBP 23.99 / USD 30.99

Nov. 2024 9781009523370 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 95.00

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Geopolitics of Digital Heritage

Grincheva, Natalia | University of the Arts Singapore and The University of Melbourne

Geopolitics of Digital Heritage analyzes and discusses the political implications of the largest digital heritage aggregators across different scales of governance. The Element employs an interdisciplinary approach and combines critical heritage studies with the study of digital politics and communications.

Elements in Critical Heritage Studies

102pp

Nov. 2024 9781009374156 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Nov. 2024 9781009517263 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009374163

Cultural Burning

David, Bruno | Monash University

This Element describes what cultural burning is and presents current methods by which it can be identified in historical and archaeological records, applying internationally relevant methods to Australian landscapes. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Elements in Current Archaeological Tools and Techniques

72pp

Feb. 2024 9781009182089 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Feb. 2024 9781009500142 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009182072

Here and Now at Historic Sites

Pupils and Guides Experiencing Heritage

Ludvigsson, David | Linköping University

The study explores the meaning-making of cultural heritage in school field trips to five sites in the region Östergötland in Sweden. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core. Elements in Critical Heritage Studies

82pp

Jun. 2024 9781009485296 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Jun. 2024 9781009485302 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009485340

May 2024 9781009327381 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

May 2024 9781009517195 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

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Heritage and Transformation of an African Popular Music

Bahi, Aghi | Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny Modern popular music is closely linked to the ‘traditional’ heritage – intangible and material – of which artist-musicians have, in a way, usufruct. This Element examines the relationship between (cultural) heritage and the transformation of popular music in Côte d’Ivoire. Elements in Critical Heritage Studies

75pp

Dec. 2024 9781009469166 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Dec. 2024 9781009469180 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009469159

Infrared Spectroscopy of Archaeological Sediments

Toffolo, Michael B. | Spanish National Research Centre for Human Evolution (CENIEH)

This Element provides a guide to infrared spectroscopy of archaeological sediments, focusing on their dynamic system and their components. It presents a step-by-step methodological framework, interpreting infrared spectra with case studies, and lays out the discipline’s history. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core. Elements in Current Archaeological Tools and Techniques

75pp

Jan. 2025 9781009387569 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Jan. 2025 9781009532976 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009387590

Knowledge Discovery from Archaeological Materials

López García, Pedro A. | Escuela Nacional de Antropologia e Historia

This Element highlights the employment within archaeology of classification methods developed in the field of chemometrics, artificial intelligence, and Bayesian statistics. These often have better results than traditional methods. The basic principles and main methods are introduced with recommendations when to use them.

Elements in Current Archaeological Tools and Techniques

96pp

Nordic Bronze Age Economies

Horn, Christian | University of Gothenburg

This Element provides a multi-scalar synthesis of Nordic Bronze Age economies (1800/1700- 500 BCE) that is organized around six sections: an introduction to the Nordic Bronze Age, macroeconomic perspectives, defining local communities, economic interaction, conflict and alliances, political formations, and encountering Europe. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core Elements in Ancient and Pre-modern Economies

75pp

Nov. 2024 9781009475839 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009421416

Shell Money

Oct. 2024 9781009181877 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Oct. 2024 9781009506809 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009181884

Machine Learning for Archaeological Applications in R

Argote, Denisse L. | Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia

This Element highlights the employment within archaeology of classification methods developed in the field of chemometrics, artificial intelligence, and Bayesian statistics. It also provides a detailed explanation of how to process data in R as well as the respective code.

Elements in Current Archaeological Tools and Techniques

75pp

Nov. 2024 9781009506649 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Nov. 2024 9781009506595 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009506625

Mobile Landscapes and Their Enduring Places

David, Bruno | Monash University, Victoria

This Element presents emerging concepts and analytical tools in landscape archaeology. It introduces these ideas through new research and multiple case studies from around the world, culminating in how to ‘archaeomorphologically’ map anthropic constructions in caves and their contemporary environments.

Elements in Current Archaeological Tools and Techniques 110pp

Apr. 2024 9781009181587 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Apr. 2024 9781009467797 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009181594

A Comparative Study

Fauvelle, Mikael | Lund University

Where, when, and under what circumstances did money first emerge? This Element examines this question through a comparative study of the use of shells to facilitate trade and exchange in ancient societies around the world. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Elements in Ancient and Pre-modern Economies

86pp

Mar. 2024 9781009263351 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Mar. 2024 9781009494434 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009263344

The Neoliberalisation of Heritage in Africa

King, Rachel | University College London and University of the Witwatersrand

This Element synthesises literature from anthropology, archaeology, history, and geography to describe a significant period of heritage policy and discourse on the African continent – its historical situation, on-the-ground realities, and continuing legacies in the era of sustainable development and climate crises.

Elements in Critical Heritage Studies

75pp

Jan. 2025 9781009435291 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Jan. 2025 9781009548250 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009435321

Will Heritage Save Us?

Intangible Cultural Heritage and the Sustainable Development Turn

Bortolotto, Chiara | CY Cergy Paris University Drawing on extensive ethnographic engagement with the social world of the UNESCO Convention for the safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage, this Element explores the mainstreaming of sustainable development principles in the heritage field.

Elements in Critical Heritage Studies

75pp

Jan. 2025 9781009509107 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Jan. 2025 9781009509091 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009509114

Worked Bone, Antler, Ivory, and Keratinous Materials

DiBattista, Adam | American School of Classical Studies, Athens

This Element focuses on studying and documenting durable animal body artifacts like bone, antler, ivory, and keratinous tissues. It emphasizes caution and documentation, using illustrations and descriptions to understand their structure. It introduces terminology, diagnostic factors, and techniques used by craftspeople to modify animal materials. Elements in Current Archaeological Tools and Techniques

75pp

Nov. 2024 9781009181679 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Nov. 2024 9781009532686 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009181686

Archaeology of Asia, SubSaharan Africa, Pacific

Aboriginal Art and the Telling of History

Rademaker, Laura | Australian National University, Canberra

Challenging the limits and assumptions of traditional ways of understanding the past, this volume explores Indigenous perspectives on rock art. By bringing together history, archaeology, and Indigenous artistic practice, the book offers new insights into the medium of rock art and demonstrates the limits of academic methods and approaches.

204pp

Dec. 2024 9781009523318 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009523356

The Archaeology of Han China

Yao, Alice | University of Chicago

Drawing on new archaeological finds from the last two decades, this book offers an up-to-date overview of the archaeology of the Han Empire. It uses material culture to showcase the range of institutions and social actors behind the expansion of China’s first empire.

Cambridge World Archaeology

408pp

Nov. 2024 9781316636435 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99

Nov. 2024 9781107185555 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781316884508

The Archaeology of Southern Africa

Second edition

Mitchell, Peter | St. Hugh’s College, Oxford University

In this new edition, Peter Mitchell provides a comprehensive synthesis of Southern Africa’s archaeology over more than 3 million years. It includes new work that addresses pre-colonial states and the transformations wrought by European colonialism, emphasising Indigenous agency and feeding into efforts to decolonise the discipline.

Cambridge World Archaeology

584pp

Jun. 2024 9781009324755 Paperback GBP 34.99 / USD 44.99

Jun. 2024 9781009324731 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00

eISBN 9781009324724

The Origins of Agriculture in the Bronze Age Indus Civilization

Bates, Jennifer | Seoul National University

The Indus civilization in South Asia (c. 3200 –1500BC) was one of the most important Old World Bronze Age cultures. This study offers new insights into the Indus civilisation through an archaeobotanical reconstruction of its environment. It synthesizes the available data on genetics, archaeobotany, and archaeology.

398pp

Dec. 2024 9781009424448 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00

eISBN 9781009424424

Archaeology of Europe, Near and Middle East

Aegeomania

Modern Reimaginings of the Aegean Bronze Age

Momigliano, Nicoletta | University of Bristol

This Element provides an overview of Aegeomania: the fascination, sometimes bordering on the obsession, with the Aegean Bronze Age, which manifests itself in the uses of Aegean Bronze Age material culture to create something new in various cultural practices. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core. Elements in The Aegean Bronze Age 75pp

Nov. 2024 9781009319096 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Nov. 2024 9781009538930 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009319089

Archaeology of the Roman Conquest

Tracing the Legions, Reclaiming the Conquered Fernández-Götz, Manuel | University of Edinburgh

This Element provides a current of the archaeology of the Roman conquest, combining new theoretical and methodological approaches. It explores different types of material evidence for the Roman wars of conquest using four case studies. Elements in the Archaeology of Europe 112pp

Apr. 2024 9781009181990 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Apr. 2024 9781009507295 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009182003

Long-Distance Exchange and Inter-Regional Economies

Murray, Sarah C. | University of Toronto

This Element is focused on the long-distance exchanges that connected people in the Aegean with the wider Mediterranean and European world, especially focusing on interactions that may be classified as ‘economic’.

Elements in The Aegean Bronze Age 84pp

Jan. 2024 9781009319171 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Jan. 2024 9781009478595 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009319188

The Archaeology of Pastoralism, Mobility, and Society

Beyond the Grass Paradigm

Hammer, Emily | University of Pennsylvania

Emily Hammer’s book introduces a new framework for studying pastoralism, challenging outdated views that render herders “invisible” in history. She advocates for direct archaeological data and rigorous engagement with ethnography to reveal diverse pastoral practices, breaking down rigid classifications and highlighting pastoralists’ roles in shaping complex societies.

454pp

Mar. 2025 9781009561655 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 155.00

eISBN 9781009561709

The Bell Beaker Phenomenon in Europe

A Harmony of Difference

Vander Linden, Marc | Bournemouth University

This Element offers a synthetic account of the available evidence structured on a regional basis. The central thesis developed here is that the Bell Beaker Phenomenon can adequately be described as a metapopulation, a concept borrowed from population ecology. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Elements in the Archaeology of Europe

96pp

Ancient Southeast Mesoamerica

Political Economies without the State Urban, Patricia A. | Kenyon College, Ohio Ancient Southeast Mesoamerica explores the distinctive development and political history of the region from its earliest inhabitants up to the Spanish conquest. It demonstrates how inhabitants from different locales were organized within a matrix of social networks, and how they mobilized the assets that they needed to achieve their own goals.

Case Studies in Early Societies

410pp

Mar. 2024 9781009496865 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Mar. 2024 9781009496889 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009496872

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Urban Life in the Distant Past

The Prehistory of Energized Crowding

Smith, Michael E. | Arizona State University

This book is for professionals, students, and general readers interested in ancient cities. It takes a transdisciplinary and scientific approach and presents a series of 30 case studies of early cities. Readers will find descriptions of specific ancient settlements, set in a thematically-organized novel framework.

Urban Archaeological Pasts

336pp

Aug. 2024 9781009249003 Paperback GBP 27.99 / USD 36.99

eISBN 9781009249027

Archaeology of the Americas

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Ancient South America

Second edition

Bruhns, Karen Olsen | San Francisco State University Ancient South America, 2nd edition is completely revised and updated to reflect archaeological discoveries and insights made in the past three decades. It features the full panorama of the South American past from the first inhabitants to the European invasions.

484pp

May 2024 9780521682497 Paperback GBP 33.99 / USD 43.99

May 2024 9780521863858 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9780511843006

Mar. 2024 9781316624890 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99

Mar. 2024 9781107172746 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

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The Archaeology of the Pampas and Patagonia

Politis, Gustavo G. | Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires

In this book, Gustavo Politis and Luis Borrero explore the archaeology and ethnography of the indigenous people who inhabited Argentina’s pampas and the Patagonia region from the end of the Pleistocene until the 20th century.

Cambridge World Archaeology

336pp

Feb. 2024 9780521768214 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9780511993251

Classical Archaeology

Cretan Hieroglyphic

Civitillo, Matilde | Università degli Studi della Campania ‘Luigi Vanvitelli’

Comprehensive account of the earliest undeciphered script from the Aegean, indeed the earliest writing in Europe, which was used on Crete nearly 4000 years ago. Leading experts analyses it through an array of lenses, from archaeology and linguistics to cognitive studies and decipherment theory.

Cambridge Classical Studies

352pp 46 b/w illus. 36 tables

Oct. 2024 9781009490108 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00

eISBN 9781009490122

Cypro-Minoan and Its Writers

At Home and Overseas

Donnelly, Cassandra M. | University of Cyprus Writers of Cypro-Minoan, the undeciphered Late Bronze Age script of Cyprus, borrowed and transformed writing practices from their neighbors and invented new ones. This Element explores the role of writing and trade and introduces readers to the Cypro-Minoan script, its history, and approaches to its decipherment.

Elements in Writing in the Ancient World 75pp

Dec. 2024 9781009381802 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Dec. 2024 9781009517294 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009381840

Greek Iron Age Pottery in

the Mediterranean World

Tracing Provenance and Socioeconomic Ties

Gimatzidis, Stefanos | Austrian Archaeological Institute, Vienna

Greek pottery is the most visible archaeological evidence of social and economic relations between the Aegean and the Mediterranean during the Iron Age. This book presents a holistic study of the earliest Greek pottery exchanged in Greek, Phoenician, and other native Mediterranean cultural contexts from multidisciplinary perspectives.

