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T H E A N NA L S OF
TAC I T U S BOOK S 5 A ND 6 A . J. WOODM A N
Books 5 and 6 of Tacitus¹ Annals cover the last years of the emperor Tiberius. Although most of Book 5 is lost, Book 6 survives complete and offers a vivid narrative of the increasingly tyrannical princeps, secluded on the island of Capri; the book ends with his death and obituary notice, one of the most celebrated passages of classical literature. The volume presents a new text of Books 5 and 6, restoring the division between them which was proposed by Lipsius, as well as a full commentary on the text, covering textual, literary, linguistic and historical matters. An Appendix discusses ‘The Tacitean Tiberius’. The volume rounds off the sequence which began with commentary on Books 1 and 2 of Tacitus¹ Annals by F. R. D. Goodyear (1972, 1981) and was continued by commentary on Book 3 by A. J. Woodman and R. H. Martin (1996).
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Classical literature
Sophocles: Electra, edited by P. J. Finglass 978 0 521 86809 9 Pindar: Pythian Eleven, edited by P. J. Finglass 978 0 521 88481 5 Decimus Laberius: The Fragments, edited by Costas Panayotakis 978 0 521 88523 2 Galen: On Problematical Movements, edited by Vivian Nutton with an edition of the Arabic translation by Gerrit Bos 978 0 521 11549 0 Sophocles: Ajax, edited by P. J. Finglass 978 1 107 00307 1 The Colloquia of the Hermeneumata Pseudodositheana, Volume I, edited by Eleanor Dickey 978 1 107 02010 8 Diogenes Laertius: Lives of Eminent Philosophers, edited by Tiziano Dorandi 978 0 521 88681 9 The Annals of Tacitus: Book 11, edited by S. J. V. Malloch 978 1 107 01110 6 Aenesidemus of Cnossus: Testimonia, edited by Roberto Polito 978 0 521 19025 1 The Colloquia of the Hermeneumata Pseudodositheana, Volume II, edited by Eleanor Dickey 978 1 107 06539 0
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Spanning the entire history of the city of Rome from an Iron Age village to a modern metropolis, this is the first book to take the long view of the Eternal City as an urban organism.Three thousand years old and counting, Rome has thrived almost from the start on self-reference, supplementing the everyday concerns of urban management and planning by projecting its own past onto the city of the moment.
Ancient philosophy
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Classical studies (general) Also of interest
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Rabun Taylor is Associate Professor of classics at the University of Texas at Austin. He has published articles in the American Journal of Archaeology, the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, the Journal of Roman Archaeology, and Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome. His books include Public Needs and Private Pleasures: Water Distribution, the Tiber River, and the Urban Development of Ancient Rome (2000) and Roman Builders: A Study in Architectural Process (2003). Katherine W. Rinne is an independent scholar and lecturer at the University of California at Berkeley and Adjunct Professor of architecture at California College of the Arts. Her book The Waters of Rome: Aqueducts, Fountains, and the Birth of the Baroque City won the 2011 John Brinkerhoff Jackson Prize for Landscape History from the Foundation for Landscape Studies and the 2012 Spiro Kostof Award for Urban History from the Society of Architectural Historians. She is Project Director for Aquae Urbis Romae: The Waters of the City of Rome.
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ROME
Byzantine studies
9781107601499 TAYLOR – ROME CVR C M Y K
This is a study of the urban processes by which Rome’s people and leaders, both as custodians of its illustrious past and as agents of its expansive power, have shaped and conditioned its urban fabric by manipulating geography and organizing space; planning infrastructure; designing and presiding over mythmaking, ritual, and stagecraft; controlling resident and transient populations; and exploiting Rome’s standing as a seat of global power and a religious capital.
TAYLOR | RINNE | KOSTOF
Ancient history
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ROME An Urban History from Antiquity to the Present
Spiro Kostof (1936–1991) was Professor of architecture at the University of California at Berkeley and one of the foremost architectural and urban historians of the twentieth century. His books include A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals (1985), The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings through History (1991), and The City Assembled: Elements of Urban Form through History (1992). His previously unpublished Mathews Lectures at Columbia University, delivered in 1976, form the foundation of the middle section of this book.
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RABUN TAYLOR | KATHERINE W. RINNE SPIRO KOSTOF
Cover image: High point view over city of Rome, Italy. Copyright: Marius GODOI. Cover design: Alice Soloway
When we try to make sense of pictures, what do we gain when we use a particular method – and what might we be missing or even losing? Empirical experimentation on three types of mythological imagery – a classical Greek pot, a
Lorenz
Information on related journals Inside back cover
frieze from Hellenistic Pergamon and a second-century-CE Roman sarcophagus (specifically, iconology, semiotics, and image studies) impact the meanings we elicit from Greek and Roman art. A guide to classical images of myth and also a critical history of classical archaeology’s attempts to give meaning to pictures, this book establishes a dialogue with the wider field of art history and proposes a new framework for the study of ancient visual culture. It will be essential reading not just for students of classical art history and archaeology, but for anyone interested in the possibilities – and the history – of studying visual culture. Katharina Lorenz is Associate Professor in Classical Studies in the Department of Classics and Director of the Digital Humanities Centre at the University of Nottingham. Her main research interest is in the methodologies for the study of Classical art and their implications for historical understanding. She is the author of Bilder machen Räume. Mythenbilder in pompeianischen Häusern (Berlin, 2008) and has published widely on Greek and Roman visual narrative, Roman painting and the domestic context, art historiography and intellectual history, and digital heritage engagement.
Ancient Mythological Images and Their Interpretation
– enables Katharina Lorenz to demonstrate how theoretical approaches to images
Ancient Mythological Images and Their Interpretation
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An Introduction to Iconology, Semiotics, and Image Studies in Classical Art History Katharina Lorenz
Cover illustration: Pergamon Altar, south frieze (detail). The three-faceted goddess Hecate fighting against Klytios. Pergamon Museum, Berlin. Photo: PRISMA ARCHIVO / Alamy.
counts himself fortunate to have escaped at the age of twenty-six to the hyper-stimulating environments of New York City and the Columbia University History
The Roman Empire was one of the largest and most enduring in world history. In his new book, distinguished historian William Harris sets out to explain, within an eclectic theoretical framework, the waxing and eventual
Republican Rome, Ancient Literacy, Restraining Rage:
waning of Roman imperial power, together with the
the Ideology of Anger Control in Classical Antiquity (which won the Breasted Prize of the American
Roman community’s internal power structures (political
Historical Association), Dreams and Experience in
power, social power, gender power, economic power).
Classical Antiquity, and Rome’s Imperial Economy, he
Effectively integrating analysis with a compelling
has also edited books about ancient money, the ancient
narrative, he traces this linkage between the external and
Mediterranean, and the spread of Christianity, among other subjects. Among other honours, he is a Fellow
the internal through three very long periods, and part
of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a
of the originality of the book is that it almost uniquely
Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.
considers both the gradual rise of the Roman Empire and its demise as an empire in the fifth and seventh centuries AD. Professor Harris contends that comparing the Romans of these diverse periods sharply illuminates both the growth and the shrinkage of Roman power as well as the empire’s extraordinary durability.
ROMAN POWER
Department. The author of War and Imperialism in
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1 The long-term evolution of Roman power
H A R R IS
The pupil of extraordinary Oxford teachers, W. V. Harris
2 The Romans against outsiders, 400 BC to AD 16
3 The Romans against each other, from republic to monarchy 4 The Romans against outsiders, AD 16 to 337 5 The Romans against each other: from empire to nation?
ROMAN POWER
6 The Romans against outsiders, AD 337 to 641 7 The Romans against each other in two long crises 8 Retrospect and some reflections
A THOUSA ND Y E A R S OF EMPIR E
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W. V. H A R R IS
Jacket illustration: Cameo, Gemma Augustea. Early Roman Empire, AD 9–12. © KHM-Museumsverband. PRINTED IN THE UNITED KINGDOM
“Of the many books written about classical Athenian dimension to the politicial and military events of this most famous period of ancient history.”
– christopher W. Blackwell,
The louis G. Forgione University
Professor of classics, Furman University
“A clearly written and highly readable biography of Pericles,
one of the most controversial protagonists of the golden age of Athens. Martin has skillfully produced an impressive portrait of the Alcmaeonid in the context of ancient sources. A thoughtful insight into the life of Pericles for students, scholars, and general readers.”
– Monica Berti, University of leipzig
Pericles : A Biography in Context
History, Martin’s Pericles stands out for adding a rich human
Martin
Martin. 9780521116459 Jacket. c M Y K
With nearly forty years of experience teaching ancient history to nonspecialist audiences, Thomas R. Martin is the author of books including surveys of ancient Greece, ancient Rome, Alexander the Great, and the works of Herodotus and Sima Qian, and An Overview of Classical Greek History online at the Perseus Project, which has been consulted by countless readers since its appearance as the fi rst resource of its kind on the subject. He has also appeared in various documentaries on ancient history shown on television around the world.
Pericles A Biography in Context
Cover image: Alma-Tadema, Lawrence (1836–1912). Pericles and Aspasia listening to Phidias describing the Parthenon frieze, 1868, oil on canvas, 72 x 110 cm. Birmingham City Museums. Cover design by Holly Johnson Printed in the United States of America
Thomas R. Martin
Pericles was the most famous leader of the most famous ancient Greek democracy – and also extremely controversial in his own time and ever since. Was he a brutal imperialist ready to oppress other Greeks, or a clear-eyed defender of Athens’ need for power to survive in a relentlessly hostile world? How did his intellectual training in ideas that many Athenians regarded as dangerous make him the most persuasive leader Athenian democracy ever knew? Why was his personal lifestyle so idiosyncratic? How should we evaluate his responsibility for the suffering and loss of the Peloponnesian War? Thomas R. Martin’s unique emphasis on the effect on Pericles of his family’s notorious history, his youthful experiences as a wartime refugee, and his unusual education reveals a brilliant politician whose hyperrationality could not, in the end, protect him or his community from tragedy.
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Classical languages
Classical languages
exercises in the Grammar and Exercises volume.
The Cambridge Grammar of Classical Greek
Publication August 2017
Evert van Emde Boas University of Oxford
Albert Rijksbaron Universiteit van Amsterdam
Luuk Huitink Universität Heidelberg
and Mathieu de Bakker Universiteit van Amsterdam
This is the first full-scale reference grammar of classical Greek in English in a century, and the first work of its kind that reflects significant advances in linguistics made in the past few decades. It offers students, teachers and academics a comprehensive yet user-friendly treatment. The chapters on phonology and morphology make full use of insights from comparative and historical linguistics to elucidate complex systems of roots, stems and endings. The syntax offers linguistically up-to-date descriptions of such topics as case usage, tense and aspect, voice, subordinate clauses, infinitives and participles. An innovative section on textual coherence treats particles and word order, and discusses several sample passages in detail demonstrating new ways of approaching Greek texts. Throughout the book numerous original examples are offered, all with translations and often with clarifying notes. Clearly laid-out tables, helpful cross-references and full indexes make the book accessible for a variety of users. 2017 247 x 174 mm 575pp 5 b/w illus. 130 tables 978-0-521-19860-8 Hardback c. £100.00 / c. US$160.00 Publication September 2017 For all formats available, see
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An Independent Study Guide to Reading Latin Second edition Peter Jones and Keith Sidwell University of Calgary
This book accompanies the bestselling Latin course and is designed for students learning Latin on their own or with only limited access to a teacher. It contains notes on and translations of the Latin texts appearing in the Text and Vocabulary volume, and answers to the
2017 247 x 174 mm 190pp 10 tables 978-1-107-61560-1 Paperback c. £20.99 / c. US$34.99 For all formats available, see
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TEXTBOOK
Learn Latin from the Romans A Complete Introductory Course Using Textbooks from the Roman Empire Eleanor Dickey University of Reading
This is the only introductory Latin textbook to feature texts by ancient Romans specifically for Latin learners. It includes clear explanations of grammatical concepts, 5,000 easy practice sentences, and 158 longer passages (from inscriptions, graffiti, and Christian texts, as well as Catullus, Cicero, and Virgil – and, of course, the ancient Latin textbooks). Contents: Preface; Introduction; The pronunciation of Latin; Part I: 1. Verbs: inflection and word order; 2. Nouns: nominative, vocative, and accusative of first and second declensions; 3. Adjectives: gender, agreement, neuters, and vocabulary format; 4. Tenses: future, perfect, and principal parts; 5. Genitive case, sum; 6. First and second conjugations, past participles; 7. Dative case, possum; 8. Second declension in -r and -ius, substantivization; 9. Ablative case, prepositions, eō; 10. Demonstratives and imperatives; 11. Reading texts; Part II: 12. Personal pronouns, partitive and objective genitives; 13. Present subjunctive, quis; 14. Third declension; 15. Subordination, imperfect subjunctive, purpose clauses; 16. Sequence of tenses; 17. Fourth and mixed conjugations; 18. Reading practice; 19. Infinitives and indirect statement; 20. Reflexives; 21. Third-declension adjectives; 22. Reading practice; Part III: 23. Demonstratives, ablative of agent; 24. Participles; 25. Relative clauses and volō; 26. Reading practice; 27. Deponent verbs: forms from first two principal parts; 28. Indirect commands; 29. Deponent verbs: perfect-stem forms; 30. Fear clauses and long sentences; 31. Reading poetry; Part IV: 32. Passive voice, agent and means; 33. Result clauses; 34. Fourth and fifth declensions; 35. Time and place; 36. Reading practice; 37. Nōlō and mālō; 38. Regular comparison; 39. Imperfect tense; 40. Irregular comparison, negatives; 41. Gerundives; 42. Reading practice; 43. Adverbs; 44. Pluperfect and future perfect tenses; 45. Impersonal verbs; 46. Perfect and pluperfect subjunctives; 47. More subordinate clauses; 48. Reading
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practice; Part V: 49. Ferō; 50. Conditional clauses; 51. Fīō; 52. Ipse and iste; 53. Reading practice; 54. Indirect questions; 55. Numbers; 56. Relative clauses with the subjunctive; 57. Ablative absolute; 58. Īdem, expressions of price and value; 59. Reading practice; 60. Gerunds I; 61. Gerunds II; Appendices: 62. How to use the appendices; 63. Further grammatical explanations and exercises; 64. Key to further exercises; 65. Alphabetical glossary of grammatical terminology; 66. The metre of Virgil’s Aeneid; Cumulative vocabulary, Latin to English; Cumulative vocabulary, English to Latin; Index of grammatical topics covered; Index of Latin passages included. 2017 247 x 174 mm 350pp 1 b/w illus. 123 tables 978-1-107-14084-4 Hardback c. £55.00 / c. US$85.00 978-1-316-50619-6 Paperback c. £19.99 / c. US$29.99 Publication May 2017 For all formats available, see
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The Cambridge Introduction to Sanskrit A. M. Ruppel Cornell University, New York
This textbook uses modern approaches and tools to teach Sanskrit, introducing readers early on to annotated original passages. It requires no prior knowledge of linguistics or ancient languages, and clearly explains underlying structures and systems to facilitate memorisation. A dedicated website provides numerous resources for further practise. Contents: Acknowledgements; Studying Sanskrit; List of abbreviations; Notes for the reader; 1. Writing Sanskrit; 2. The system of Sanskrit sounds; 2a. Word stress: heavy and light syllables; 3. Road maps: verbs; 4. The present tense; 5. Road map: nominals; 6. ā-stems; 7. Vowel gradation and why we need to know about it; 8. Absolutives, ta-participle and infinitives; introduction to internal sandhi; 9. ā-stems; 10. Prepositions and preverbs; 11. Introduction to external sandhi I: consonant sandhi; 12. Imperfect indicative and present potential; 13. īand ū-stems; sandhi II: visarga sandhi; 14. Compound nouns; 15. Consonant stems I; 16. Sandhi III: vowel sandhi; 17. Noun formation; 18. Athematic verbs I; 19. Athematic verbs II; 20. Introduction to pronouns; pronouns I; 21. The future tense; middle and passive voice; 22. More participles; pronouns II; 23. Relative and correlative clauses; 24. Consonant stems II; imperatives; 25. Noun stems gradation; consonant stems III; 26. ī- and ū-stems; 27. The perfect tense I: regular perfect formation; 28. The perfect tense II: irregular and unexpected forms; 29. ŗ-stems, n-stems; the periphrastic future; 30. Secondary
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Early and Late Latin Continuity or Change? Edited by J. N. Adams All Souls College, Oxford
and Nigel Vincent University of Manchester
An original contribution to the history of Latin and its development into Romance by a group of leading specialists. The special focus on the issue of continuity and change, and the nature of the documentary evidence, makes this volume important for all those interested in the classical and Romance languages.
