CLASSICS CATALOG
AEGEAN ARCHAEOLOGY, CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGY, LITERATURE & HISTORY
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ARCHAEOLOGY Oxbow Books & Windgather Press Amber Books Amberley American School of Classical Studies at Athens Archaeopress Archaeology British Museum Press British School at Athens British School at Rome Akanthina American Numismatic Society American Society of Papyrologists Barkhuis Cambridge Archaeological Unit Council for British Archaeology East Anglian Archaeology Edizioni Polistampa Ekdotike Athenon English Heritage Etruscan Foundation Fonthill Media INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Prehistory) Museum of London Archaeology Hirmer Verlag GmbH Histoire & Collections McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Midsea Books On-Site Archaeology Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago Oxford Archaeology Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology (OCMA) Oxford University School of Archaeology (OUSA) Pre-Construct Archaeology Roman Society Publications Sidestone Press Society for Libyan Studies Silphium Press Wessex Archaeology Pen & Sword TEXTUAL Aris & Phillips Cambridge Philological Society Classical Press of Wales Franz Steiner Verlag Francis Cairns Publications Ltd. Journal of Juristic Papyrology Legenda London Association of Classical Teachers Occasional Research Series Maney Publishing Mimesis Edizioni
1-6 7 7 8-10 11-12 13-14 15 15 16 & 29 16 16 16 & 29 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 18-20 21 22 22 22 22 23 23 23 23 23 24 24 24 25 25 25 26-27 28 & 29 29 30 31-33 34 34 35 35 35 35
Front cover image Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism/17th Ephorate for Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities; from the title, “Hunters, Heroes, Kings,” by Hallie M. Franks (p. 9). Courtesy of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
Oxbow Books is one of the world’s foremost publishers in archaeology printing over 70 titles a year written by leading academic and individual researchers from around the world. GLASS OF THE ROMAN WORLD
PREHISTORIC, ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN &
Edited by Justine Bayley, Ian Freestone & Caroline Jackson
AEGEAN TEXTILES AND DRESS
Glass of the Roman World illustrates the arrival of new cultural systems, mechanisms of trade and an expanded economic base in the early 1st millennium AD which, in combination, allowed the further development of the existing glass industry. Glass became something which encompassed more than simply a novel and highly decorative material. Glass production grew and its consumption increased until it was assimilated into all levels of society, used for display and luxury items but equally for utilitarian containers, windows and even tools. These 18 papers by renowned international scholars include studies of glass from Europe and the Near East. The authors write on a variety of topics where their work is at the forefront of new approaches to the subject. They both extend and consolidate aspects of our understanding of how glass was produced, traded and used throughout the Empire and the wider world drawing on chronology, typology, patterns of distribution, and other methodologies, including the incorporation of new scientific methods. 9781782977742, $70, HB, b/w & col illus, 2014, NYP, Oxbow Books Pre-Publication Price $52 TOOLS, TEXTILES AND CONTEXTS textile production in the aegean and
an interdisciplinary anthology
Edited by Marie-Louise Nosch, Cécile Michel & Mary Harlow Textile and dress production, from raw materials to finished items, has had a significant impact on society from its earliest history. The essays in this volume offer a fresh insight into the emerging interdisciplinary research field of textile and dress studies by discussing archaeological, iconographical and textual evidence within a broad geographical and chronological spectrum. The thirteen chapters explore issues, such as the analysis of textile tools, especially spindle whorls, and textile imprints for reconstructing textile production in contexts as different as Neolithic Transylvania, the Early Bronze Age North Aegean and the Early Iron Age Eastern Mediterranean; the importance of cuneiform clay tablets as a documentary source for both drawing a detailed picture of the administration of a textile industry and for addressing gender issues, such as the construction of masculinity in the Sumerian kingdoms of the 3rd millennium BC; and discussions of royal and priestly costumes and clothing ornaments in the Mesopotamian kingdom of Mari and in Mycenaean culture. Ancient Textiles Series 18 9781782977193, $66, HB, 224p, b/w & col illus, 2014, NYP, Oxbow Books Pre-Publication Price $50
eastern mediterranean bronze age
ATHENIAN POTTERS AND PAINTERS III
Edited by Eva Andersson Strand & Marie-Louise Nosch
Edited by John Oakley
Textile production is one of the most important crafts in Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age societies and recent interdisciplinary and collaborative work offers crucial new perspectives into this field. The new and updated catalog of archaeological textile finds presented here clearly demonstrates, even from the few extant finds, that knowledge of the use of fibres and of elaborate textile techniques that were used to produce textiles of different qualities was well developed. The functional analysis of spindle whorls and loom weights can be explored through experimental archaeology employing newly developed methodologies. The results bring new insights into the types of textile that may potentially have been made by such tools. This is highly pertinent as textile tools often constitute the single most important and plentiful type of evidence for the various stages of textile production in the archaeological record. The combination of experimental archaeology, analyses of textile tools and find contexts allows for a discussion of the nature of textile production at different sites, regions and time periods. Ancient Textiles Series 21 9781842174722, $84, HB, 484p, 210 illus, 2014, NYP, Oxbow Books Pre-Publication Price $63 GREEK AND ROMAN TEXTILES AND DRESS an interdisciplinary anthology
Edited by Mary Harlow & Marie-Louise Nosch
Athenian Potters and Painters III presents a rich mass of new material on Greek vases, including finds from excavations at the Kerameikos in Athens and Despotiko in the Cyclades. Some contributions focus on painters or workshops – Paseas, the Robinson Group, and the structure of the figured pottery industry in Athens; others on vase forms – plates, phialai, cups, and the change in shapes at the end of the sixth century BC. Context, trade, kalos inscriptions, reception, the fabrication of inscribed painters’ names to create a fictitious biography, and the reconstruction of the contents of an Etruscan tomb are also explored. The iconography and iconology of various types of figured scenes on Attic pottery serve as the subject of a wide range of papers – chariots, dogs, baskets, heads, departures, an Amazonomachy, Menelaus and Helen, red-figure komasts, symposia, and scenes of pursuit. Among the vases presented are a black spotlight stamnos and a column krater by the Suessula Painter. 9781782976639, $130, HB, 272p, b/w images & 2 col plt sections, 2014, Oxbow Books Special Offer Price $104 DOCUMENTARY SOURCES IN ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN AND GRECO-ROMAN ECONOMIC HISTORY methodology and practice
Twenty chapters present the range of current research into the study of textiles and dress in classical antiquity, stressing the need for cross and inter-disciplinarity study in order to gain the fullest picture of surviving material. Issues addressed include: the importance of studying textiles to understand economy and landscape in the past; different types of embellishments of dress from weaving techniques to the of embroidery; the close links between the language of ancient mathematics and weaving; the relationships of iconography to the realities of clothed bodies including a paper on the ground breaking research on the polychromy of ancient statuary; dye recipes and methods of analysis; case studies of garments in Spanish, Viennese and Greek collections which discuss methods of analysis and conservation; analyses of textile tools from across the Mediterranean; discussions of trade and ethnicity to the workshop relations in Roman fulleries. Multiple aspects of the production of textiles and the social meaning of dress are included here. Ancient Textiles Series 19 9781782977155, $84, HB, 320p, fully col illus, 2014, NYP, Oxbow Books Pre-Publication Price $63
Edited by Heather D. Baker & Michael Jursa This volume breaks new ground in approaching the Ancient Economy by bringing together documentary sources from Mesopotamia and the Greco-Roman world. Addressing textual corpora that have traditionally been studied separately, the collected papers overturn the conventional view of a fundamental divide between the economic institutions of these two regions. The volume covers the following topics: Babylonian house size data as an index of urban living standards; the Old Babylonian archives as a source for economic history; Middle Bronze Age long distance trade in Anatolia; long-term economic development in Babylonia from the 7th to the 4th century BC; legal institutions and agrarian change in the Roman Empire; papyrological evidence for water-lifting technology; money circulation and monetization in Late Antique Egypt; the application of Social Network Analysis to Babylonian cuneiform archives; price trends in the ancient Near East and Mediterranean in the Hellenistic and Roman periods, as well as the effects of locust plagues on prices. 9781782977582, $66, HB, 336p, b/w illus, 2014, NYP, Oxbow Books Pre-Publication Price $49.50
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Oxbow Books is one of the world’s foremost publishers in archaeology printing over 70 titles a year written by leading academic and individual researchers from around the world. DICTIONARY OF CLASSICAL
MEDITERRANEAN WORLD
By Jennifer R. March
By D. Michaelides
Jenny March’s Dictionary of Classical Mythology, first published in 1998 but long out of print, has been revised and expanded including a completely new set of beautiful line-drawing illustrations for this Oxbow edition. It is a comprehensive A – Z guide to Greek and Roman mythology. All major myths, legends and fables are here, including gods and goddesses, heroes and villains, dangerous women, legendary creatures and monsters. Characters such as Achilles and Odysseus have extensive entries, as do epic journeys and heroic quests, like that of Jason and the Argonauts to win the Golden Fleece, all alongside a plethora of information on the creation of the cosmos, the many metamorphoses of gods and humans, and the Trojan War, plus more minor figures – nymphs, seers, kings, rivers, to name but a few. In this superbly authoritative work the myths are brilliantly retold, along with any major variants, and with extensive translations from ancient authors that give life to the narratives and a sense of the vibrant cultures that shaped the development of classical myth. The 172 illustrations give visual immediacy to the words, by showing how ancient artists perceived their gods and heroes. The impact of myths on ancient art is also explored, as is and their influence in the post-classical arts, emphasising the ongoing inspiration afforded by the ancient myths. Also included are two maps of the ancient world, a list of the ancient sources and their chronology, the more important genealogies, and an index of recurrent mythical motifs. 9781782976356, $49.95, PB, 432p, 2014, Oxbow Books Special Offer Price $39.96 9781782976363, $24.99, ePub, 9781782976387, pdf, $24.99 Special Offer Price $19.99 A TEST OF TIME AND A TEST OF TIME REVISITED the volcano of thera and the chronology and history of the aegean and east mediterranean in the mid second millennium bc
By Sturt Manning The eruption of the Thera (Santorini) volcano in the Aegean Sea in the mid-second millennium BC was a clearly defined, specific moment in Aegean and east Mediterranean prehistory that impacted on all the major cultures of the region. The effects of the eruption have been linked with the destruction of the Minoan palace civilization of Crete, the legend of Atlantis, and even events described in the Biblical account of the Exodus. Scientists have studied the remains of the volcano and traced eruption products and far-flung climatic impacts throughout the east Mediterranean and in ice cores and tree-ring data. At Akrotiri, a major prehistoric town buried by the eruption, archaeologists unearthed the partially intact remains multi-storey buildings, painted frescoes and myriad objects of everyday life. The date of the eruption has long been a subject of importance and controversy since accurate dating would offer a unique linchpin for the study and synchronisation of the history and cultures of the region in the mid-second millennium. It would provide a key test both for the established historical chronology of ancient Egypt and derived archaeological chronologies. A Test of Time, first published in 1999, sought to resolve the issue through a critical review of the archaeological and scientific data, including the presentation of radiocarbon dates, which together suggested a new ‘early’ chronology for the Aegean c. 1700–1400 BC. This edition comprises the original, unrevised text, together with a substantial new appended essay which critically reviews the continuing debate between 1999 and 2012 and presents a raft of new scientific data, including the Bayesian modelling of radiocarbon dates relating to a range of relevant archaeological sequences from Egypt and the eastern Mediterranean. 2nd edition 9781782972198, $84, HB, 672p, 2014, Oxbow Books Special Offer Price $67.20