544pp

Jun. 2024 9781009474856 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 155.00

eISBN 9781009474825

Minoan Zoomorphic Culture

Between Bodies and Things

Anderson, Emily S. K. | The Johns Hopkins University, Maryland

Minoan renderings of animals are some of the most vibrant art of the ancient Mediterranean.

Working with current developments in materialculture studies, animal studies, and ancient art, Anderson examines these objects not as mere representations but as uniquely real embodiments of animals that made powerful contributions to sociocultural life.

430pp

The Temple of Artemis at Sardis

The Hellenistic Temple Tradition in Asia Minor Yegul, Fikret | University of California, Santa Barbara Offering a close archaeological analysis of the Temple of Artemis at Sardis, this book provides new insights into its unique design; the changing nature of religious and cult practices at the temple; the relationship to its setting and benefactors. It places this extraordinary temple in the larger context of Greek and Roman religious architecture.

350pp

Jun. 2024 9781009452038 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00

eISBN 9781009452045

Mycenaean Civilization

Vassilikou, Dora | The Archaeological Society at Athens

The first English edition of a complete introduction to Mycenaean life and archaeology by one of Greece’s most distinguished archaeologists, the Greek editions of which have been widely acclaimed. Discusses the main Mycenaean centres, the palaces and kingship, social structure, writing, religion, foreign relations, art, and architecture.

Classical Scholarship in Translation

744pp 50 b/w illus. 290 colour illus. 20 maps

Mar. 2025 9781009493123 Hardback GBP 150.00 / USD 195.00

eISBN 9781009493154

Sicily and the Hellenistic

Mediterranean World Economy and Administration during the Reign of Hieron II

Walthall, D. Alex | University of Texas, Austin

This book investigates the royal administration of Hieron II (r. 269-215 BCE), the Syracusan monarch who leveraged Sicily’s agricultural resources to build a flourishing kingdom that played an outsized role in the political and cultural affairs of the Western Mediterranean.

414pp

Feb. 2024 9781316511053 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9781009036474

Mar. 2025 9781009532167 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00

eISBN 9781009532143

Medieval Archaeology

Towns and Commerce in Viking-Age

Scandinavia

Kalmring, Sven | Zentrum für Baltische und Skandinavische Archäologie (ZBSA), Schleswig, Germany

This volume offers an interdisciplinary and geographically wide-ranging approach to understanding the emergence of towns and commerce in Viking-age Scandinavia and their eventual demise by the end of the period. It tracks the diverging characteristics of urban communities against the background of traditional social structures in the Viking world.

299pp

Jan. 2024 9781009298094 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

Jan. 2024 9781009298056 Hardback GBP 70.00 / USD 90.00

eISBN 9781009298070

Prehistory

The Peopling of the Caucasus

Early Human Settlement at the Crossroads of Continents

Yardumian, Aram | Bryn Athyn College, Pennsylvania Based on analysis of archaeological site reports, linguistic relationships, and genetic data first published in different languages, this synthesis of the latest evidence sheds light on the peopling process of the Caucasus from the Upper Palaeolithic to the Iron Age. It will appeal to students in anthropology, history, Indo-European studies.

350pp

Dec. 2024 9781009520232 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009520201

Art Architecture

The Architectural Image and Early Modern Science

Wendel Dietterlin and the Rise of Empirical Investigation

Petcu, Elizabeth J. | University of Edinburgh

The Architectural Image and Early Modern Science: Wendel Dietterlin and the Rise of Empirical Investigation explores how architectural media came to propel scientific discourse between the eras of Dürer and of Rubens.It is also the first English-language book to feature the polymathic, eccentric, and longmisunderstood Artist Wendel Dietterlin.

476pp

Dec. 2024 9781009422536 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 155.00 eISBN 9781009422529

Villa and Palace in the Venetian Renaissance

The Palladian House Between Country and City Heinrichs, Johanna D. | University of Kentucky

Johanna D. Heinrichs offers the first comprehensive study of the Villa Pisani in this book, providing a critical analysis of Palladio’s hybrid design, the villa’s original setting and uses, and the preoccupations of its patron. Heinrichs argues that the Villa Pisani served as the owner’s principal residence.

375pp

Dec. 2024 9781009492232 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00

eISBN 9781009492256

Western Art

Art, Knowledge, and Papal Politics in Medieval Rome

Interpreting the Aula Gotica Fresco Cycle at Santi Quattro Coronati

Hauknes, Marius B. | University of Notre Dame, Indiana

This volume offers a thorough investigation of the fresco cycle-which include allegorical representations of the liberal arts, the virtues and vices, the seasons, the signs of the zodiac, and the months of the year-in relation to the papacy’s growing interest in fields of worldly knowledge such as music, time, astrology, and medicine.

373pp

Leon Battista Alberti in Exile

Tracing the Path to the First Modern Book on Painting

Weller, Peter

Leon Battista Alberti emerged in 1435 with De pictura, the modern era’s earliest discourse on Western art. Peter Weller challenges the popular notion that De pictura’s compendium on lines, points, mathematics, composition, narrative, and portraiture is primarily the result of Alberti’s return to Florence and his short exposure to its visual art.

400pp

Jan. 2025 9781009548663 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00

eISBN 9781009548632

Reforming Art in Renaissance Venice

Lillywhite, Marie-Louise | University of Oxford

This book considers the impact of religious reform on the devotional art and architecture of sixteenthcentury Venice. Interrogating early modern censorship, artistic liberty, notions of decorum tied to depictions of the body, and the role of sacred images in the shaping of local identity, it showcases a study through which to explore these themes.

432pp

Dec. 2024 9781009557498 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 155.00

eISBN 9781009557474

Style and Meaning in Late Antique Art

Ancients and Moderns on Seeing and Thinking

Bassett, Sarah | Indiana University, Bloomington Style and Meaning in Late Antique Art: Ancients and Moderns on Seeing and Thinking proposes a new approach to the enduring question of how best to see and understand the art of late antiquity.

257pp

Jan. 2025 9781009535762 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00

eISBN 9781009535779

Early Modern Print Media

and the Art of Observation Training the Literate Eye

Leitch, Stephanie A. | Florida State University

Illustrations in the now little-known genres of cosmographies and physiognomies coached early modern readers to make visual decisions. This book unpacks the visual strategies that aimed to develop both the literate eye of the reader and the sovereignty of images in the early modern world.

360pp

Apr. 2024 9781009444521 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00

eISBN 9781009444491

Dec. 2024 9781009466325 Hardback GBP 30.00 / USD 39.99

eISBN 9781009466356

The Mirror of Art

Painting and Reflection in Early Modern Visual Culture

Warwick, Genevieve | University of Edinburgh Genevieve Warwick brings a dual focus between art-making and art-viewing through an exploration of the early modern elision of the picture plane with the mirror-image. She considers the specular configuration of Renaissance painting from various thematic points of view and offers a fully interdisciplinary analysis of the mirror analogy. 440pp

Nov. 2024 9781009448802 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00

eISBN 9781009448833

Classical studies

Ancient history

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A Historical and Topographical Guide to the Geography of Strabo

Roller, Duane W. | Ohio State University

The Geography of Strabo is the primary source for the history of Greek geography. This Guide provides the first English commentary on this long and difficult text, and serves as a companion to the author’s The Geography of Strabo, the first English translation of the work in many years.

1185pp 3 maps

Feb. 2024 9781316632291 Paperback GBP 44.99 / USD 58.99

eISBN 9781316848203

Amazons

The History Behind the Legend

Braund, David | University of Exeter

The Amazon myth flattered the Greeks who had created it. This was a myth for their maledominated society. Yet it highlighted the power of women too – even on the battlefield. This vibrant new book shows how the Amazons passed from myth into history, while revealing the truth behind the legends.

250pp 30 colour illus.

Apr. 2025 9781108834490 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99

eISBN 9781108993418

Athens and Boiotia

Interstate Relations in the Archaic and Classical Periods

van Wijk, Roy | Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany

Are Greek neighbours natural enemies in the Archaic and Classical period? This book uses literary, archaeological and epigraphic sources to reveal that the neighbours Attica and Boiotia had a more complex and positive relationship than has been assumed until now. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

478pp 16 colour illus. 15 maps

Centaurs and

Snake-Kings

Hybrids and the Greek Imagination

McInerney, Jeremy | University of Pennsylvania

Combining scholarship with readability, Jeremy McInerney’s wide-ranging, stimulating new book uncovers the complexity and potency of ancient hybridity. Hybrids, McInerney reveals, confuse categories and so challenge categorical thinking and underlying certainties. Classical Greek hybrids force us to ask ourselves what separates humans from animals.

368pp 75 colour illus.

Jul. 2024 9781009459105 Hardback GBP 30.00 / USD 39.99

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Cicero

The Man and His Works

Dyck, Andrew R. | University of California, Los Angeles Introduces students of Classics and Ancient History and educated general readers to the life and works of Cicero. By detailed analysis of his works in relation to his life, it aims to draw a more comprehensive picture of the man and his personality than previous biographies provide.

1012pp

Mar. 2025 9781107085640 Hardback GBP 150.00 / USD 195.00

eISBN 9781316084342

Decolonizing

Roman Imperialism

The Study of Rome, Romanization, and the Postcolonial Lens

Lambert, Danielle Hyeonah | Royal Holloway, University of London

Jan. 2024 9781009340595 Hardback GBP 115.00 / USD 150.00

eISBN 9781009340571

Athens, 403 BC

A Democracy in Crisis?

Azoulay, Vincent | Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris

Tells the gripping stories of ten individuals, from Socrates to the priestess Lysimakhe and the former slave Gerys, to reassess the period when democracy was abolished in Classical Athens and then restored in 403 BC after a bitter civil war. This is a tale with lessons for our tormented present.

Classical Scholarship in Translation

400pp 2 b/w illus. 3 maps

Jan. 2025 9781009490962 Hardback GBP 40.00 / USD 49.99

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Provides an intellectual genealogy of the debate over the paradigm of ‘Romanization’ developed by Haverfield in 1905 and subsequently subject to multiple attempts at revisionism. Explores the challenge posted to Roman historians by postcolonialism and invites readers to rethink the legacy of ancient Roman imperialism.

238pp

Oct. 2024 9781009491020 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009491044

Freed Persons in the Roman World

Status, Diversity, and Representation

Bell, Sinclair W. | Northern Illinois University Drawing on literary, epigraphic, and archaeological evidence, this book provides cases studies that test the various ways in which juridical categories and normative discourses shaped the social and cultural landscape in which freed people lived. It addresses the challenge of studying Roman freed persons on the basis of highly fragmentary sources.

308pp

May 2024 9781009438537 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

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Freedom and Power in Classical Athens

Campa, Naomi T. | University of Texas, Austin

Using political theory, sociological theory, and philology, this book develops a new historically sensitive account of democratic freedom and power. The freedom of a citizen empowered him to do ‘whatever he wished,’ with positive and negative consequences at all levels of Athenian democratic ideology and practice.

212pp

Apr. 2024 9781009221436 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009221443

Geographers of the Ancient Greek World

Selected Texts in Translation

Volume 1

Shipley, D. Graham J. | University of Leicester

A collection of the thirty-six most important but less well-known Greek geographical texts in new translations, many of them never before published in English, with up-to-date introductions and notes. This volume will promote a better understanding of the whole of ancient Geography from early Greece to the late Roman period.

664pp

Apr. 2024 9781009194204 Hardback GBP 110.00 / USD 145.00

eISBN 9781009194211

Geographers of the Ancient Greek World

Selected Texts in Translation

Volume 2

Shipley, D. Graham J. | University of Leicester

576pp

Apr. 2024 9781009184229 Hardback GBP 110.00 / USD 145.00

eISBN 9781009184236

Geographers of the Ancient Greek World 2

Volume Hardback Set

Selected Texts in Translation

Shipley, D. Graham J. | University of Leicester

1240pp

Hannibal and Scipio

Parallel Lives

Hornblower, Simon

The intersecting lives of the great CArthaginian general Hannibal and his Roman adversary Scipio led to one of the most fateful rivalries of antiquity. This absorbing joint biography shows not only how their careers illuminate one another but also how they lived through momentous times which both helped to shape.

528pp 2 b/w illus. 4 maps

Sep. 2024 9781009453356 Hardback GBP 35.00 / USD 45.99

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Hellenistic Athletes

Agonistic Cultures and Self-Presentation

Scharff, Sebastian | Università degli Studi di Trento, Italy

Approaches Hellenistic sport from the perspective of the athletes and horse owners and their sponsors. Analyzing victory poems as commissioned work, the book reveals the wider social and political impact of athletic achievements at the level of the polis, the region and the empire.

384pp 8 colour illus.

Mar. 2024 9781009199957 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00

eISBN 9781009199926

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Isis in a Global Empire

Greek Identity through Egyptian Religion in Roman Greece

Mazurek, Lindsey A. | 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.

300pp

Apr. 2024 9781009174893 2 Hardback books GBP 180.00 / USD 235.00

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Nov. 2024 9781009016902 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99

eISBN 9781009032209

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Kellis

A Roman-Period Village in Egypt’s Dakhleh Oasis

Hope, Colin A. | 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.