Publication January 2017
2016 228 x 152 mm 490pp 11 b/w illus. 29 tables 978-1-107-13225-2 Hardback £74.99 / US$120.00
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KEY REFERENCE
An Anthology of Informal Latin, 200 BC–AD 900 Fifty Texts with Translations and Linguistic Commentary Edited by J. N. Adams
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TEXTBOOK
Reading Latin Text and Vocabulary Second edition Peter Jones Friends of Classics
and Keith Sidwell
All Souls College, Oxford
University of Calgary
This book contains over fifty passages of Latin from 200 BC to AD 900, each with translation and linguistic commentary. It is not intended as an elementary reader (though suitable for university courses), but as an illustrative history of Latin covering more than a millennium, with almost every century represented. Conventional histories cite constructions out of context, whereas this work gives a sense of the period, genre, stylistic aims and idiosyncrasies of specific passages. ‘Informal’ texts, particularly if they portray talk, reflect linguistic variety and change better than texts adhering to classicising norms. Some of the texts are recent discoveries or little known. Writing tablets are well represented, as are literary and technical texts down to the early medieval period, when striking changes appear. The commentaries identify innovations, discontinuities and phenomena of long duration. Readers will learn much about the diversity and development of Latin.
A bestselling Latin course designed to help mature beginners read classical Latin fluently and intelligently. The Text and Vocabulary presents a series of carefully graded original classical Latin texts, initially adapted but later unadulterated. It accompanies the Grammar and Exercises volume, but could be used as a self-standing beginner’s reader.
2016 228 x 152 mm 728pp 978-1-107-03977-3 Hardback £120.00 / US$200.00 For all formats available, see
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Contents: Introduction; Part I. Plautus and the Roman Comic Tradition: Section 1. Plautus’ Aulularia; Section 2. Plautus’ Amphitruō; Part II. Early Roman History: From Aeneas to Hannibal: Section 3A. Aeneas and the Trojan War; Section 3B. Romulus and Remus; Section 3C. The rape of Lucretia; Section D. Hannibal; Part III. The Demise of the Roman Republic: Section 4. Provincial corruption: the Verres scandal; Section 5. The conspiracy of Catiline in Rome, 64–62; Section 6. Poetry and politics: Caesar to Augustus; Additional reading; Total Latin-English learning vocabulary. 2016 247 x 174 mm 362pp 78 b/w illus. 5 maps 978-1-107-61870-1 Paperback £18.99 / US$32.99 For all formats available, see
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Reading Latin Grammar and Exercises Second edition Peter Jones Friends of Classics
and Keith Sidwell University of Calgary
A bestselling Latin course designed to help mature beginners read classical Latin fluently and intelligently. The Text and Vocabulary presents a series of carefully graded original classical Latin texts, initially adapted but later unadulterated. The accompanying Grammar and Exercises volume completes the course by supplying all the grammatical help needed. Contents: Preface; Notes to grammar and exercises; Pronunciation; Glossary of English–Latin grammar; Grammar and exercises for Parts I-VI; A-G verbs; H-I nouns, pronominal nouns/adjectives; J-K adjectives, adverbs and prepositions; L-V constructions; W word-order; Appendix: the Latin language; Total Latin-English learning vocabulary; Total English-Latin vocabulary for exercises; Index of grammar. 2016 247 x 174 mm 480pp 1 b/w illus. 978-1-107-63226-4 Paperback £21.99 / US$36.99 For all formats available, see
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Colloquial and Literary Latin Edited by Eleanor Dickey University of Reading
and Anna Chahoud Trinity College, Dublin
How did the Latin of casual conversation differ from that of formal writing? How much colloquial Latin appears in surviving literature, and how can we tell? Twenty-six of the world’s leading Latin scholars discuss these and other questions, making a major scholarly debate accessible in English for the first time. ‘If, in a postmodern academy, the old ‘Vulgar Latin’ project of trying to recover the ways the Roman really spoke now seems hopelessly passé, this collection is unsurpassed for its studies of how they represented their speech. Something at least in this book will be required reading for everyone researching both Latin literature and Latin linguistics.’ Philip Burton, The Classical Review
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HIGHLIGHT TEXTBOOK
An Introduction to the Composition and Analysis of Greek Prose Eleanor Dickey University of Reading
This work is aimed at university students and others who have a passive knowledge of ancient Greek and would like an active command of the language. It provides a structured review of grammar and syntax together with clear explanations, examples, and large numbers of exercises both with and without key. ‘Eleanor Dickey’s book is nothing short of a complete, stand-alone Greek prose composition course, one that touches on the sorts of skills and practice found in recent studies to be essential to language acquisition: alternating composition with reading and analysis of sentences in the target language, constant self-testing, engaging students’ recall, interleaving various types of exercises, regularly revisiting common structures, and recontextualizing important skills. There is simply no other Greek prose composition book like it.’ Ryan C. Fowler, Franklin and Marshall College, Pennsylvania
Contents: Preface; Bibliography; Accentuation; 1. Articles; 2. Modifiers; 3. Tenses, voices, and agreement; 4. Cases; 5. Participles; 6. The structure of a Greek sentence: word order and connection; Review exercises; 7. Conditional, concessive, and potential clauses; 8. Relative clauses; 9. Pronouns; 10. Indirect statement; 11. Questions; Review exercises; 12. Purpose, fear, and effort; 13. Cause, result, and ‘on condition that’; 14. Comparison and negatives; 15. Commands, wishes, and prevention; 16. Temporal clauses; Review exercises; 17. Impersonal constructions and verbal adjectives; 18. Oratio obliqua; 19. Summary; 20. Consolidation; Appendices: A. Errors in Smyth’s Grammar; B. English tenses and their Greek equivalents (indicative only); C. Hints for analysing Greek sentences; D. English conditional clauses; E. A selection of terminologies for describing Greek
conditional sentences; F. Short, easily confused words; G. Partial answer key; H. The next step: prose composition as an art form; Principal parts; Vocabulary; Index to vocabulary. 2016 247 x 174 mm 316pp 978-0-521-76142-0 Hardback £71.99 / US$89.99 978-0-521-18425-0 Paperback £17.99 / US$29.99 For all formats available, see
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voices of Roman slaves to historians of theater and illuminates a major body of evidence for historians of slavery. 2017 228 x 152 mm 500pp 978-1-107-15231-1 Hardback c. £84.99 / c. US$135.00 Publication November 2017 For all formats available, see
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Claudian the Poet Clare Coombe
HIGHLIGHT
Learning Latin the Ancient Way Latin Textbooks from the Ancient World Eleanor Dickey University of Reading
This book makes ancient Latin-learning materials usable by modern students for the first time. 2016 247 x 174 mm 200pp 4 b/w illus. 978-1-107-09360-7 Hardback £49.99 / US$79.99 978-1-107-47457-4 Paperback £17.99 / US$29.99 For all formats available, see
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Classical literature Simonides the Poet Intertextuality and Reception Richard Rawles University of Edinburgh
Simonides is tantalising and enigmatic, known both from fragments and from an extensive tradition of anecdotes. This book employs a diachronic approach. It first reads Simonidean fragments with attention to their intertextual relationship with earlier works and traditions, and then explores Simonides through his ancient reception. 2017 247 x 174 mm 320pp 978-1-107-14170-4 Hardback c. £64.99 / c. US$99.99 Publication December 2017 For all formats available, see
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Slave Theater in the Roman Republic Plautus and Popular Comedy Amy Richlin University of California, Los Angeles
This book reappraises this fourthcentury Latin poet’s use of storytelling and poetics for political propaganda. It argues that Claudian creates a Stilicho who is an epic hero, gigantic barbarians, and a universe under threat of chaos, and thereby retells the story of his patron, and convinces his audience of his political agenda. 2017 228 x 152 mm 248pp 978-1-107-05834-7 Hardback c. £64.99 / c. US$99.99 Publication October 2017 For all formats available, see
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Aesthetic Experiences and Classical Antiquity The Significance of Form in Narratives and Pictures Jonas Grethlein Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany
This study proposes a new dialogue between the fields of classics and aesthetics. It uses ancient narratives and pictures, comparing them with modern material, in order to explore the specific nature of aesthetic experience, arguing that the key lies in the form of the representation. 2017 247 x 174 mm 336pp 978-1-107-19265-2 Hardback c. £64.99 / c. US$99.99 Publication September 2017 For all formats available, see
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Antiquity and Cinema Affinities of Imagination Martin M. Winkler George Mason University, Virginia
This book offers a new approach to the creative affinities between ancient verbal and modern visual narratives. It examines screen adaptations of classical epic, tragedy, comedy, myth and history on the basis of ancient theories of drama and rhetoric, whilst demonstrating the undiminished vitality
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philosophers, and scholars in other fields concerned with aesthetics and emotions.
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Imagining the Chorus in Augustan Poetry
Conflict and Consensus in Early Greek Hexameter Poetry
Publication February 2017
Edited by Paola Bassino University of Edinburgh
The Politics of Sacrifice in Early Greek Myth and Poetry
and Barbara Graziosi
Charles H. Stocking
Lauren Curtis Bard College, New York
This study argues that in the work of Horace, Virgil, and Propertius, the language and imagery of the chorus articulate some of their most pressing concerns surrounding social and literary belonging in a rapidly changing Roman world.
University of Winchester
Lilah Grace Canevaro University of Durham
knowledge are discussed, including agriculture, architecture, the art of love, astronomy, ethics, mechanics, medicine, and pharmacology. The main focus is on the interaction between texts and the transmission of knowledge. 2017 228 x 152 mm 300pp 12 b/w illus. 978-1-107-16943-2 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 For all formats available, see
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University of Western Ontario
A fresh and wide-ranging exploration of the themes of conflict and consensus across the early Greek hexameter tradition in all of its variety. It focuses to an unprecedented extent on issues of poetics and metapoetics, thus offering new insights into the processes of reception and canonisation of Greek epic.
This book offers a new interpretation of ancient Greek sacrifice from a cultural poetic perspective. Through close readings of key texts and the evidence from material culture, it argues that the ritual of sacrifice operates as a cultural mechanism for the perpetuation of patriarchal ideology throughout Greek cultural history.
Greek Theatre between Antiquity and Independence
2017 228 x 152 mm 256pp 978-1-107-17574-7 Hardback c. £64.99 / c. US$99.99 Publication March 2017
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A History of Reinvention from the Third Century BC to 1830 Walter Puchner
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Hesiod and Classical Greek Poetry
2017 228 x 152 mm 300pp 978-1-107-18878-5 Hardback c. £64.99 / c. US$99.99 Publication August 2017 For all formats available, see
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Assisted by Andrew White Stratford University, Virginia
The first general history, by the world expert, of Greek theatre from Hellenistic times to the foundation of modern Greece in 1830, one marked by significant discontinuities. After the end of antiquity no real dramas were produced until theatre was rediscovered in Renaissance Crete and redeveloped throughout the Greek diaspora. 2017 228 x 152 mm 350pp 978-1-107-05947-4 Hardback c. £64.99 / c. US$99.99
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Reception and Transformation in the Fifth Century BCE Zoe Stamatopoulou Washington University, St Louis
Hesiod was regarded by the Greeks as a foundational figure of their culture, alongside Homer. This book examines the rich and varied engagement of fifthcentury lyric and drama with the poetic corpus attributed to Hesiod as well as with the poetic figure of Hesiod.