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MEDICINE AND HEALING IN THE ANCIENT
MYTHOLOGY
There are many recoverable aspects and indications concerning medicine and healing in the ancient past – from the archaeological evidence of skeletal remains, grave-goods comprising medical and/or surgical equipment and visual representations in tombs and other monuments thorough to epigraphic and literary sources. The 42 papers presented here cover many aspects of medicine in the Mediterranean world during Antiquity and early Byzantine times, bringing together both internationally established specialists on the history of medicine and researchers in the early stages of their career. The contributions are grouped under a series of headings: medicine and archaeology; media (online access to electronic corpus); the Aegean; medical authors/schools of medicine; surgery; medicaments and cures; skeletal remains; new research in Cyprus; Asklepios and incubation; and Byzantine, Arab and medieval sources. 9781782972358, $99, HB, 446p, 2014, Oxbow Books Special Offer Price $79.20 BUILDING FOR ETERNITY the history and technology of roman concrete engineering in the sea
By C.J. Brandon, R.L. Hohlfelder, M.D. Jackson & J.P. Oleson One marker of the majesty of ancient Rome is its surviving architectural legacy, the stunning remains of which are scattered throughout the circum-Mediterranean landscape. Surprisingly, one truly remarkable aspect of this heritage remains relatively unknown. There exists beneath the waters of the Mediterranean the physical remnants of a vast maritime infrastructure that sustained and connected the western world’s first global empire and economy. The key to this incredible accomplishment and to the survival of structures in the hostile environment of the sea for two thousand years was maritime concrete, a building material invented and then employed by Roman builders on a grand scale to construct harbor installations anywhere they were needed, rather than only in locations with advantageous geography or topography. This book explains how the Romans built so successfully in the sea with their new invention. The story is a stimulating mix of archaeological, geological, historical and chemical research, with relevance to both ancient and modern technology. 9781782974208, $95, HB, 368p, fully col illus, 2014, Oxbow Books Special Offer Price $72 LIFE IN THE LIMES studies of the people and objects of the roman frontiers
Edited by Rob Collins & Frances McIntosh
Lindsay Allason-Jones has been at the forefront of small finds and Roman frontier research for 40 years in a career focussed on, but not exclusive to, the north of Britain, encompassing an enormous range of object types and subject areas. Divided into thematic sections the contributions presented here to celebrate her many achievements all represent at least one aspect of Lindsay’s research interests. These encompass social and industrial aspects of northern frontier forts; new insights into inscribed and sculptural stones specific to military communities; religious, cultural and economic connotations of Roman armour finds; the economic and ideological penetration of romanitas in the frontiers as reflected by individual objects and classes of finds; evidence of trans-frontier interactions and invisible people; the role of John Clayton in the exploration and preservation of Hadrian’s Wall and its material culture; the detailed consideration of individual objects of significant interest; and a discussion of the widespread occurrence of mice in Roman art. 9781782972532, $80, HB, 264p, b/w & col illus, 2014, Oxbow Books Special Offer Price $64 9781782972549, $45, ePub, 9781782972563, $45, pdf Special Offer Price $36
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Oxbow Books is one of the world’s foremost publishers in archaeology printing over 70 titles a year written by leading academic and individual researchers from around the world. STRUCTURE, IMAGE,
A CORPUS OF ROMAN
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE,
ORNAMENT
POTTERY FROM LINCOLN
THE EYE OF THE NORTH
architectural sculpture in
By Margaret Darling & Barbara Precious
an archaeological assessment
the greek world
Edited by Peter Schultz & Ralf Von den Hoff This volume presents the proceedings of a conference hosted by the American School of Classical Studies, Athens and the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Athens in 2004. Highlights include Robin Osbornes discussion of What you can do with a chariot but cant do with a satyr on a Greek temple; Ralf von den Hoffs consideration of the Athenian treasury at Delphi; and Katherine Schwabs presentation of New evidence for Parthenon east metope 14. The papers not only cover a great variety of issues in architectural sculpture but also present case studies from all over the Greek world. The result is an important collection of current research. 9781782977391, $38, PB, 248p, b/w illus, 2014, NYP, Oxbow Books Pre-Publication Price $30.40 9781782973072, $22.99, ePub, 9781782973096, $22.99, pdf Special Offer Price $18.40 THE ROMAN TEXTILE INDUSTRY AND ITS INFLUENCE
By Penelope Walton Rogers, Lise Bender Jorgensen & Antoinette Rast-Eicher Textiles were a hugely important Roman industry yet, because of their perishable nature, only fragments remain. These twenty-two essays provide a detailed study of surviving fragments from across the Roman world, from the dry sands of Egypt to the Atlantic coast and the northern frontiers and beyond. The result is a comprehensive reconstruction of both everyday and exotic Roman clothing with information about the influences of fashion and of Roman weaving techniques. Written by friends and colleagues, the contributions are offered as a tribute to John Peter Wild whose own studies of Roman textiles have been the inspiration of so much recent work. 9781782977407, $35, PB, 200p, 4 col pls & illus, 2014, NYP, Oxbow Books Pre-Publication Price $28
TRAC 2013 proceedings of the twentythird annual theoretical roman archaeology conference, london
2013
Edited by Hannah Platts, Caroline Barron, Jason Lundock, John Pearce & Justin Yoo The twenty-third Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference (TRAC) was held at King’s College, London in Spring 2013. During the three-day conference nearly 50 papers were delivered, discussing issues from a wide range of geographical regions of the Roman Empire, and applying various theoretical and methodological approaches. This volume contains a selection of papers from the conference sessions. 9781782976905, $60, PB, 160p, b/w illus, 2014, Oxbow Books Special Offer Price $48 9781782976912, $35, ePub, 9781782976936, $35, pdf Special Offer Price $28
This is the first major analysis of the Roman pottery from excavations in Lincoln. The pottery is presented in seven major ware groups. Fine wares include a modest range of imports and are dominated by Nene Valley products. The discussion explores the chronological range of the entire ceramic assemblage across the three discrete parts of the Roman fortress and later colonia. Lincoln Archaeology Studies 6
By C.P. Graves & D. H. Heslop Newcastle upon Tyne is one of England’s great cities. This volume brings together the archaeological evidence for occupation in the historic core of Newcastle between the prehistoric period and 1650. 9781842178140, $90, HB, 2013, Oxbow Books Special Offer Price $72 COLCHESTER, FORTRESS OF
9781842174876, $70, HB, 544p, b/w illus throughout & 16p of col illus, 2014, Oxbow Books Special Offer Price $56 9781782970545, $35, ePub, 9781782970569, $35, pdf Special Offer Price $28 MATERIALITY AND SOCIAL PRACTICE transformative capacities of intercultural encounters
Edited by Joseph Maran & Philipp W. Stockhammer This book investigates the transformative potential arising from the interplay between material forms, social practices and intercultural relations. This volume explores the notion that the significance of such items derive from the ways in which they were used and contextualized.
THE WAR GOD an archaeological assessment
By David Radford, Adrian Gascoyne & Philip Wise This volume is a critical assessment of the current state of archaeological knowledge of the settlement originally called Camulodunon and now known as Colchester. The town has been the subject of antiquarian interest since the late 16th century and the first modern archaeological excavations occurred in 1845. 9781842175088, $90, HB, 352p, 100 b/w illus, 2013, Oxbow Books Special Offer Price $72 9781782970750, $45, ePub, 9781782970774, $45, pdf Special Offer Price $36 ROUGH CILICIA
9781782975410, $50, PB, 224p, b/w illus, 2014, Oxbow Books Special Offer Price $40 9781842179093, $25, ePub, 9781842179116, $25, pdf Special Offer Price $20 TEMPLES AND SANCTUARIES IN THE ROMAN EAST religious architecture in syria, iudaea/palaestina and provincia arabia
By Arthur Segal This illustrated volume presents a comprehensive architectural study of 87 individual temples and sanctuaries built in the Roman East between the end of the 1st century BCE and the end of the 3rd century CE, within a broad region encompassing the modern states of Syria, Lebanon, Israel and Jordan.
new historical and archaeological approaches
Edited by Michael C. Hoff & Rhys F. Townsend The region of Rough Cilicia known in antiquity as Cilicia Tracheia, constitutes the western part of the larger area of Cilicia. The twentytwo papers presented here give a useful overview on current research on Rough Cilicia, from the Bronze Age to the Byzantine period with a variety of methods. 9781842175187, $115, HB, 320p, 260 col illus, 2013, Oxbow Books Special Offer Price $92 9781782970606, $57.50, ePub, 9781782970620, $57.50, pdf Special Offer Price $46
TRAC 2012 proceedings of the twenty-
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second annual theoretical roman archaeology
MAKING TEXTILES IN PRE-
conference, frankfurt
ROMAN AND ROMAN TIMES
Edited by Annabel Bokern, Marion Bolder-Boos, Stefan Krmnicek, Dominik Maschek & Sven Page
people, places, identities
Edited by Margarita Gleba & Judit Pásztókai-Szeőke Valued textiles were traded over long distances and trade networks were influenced by raw material supply, labor skills, costs, as well as by regional traditions. This was true in the Mediterranean regions and this book explores the abundant evidence to understand the typological and geographical diversity of textile commodities. Ancient Textiles Series 13 9781842177679, $55, HB, 240p, b/w & col illus, 2013, Oxbow Books Special Offer Price $44
2012
The twenty-second Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference (TRAC) was held at the Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main in spring 2012. During the conference fifty papers were delivered, discussing issues from a range of geographical regions of the Roman Empire, and applying various theoretical and methodological approaches. TRAC 9781782971979, $60, PB, 220p, 2013, Oxbow Books Special Offer Price $48 9781782971986, $35, ePub, 9781782972006, $35, pdf Special Offer Price $28
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Oxbow Books is one of the world’s foremost publishers in archaeology printing over 70 titles a year written by leading academic and individual researchers from around the world. AFTER ALEXANDER
JOURNAL OF ROMAN
CHARIOTS AND OTHER
the time of the diadochi
POTTERY STUDIES VOLUME 15
WHEELED VEHICLES IN ITALY
(323-281 bc)
By Steven Willis
Edited by Victor Alonso Troncoso & Edward M. Anson
BEFORE THE ROMAN EMPIRE
When Alexander the Great died in 323 BC without a chosen successor he left behind a huge empire and ushered in a turbulent period, as his generals fought for control of vast territories. This is a major publication devoted to the Successors and contains eighteen papers reflecting current research.
This volume carries a range of papers reflecting the detailed ongoing scholarship in the field of Roman pottery studies. In part, this simply follows from the extensive geography of the Roman Empire and its influence, yet it also reflects the identification of the Journal of Roman Pottery Studies as a leading vehicle for the publication of quality research in Roman ceramics.
