Egyptology

Edited by Anton Powell, Late Director of Classical Press of Wales, UK & Paula Debnar, Mount Holyoke College, USA This volume is the second of a series in which the Classical Press of Wales applies to Spartan history the approach it is already using for the history of Rome's revolutionary era: focusing in turn on each of the main sources on which historians depend, and analysing with a combination of historical and literary methods.

UK February 2021 • 270 pages HB 9781910589755 • £60.00 Classical Press of Wales World English (excluding Canada/Mexico/USA)

Military Leaders and Sacred Space in Classical Greek Warfare

Temples, Sanctuaries and Confl ict in Antiquity

Sonya Nevin, University of Roehampton, UK This is a groundbreaking study of the signifi cance of the sacred in warfare and the wider culture of antiquity. Sonya Nevin addresses the customs and conduct of leaders in relation to sanctuaries, precincts, temples and sacral objects. Focusing on a variety of Greek kings and captains, this book shows how military leaders were expected to react to the sacred sites of their foes. Nevin further explores how they were likely to respond, and how their responses shaped the way such generals were viewed by their communities and also by those like Herodotus, Thucydides and Xenophon who were writing their lives.

UK February 2021 • US February 2021 • 320 pages PB 9781350247130 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781784532857 ePub 9781786720672 • £26.09 / $33.25 ePdf 9781786730671 • £26.09 / $33.25 Bloomsbury Academic

Mirrors and Mirroring from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period

Edited by Maria Gerolemou, University of Exeter, UK & Lilia Diamantopoulou, University of Vienna, Austria This volume examines mirrors and mirroring through a series of multidisciplinary essays, especially focusing on the intersection between technological and cultural dynamics of mirrors. International scholars here explore critical questions around the mirror as artefact and the phenomenon of mirroring. They also examine a selection of theory from ancient writers, consider the role refl ections can play in forming ideas of gender and identity, as well as the way in which magical mirrors reveal the invisible divine.

UK July 2021 • US July 2021 • 296 pages • 20 bw illus PB 9781350193895 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350101289 ePub 9781350101302 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9781350101296 • £76.50 / $94.85 Bloomsbury Academic

After the Crisis: Remembrance, Re-anchoring and Recovery in Ancient Greece and Rome

Edited by Jacqueline Klooster, University of Groningen, Netherlands & Inger N.I. Kuin, Dartmouth College, USA This volume aims to explore how crises resulting from war or other individual upheavals were remembered in the ancient world, and how communities reconstituted themselves after a crisis. Contributors examine traces of recovery strategies in texts as well as visual representations; in literary as well as in documentary texts; and in offi cial ideology as much as in subaltern responses. After the Crisis brings together the diverse testimonies for such ways of coping that have survived from antiquity.

"A highly impressive collection of scholarship by leading experts that reminds us in the modern world, that antiquity too was characterised by crises."

Jason Crowley, Senior Lecturer in Ancient History, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

UK August 2021 • US August 2021 • 280 pages • 12 bw illus PB 9781350193680 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350128552 ePub 9781350128576 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9781350128569 • £76.50 / $94.85 Bloomsbury Academic

Lucan's Imperial World

The Bellum Civile in its Contemporary Contexts

Edited by Laura Zientek, Brigham Young University, USA & Mark Thorne, Brigham Young University, USA These new essays comprise the fi rst collective study of Lucan and his epic poem, the Bellum Civile, that focuses specifi cally on points of contact between his text and the later environment in which he lived and wrote. The contributors offer innovative readings that seek to interpret Lucan’s epic in terms of the contemporary politics, philosophy, literature, rhetoric, geography, and cultural memory of the author’s lifetime. In doing so, these studies illuminate how approaching Lucan and his text in light of their contemporary environments enriches our understanding of author, text, and context individually and in conversation with each other.

UK August 2021 • US August 2021 • 272 pages • 5 bw illus PB 9781350193727 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350097414 ePub 9781350097438 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9781350097421 • £76.50 / $94.85 Bloomsbury Academic

Hammurabi of Babylon

Dominique Charpin, Collège de France, France In this fresh and engaging appraisal of one of antiquity's iconic fi gures, Dominique Charpin shows that Hammurabi, the sixth king of ancient Babylon and also its greatest, was not only one of the most able rulers in the whole of prehistory, but was also responsible for pivotal developments in the history of civilization. His geopolitical and military strategies enabled the expansion of the Babylonian city-state from a minor kingdom into the regional superpower of its age, but his visionary Code of Laws pioneered a new kind of lawmaking and remains infl uential to this day.

UK July 2021 • US July 2021 • 264 pages • 45 bw illus PB 9781350197787 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781848857520 ePub 9780857731999 • £81.00 / $101.01 ePdf 9780857724861 • £81.00 / $101.01 Bloomsbury Academic World English