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Tragic Pleasure from Homer to Plato Rana Saadi Liebert Bard College, New York
This book develops an embodied model of aesthetic engagement derived from Greek poetry and Plato’s philosophy, and uses this model to resolve an intractable paradox in aesthetic theory: the appeal of tragedy. It is off interest to classicists,
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Knowledge, Text and Practice in Ancient Technical Writing Edited by Marco Formisano Universiteit Gent, Belgium
and Philip van der Eijk Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
This book sheds new light on the problematic relationship between theory and practice in ancient Greek and Roman culture. Various fields of
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A Guide to Neo-Latin Literature Edited by Victoria Moul King’s College London
Latin was for many centuries the common literary language of Europe, and Latin literature of immense range, stylistic power and social and political significance was produced throughout Europe and beyond from the time of Petrarch (c.1400) well into the eighteenth century. This is the first available work devoted specifically to the enormous wealth and variety of neoLatin literature, and offers both essential background to the understanding of this material and sixteen chapters by leading scholars which are devoted to individual forms. Each contributor relates a wide range of fascinating but now little-known texts to the handful of more familiar Latin works of the period, such as Thomas More’s Utopia, Milton’s Latin poetry and the works of Petrarch
Classical literature and Erasmus. All Latin is translated throughout the volume. Contributors: Victoria Moul, Yasmin Haskell, Tom Deneire, Sarah Knight, Françoise Waquet, Robert Cummings, L. B. T. Houghton, Julia Haig Gaisser, Gesine Manuwald, Sari Kivistö, Estelle Haan, Paul Gwynne, Nigel Griffin, Terence Tunberg, Jacqueline Glomski, Marc van der Poel, Virginia Cox, David Marsh, Stefan Tilg, Joel Relihan, Felix Mundt, Craig Kallendorf, Keith Sidwell 2017 228 x 152 mm 514pp 2 b/w illus. 978-1-107-02929-3 Hardback £84.99 / US$140.00 Publication February 2017 For all formats available, see
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Hellenistic Epigram Contexts of Exploration Francis Cairns Florida State University
This book offers scholars and students of Hellenistic and Roman literature an overview of Hellenistic epigram. In fourteen themed chapters, it foregrounds the literary, linguistic, historical, epigraphic, social, political, ethnic, cultic, onomastic, local, topographical and patronage contexts of Hellenistic epigrams. Many epigrams are analysed in detail and new interpretations proposed. 2016 228 x 152 mm 532pp 978-1-107-16850-3 Hardback £74.99 / US$120.00 For all formats available, see
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Canonical Texts and Scholarly Practices A Global Comparative Approach Edited by Anthony Grafton Princeton University, New Jersey
and Glenn W. Most Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
This book presents a major collection of essays that expand our vision of the history of textual practices. It explores the multiple ways across time and cultures in which texts have been selected for entry into official canons and then verified, corrected, glossed, interpreted, illustrated, excerpted, performed, archived, and otherwise put to use. 2016 247 x 174 mm 398pp 31 b/w illus. 978-1-107-10598-0 Hardback £96.00 / US$120.00 For all formats available, see
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Theater outside Athens Drama in Greek Sicily and South Italy Edited by Kathryn Bosher Northwestern University, Illinois
The first collection of essays on the development of Greek theater in ancient Sicily and South Italy, written by specialists in a range of fields, including literature, archeology and history. These different perspectives give a more complex picture of the development of western Greek theater than has hitherto been available. ‘This is the first substantial interdisciplinary statement of the scale and significance of Greek theatrical activities outside ‘Greece’.’ The Times Literary Supplement 2016 244 x 170 mm 492pp 45 b/w illus. 9 maps 978-1-107-52750-8 Paperback £22.99 / US$34.99 Also available 978-0-521-76178-9 Hardback £88.00 / US$139.00 For all formats available, see
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Pindar’s Poetics of Immortality Asya C. Sigelman Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania
Through close case studies of Pindar’s victory odes, Asya C. Sigelman offers a new approach to Pindar’s famously difficult poetics by focusing on the poetic aim of immortalization. This book will be of interest to classical philologists and readers exploring new interpretative approaches to poetic text. 2016 228 x 152 mm 210pp 3 b/w illus. 978-1-107-13501-7 Hardback £64.99 / US$99.99 For all formats available, see
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Rethinking Roman Alliance A Study in Poetics and Society Bill Gladhill McGill University, Montréal
This book explores the vital links between social order and cosmology through an examination of the concept of foedus (ritual alliance) in Roman religion and literature. Examines a wide range of texts from Homer to St Augustine. 2016 228 x 152 mm 231pp 978-1-107-06974-9 Hardback £64.99 / US$99.99
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Linguistic Interaction in Roman Comedy Peter Barrios-Lech University of Massachusetts, Boston
There exist many ways in Latin of expressing the same thing, whether conveying an order or a greeting. What factors lead speakers to choose one expression over another? This book answers these questions in a comprehensive and original way. It will interest scholars of Latin and of Roman drama. 2016 228 x 152 mm 410pp 10 b/w illus. 32 tables 978-1-107-12982-5 Hardback £74.99 / US$120.00 For all formats available, see
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Writing Biography in Greece and Rome Narrative Technique and Fictionalization Edited by Koen De Temmerman Universiteit Gent, Belgium
and Kristoffel Demoen Universiteit Gent, Belgium
This book examines a range of ancient biographical texts, exploring how formal narrative categories such as time, space and character are constructed and how they address the borderline between historicity and fictionality. It is a major contribution to the study of ancient biographical writing and to broader narratological approaches to ancient texts. 2016 228 x 152 mm 354pp 978-1-107-12912-2 Hardback £74.99 / US$120.00 For all formats available, see
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From Hittite to Homer The Anatolian Background of Ancient Greek Epic Mary R. Bachvarova Willamette University, Oregon
A bold new approach to the prehistory of Homeric epic. This book argues that Near Eastern influence on early Greek hexameter poetry primarily came from a single Syro-Anatolian tradition of oral narrative song, which included the Song of Gilgamesh and the Kumarbi Cycle, starting in the eleventh century BCE. 2016 247 x 174 mm 690pp 27 b/w illus. 5 maps 4 tables 978-0-521-50979-4 Hardback £100.00 / US$160.00 For all formats available, see
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Classical literature Paul and Ancient Rhetoric Theory and Practice in the Hellenistic Context Edited by Stanley E. Porter McMaster Divinity College, Ontario
and Bryan R. Dyer McMaster Divinity College, Ontario
In this volume, major international scholars offer a nuanced examination of how ancient rhetoric should inform our understanding of Paul and his writings. The essays include studies of Paul’s firstcentury historical context, innovative advances in and trenchant critiques of rhetorical theory, and fresh applications of rhetoric to New Testament texts. 2016 228 x 152 mm 346pp 1 table 978-1-107-07379-1 Hardback £74.99 / US$120.00 For all formats available, see
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The Sublime in Antiquity James I. Porter University of California, Irvine
The first book to break away from existing scholarship’s dominant focus on Longinus and to outline an alternative account of the sublime in Greek and Roman poetry, philosophy, and the sciences, in addition to rhetoric and literary criticism. Argues for a tradition of sublime criticism that pre-existed and survived Longinus. 2016 228 x 152 mm 714pp 8 b/w illus. 2 tables 978-1-107-03747-2 Hardback £99.99 / US$160.00 For all formats available, see
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Virgil’s Eclogues and the Art of Fiction A Study of the Poetic Imagination Raymond Kania Stanford University, California
Virgil’s Eclogues is a key text in the tradition of pastoral poetry. This book reappraises Virgil and his genre in the light of current theory on fiction to show how ancient literature can challenge the contemporary reader’s imagination. 2016 228 x 152 mm 186pp 978-1-107-08085-0 Hardback £64.99 / US$99.99 For all formats available, see
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Imagining Reperformance in Ancient Culture Studies in the Traditions of Drama and Lyric Edited by Richard Hunter University of Cambridge
of how readers and viewers imagine the lives of ancient creator-figures. Cambridge Classical Studies
2016 216 x 138 mm 380pp 6 b/w illus. 978-1-107-15908-2 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 For all formats available, see
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and Anna Uhlig University of California, Davis
This volume studies the idea and practice of re-performance as it affects ancient lyric poetry and drama, and especially how poets and critics use this idea to create a deep temporal sense. Informed by recent developments in performance studies, all Greek and Latin are translated. Cambridge Classical Studies
2017 216 x 138 mm 320pp 978-1-107-15147-5 Hardback c. £64.99 / c. US$99.99 Publication August 2017 For all formats available, see
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Virgil’s Ascanius Imagining the Future in the Aeneid Anne Rogerson University of Sydney
This book sheds new light on Virgil’s Aeneid via a detailed study of Ascanius, Aeneas’ young son and ancestor of the emperor Augustus. In a work that will appeal to students of literature, history and childhood studies, Rogerson shows how the characterisation of Ascanius reflects contemporary concerns about Rome’s future. Cambridge Classical Studies
2017 216 x 138 mm 242pp 978-1-107-11539-2 Hardback c. £75.00 / c. US$99.99 Publication January 2017 For all formats available, see
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Creative Lives in Classical Antiquity Poets, Artists and Biography Edited by Richard Fletcher Ohio State University
and Johanna Hanink Brown University, Rhode Island
This book examines how the biographical traditions of ancient poets and artists parallel the creative processes of biographers themselves, both within antiquity and beyond. Each chapter explores a range of biographical material that highlights the complexity
The Annals of Tacitus Books 5 and 6 Edited by A. J. Woodman University of Virginia
Books 5 and 6 of Tacitus’ Annals cover the last years of the emperor Tiberius. Although most of Book 5 is lost, Book 6 survives complete and offers a vivid narrative of the increasingly tyrannical princeps, secluded on the island of Capri; the book ends with his death and obituary notice, one of the most celebrated passages of classical literature. The volume presents a new text of Books 5 and 6, restoring the division between them which was proposed by Lipsius, as well as a full commentary on the text, covering textual, literary, linguistic and historical matters. An Appendix discusses ‘The Tacitean Tiberius’. The volume rounds off the sequence which began with commentary on Books 1 and 2 of Tacitus’ Annals by F. R. D. Goodyear (1972, 1981) and was continued by commentary on Book 3 by A. J. Woodman and R. H. Martin (1996). Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries, 55
2016 216 x 138 mm 343pp 1 b/w illus. 978-1-107-15270-0 Hardback £89.99 / US$140.00 For all formats available, see
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Dionysius: The Epic Fragments Edited and translated by Amin Benaissa University of Oxford
This is the most comprehensive edition to date of the fragments of the Greek epic poet Dionysius, who probably flourished in the first century CE. His Bassarica is the earliest known poem on the conquest of India by the god Dionysus and was an important model of Nonnus’ Dionysiaca. His Gigantias related the battle of the giants against the Olympian gods and legends surrounding it, with particular focus on the figure of Heracles. Dionysius is a key transitional figure in the history of Greek poetry, sharing stylistic and thematic tendencies with both the learned Hellenistic tradition and the monumental epic poetry of the later Roman period. This edition expands our number of
Classical literature / Classical art, architecture fragments of the Bassarica and close reinspection of the papyri has resulted in a substantially improved and more reliable text. The book also includes an extensive introduction contextualizing Dionysius’ poetry, a facing English translation, and a detailed commentary. Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries, 56
2017 216 x 138 mm 255pp 978-1-107-17897-7 Hardback c. £80.00 / c. US$130.00 Publication October 2017 For all formats available, see
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The Cambridge Companion to Xenophon Edited by Michael A. Flower Princeton University, New Jersey
Xenophon, the Athenian philosopher and historian, holds a central place in literary and political culture from antiquity to the present. This accessible volume explains the major problems and issues that are at stake in the study of his writings, while simultaneously pointing the way forward to newer methodologies, issues and questions. Cambridge Companions to Literature
The Cambridge Companion to Roman Comedy Edited by Martin Dinter King’s College London
Roman comedy has been a model for writers ranging from Shakespeare to Martin Luther, and from Molière to Cole Porter. This volume supplies a comprehensive critical engagement with Roman comedy and its reception presented by leading international scholars in more than twenty accessible and up-to-date chapters. Cambridge Companions to Literature
2017 228 x 152 mm 385pp 978-1-107-00210-4 Hardback c. £60.00 / c. US$99.00 978-0-521-17388-9 Paperback c. £21.99 / c. US$34.99 Publication December 2017 For all formats available, see
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The Cambridge Companion to the Writings of Julius Caesar Edited by Christopher B. Krebs Stanford University, California
and Luca Grillo University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Well-known as a brilliant general and politician, Caesar also played a fundamental role in the formation of the Latin literary language and history of Latin Literature. This volume provides both a clear introduction to Caesar as a man of letters and a fresh reassessment of his literary achievements. Cambridge Companions to Literature
2017 228 x 152 mm 320pp 978-1-107-02341-3 Hardback c. £60.00 / c. US$99.99 978-1-107-67049-5 Paperback c. £22.99 / c. US$34.99 Publication October 2017 For all formats available, see
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2016 228 x 152 mm 544pp 3 b/w illus. 4 maps 978-1-107-05006-8 Hardback c. £74.99 / US$100.00 978-1-107-65215-6 Paperback c. £24.99 / US$32.99 Publication December 2016 For all formats available, see
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Horace: Odes Book II Edited by Stephen Harrison University of Oxford
The first substantial commentary on Odes II for a generation, essential for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students of Horace’s highly popular work, as well as important for scholars of Latin literature and lyric poetry. New insights are offered into the poems’ interpretation, and textual analysis proposes answers to long-standing questions. Contents: Preface; Introduction; 1. Date of Odes II; 2. Horace’s literary career; 3. Characteristics of Odes II; 4. Literary intertexts; 5. Internal architecture of poems; 6. Style; 7. Metre; 8. Text; 9. Abbreviations; Q. Horati Flacci Carminvm Liber Secvndvs; Commentary; Bibliography; Index. Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
2017 216 x 138 mm 294pp 978-1-107-01291-2 Hardback £59.99 / US$99.99 978-1-107-60090-4 Paperback £20.99 / US$34.99 Publication April 2017 For all formats available, see
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Early Greek Hexameter Poetry Edited by Peter Gainsford Victoria University of Wellington
This is the first book to give an introduction to all genres of early hexameter poetry. It introduces readers to extant and fragmentary works, and is an ideal source for up-to-date research on literary criticism and literary form, mythology and genre, language and metre, and performance and music. New Surveys in the Classics, 43
2016 234 x 156 mm 159pp 978-1-316-60888-3 Paperback £16.99 / US$29.99 For all formats available, see
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Texts, Editors, and Readers Methods and Problems in Latin Textual Criticism Richard Tarrant Harvard University, Massachusetts
A critical reassessment of the methods of Latin textual criticism and editing, in a form accessible to non-specialists. Roman Literature and its Contexts
2016 198 x 129 mm 206pp 5 b/w illus. 978-0-521-76657-9 Hardback £59.99 / US$84.99 978-0-521-15899-2 Paperback £18.99 / US$28.99 For all formats available, see
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Classical art, architecture The Temple of Peace in Rome Pier Luigi Tucci The Johns Hopkins University
In this magisterial two-volume set, Pier Luigi Tucci offers a comprehensive examination of one of the key complexes of ancient Rome, the Temple of Peace. Based on an archival research and an architectural survey, his research sheds new light on the medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque transformations of the basilica, and the later restorations of the complex. Volume 1 focuses on the foundation of the complex under Vespasian until its restoration under Septimius Severus and challenges the accepted views about the ancient building. Volume 2 begins with the remodelling of the library hall and the construction of the rotunda complex, and examines the dedication of the Christian Basilica of SS Cosmas
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Classical art, architecture and Damian. Of interest to scholars in a range of topics, The Temple of Peace in Rome crosses the boundaries between classics, archaeology, history of architecture, and art history, through Late Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the early modern period. 2017 279 x 216 mm 800pp 87 b/w illus. 263 colour illus. 978-1-107-17421-4 2 Volume Hardback Set c. £150.00 / c. US$225.00 Publication July 2017 For all formats available, see
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The Frame in Classical Art A Cultural History Edited by Verity Platt Cornell University, New York
and Michael Squire King’s College London
This book argues for the integral role of framing within Graeco-Roman art, as well as exploring the relationship between the frames of classical antiquity and those of more modern art and aesthetics. It is aimed at students and scholars of art history, aesthetics, visual studies and classics, as well as cultural and intellectual history. 2017 247 x 174 mm 668pp 221 b/w illus. 978-1-107-16236-5 Hardback £105.00 / US$135.00 Publication February 2017 For all formats available, see
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The Afterlives of Greek Sculpture Interaction, Transformation, and Destruction Rachel Kousser Brooklyn College, City University of New York
This study is the first comprehensive historical account of the afterlives of ancient Greek monumental sculptures. It sheds new light on the creation of Hellenic cultural identity and the formation of collective memory in the Classical and Hellenistic eras. 2016 253 x 177 mm 326pp 92 b/w illus. 14 colour illus. 978-1-107-04072-4 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 Publication December 2016 For all formats available, see
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Rome An Urban History from Antiquity to the Present Rabun Taylor
The Architecture of the Roman Triumph Monuments, Memory, and Identity Maggie L. Popkin
University of Texas, Austin
Case Western Reserve University, Ohio
Katherine Wentworth Rinne
This book offers the first critical study of the architecture of the Roman triumph, ancient Rome’s most important victory ritual. Through case studies ranging from the republican to imperial periods, it demonstrates how powerfully monuments shaped Roman experience of military victory and, consequently, of Roman identity.