9781842175125, $64, HB, 240p, illus, 2013, Oxbow Books Special Offer Price $51.20
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BUTRINT 4
MYTH AND HISTORY
& politics in
This book presents evidence for transport by wheeled vehicle in Italy before the Roman Imperial period, the beginning of which is often thought to be marked by Augustuss conquest of Egypt in 30 BC. Lavishly illustrated with over 170 plates and figures, this book is important for the history of transport, technology and draught. 9781842174678, $84, HB, 248p, over 170 b/w figs & pls, 2012, Oxbow Books Special Offer Price $67.20 9781842179482, $40, ePub, 9781842179505, $40 pdf Special Offer Price $32
the archaeology and
ethnicity
histories of an ionian town
the first millennium
URBAN LANDSCAPE SURVEY
Edited by Inge Lyse Hansen, Richard Hodges & Sarah Leppard
british isles
IN ITALY AND THE
This illustrated volume discusses the histories of the port city of Butrint, and its intimate connection to the wider conditions of the Adriatic. In so doing it is a reading of the site that adds significantly to the study of Mediterranean urban history over the longue durée. Butrint Archaeological Monographs 4 9781842174623, $84, HB, 250p, c50 col & c325 b/w illus, 2013, Oxbow Books Special Offer Price $67.20 9781782971023, $45, ePub, 9781782971047, $45, pdf Special Offer Price $36 ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY
By Stephen James Yeates Our recent understanding of British history has been slowly unravelling thanks to new techniques such as DNA analysis, new archaeological data and reassessment of the literary evidence. There are considerable problems in understanding the early history of Britain; sources for the centuries from the first Roman invasion to 1000 AD are few and contradictory, the archaeological record complex and there is little collaboration between archaeologists. 9781842174784, $49.95, PB, 496p, b/w illus throughout, 2012, Oxbow Books Special Offer Price $39.96
MEDITERRANEAN
Edited by F. Vermeulen, Gert-Jan Burgers, Simon Keay & Cristina Corsi Field survey has been making a major contribution to our understanding of the rural landscapes of the Mediterranean for nearly forty years. During that time the techniques used to map ancient settlement patterns have grown to nuanced understandings of their layouts, chronologies and contexts. 9781842174869, $85, HB, 288p, 115 b/w illus, 45 col illus & 8 tbls, 2012, Oxbow Books Special Offer Price $68 9781842178645, $42.50, ePub, 9781842178669, $42.50, pdf Special Offer Price $34
AND THE CITY
A CORRIDOR THROUGH TIME
Edited by Paul Johnson & Martin Millett
the archaeology of the a55
EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN
anglesey road scheme
METALLURGY IN THE
In the past 30 years archaeological field survey has become central to the practice of Classical Archaeology. Approaches have developed from the systematic collection of artifacts to include the routine deployment of various geophysical and remote sensing techniques. This book discusses the ways in which the subject might develop in the future. University of Cambridge Museum of Classical Archaeology Monographs 2 9781842175095, $60, PB, 288p, 275 illus, 2012, Oxbow Books Special Offer Price $48 9781782970873, $36, ePub, 9781782970897, $36, pdf Special Offer Price $28.80
By Richard Cuttler, Andrew Davidson & Gwilym Hughes This volume describes the results of archaeological excavations undertaken in advance of the construction of a new dual carriageway, some 32 km long, across Anglesey. Five main sites and a series of prehistoric burnt mounds are discussed. The route encountered remains of Neolithic pit groups and a possible Late Neolithic ring-ditch; Bronze Age and Iron Age settlement features and a Bronze Age cremation cemetery. 9781842174234, $70, HB, 304p, col & b/w illus, 2012, Oxbow Books Special Offer Price $56
WELL BUILT MYCENAE
ARICONIUM, HEREFORDSHIRE
FASCICULE 34.1
an iron age settlement and
technical reports. the results
romano-british 'small
of neutron activation
town'
analysis of mycenaean pottery
By Robin Jackson
By E. B. French & J.E. Tomlinson Since 1890 when Sir Flinders Petrie first realised the importance of the Aegean pottery he had found in Egypt further discoveries of these wares have been noted with more than superficial interest. This fascicule of the Well Built Mycenae series presents the raw data as well as the statistical analyses based on it and assesses the impact of the methods on the archaeological value of the research.
The Roman 'small town' of Ariconium in southern Herefordshire has long been known as an important iron production center but has remained very poorly understood. The town is suggested to have developed from a late Iron Age Dobunnic tribal center, which owed its evident status and wide range of contacts to control of the production and distribution of Forest of Dean iron.
9781842175286, $55, PB, 2012, Oxbow Books Special Offer Price $44
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By J. H. Crouwel
SECOND MILLENNIUM BC
Edited by Vasiliki Kassianidou & George Papasavvas James D. Muhly is a distinguished scholar with a special interest in ancient metallurgy who has dedicated much of his research to Cypriot archaeology. His work endorses the true importance of the island as a copper producing region. 9781842174531, $110, HB, 304p, 154 b/w illus & 24 tbls, 2012, Oxbow Books Special Offer Price $88 9781842179574, $60, ePub, 9781842179598, $60, pdf Special Offer Price $48 FORCES OF TRANSFORMATION the end of the bronze age in the mediterranean
Edited by Christoph Bachhuber & Gareth Roberts The volume is the first in nearly a decade to focus a wide range of scholarship on one of the most compelling periods in the antiquity of the Mediterranean and Near East. It presents new interpretive approaches to the problems of the Bronze Age to Iron Age transformation. Banea Monograph 1 9781842175033, $66, PB, 236p, 149 illus, 2012, Oxbow Books Bargain Price $19.98 9781842179604, $35, ePub, 9781842179628, $35, pdf Bargain Price $11.99
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Oxbow Books is one of the world’s foremost publishers in archaeology printing over 70 titles a year written by leading academic and individual researchers from around the world. DATING AND INTERPRETING
ROMAN IMPERIAL ARMOUR
THE PAST IN THE WESTERN
the production of early
AGE AND ROMAN BRITAIN
ROMAN EMPIRE
imperial military armour
By D. F. Mackreth
essays in honour of brenda
By David Sim & J. Kaminski
dickinson
Edited by David Bird This volume presents a collection of more than 30 papers in honor of one of Europe's leading scholars on Roman pottery, Brenda Dickinson. Divided into thematic sections, papers are mostly concerned with her principal area of study, samian, but also touch on Brenda's other interests. 9781842174432, $115, HB, 384p, col & b/w illus, 2012, Oxbow Books Bargain Price $29.98 9781842179543, $57.50, ePub, 9781842174432, $57.50, pdf Bargain Price $14.99
The Roman Empire depended on the power of its armies to defend and extend the imperial borders, enabling it to dominate. This book presents the metals the armour was made from and how the ores containing those metals were extracted and transformed into workable metal. 9781842174357, $45, PB, 180p, 148 b/w & col illus, 27 tbls, 2011, Oxbow Books Bargain Price $14.98 9781842177020, $25, ePub, 9781842177044, $25, pdf Bargain Price $7.50
BROOCHES IN LATE IRON
After forty years of study this book is an overview of the most common find, on sites in Roman Britain, the brooch. Used to hold outer clothing together, it was always on view and was usually decorative. This volume illustrates some 2,000 specimens drawn by the author. 9781842174111, $140, HB, 448p, 2011, Oxbow Books Special Offer Price $112 9781842176429, $70, ePub, 9781842176443, $70, pdf Special Offer Price $56 SAILING TO CLASSICAL GREECE papers on greek art,
BACK TO THE BEGINNING
TRAC 2011
reassessing social and
archaeology and epigraphy
proceedings of the twenty-first
political complexity on
presented to petros themelis
Edited by Olga Palagia & Hans Rupprecht Goette
annual theoretical roman
crete during the early
archaeology conference
and middle bronze age
Edited by Maria Duggan, Frances McIntosh & Darrell J. Rohl
Edited by I. Schoep, P. Tomkins & J. M. Driessen
This volume was derived from the twenty-first annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, which took place at the University of Newcastle). TRAC 9781842174999, $60, PB, 134p, 2012, Oxbow Books Special Offer Price $48 9781842178522, $30, ePub, 9781842178546, $30, pdf Special Offer Price $24 LANDSCAPE, ETHNICITY AND IDENTITY IN THE ARCHAIC
Ever since their first discovery, more than a century ago, the Minoan Palaces have dominated scholarship on the Cretan Bronze Age. By taking us significantly closer to resolving these questions, this book ushers in a new era of understanding for the Early and Middle Bronze Age on Crete. 9781842174319, $70, PB, 352p, 90 b/w illus, 2011, Oxbow Books Bargain Price $14.98 9781842176788, $40, ePub, 9781842176801, $40, pdf Bargain Price $7.50
This volume of 15 papers is a tribute to Petros Themelis for his significant contribution to Greek archaeology and especially to the excavation, study and conservation to the ancient site of Messene in the Peloponnese. An international cast of scholars has contributed essays on a wide range of subjects (Greek sculpture, epigraphy and architecture), which reflect the interests of the honorand. 9781842174227, $55, PB, 120p, b/w illus, 2011, Oxbow Books Bargain Price $14.98 9781842176009, $25, ePub, 9781842176023, $25, pdf Bargain Price $7.50
BRINGING CARTHAGE HOME
EXOTICA IN THE
MEDITERRANEAN AREA
the excavations of nathan
Edited by Gabriele Cifani & Simon Stoddart
PREHISTORIC
davis, 1856-1859
MEDITERRANEAN
By J. Freed
The main concern of this volume is the multi-layered concept of ethnicity. Contributors examine contrasting definitions of ethnicity and identity as implicit in two perspectives, one from the classical tradition and another from the prehistoric and anthropological tradition. They look at the role of textual sources in reconstructing ethnicity and introduce fresh and innovative archaeological data in reconstructing ethnicity.
Adorning the north-west staircase in the British Museum is a group of brightly colored figured mosaic pavements. Most were excavated for the Museum between 1856 and 1859 at Carthage. This book recounts the story behind this pioneering enterprise and the political and cultural rivalry between colonial powers. UBC Studies in the Ancient World 2
9781842174333, $60, PB, 336p, 120 illus, 2012, Oxbow Books Special Offer Price $48
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TRIREME OLYMPIAS
Edited by Andrea Vianello This book examines how exotic materials were exchanged and used across the Mediterranean from the Neolithic era to the Iron Age, focusing on the Bronze Age. A variety of materials and interpretations are presented through several case studies. These emphasize how the value of exotic materials depended on the context in which they were consumed. 9781842174241, $50, PB, 216p, 8 pages of col illus, b/w illus, 2011, Oxbow Books Bargain Price $19.98 DELICIAE FICTILES IV
BUTRINT 3
the final report
Edited by Boris Rankov
architectural terracottas
excavations at the
This volume represents the final publication of the Olympias project, which saw the building of a fullscale reconstruction of a 170-oared Athenian trireme of the 4th century BC and its operation in five series of sea-trials in the Aegean Sea. The first three sea-trials in 1987, 1988 and 1990 have already been published in separate volumes and this completes the series. 9781842174340, $105, HB, 240p, 83 b/w illus, 2012, Oxbow Books Bargain Price $29.98 9781842178584, $52.50, ePub, 9781842178607, $52.50, pdf Bargain Price $14.99
in ancient italy. images of
triconch palace
gods, monsters and heroes
Edited by William Bowden & Richard Hodges This volume describes the excavations of the Triconch Palace of the Adriatic seaport of Butrint. The book traces the changing nature of this rich and varied area - from 2nd-century Roman townhouses, to a 4th-century elite domus, to a Mid Byzantine trading area to late medieval allotments. Butrint Archaeological Monographs 3 9781842179802, $80, HB, 374p, c425 b/w & 60 col illus, 2011, Oxbow Books Bargain Price $19.98 9781842176450, $45, ePub, 9781842176474, $45, pdf Bargain Price $9.99