514pp

Feb. 2024 9781009477512 Paperback GBP 32.99 / USD 42.99

eISBN 9780511844362

Place and Performance in Ancient Greece, Rome, and China

Beck, Hans | Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany

Examines the construction of space and place in early China and the ancient Mediterranean through the lens of performances conducted in a wide range of specific locations, such as roads, gardens, neighbourhoods, hydraulic infrastructures, funerary performance, spectacles at court, and the everyday display of authority through clothing and fashion.

Antiquity in Global Context

448pp 6 b/w illus. 8 colour illus. 10 maps

Dec. 2024 9781009390026 Hardback GBP 115.00 / USD 150.00

eISBN 9781009389983

Popular Culture and the End of Antiquity in Southern Gaul, c. 400–550

Grig, Lucy | University of Edinburgh

Sheds fresh light on the transformation of the ancient world, focusing on the social, cultural and religious history of late antique southern Gaul and employing the lens of popular culture.

280pp

Mar. 2024 9781108491440 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781108868792

Religion and the Making of Roman Africa

Votive Stelae, Traditions, and Empire McCArty, Matthew M. | University of British Columbia, Vancouver

The first English-language account of religious change in Roman North Africa, challenging 150 years of colonial scholarship and offering new paths forward for studying and decolonizing the archaeology and history of Roman provinces.

482pp 32 b/w illus. 46 colour illus. 13 maps

Nov. 2024 9781107020184 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 155.00

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Senses, Cognition, and Ritual Experience in the Roman World

Misic, Blanka | Champlain College, Lennoxville

Transcending conventional script-based approaches to rituals, readers are guided into an accessible and diverse realm of embodied religious experiences. Cognitive and sensory approaches connect mind (cognition) and body (senses), exploring a variety of ritual experiences (pagan & Christian) in the Roman world.

Ancient Religion and Cognition

242pp 8 b/w illus. 17 colour illus. 1 map

Jan. 2024 9781009355544 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009355513

Slavery and Dependence in Ancient Egypt

Sources in Translation

Rowlandson, Jane L. | King’s College London

Aimed at students, instructors and general readers interested in the experiences of enslaved persons in ancient Egypt, from the Old Kingdom to the early Islamic period. Provides nearly three hundred primary sources in translation, arranged both chronologically and thematically and accompanied by contextualising introductions.

535pp

Mar. 2024 9781107681491 Paperback GBP 39.99 / USD 49.99

Mar. 2024 9781107032972 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 150.00

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Slavery in the Late Antique World, 150 – 700 CE

de Wet, Chris L.

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.

379pp

Jan. 2024 9781108699983 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99

eISBN 9781108568159

Soldiers, Wages, and the Hellenistic Economies

Van Regenmortel, Charlotte | University of Liverpool

With new assessments and translations of key documents, Charlotte Van Regenmortel studies the changing nature of paid service in the royal armies of the late Classical and early Hellenistic periods, arguing for the emergence of military wage labour as the principal stimulus to the economic transformation of the Hellenistic age.

276pp 6 maps 10 tables

May 2024 9781009408981 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009408967

The Athenian Funeral Oration

After Nicole Loraux

Pritchard, David M. | University of Queensland

A funeral speech was delivered almost every year in classical Athens. Forty years ago, Loraux showed how important it was for maintaining Athenian self-identity. But her famous book left many questions unanswered. In answering them, this volume puts the study of war in Athenian culture on a completely new footing.

554pp 21 colour illus. 3 tables

Feb. 2024 9781009413084 Hardback GBP 115.00 / USD 150.00

eISBN 9781009413053

The Body Politic in Roman Political Thought

Mebane, Julia | Indiana University, Bloomington

How did Roman Republican writers use the metaphor of the body politic to respond to the downfall of the Republic and implementation of sole rule? This book’s political approach to Latin literature will appeal broadly to audiences in philology, history, and political thought.

264pp

Feb. 2024 9781009389297 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009389334

The Cambridge Companion to Alexander the Great

Ogden, Daniel | University of Exeter

A lucid introduction to the life and career of one of the most significant figures in world history. A geographically articulated biography is followed by studies of the key themes of his campaign and analyses of ways in which the king’s image was presented and manipulated in antiquity itself.

Cambridge Companions to the Ancient World 612pp

Jan. 2024 9781108744676 Paperback GBP 34.99 / USD 44.99

Jan. 2024 9781108840996 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 135.00

eISBN 9781108888349

The Cambridge Comparative History of Ancient Law

Humfress, Caroline | University of St Andrews, Scotland

The first volume of its kind in the field of comparative ancient legal history. Written in an accessible and clear-cut style by a collaborative team of world-renowned scholars, it provides general and specialist audiences with a fresh, original, framework for exploring key themes and concepts in ancient law and history.

744pp

May 2024 9781107035164 Hardback GBP 150.00 / USD 195.00

eISBN 9781009452243

The Colonate in the Roman Empire Sirks, Boudewijn | University of Oxford

A comprehensive reassessment of the legal aspects of the colonate, situating the phenomenon within its socio-economic context. It examines afresh two critical sources, the Theodosian and Justinian Codes, and is an invaluable resource for students and scholars of Roman law and the agricultural and social history of late antiquity.

360pp

Jan. 2024 9781009172608 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00

eISBN 9781009172585

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The Falls of Rome Crises, Resilience, and Resurgence in Late Antiquity

Salzman, Michele Renee | 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.

463pp

Sep. 2024 9781107529090 Paperback GBP 21.99 / USD 27.99

eISBN 9781316275924

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The Field Armies of the East Roman Empire, 361–630

Kaldellis, Anthony | University of Chicago

Presenting a bold re-interpretation of the history of the east Roman field armies that corrects longstanding mistakes in the interpretation and weighing of evidence (especially the Notitia dignitatum), this volume will be of critical interest to students and scholars of late Roman history, and particularly administrative and military affairs.

227pp 5 maps

Jul. 2024 9781009296939 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781009296892

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The Nero-Antichrist

Founding and Fashioning a Paradigm

Malik, Shushma | Roehampton University, London

Refutes the commonly-held perception that Nero should be understood as the Antichrist figure in the Bible, and argues instead that this paradigm was a product of late antiquity. The paradigm’s success facilitated its revival in the nineteenth century against the backdrop of the era’s fin-de-siècle anxieties and religious controversies.

Classics after Antiquity

244pp

Feb. 2024 9781108798358 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781108868921

The Nile Delta

Histories from Antiquity to the Modern Period

Blouin, Katherine | University of Toronto

The first volume on the history of the Nile Delta to cover the c.7000 years from the Predynastic period to the twentieth century. This was and remains the most fertile, populated and strategic part of Egypt and the topics covered range from settlement and water management to tourism and archaeology.

676pp 15 b/w illus. 35 colour illus. 10 maps

Feb. 2024 9781009175142 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 155.00

eISBN 9781009175166

The Remarkable Life, Death, and Afterlife of an Ordinary Roman A Social History

HArtnett, Jeremy | Wabash College, Indiana What was life like for an ordinary Roman? In this book, Jeremy Hartnett offers a detailed view of an average Roman, an individual named Flavius Agricola. His funerary monument, adorned with a 15-line poetic epitaph and a life-sized marble image of the deceased reclining at table, takes readers to fascinating corners of everyday Roman life.

300pp

Nov. 2024 9781009536097 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 29.99

Nov. 2024 9781009536066 Hardback GBP 70.00 / USD 90.00

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The Roman Provinces, 300 BCE–300 CE

Using Coins as Sources

Burnett, Andrew | British Museum, London Makes a complex subject easy for instructors and students to understand and shows how the provincial coinage can illustrate many aspects of Roman Republican and Imperial history. Includes over two hundred illustrations of coins with detailed captions, so providing a convenient sourcebook of the most important items.

Guides to the Coinage of the Ancient World 406pp 190 colour illus. 10 maps

Nov. 2024 9781009420105 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99

Nov. 2024 9781009420136 Hardback GBP 99.99 / USD 130.00

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The Roman Republic and Political Culture

German Scholarship in Translation

Russell, Amy | Brown University, Rhode Island

Makes available in English translation a series of hugely influential articles about Roman Republican politics which were all originally published in German. Three new essays discuss the history of German scholarship on the Republic and its interactions with Anglophone research, and each piece is situated in its intellectual context.

Classical Scholarship in Translation

450pp

Dec. 2024 9781009515108 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00

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The Ruins of Rome

A Cultural History

Mayer, Roland | King’s College London Rome’s ruins were little regarded before tourists, architects and painters in the Renaissance found them both historically interesting and aesthetically attractive. This prompted their conservation, restoration and presentation over the centuries as modern visitors see them now. This fascinating book will captivate all lovers of ‘the Eternal City’.

376pp 200 colour illus.

Dec. 2024 9781009430104 Hardback GBP 30.00 / USD 39.99

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The

Trojan Horse and Other Stories

Ten Ancient Creatures That Make Us Human Kindt, Julia | University of Sydney

What makes us human? What, if anything, sets us apArt from all other creatures? Julia Kindt unpacks ten ancient stories of marvelous mythical beings to explore bold new ways of thinking about humanity that reach from antiquity to the present and ultimately challenge our understanding of who we really are.

380pp 35 colour illus.

Jan. 2024 9781009411387 Hardback GBP 25.00 / USD 34.99

eISBN 9781009411332

Tiberius and the Charisma of Augustus

The Principate Enshrined

Edwards, Rebecca

Drawing upon the work of sociologists and political scientists, the book uses the lens of the routinization of charisma to demonstrate how Tiberius’ reverence for Augustus and preservation of his policies enacted lasting political change and enshrined the principate as a permanent institution.

300pp 13 colour illus.

Why the Ancient Greeks Matter

The Problematic Miracle that was Greece

Netz, Reviel | Stanford University, California

The ancient Greeks were consequential – not by creating ‘timeless values’, but by questioning them. This book is for anyone interested in the ancient world and its modern meaning and follows the history of science and of the literary canon to reveal how the Greeks set off a train of progress.

200pp 2 b/w illus.

Jan. 2025 9781009505598 Hardback GBP 19.99 / USD 25.00

eISBN 9781009505604

Women and the Army in the Roman Empire

Brice, Lee L. | Western Illinois University

The lives of women associated with the army provide an avenue for better understanding women in antiquity and the complex society of the Roman Empire. This volume draws on archaeological and textual evidence and employs dynamic perspectives to shed light on an important but overlooked part of the community.

360pp

Nov. 2024 9781107068575 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00

eISBN 9781107705982

Ancient philosophy

‘Anonymus Iamblichi’

Sørensen, Anders Dahl | University of Copenhagen ‘Anonymus Iamblichi’ is a mysterious but crucial figure in the history of Greek philosophy with a strikingly modern approach to the analysis of society and economy. This new commented edition of the fragments will be a standard work of reference for readers interested in early Greek moral and political thought.

Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries, 68 255pp

Nov. 2024 9781009476676 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009476713

Feb. 2025 9781009538794 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00

eISBN 9781009538831

Conceptualising Concepts in Greek Philosophy

Betegh, Gábor | University of Cambridge

A collection of seminal philosophical studies on ancient Greek approaches to the various notions of concept, exploring the early history of conceptual theory and its associated philosophical debates from the end of the archaic age to the end of antiquity.

506pp

May 2024 9781009369572 Hardback GBP 115.00 / USD 150.00

eISBN 9781009369596

Contemplation and Society in Plato and Aristotle

Scott, Dominic | University of Oxford

This Element explores the value Plato and Aristotle thought of intellectual contemplation in the happiness of the ideal state, examining the Republic, Nicomachean Ethics, and Politics. It questions whether civic happiness is an aggregate of individual happiness or an organic quality arising from state structure.

Elements in Ancient Philosophy

74pp

Dec. 2024 9781009372596 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Dec. 2024 9781009539326 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009372602

Deification in Classical Greek Philosophy and the Bible

Murphy, James Bernard | DArtmouth College, New Hampshire

The goal of human life, according to Plato, Aristotle, and the Bible, is to become as much like god as possible. This book, written in vivid and lucid English, illuminates Greek philosophy by showing how it grows out of ancient Greek religion and how it compares to biblical religion.

378pp

Jun. 2024 9781009392921 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00

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Plotinus on the Contemplation of the Intelligible World

Faces of Being and Mirrors of Intellect

Stróżyński, Mateusz | Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, Poland

This study offers an experiential and practical way of understanding Plotinus’ thought and philosophy through a focus on the act of contemplation.

Mateusz Stróżyński argues that contemplation, or direct seeing of the principles of reality, is not merely a part of Plotinus’ thought, but rather a significant dimension of it.

Cambridge Studies in Religion and Platonism

382pp

Nov. 2024 9781009494861 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00

eISBN 9781009494854

Porphyry’s Commentary on Ptolemy’s Harmonics

Barker, Andrew | University of Birmingham

The first English translation of Porphyry’s Commentary on Ptolemy’s Harmonics, accompanied by a revised Greek text, an introduction and substantial annotation. The work deserves close attention for its remarkable mixture of philosophical, musicological and arithmetical reasoning, and for its special place in the ancient commentary tradition.

589pp 30 b/w illus.

