Ancient Art & Culture

Casting the Parthenon Sculptures from the Eighteenth Century to the Digital Age

Emma M. Payne, King's College London, UK This book examines the role of 19th century casts as an archaeological resource and explores how their materiality and spread impacted the reception of the Parthenon marbles and other Greek and Roman works. Investigation of their historical context is combined with analysis of new digital models of the Parthenon sculptures and their casts; the 19th century casts are found to be even more accurate than anticipated and through studying them we can retrieve surface information now lost from the originals through weathering, vandalism and cleaning.

UK April 2021 • US April 2021 • 256 pages • 100 bw illus HB 9781350120341 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350120365 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9781350120358 • £76.50 / $94.85 Bloomsbury Academic

Mountain Dialogues from Antiquity to Modernity

Bringing ancient and modern discourses on mountains into conversation with each other, this book highlights the ongoing relevance of ancient understandings of the mountain environment to postclassical and present-day responses. The volume argues that in order to understand ancient environments we need to see them as part of a long history, and that although modern approaches to landscape are able to open up new questions about the ancient world, we must also understand the ways in which they participate in patterns that stretch right back to the ancient Mediterranean.

Behind the Mask

Character and Society in Menander Angela M. Heap, Independent Scholar, UK This new study of Menander casts fresh light on one of the most popular ancient dramatists. Menander wrote over 100 comedies, but these survived only in excerpts and quotation until significant texts reappeared in the 19th and 20th centuries on papyrus. Angela Heap draws upon this material, as well as archaeological evidence including theatrical masks. She presents a detailed investigation of the historical setting of Menander's plays and examines techniques of characterisation. Key themes include the importance of social status and citizenship, and the characterisation of women and slaves.

Master of Attic Black Figure Painting

The Art and Legacy of Exekias Elizabeth Moignard, University of Glasgow, UK The great 6th-century BCE Attic potter-painter Exekias is acclaimed as the most accomplished exponent of late 'black-figure' art, though little has been written about him in his own right. Elizabeth Moignard here corrects that neglect by addressing her subject as more than just a painter. As well as discussing a range of ceramic pieces and deconstructing the iconic images they depict, she positions Exekias as a remarkable man of his age who drew on the great corpus of Homeric literature to explore its own emerging concepts of honour, heroism, leadership and military tradition. This book is the most complete introduction to its subject to be published in English.

UK December 2020 • US December 2020 • 200 pages • 66 bw illus, 8 colour illus PB 9781350197367 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781780761411

Edited by Dawn Hollis, University of St Andrews, UK & Jason König, University of St Andrews, UK Bloomsbury Academic

UK April 2021 • US March 2021 • 272 pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781350162822 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781350162846 • £81.00 / $101.01 ePdf 9781350162839 • £81.00 / $101.01 Series: Ancient Environments • Bloomsbury Academic

Textiles and Gender in Antiquity

From the Orient to the Mediterranean Edited by Mary Harlow, University of Leicester, UK, Cecile Michel, CNRS, Archéologie et Sciences de l’Antiquité, France & Louise Quillien, University of Paris I PanthéonSorbonne, France. This volume looks at how the issues of textiles and gender intertwine across three millennia in antiquity, and examines the continuities and differences across time and space – with surprising resonances for the modern world. The interplay of gender, identity and textile production and use is notable on many levels, from the question of who was involved in the transformation of raw materials into fabric to the wearing of garments and the construction of identity. The detailed analysis of textual source material and rich illustrations ably demonstrate how dress and gender are intimately linked in the visual and written records of antiquity.

UK November 2020 • US November 2020 • 328 pages • 82 bw illus and 16 colour illus HB 9781350141490 • £120.00 / $160.00 ePub 9781350141513 • £108.00 / $134.28 ePdf 9781350141506 • £108.00 / $134.28

Bloomsbury Academic

UK December 2020 • US December 2020 • 216 pages • 9 bw images PB 9781350190696 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781472534927 ePub 9781472528094 • £81.00 / $101.01 ePdf 9781472528063 • £81.00 / $101.01 Series: Classical Literature and Society • Bloomsbury Academic

Ecology and Theology in the Ancient World

Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives Edited by Ailsa Hunt, University of Birmingham, UK & Hilary F. Marlow, University of Cambridge, UK This interdisciplinary volume brings together the voices of biblical scholars, classicists, philosophers, theologians and political theorists in a new and dynamic exploration of ancient pagan, Jewish and Christian thinking about the intersection of theology and ecology. From Greenpeace campaigns to the 5p plastic bag charge, ecological concerns have been gaining ground in public consciousness over recent decades. It is easy to assume that ecological awareness is something quintessentially modern, yet inhabitants of the ancient world were also acutely conscious of the natural world and their relationship with it.

UK September 2020 • US September 2020 • 216 pages PB 9781350183285 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350004047 ePub 9781350004054 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9781350004061 • £76.50 / $94.85 Bloomsbury Academic