Classical Studies

Elliott Carter’s Late Music

John Link

A comprehensive study of the late music of one of the most influential composers of the last half century.

Music since 1900

February 2022 247 x 174 mm 320pp 978-0-521-76976-1 Hardback £105.00 / US$135.00 X

Dylan, Lennon, Marx and God

Jon Stewart

Ground-breaking dual biography that explores pop music’s two most influential songwriters, offering new insights into their creative thinking.

February 2022 228 x 152 mm c.280pp 978-1-108-48981-2 Hardback £20.00 / US$26.99 P

Film Music in Concert

The Pioneering Role of the Boston Pops Orchestra Emilio Audissino

Explores film music’s role in the concert repertoire, highlighting how the Boston Pops under John Williams pioneered its inclusion.

Elements in Music since 1945

December 2021 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 978-1-00-900909-6 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P

Homer, Parmenides, and the Road to Demonstration

Benjamin Folit-Weinberg

Demonstrates how the invention of extended deductive argumentation by Parmenides depended on his use of poetic road imagery.

Cambridge Classical Studies

April 2022 216 x 138 mm c.348pp 17 b/w illus. 5 tables 978-1-00-904848-4 Paperback c. £29.99 / c. US$39.99 P

Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture

Ewen Bowie

Assembles and illustrates the evolution of a major scholar’s work on early Greek poetry, above all elegy, over four decades.

November 2021 228 x 152 mm 650pp 978-1-107-05808-8 Hardback £135.00 / US$175.00 C

Isokrates: The Forensic Speeches (Nos. 16–21)

Introduction, Text, Translation and Commentary David Whitehead

For the first time, the six speeches written for court-cases by the Athenian pundit Isokrates are translated and analysed together.

March 2022 978-1-108-30372-9 Multiple copy pack TBA / TBA CLASSICAL STUDIES

Architecture in Ancient Central Italy

Connections in Etruscan and Early Roman Building Charlotte R. Potts

Reconnects ancient buildings with the people who made them, with their surroundings, and with practices in other times and cultures.

British School at Rome Studies

February 2022 244 x 170 mm c.224pp 42 colour illus. 5 maps 978-1-108-84528-1 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C

Brecht and Tragedy

Radicalism, Traditionalism, Eristics Martin Revermann

Explores Brecht’s complex relationship with Greek tragedy and the tragic tradition, including significant archival material not seen before.

Classics after Antiquity

December 2021 244 x 170 mm c.288pp 36 b/w illus. 4 colour illus. 978-1-108-48968-3 Hardback £90.00 / US$120.00 C

Creating the Ancient Rhetorical Tradition

Laura Viidebaum

A new account of the emergence of the ancient rhetorical tradition, from Classical Athens to Augustan Rome.

Cambridge Classical Studies

November 2021 216 x 140 mm c.320pp 978-1-108-81258-0 Paperback £29.99 / US$39.99 P

Cicero and the Early Latin Poets

Hannah Čulík-Baird

Examines Cicero’s numerous citations of Latin poets within the cultural and intellectual trends of the late Roman Republic.

April 2022 229 x 152 mm c.300pp 978-1-316-51608-9 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C

Classics and Celtic Literary Modernism

Yeats, Joyce, MacDiarmid and Jones Gregory Baker

Analyzes the complex role receptions of antiquity had in forging nationalist ideology and literary modernism in Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

Classics after Antiquity

February 2022 228 x 152 mm c.320pp 978-1-108-84486-4 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C

Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War Book VI

Editor (introduction and notes) Christopher Pelling

Edition of the former part of Thucydides’ account of the Sicilian Expedition that ended so catastrophically for Athens (415413 BCE).

Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics

December 2021 216 x 138 mm 320pp 978-1-316-63021-1 Paperback £24.99 / US$32.99 X

Greek Epitaphic Poetry

A Selection Richard Hunter

The first accessible modern commentary on a selection of Greek inscribed epitaphs from c. 600 BC until late antiquity.

Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics

December 2021 216 x 138 mm c.320pp 10 b/w illus. 2 maps 978-1-108-92604-1 Paperback £26.99 / US$34.99 X

Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War Book VII

Editor (introduction and notes) Christopher Pelling

Edition of the latter part of Thucydides’ account of the Sicilian Expedition that ended so catastrophically for Athens (415413 BCE).

Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics

December 2021 216 x 138 mm 320pp 978-1-316-63022-8 Paperback £22.99 / US$29.99 X

The Christian Invention of Time

Temporality and the Literature of Late Antiquity Simon Goldhill

With trademark flair, Simon Goldhill shows how Christianity transformed humanity’s relationship with time in ways that resonate today.

Greek Culture in the Roman World

January 2022 229 x 152 mm c.450pp 978-1-316-51290-6 Hardback £34.99 / US$44.99 P

Explorations in Ancient and Modern Philosophy (Vols 3-4 2-Volume Set)

2 Volumes Hardback Set

Myles Burnyeat Carol Atack Malcolm Schofield David Sedley

Collects important papers, some previously unpublished, on Plato, Aristotle, central topics in ancient philosophy, and its later reception.

October 2021 228 x 152 mm c.950pp 978-1-00-904777-7 2 Volumes Hardback Set £175.00 / US$230.00 C

The Cambridge Companion to Cicero’s Philosophy

Jed W. Atkins Thomas Bénatouïl

Introduces Cicero’s philosophy and demonstrates its relevance to many fundamental epistemological, ethical, and political issues.

Cambridge Companions to Philosophy

December 2021 228 x 152 mm c.320pp 978-1-108-40403-7 Paperback £24.99 / US$34.99 P

Epicurus in Rome

Philosophical Perspectives in the Ciceronian Age Edited by Sergio Yona Gregson Davis

Explores the influence of and debates about Greek philosophy, especially Epicureanism, in the late Roman republic.

November 2021 228 x 152 mm c.248pp 978-1-108-84505-2 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C

Plato’s Charmides

An Interpretative Commentary Voula Tsouna

A close text commentary showing the interplay of the philosophical issues, the characters and the dialectic across the dialogue.

February 2022 229 x 152 mm c.300pp 978-1-316-51111-4 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C

Explorations in Ancient and Modern Philosophy

Volume 3

Myles Burnyeat Carol Atack Malcolm Schofield David Sedley

Collects important studies on Plato and his subsequent reception and presents hitherto unpublished lectures, ‘The Archaeology of Feeling’.

December 2021 228 x 152 mm c.500pp 978-1-316-51793-2 Hardback £105.00 / US$135.00 C

Explorations in Ancient and Modern Philosophy

Volume 4

Myles Burnyeat Carol Atack Malcolm Schofield David Sedley

Collects important papers on various key issues in Plato and Aristotle and on the early history of Greek optics.

November 2021 228 x 152 mm c.450pp 978-1-316-51794-9 Hardback £90.00 / US$120.00 C

Kellis

A Roman-Period Village in Egypt’s Dakhleh Oasis Edited by Colin A. Hope Gillian E. Bowen

Rich account of life over four centuries in a village of Roman Egypt incorporating recent archaeological and textual discoveries.

October 2018 244 x 170 mm 400pp 978-0-521-19032-9 Hardback c. £105.00 / c. US$135.00 C

Galen’s Epistemology

Experience, Reason, and Method in Ancient Medicine R. J. Hankinson Matyás Havrda

Explores Galen’s contributions to (mainly scientific) epistemology and their legacy in the Islamic world.

April 2022 229 x 152 mm c.348pp 978-1-316-51348-4 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C

A Commentary on Panegyrici Latini II(12)

An Oration Delivered by Pacatus Drepanius before the Emperor Theodosius I in the Senate at Rome, AD 389 Roger Rees

One of the most accomplished Latin speeches of Late Antiquity, here given full historical, rhetorical and literary examination.

April 2022 216 x 138 mm 400pp 978-1-107-15504-6 Hardback £120.00 / US$155.00 R