Edited by Patricia S. Lulof & Carlo Rescigno In Ancient Italy, temples were adorned with full-figure architectural terracotta images such as acroteria, statuary groups and high reliefs. These terracottas mostly show complex scenes of gods and heroes, legendary battles and mythical animals, as well as large volutes and palmettes. 9781842174265, $80, HB, 672p, 16p col illus, 2011, Oxbow Books Bargain Price $29.98 9781842176092, $40, ePub, 9781842176115, $40, pdf Bargain Price $14.99
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Oxbow Books is one of the world’s foremost publishers in archaeology printing over 70 titles a year written by leading academic and individual researchers from around the world. POMPEII
THE DARK SIDE OF
ROMAN COLONIES IN THE
art, industry and
CHILDHOOD IN LATE
FIRST CENTURY OF THEIR
infrastructure
ANTIQUITY AND THE
FOUNDATION
Edited by Kevin Cole, Miko Flohr & Eric Poehler
MIDDLE AGES
Edited by Rebecca J. Sweetman
Even after more than 250 years since its discovery, Pompeii continues to resonate powerfully in both academic discourse and the popular imagination. This volume brings together a collection of ten papers that advance, challenge and revise the present conceptions of the city's art, industry and infrastructure. 9781842179840, $55, PB, 200p, 99 illus, 2011, Oxbow Books Bargain Price $19.98 9781842175972, $35, ePub, 9781842175996, $35, pdf Bargain Price $9.99
TRAC 2010
This volume examines conceptions, ideas and habits connected with children in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, focusing on the "dark sides of childhood" in the pre-modern world. The authors investigate the long-term attitudes of people, as well as ruptures in habits and customs. Childhood in the Past Monograph 2 9781842174173, $55, PB, 104p, 2011, Oxbow Books Bargain Price $14.98 9781842175675, $28, ePub, 9781842175699, $28, pdf Bargain Price $7.50
Research on the nature of cultural change in the Roman Empire has traditionally been divided between the Western and Eastern provinces. Papers in this volume aim to reunite the provinces by approaching the question of cultural change across the Empire through a range of material culture and historical sources. 9781842179741, $66, PB, 128p, 2011, Oxbow Books Special Offer Price $52.80 9781842175378, $35, ePub, 9781842175392, $35, pdf Special Offer Price $28 MEMORY AND MOURNING
proceedings of the twentieth
THE EMERGENCE OF
studies on roman death
annual theoretical roman
CIVILISATION
Edited by Valerie Hope & Janet Huskinson
archaeology conference
Edited by Dragana Mladenovic & Ben Russell This volume contains papers reflecting aspects of the debate in theoretical Roman archaeology. They include papers on what the p ottery finds from the Nepi Survey Project can tell us about how the local landscape was used and inhabited, poliadic deities in Roman colonies in Italy, the practice of the recycling of architectural materials and personal adornment. TRAC 9781842174524, $60, PB, 160p, b/w illus, 2011, Oxbow Books Bargain Price $9.98 9781842175828, $32, ePub, 9781842175842, $32, pdf Bargain Price $4.99
the cyclades and the aegean in the third millennium bc
By Colin Renfrew & John Cherry Unavailable for too long, this new edition reprints the original text of Renfrew's groundbreaking study, supplemented with a new introduction by the author and a foreword by John Cherry, in order to make this landmark publication available once again. 9780977409471, $110, HB, 650p, 2011, Oxbow Books Special Offer Price $88 9780977409464, $70, PB Bargain Price $48
This book explores the themes of memory and mourning from the Roman deathbed to the Roman cemetery, drawing subject matter from the literature, art, and archaeology of ancient Rome. It brings together scholarship on varied aspects of Roman death. 9781842179901, $50, PB, 144p, 13 b/w figs, 2011, Oxbow Books Special Offer Price $40 9781842175491, $25, ePub, 9781842175514, $25, pdf Special Offer Price $20 CALENDARS AND YEARS II
THE ROMANO-BRITISH
astronomy and time in the
WELL BUILT MYCENAE 16/17
PEASANT
ancient and medieval world
the post-palatial levels
towards a study of people,
Edited by John M. Steele
By Gordon Hillman, E. B. French & Susan Sherratt
landscapes and work during
The post-palatial period - Late Helladic IIIC - is often seen as the twilight years of Mycenean civilisation, a period of economic decline with few achievements in terms of architecture, materials or technology. Excavation in the Citadel House area at Mycenae afforded unique opportunities to explore stratified remains of this period and to define and describe its character. 9781842179963, $55, PB, 102p, PB, 2011, Oxbow Books Special Offer Price $44
the roman occupation of britain
By Mike McCarthy This significant volume examines, for the first time, the ordinary people of Roman Britain. The book aims to rebalance our view of Roman Britain from its current preoccupation with elite social classes and the institutions of power, towards a recognition that the ordinary person mattered. 9781905119479, $55, PB, 160p, illus, 2013, Windgather Press Special Offer Price $44
Understanding the calendars used by ancient and medieval cultures is essential to the writing of history. This second volume explores the calendars of ancient and medieval China, India, the ancient Jewish world, the medieval Islamic world, and the Maya. 9781842179871, $56, PB, 176p, b/w illus, 2011, Oxbow Books Bargain Price $14.98 9781842178225, $28, ePub, 9781842178249, $28, pdf Bargain Price $7.50 STATE FORMATION IN ITALY
THE RHYTON FROM DANILO
AND GREECE
LIVING THROUGH THE DEAD
structure and symbolism of a
questioning the
burial and commemoration
middle neolithic cult-vessel
neoevolutionist paradigm
in the classical world
By Omer Rak, Theresa Alt & Wayles Browne
Edited by Donald Haggis & Nicola Terrenato
Edited by Maureen Carroll & Jane Rempel This volume investigates the archaeology of death and commemoration through thematically linked case studies drawn from the Classical world. These investigations stress the processes of burial and commemoration as inherently social and designed for an audience. Studies in Funerary Archaeology 5 9781842173763, $60, PB, 208p, 79 b/w illus & maps, 2011, Oxbow Books Special Offer Price $48
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Edited by Katariina Mustakallio & Christian Laes
The so called rhyton from Danilo, an archaeological site near the coastal town of Sibenik in Dalmatia, Croatia, is a four-legged Neolithic vessel made of fired clay that according to the consensus of archaeological opinion was most likely a cult vessel used in rituals of unknown origin and content.
This book a comprehensive sampler of the current discourse concerning state formation in the central Mediterranean. Here state formation processes occurring in the Bronze Age Aegean as well as in Iron Age Greece and Italy are juxtaposed, revealing a complex interplay between similar dynamics and differing local factors.
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ANCIENT ROME
OF ALEXANDER
the rise and fall of an
the soldiers who
empire
conquered the
By Patricia Southern
ancient
world
By Miles Doleac In just 11 years, Alexander the Great’s army marched 22,000 miles and secured the Balkans, conquered Asia Minor, the Levant and Egypt, defeated the Persian Empire and invaded India. By the age of thirty, he had created one of the largest empires of the ancient world. This book is an accessible examination of military life under one of history’s greatest military leaders. 9781782741657, $34.95, HB, 224p, 200 col illus, photos & maps, 2014, NYP, Amber Books Pre-Publication Price $27.96 By John Travis & Hilary Travis
The story of Ancient Rome often polarizes opinion: for accusers, the Romans were mean and grasping imperialists with murderous megalomaniac tendencies and the world was well rid of them, but for passionate advocates the Romans were keen administrators and construction engineers who provided the greatest and most longlasting civilizing force in history. The author narrates the history of Rome from a settlement of primitive huts to a sophisticated city ruling and then losing an Empire.
WOMEN IN ANCIENT ROME
By Paul Chrystal
The Roman Army reigned supreme for over a thousand years. From Britain to Syria, and from the Rhine and Danube to North Africa, there is abundant evidence of the activities of legionaries and auxiliary soldiers. Life in the Roman Army was not all about fighting battles. Soldiers, centurions and commanding officers left behind a variety of documents, many of which are used in this book to reconstruct their daily lives and their combat experience. 9781445620893, $42, HB, 512p, 16p col, 2014, NYP, Amberley Pre-Publication Price $33.60 ROMAN SHIELDS
By John Travis & Hilary Travis In its study of the panoply of shields used by the Romans, Roman Shields differs from those preceding in that it has drawn together the streams of published information of sculptural imagery and archaeological ‘hard’ evidence, while also looking at the component parts, how they are physically put together, and attempting to reproduce the aspects of the artifacts observed through reconstructing them and subjecting them to regular use and combat conditions. 9781445638386, $42, HB, 192p, 16p col, 2014, NYP, Amberley Pre-Publication Price $33.60
FIGHTING TECHNIQUES OF THE ANCIENT WORLD 3000
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BCE–500CE
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753 bc – ad 476
Building and architecture flourished throughout the Roman Empire. The Romans discovered new techniques to solve problems but also to impress the world. They built aqueducts to bring water into their cities and towns, grand baths for cleansing and socializing, and elaborate villas for the cream of their society. In this book, scientist and archaeologist Tony Rook takes the reader through Roman building techniques. He explores the structures found throughout the Roman Empire.
By Iain Ferris Right next to the Colosseum in Rome stands the Arch of Constantine. Completed AD 312–315, it was built to celebrate ten years of the Emperor Constantine’s reign and his victory at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge. The arch is undoubtedly the most impressive civic monument surviving from this period. At 21 metros high, this triumphal arch is a key attraction for tourists visiting Rome. And yet this is the first modern book in English on the monument.
a history
By Tony Rook
THE ARCH OF CONSTANTINE
The Roman military is an iconic, ancient institution; everybody is familiar with the image of fearsome Roman centurions marching in their famous columns. In this book, Roman military experts John and Hilary Travis turn their attention to the helmets used by the historic Roman stalwarts, drawing on their expertise, their wealth of illustrated material and the world of reenactments. In its study of the panoply of helmets used by the Romans, it has drawn together the streams of published information of sculptural imagery and archaeological ‘hard’ evidence.
THE ROMAN ARMY
TECHNIQUES
753 bc-ad 476
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ROMAN HELMETS
ROMAN BUILDING
equipment, combat skills and tactics
By Simon Anglim et al. This book describes the fighting techniques of soldiers in Europe and the Middle East in an age before gunpowder. Explored are the unique tactics required to win battles with the technology available, and points out how little has changed in some respects in the art of war. Using specially commissioned color and black-and-white artworks to illustrate the battles, equipment and tactics of the era, this book shows the methods by which armies prevailed over their foes. 9781909160460, $17.98, PB, 256p, 20 col maps, 25 photos & 100 artworks, 2013, Amber Books Special Offer Price $14.38 ROMAN BRITAIN THROUGH ITS
The history of women in ancient Rome is fascinating and exhilarating. It gives a unique insight into one of the world’s most dynamic, successful super-power civilizations and, at the same time, illuminates any number of admirable, exciting, evil, slatternly and dangerous women fighting to be heard and seen against insurmountable odds in a world run by men for men. The author examines the many roles of women in history.
Objects made of metal, glass, baked clay, jet and shale, bone, antler and ivory, and of stone – the ‘small finds’ discovered on archaeological sites – help us weave a narrative about aspects of life in Roman Britain. This book is about objects from Roman Britain and about how they were used.