University of California, Berkeley
and Spiro Kostof University of California, Berkeley
This is the first urban history of Rome to span its entire three-thousand-year history. It examines the processes by which Rome’s leaders have shaped its urban fabric by organizing space, planning infrastructure, designing ritual, controlling populations, and exploiting Rome’s standing as a seat of global power and a religious capital. Contents: 1. A bend in the river; 2. A storybook beginning; 3. Ideological crossfire; 4. Big men on the campus; 5. Res publica restitute; 6. Memorials in motion: spectacle in the city; 7. The concrete style; 8. Remaking Rome’s public core I; 9. Remaking Rome’s public core II; 10. Continuity and crisis; 11. Rus in urbe: a garden city; 12. Administration, infrastructure, and disposal of the dead; 13. Mapping, zoning, and sequestration; 14. Tetrarchic and Constantinian Rome; 15. Trophies and tituli: Christian infrastructure before Constantine; 16. Walls make Christians: from fourth to fifth century; 17. A tale of two Romes; 18. The Rome of Goths and Byzantines; 19. Christian foundations; 20. From Domus laterani to Romanum palatium; 21. The Leonine City: St Peter’s and the Borgo; 22. Via Papalis, the Christian decumanus; 23. The urban theaters of imperium and SPQR; 24. Housing daily life; 25. Chaos in the fortified city; 26. The Tiber River; 27. Humanist Rome, absolutist Rome (1420–1527); 28. Planning CounterReformation Rome; 29. Processions and populations; 30. Magnificent palaces and rhetorical churches; 31. Neoclassical Rome; 32. Picturing Rome; 33. Revolution and Risorgimento; 34. Italian nationalism and romanità; 35. A city turned inside out. 2016 253 x 177 mm 450pp 216 b/w illus. 12 maps 978-1-107-01399-5 Hardback £69.99 / US$120.00 978-1-107-60149-9 Paperback £24.99 / US$39.99 For all formats available, see
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2016 253 x 177 mm 310pp 71 b/w illus. 11 colour illus. 4 tables 978-1-107-10357-3 Hardback £64.99 / US$99.99 For all formats available, see
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Ancient Mythological Images and their Interpretation An Introduction to Iconology, Semiotics and Image Studies in Classical Art History Katharina Lorenz University of Nottingham
This book provides an accessible and thorough account of important theoretical approaches to the study of Greek and Roman art, with particular reference to mythological imagery, leading to a new means of interrogating ancient visual culture. It is written for a readership in a range of disciplines. Contents: 1. Iconology; 2. Semiotics; 3. Image studies. 2016 247 x 174 mm 300pp 53 b/w illus. 978-0-521-19508-9 Hardback £59.99 / US$99.99 978-0-521-13972-4 Paperback £19.99 / US$34.99 For all formats available, see
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The Material Life of Roman Slaves Sandra R. Joshel University of Washington
and Lauren Hackworth Petersen University of Delaware
A lively and comprehensive overview of Roman slavery, ideal for introductorylevel students of the ancient Mediterranean world. Using a variety of sources, including literature, law, and material culture, Joshel and Petersen examine all aspects of Roman slavery including legal condition, sale, family
Classical art, architecture / Classical archaeology / Ancient history and social lives, and relations between slaves and slaveholders. ‘The object of this fascinating book is to render visible Roman slaves in the remains of the Campanian cities and villas destroyed in 79 AD by the eruption of Mt Vesuvius … The possibilities raised are of great importance, and in its legitimate concern to evoke the day-to-day realities of life in slavery [this] book is to be warmly applauded … The challenge of recovering a history of slavery from archaeological evidence has been laid down, and it is in this that the book’s special value lies.’ Classical World PROSE Award for Excellence in Humanities 2015 – Winner PROSE Award for Classics and Ancient History 2015 – Winner 2016 253 x 177 mm 317pp 170 b/w illus. 16 colour illus. 978-0-521-13957-1 Paperback £29.99 / US$44.99 For all formats available, see
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area and the core areas where the Mycenaean palaces were located.
Archaeology and Ideology in Rome
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From the Grand Tour to the Present Stephen L. Dyson State University of New York, Buffalo
Rome is unique in its combination of abundant, important ruins, a long urban history, and a vibrant city setting with changing political, cultural, and religious roles. This book considers the study and exploitation of the archaeological record, alongside the demands of urban change, over the past three hundred years. 2017 247 x 174 mm 348pp 51 b/w illus. 978-0-521-87459-5 Hardback c. £64.99 / c. US$99.99 Publication August 2017 For all formats available, see
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Greek Myths in Roman Art and Culture Imagery, Values and Identity in Italy, 50 BC–AD 250 Zahra Newby University of Warwick
This book explores the representations of Greek myths in Roman art, including public, domestic and funerary contexts. It shows the crucial role Greek culture played in forming Roman identity, and how this changed over time. The book is aimed at scholars and students of Roman art and of Roman social and cultural history. Greek Culture in the Roman World
2016 247 x 174 mm 406pp 125 b/w illus. 978-1-107-07224-4 Hardback £74.99 / US$120.00 For all formats available, see
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The Roman Street Urban Life and Society in Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Rome Jeremy Hartnett Wabash College, Indiana
By combining textual evidence, comparative historical material, and contemporary urban theory with architectural and art historical analysis, this book charts the street’s key role in the social and political lives of Romans and restores its rightful place as the primary venue for social performance in the ancient world. 2017 253 x 177 mm 380pp 93 b/w illus. 9 colour illus. 7 tables 978-1-107-10570-6 Hardback £79.99 / US$125.00 Publication February 2017 For all formats available, see
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Mycenaean Greece and the Aegean World Palace and Province in the Late Bronze Age Margaretha Kramer-Hajos Indiana University
Kramer-Hajos examines the Euboean Gulf region in Central Greece to explain its flourishing during the post-palatial period, focusing on the interactions between this ‘provincial’ coastal
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2016 253 x 177 mm 228pp 978-1-107-10754-0 Hardback £80.00 / US$99.99 www.cambridge.org/9781107107540
Human Mobility and Technological Transfer in the Prehistoric Mediterranean Edited by Evangelia Kiriatzi British School at Athens
and Carl Knappett University of Toronto
This book presents key case studies for human and technological mobility across the eastern Mediterranean in later prehistory. It will be of interest primarily to Mediterranean archaeologists, though also to historians and anthropologists, as this region has been such a crucial theatre for exploring questions of mobility in archaeology generally. British School at Athens Studies in Greek Antiquity
2016 247 x 174 mm 300pp 26 b/w illus. 11 maps 2 tables 978-1-107-14243-5 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 For all formats available, see
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The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare Edited by Philip Sabin King’s College London
Hans van Wees University College London
and Michael Whitby University of Warwick
Warfare was the single biggest preoccupation of historians in antiquity. In recent decades fresh textual interpretations, numerous new archaeological discoveries and a much broader analytical focus emphasising social, economic, political and cultural approaches have transformed our understanding of ancient warfare. This two-volume History reflects these developments and provides a systematic account, written by a distinguished cast of contributors, of the various themes underlying the warfare of the Greek world from Archaic Greece to the Arab conquests of the seventh century AD. For each broad period developments in troop-types, equipment, strategy and
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Ancient history tactics are discussed. These are placed in the broader context of developments in international relations and the relationship of warfare to both the state and wider society. Numerous illustrations, a glossary and chronology, and information about the authors mentioned supplement the text. This will become the primary reference work for specialists and non-specialists alike. ‘These volumes are sure to be the standard reference on classical military history in the Englishspeaking world for some time … The quality of the chapters and the sheer readability of the work is very high and the editors and authors are to be congratulated for the production of these very useful volumes.’ Nuncius: Journal of the History of Science
Contributors: Victor Davis Hanson, Simon Hornblower, Michael Whitby, Jonathan Hall, Peter Hunt, Peter Krentz, Everett Wheeler, Barry Strauss, Vincent Gabrielsen, Hans van Wees, Richard Billows, Nicholas V. Sekunda, Jonathan Roth, Philip Sabin, Philip de Souza, John Serrati, J.E. Lendon, Harry Sidebottom, Boris Rankov, Adrian Goldsworthy, Catherine M. Gilliver, Dominic Rathbone, Richard Alston, Colin Adams, Mark Humphries, Hugh Elton, Philip Rance, Doug Lee, Andrew Fear 2017 228 x 152 mm 1328pp 123 b/w illus. 17 maps 978-1-107-69916-8 2 Volume Paperback Set c. £49.99 / c. US$84.99 Publication December 2017 Also available 978-0-521-85779-6 2 Volume Hardback Set £299.00 / US$525.00 For all formats available, see
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The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare Volume 1: Greece, The Hellenistic World and the Rise of Rome Edited by Philip Sabin King’s College London
Hans van Wees University College London
and Michael Whitby University of Warwick
Volume 1 of this two-volume History provides a systematic account, written by a distinguished cast of contributors, of the various themes underlying the warfare of the Greek world from the
Archaic to the Hellenistic period and of Early and Middle Republican Rome. Contributors: Victor Davis Hanson, Simon Hornblower, Michael Whitby, Jonathan Hall, Peter Hunt, Peter Krentz, Everett Wheeler, Barry Strauss, Vincent Gabrielsen, Hans van Wees, Richard Billows, Nicholas V. Sekunda, Jonathan Roth, Philip Sabin, Philip de Souza, John Serrati, J.E. Lendon 2017 228 x 152 mm 694pp 69 b/w illus. 10 maps 978-1-107-68401-0 Paperback c. £29.99 / c. US$49.99 Publication December 2017 Also available 978-0-521-78273-9 Hardback £180.00 / US$278.00 For all formats available, see
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The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare Volume 2: Rome from the Late Republic to the Late Empire Edited by Philip Sabin King’s College London
Hans van Wees University College London
and Michael Whitby University of Warwick
Volume 2 of this two-volume History provides a systematic account, written by a distinguished cast of contributors, of the various themes underlying the warfare of the Roman world from the Late Republic to the sixth-century empire of Justinian and his successors. Contributors: Harry Sidebottom, Boris Rankov, Adrian Goldsworthy, Catherine M. Gilliver, Dominic Rathbone, Richard Alston, Colin Adams, Mark Humphries, Hugh Elton, Michael Whitby, Philip Rance, Doug Lee, Andrew Fear 2017 228 x 152 mm 630pp 54 b/w illus. 7 maps 978-1-107-66879-9 Paperback c. £29.99 / c. US$49.99 Publication December 2017 Also available 978-0-521-78274-6 Hardback £180.00 / US$268.00 For all formats available, see
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The World through Roman Eyes Anthropological Approaches to Ancient Culture Edited by Maurizio Bettini Università degli Studi, Siena
and William Michael Short University of Texas, San Antonio
This book showcases the fundamental contribution that anthropology has made to our understanding of ancient Roman culture. It allows the texts of ancient culture to speak in their own terms and privileges the experience of the ‘natives’ (rather than the horizon of the observer). 2017 228 x 152 mm 450pp 978-1-107-15761-3 Hardback c. £80.00 / c. US$120.00 Publication December 2017 For all formats available, see
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Caria and Crete in Antiquity Cultural Interaction between Anatolia and the Aegean Naomi Carless Unwin Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, DC
Mythologies shaped identities; this book examines what regional mythologies reveal about the social and cultural orientation of Caria in antiquity. Although the Carians were an Anatolian people, their integration into the mythological framework of the Greek world reveals that interaction with the Aegean was a fundamental aspect of their history. 2017 247 x 174 mm 288pp 978-1-107-19417-5 Hardback c. £64.99 / c. US$99.99 Publication September 2017 For all formats available, see
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Eurasian Empires in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages Contact and Exchange between the Graeco-Roman World, Inner Asia and China Edited by Hyun Jin Kim University of Melbourne
Frederik Vervaet University of Melbourne
and Selim Ferruh Adalı Ankara Sosyal Bilimler Űniversitesi, Turkey
This book studies the history, literature and archaeology of the great empires of the vast Eurasian continent from a comparative, interdisciplinary and, in particular, a Eurasian perspective. It highlights the critical role of Inner Asian empires and peoples in facilitating
Ancient history
2017 247 x 174 mm 348pp 978-1-107-19041-2 Hardback c. £64.99 / c. US$99.99
A Historical and Topographical Guide to the Geography of Strabo
Publication September 2017
Duane W. Roller
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Strabo’s Geography, completed in the early first century AD, is the primary source for the history of Greek geography. This Guide provides the first English analysis of and 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. It thoroughly analyzes each of the seventeen books and provides perhaps the most thorough bibliography as yet created for Strabo’s work. Careful attention is paid to the historical and cultural data, the thousands of toponyms, and the many lost historical sources that are preserved only in the Geography. This volume guides readers through the challenges and complexities of the text, allowing an enhanced understanding of the numerous topics that Strabo covers, from the travels of Alexander and the history of the Mediterranean to science, religion, and cult.
contacts and exchanges across Eurasia in the ancient and early medieval worlds.
The Life and Health of the Mind in Classical Greek Medical Thought Chiara Thumiger Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
The first substantial history of psychological thought in early Greek medicine. This book demonstrates the richness and sophistication of the accounts in the Hippocratic texts and other medical sources, and explores their connections with contemporary metaphysical discussions in tragedy and Plato, and their relevance for modern debates in psychiatry and psychology. 2017 228 x 152 mm 500pp 978-1-107-17601-0 Hardback c. £84.99 / c. US$135.00 Publication September 2017 For all formats available, see
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The Politics of Heresy in Ambrose of Milan
2017 228 x 152 mm 1000pp 3 maps 978-1-107-18065-9 Hardback c. £150.00 / c. US$250.00
Community and Consensus in Late Antique Christianity Michael Stuart Williams
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National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Ambrose of Milan is traditionally understood as having defeated a powerful heretical opposition in his city, as part of a wider triumph of ‘orthodox’ Christianity in the west. This book argues instead that this ‘Arian’ opposition was largely conjured up by Ambrose himself to secure and justify his own authority. 2017 228 x 152 mm 376pp 978-1-107-01946-1 Hardback c. £74.99 / c. US$120.00 Publication September 2017 For all formats available, see
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Monasteries and the Care of Souls in Late Antique Christianity Cognition and Discipline Paul C. Dilley University of Iowa
This book explores the personal practices and group rituals for monitoring and training the thoughts of ancient Christian monks. It focuses on the earliest sources for communal monasticism, many translated into English for the first time, while drawing on cognitive studies to understand key disciplines like prayer and collective repentance. 2017 228 x 152 mm 336pp 978-1-107-18401-5 Hardback c. £64.99 / c. US$99.99 Publication August 2017 For all formats available, see
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Rome and the Third Macedonian War Paul J. Burton Australian National University, Canberra
The historian Polybius recognised the significance of Rome’s victory in the Third Macedonian War: it effectively made Rome almost a global power beyond compare. Paul J. Burton provides a very readable full-length narrative of the war and its aftermath, the first in English. Aimed at students, scholars and military history enthusiasts. 2017 228 x 152 mm 288pp 978-1-107-10444-0 Hardback c. £64.99 / c. US$99.99 Publication August 2017 For all formats available, see
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Disability in the Roman World A Social and Cultural History Christian Laes Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium
The first ever study of an important part of the population of the Roman Empire which has too often been neglected. A methodological introduction is followed by a head-to-toe approach, dealing with mental problems, visual impairment, deafness, muteness, speech and mobility impairment. 2017 228 x 152 mm 272pp 978-1-107-16290-7 Hardback c. £64.99 / c. US$99.99 Publication July 2017 For all formats available, see
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Stories of Daily Life from the Roman World Edited and translated by Eleanor Dickey University of Reading
A first ever translation of the ‘Colloquia’, Latin ‘easy readers’ used by ancient Greek speakers to learn about Roman culture, which provide a unique view into ordinary Roman life – shopping, banking, dining, bathing, going to school, etc. Introductions and illustrations accompany the texts, making them an excellent introduction to Roman civilization. 2017 216 x 138 mm 150pp 978-1-107-17680-5 Hardback c. £25.00 / c. US$40.00 978-1-316-62728-0 Paperback c. £11.99 / c. US$15.99 Publication July 2017 For all formats available, see
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Ancient history Empire and Ideology in the Graeco-Roman World Selected Papers Benjamin Isaac Tel-Aviv University
In this collection of papers, distinguished historian Benjamin Isaac examines the Roman concepts of state and empire, and mechanisms of control and integration. He also discusses ethnic and cultural relationships in the Roman Empire, the limits of tolerance and integration as well as attitudes to foreigners and minorities, including Jews. 2017 228 x 152 mm 400pp 2 maps 978-1-107-13589-5 Hardback c. £74.99 / c. US$120.00 Publication June 2017 For all formats available, see
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Public Opinion and Politics in the Late Roman Republic Cristina Rosillo-López Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Seville
This book investigates the working mechanisms of public opinion in the politics of Late Republican Rome. It explores the political interaction (and sometimes opposition) between the elite and the people through rumours, gossip, political literature, popular verses and graffiti. It also argues for a wider conception of political participation by the people. 2017 228 x 152 mm 320pp 978-1-107-14507-8 Hardback c. £64.99 / c. US$99.99 Publication May 2017 For all formats available, see
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The Legend of Seleucus Kingship, Narrative and Mythmaking in the Ancient World Daniel Ogden University of Exeter
A reconstruction of the fascinating legend that developed around the figure of Seleucus, the most accomplished of the Successors to Alexander the Great, investigating the rich symbolism of its constituent episodes, in which divine birth, enchanted talismans, marvellous omens, pathological desires, ghostly vengeance and dragons feature prominently. 2017 228 x 152 mm 384pp 978-1-107-16478-9 Hardback c. £74.99 / c. US$120.00 Publication April 2017 For all formats available, see
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The Economy of Late Achaemenid and Seleucid Babylonia Reinhard Pirngruber Universität Wien, Austria
This book provides a full reassessment of the economic structures and market performance in Late Achaemenid and Seleucid Babylonia. The approach is informed by New Institutional Economics and draws heavily on archival cuneiform documents as well as providing the first exhaustive contextualisation of the price data contained in the Babylonian Astronomical Diaries. 2017 247 x 174 mm 288pp 21 b/w illus. 26 tables 978-1-107-10606-2 Hardback £64.99 / US$99.99 Publication April 2017 For all formats available, see
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Migration, Mobility and Place in Ancient Italy
Citizenship in Classical Athens
Elena Isayev
Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
University of Exeter
A highly original study arguing that Athenian citizenship was not just a political, but primarily a religious, identity. Classical Athens saw itself as a community (polis) founded on its bond with the gods. Male and female citizens were equal heirs of this bond, in which the polis also anchored its laws.