Feb. 2024 9781009490863 Paperback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

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Reconstructing Empedocles’ Thought

Ferella, Chiara | Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Germany

Argues for viewing Empedocles’ work as a unified whole of religion and physics by showing how rebirth is a positive doctrine which underlies his cosmic system. Essential for all scholars of early Greek philosophy, but will also appeal to those of epic poetry, Plato and Pythagoras studies, and ancient religion.

412pp

Feb. 2024 9781009392570 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00

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Stoic Eros

Shogry, Simon | Brasenose College, University of Oxford

This Element shows the Stoics’ wider theoretical commitments in ethics, epistemology, aesthetics, and psychology. It concludes with an assessment of how the Stoic erotic ideal fares in relation to our intuitions about the non-egoistic and pArticularized nature of love.

Elements in Ancient Philosophy

76pp

Feb. 2024 9781009017718 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Feb. 2024 9781009500814 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

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Suspension of Belief

Vazquez, Daniel | Mary Immaculate College

This Element offers a systematic outline of ancient conceptions and uses of suspension of belief while engaging with contemporary philosophy. It examines the Academic and Pyrrhonian sceptics and some of their arguments and strategies for suspension and includes the use and conditions for suspension of belief in other philosophers.

Elements in Ancient Philosophy

78pp

May 2024 9781009013994 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

May 2024 9781009500739 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009028981

The Architecture of the Science of Living Beings

Aristotle and Theophrastus on Animals and Plants

Falcon, Andrea | Concordia University, Montréal

The first book-length treatment of Aristotle and Theophrastus’ achievements in their separate but coordinated studies of animals and plants. It explores their original motivations for articulating their investigation of life into separate studies of animals and plants at a time when our reliance on these categories is being challenged. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

270pp

Jun. 2024 9781009426343 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009426374

The

Cambridge Companion to Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations

Sellars, John | Royal Holloway, University of London

The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius is consistently one of the best-selling philosophy books among the general public. Here leading experts introduce the work’s central philosophical themes and explain the main Stoic ideas standing behind Marcus’ notebook reflections. The volume will be useful for non-specialists interested in ancient philosophy.

Cambridge Companions to Literature 344pp

Mar. 2025 9781108940627 Paperback

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The Origins of Philosophy in Ancient Greece and Ancient India

A Historical Comparison

Seaford, Richard | University of Exeter

Locates the origins and early form of Indian and Greek philosophy, and the striking similarities between them, in their entire societal and religious context. The cities of Greece and northern India were distinctive by virtue of being pervasively monetised, which was a central factor in their metaphysical transformation.

385pp

Jul. 2024 9781108730815 Paperback GBP 27.99 / USD 36.99

eISBN 9781108583701

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The Roots of Platonism

The Origins and Chief Features of a Philosophical Tradition

Dillon, John | Trinity College Dublin

Explores the process by which the intellectual speculations pursued by Plato in the Academy assumed the nature of a philosophical system, Platonism. Focuses on a number of key issues, such as monism versus dualism, the metaphysical underpinnings of ethical theory, and the theory of Forms.

119pp

Classical Art, Architecture

Divine Music in Archaic and Classical Greek Art

Seeing the Songs of the Gods

Laferrière, Carolyn | Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey

This book examines Athenian vase-paintings and reliefs that depict the gods most frequently shown as musicians, showing how these images could visually suggest the sounds of the music the gods made. It brings together formal analysis together with literary and archaeological evidence to reconstruct the musical culture of Athens.

302pp

Feb. 2024 9781108446884 Paperback GBP 15.99 / USD 20.99

eISBN 9781108584906

Vice in Ancient Philosophy

Plato and Aristotle on Moral Ignorance and Corruption of Character

Nielsen, Karen Margrethe | University of Oxford

This Element considers injustice and lawlessness in Plato and Aristotle. StArting with Socrates’ paradoxical claim that ‘tyrants and orators do just about nothing they want to do’. It yields new insights into ancient Greek ethics and moral psychology, as well as surprising perspectives on contemporary debates.

Elements in Ancient Philosophy

74pp

Feb. 2024 9781009315944 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009315906

Recycling the Roman Villa

Material Salvage and the Medieval Circular Economy

Munro, Beth | University of Toronto

Beth Munro offers a retrospective study of the material value of and deconstruction processes at villas. She explores the technical properties of materials that were most frequently recycled, glass, metals, and limestone, the craftspeople who undertook this work, as well as the economic and culture drivers of recycling.

278pp

Feb. 2024 9781108713436 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Feb. 2024 9781009468039 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

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Xenophon

Volume 48

Atack, Carol | Newnham College, Cambridge

Xenophon of Athens wrote on a variety of subjects including history, biography, leadership and philosophical dialogue. This book explores the coherent worldview underlying these apparently disparate works, placing Xenophon’s thought in its historical context and making him an important witness to the intellectual life of fourth-century BCE Greece.

New Surveys in the Classics

176pp

Oct. 2024 9781009475587 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009475617

Religious Architecture and Roman Expansion

Temples, Terracottas, and the Shaping of Identity, 3rd-1st c. BCE

Crawford-Brown, Sophie | Rice University, Houston Religious Architecture and Roman Expansion uses architectural terracottas as a lens for examining the changing landscape of central Italy during the period of Roman military expansion. It investigates the interactions between colonies and indigenous communities, asking why conquerors might visually emulate the conquered.

350pp

Jun. 2024 9781009536981 Paperback GBP 17.99 / USD 30.99

eISBN 9781009536998

Jan. 2025 9781009445115 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009445122

Roman Identity and Lived Religion

Baptismal Art in Late Antiquity

Lenk, Stefanie | Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany

Demonstrates, by examining the decoration of Mediterranean baptisteries from the fifth to the seventh century, that Roman popular culture had a strong impact on how common Christians defined what it meant to them to be Christian. Important for scholars of ancient history, late antique Christianity and art history.

Greek Culture in the Roman World

348pp 72 b/w illus. 31 colour illus. 12 maps

Jan. 2025 9781009408653 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

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The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Late Antique Art and Archaeology

Volume 1 Architecture, Artifacts and Evidence

Rutgers, Leonard V. | Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands

A wide-ranging guide, written by leading scholars in archaeology, architecture and art history, which reviews and explores past and current knowledge of the multiple themes that comprise the social, cultural, religious and economic landscapes of the late Roman to early medieval world.

1000pp

Jun. 2025 9781009535106 Hardback GBP 150.00 / USD 195.00

eISBN 9781009535090

The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Late Antique Art and Archaeology

Volume 2 Settlements, Regions, Peoples and Debates

Rutgers, Leonard V. | Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands

1000pp

Corpus of Latin Texts on Papyrus

Volume 1 Introduction and Part I

Scappaticcio, Maria Chiara | Università degli Studi di Napoli ‘Federico II’

A comprehensive, up-to-date and unique reference-tool in six volumes, gathering nearly 1500 Latin texts on papyrus. This corpus includes literary and documentary texts, dating from the first century BC to the Middle Ages, and provides new knowledge about the circulation of Latin and many aspects of the ancient Mediterranean world.

1000pp

Jun. 2025 9781009535168 Hardback GBP 150.00 / USD 195.00

eISBN 9781009535113

The Romanization of Britain

An Essay in Archaeological Interpretation

Second edition

Millett, MArtin | University of Cambridge

Offering a fresh perspective on Roman Britain based on archaeological evidence, this acclaimed study, now reissued, explores the social dynamics of cultural change from a local perspective by analysing patterns of interaction between provincial peoples and imperial power. A new introduction reviews the ongoing debate about Romanization.

Cambridge Classical Classics

290pp

May 2025 9781009332262 Hardback GBP 150.00 / USD 195.00

eISBN 9781009332279

Corpus of Latin Texts on Papyrus

Volume 2 Part II

Scappaticcio, Maria Chiara | Università degli Studi di Napoli ‘Federico II’

1000pp

Dec. 2024 9781009485524 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

Dec. 2024 9781009485517 Hardback eISBN 9781009485487

Classical languages

Aeolic and Aeolians

Origins of an Ancient Greek Language and its Community of Speakers

Woodard, Roger D. | University at Buffalo, State University of New York

Aeolic and Aeolians explores the origin of an ancient Greek language and the beginnings and evolution of the community of its speakers – the Aeolians. Roger Woodard argues that the starting point for both is situated in Asia Minor during the period of the Late Bronze Age.

648pp

May 2025 9781009332217 Hardback GBP 150.00 / USD 195.00

eISBN 9781009332255

Corpus of Latin Texts on Papyrus

Volume 3 Part III

Scappaticcio, Maria Chiara | Università degli Studi di Napoli ‘Federico II’

1000pp

Nov. 2024 9781009424400 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 155.00

eISBN 9781009424370

May 2025 9781009352543 Hardback GBP 150.00 / USD 195.00

eISBN 9781009352536

Corpus of Latin Texts on Papyrus

Volume 4 Part IV

Scappaticcio, Maria Chiara | Università degli Studi di Napoli ‘Federico II’

1000pp

May 2025 9781009350945 Hardback GBP 150.00 / USD 195.00

eISBN 9781009350983

Corpus of Latin Texts on Papyrus

Volume 5 Part V

Scappaticcio, Maria Chiara | Università degli Studi di Napoli

‘Federico II’

1000pp

May 2025 9781108741774 Hardback GBP 150.00 / USD 195.00

eISBN 9781009351003

Corpus of Latin Texts on Papyrus

Volume 6 Parts VI and VII, Appendix and Bibliography

Scappaticcio, Maria Chiara | Università degli Studi di Napoli

‘Federico II’

1000pp

The New Documents in Mycenaean Greek

Volume 1 Introductory Essays

Killen, John | Jesus College, Cambridge

An accessible survey written by fourteen of the world’s leading experts of work in recent years on the Linear B tablets, deciphered by Michael Ventris in 1952, revealing both the earliest form of Greek and much of the society and economy of its time.

438pp

May 2025 9781009351065 Hardback GBP 150.00 / USD 195.00 eISBN 9781009351072

The Colloquia of the Hermeneumata Pseudodositheana

Volume 1 Colloquia Monacensia-Einsidlensia , LeidenseStephani , and Stephani

Dickey, Eleanor | University of Exeter Colloquia are manuals designed to help ancient Greeks and Romans get around in each other’s languages. In describing activities like shopping, bathing, and dining they provide a unique glimpse of daily life in the early Roman Empire. This book offers the first modern edition and the first ever translation.

Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries 288pp 31 b/w illus. 12 tables

Feb. 2024 9781009491013 Paperback GBP 39.99 / USD 53.99

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The Colloquia of the Hermeneumata Pseudodositheana

Volume 2 Colloquium Harleianum , Colloquium Montepessulanum , Colloquium Celtis , and Fragments

Dickey, Eleanor | University of Reading Colloquia are manuals designed to help ancient Greeks and Romans get around in each other’s languages. In describing activities like shopping, bathing, and dining they provide a unique glimpse of daily life in the early Roman Empire. This book completes the texts’ edition and translation begun in Volume 1.

Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries, 53 358pp 11 b/w illus. 20 tables

Feb. 2024 9781107659858 Paperback GBP 39.99 / USD 53.99 eISBN 9781107588295

Feb. 2024 9780521838122 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00

eISBN 9781139029049

The New Documents in Mycenaean Greek

Volume 2 Selected Tablets and Endmatter

Killen, John | University of Cambridge

762pp

Feb. 2024 9780521838139 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00

eISBN 9781139046152

The New Documents in Mycenaean Greek 2 Volume Hardback Set

Killen, John | University of Cambridge

1199pp

Feb. 2024 9781009286091 2 Hardback books GBP 180.00 / USD 240.00

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Classical literature

A Commentary on Ovid’s Metamorphoses

Barchiesi, Alessandro | New York University

Ovid’s Metamorphoses is one of the longest extant Latin poems from the ancient world and one of the most influential works in Western culture. This is the first complete commentary in English on the poem and covers all aspects of the text – from textual interpretation to poetics, imagination, and ideology.

1956pp

Feb. 2024 9781009326452 3 Hardback books GBP 250.00 / USD 325.00

A

Commentary on Ovid’s

Metamorphoses

Volume 1 General Introduction and Books 1-6

Barchiesi, Alessandro | New York University

786pp

Feb. 2024 9780521895798 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 160.00

eISBN 9781139047272

A Commentary on Ovid’s Metamorphoses

Volume 2 Books 7-12

Barchiesi, Alessandro | New York University

690pp

Feb. 2024 9780521895804 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 160.00

eISBN 9781139021586

A Commentary on Ovid’s Metamorphoses

Volume 3 Books 13–15 and Indices

Barchiesi, Alessandro | New York University

480pp

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Afterlives of the Roman Poets

Biofiction and the Reception of Latin Poetry

Goldschmidt, Nora | University of Durham Brings innovations in modern life-writing studies to Roman poetry and its reception. While its core fields are Latin poetry and reception studies, this interdisciplinary book will interest all those working on life-writing. Individual chapters focus on topics in medieval studies, Renaissance studies, Victorian literature, and modernist literature. Classics after Antiquity 245pp 2 b/w illus.

Feb. 2024 9780521895811 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 160.00

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A History of Latin Literature From its Beginnings to the Age of Augustus

Fulkerson, Laurel | Florida State University

Readable new history of the explosion of Latin literature from relatively humble beginnings to global status. All the major writers are covered, as well as fragmentary but still key authors. Latin literature is set in its Roman context, but is also revealed as witty, charming, frightening, profound –and fun.