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OBJECTS
By Iain Ferris
ROMAN BRITAIN
THE STORY OF ROMAN BATH
By Patricia Southern
By Patricia Southern
For nearly four centuries, from AD 43 to 410, Britain was a small province on the northwestern edge of the vast Roman Empire. Patricia Southern’s masterly new history tells the story from first contact, through invasion and conquest, coexistence to eventual decline incorporating the political, social and cultural history of ‘Britannia’. For the first time the wealth of ‘voices’ from the varied population of Roman Britain are placed center stage in the narrative. 9781445611907, $19.95, PB, 464p, 95 illus (57 in col), 2013, Amberley Special Offer Price $15.96
When the Romans built the bath and temple complex of Bath in the late first century AD, they called the place Aquae Sulis, the waters of Sulis, a British deity who was equated with the Roman goddess Minerva. Following the Romans departure, from the fifth and sixth centuries the rise of Christianity ultimately caused the decline of pagan worship, and as the old gods were neglected, so were the buildings of Aquae Sulis, which disappeared under an accumulation of silt and mud. 9781445610900, $34.95, HB, 224p, 100 illus (30 in col), 2013, Amberley Special Offer Price $27.96
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Founded in 1881, The American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA) contributes considerably to the dissemination of information about Greek history and archaeology to the Greek public, as well as to the international and Greek scholarly communities. TOMBS, BURIALS, AND COMMEMORATION IN
GREEK ARCHAEODIET AND STABLE
CORINTH'S NORTHERN CEMETERY
ISOTOPE ANALYSIS
By Kathleen Slane
Edited by Anastasia Papathanasiou & Michael Richards
Rescue excavations were carried out along the terrace north of Ancient Corinth by Henry Robinson, the director of the Corinth Excavations, and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens on behalf of the Greek Archaeological Service, in 1961 and 1962. They revealed 70 tile graves, limestone sarcophagi, and cremation burials, and seven chamber tombs. The burials ranged in date from the 5th century B.C. to the 6th century A.D., and about 240 skeletons were preserved for study. This volume publishes the results of these excavations and examines the evidence for changing burial practices in the Greek city, the Roman colony, and a Christian town. Documented are single graves and deposits, the Robinson “Painted Tomb,” two more hypogea, and four built chamber tombs. Ethne Barnes describes the human skeletal remains, and David Reese discusses the animal bones found in the North Terrace tombs. Corinth XXI 9780876610220, $150, HB, 500p, 97, 2014, NYP, American School of Classical Studies at Athens Pre-Publication Price $120 9781621390220, $75, pdf Special Offer Price $60 ANCIENT CORINTH
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a guide to the site and museum
THE SANCTUARY OF ATHENA AT SOUNION
By Guy Sanders, Jennifer Palinkas, Ioulia Tzonou-Herbst & James Herbst
By Barbara A. Barletta
This is the first official guidebook to the site of Ancient Corinth published by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens in 50 years. Fully updated with the most current information, color photos, maps, and plans, the Corinth Site Guide is an indispensable resource for the casual tourist or professional archaeologist new to the site. The Guide begins with a history of Corinth and its excavations, followed by a tour of the museum. The Guide continues with a route inside the fenced area of the archaeological site from the Temple of Apollo to the Bema to the Peirene Fountain and more. The final section describes the ancient monuments outside the fence: the Odeum, the Theater, and the Asklepieion, and then the various remains of Ancient Corinth located within and outside the ancient Greek walls, including the Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore and the Lechaion Basilica. 9780876616611, $19.95, PB, 200p, 120, 2014, NYP, American School of Classical Studies at Athens Pre-Publication Price $15.96 9781621390237, $9.99, pdf Special Offer Price $8 THE NEOLITHIC SETTLEMENT
By Elizabeth C. Banks This volume complements Lerna V: The Neolithic Pottery of Lerna, by K. D. Vitelli, and completes the primary publication of the results of the Neolithic remains retrieved during the excavations conducted by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens from 1952 through 1958 at Lerna in the Argolid. It presents the buildings and other features of the Neolithic settlement with listings of related pottery, minor objects, lithics, fauna, and a catalogue of the minor objects. The study reveals a small agricultural community of Middle Neolithic date with houses of mud brick on stone foundations and various storage and thermal installations with a few burials scattered among them. A small Final Neolithic presence is documented by two graves and a group of “ash pits” of uncertain use. A catalog of the minor objects includes mostly utilitarian objects of typical forms in stone, bone, and terracotta, and a few objects of decorative (e.g., ear studs) and symbolic significance (terracotta “tangas” and figurines). Lerna VII 9780876613078, $150, HB, 600p, 118 illus, 2014, NYP, American School of Classical Studies at Athens Pre-Publication Price $120 9781621390190, $75, pdf Special Offer Price $60
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The analysis of stable isotope ratios of carbon and nitrogen in bone collagen provides a powerful tool for reconstructing past diets, since it provides the only direct evidence of the foods that were actually consumed. The articles describe the application of the methodology to the archaeology of Greece, a country that has been isotopically studied more extensively than any other place in the world. The archaeological issues that can be addressed using stable isotope methods include the importance of fishing, the possible early introduction of millet, the nature of childrearing including weaning age and weaning foods, temporal shifts in protein consumption, differential access to certain foods associated with social status, as well as gender, age, and cultural differences in dietary patterns. Knowing what people ate has vital implications for our understanding of past environments and economies, subsistence strategies, and nutrition. Hesperia Supplements 49
The Temple of Athena at Sounion is one of the more unusual examples of Greek architecture. It was constructed with colonnades on only two—but adjacent— sides, and in the Ionic order characteristic of the Aegean Islands even though it was built in Attica. When the temple was excavated at the turn of the 19th to 20th centuries, little was found on site. Instead, subsequent excavations in the Athenian Agora recovered many of the missing building members, which had been reused in a Roman-period temple. A new study of the temple, including the material from Athens, was initiated by H. A. Thompson and W. B. Dinsmoor Jr. but was never completed. The current book builds on their work to provide for the first time a comprehensive view of the temple and its sanctuary. Ancient Art and Architecture in Context 4 9780876619674, $75, HB, 300p, 283 illus, 2014, NYP, American School of Classical Studies at Athens Pre-Publication Price $60 9781621390206, $37.50, pdf Special Price $30 THE ATHENIAN AGORA museum guide
By Laura Gawlinski Written for the general visitor, the Athenian Agora Museum Guide is a companion to the 2010 edition of the Athenian Agora Site Guide and leads the reader through all of the display spaces within the Stoa of Attalos in the Athenian Agora — the terrace, the ground-floor colonnade, and the newly opened upper story. The guide also discusses each case in the museum gallery chronologically, beginning with the prehistoric and continuing with the Geometric, Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine periods. Hundreds of artifacts, ranging from common pottery to elite jewelry held in 81 cases, are described and illustrated in color for the very first time. Through focus boxes, readers can learn about marble-working, early burial practices, pottery production, ostracism, home life, and the wells that dotted the ancient site. A timeline, maps, and plans accompany the text. For those who wish to learn more about what they see in the museum, a list of further reading follows each entry. 5th edition 9780876616581, $20, PB, 200p, 116 illus, 2014, American School of Classical Studies at Athens Special Offer Price $18 9781621390176, $10, pdf Special Offer Price $9
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Founded in 1881, The American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA) contributes considerably to the dissemination of information about Greek history and archaeology to the Greek public, as well as to the international and Greek scholarly communities. FUNERARY SCULPTURE
By Janet Grossman
THE SETTLEMENT AND ARCHITECTURE OF LERNA IV
Funerary Sculpture is the first volume on sculpture from the Agora in over 50 years, bringing together all the sculpted funerary monuments of the Athenian Agora, Classical through Roman periods, which were discovered during excavation from 1931 through 2009. The wide chronological span allows the author to trace changes in funerary monuments, particularly the break in customs that took place in 317 B.C., and the revival of figured monuments in the Roman period.The study consists of three essays followed by a catalogue of 389 objects. The author places the Agora sculptural fragments within the greater context of Attic funerary sculpture, moving from a general to a specific treatment of the funerary sculpture. The first essay is an overview of the study of Attic types of sculpture; the second discusses the specific features of funerary sculpture from Athens and Attica; and the third examines the characteristics of the funerary sculptures found in the Agora, thereby forming an introduction to the catalogue that follows. The Athenian Agora XXXV 9780876612354, $150, HB, 248p, 130 illus, 2014, American School of Classical Studies at Athens Special Offer Price $120 9781621390145, $75, pdf Special Offer Price $60 INDUSTRIAL RELIGION the saucer pyres of the athenian agora
By Susan Rotroff This study focuses on the “saucer pyres,” a series of 70 deposits excavated in the residential and industrial areas bordering the Athenian Agora. Each consisted of a shallow pit, its floor sometimes marked by heavy burning, with a votive deposit of pottery and fragments of burnt bone, ash, and charcoal. Most of the pots were miniatures but a few larger vessels were found, along with offerings associated with funerary cult. The deposits represent a largely Athenian phenomenon, with few parallels elsewhere. Recent zooarchaeological analysis of the bones, however, reveals that they are the remains of sheep and goats, and that the deposits were sacrificial rather than funerary. The present study investigates the nature of those sacrifices, taking into account the contents of the pyres, their spatial distribution, and their relationship to buildings around the Agora and elsewhere. The author argues that the pyres document workplace rituals were designed to protect artisans and their enterprises. Hesperia Supplements 47 9780876615478, $75, PB, 200p, 126 illus, 2014, American School of Classical Studies at Athens Special Offer Price $60 9781621390152, $37.50, pdf Special Offer Price $30 THE SANCTUARY OF DEMETER AND KORE the inscriptions
By Ronald Stroud Excavations conducted by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens in the Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore on Acrocorinth, 1961-1975, produced more than 170 inscribed objects of stone, bronze, and bone, as well as lead weights, mosaics, dipinti and graffiti on pottery, clay pinakes, and magical lead tablets. All of the inscriptions in this volume are transcribed, and the author relates them to an overall interpretation of the activities, secular and religious, attested in this shrine during its long period of use from the 7th century B.C. until the end of the 4th century A.D. Where possible, the author also draws out their implications for and contribution to the history of ancient Corinth, the worship of the goddesses Demeter and Kore, and the practice of magic, especially in the Roman period. Corinth XVIII.6 9780876611869, $150, HB, 208p, 99 figs, 4 plans, 2013, American School of Classical Studies at Athens Special Offer Price $120 9781621390138, $75, pdf Special Offer Price $60
By Elizabeth C. Banks In 1995 Jeremy B. Rutter presented the pottery of the Fourth Settlement at Lerna in Lerna III: The Pottery of Lerna IV. The present volume is the companion to the Rutter volume, outlining the architectural sequence of the EH III period at the site with descriptions of the major building types and other features, such as hearths, ovens, and bothroi. Careful examination of the individual buildings and their contents constitutes the core of the text. The changing settlement patterns of the site through time are considered, and sources of influences are suggested. Lerna VI 9780876613061, $150, HB, 484p, 117 figs, 47 plans, 6 sections, 19 tbls, 2013, American School of Classical Studies at Athens Special Offer Price $120 9781621390121, $75, pdf Special Offer Price $60 HUNTERS, HEROES, KINGS the frieze of tomb ii at vergina
By Hallie M. Franks This monograph considers the painted frieze on the facade of Tomb II at Vergina (ca. 330-280 B.C.) as a visual document that offers vital evidence for the public selfstylings of Macedonian royalty in the era surrounding the reign of Alexander the Great. The hunting scene on the frieze reflects the construction of Macedonian royal identity through the appeal to specific and long-standing cultural traditions, which emerged, long before Alexanders reign, from a complex negotiation of claims to heroic and local dynastic pasts, regional ideals of kingship, and models of royal behavior provided by the East. Ancient Art and Architecture in Context 3 9780876619667, $75, HB, 158p, 70 col & b/w figs, 1 col fold-out, 2013, American School of Classical Studies at Athens Special Offer Price $60 9781621390107, $37.50, pdf Special Offer Price $30 LATE CLASSICAL POTTERY FROM ANCIENT CORINTH drain
1971-1 in the forum southwest