This book examines the nature of human mobility, attitudes to it, and constructions of place over the last millennium BC in Rome and Italy. It demonstrates that there were high rates of mobility, challenging the perception of sites and communities as static and ethnically oriented entities. 2017 247 x 174 mm 500pp 978-1-107-13061-6 Hardback c. £84.99 / c. US$135.00
Josine Blok
2017 228 x 152 mm 300pp 978-0-521-19145-6 Hardback c. £64.99 / c. US$99.99 Publication March 2017
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Roman Geographies of the Nile From the Late Republic to the Early Empire Andy Merrills University of Leicester
The River Nile fascinated the Romans and appeared in maps, written descriptions, philosophical texts, poems and landscape paintings. This book examines these representations and their interdependence. It thereby proposes a new approach to the study of ancient geography, providing an accessible introduction to the field for a variety of audiences. 2017 228 x 152 mm 358pp 28 b/w illus. 978-1-107-17728-4 Hardback £90.00 / US$120.00 Publication January 2017 For all formats available, see
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Nicolaus of Damascus: The Life of Augustus and The Autobiography Edited with Introduction, Translations and Historical Commentary Edited and translated by Mark Toher Union College, New York
Nicolaus of Damascus, the chief minister of Herod the Great, was an exact contemporary of the first Roman emperor Augustus; he spent considerable time in Roman society and knew Augustus. The extensive remains of his Bios Kaisaros contain the earliest and most detailed account of the conspiracy against Julius Caesar and his assassination. The Bios also presents the most extensive account of the boyhood and early development of Augustus. This edition presents the Greek text and translation of the Bios and Nicolaus’ autobiography, along with a historical and historiographical commentary. The Introduction situates the text in relation to the considerable evidence for the life and career of Nicolaus preserved in the works of Josephus, addresses the problem of its date of composition, analyses the language and narrative technique of Nicolaus and discusses the Bios in relation to the evidence for Greek biographical encomium. 2016 216 x 138 mm 576pp 978-1-107-07561-0 Hardback £99.99 / US$160.00 Publication December 2016 For all formats available, see
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Ancient history Authority and Expertise in Ancient Scientific Culture
more advanced students within these disciplines.
two cultures in the treatment of divinity in the Greek magical papyri.
University of St Andrews, Scotland
2016 247 x 174 mm 272pp 29 b/w illus. 1 map 978-1-107-14960-1 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99
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and Greg Woolf
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Edited by Jason König Institute of Classical Studies, London
How did ancient scientific and knowledge-ordering writers make their work authoritative? This volume answers that question for a wide range of ancient disciplines, from mathematics and medicine through to law, historiography and philosophy – focusing mainly, but not exclusively, on the literature of the Roman Empire. 2016 247 x 174 mm 486pp 1 b/w illus. 978-1-107-06006-7 Hardback £105.00 / US$135.00 Publication December 2016 For all formats available, see
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Popular Culture in the Ancient World Edited by Lucy Grig University of Edinburgh
This book provides a fascinating and innovative insight into popular culture in the ancient world. It covers a diverse range of subjects and objects – from dice oracles to dressing up, from toys to theological speculation – and will appeal to scholars and students not just of classics but also of history and cultural studies. 2016 247 x 174 mm 378pp 6 b/w illus. 978-1-107-07489-7 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99
Urbanization and Social Change Edited by Manuel Fernández-Götz
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University of Edinburgh State Office for Cultural Heritage BadenWuerttemberg, Germany
This book brings together contributions from leading scholars on the development of Eurasia’s first cities, from the Atlantic coasts to China. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach that addresses the origins of key phenomena that continue to shape our world, it will appeal to academics, students, and segments of the broader public. 2016 253 x 177 mm 488pp 978-1-107-14740-9 Hardback £110.00 / US$140.00 Publication December 2016 For all formats available, see
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Prudentius, Spain, and Late Antique Christianity Poetry, Visual Culture, and the Cult of Martyrs Paula Hershkowitz Birkbeck, University of London
This book sets Prudentius’ martyr poetry within the religious, social, and visual contexts of late antique Spain. This original approach utilises the fields of history, archaeology, classical literature and art history, and the book is important for academics and
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Performance, Memory, and Processions in Ancient Rome The Pompa Circensis from the Late Republic to Late Antiquity Jacob A. Latham University of Tennessee, Knoxville
The pompa circensis was a political pageant and a religious ritual that produced a republican, imperial, and even Christian image of the city. In this book, Jacob A. Latham explores the play between performance and itinerary, tracing the transformations of the circus procession from the late Republic to late antiquity. 2016 253 x 177 mm 418pp 86 b/w illus. 978-1-107-13071-5 Hardback £74.99 / US$120.00 For all formats available, see
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Magical Hymns from Roman Egypt A Study of Greek and Egyptian Traditions of Divinity Ljuba Merlina Bortolani Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany
This interdisciplinary study investigates the divine personas in the so-called magical hymns of the Greek magical papyri which, in a corpus usually seen as a significant expression of religious syncretism with strong Egyptian influence, were long considered to be the ‘most authentically Greek’ contribution. Fifteen hymns receive a line-by-line commentary focusing on religious concepts, ritual practice, language and style. The overarching aim is to categorise the nature of divinity according to its Greek or Egyptian elements, examining earlier Greek and Egyptian sources and religious-magical traditions in order to find textual or conceptual parallels. Are the gods of the magical hymns Greek or Egyptian in nature? Did the magical hymns originate in a Greek or Egyptian cultural background? The book tries to answer these questions and to shed light on the religious plurality and/or fusion of the
Ritual Sites and Religious Rivalries in Late Roman North Africa Shira L. Lander Southern Methodist University, Texas
In Ritual Sites and Religious Rivalries in Late Roman North Africa, Lander examines the rhetorical and physical battles for sacred space between practitioners of traditional Roman religion, Christians, and Jews of late Roman North Africa. By analyzing literary along with archaeological evidence, Lander provides a new understanding of ancient notions of ritual space. 2016 228 x 152 mm 248pp 27 b/w illus. 978-1-107-14694-5 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 For all formats available, see
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Seals, Craft and Community in Bronze Age Crete Emily S. K. Anderson The Johns Hopkins University
Focusing on the numerous sealstones which have been excavated across Crete, current discussions of material culture, community and space in the second millennium BCE are merged in an interdisciplinary approach. Reframing the origins of ‘palace’ society in the
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Ancient history Aegean, this book will be of value to researchers and graduate students. 2016 253 x 177 mm 350pp 63 b/w illus. 978-1-107-13119-4 Hardback £85.00 / US$110.00 For all formats available, see
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Children in the Roman Empire Outsiders Within Christian Laes Vrije Universiteit Brussels; Universiteit Antwerpen
This book uses a wide range of written and archaeological sources to explore the lives of the ‘forgotten’ children of ancient Rome: from child emperors to children in the slums, from young magistrates to little artisans, peasants and mineworkers. It also illuminates the similarities and differences between children’s lives then and their lives today. ‘Superb.’ The Times Literary Supplement 2016 229 x 152 mm 352pp 6 b/w illus. 978-1-107-67122-5 Paperback £21.99 / US$32.99 Also available 978-0-521-89746-4 Hardback £67.00 / US$103.00 For all formats available, see
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Prostitutes and Matrons in the Roman World Anise K. Strong Western Michigan University
Revealing a more complex range of life choices and sexual activity open to Roman women beyond the traditional binary depiction as either wives or prostitutes, this book will be of interest to Roman historians, gender and sexuality scholars, feminist theorists, and those interested in the evolution of social stereotypes. 2016 228 x 152 mm 350pp 20 b/w illus. 5 maps 978-1-107-14875-8 Hardback £64.99 / US$99.99 For all formats available, see
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The Codex of Justinian A New Annotated Translation, with Parallel Latin and Greek Text General Editor Bruce W. Frier University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Translated by Fred H. Blume
The Codex of Justinian is, together with the Digest, the core of the great Byzantine compilation of Roman law called the Corpus Iuris Civilis. The Codex compiles legal proclamations issued by Roman emperors from the second to the sixth centuries CE. Its influence on subsequent legal development in the medieval and early modern world has been almost incalculable. But the Codex has not, until now, been credibly translated into English. This translation, with a facing Latin and Greek text (from Paul Krüger’s ninth edition of the Codex), is based on one made by Justice Fred H. Blume in the 1920s, but left unpublished for almost a century. It is accompanied by introductions explaining the background of the translation, a bibliography and glossary, and notes that help in understanding the text. Anyone with an interest in the Codex, whether an interested novice or a professional historian, will find ample assistance here. ‘The Codex Justinianus, a collection selected in the sixth century AD from thousands of responses to enquiries made by the imperial legal secretariat, is an unrivalled source for the actual lives and concerns of Roman citizens all over the Empire, and the changing policies of their rulers, over half a millennium. A team of ancient historians and academic lawyers has now produced an accurate and comprehensible English translation, based on that made by the late Justice Fred H. Blume almost a century ago, and with a facing Latin and Greek text. There are several valuable extra features, especially a glossary explaining Latin legal terms, footnotes … explaining the relevant legal rules and procedures … [and] copious provision of cross-references to related passages in the CJ and other major Roman legal writings. Ancient historians and legal historians alike have cause to be grateful to the compilers. This is the edition on which, from now on, they may confidently rely.’ Jane F. Gardner, Emeritus Professor of Ancient History, University of Reading
Contributors: Timothy Kearley, Bruce W. Frier, Simon Corcoran, John Noël Dillon, Serena Connolly, Dennis P. Kehoe, Thomas A. J. McGinn, Michael Crawford, Benet Salway, Noel Lenski, Charles F. Pazdernik 2016 228 x 152 mm 2963pp 1 b/w illus. 978-0-521-19682-6 3 Volume Hardback Set £450.00 / US$750.00 For all formats available, see
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Ancient Antioch From the Seleucid Era to the Islamic Conquest Andrea U. De Giorgi Florida State University
From fourth century BC Seleucid enclave to capital of the Roman east, Antioch on the Orontes was one of the greatest cities of antiquity, connecting east and west. This book draws on a century of archaeological fieldwork to offer a new narrative of Antioch’s origins, growth, and significance. 2016 253 x 177 mm 238pp 57 b/w illus. 15 maps 978-1-107-13073-9 Hardback £64.99 / US$99.99 For all formats available, see
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Law and Order in Ancient Athens Adriaan Lanni Harvard University School of Law
This book applies contemporary legal scholarship to explore how order was maintained in Athens and the role of legal institutions in Athenian society. Lanni shows how formal institutions facilitated the operation of informal social control in the large and diverse society of ancient Athens. ‘Classical Athens was a marvel. With style and insight, Lanni scours the limited sources to identify the institutions that enabled the city to flourish.’ Robert Ellickson, Yale Law School, Connecticut 2016 228 x 152 mm 240pp 978-0-521-19880-6 Hardback £80.00 / US$99.99 For all formats available, see
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Oratory and Political Career in the Late Roman Republic Henriette van der Blom University of Birmingham
This book offers a new perspective on the role of oratory in Roman Republican politics through its unique focus on the oratorical performances of orators other than Cicero and the ways in which these
Ancient history performances shaped their political careers.
also for historians of later periods and for social scientists.
2016 228 x 152 mm 388pp 1 b/w illus. 978-1-107-05193-5 Hardback £74.99 / US$120.00
2016 228 x 152 mm 338pp 978-0-521-51535-1 Hardback £64.99 / US$99.99
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Power and Privilege in Roman Society
Roman Artisans and the Urban Economy
Richard Duncan-Jones
Cameron Hawkins
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Queensborough Community College, New York
Were high appointments in the Roman Empire based on merit or on social standing? Some strong social biases emerge from this innovative study which uses a specially compiled database. There was considerable aristocratic preference in both army and civilian commands and the higher equestrian posts suggest similar patterns.
This book offers the first comprehensive study of economic conditions and economic life in Roman cities during the late Republic and early Empire. Inspired by comparative historical evidence and contemporary economic theory, it explores the performance of the Roman economy and the economic importance of key institutions like slavery, manumission, reputation and gender.