406pp

Feb. 2024 9781316632086 Paperback GBP 27.99 / USD 36.99

eISBN 9781316847879

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Ancient Greek Texts and Modern Narrative Theory

Towards a Critical Dialogue

Grethlein, Jonas | Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany

Demonstrates the limits of narratology in understanding ancient texts and forges a new approach that investigates the specific logic of ancient narrative. An invaluable introduction to ancient views of narrative but also a major contribution to a historically sensitive theory of narrative.

207pp

Jul. 2024 9781009339575 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

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Aelius Aristides and the Poetics of Lyric in Imperial Greek Culture

Modini, Francesca | University of Warwick

This is the first major study of Greek lyric poetry in imperial Greek culture. It shows how knowledge of lyric enabled imperial writers to demonstrate a more sophisticated level of paideia; and reveals how lyric traditions mobilised distinctive discourses of self-fashioning, local identity, communitymaking and power crucial for Greeks under Rome.

Greek Culture in the Roman World

320pp 7 b/w illus.

May 2025 9781009518246 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

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NEW IN PAPERBACK Borges’ Classics

Global Encounters with the Graeco-Roman Past

Jansen, Laura | University of Bristol

Reads the oeuvre of the Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges as a radically globalized model for reimagining our relationship with the classical past. The first in-depth exploration of Borges’ engagement with classical antiquity in any language and a major contribution to the field of global classics and to Borges studies.

Classics after Antiquity 196pp 1 b/w illus.

Feb. 2024 9781108406024 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

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Catullan Questions Revisited

Wiseman, T. P. | 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.

186pp

Jul. 2024 9781009235716 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 25.99

eISBN 9781009235761

Classical studies

Catullus: Poem 64

Trimble, Gail | University of Oxford

This major new edition of a pivotal Roman poem is an essential resource for advanced students and scholars of Latin literature. It provides a newly edited text accompanied by a line-by-line commentary exploring all aspects of Catullus 64, together with a comprehensive introduction and a ground-breaking interpretative epilogue.

Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries, 66 1000pp

Jan. 2025 9781107018594 Hardback GBP 150.00 / USD 195.00 eISBN 9781139088213

Choral Tragedy

Greek Poetics and Musical Ritual

Calame, Claude | Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris

Re-examines the chorus in Greek tragedy and argues for the fundamentally poetic and musical nature of the genre, and its deep connection to the cultic and ritual contexts in which it was performed.

Classical Scholarship in Translation 244pp

May 2024 9781316516256 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009029421

Cicero: Divinatio in Q.Caecilium

Watson, C. B. | University of Oklahoma

Indispensable for students and scholars of Latin literature, ancient rhetoric, and Roman law, this new critical edition, destined to become the new standard, is accompanied by a thorough commentary that overturns long-held assumptions about Roman legal procedure and reveals Cicero’s innovative rhetorical manipulation of the occasion.

Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries, 66 450pp

Jan. 2025 9781108844079 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 160.00

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Cicero: Laelius de amicitia

Volk, Katharina | Columbia University, New York

The first modern commentary on Cicero’s last dialogue, written in the months after Caesar’s assassination. Designed for intermediate and advanced students of Latin, ancient philosophy, and Roman intellectual and political history. Pays careful attention to structure and argument as well as helping students understand Cicero’s style and language.

Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics 248pp

Oct. 2024 9781108940856 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99

Oct. 2024 9781108832250 Hardback GBP 84.99 / USD 110.00

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Classical Antiquity and the Cinematic Imagination

Winkler, Martin M. |George Mason University, Virginia Demonstrates the affinities between antiquity and today by interpreting several themes in classical literature and arts and illustrating these with numerous films, ranging from silents, classic Hollywood, and European popular and art films to documentaries, animation, and digital media and special effects.

554pp 27 b/w illus. 81 colour illus.

May 2024 9781009396714 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 155.00

eISBN 9781009396691

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Dionysius

Halicarnassus and Augustan Rome

Rhetoric, Criticism and Historiography

Hunter, Richard | University of Cambridge

The Augustan Age was the Golden Age of Latin literature. This book explores how a Greek author of Augustan Rome bridged the gap between Greece and Rome, and between historiography and rhetoric. Indispensable for scholars of Augustan Rome and for students of Greek and Latin literature.

Greek Culture in the Roman World

310pp

Feb. 2024 9781108465588 Paperback GBP 27.99 / USD 36.99

eISBN 9781108647632

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Dionysus after Nietzsche

The Birth of Tragedy in Twentieth-Century Literature and Thought

Lecznar, Adam | University College London

This exciting book explores the fate of ancient Greek gods, philosophy and tragedy amongst the wars and revolutions of the twentieth century. It focuses on Friedrich Nietzsche’s influence on a diverse array of novelists, scholars, poets, philosophers and playwrights who used antiquity to rethink their post-industrial and postcolonial modernity.

Classics after Antiquity 258pp

Feb. 2024 9781108710671 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781108696890

Disability and Healing in Greek and Roman Myth

Laes, Christian | University of Manchester

This Element places stories of disability and healing in Greek and Roman Myth in context, with due attention to close reading, and pays careful attention to concepts and terminology regarding disability. One of the focuses is the people behind the stories and their ‘lived’ religion. It also encourages its readers to ‘live’ their ancient mythology.

Elements in Greek and Roman Mythology

82pp

Apr. 2024 9781009335539 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Apr. 2024 9781009494663 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

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Euripides: Bacchae

Allan, William | University of Oxford

An up-to-date edition of one of the most widely read and performed Greek tragedies. Offers new interpretative suggestions and provides detailed guidance on problems of language and dramaturgy. Ideal for students of Greek at all levels, while also of interest to scholars of Greek literature and cultural history.

Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics

364pp

Feb. 2024 9781108948388 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99

Feb. 2024 9781108844550 Hardback GBP 84.99 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781108951708

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Greek Poetry in the Age of Ephemerality

Nooter, Sarah | University of Chicago

Greek poetry invented ephemerality as a mark of the human condition and introduced materials for confronting it. This book examines ancient Greek poetry, including Homer, Archilochus, Sappho, Simonides, Aeschylus, Pindar and Timotheus, to show how this poetry offered the embodiment of its rhythms as an answer to change and loss. 254pp

Apr. 2024 9781009320405 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

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Helping Friends and Harming Enemies

A Study in Sophocles and Greek Ethics

Second edition

Blondell, Ruby | University of Washington Sophocles is often considered the least philosophical of the three great Greek tragedians. By analysing a fundamental principle of Greek popular ethics, this study challenged that presumption, and remains of vital interest to students, scholars and non-specialists interested in Greek culture and drama.

Cambridge Classical Classics

316pp

Jun. 2024 9781009465816 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 24.99

Jun. 2024 9781009465847 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

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Herodotus and the Presocratics

Inquiry and Intellectual Culture in the Fifth Century BCE

Kingsley, K. Scarlett | Agnes Scott College, Decatur Explores Herodotus’ Histories in dialogue with contemporary philosophical debates. Combining close readings, reader reception, and genre studies, it expands our understanding of Herodotus’ context and restores the Histories’ place in Presocratic thought. In addition, the book elucidates philosophy’s subsequent engagement with Herodotus’ Histories. 272pp

Mar. 2024 9781009338547 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

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Herodotus: Histories Book VII

Carey, Chris | University College London Book VII is a pivotal book in Herodotus’ Histories. It brings together many of the work’s themes and contains the legendary story of the ultimately unsuccessful Greek resistance to the Persian army at the Battle of Thermopylai. This edition provides all the linguistic help and historical background required by students.

Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics

550pp

May 2025 9780521479462 Paperback GBP 34.99 / USD 45.99

May 2025 9780521474153 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 155.00

eISBN 9780511979781

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Homer: Odyssey Book IX

Bakker, Egbert J. | Yale University, Connecticut Gives students an informed and critical understanding of Homeric language and a nuanced and sophisticated understanding of a culturally charged essential episode in the Odyssey. Also aims to be an essential new step in the ongoing conversation about the Odyssey in general and the Cyclops episode in particular.

Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics

254pp

Feb. 2025 9781107424845 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

Feb. 2024 9781107074286 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781139696630

Homer’s Living Language

Formularity, Dialect, and Creativity in OralTraditional Poetry

Bozzone, Chiara | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munchen An accessible, up-to-date, and innovative account of key features of Homer’s poetry (formularity, meter, and dialect). This book is informed by contemporary linguistics and cognitive sciences, and leverages unexpected modern-day parallels (popular music, jazz improvisation, sports commentary) to illustrate Homer’s creativity. 292pp 20 b/w illus. 20 tables

Apr. 2024 9781316512418 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009067157

Praise of Greek Athletes

Echoes of the Herald’s Proclamation in Epinikian and Epigram

Miller, Peter J. | University of Winnipeg, Canada

The first large-scale comparative study of epinikian song and epigram in English. Integrates these genres into the context of ancient Greek athletics, particularly the rituals associated with victory and competition, and will be invaluable for students and scholars of Pindar, ancient Greek lyric, and epigram.

218pp

May 2024 9781009365956 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

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Interaction in Poetic Imagery

With Special Reference to Early Greek Poetry

Second edition

Silk, M. S. | King’s College London

This influential book has made an unusual and original contribution to literary theory through a study of poetic imagery in early Greek lyric and drama and the formulation of a new critical concept, ‘interaction’. This reissue contains a substantial new Introduction engaging with critical and scholarly developments since first publication.

Cambridge Classical Classics

318pp

Feb. 2025 9781009469609 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

Feb. 2025 9781009469593 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009469623

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Letters in Plautus

Writing Between the Lines

Barbiero, Emilia A. | 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.

241pp

Jul. 2024 9781009168526 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99

eISBN 9781009168502

Modernist Hellenism

Pound, Eliot, H.D., and the Translation of Greece Stergiopoulou, Katerina | University of Edinburgh

The first book to offer a detailed yet broad overview of the poetic engagement with Greece across the modernist period (1910s–1950s).

Provides new readings of canonical and lesserknown works and presents unpublished archival materials. A resource for scholars of modern poetry, especially in its relation to translation and the classics.

500pp

Philo of Alexandria: Quod deterius potiori insidiari soleat

Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary Kamesar, Adam | Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion, Ohio

Presents the Greek text of Philo’s treatise Quod deterius in a redesigned format, along with a new English translation. The commentary attempts to facilitate the reading of this sometimes difficult author by means of reconstruction of the contexts of his discussions and by accessible analyses of the train of thought.

700pp

Nov. 2024 9781009371483 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00

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Myth and Territory in the Spartan Mediterranean

Second edition

Malkin, Irad | Tel-Aviv University

Establishes Sparta as a Mediterranean entity, examining how mythology justified conquest and colonization across the Spartan Mediterranean in the archaic and Classical periods. This revised edition, complete with substantial new Introduction, will be vital to students, scholars, and non-specialists intrigued by Spartan culture and society.

Cambridge Classical Classics

332pp

Jul. 2024 9781009234795 Hardback GBP 150.00 / USD 195.00

eISBN 9781009234849

NEW IN PAPERBACK Pindar and Greek Religion

Theologies of Mortality in the Victory Odes Eisenfeld, Hanne | 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.

294pp

Jul. 2024 9781108926430 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99

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Propertius and the Virgilian Sensibility

Elegy after 19 BC

O’Rourke, Donncha | University of Edinburgh Studies Propertius’ final collection of elegies as the earliest concerted response to the poetic career of Virgil in its totality. Reveals an elegiac Virgil as much as it does an epicizing Propertius, and enlarges familiar paradigms of allusion and intertextuality with implications for how literary and textual criticism are practised.

500pp

Jun. 2024 9781009466066 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 24.99

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eISBN 9781009466073

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Seneca and the Self

Bartsch, Shadi

Many modern critics have treated Seneca as an innovator in historical understandings of ‘selfhood’ and self-awareness. This volume of essays by internationally well-known scholars promises to reshape our understanding of Seneca, and to establish once and for all his place as a student of the human psyche.

314pp

Apr. 2024 9781009516136 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

Statius and Ovid

Poetics, Politics, and Intermediality in the Thebaid

Spinelli, Tommaso | University of Manchester

Moving beyond Virgil-centric readings of Statius’ poetry, this book offers an innovative, intermedial, and Ovidian reading of the Thebaid, suggesting that the poem reworks both Virgil and Ovid’s politically loaded myths and spatial narratives to scrutinise the new realities of Flavian Rome through the mythical story of Thebes.

300pp

May 2024 9781009282215 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009282208

Texts and Intertexts in Archaic and Classical Greece

Kelly, Adrian | University of Oxford

Recent decades have seen a marked rise in intertextual approaches to early Greek literature. Encompassing the period from the earliest archaic epics down through classical Athenian drama, this is the first concerted, step-by-step examination of the development of allusive poetics in the early Greek world.

362pp

Nov. 2024 9781108840118 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00 eISBN 9781108878968

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The Aesthetics of Hope in Late Greek Imperial Literature

Methodius of Olympus’ Symposium and the Crisis of the Third Century LaValle Norman, Dawn | Australian Catholic University, Melbourne

Sheds light on a relatively dark period of literary history, the late third century CE, by examining how some early Christian writers tried to reorient literature. Methodius of Olympus’ dialogic Symposium exposes an era’s new concerns, with its insistence that the future is more interesting than the past.