By Ian McPhee & Elizabeth G. Pemberton In 1971, in the southwestern area of the Roman Forum of Corinth, a round-bottomed drainage channel was discovered filled with the largest deposit of pottery of the 4th century ever found in the city, as well as some coins, terracotta figurines, and metal and stone objects. This volume publishes the pottery and metal and stone objects, and includes a re-examination of the coins by Orestes Zervos. Some of the cooking ware has been subjected to neutron activation analysis, and a statistical analysis of all recovered pottery has been completed. The contents of Drain 1971-1 are important for the function of the Classical buildings in this part of Corinth, especially Buildings I and II, and for the chronology of the renovation program that included the construction of the South Stoa, which was probably not built before the last decade of the 4th century. Corinth VII.6 9780876610763, $150, HB, 318p, 1 col frontispiece, 74 b/w figs, 4 b/w illus, 52 b/w pls, 18 charts, 4 tbls, 2012, American School of Classical Studies at Athens Special Offer Price $120 9781621390114, $75, pdf Special Offer Price $60
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Founded in 1881, The American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA) contributes considerably to the dissemination of information about Greek history and archaeology to the Greek public, as well as to the international and Greek scholarly communities. ISTHMIA IX
the archaeology of houses and households
By Joseph L. Rife
in ancient crete
This study describes the graves and human remains of Roman and Byzantine date recovered by excavation between 1954 and 1976 in locales around the Isthmian Sanctuary and the succeeding fortifications. This material provides important evidence for both death and life in the Greek countryside during the Late Roman to Early Byzantine periods. Examination of burial within the local settlement, comparative study of mortuary behavior, and analysis of skeletal morphology, ancient demography, oral health and paleopathology. Isthmia 9780876619391, $150, HB, 512p, 267 figs, 61 tbls, 2011, American School of Classical Studies at Athens Special Offer Price $120 9781621390084, $75, pdf Special Offer Price $60 LAND OF SIKYON
Edited by Kevin T. Glowacki & Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan This volume presents papers of an international colloquium on the archaeology of houses and households in ancient Crete held in Ierapetra in May 2005. The 38 papers presented here range from a discussion of household activities at Final Neolithic Phaistos to the domestic correlates of “globalization” during the early Roman Empire. These studies demonstrate a variety of methodological approaches currently employed for understanding houses and household activities. Hesperia Supplements 44 9780876615447, $75, PB, 520p, 252 col & b/w figs, 19 tbls, 2011, American School of Classical Studies at Athens Special Offer Price $60 9781621390039, $37.50, pdf Special Offer Price $30 THE SYMPOSIUM IN CONTEXT
archaeology and history of a greek city-state
pottery from a late archaic house near the
By Yannis A. Lolos
athenian agora
Ancient Sikyon, in the northeastern Peloponnese, was a major player on the Mediterranean stage, especially in the Archaic and Hellenistic periods. This comprehensive study combines a discussion of the geological and historical background with the results of original research based on many years of archaeological fieldwork. The author, drawing upon the limited excavations in Sikyonia, literary sources, and his own extensive survey data, traces history of the human presence in the territory of Sikyon from prehistory to the early modern period. Hesperia Supplements 39 9780876615393, $75, HB, 664p, 427 col & b/w figs, 6 col maps in back pocket, 2011, American School of Classical Studies at Athens Special Offer Price $60 9781621390022, $37.50, pdf Special Offer Price $30
By Kathleen M. Lynch This book presents the first well-preserved set of sympotic pottery which served a Late Archaic house in the Athenian Agora. The deposit contains household and fine-ware pottery, nearly all the figured pieces of which are forms associated with communal drinking. Since it comes from a single house, the pottery also reflects purchasing patterns and thematic preferences of the homeowner. The multifaceted approach adopted in this book shows that meaning and use are inherently related. Hesperia Supplements 46 9780876615461, $75, PB, 400p, 24 col & 258 bw figs, 15 tbls, 2011, American School of Classical Studies at Athens Special Offer Price $60 9781621390053, $37.50, pdf Special Offer Price $30
THE EARLY BRONZE AGE VILLAGE ON
HISTORIES OF PEIRENE
TSOUNGIZA HILL
a corinthian fountain in three millennia
By Daniel J. Pullen
By Betsey A. Robinson
While 'corridor houses' like the House of the Tiles at Lerna have provoked widespread discussion about the origins of social stratification in Greece, few settlements of the Early Bronze Age have been thoroughly excavated. This study presents and analyzes the archaeological evidence from a single settlement that flourished on Tsoungiza Hill in the Nemea Valley from the Final Neolithic until the end of the Early Helladic period. The first section details the stratigraphy, architecture, deposits, and ceramics of each of the five periods represented. Nemea Valley Archaeological Project 1
The Peirene Fountain as described by its first excavator, Rufus B. Richardson, is “the most famous fountain of Greece.” Here is a retrospective of a wellspring of Western civilization, distinguished by its long history, service to a great ancient city, and early identification as the site where Pegasus landed and was tamed by the hero Bellerophon. These histories of Peirene as a spring and as a fountain, and of its watery imagery, form a rich cultural narrative whose interrelations and meanings are best appreciated when studied together. Ancient Art and Architecture in Context 2
9780876619223, $150, HB, 1088p, 429 figs & 176 tbls, 2011, American School of Classical Studies at Athens Special Offer Price $120 9781621390060, $75, pdf Special Offer Price $60
9780876619650, $75, HB, 418p, 218 col & bw photos & ills, 18 col pls, 4 plans, 1 foldout, 2011, American School of Classical Studies at Athens Special Offer Price $60 SANCTUARY OF DEMETER AND KORE
INSCRIPTIONS
the terracotta sculpture
the dedicatory monuments
By Nancy Bookidis
By Daniel J. Geagan Published here are inscriptions on monuments commemorating events or victories, on statues or other representations erected to honor individuals and deities, and on votive offerings to divinities. Most are dated to between the 4th century B.C. and the 2nd century A.D., but a few survive from the Archaic and Late Roman periods. A final section contains monuments that are potentially, but not certainly, dedicatory in character, and a small number of grave markers omitted from Agora XVII. Athenian Agora XVIII 9780876612187, $150, HB, 456p, 80 b/w pls, 2011, American School of Classical Studies at Athens Special Offer Price $120 9781621390015, $75, pdf Special Offer Price $60
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STEGA
the roman and byzantine graves and human remains
The fifth part of the Corinth volume dedicated to the Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore publishes the large-scale terracotta sculpture found in the sanctuary. Ranging in date from the late 7th through the 4th century B.C., the sculpture consists of fragments from 132 to as many as 147 statues, from half- to nearly life-size. These are statues of young males, both draped and nude, although females and seated infants appear as well. Several chapters discuss the types represented, the findspots and original placement of the sculptures, and the construction techniques. Corinth 18.5 9780876611852, $150, HB, 315p, 19 figs, 8 col & 126 b/w pls, 2010, American School of Classical Studies at Athens Special Offer Price $120 9781621390008, $75, pdf Special Offer Price $60
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Archaeopress is the Oxford-based publisher printing British Archaeological Reports (BAR) and Archaeopress Archaeology publications since 1991. Archaeopress publishes archaeological monographs well known in the academic archaeological sphere. IL DUOMO DI SIENA
ROMAN POTTERY IN THE NEAR EAST: LOCAL
excavations and pottery below
PRODUCTION AND REGIONAL TRADE
the siena cathedral
proceedings of the round table held in
By Gabriele Castiglia
berlin, 19-20 february
This book is the result of the processing of the excavation data and of the pottery coming from the stratigraphy underneath the cathedral of Siena. The surveys were conducted between August 2000 and May 2003 by the Department of Archaeology and History of Arts of the University of Siena, with the scientific coordination of Prof. Riccardo Francovich and Prof. Marco Valenti and the collaboration of the Opera del Duomo di Siena. The ultimate goal is to trace a view of the settlement types and economic framework that has affected the hill of the Cathedral from the Classical age to the late Middle Ages, combining stratigraphic data and the study of materials. The limited planimetric extension of the excavations (often physiological to urban contexts) did not allow an investigation in open area, so the findings have often been compared with those coming from the deposits investigated in the immediate vicinity, both in front and below the Santa Maria della Scala, in order to obtain a more complete and articulated perspective on a diachronic context. 9781905739745, $60, PB, 160p, illus throughout in b/w, 2014, Archaeopress Archaeology Special Offer Price $48
2010
Edited by Bettina Fischer-Genz, Yvonne Gerber & Hanna Hamel Discussions and scientific exchange are crucial for the advancement of a young discipline such as the study of Roman pottery in the Near East. Therefore, in addition to large conferences such as the ‘Late Roman Coarse Ware Conference’ (LRCW) where the Near East plays only a marginal role, an international workshop with 20 participants dedicated solely to the study of Roman common ware pottery in the Near East was held in Berlin on 18th and 19th February 2010. The goal of this workshop was to provide researchers actively engaged in the study of Roman common wares the possibility to meet and discuss the current state of research as well as questions and problems they are facing with their material. This volume presents 17 papers from this stimulating event. Roman and Late Antique Mediterranean Pottery 3 9781905739677, $70, PB, 222p, illus throughout, 2014, Archaeopress Archaeology Special Offer Price $56 ÁNFORAS VINARIAS DE HISPANIA
(ss.iv-vii) en el noroeste peninsular a través
CITERIOR-TARRACONENSIS (S. I A.C.– I D.C.)
del registro cerámico de la ría de vigo
caracterización arqueométrica
By Adolfo Fernandez
By Verònica Martínez Ferreras
EL COMERCIO TARDOANTIGUO
This work investigates a large assemblage of potentially late-dated Roman ceramics excavated in the early 1990s during rescue interventions in Vigo (N/E Spain) and its surroundings. It is well established that much of this material originated from the Mediterranean, especially the eastern provinces of the Empire. Based on the analyses of these investigations, this study goes on to assess the extent of the Atlantic distribution route and link the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula well within the trading dynamics of the Mediterranean world. Roman and Late Antique Mediterranean Pottery (RLAMP) 5 9781905739721, $110, PB, 541p, b/w & col illus, 2014, Archaeopress Archaeology Special Offer Price $88 TOWNS IN THE DARK urban transformations from late roman britain to anglo-saxon england
By Gavin Speed What became of towns following the official end of ‘Roman Britain’ at the beginning of the 5th century AD? Did towns fail? Were these ruinous sites really neglected by early Anglo-Saxon settlers and leaders? Developed new archaeologies are starting to offer alternative pictures to the traditional images of urban decay and loss revealing diverse modes of material expression, of usage of space, and of structural change. The focus of this book is to draw together still scattered data to chart and interpret the changing nature of life in towns from the late Roman period through to the mid-Anglo-Saxon period. The research centers on towns that have received sufficient archaeological intervention so that meaningful patterns can be traced. The case studies are arranged into three regional areas: the South-East, South-West, and Midlands. Individually each town contains varying levels of archaeological data, but analyzed together these illustrate more clearly patterns of evolution. Much of the data exists as accessible but largely unpublished reports, or isolated within regional discussions. Detailed analysis, review and comparisons generate significant scope for modelling ‘urban’ change in England from AD 300-600. 9781784910044, $68, PB, 205p, illus throughout in b/w, 2014, NYP, Archaeopress Archaeology Special Offer Price $54.40
This volume presents the results of a multidisciplinary archaeological and archaeometric study of the wine amphorae produced in Hispania Citerior (Tarraconensis, in Augustus’ reorganization) between the first century BC and the first century AD. Wine production expanded in this area at the beginning of the first century BC, as new Roman towns were founded and new farms or villae gradually emerged in rural areas. However, it was during Augustus’ reign that wine production and trade reached their peak. The study aims to shed new light on the composition of the wine amphorae produced in this area as well as on the technological processes involved in their manufacture along within the period considered. For that, the study includes the characterisation of several amphora types produced in various ceramic workshops located along the Catalan coast which initiated pottery activity at different times. All the available archaeological information for each case study is reviewed, considering data referring to the production centers and also to the geology and the environment in which the pottery workshops were located. Spanish text with English summary. Roman and Late Antique Mediterranean Pottery 4 9781905739691, $90, PB, 319p, illus throughout in col & b/w, 2014, Spanish text, Archaeopress Archaeology Special Offer Price $72 THE TRIUMPH OF DIONYSOS convivial processions, from antiquity to the present day
By John Boardman Dionysos carried the blessing of wine to the whole world, and his triumphant return from India became a popular subject for the arts of Greece and Rome in many media. It became associated with Alexander the Great’s comparable victories and later served as a message of immortality for any mortal prince. The iconography survived the ancient world into Renaissance and neo-Classical arts, and may even have contributed to the practices of modern circus parades with their wild animals, maenad-snake-charmers and clown-satyrs: an unusual, indeed unique, survival. 9781905739707, $40, PB, 78p, highly illus throughout in col & b/w, 2014, Archaeopress Archaeology Special Offer Price $32