2016 228 x 152 mm 242pp 17 b/w illus. 978-1-107-14979-3 Hardback £64.99 / US$99.99 For all formats available, see
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The Ancient Egyptian Economy 3000–30 BCE Brian Muhs The Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
This book examines the economic history of ancient Egypt through the entire pharaonic period, 3000–30 BCE, using current economic theories and models. It argues that the increased use of writing and silver money were important factors in the evolution of the ancient Egyptian economy. 2016 253 x 177 mm 402pp 7 maps 7 tables 978-1-107-11336-7 Hardback £64.99 / US$99.99 For all formats available, see
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Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City The Origins of Euergetism Marc Domingo Gygax Princeton University, New Jersey
This is the first analysis of the origins of one of the most distinctive features of the ancient Greek city-state: the exchange of gifts and honours between benefactors and the community of citizens. It will be important not only for specialists in ancient Greek history but
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Roman Power A Thousand Years of Empire W. V. Harris Columbia University, New York
This book offers an ambitious and readable exploration of why the large and unusually durable Roman Empire came into being, what kind of state and people constructed it, how the structure was able to survive for so long, and what eventually went wrong. It will be important for all those interested in the history of empire and power. 2016 228 x 152 mm 370pp 44 b/w illus. 7 maps 978-1-107-15271-7 Hardback £30.00 / US$49.99 For all formats available, see
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Middle Kingdom state (c.3500–1650 BC). ‘[A] must-have study of the urban character of Egypt … Incorporating many of Egypt’s most recent discoveries and research, this is an essential work on urbanization in early complex societies.’ Kimberly Watt, World Archaeology Magazine 2016 279 x 216 mm 450pp 188 b/w illus. 6 maps 3 tables 978-1-107-07975-5 Hardback £74.99 / US$120.00 For all formats available, see
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Ostia in Late Antiquity Douglas Boin Georgetown University, Washington DC
Ostia in Late Antiquity is the first book to narrate the life of Ostia Antica, Rome’s ancient harbor, during the later empire, a period often synonymous in popular imagination with the ‘fall of Rome’. Drawing on new archaeological research, including the author’s own, this book offers a dynamic picture of what it was like to live during this transformative period. ‘… a very welcome development and begins to fill an important gap in the study of ancient Ostia. Boin skilfully weaves together material and textual evidence to show theories that Ostia experienced ‘decline’ or rapid Christianization in the third and fourth centuries are generally unfounded.’ Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2016 254 x 178 mm 308pp 57 b/w illus. 1 map 978-1-316-60153-2 Paperback £29.99 / US$44.99 Also available 978-1-107-02401-4 Hardback £67.00 / US$103.00 For all formats available, see
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The Archaeology of Urbanism in Ancient Egypt From the Predynastic Period to the End of the Middle Kingdom Nadine Moeller University of Chicago
This book presents the latest archaeological evidence that makes a case for Egypt as an early urban society. It traces the emergence of urban features during the Predynastic period up to the disintegration of the powerful
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A History of the Jewish War AD 66–74 Steve Mason Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
A conflict that erupted between Roman legions and some Judaeans in late AD 66 had an incalculable impact on Rome’s physical appearance and imperial governance; on ancient Jews bereft of their mother-city and temple; and on early Christian fortunes. Historical scholarship and cinema alike tend to see the conflict as the
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Ancient history culmination of long Jewish resistance to Roman oppression. In this volume, Steve Mason re-examines the war in all relevant contexts (such as the Parthian dimension, and Judaea’s place in Roman Syria) and phases, from the Hasmoneans to the fall of Masada. Mason approaches each topic as a historical investigation, clarifying problems that need to be solved, understanding the available evidence, and considering scenarios that might explain the evidence. The simplest reconstructions make the conflict more humanly intelligible while casting doubt on received knowledge.
Mediterranean religion and its conceptualisation by contemporaries.
‘No study of the Jewish-Roman war approaches this one in level of sophistication, thoroughness, sweep of erudition, provocative ideas, and originality.’
Under the leadership of Pericles in the fifth century BC, the Athenians sought to become the preeminent power in Greece. How did Pericles become both the greatest and the most dangerous leader Athens ever produced? Loren J. Samons, II uses the events of Athenian history of the period to analyze the career and legacy of this pivotal historical figure.
Erich S. Gruen, University of California, Berkeley 2016 228 x 152 mm 735pp 41 b/w illus. 3 maps 978-0-521-85329-3 Hardback £89.99 / US$150.00 For all formats available, see
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Boiotia in Antiquity Selected Papers Albert Schachter McGill University, Montréal
Preface by Hans Beck McGill University, Montréal
Boiotia was – next to Athens and Sparta – one of the most important regions of ancient Greece. Albert Schachter, a leading expert on the region, has for many decades been publishing seminal work on its history, institutions, and literature. This volume conveniently brings together twenty-three papers, two previously unpublished, and others revised and updated. 2016 228 x 152 mm 454pp 5 b/w illus. 1 map 978-1-107-05324-3 Hardback £84.99 / US$135.00 For all formats available, see
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2016 228 x 152 mm 159pp 978-1-107-09052-1 Hardback £64.99 / US$99.99
Slavery in the Late Roman World, AD 275–425
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Kyle Harper
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Pericles and the Conquest of History A Political Biography Loren J. Samons, II Boston University
‘To his credit, Professor Samons resolutely refuses to view Pericles with rose-colored glasses. Instead, he shatters the illusions entertained by his predecessors, emphasizing the degree to which the radical democracy in Athens fostered and was fostered by a brutal, ruthless, exploitative imperialism and exhibited a suicidal ambition for further expansion that, thanks in part to the vision of undying glory and grandeur deliberately projected by Pericles, knew no bounds.’ Paul A. Rahe, Hillsdale College, Michigan
Contents: 1. To be an Athenian; 2. Curses, tyrants, and Persians (c.500–479); 3. The dominance of Kimon (c.479–462/1); 4. The democratic revolution (c.462/1–444/3); 5. A Greek empire (c.460–445); 6. Pericles and Sparta: the outbreak of the Great War (444/3–431); 7. Pericles and Athenian nationalism: the conquest of history; 8. Athenian culture and the intellectual revolution: Pericles and the people; Epilogue: the Periclean tradition.
Superstition or Individuality? Jörg Rüpke
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Universität Erfurt, Germany
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Religious Deviance in the Roman World
The importance and primacy of individual religious experience is attested in ancient cases of and discourses about religious deviance. In reviewing religious norms from Cicero to the Theodosian Code in late antiquity, Jörg Rüpke reconstructs a hitherto neglected feature of ancient
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University of Oklahoma
This book reinterprets the end of Roman slavery, providing the most comprehensive account of a premodern slave system currently available. Essential reading for students and scholars interested in the social, economic and religious history of antiquity, and for students of slavery in general. 2016 229 x 152 mm 626pp 5 b/w illus. 15 tables 978-1-107-64081-8 Paperback £26.99 / US$39.99 Also available 978-0-521-19861-5 Hardback £93.00 / US$144.00 For all formats available, see
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War and Society in Early Rome From Warlords to Generals Jeremy Armstrong University of Auckland
This book combines the rich, but problematic, literary tradition for early Rome with the ever-growing archaeological record to present a new interpretation of early Roman warfare and how it related to the city’s various social, political, religious, and economic institutions. 2016 228 x 152 mm 332pp 9 b/w illus. 3 maps 1 table 978-1-107-09357-7 Hardback £64.99 / US$99.99 For all formats available, see
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Pericles A Biography in Context Thomas R. Martin College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts
For non-specialists seeking to understand why Pericles was so famous and controversial in his own time and now, this book explains the notorious family background and unconventional education that shaped him, while arguing that his hardline policies on national power were necessary and his personal life and career were tragic. Contents: Introduction: a biography of Pericles in the context of the ancient sources; 1. The notorious family history of Pericles’ mother; 2. The harsh lessons of the career of Pericles’ father; 3. Pericles becomes a teenager during a family crisis and national emergency; 4. Pericles
Ancient history becomes a refugee during Athens’ greatest peril; 5. Pericles becomes an adult as Athens builds an empire; 6. Pericles’ innovative education for leadership in Athenian democracy; 7. Pericles becomes a leader as Athens and Sparta become enemies; 8. Pericles becomes the first man of Athens; 9. Pericles’ responsibility for the Samian Revolt and the Peloponnesian War; 10. Pericles’ fate, then and later; Suggested readings. 2016 228 x 152 mm 256pp 19 b/w illus. 6 maps 978-0-521-11645-9 Hardback £59.99 / US$89.99 978-0-521-13335-7 Paperback £19.99 / US$29.99 For all formats available, see
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accompanying essays by his colleagues, friends and former students. Cambridge Classical Studies
2017 216 x 138 mm 550pp 978-1-107-01891-4 Hardback c. £84.99 / c. US$135.00 Publication September 2017 For all formats available, see
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body, using them to explore how beliefs about the body changed throughout the period. It will be of interest to scholars and students of classics as well as religious studies. Cambridge Classical Studies
2017 247 x 174 mm 348pp 84 b/w illus. 978-1-107-15783-5 Hardback c. £64.99 / c. US$99.99 Publication March 2017
Land and Taxes in Ptolemaic Egypt An Edition, Translation and Commentary for the Edfu Land Survey (P. Haun. IV 70) Edited and translated by Thorolf Christensen University of Cambridge
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M. I. Finley An Ancient Historian and his Impact Edited by Daniel Jew College of Alice and Peter Tan, Singapore
Robin Osborne
Roman Political Thought
Dorothy J. Thompson
From Cicero to Augustine Dean Hammer
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
University of Warwick
This book provides the first edition with an extensive introduction and full commentary of a unique land survey written on papyrus in Greek which derives from that area of southern (Upper) Egypt known as the Apollonopolite (or Edfu) nome and is now preserved in Copenhagen. Dating from the late second century BC, this survey provides a new picture of both landholding and taxation in the area which differs significantly from that currently accepted. The introduction sets this new evidence in its contemporary context, drawing particular attention to what it reveals about the nature of the relations of the Ptolemaic royal administration with local grandees, Egyptian temples and the army. No student of Hellenistic Egypt can afford to ignore this text, which importantly extends our knowledge of Upper Egypt under the Ptolemaic kings and involves some modification to the prevailing picture of landholding in Hellenistic Egypt.
This definitive assessment of the most famous twentieth-century ancient historian engages with his impact beyond as well as within the academy, analysing the means and nature of his impact, and telling how a scholar expelled from the United States for communist links became a part of the British establishment.
Franklin and Marshall College, Pennsylvania
This book is the first comprehensive treatment of Roman political thought, arguing that Romans engaged in wideranging reflections on politics. 2014 228 x 152 mm 570pp 978-0-521-19524-9 Hardback £57.00 / US$93.00 For all formats available, see
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The Cambridge History of the Byzantine Empire c.500–1492 Edited by Jonathan Shepard University of Cambridge
A history of the rise and fall of the Byzantine Empire. 2009 228 x 152 mm 1228pp 79 b/w illus. 52 maps 7 tables 978-0-521-83231-1 Hardback £170.00 / US$258.00 For all formats available, see
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Girton College, Cambridge
and Katelijn Vandorpe
Cambridge Classical Studies
Sociological Studies in Roman History Volume 3 Keith Hopkins University of Cambridge
Edited by Christopher Kelly University of Cambridge
Keith Hopkins was a sociologist and Professor of Ancient History at Cambridge (1985–2001). He is widely recognised as one of the most radical and innovative Roman historians of his generation. This volume presents fourteen of his papers, re-edited with
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2017 247 x 174 mm 150pp 19 b/w illus. 1 map 31 tables 978-1-107-15910-5 Hardback c. £64.99 / c. US$99.99 Publication June 2017 For all formats available, see
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Votive Body Parts in Greek and Roman Religion
University of Cambridge
and Michael Scott
Cambridge Classical Studies
2016 216 x 138 mm 348pp 9 b/w illus. 3 tables 978-1-107-14926-7 Hardback £64.99 / US$99.99 For all formats available, see
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Revisiting Delphi Religion and Storytelling in Ancient Greece Julia Kindt University of Sydney
This book speaks to all admirers of Delphi and its famous prophecies, whether they are experts on ancient Greek religion, students of the ancient world, or just lovers of a good story. It highlights key themes of oracle stories and finds religious meaning in the infamous oracular ambiguity. Cambridge Classical Studies
2016 216 x 138 mm 228pp 1 b/w illus. 978-1-107-15157-4 Hardback £64.99 / US$99.99 For all formats available, see
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Jessica Hughes The Open University, Milton Keynes
This book examines a type of object that was widespread and very popular in classical antiquity – votive offerings in the shape of parts of the human
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Ancient history Reviving Roman Religion Sacred Trees in the Roman World Ailsa Hunt Newnham College, Cambridge
This book argues that thinking about sacred trees in the Roman world forces us to rethink how we understand Roman religion, in particular challenging current scholarly constructions of what sacrality means in Roman culture, and revealing what is lost when when we write the environment out of our understanding of Roman religion. Cambridge Classical Studies
2016 216 x 138 mm 342pp 17 b/w illus. 2 tables 978-1-107-15354-7 Hardback £80.00 / US$99.99 For all formats available, see
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and Susa; 7. The kingdom of Susa and Anshan; 8. The Neo-Elamite period; 9. Elam in the Achaemenid empire; 10. Elymais; 11. Elam under the Sasanians and beyond; 12. Conclusion. Cambridge World Archaeology
2016 253 x 177 mm 488pp 115 b/w illus. 6 maps 63 tables 978-1-107-09469-7 Hardback £74.99 / US$120.00 978-1-107-47663-9 Paperback £29.99 / US$49.99 For all formats available, see
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Visual Style and Constructing Identity in the Hellenistic World Nemrud Dag and Commagene under Antiochos I Miguel John Versluys Rijksuniversiteit Leiden, The Netherlands
Theologies of Ancient Greek Religion Edited by Esther Eidinow University of Nottingham
Julia Kindt University of Sydney
and Robin Osborne University of Cambridge
This wide-ranging investigation of the theorising about the divine that is implicit and explicit in the religious practices and literary and philosophical texts of the ancient Greeks, shows that Greeks thought hard about what gods must be like and what the appropriate ways to worship them were. Cambridge Classical Studies
2016 216 x 138 mm 438pp 16 b/w illus. 978-1-107-15347-9 Hardback £74.99 / US$120.00
This book provides a new interpretation of Nemrud Dag, a key Hellenistic monument with both Greek and Persian elements. It develops a novel approach to understanding relations between visual style and constructing identity in antiquity, and will be important for those interested in cultural dynamics, dynastic propaganda and ancient globalisation. Greek Culture in the Roman World
2017 247 x 174 mm 272pp 978-1-107-14197-1 Hardback c. £64.99 / c. US$99.00 Publication April 2017 www.cambridge.org/9781107141971
Science Writing in Greco-Roman Antiquity Liba Taub University of Cambridge
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This book explores the surprising variety of texts used to communicate scientific and mathematical ideas in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. Each chapter concentrates on a particular genre – poetry, letter, encyclopaedia, commentary and biography – and considers the broader cultural contexts in which these texts were produced and read.
