Philip Waddell, Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Arizona, USA Combining the studies of modern film, traditional narratology, and Roman art, this interdisciplinary work explores the complex and highly visual techniques of Tacitus' Annales. The volume opens with a discussion of current research in narratology, as applied to Roman historians. Narratology is a helpful and insightful tool, but is often inadequate to deal with specifically visual aspects of ancient narrative. In order to illuminate Tacitus’ techniques, and to make them speak to modern readers, this book focuses on drawing and illustrating parallels between Tacitus’ historiographical methods and modern film effects. UK November 2020 • US November 2020 • 256 pages • 25 bw illus HB 9781350097001 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350097025 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9781350097018 • £76.50 / $94.85 Bloomsbury Academic
The Toga and Roman Identity Ursula Rothe, Open University, UK
This book traces the toga’s history from its origins in the Etruscan garment known as the tebenna, through its use as an everyday garment in the Republican period to its increasingly exclusive role as a symbol of privilege in the Principate and its decline in use in late antiquity. It aims to shift the scholarly view of the toga from one dominated by its role as a feature of Roman art to one in which it is seen as an everyday object and a highly charged symbol that in its various forms was central to the definition and negotiation of important gender, age and status boundaries, as well as political stances and ideologies. UK June 2021 • US June 2021 • 256 pages • 30 bw illus PB 9781350194410 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781472571540 ePub 9781472571557 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9781472571564 • £76.50 / $94.85 Bloomsbury Academic
Ancient Persia in Western History
Hellenism and the Representation of the Achaemenid Empire Sasan Samiei
Multisensory Living in Ancient Rome Power and Space in Roman Houses
Hannah Platts, University of Royal Holloway, UK Essential reading for all students and researchers interested in Roman daily life and domestic architecture, this volume draws on a diverse range of evidence and an innovative combination of methodological approaches to explore multi-sensory experience – auditory, olfactory, tactile, gustatory and visual – in domestic environments in Rome for the first time, from the second century BCE to the second century CE. Moving between social registers, from non-elite urban insula to lavish country villas, each chapter takes the reader through a different type of room and offers insights into the reasons, emotions and cultural factors behind perception, recording and control of bodily senses in the home. UK June 2021 • US June 2021 • 360 pages • 30 bw illus PB 9781350194496 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781788312998 ePub 9781350114326 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9781350114319 • £76.50 / $94.85 Bloomsbury Academic
The Trial of Warren Hastings Classical Oratory and Reception in Eighteenth-Century England Chiara Rolli, University of Parma, Italy Using contemporary journalism, satire and other ephemera, the book reconstructs the impeachment trial of the first Governor-General of India, showing that in an age when British education consisted mainly of classical studies, it was antique views of rhetoric, colonialism and good imperial governance that permeated the proceedings. With a prosecutor likened to Cicero and Hastings framed as Verres, the public had a profound grasp of these Classical parallels. This book illuminates new aspects of early British discourse around the Empire, and shows how deeply classical precedents influenced the cultural and political imaginations of 18th-century Britain.
C L A S S I C A L S T U D I E S - Roman History / Ancient Near East
Tacitean Visual Narrative
UK December 2020 • US December 2020 • 224 pages • 10 bw illus PB 9781350190627 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781784539221 ePub 9781350112759 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9781350112742 • £76.50 / $94.85 Bloomsbury Academic
Birth of the Persian Empire
Edited by Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis, Curator of Middle Eastern Coins at the British Museum, UK & Sarah Stewart, SOAS, UK
Reframing the dominant narrative around the Graeco-Persian Wars, which considers them as merely the first round of an oft-repeated battle between the despotic 'East' and the broadly enlightened 'West', Sasan Samiei offers a rigorous analysis of the historiography which has skewed our understanding of this crucial era. The volume explores the crosscultural encounters which constituted the Achaemenid period itself, and repositions it as essential to the history of Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
This book explores the formation of the first Persian Empire under the Achaemenid Persians, bringing together a multi-disciplinary view of ancient Iran in the first millennium BC. It concentrates on the art, archaeology, history and religion of a geographical area far beyond the present borders of modern Iran from the middle of the 6th century up to the collapse of the Persian Empire following conquest by Alexander the Great in the late 4th century BC.
UK May 2021 • US May 2021 • 336 pages PB 9781350197763 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781780764801 ePub 9780857736062 • £81.00 / $101.01 ePdf 9780857724144 • £81.00 / $101.01 Bloomsbury Academic
UK May 2021 • US May 2021 • 160 pages • 18 bw illus PB 9781350197732 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781845110628 ePub 9780857733078 • £81.00 / $101.01 ePdf 9780857710925 • £81.00 / $101.01 Series: The Idea of Iran • Bloomsbury Academic
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