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Archaeopress is the Oxford-based publisher printing British Archaeological Reports (BAR) and Archaeopress Archaeology publications since 1991. Archaeopress publishes archaeological monographs well known in the academic archaeological sphere. THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN TRADE IN
OUR CUPS ARE FULL
CERAMIC BUILDING MATERIALS
pottery and society in the aegean bronze age
a case study in carthage and beirut
By Walter Gauss, Michael Lindblom, R. Angus K. Smith & James C. Wright
By Philip Mills This study (the second volume in the Archaeopress series devoted to the publication of ceramics in the Roman Mediterranean and outlying territories from the late Republic to late Antiquity) addresses the level of interregional trade of ceramic building material (CBM), traditionally seen as a high bulk low value commodity, within the ancient Mediterranean between the third century BC and the seventh century AD. It examines the impact of different modes of production, distribution and consumption of CBM and how archaeological assemblages differ from what is predicted by current models of the ancient economy. It also explores how CBM can be used to investigate cultural identity and urban form. CBM has great potential in investigating these topics. It survives in large quantities in the archaeological record; it is transported as a commodity in its own right, not as a container for other products like amphorae. The amount of CBM used in a building can be estimated, and this can be extrapolated to urban centers to model consumption in ways that are not possible for other goods. This allows the potential derivation of economic information to a higher level of precision than is the case for other materials. 9781905739608, $60, PB, 2013, Archaeopress Archaeology Special Offer Price $48 LRFW 1 LATE ROMAN FINE WARES solving problems of typology and chronology. a review of the evidence, debate and new contexts
By Miguel Angel Cau, Paul Reynolds & Michel Bonifay In November 2008, an ICREA/ESF Exploratory Workshop on the subject of late Roman fine wares was held in Barcelona, the main aim being the clarification of problems regarding the typology and chronology of the three principal table wares found in Mediterranean contexts (African Red Slip Ware, Late Roman C and Late Roman D). The discussion highlighted the need to undertake a similar approach for other ceramic classes across the Mediterranean provinces. In addition, it was perceived that ceramic studies are often dispersed and in such a variety of publications that it is difficult to follow progress in this vast field. Therefore, a series devoted to Roman and late Antique pottery in the Mediterranean was proposed to serve as a reference point for all potential authors devoted to pottery studies on a pan-Mediterranean basis. The creation of such a series would not only serve as a means of publishing the results of the ICREA/ESF workshop but also as a network for publication of in-depth monographs devoted to archaeological ceramics of the Mediterranean in the Roman and late Antique periods. Therefore, with this first volume on ceramic assemblages and the dating of late Roman fine wares, Archaeopress are delighted to launch this new series devoted to the publication of ceramics in the Roman Mediterranean and outlying territories from the late Republic to late Antiquity. 9781905739462, $60, PB, 2012, Archaeopress Archaeology Special Offer Price $48 CRUELTY AND SENTIMENTALITY greek attitudes to animals, 600-300 bc
By Louise Calder Cruelty and Sentimentality: Greek Attitudes to Animals, 600-300 BC examines archaeological and literary evidence, between 600 and 300 BC, to discover how ancient Greeks regarded, interacted with, used, and treated tame and domestic animals, as well as some prominent wild species. Of primary interest are relationships between human and animal well-being. A prominent feature of the presently known surviving Greek literary and artistic evidence is its emphasis upon élite values and activities. The purpose of the study is to supplement the Greek social history of human-animal relationships, by including the more mundane social spheres, and species. Studies in Classical Archaeology 5 9781903767146, $80, HB, 227p, 2011, Archaeopress Archaeology Special Offer Price $64
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Thirty eight papers on Aegean Bronze Age pottery in honour of Jeremy Rutter. They range from specific site reports, to technical reports, and issues of chronology, to analysis of the social and religious functions of particular vessel types, and studies of trade and cultural contacts. 9781905739394, $70, PB, 392p, b/w illus, 2011, Archaeopress Archaeology Special Offer Price $56 WROXETER, THE CORNOVII AND THE URBAN PROCESS volume
2: characterizing the city. final
report of the wroxeter hinterland project, 1994-97
By R. H. White, C. Gaffney & V. L. Gaffney In the mid 1990s, the site of the Roman city of Viroconium Cornoviorum at Wroxeter, Shropshire, was subjected to one of the most intensive campaigns of geophysical survey ever carried out on a Roman town. The result was a complete plan of the city using magnetometry but also significant deployment of other technologies including resistance, GPR and more experimental technologies. Since that time, geophysical survey has continued intermittently, using the site as a geophysical laboratory. This volume reports on the archaeological interpretation of this work, marrying the extensive and nuanced geophysical data with a detailed analysis of the existing aerial photographic record created by Arnold Baker during the 1950s to 1980s. The resulting work is the first insula by insula description of all the visible buildings in the town, the first time that this has been attempted for a Romano-British town, and one of the few attempted anywhere in the Empire. 9781905739615, $30, PB, 227p, b/w & col illus, 2013, Archaeopress Archaeology Special Offer Price $24 GREEK VASES IN THE IMPERIAL HERMITAGE MUSEUM: THE HISTORY OF THE COLLECTION 1816-69 with addenda et corrigenda to ludolf stephani, die vasen-sammlung der kasierlichen ermitage
(1869)
Edited by Anastasi Bukina, Anna Petrakova & Catherine Phillips Studies in the History of Collections IV 9781903767153, $120, PB, 317p, photos throughout, 2014, Archaeopress Archaeology Special Offer Price $96 ARCHAEOGRAPHIES excavating neolithic dispilio
By Fotis Ifantidis The close relationship between photography and archaeology is widely acknowledged. Since its invention, photography has been an indispensable documentation tool for archaeology, while the development of digital technology has facilitated the growing needs of an archaeological excavation in recording and archiving. Still, both photography and archaeology are much more than documentation practices. On the one hand, photography is the most appropriate medium for creating visual art; on the other, the excavation is a locus where material and immaterial knowledges are constantly being produced, reproduced and represented; as such, it constitutes an ideal “topos” for experimentation in creating images. This entangled relationship between photography and archaeology, and art and documentation, has only recently attracted attention, emerging as a separate field of study. Archaeographies: Excavating Neolithic Dispilio consists one of the very first experimentations in printed format, dealing with this visual interplay between archaeology and photography. The case study is the excavation of the Greek Neolithic settlement of Dispilio. The book tackles archaeological practice on site, the microcosms of excavation, and the interaction between people and “things.” Archaeographies derives from an on-going, blog-based project, launched in 2006 (visualizingneolithic.com). 9781905739622, $19, PB, 112p, 96 b/w, 2013, Archaeopress Archaeology Special Offer Price $15.20
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The British Museum Press publishes award-winning illustrated books for general readers, families, academics and students. Inspired by the famous collections of the British Museum, titles range across the fine and decorative arts, history, archaeology and world cultures. THE MEROË HEAD OF AUGUSTUS
PARTHENON SCULPTURES
By Thorsten Opper
By Ian Jenkins
Made from Bronze with eyes inlaid with glass pupils set in metal rings, the 'Meroe Head' is a magnificent portrait of Julius Caesar's great nephew and adopted heir Augustus. Once forming part of a statue of Rome's revered first true emperor - one of many such statues that were erected in Egyptian towns - the head was violently separated from the body and carried away in triumph by ancient Meroitic tribesman shortly after its creation. For nearly two millennia it remained buried in front of a temple in their capital city of Meroe, so that worshippers ritually had to trample the face of the supreme leader of Rome. The head was recovered in 1910 and is one of the British Museum's most treasured objects. Objects In Focus 9780714150918, $10, PB, 30 col illus, 2014, NYP, British Museum Press Pre-Publication Price $8 THE PORTABLE ANTIQUITIES SCHEME AND ROMAN BRITAIN
The Parthenon sculptures in the British Museum are unrivalled examples of classical Greek art that have inspired sculptors, artists, poets and writers since their creation in the fifth century BC. This book serves as a superb visual introduction to these magnificent sculptures. The book showcases a series of specially taken photographs of the different sculptural elements: the pediments, metopes and Ionic frieze. It captures the vitality of the sculptures in a group, an individual sculpture or an exquisite eye-catching detail, such as the mane of a horse, a human foot, the swish of drapery or a youthful head bowed in thought. 9780714122618, $32.95, HB, 144p, 140 illus, 2014, British Museum Press Special Offer Price $26.36 ROMAN EMPIRE power and people
By Dirk Books, Belinda Crerar & Susan Raikes
By Tom Brindle The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a project run by the British Museum which encourages the voluntary reporting of archaeological artifacts discovered by members of the public in England and Wales, particularly metal detector users. Finds are recorded onto a database (available at www.finds.org.uk), and this resource now holds records for over 800,000 archaeological objects, a figure which increases on a daily basis. Since its establishment in 1997, it has become a key resource for archaeological researchers. Around 40 per cent of the artifacts recorded on the database are of Roman date, and the principal aim of this book is to assess the contribution that this resource can make to our understanding of Roman Britain. British Museum Research Publication 196 9780861591961, $80, PB, 206p, 70 maps, 2014, British Museum Press Special Offer Price $64 HADRIAN
Although the wealth, might and organization of the Roman Empire confirmed its dominance and power in the ancient world, provincial traditions flourished and heritage was cherished in the face of overwhelming change. Through telling the stories of ordinary people and highlighting the latest international research, this exciting book explores the rich variety of traditions of the sub-cultures of the Roman Empire, revealing how the people of the Roman Empire identified themselves, but also how they were seen by others. This richly illustrated book features some of the British Museum’s finest pieces from the Roman period, including sculpture from the villas of the emperors Tiberius and Hadrian, coins from the famous Hoxne treasure, beautiful jewellery and even near-perfectly preserved children’s clothing. 9780714122854, $22, PB, 160p, 130 col illus, 2013, British Museum Press Special Offer Price $17.60
arts, politics and economy
Edited by Thorsten Opper
THE MILDENHALL TREASURE
This book presents the proceedings of the 2009 conference relating to the 2008 exhibition at the British Museum entitled "Hadrian: Empire and Conflict" and complements and expands upon the exhibition catalogue. It covers such subjects as architecture, sculpture, archaeology, economics, numismatics and philhellenism and ranges over the Roman Empire from Britain and Spain in the West to Turkey and Georgia in the East. The original contributions by international scholars present the latest state of research and the first publication of some new material. Thorsten Opper is a curator of Greek and Roman sculpture at the British Museum. He organized the internationally acclaimed 2008 exhibition "Hadrian: Empire and Conflict" and authored the accompanying catalog. He currently directs a fieldwork project at Hadrian's Villa, near Rome. British Museum Research Publication 175 9780861591756, $80, PB, 260p, 200 illus, 100 col pls, maps & tbls, 2013, British Museum Press Special Offer Price $64
By Richard Hobbs In 1942, while ploughing a field near Mildenhall in Suffolk, eastern England, Gordon Butcher stumbled upon a hoard of 34 silver objects that he turned over to his boss and owner of the land, Sydney Ford. Dating back to Roman Britain, fourth century AD, and of outstanding artistic and technical quality, the hoard was declared a Treasure Trove in 1946. 9780714150802, $10, PB, 64p, 30 col illus, 2012, British Museum Press Special Offer Price $8
DISCOBOLUS
THE PARTHENON
By Ian Jenkins
power and politics on the acropolis
This book tells the story of Myron's Discobolus both as an archaeological artifact and bearer of meaning. Focusing on the Townley Discobolus, the Roman marble copy excavated from Hadrian's Villa in Lazio, Italy, this illustrated introduction explores the history and significance of the statue – in both classical and modern times – in light of ancient discus throwing, Myron’s other works, and the artistic, intellectual and philosophical context of the Greek world.
By David Stuttard The Parthenon is one of the world’s most iconic buildings. Today its silhouette symbolizes Greece. In fifth century BC Athens it was the proud embodiment of the power not only of that city’s empire, but of the politicians who had commissioned it: part war memorial, part treasure trove of some of the most outstanding art of its age. This book tells the dramatic story of the conception and creation of the Parthenon, setting it against a turbulent historical background and rooting the building firmly in the real and mythological landscape of Athens. Featuring a cast of memorable characters, this beautifully illustrated book features atmospheric site photography and rich details from the Parthenon sculptures and other related artworks.