The Archaeology of Elam Formation and Transformation of an Ancient Iranian State Second edition D. T. Potts Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York
This book examines the formation and transformation of Elam’s many identities through both archaeological and written evidence. Contents: 1. Elam: what, when, where?; 2. Environment, climate, and resources; 3. The immediate precursors of Elam; 4. Elam and Awan; 5. The dynasty of Shimashki; 6. The grand regents of Elam
The Ancient City Arjan Zuiderhoek Universiteit Gent, Belgium
This book provides an accessible survey of scholarly debates on Greek and Roman cities, as well as a sketch of the cities’ chief characteristics. It is aimed primarily at students of ancient history and general readers, but also at scholars working on urbanism in other periods and places. ‘This book is a thoughtful study of cities in the ancient world, arguing that the similarities between the Greek and Roman models far outweighed the differences.’ Rupert Jackson, Classics for All
Contents: 1. Introduction: the ancient city as concept and reality; 2. Origins, development and spread of cities in the ancient world; 3. City and country; 4. Urban landscape and environment; 5. Politics and political institutions; 6. Civic ritual and civic identity; 7. Urban society: stratification and mobility; 8. The urban economy; 9. Citystates and cities and states; 10. The end of the ancient city? Key Themes in Ancient History
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Key Themes in Ancient History
2017 228 x 152 mm 164pp 3 b/w illus. 978-0-521-11370-0 Hardback £59.99 / US$99.99 978-0-521-13063-9 Paperback £18.99 / US$29.99 Publication February 2017 For all formats available, see
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Religion, Society and Culture at Dura-Europos Edited by Ted Kaizer University of Durham
This book advances our understanding of the religion, society and culture of Dura-Europos, the small town on the Euphrates known as the ‘Pompeii of the Syrian desert’ and one of the best sources for day-to-day life in a community on the periphery of the Roman world. Yale Classical Studies, 38
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Ancient philosophy Platonist Philosophy 80 BC to AD 250 An Introduction and Collection of Sources in Translation George Boys-Stones University of Durham
‘Middle’ Platonism has some claim to be the single most influential philosophical movement of the last two thousand years, as the common background to ‘Neoplatonism’ and the early development of Christian theology. This book breaks with the tradition of considering it primarily in terms of its sources, instead putting its contemporary philosophical engagements front and centre to reconstruct its philosophical motivations and activity across the full range of its interests. The volume explores the thinkers at the heart of Platonist philosophy in this period and includes a comprehensive selection of primary sources, a significant number of which appear in English translation for the first time, along with dedicated guides to the questions that have been, and might be, asked about the movement. The result is a tool which will help to bring the study of Middle Platonism into mainstream discussions of ancient philosophy. 2017 228 x 152 mm 700pp 978-0-521-83858-0 Hardback c. £110.00 / c. US$180.00 Publication December 2017 For all formats available, see
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Philosophic Silence and the ‘One’ in Plotinus Nicholas Banner University of Exeter
Plotinus, the greatest philosopher of late antiquity, discusses at length a first principle of reality – the One – which, he tells us, cannot be expressed in words or grasped by thought. This book explores this act of writing the unwritable. It will be of importance for students of Platonism and mysticism. 2017 228 x 152 mm 288pp 978-1-107-15462-9 Hardback c. £64.99 / c. US$99.99 Publication November 2017 For all formats available, see
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Cosmology and Politics in Plato’s Later Works
Teleology in the Ancient World
Dominic J. O’Meara
Philosophical and Medical Approaches Edited by Julius Rocca
Université de Fribourg, Switzerland
Knowledge of the structure of the cosmos, Plato suggests, is important in organizing a human community which aims at happiness. This book investigates this theme in Plato’s later works, the Timaeus, Statesman and Laws, proposing many fresh readings and new models. 2017 228 x 152 mm 200pp 978-1-107-18327-8 Hardback c. £64.99 / c. US$99.99 Publication August 2017 For all formats available, see
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The Works of Archimedes Translation and Commentary Volume 2 Edited and translated by Reviel Netz Stanford University, California
This is the second volume of the first fully fledged English translation of the works of Archimedes – antiquity’s greatest scientist and one of the most important scientific figures in history. It covers On Spiral Lines and is based on a reconsideration of the Greek text and diagrams, now made possible through new discoveries from the Archimedes Palimpsest. On Spiral Lines is one of Archimedes’ most dazzling geometrical tours de force, suggesting a manner of ‘squaring the circle’ and, along the way, introducing the attractive geometrical object of the spiral. The form of argument, no less than the results themselves, is striking, and Reviel Netz contributes extensive and insightful comments that focus on Archimedes’ scientific style, making this volume indispensable for scholars of classics and the history of science, and of great interest for the scientists and mathematicians of today. 2017 247 x 174 mm 250pp 41 b/w illus. 5 tables 978-0-521-66145-4 Hardback c. £90.00 / c. US$130.00 Publication May 2017 For all formats available, see
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Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Teleology is the study of ends or purposes. This collection of twelve essays examines ancient philosophical and medical approaches to a subject that has often been conflated with theological arguments advocated by proponents of creationism and intelligent design. In so doing, it will enable a better evaluation of teleological argumentation. 2017 228 x 152 mm 284pp 978-1-107-03663-5 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 Publication May 2017 For all formats available, see
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From Stoicism to Platonism The Development of Philosophy, 100 BCE–100 CE Edited by Troels Engberg-Pedersen University of Copenhagen
A team of experts explores the change in philosophy from around 100 BCE, when monistic Stoicism was the strongest dogmatic school in philosophy, to around 100 CE, when dualistic Platonism began to gain the upper hand – with huge consequences for all later Western philosophy and for Christianity. 2017 228 x 152 mm 436pp 978-1-107-16619-6 Hardback £90.00 / US$120.00 Publication February 2017 For all formats available, see
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The Ethics of the Family in Seneca Liz Gloyn Royal Holloway, University of London
This book explores the vital role the family plays in Stoic ideas of moral development found in Seneca’s philosophical writing. It combines philosophical analysis with social, cultural and historical discussion and is an important resource for researchers in Roman Stoicism, imperial culture and the history of the family. 2017 228 x 152 mm 260pp 1 b/w illus. 978-1-107-14547-4 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 Publication February 2017 For all formats available, see
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Proclus An Introduction Radek Chlup Charles University, Prague
The first comprehensive introduction to the philosophical and religious thought of Proclus the Neoplatonist, one of the most complex and influential thinkers of antiquity. In addition to covering all the basic areas of his thought, the book sets Proclus in the historical, social and religious context of late antiquity. ‘… a most welcome publication which will be used with profit by all those interested in Proclus.’ Arctos 2016 229 x 152 mm 346pp 15 b/w illus. 978-1-316-62885-0 Paperback £20.99 / US$31.99 Also available 978-0-521-76148-2 Hardback £67.00 / US$103.00 For all formats available, see
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Aristotle on Political Community David J. Riesbeck Rice University, Houston
This book argues that Aristotle’s ideas about the distinctive nature and value of political community, authority and participation are coherent and consistent with his aristocratic standards of justice. The result is a theory that remains a potentially fruitful resource for contemporary thinking about the persistent problems of political life. 2016 228 x 152 mm 332pp 978-1-107-10702-1 Hardback £74.99 / US$120.00 For all formats available, see
Plotinus and Epicurus Matter, Perception, Pleasure Edited by Angela Longo Università degli Studi dell’Aquila, Italy
and Daniela Patrizia Taormina Università degli Studi di Roma ‘Tor Vergata’
This collection of essays proposes a new way of understanding themes such as matter, knowledge, human happiness and the gods in Epicurus and Plotinus. It argues that Platonism not only vehemently criticised Epicurus’ theory of human and divine pleasure, but also borrowed some concepts from him. 2016 228 x 152 mm 254pp 978-1-107-12421-9 Hardback £64.99 / US$99.99 For all formats available, see
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Plato on the Metaphysical Foundation of Meaning and Truth Blake E. Hestir Texas Christian University
Blake E. Hestir’s examination of passages from Plato’s Cratylus, Parmenides, Theaetetus and Sophist sheds new light on Plato’s conception of meaning and truth, bringing it into dialogue with contemporary truth theory, metaphysics, and semantics, as well as highlighting new and striking parallels between Plato and Aristotle. 2016 228 x 152 mm 286pp 978-1-107-13232-0 Hardback £64.99 / US$99.99
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Technical Ekphrasis in Greek and Roman Science and Literature The Written Machine between Alexandria and Rome Courtney Roby Cornell University, New York
Analyzes the rhetorical and visual strategies used in technical texts and non-technical literature to describe technological artifacts.
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Self-Examination, Civic Engagement, and the Politics of Philosophy Joel Alden Schlosser
Alex Dressler
Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania
University of Wisconsin, Madison
What Would Socrates Do? speaks to contemporary concerns with democratic citizenship, civic engagement, and political education. The main purposes of the book are twofold: first, to challenge the received opinion about Socrates by showing how his activities in democratic Athens involved productively challenging the extant political consensus; and second, to imagine alternative forms of political engagement inspired by Socrates.
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Personification and the Feminine in Roman Philosophy
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2016 228 x 152 mm 322pp 978-1-107-10596-6 Hardback £80.00 / US$99.99
Jill Frank, University of South Carolina
2016 228 x 152 mm 334pp 7 b/w illus. 978-1-107-07730-0 Hardback £74.99 / US$120.00
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This book explores accounts of personhood developed by Roman writers, including Lucretius, Cicero and Seneca, and discusses the relevance of ancient texts to modern debates about the history of self. It will appeal to readers of classical literature interested in gender studies, as well as scholars of rhetorical, modern and postmodern theory.
alongside and against Athens’s late fifth-century political culture. Sensitive to text and context, it brings to light the ways in which Socrates’ engagements with foreigners, women, slaves, and citizens alike challenged the exclusions of Athens’s democratic ideology and transformed Athenian practices of accountability, free speech, and freedom in the direction of more democracy. [This book] develops ‘a philosophy that lives in the people who practice it together’ as a mode of civic engagement that is no less relevant for contemporary democratic culture than it was for fifth-century Athens.’
‘Drawing on Plato, Aristophanes, and Xenophon, What Would Socrates Do? reconstructs Socrates’ philosophy
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Plato: Laws Edited by Malcolm Schofield University of Cambridge
Translated by Tom Griffith
Plato’s Laws is one of the most important surviving works of ancient Greek political thought. This new translation into accessible English also includes an authoritative introduction and notes on the text. It will be a key resource for scholars and graduate and
Ancient philosophy / Byzantine studies undergraduate students of the history of political thought. Contents: Introduction; Synopsis; Principal dates; A guide to further reading; The Laws: Book 1; Book 2; Book 3; Book 4; Book 5; Book 6; Book 7; Book 8; Book 9; Book 10; Book 11; Book 12; Appendix; Index. Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
2016 216 x 138 mm 502pp 978-0-521-85965-3 Hardback £54.99 / US$84.99 978-0-521-67690-8 Paperback £16.99 / US$24.99 For all formats available, see
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Proclus: Commentary on Plato’s Timaeus Volume 6: Book 5: Proclus on the Gods of Generation and the Creation of Humans Proclus Edited by Harold Tarrant University of New South Wales, Sydney
Proclus’ Commentary on the dialogue Timaeus by Plato (d.347 BC), written in the fifth century AD, is arguably the most important commentary on a text of Plato, offering unparalleled insights into eight centuries of Platonic interpretation. It has had an enormous influence on subsequent Plato scholarship. This edition nevertheless offers the first new translation of the work for nearly two centuries, building on significant recent advances in scholarship on Neoplatonic commentators. It will provide an invaluable record of early interpretations of Plato’s dialogue, while also presenting Proclus’ own views on the meaning and significance of Platonic philosophy. The book presents Proclus’ unrepentant account of a multitude of divinities involved with the creation of mortal life, the supreme creator’s delegation to them of the creation of human life, and the manner in which they took the immortal life principle from him and wove it together with our mortal parts to produce human beings. Proclus: Commentary on Plato’s Timaeus
2017 228 x 152 mm 291pp 4 tables 978-1-107-03264-4 Hardback £69.99 / US$125.00 Publication April 2017 For all formats available, see
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Byzantine studies Tamta’s World The Life and Encounters of a Medieval Noblewoman from the Middle East to Mongolia Antony Eastmond Courtauld Institute of Art, London
The compelling story of a thirteenthcentury Christian noblewoman ransomed to the family of Saladin, made a ruler by the Mongols, and with extraordinary connections across continents and cultures from the Mediterranean to Mongolia. This book will be important for students and scholars of Byzantine, Crusader and Islamic history, art and architecture. 2017 247 x 174 mm 400pp 158 b/w illus. 6 maps 978-1-107-16756-8 Hardback c. £35.00 / c. US$55.00
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Byzantium and intellectual exchanges with the Arab world. Contributors: Niketas Siniossoglou, Anthony Kaldellis, Jonathan Harris, Inmaculada Pérez Martín, Stephanos Efthymiades, Eleanor Dickey, Dimitris Gutas, Anthony Kaldellis, Brian Long, Stratis Papaioannou, Manolis Bourbouhakis, Charles Barber, Bernard Stolte, Dominic O’Meara, Anne Tihon, Paul Magdalino, Richard Greenfield, Gerasimos Merianos, Timothy S. Miller, Dimitris Gutas, John A. McGuckin, Tuomo Lankila, Andrew Louth, Ken Parry, Christophe Erismann, David Bradshaw, Michele Trizio, Phil Booth, Anna Zhyrkova, David Jenkins, Tia Kolbaba, Norman Russell, Andrew Louth, Moshe Idel, Marcus Plested, Marie-Hélène Blanchet, Dimitris Krallis, Teresa Shawcross, Paschalis M. Kitromilides 2017 228 x 152 mm 800pp 978-1-107-04181-3 Hardback c. £120.00 / c. US$195.00 Publication April 2017 For all formats available, see
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The Cambridge Intellectual History of Byzantium Edited by Anthony Kaldellis Ohio State University
and Niketas Siniossoglou National Hellenic Research Foundation, Institute for Historical Research
This volume brings the field of Byzantine intellectual history into being. Shifting focus from the cultural, social, and economic study of Byzantium to the life and evolution of ideas in their context, it provides an authoritative history of intellectual endeavors from late antiquity to the fifteenth century. At its heart lie the transmission, transformation, and shifts of Hellenic, Christian, and Byzantine ideas and concepts as exemplified in diverse aspects of intellectual life, from philosophy, theology, and rhetoric to astrology, astronomy, and politics. Case studies introduce the major players in Byzantine intellectual life, and particular emphasis is placed on the reception of ancient thought and its significance for secular as well as religious modes of thinking and acting. New insights are offered regarding controversial, understudied, or promising topics of research, such as philosophy and medical thought in
Theology and Poetry in Early Byzantium The Kontakia of Romanos the Melodist Sarah Gador-Whyte Australian Catholic University, Melbourne
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Classics for schools Greek Athletics and the Olympics Alan Beale
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Socrates and Athens David M. Johnson
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Horace: A Poet for a New Age Keith Maclennan
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Alexander the Great Edited and translated by Keyne Cheshire Davidson College, North Carolina
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Greek Theatre in Context Eric Dugdale
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Cicero and the Roman Republic John Murrell
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Virgil, A Poet in Augustan Rome James Morwood
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Index A Adalı, Selim Ferruh.................................10 Adams, J. N..............................................2 Aeschylus: Agamemnon..........................25 Aesthetic Experiences and Classical Antiquity...............................................3 Affleck, Judith.................................. 24, 25 Afterlives of Greek Sculpture, The..............8 Alexander the Great...............................26 Ancient Antioch......................................14 Ancient City, The....................................18 Ancient Egyptian Economy, The...............15 Ancient Libraries....................................22 Ancient Mythological Images and their Interpretation........................................8 Anderson, Emily S. K...............................13 Annals of Tacitus, The...............................6 Anthology of Informal Latin, 200 BC– AD 900, An...........................................2 Antiquity and Cinema...............................3 Archaeology and Ideology in Rome...........9 Archaeology of Elam, The.......................18 Archaeology of Urbanism in Ancient Egypt, The...........................................15 Architecture of the Roman Triumph, The....8 Aristophanes: Clouds..............................25 Aristophanes: Frogs................................24 Aristotle on Political Community.............20 Armstrong, Jeremy.................................16 Authority and Expertise in Ancient Scientific Culture.................................13
B Bachvarova, Mary R..................................5 Banner, Nicholas....................................19 Baroque Antiquity..................................22 Barrios-Lech, Peter...................................5 Bartsch, Shadi........................................23 Bassino, Paola..........................................4 Beale, Alan.............................................26 Beck, Hans.............................................16 Bell, Barbara..........................................24 Benaissa, Amin.........................................6 Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City...........................................15 Bettini, Maurizio.....................................10 Blok, Josine............................................12 Blume, Fred H.........................................14 Boin, Douglas.........................................15 Boiotia in Antiquity.................................16 Bortolani, Ljuba Merlina.........................13 Bosher, Kathryn........................................5 Boys-Stones, George...............................19 Burnand, Chris.......................................26 Burton, Paul J.........................................11 Byzantine Legal Culture and the Roman Legal Tradition, 867–1056...................21