Greek Culture in the Roman World

295pp 1 table

Feb. 2024 9781108713993 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 38.99

eISBN 9781108657389

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The Annals of Tacitus: Book 4

Woodman, A. J. | University of Virginia

A full edition of Book 4 of Tacitus’ Annals, which covers the years AD 23–28 when, under the influence of his henchman Sejanus, the emperor Tiberius famously changed for the worse and withdrew to the island of Capri.

Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries, 58 371pp

Feb. 2024 9781108411479 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 38.99

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The Augustan Space

The Poetics of Geography, Topography and Monumentality

Gale, Monica R. | Trinity College, Dublin Trinity College, Dublin

Explores the representation of space and monuments in the poetry of Augustan Rome. Comprising thirteen essays by leading scholars of Roman poetry, together with a substantial Introduction, it will be of interest to scholars and students of ancient literature and cultural history.

278pp

Jun. 2024 9781009176071 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009176064

The

Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Epic

Greensmith, Emma | University of Oxford

A fresh account of the oldest and foundational genre of ancient Greek literature which demonstrates its sustained and often surprising power and sheds new light on its continued impact and relevance today. Draws on cutting-edge new research in fields such as racecraft, geopolitics and theory of emotions.

Cambridge Companions to Literature 348pp 10 b/w illus.

Nov. 2024 9781009087377 Paperback GBP 30.99 / USD 39.99

Nov. 2024 9781316514696 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00

eISBN 9781009086585

The

Cambridge Companion to Lucian

Goldhill, Simon | University of Cambridge

An innovative and exciting introduction to one of the most influential and controversial ancient authors. Explores Lucian’s major contributions to the history of satire, comic dialogues, religion, art, and erotics against the background of the cultural politics of the Greek world in the Roman Empire. Cambridge Companions to Literature 474pp

Nov. 2024 9781009170390 Paperback GBP 34.99 / USD 44.99

Nov. 2024 9781009170383 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00

eISBN 9781009170406

The

Cambridge Critical Guide to Latin Literature

Gibson, Roy | University of Durham

Focusing on the texts, tools and territories of Latin literature from the classical to Neo-Latin, the Critical Guide situates classical Latin within its global context; recalibrates links with adjoining disciplines (e.g. history, philosophy, material culture, Greek); and takes a fresh look at key tools (editing, reception, intertextuality, theory). 946pp

Jan. 2024 9781108421089 Hardback GBP 150.00 / USD 195.00

eISBN 9781108363303

The Environmental Poetry of Augustan Rome

Fredericksen, Erik Pugh

Brings together environmental literary criticism and classics, generating new readings of foundational works of Augustan literature as environmental poetry. For classicists, it discloses new aspects of familiar texts, while for environmental literary critics it deepens and complicates the traditions and concepts of environmental literature.

320pp

Dec. 2024 9781009476171 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009476157

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The

Homeric Hymn to Hermes

Thomas, Oliver | University of Nottingham

An essential point of reference for advanced students and researchers interested in ancient Greek poetry or religion. It contains a new text of the Homeric Hymn to Hermes, an English translation, detailed commentary on points of interest, and an introductory discussion of the poem’s origin and significance.

Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries

542pp

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The Rhesus Attributed to Euripides

Fantuzzi, Marco | Roehampton University, London

Full scholarly edition of the only complete poetic text from the fourth century BC, which bridges the classical age of tragedy and Hellenistic poetry and is a tragi-comic play paralleling the comic-tragic plays of Menander. Emphasises its intertextual engagement with its models and attempts to break free of them.

Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries, 63 719pp

Feb. 2024 9781009353601 Paperback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9780511997792

The Performance Reception of Greek Tragedy in Ancient Theatres

Nervegna, Sebastiana

Reconstructs the rich afterlife of Greek tragedy on ancient stages across the entire Mediterranean area, from the fourth century BC to the early third century AD. Draws on an extensive collection of documentary, literary and visual sources and considers the role of actors and audiences in the plays’ survival.

430pp

Feb. 2024 9781107629349 Paperback GBP 59.99 / USD 77.99

eISBN 9781139199032

Three Myths of Kingship in Early Greece and the Ancient Near East

The Servant, the Lover, and the Fool Metcalf, Christopher | University of Oxford

Starting from detailed reconsiderations of a wide range of ancient Near Eastern literary sources, the book proposes original and persuasive readings of familiar early Greek authors including Homer, Hesiod and Herodotus, and of other famous works such as the Hebrew Bible.

306pp

Apr. 2025 9781107111370 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00

eISBN 9781316275900

The Poet’s Voice

Essays on Poetics and Greek Literature

Second edition

Goldhill, Simon | University of Cambridge Explores how poetry and the figure of the poet are represented within the poetry of ancient Greece. This revised edition, complete with substantial new Introduction, will be of vital importance to students, scholars and non-specialists intrigued by Greek literature and literary criticism more widely.

Cambridge Classical Classics

424pp

Feb. 2025 9781009481496 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009481519

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Tragedy, Ritual and Money in Ancient Greece

Selected Essays

Seaford, Richard | University of Exeter Brings together a wide range of papers written with a single vision. Greek tragedy, the New Testament, representations of the inner self, Greek and Indian philosophy, Wagner: these seemingly disparate phenomena are analysed with special attention to the shaping influence of ritual and of money.

498pp

Jul. 2024 9781316622896 Paperback GBP 39.99 / USD 51.99

Jun. 2024 9781009478243 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

Jun. 2024 9781009478212 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009478250

eISBN 9781316761588

Translating Virgil

A Cultural History of the Western Tradition from the Eleventh Century to the Present Braund, Susanna Morton | University of British Columbia, Vancouver

The first synthesis and analysis of the translation history of Roman poet Virgil’s works into European languages. A wide-ranging interdisciplinary investigation that contributes to western intellectual history and challenges classicists and other literary scholars to reassess the features of Virgil’s poems to which the translators respond.

Classics after Antiquity

994pp

Jan. 2025 9781108470612 Hardback GBP 150.00 / USD 195.00

eISBN 9781108556828

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Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity

Derbew, Sarah F. | Harvard University, Massachusetts

Sarah Derbew brings into brilliant new focus varied portrayals of blackness in ancient Greek literature and Art, while critiquing modern classical misappropriations which retroactively project contemporary theories of race and skin color onto archaic settings. This is a compelling contribution to better understanding of representations of blackness in antiquity.

271pp

Feb. 2024 9781108817912 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 25.99

eISBN 9781108861816

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Venantius Fortunatus:

Vita Sancti Martini

Prologue and Books I–II

Kay, N. M.

A critical edition of part of Venantius Fortunatus’ Vita Sancti Martini, which paraphrases in epic verse Sulpicius Severus’ famous prose hagiography of St Martin and represents one of the last flowerings of a recognisably classical Latin tradition. Deals extensively with matters of exegesis, textual criticism, language, metre and much else.

Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries, 59 588pp

Feb. 2024 9781108444293 Paperback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781108654258

Writing Literary History in the Greek and Roman World

Fedeli, Giacomo | University of Exeter

Covering a wide variety of Greek and Latin texts spanning from the Archaic period down to Late Antiquity, this volume represents the first concerted attempt to understand ancient literary history in its full complexity and on its own terms, thereby provoking reflection on writing the history of ancient literature today.

398pp

Jun. 2024 9781009464529 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00

eISBN 9781009464543

Classical studies (general)

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Encyclopaedism from Antiquity to the Renaissance

König, Jason | University of St Andrews, Scotland

Extensive reassessment of the rich body of encyclopaedic writing surviving from the two millennia before the Enlightenment. Traces the development of traditions of knowledge ordering which stretched back to Pliny and Varro and others in the classical world, with the focus primarily on European/Mediterranean culture.

617pp 3 b/w illus. 1 table

Feb. 2024 9781009490757 Paperback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781139814683

Drama and theatre

American theatre

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Performance and Modernity

Enacting Change on the Globalizing Stage

Walker, Julia A. | Washington University, St Louis

This book demonstrates how the experience of change in the modern period was first registered in bodily metaphors that took shape on stage. In new styles of performance-acting, dance, music, pageantry, avant-garde provocations, film and video-it finds fresh evidence for how modernity has been understood and lived.

313pp

Aug. 2024 9781108964333 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781108966870

British theatre

Clean Break Theatre Company

McAvinchey, Caoimhe | Queen Mary University of London

This Element examines three areas of Clean Break’s theatre making history and organisational practices: its origin stories; its education and engagement work; and how the company’s performance practices have adapted to directly intervene in carceral society.

Elements in Women Theatre Makers

82pp

Oct. 2024 9781009525855 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Oct. 2024 9781009525893 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009525909

NEW IN PAPERBACK Criticism, Performance, and the Passions in the Eighteenth

Century

The Art of Transition

Harriman-Smith, James | University of Newcastle upon Tyne Eighteenth-century theatre critics reserved their highest praise for the transitions of a play, recognising its most striking passages as moments of larger sequential transformation. Through a recovery of this perspective, scholars of theatre and literary culture gain renewed understanding of performance, the passions, and criticism in the 1700s.

248pp

Feb. 2024 9781108812832 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781108890847

The Business of English Restoration Theatre, 1660–1700

Payne, Deborah C. | American University, Washington DC

Deborah C. Payne’s groundbreaking study explores how the duopoly established in 1660 – adopted to create an upmarket, elite theatre – unexpectedly reshaped company practices, stagecraft, and the professions of actors and dramatists. Network and behavioural economic theory further illuminate the lure of an economic model inimical to self-interest.

302pp

Jun. 2024 9781009398213 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009398244

The Cambridge Companion to British Theatre since 1945

Harvie, Jen | Queen Mary University of London

British theatre underwent a vast transformation and expansion in the decades after World War II. This Companion ranges beyond plays alone to guide students through the historical, social and political contexts that enabled and shaped such significant change.

Cambridge Companions to Theatre and Performance

326pp

Mar. 2024 9781108432382 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

Mar. 2024 9781108421805 Hardback GBP 70.00 / USD 90.00

eISBN 9781108377850

Women Making Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century

Solga, Kim | Western University

This Element examines why women makers from equity-owed communities (Indigenous, of colour, Deaf, disabled, trans and non-binary communities among others) choose to work with Shakespeare and his contemporaries at a moment in time when theatres around the world are striving toward equity, inclusion, diversity, and decolonization.

Elements in Women Theatre Makers

80pp

Pirandello in Context

Gaborik, Patricia | Accademia Nazionale d’Arte Drammatica ‘Silvio d’Amico’

Providing a multi-faceted survey of Luigi Pirandello’s life and works, this volume explores his sensitivity to place alongside the intellectuals and dramatists who shaped his perspective. It reveals how profound shifts in science, philosophy, culture, and politics at the fin-de-siécle fashioned him into a revolutionary playwright of his century.

Literature in Context

352pp

Oct. 2024 9781009073486 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Oct. 2024 9781009500883 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009064507

European theatre

A New History of Theatre in France

Finburgh Delijani, Clare | Goldsmiths, University of London

This collaborative history testifies to the central part theatre has played in French culture for over a thousand years. Through a range of diverse contributions, it places centre-stage the genders, ethnicities and classes that have had to wait in the wings both of theatres and of theatre history.

476pp

Nov. 2024 9781108842372 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00

eISBN 9781108908566

Performing Nationalism in Russia

Meerzon, Yana | University of Ottawa

This Element focuses on the cultural geography of today’s Russia and examines a range of performative strategies used by the Russian state to uphold its nationalist project. It also maps artistic strategies of resistance to the ideology of nationalism.

Elements in Theatre, Performance and the Political 88pp

Feb. 2024 9781009451963 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

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eISBN 9781009451949

Mar. 2024 9781108424547 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781108339391

Re-imagining

Independence

in Contemporary Greek Theatre and Performance

Hager, Philip | Aristotle University, Thessaloniki

This Element interrogates performance work visà-vis Greece’s histories of colonial dependencies –histories that are integral to the institution of modern Greece. The examples discussed here rehearse independence against and beyond national(ist) fantasies.

Elements in Theatre, Performance and the Political 82pp

Feb. 2024 9781009250573 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Feb. 2024 9781009462303 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009250597

Theatre (general)

Comedy and Controversy

Scripting Public Speech

Balkin, Sarah | University of Melbourne University of Melbourne

This Element discusses general features of controlled experimentation, epistemic and practical aspects, and historical perspectives. It argues that controlled experimentation has a materialtechnical and a conceptual side. It shifts the focus from control experiments to controlling for the epistemologically fundamental issue in experimentation. Elements in Contemporary Performance Texts 75pp

Nov. 2024 9781009396806 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Nov. 2024 9781009565356 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009396820

Contemporary Performance

Translation

Challenges and Opportunities for the Global Stage

Graham-Jones, Jean | City University of New York Rethinking translation for the contemporary international stage, Jean Graham-Jones argues for a radical new approach incorporating dramaturgical logic and staging, actor training and performance styles, gesture and embodiment, and aesthetics and reception, drawing upon her own extensive experience as translator, actor, director, and scholar.

Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre

280pp

Dec. 2024 9781009180122 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009180115

Crisis Theatre and The Living Newspaper

Mullan, Sarah Jane | University of Northampton

This Element describes what a transnational and transhistorical examination of the living newspaper through the lens of crisis reveals about the ways in which theatre can intervene in our collective social, economic and political life. We can thus assert the Living Newspaper as a form of Crisis Theatre.

Elements in Theatre, Performance and the Political

76pp

Apr. 2024 9781009525817 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Apr. 2024 9781009525794 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009525800

Democracy, Theatre and Performance

From the Greeks to Gandhi

Wiles, David | University of Exeter

David Wiles boldly reframes democracy as a form of theatre, moving from Athens to the English, French, and American revolutions, and to Indian independence, exploring how democracy really works. Engagingly written, his book will reshape thinking for students and general readers in theatre, history and political science alike.

256pp

Jun. 2024 9781009167994 Hardback GBP 30.00 / USD 39.99

eISBN 9781009167970

Performing Grief in Pandemic Theatres

Walsh, Fintan | Birkbeck, University of London

This Element discusses how theatre grieved for itself, for the dead, for lost ways of living, while also imagining and enacting new modes of being together. It shows how grief must seep into the public sphere to fight to save health and social care services, institutions, communities and art forms, including theatre.

Elements in Contemporary Performance Texts

74pp

The Cambridge Guide to Mixed Methods Research for Theatre and Performance Studies

Davis, Tracy C. | Northwestern University, Illinois

The first comprehensive overview of established and emergent approaches to undertaking theatre and performance research, this book demonstrates why and how mixed methods research is necessary for investigating and explaining performance and advancing new critical agendas in cultural study.

348pp

Feb. 2024 9781009294881 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009294904

The Poetics of Performance Diagrams

Mirčev, Andrej | Universität der Künste Berlin

This Element considers the concept of performance diagrams and shows their historical, epistemic and aesthetic functions in theatre and dance. The Element reviews the relevance of diagrams for performance-making, analysis and documentation, and also elucidates the significance of diagrammatic thinking for performance studies.

Elements in Contemporary Performance Texts 92pp

Jun. 2024 9781009446228 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Jun. 2024 9781009517461 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009446235

May 2024 9781009464802 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

May 2024 9781009464819 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009464826

Playwriting, Dramaturgy and Space

Freeman, Sara | University of Puget Sound, Washington

This Element presents the work of Caryl Churchill, Naomi Iizuka, and Sarah Ruhl as exemplary of the way text-based theatre, both its scripts and productions, now creates and expects a spatialized imaginary and demonstrates the potentials of textbased theatre in an increasingly visual and spatial field of cultural production.

Elements in Contemporary Performance Texts

82pp

Jan. 2024 9781009370226 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Jan. 2024 9781009467940 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009370257

Theatricality, Playtexts and Society

Barnett, David | University of York

This Element proposes a novel way of defining, understanding, and approaching theatricality. It argues that four foundational, material processes of theatre-making manifest themselves in all playtexts in both overt and covert forms. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core. Elements in Contemporary Performance Texts

82pp

Jun. 2024 9781009506281 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Jun. 2024 9781009506298 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009506311

Film, media and sport

Film, cinema

Networked Bollywood

How Star Power Globalized Hindi Cinema

Rai, Swapnil | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Networked Bollywood provides interdisciplinary analysis of the role of the stars in the transformation of Hindi cinema into a global entertainment industry.

300pp

Nov. 2024 9781009400633 Paperback

Jul. 2024 9781009400619 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009400602

Music Dance

The Cambridge Companion to Tango

Wendland, Kristin | Emory University, Atlanta

An innovative resource which shatters tango stereotypes to account for the genre’s impact on arts, culture, and society around the world. Twenty chapters by North and South American, European, and Asian contributors, some publishing in English for the first time, collectively cover tango’s history, culture, and performance practice.

Cambridge Companions to Music

414pp

Mar. 2024 9781108971423 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99

Mar. 2024 9781108838474 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 105.00

eISBN 9781108974936

Eighteenth-century music

George Frideric Handel

Collected Documents

Burrows, Donald | The Open University, Milton Keynes

Handel’s life and career are intricately documented in a wide range of contemporary sources. This six-volume publication presents a comprehensive, fully annotated collection of those documents in chronological order, with commentaries incorporating recent research. It is an essential resource for anyone studying Handel and his music.

800pp

May 2025 9781107080249 Hardback GBP 140.00 / USD 175.00

eISBN 9781139946094

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Music and Musicians in Late Mughal India

Histories of the Ephemeral, 1748–1858

Schofield, Katherine Butler | King’s College London

Based on a vast, virtually unstudied archive in Indian languages and Persian, this book reawakens the lost voices of celebrated Indian musicians, men and women, who endured the momentous transition from Mughal to British rule. It will appeal to readers interested in Indian music, global music history, South Asian history, empire and colonialism.

343pp

Aug. 2024 9781009048521 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99

eISBN 9781009047685

Opera in the Viennese Home from MozArt to Rossini

November, Nancy | University of Auckland

The many and varied domestic musical arrangements of opera that circulated in Vienna provide a unique window on the world of nineteenth-century amateur music-making. This study takes a novel stance for musicology, prioritising musical arrangements over original compositions, and female amateurs’ perspectives over those of composers.

268pp

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Telemann Studies

Hirschmann, Wolfgang | Martin Luther-Universität HalleWittenberg, Germany

Georg Philipp Telemann’s significance within eighteenth-century musical culture is now well acknowledged, and his rich and varied output increasingly appreciated by students, scholars, and listeners. This volume of essays – the first of its kind in English – will provide the impetus for growing international engagement with Telemann’s legacy.

Cambridge Composer Studies

376pp 5 b/w illus. 50 music examples

Aug. 2024 9781108725583 Paperback GBP 27.99 / USD 36.99

eISBN 9781108663472

Ethnomusicology

The Cambridge Companion to Music in Australia

Harris, Amanda | University of Sydney

Highlighting the diversity of musical practice that flows though Australia, this book places the music of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people at its heart. It presents the latest research alongside perspectives of current creative artists, whilst acknowledging the fluid nature of music, and the complexity inherent in the term ‘Australia’.

Cambridge Companions to Music

450pp

Nov. 2024 9781108994002 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 35.99

Nov. 2024 9781108845885 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781108991209

Medieval

and Renaissance music

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Devotional Refrains in Medieval Latin Song

Caldwell, Mary Channen | University of Pennsylvania

Aimed at musicologists, medievalists, religious studies scholars and general readers interested in early music, this book reveals the importance of Latin refrains in the lives of religious communities in the European Middle Ages. Chapters focus on song and the negotiation of temporalities, performance, communal identity, memory and multilingualism.

312pp

Jan. 2024 9781009409803 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009409797

Aug. 2024 9781009044004 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99

eISBN 9781009043298

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Music and Liturgy in Medieval Britain and Ireland

Buckley, Ann | Trinity College Dublin

The book is for scholars and students from across the humanities who wish to understand the varieties of liturgical culture in medieval Britain and Ireland. The contributors discuss how this rich corpus of music, texts and ritual developed through personal, political and professional networks of monastic, diocesan and lay communities.

378pp

Aug. 2024 9781108717496 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99

eISBN 9781108694988

The Art of Counterpoint from Du Fay to Josquin

Rodin, Jesse | Stanford University, California

Revolutionizing our understanding of the musical century spanning Du Fay to Josquin, this book offers both a ground-breaking interpretative framework and a new theory of musical form, enabling scholars, students, and performers to hear, perform, and think about Renaissance music in fresh ways.

320pp

Jan. 2025 9781107184596 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 130.00

eISBN 9781316882191

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Understanding the Old Hispanic Office

Texts, Melodies, and Devotion in Early Medieval Iberia

Hornby, Emma | University of Bristol

Incorporating notational, musical, theological and historical perspectives, this path-breaking study brings Old Hispanic chant into the mainstream of medieval music studies. Based on new methodologies for working with early medieval liturgy from Spain, it introduces this distinctive body of manuscripts, services and liturgical genres.

474pp

Chinese Émigré Composers and Divergent Modernisms

Chen Yi and Zhou Long

Chung, Mia | Curtis Institute of Music

This Element examines the factors that drove the stylistic heterogeneity of Chen Yi and Zhou Long after the Cultural Revolution. The author proposes personal factors that shaped their modernism despite their shared experiences of the Cultural Revolution and education.

Elements in Music since 1945 90pp

Feb. 2025 9781108994019 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99

eISBN 9781108991223

Music (general)

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A History of Welsh Music

Herbert, Trevor | Royal College of Music, London

Ranging from early medieval musical bards to pop music in the twenty-first century, this book describes Welsh musical practices and traditions and the forces that have shaped and directed them, probing the reasons why the idea of Wales as a ‘musical nation’ arose and became embedded in popular consciousness.

478pp

Jan. 2024 9781009005265 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99

eISBN 9781009036511

Background Music Cultures in Finnish Urban Life

Uimonen, Heikki | University of Eastern Finland

This Element focuses on how music is experienced, articulated, and reclaimed in urban commercial environments. It provides a fresh ‘factory-toconsumer’ perspective on a phenomenon generally understood as industry-lead, behavioral, and global. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Elements in Music and the City

84pp

May 2024 9781009374675 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

May 2024 9781009486934 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009374682

May 2024 9781009158800 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

May 2024 9781009475761 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009158817

Cross-Cultural Collaboration in Popular Music

Practice-Based Research

Martin, Toby | University of Sydney

This Element explores cross-cultural collaboration in popular music, highlighting opportunities for multiple voices and new sounds, but also challenges in technical matching and negotiating power discrepancies. The practitioner-based research field offers new knowledge and pragmatic strategies for creating pop music with culturally diverse people.

Elements in Twenty-First Century Music Practice

75pp

Dec. 2024 9781009358248 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Dec. 2024 9781009454117 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009358255

Elliott Carter’s String Quartet No. 1

Myths, Narratives, and Cold War Cultural Diplomacy

Emmery, Laura | Emory University

This Element provides a critical analysis of Elliott Carter’s String Quartet No. 1, highlighting the narratives surrounding the quartet’s socio-culturalpolitical context and its impact on Carter’s success in the post-1945 American music scene. The author argues quartet’s narratives, rather than the quartet itself, contributed to Carter’s legacy.

Elements in Music since 1945

75pp

Dec. 2024 9781009537148 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Dec. 2024 9781009537131 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009537124

Hidden Music

The Composer’s Guide to Sonification

Mermikides, Milton | University of Surrey

This Element explores the intersection of data sonification and musical composition. It offers an original model and insights for composers and science communicators. It explores techniques, models, translation, data fidelity, analogic and symbolic mapping, temporality, and listener experience, and how sonification can enrich composition.

Elements in Twenty-First Century Music Practice

82pp

Nov. 2024 9781009258579 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Nov. 2024 9781009500319 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009258555

Mariachi in the TwentyFirst Century

Westbrook, Donald A. | San Jose State University

This Element contributes to the interdisciplinary study of mariachi, especially in the United States, by focusing on two areas that have yet to receive substantive academic attention: philanthropy and museum studies. In 2011, UNESCO included mariachi music on its list of expressions of intangible cultural heritage.

Elements in Music since 1945

70pp

Oct. 2024 9781009461368 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Oct. 2024 9781009461337 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009461320

Opera in Warsaw

A City of the European Enlightenment

Parkitna, Anna | Stony Brook University, State University of New York

This Element shows Warsaw’s life during King Stanisław August Poniatowski’s reign and showcases processes affecting opera dissemination in the late 18th century. Opera offered urban entertainment and served local utilitarian functions. Warsaw’s participation in transnational circulations had significant consequences for the city and Europe.

Elements in Music and the City

75pp

The Cambridge Companion to Composition

Young, Toby | Guildhall School of Music and Drama

As the first major handbook to music composition in decades, this book is primarily aimed at students and practitioners in the area of composition, but the range of topics and genres covered by this book will appeal to academics and practitioners in complementary fields of contemporary music, sound art and creativity.

Cambridge Companions to Music

360pp

Nov. 2024 9781009323567 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Nov. 2024 9781009507806 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009323536

Repetition and Performance in the Recording Studio

Davies, Rod | Monash University, Victoria

This Element provides a demonstration of how evolving external cues, and internal cognitive scripts interact with technology and social conventions in the recording studio to impact a popular music musician’s performance and, in effect, the creation of a new Work.

Elements in Twenty-First Century Music Practice

66pp

Mar. 2024 9781009253796 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Mar. 2024 9781009467872 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009253789

Rhythm and Heritage in Modern Flamenco Guitar

Tongeren, Carlos van | University of Manchester

This Element explores the rethinking of rhythmic skill in the contemporary world, focusing on modern flamenco guitar. It uses examples from local guitar traditions and an online guitar contest during the COVID-19 pandemic to explore how rhythm can shape new ways of understanding and performing heritage in the global and digital age.