C Cairns, Francis..........................................5 Cambridge Companion to Roman Comedy, The..........................................7 Cambridge Companion to the Age of Nero, The.............................................23 Cambridge Companion to the Writings of Julius Caesar, The...............................7 Cambridge Companion to Xenophon, The.7 Cambridge Grammar of Classical Greek, The.......................................................1
Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare, The.................................... 9, 10 Cambridge History of the Byzantine Empire c.500–1492, The......................17 Cambridge Intellectual History of Byzantium, The....................................21 Cambridge Introduction to Sanskrit, The....1 Cambridge Latin Anthology....................24 Cambridge Latin Grammar......................24 Cambridge School Classics Project..........24 Canevaro, Lilah Grace...............................4 Canonical Texts and Scholarly Practices.....5 Caria and Crete in Antiquity....................10 Chahoud, Anna........................................2 Cheshire, Keyne......................................26 Children in the Roman Empire................14 Chitwood, Zachary.................................21 Chlup, Radek..........................................20 Christensen, Thorolf................................17 Cicero and the Roman Republic..............26 Citizenship in Classical Athens................12 Claudian the Poet.....................................3 Claughton, John............................... 25, 26 Codex of Justinian, The...........................14 Cohen-Almagor, Raphael........................23 Colloquial and Literary Latin.....................2 Conflict and Consensus in Early Greek Hexameter Poetry..................................4 Confronting the Internet’s Dark Side.......23 Coombe, Clare.........................................3 Cosmology and Politics in Plato’s Later Works.................................................19 Creative Lives in Classical Antiquity...........6 Curtis, Lauren...........................................4
D de Bakker, Mathieu..................................1 De Giorgi, Andrea U................................14 de May, Philip.................................. 25, 26 De Temmerman, Koen...............................5 Death and the Afterlife in Byzantium.......22 Demoen, Kristoffel....................................5 Dickey, Eleanor........................... 1, 2, 3, 11 Dilley, Paul C..........................................11 Dinter, Martin...........................................7 Dionysius: The Epic Fragments..................6 Disability in the Roman World.................11 Domingo Gygax, Marc............................15 Dressler, Alex..........................................20 Drpić, Ivan..............................................22 Dugdale, Eric.................................... 25, 26 Duncan-Jones, Richard...........................15 Dutta, Shomit.........................................25 Dyer, Bryan R............................................6 Dyson, Stephen L......................................9
E Early and Late Latin..................................2 Early Greek Hexameter Poetry...................7 Easterling, P. E........................................25 Eastmond, Antony..................................21 Eckhardt, Holly.......................................24 Economy of Late Achaemenid and Seleucid Babylonia, The.......................12 Eidinow, Esther......................................18 Eijk, Philip van der....................................4 Empire and Ideology in the GraecoRoman World......................................12 Engberg-Pedersen, Troels........................19
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Epigram, Art, and Devotion in Later Byzantium...........................................22 Ethics of the Family in Seneca, The..........19 Eurasia at the Dawn of History................13 Eurasian Empires in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages................................10 Euripides: Bacchae.................................24 Euripides: Hecuba...................................25 Euripides: Hippolytus..............................25 Euripides: Iphigeneia at Aulis..................24 Euripides: Medea....................................25
F Fane-Saunders, Peter..............................22 Fernández-Götz, Manuel........................13 Fletcher, Richard.......................................6 Flower, Michael A.....................................7 Formisano, Marco.....................................4 Forte, Helen............................................24 Fountains and Water Culture in Byzantium...........................................22 Frame in Classical Art, The........................8 Franklin, David................................. 24, 25 Freudenburg, Kirk...................................23 Frier, Bruce W.........................................14 From Hittite to Homer...............................5 From Stoicism to Platonism.....................19
G Gador-Whyte, Sarah...............................21 Gainsford, Peter.......................................7 Gladhill, Bill.............................................5 Gloyn, Liz...............................................19 Grafton, Anthony......................................5 Graziosi, Barbara......................................4 Greek Athletics and the Olympics............26 Greek Myths in Roman Art and Culture.....9 Greek Theatre between Antiquity and Independence........................................4 Greek Theatre in Context........................26 Grethlein, Jonas.......................................3 Griffith, Tom...........................................20 Grig, Lucy...............................................13 Grillo, Luca...............................................7 Guide to Neo-Latin Literature, A...............4
H Hammer, Dean.......................................17 Hanink, Johanna......................................6 Harper, Kyle............................................16 Harris, W. V.............................................15 Harrison, John.................................. 24, 25 Harrison, Stephen.....................................7 Hartnett, Jeremy.......................................9 Hatto, Arthur..........................................23 Hawkins, Cameron.................................15 Hellenistic Epigram...................................5 Herodotus and the Persian Wars.............26 Hershkowitz, Paula.................................13 Hesiod and Classical Greek Poetry............4 Hestir, Blake E........................................20 Hills of Rome, The...................................22 Historical and Topographical Guide to the Geography of Strabo, A..................11 History of the Jewish War, A....................15 Homer’s Odyssey....................................25 Hopkins, Keith........................................17 Horace: A Poet for a New Age.................26 Horace: Odes Book II................................7
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Index Hughes, Jessica......................................17 Huitink, Luuk............................................1 Human Mobility and Technological Transfer in the Prehistoric Mediterranean.......................................9 Hunt, Ailsa.............................................18 Hunter, Richard........................................6
I Imagining Reperformance in Ancient Culture..................................................6 Imagining the Chorus in Augustan Poetry.. 4 Independent Study Guide to Reading Latin, An...............................................1 Introduction to the Composition and Analysis of Greek Prose, An....................3 Isaac, Benjamin......................................12 Isayev, Elena..........................................12
J Jew, Daniel.............................................17 Johnson, David M...................................26 Jones, Peter.......................................... 1, 2 Joshel, Sandra R.......................................8
K Kaizer, Ted..............................................18 Kaldellis, Anthony...................................21 Kania, Raymond.......................................6 Kelly, Christopher...................................17 Kim, Hyun Jin.........................................10 Kindt, Julia....................................... 17, 18 Kiriatzi, Evangelia.....................................9 Knappett, Carl..........................................9 Knowledge, Text and Practice in Ancient Technical Writing...................................4 König, Jason..................................... 13, 22 Kostof, Spiro.............................................8 Kousser, Rachel........................................8 Kramer-Hajos, Margaretha........................9 Krausse, Dirk..........................................13 Krebs, Christopher B.................................7
L Laes, Christian.................................. 11, 14 Land and Taxes in Ptolemaic Egypt..........17 Lander, Shira L........................................13 Lanni, Adriaan........................................14 Latham, Jacob A.....................................13 Law and Order in Ancient Athens............14 Learn Latin from the Romans....................1 Learning Latin the Ancient Way.................3 Legend of Seleucus, The..........................12 Letchford, Clive......................................24 Liebert, Rana Saadi..................................4 Life and Health of the Mind in Classical Greek Medical Thought, The.................11 Linguistic Interaction in Roman Comedy....5 Littlewood, Cedric..................................23 Longo, Angela........................................20 Lorenz, Katharina.....................................8 Lucretius................................................26
M M. I. Finley.............................................17 Maclennan, Keith...................................26 Magical Hymns from Roman Egypt.........13
Marinis, Vasileios....................................22 Martin, Thomas R...................................16 Mason, Steve.........................................15 Material Life of Roman Slaves, The............8 McAuslan, Ian........................................25 Merrills, Andy.........................................12 Migration, Mobility and Place in Ancient Italy....................................................12 Minimus.................................................24 Minimus Secundus.................................24 Moeller, Nadine......................................15 Monasteries and the Care of Souls in Late Antique Christianity......................11 Moore, Timothy J....................................25 Morwood, James....................................26 Most, Glenn W.........................................5 Moul, Victoria...........................................4 Muhs, Brian............................................15 Murrell, John..........................................26 Mycenaean Greece and the Aegean World....................................................9
N Netz, Reviel............................................19 Newby, Zahra...........................................9 Nicolaus of Damascus: The Life of Augustus and The Autobiography.........12 North American Cambridge Latin Course Unit 1.................................................23 North American Cambridge Latin Course Unit 2.................................................23 North American Cambridge Latin Course Unit 3.................................................24 North American Cambridge Latin Course Unit 4.................................................24
O O’Meara, Dominic J................................19 Ogden, Daniel........................................12 Oikonomopoulou, Katerina.....................22 Oratory and Political Career in the Late Roman Republic..................................14 Osborne, Robin................................ 17, 18 Ostia in Late Antiquity............................15
P Paul and Ancient Rhetoric.........................6 Performance, Memory, and Processions in Ancient Rome..................................13 Pericles..................................................16 Pericles and the Conquest of History.......16 Personification and the Feminine in Roman Philosophy...............................20 Petersen, Lauren Hackworth.....................8 Philosophic Silence and the ‘One’ in Plotinus...............................................19 Pindar’s Poetics of Immortality..................5 Pirngruber, Reinhard...............................12 Plato on the Metaphysical Foundation of Meaning and Truth..........................20 Plato: Laws............................................20 Platonist Philosophy 80 BC to AD 250....19 Platt, Verity..............................................8 Pliny the Elder and the Emergence of Renaissance Architecture.....................22 Plotinus and Epicurus.............................20 Politics of Heresy in Ambrose of Milan, The.....................................................11
Politics of Sacrifice in Early Greek Myth and Poetry, The......................................4 Popkin, Maggie L......................................8 Popular Culture in the Ancient World......13 Porter, James I..........................................6 Porter, Stanley E................................. 6, 23 Potts, D. T...............................................18 Power and Privilege in Roman Society.....15 Proclus............................................. 20, 21 Proclus: Commentary on Plato’s Timaeus.21 Prostitutes and Matrons in the Roman World..................................................14 Prudentius, Spain, and Late Antique Christianity..........................................13 Public Opinion and Politics in the Late Roman Republic..................................12 Puchner, Walter........................................4
R Rawles, Richard........................................3 Reading Latin...........................................2 Religion, Society and Culture at DuraEuropos...............................................18 Religious Deviance in the Roman World.. 16 Rethinking Roman Alliance.......................5 Revisiting Delphi....................................17 Reviving Roman Religion........................18 Richardson, David M. B...........................16 Richlin, Amy.............................................3 Riesbeck, David J....................................20 Rijksbaron, Albert.....................................1 Rinne, Katherine Wentworth.....................8 Ritual Sites and Religious Rivalries in Late Roman North Africa.....................13 Roby, Courtney.......................................20 Rocca, Julius..........................................19 Rogerson, Anne........................................6 Roller, Duane W......................................11 Roman Artisans and the Urban Economy.15 Roman Geographies of the Nile..............12 Roman Political Thought.........................17 Roman Power.........................................15 Roman Street, The....................................9 Roman Theatre.......................................25 Rome.......................................................8 Rome and the Third Macedonian War.....11 Rosillo-López, Cristina............................12 Rüpke, Jörg............................................16 Ruppel, A. M............................................1
S Sabin, Philip....................................... 9, 10 Samons, II, Loren J..................................16 Schachter, Albert....................................16 Schlosser, Joel Alden...............................20 Schofield, Malcolm.................................20 Science Writing in Greco-Roman Antiquity.............................................18 Scott, Michael........................................17 Seals, Craft and Community in Bronze Age Crete............................................13 Shaw, Ben..............................................25 Shepard, Jonathan.................................17 Shilling, Brooke......................................22 Short, William Michael............................10 Sidwell, Keith....................................... 1, 2 Sigelman, Asya C......................................5 Simonides the Poet...................................3 Siniossoglou, Niketas..............................21
Index Slave Theater in the Roman Republic........3 Slavery in the Late Roman World, AD 275–425.............................................16 Sociological Studies in Roman History.....17 Socrates and Athens...............................26 Sophocles: Ajax......................................25 Sophocles: Antigone...............................25 Sophocles: Electra..................................25 Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus..................25 Sophocles: Philoctetes............................25 Squire, Michael.........................................8 Stamatopoulou, Zoe.................................4 Stephenson, Paul....................................22 Stocking, Charles H..................................4 Stories of Daily Life from the Roman World..................................................11 Strong, Anise K.......................................14 Sublime in Antiquity, The...........................6
T Tacitus and the Principate.......................26 Tamta’s World........................................21 Taormina, Daniela Patrizia......................20 Tarrant, Harold.......................................21 Tarrant, Richard........................................7 Taub, Liba..............................................18 Taylor, Rabun............................................8 Technical Ekphrasis in Greek and Roman Science and Literature.........................20 Teleology in the Ancient World...............19 Temple of Peace in Rome, The...................7 Texts, Editors, and Readers.......................7
Theater outside Athens.............................5 Theologies of Ancient Greek Religion......18 Theology and Poetry in Early Byzantium..21 Thompson, Dorothy J..............................17 Thumiger, Chiara....................................11 Toher, Mark............................................12 Tragic Pleasure from Homer to Plato.........4 Tschudi, Victor Plahte.............................22 Tucci, Pier Luigi........................................7
U Uhlig, Anna..............................................6 University of Cambridge School Classics Project.......................................... 23, 24 Unwin, Naomi Carless............................10
V van der Blom, Henriette..........................14 van Emde Boas, Evert...............................1 van Wees, Hans.................................. 9, 10 Vandorpe, Katelijn..................................17 Versluys, Miguel John.............................18 Vervaet, Frederik....................................10 Vincent, Nigel...........................................2 Virgil, A Poet in Augustan Rome.............26 Virgil’s Ascanius.......................................6 Virgil’s Eclogues and the Art of Fiction......6 Visual Style and Constructing Identity in the Hellenistic World............................18 Votive Body Parts in Greek and Roman Religion...............................................17 Vout, Caroline........................................22
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W War and Society in Early Rome...............16 Weiss, Charles........................................25 What Would Socrates Do?......................20 When Paul Met Jesus.............................23 Whitby, Michael................................. 9, 10 White, Andrew.........................................4 Williams, Michael Stuart.........................11 Winkler, Martin M....................................3 Woodman, A. J.........................................6 Woolf, Greg...................................... 13, 22 Works of Archimedes, The.......................19 World of the Khanty Epic Hero-Princes, The.....................................................23 World through Roman Eyes, The.............10 Writing Biography in Greece and Rome.....5
Z Zuiderhoek, Arjan...................................18
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