Elements in Music since 1945

75pp

Dec. 2024 9781009307895 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Dec. 2024 9781009494540 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009307925

May 2024 9781108926997 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

May 2024 9781108831697 Hardback GBP 70.00 / USD 90.00

eISBN 9781108917933

The Cambridge Companion to Women Composers

Head, Matthew | King’s College London

Transcending narratives of female suppression, this Companion traces women’s innovative and critical contributions to musical culture in diverse times, places, and contexts from medieval to modern times. A thematically organised exploration of a rich, re-emerging repertoire, it will be essential reading for students of music history.

Cambridge Companions to Music

376pp

May 2024 9781108733519 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

May 2024 9781108489157 Hardback GBP 70.00 / USD 90.00

eISBN 9781108774079

What Musicking Affords

Musical Performance and the Post-cognitivist Turn

Duby, Marc | University of South Africa

This Element explores embodied, embedded, extended, and enactive cognition, challenging computational approaches. It draws from paradigms like enactive cognition, cybernetic and systems-theoretical approaches, phenomenological perspectives, Gibson’s affordances theory, and multi-instrumentalist practice to understand music performance.

Elements in Twenty-First Century Music Practice

75pp

Feb. 2025 9781009249911 Paperback

Feb. 2025 9781009517157 Hardback eISBN 9781009249904

Music criticism

Romantic

Music Aesthetics

Creating a Politics of Emotion

Pritchard, Matthew | University of Leeds

Romantic music aesthetics has often been reduced to tired clichés of ineffable feeling and art for art’s sake. This book instead explores the groundbreaking philosophical insights and radical politics that Romantic thinkers applied to music –both popular and classical – and the emotions it inspires.

276pp

Nov. 2024 9781009491648 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009491679

Music performance

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A History of Stringed Keyboard Instruments

Pollens, Stewart

A wide-ranging history of the piano, clavichord, and harpsichord, from their origins in the fourteenth century to the present. It will interest scholars, keyboard instrument players, makers and technicians, as well as those who simply enjoy listening to over five centuries of keyboard music.

593pp

Jan. 2024 9781108434454 Paperback GBP 27.99 / USD 36.99

eISBN 9781108379915

Singing Zarzuela, 1869–1958

Approaching Portamento and Musical Expression through Historical Recordings

Moreda Rodríguez, Eva | University of Glasgow

By focusing on portamento, this Element sets the foundations for a sensitive history of vocal performance practices in zarzuela. It tells us about the transformation of the expressive code of zarzuela. Other changes include the make-up of audiences, the discourses about the genre’s connection, and the influence of other genres and languages.

Elements in Musical Theatre

75pp

Jan. 2025 9781009419246 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Jan. 2025 9781009475747 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009419239

Violin Culture in Britain, 1870–1930

Music-making, Society, and the Popularity of Stringed Instruments

Bashford, Christina | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Debussy in Context

Trezise, Simon | Trinity College Dublin

Exploring the many dimensions of Debussy’s historical significance, this volume charts the influences, relationships and performances that shaped his creativity in the complex world of Belle Époque Paris. Reflecting the latest research, chapters focus on key aspects of his career and the sources of his enduring popularity.

Composers in Context

358pp

May 2024 9781108472067 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 125.00

eISBN 9781108560986

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Music and Victorian Liberalism

Composing the Liberal Subject

Collins, Sarah | University of Western Australia, Perth

Presents a new perspective on the aesthetic aspects of liberalism through examinations of music and ideas about music, including listening practices, performance contexts and modes of embodiment across elite and amateur spheres. This book will nuance current understanding, and will appeal to scholars of both Victorian literature and music.

268pp 11 b/w illus. 19 music examples

A historical, thematically organised study of the unprecedented growth and popularity of stringed instruments in Britain from the Victorian era to 1930, this book examines the social spread of string playing, its infrastructure and grassroots activities, and the presence of the violin in the British popular imagination of the time.

320pp

Dec. 2024 9781108842877 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781108906548

Nineteenth-century music

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Beethoven’s Symphonies

Arranged for the Chamber

Sociability, Reception, and Canon Formation

November, Nancy | University of Auckland

Classical symphonies are often considered as works for full orchestra, demanding fidelity to the composers’ orchestral scores in performance, listening and study. This book resituates the cultural context, uncovering a largely untapped wealth of early nineteenth-century domestic musicmaking and chamber ensemble arrangements of Beethoven’s works.

276pp

Aug. 2024 9781108927116 Paperback GBP 23.99 / USD 31.99

eISBN 9781108924207

Aug. 2024 9781108703161 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781108628778

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Music, Subjectivity, and Schumann

Taylor, Benedict

A timely and much-needed critical examination of the idea of musical subjectivity, this book draws on philosophy, critical theory and music analysis to probe the meaning of this elusive concept. Benedict Taylor focuses on the music of Robert Schumann, with whose music the term ‘subjectivity’ is probably most closely associated.

380pp

Aug. 2024 9781009158077 Paperback GBP 27.99 / USD 36.99

eISBN 9781009158091

Schubert’s Piano

Gardner, Matthew | Universität Tübingen

Revealing the connections that link Schubert’s distinctive sound world to performance practice, social history, aesthetics, organology, analysis and interpretation, this book offers a new understanding of Schubert’s piano music for researchers, students, performers and listeners interested in early nineteenth-century Viennese musical culture.

378pp

Oct. 2024 9781316515365 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00

eISBN 9781009022767

The Lied at the Crossroads of Performance and Musicology

Binder, Benjamin | Duquesne University, Pittsburgh

Leading musicologists and prominent German Lied performers collectively reveal productive connections between their two approaches, thereby opening doors to fresh and exciting modes of interpretative artistry and intellectual discovery. Investigates how historical, cultural and aesthetic research offer new perspectives on this important repertoire.

248pp

Feb. 2024 9781316518847 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009003605

Wagner in Context

Trippett, David | University of Cambridge

Few composers embodied wider cultural interests than Wagner. This collection brings together leading scholarship on Wagner, his social and intellectual contexts, and reception while casting an eye forward to contexts of Wagner’s ongoing reception, from video gaming to sound recording, Israel to German media theory, and twenty-first century warfare.

Composers in Context

484pp

Twentieth-century and contemporary music

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Benjamin Britten in Context

Stroeher, Vicki P | Marshall University, West Virginia Britten in Context offers historical, social, cultural, queer, musical, and political context for one of the pivotal British composers of the twentieth century. Engaging essays from leading scholars in music, art, theory, performance, religion, and cultural and music history reward readers of all academic levels.

Composers in Context

426pp

Mar. 2024 9781108836463 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108871150

Opera

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Italian Opera in Global and Transnational Perspective

Reimagining Italianità in the Long Nineteenth Century

Körner, Axel | University College London

As Italian opera gained an international following during the nineteenth century, the idea of operatic Italianness constantly evolved as a result of transnational exchanges between composers, promoters, musicians and audiences. This book explores the processes involved in constructing these shifting national identities and interprets their effects.

340pp

May 2024 9781108721844 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 eISBN 9781108634878

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Elliott Carter’s Late Music

Link, John

The first comprehensive study of the late music of one of the most influential composers of the last half century, this book includes detailed essays on all of Carter’s major works after 1995, with special emphasis on his settings of contemporary modernist poetry from Ashbery to Zukofsky.

Music since 1900

508pp

May 2024 9781108826884 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 31.99

eISBN 9781108920636

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Music Theatre and the Holy Roman Empire

The German Musical Stage at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century

Glatthorn, Austin | University of Durham

Designed for music scholars, historians, and those interested in music of the ‘Classical era’, Glatthorn’s book explores the contexts in which Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven lived, going beyond these individuals to uncover the musical figures, processes, and materials that shaped the world of Central European music theatre c.1800.

389pp

May 2024 9781009066068 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99

eISBN 9781009067485

Feb. 2024 9781009490269 Paperback GBP 27.99 / USD 36.99

eISBN 9781139019873

Leonard Bernstein in Context

Wells, Elizabeth A. | Mount Allison University, Canada

From his early education, through his conducting and composing careers, to his fame as musical and cultural ambassador to the world, this book introduces Bernstein the man and the artist and provides fascinating insights into American classical music and musical theatre culture during Bernstein’s long career in the public spotlight. Composers in Context

380pp

Mar. 2024 9781108835701 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108891349

Musical Modernism in Global Perspective

Entangled Histories on a Shared Planet

Heile, Björn | University of Glasgow

In a series of historical and analytical case studies from different parts of the world, this first study of the global dimensions of musical modernism focuses on the transnational entanglements between the West and other world regions, overcoming the respective limitations of both Eurocentric and postcolonial, revisionist accounts.

Music in Context

286pp

May 2024 9781009491709 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009491716

Original Pirate Material

The Streets and Hip-hop Transatlantic Exchange

Williams, Justin A. | University of Bristol

This Element explores several themes in the album Original Pirate Material: white masculinity, the everyday, technology, sampling, hybridity, the Black Atlantic, and US-UK transatlantic relations. It examines the exoticism of Englishness from a US perspective and within the wider context of AngloAmerican cross influence in post-WWII music.

Elements in Twenty-First Century Music Practice

75pp

Nov. 2024 9781009162623 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Nov. 2024 9781009517096 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

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Popular Music in Brazil

Identity, Genres and Industry

Tupinambá de Ulhôa, Martha | Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

The Element outlines an overview of popular music in Brazil, from the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twenty-first century. An idea of ‘popular music’ was consolidated from being associated with rural musical performances of oral tradition to the recorded urban musical genres that were established through radio and television.

Elements in Popular Music

75pp

The Cambridge Companion to the Rite of Spring

Caddy, Davinia | University of Auckland

A Companion not only to Stravinsky’s pathbreaking score, but to the ballet’s legacy across the centuries. It illuminates the controversial Ballets Russes premiere in 1913 and the complex artistic developments and scholarly debates it set in motion, intertwining music, theatrical ballet and modern dance with the wider world of ideas.

Cambridge Companions to Music

320pp

Nov. 2024 9781009357197 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Nov. 2024 9781009565240 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009357180

The Cambridge Companion to West Side Story

Laird, Paul R. | University of Kansas

A multi-disciplinary, contemporary analysis of one of the most important musicals of the twentieth century. Leading scholars in music, theatre, dance, literature, and performance introduce the history, creation, content, and legacy of West Side Story, and its cultural contexts and challenges, including class, colourism, and race.

Cambridge Companions to Music

320pp

Dec. 2024 9781108747752 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

Dec. 2024 9781108489959 Hardback GBP 70.00 / USD 90.00

eISBN 9781108784849

The Cambridge Companion to the Electric Guitar

Herbst, Jan-Peter | University of Huddersfield

Designed for students and others seeking an up-to-date introduction, this Companion explores electric guitar technology, culture, and music. It approaches the instrument from multiple angles ranging from manufacture to virtuoso performance, from worldwide popularity to online communities, enabling a richer understanding of its global influence.

Cambridge Companions to Music

376pp

Oct. 2024 9781009224451 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

Oct. 2024 9781009224406 Hardback GBP 70.00 / USD 90.00

eISBN 9781009224420

May 2025 9781108700993 Paperback GBP 23.99 / USD 29.99

May 2025 9781108476539 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.00

eISBN 9781108568685

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The Cambridge Stravinsky Encyclopedia

Campbell, Edward | University of Aberdeen

Details the life, works, writings and aesthetic relationships of Igor Stravinsky, whose music epitomises the stylistic crisis of twentieth-century music. His Russian, neo-classical and serial periods along with his writings and wide-ranging creative engagements are presented in over 430 entries by more than fifty international contributors.

578pp 2 tables 19 music examples

Aug. 2024 9781316506202 Paperback GBP 27.99 / USD 39.99

eISBN 9781316493205

The Year that Made the Musical

1924 and the Glamour of Musical Theatre

Everett, William A. | University of Missouri, Kansas City

The musicals playing in 1924 were a stunning combination of the old and the new. William Everett reveals, in this compelling new book, a transnational network of stars, creators, producers and shows where established performers appeared alongside youthful talent that included George Gershwin, Gertrude Lawrence, and Fred and Adele Astaire. 272pp

Jul. 2024 9781009316514 Hardback GBP 30.00 / USD 39.99

eISBN 9781009316545

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Thomas Adès Studies

Venn, Edward | University of Leeds

This benchmark collection of essays contain authoritative accounts of Thomas Adès’s major compositions from a variety of analytical, critical, cultural and historical perspectives. It will appeal not only to Adès specialists, but to those with an interest in contemporary music more broadly.

Cambridge Composer Studies 336pp

Aug. 2024 9781108708135 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99

eISBN 9781108761451

Vaughan Williams in Context

Onderdonk, Julian | West Chester University, Pennsylvania

Taking a revisionist perspective, this book places and explores Vaughan Williams’s life and music in their broad musical, cultural, social, and political contexts, and reassesses their significance. Drawing on new research and archival materials, it is an up-to-date resource for students and scholars of twentieth-century British music and culture.

Composers in Context

342pp

Apr. 2024 9781108493321 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 115.00

eISBN 9781108681261

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Whose Country Music?

Genre, Identity, and Belonging in Twenty-FirstCentury Country Music Culture

Bishop, Paula J.

PArticipation in country music culture has long been dictated and restricted by entrenched systems of gatekeeping. This collection contests those systems and challenges the received narrative, examining contemporary issues in country music through feminist, intersectional, and postcolonialist theories.

322pp

May 2024 9781108927680 Paperback GBP 23.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781108937443

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