9780714122717, $10, PB, 2012, British Museum Press Special Offer Price $8
9780714122847, $20, PB, 160p, 60 col illus, 2014, British Museum Press Special Offer Price $16
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CORPUS VASORUM ANTIQUORUM, GREAT
Edited by Charalampos Bouras, Maria Ioannidou & Ian Jenkins
BRITAIN FASCICULE 25, THE BRITISH MUSEUM
The individual contributors to these papers tell the story of the dedicated and detailed efforts to understand the work of previous generations on the Acropolis and then to restore the buildings as nearly as possible to their original architectural state. The result is a story of engagement with the extraordinary problems associated with these world heritage monuments and the challenges to preserve and present them for future generations. This book represents a milestone in the history of the collaboration and friendship between the Acropolis Restoration Service and the British Museum. British Museum Research Publication 187 9780861591879, $50, PB, 96p, 160 col illus, 2011, British Museum Press Special Offer Price $40 MONEY, TRADE AND TRADE ROUTES IN PRE-ISLAMIC NORTH AFRICA
Edited by Amelia Dowler & Elizabeth R. Galvin This book expands upon a conference held at the British Museum in 2008 that brought together scholars from differing fields specialising in ancient North Africa. This multidisciplinary approach allowed a number of subjects to be enriched through comparative evidence. The conference concentrated on the area the Romans knew as "Africa" (the area of the modern Maghreb) to draw out evidence for trade and interaction amongst groups in central and western North Africa, allowing themes of trade and cultural influence to emerge from the interactions of the various ethnic groups in the pre-Islamic period. British Museum Research Publication 176 9780861591763, $40, PB, 120p, 40 col pls, maps & tbls, 2011, British Museum Press Special Offer Price $32 ROMAN BRITAIN
By Richard Hobbs & Ralph Jackson
FASCICULE 11 greek geometric pottery
By J. N. Coldstream The British Museum's holding of Greek Geometric pottery comprises 200 items, covering the period from the 10th to the 7th century BC. Most of these pieces have never been published before. The bulk of the collection - 123 pieces is Attic, but eleven other regional styles are also represented. These include not only mainland Greek fabrics such as Argive, Boeotian, Corinthian and Laconian, but also the island fabrics of the Cyclades and Crete, as well as those of East Greece and Caria. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum 25 9780714122632, $150, HB, 168p, 336 b/w illus, 2010, British Museum Press Special Offer Price $120 COSMETIC SETS OF LATE IRON AGE AND ROMAN BRITAIN
By Ralph Jackson Cosmetic sets are small two-piece bronze toilet implements for the preparation of mineral powders, probably colorings for the eyelids and face. Found almost exclusively in Britain, they range in date from the Late Iron Age to the 4th century. An association with fertility is indicated by the crescent shape, by overtly phallic imagery and by the twinning of male and female animal heads. Ralph Jackson's research led to proper recognition of the type, and subsequently the British Museum has built up the largest single collection (160 examples). British Museum Research Publication 181 9780861591817, $60, PB, 208p, 630 line drawings including 18 maps, plus tbls & graphs, 2010, British Museum Press Special Offer Price $48 ROMAN CAMEO GLASS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM
By Paul Roberts, William Gudenrath, Veronica Tatton-Brown & David Whitehouse
The British Museum's new introductory guide to Roman Britain combines an informative text with first-class design and is illustrated with plentiful artifacts from the museum's collections. Throughout the book the emphasis is on cultural interaction and change, showing the impact of the Roman presence, but also British survivals; the book starts, perhaps unusually for general guides of this kind, with a section on pre-Roman Britain, and ends with a chapter on Britons after Rome. In between we learn about the military, the new literate culture introduced by Rome, about the impact of Rome on the rural economy, and on life in the new towns, as well as about religion. Reference to archaeological finds and sites gives a sense of place, and of regional variation.
Cameo glass represents the ultimate achievement in Roman luxury glass, and the British Museum has the world's largest and finest collection. This comprises over seventy pieces, including two of only a dozen surviving complete cameo glass vessels: the celebrated Portland Vase, the greatest surviving example of Roman cameo glass, and the Auldjo Jug, each with its complex and intriguing history. The catalogue, begun by Veronica Tatton-Brown and William Gudenrath of the Corning Museum of Glass, has been revisited and enhanced by Paul Roberts of the British Museum and David Whitehouse and William Gudenrath of the Corning Museum of Glass.
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THE FROME HOARD
THE HOXNE LATE ROMAN TREASURE
By Sam Moorhead, Anna Booth & Roger Bland
gold jewellery and silver plate
On 9 April 2010, Dave Crisp found 21 coins while metal detecting on farmland near Frome. Two days later, he returned to the site and discovered a huge pot filled with more coins. Archaeologists believe the hoard will rewrite the history books. One of the most important aspects of the hoard is that it contains a large group of coins of Carausius, who ruled Britain independently from AD 286 to AD 293 and who was the first Roman emperor ever to strike coins in Britain. The hoard contains more than 760 of his coins, making it the largest group ever found. This accessible book is written by experts from the British Museum and the Portable Antiquities Scheme. 9780714123349, $10, PB, 48p, 50 col illus, 2010, British Museum Press Special Offer Price $8
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By Catherine Johns The Hoxne treasure, a spectacular collection of gold and silver coins, gold jewellery and silver artifacts, was buried early in the 5th century AD, and was rediscovered in November 1992. Although the major objects have been exhibited in museums and illustrated and discussed in both popular and scholarly publications over the last fifteen years, the results of detailed research on the entire find are published here for the first time. This volume provides an inventory of the items in the treasure. 9780714118178, $120, HB, 288p, 450 illus, 2010, British Museum Press Special Offer Price $96
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VEII. THE HISTORICAL
SAN VINCENZO MAGGIORE
(OTRICOLI, UMBRIA)
TOPOGRAPHY OF THE
AND ITS WORKSHOPS
By Richard Hodges
an archaeological survey
ANCIENT CITY
of the roman town
a restudy of john ward-
By Sophie Hay, Simon Keay & Martin Millett
perkins's survey
The remarkable extent, state of preservation and monuments of Ocriculum make this one of the most important archaeological sites in ancient Italy. Located close to the river Tiber, north of Rome on the Via Flaminia, many travellers were drawn to Otricoli and its landscape, lured by its beauty. Archaeological Monographs of the British School at Rome 22 9780904152678, $79.95, PB, 169p, 108 illus, 2013, British School at Rome Pre-Publication Price $63.96
Edited by Roberta Cascino, Helga Di Giuseppe & Helen Patterson During the nineteenth century, antiquarians such as William Gell and George Dennis visited the ancient city of Veii, some 15 km north of Rome, and noted the rapid destruction of its archaeology. The city continued under to be under threat, and in the 1950s was the subject of ground-breaking survey and excavation by John Ward-Perkins. Archaeological Monographs of the British School at Rome 19 9780904152630, $170, HB, 432p, 142 illus & 2 col pls, 2013, British School at Rome Special Offer Price $136
KNOSSOS MONASTIRIAKO TOMB AND ‘DEPOSIT ’
VESUVIAN SIGILLATA AT
Edited by Laura Preston
POMPEII
The archaeological sites on the Monastiriako Kephali hill analyzed in this volume include the earliest known mortuary activity at the key Minoan center of Knossos on the island of Crete. Two Bronze Age sites are presented, known as the ‘Tomb’ and the ‘Deposit’, originally excavated in the 1930s but until now never published in detail. The ‘Tomb’ represents the earliest known funerary site at Bronze Age Knossos. BSA Studies 22 9780904887686, $112, HB, 125p, 73 figs & 11 tbls, 2013, British School at Athens Special Offer Price $89.60 INTERMEZZO
By Jaye McKenzie-Clark The destruction of Pompeii in AD 79 provides a unique opportunity to explore the use of everyday items. It allows us to identify the source and variety of products available within the city, and enables us to track changes in the consumption of goods over time. In this volume, the author presents the results of her examination within three regions of the city. Archaeological Monographs of the British School at Rome 20 9780904152623, $40, PB, 162p, 32 illus, 4 col pls & CD Rom, 2013, British School at Rome Special Offer Price $32 PARALLEL LIVES
intermediacy and regeneration in middle
ancient island societies in
minoan iii palatial crete
crete and cyprus
Edited by Colin F. Macdonald & Carl Knappett
By Gerald Cadogan, M. Iacovou, Katerina Kopaka & James Whitley
The Middle Minoan III period on Crete was initially identified and studied in detail at Knossos by Sir Arthur Evans. Subsequent scholarly attention focused on the preceding Old Palace period and the apparent floruit of the New Palaces at the beginning of the Late Bronze Age. BSA Studies 21
Papers given are now presented in fully revised form as chapters in this book, which is the first to bring together the study of Crete and Cyprus in this way, while starting with their insular geo-cultural identities. It will be a valuable resource for students of both islands. BSA Studies 20
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ROME, PORTUS AND THE
PALAIKASTRO BLOCK M
MEDITERRANEAN
the proto and neopalatial
Edited by Simon Keay
town
The San Vincenzo Project began in 1980 as a collaboration with the Soprintendenza Archaeologica del Molise. Its initial focus was the small frescoed crypt of 'San Lorenzo' (later known as the Crypt Church), which was in urgent need of conservation. Over the following eighteen years, a large multidisciplinary project was undertaken involving archaeologists, historians and art historians. This consisted of major open-area excavations of the early medieval monastery, of which the celebrated crypt proved to be a modest funerary oratory at the northern limits of the site. This book presents the finds of this excavation. Archaeological Monographs of the British School at Rome 17 9780904152586, $160, HB, 2011, British School at Rome Special Offer Price $128 KNOSSOS EXCAVATIONS
1957-61 early minoan
By Sinclair Hood & Gerald Cadogan From 1957 to 1961 the British School at Athens undertook an extensive program of stratigraphical excavations at Knossos under Sinclair Hood, then Director of the School. This report publishes in detail the results of investigations into Early Minoan levels, which shed much new light on the era before the "Old Palace" was established. The three excavations comprised: an Early Minoan I deep well, the oldest at Knossos; trials on the north side of the Royal Road, with Early Minoan II-III house remains; and similar trials in the Early Houses below the South Front of the Palace, which included investigation of the South Front House of Early Minoan III. BSA Supplementary Volume 46 9780904887648, $195, HB, 395p, 65 half-tone pls, 90 text figs, 30 tbls, 2011, British School at Athens Special Offer Price $156 THE POTTERY FROM KARPHI a re-examination
By Leslie Preston Day
One of the greatest consequences of Rome’s expansion across the Mediterranean world in the course of the Republic and the earliest years of the Empire was an exponential growth in the population and extent of the city itself. The emperors of the first three centuries AD faced major strategic challenges in ensuring a regular annual supply of food to the city and other goods. Archaeological Monographs of the British School at Rome 21
Block M is a substantial architectural complex comprising three large buildings at the heart of the Minoan town of Palaikastro. With traces of activity stretching back to the Prepalatial period Block M sees its most intensive use in the Neopalatial period, in the 17th century BC. This volume presents the results of excavations conducted by the British School at Athens. BSA Supplementary Volume 47
The site of Karphi, high above the Lasithi plateau, remains one of the most extensively investigated settlements of Early Iron Age Greece; it was excavated by the British School at Athens under the direction of John Pendlebury in 1937-39. In the report that swiftly followed the pottery was not presented in detail, though much was discussed in a later article by Mercy Seiradaki. Consequently there existed serious problems in dating the remains and understanding their meaning. BSA Studies 19
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By Carl Knappett & Tim Cunningham
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DIVA FAUSTINA
A TRANSPORTATION ARCHIVE
LECHAEUM
coinage and cult in rome
FROM FOURTH-CENTURY
Edited by Nicholas Sekunda & Bogdan Burliga
and the provinces
OXYRHYNCHUS (P. MICH. XX)
The works assembled in this volume complement the article written on the battle of Lechaeum by Andreas Konecy in Chrion 31 (2001), which is here translated into English by Brian Bertosa. Konecy not only reconstructs the location and phases of the battle, in the best traditions of traditional military history, but attempts, according to the newly established canons of modern war studies, to get into the minds of the soldiers involved. Monograph Series 9 9788375311679, $70, HB, 144p, b/w illus, 2014, NYP, Akanthina Pre-Publication Price $56 ARMÉES GRECQUES ET
By Martin Beckmann
This volume publishes 27 Greek papyri concerned with the transport of grain from Oxyrhynchus to Alexandria and Pelusium. Each text is presented with Greek text, English translation and explanatory notes. In the general introduction, the authors discuss the process of grain transport in fourth century C. E. Egypt as illustrated by the texts published here and by others, previously published, from Oxyrhynchus. American Studies in Papyrology 49
9780897223225, $95, HB, 184p, 36 pls & 18 die charts, 2014, American Numismatic Society Special Offer Price $76
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ROMAINES DANS LE NORD
A SIMPLE SOUVENIR
DES BALKANS
coins and medals of the
ricerche internazionali in
olympic games
un centro latino.
conflits et integration des communautes guerrieres
Edited by Aliénor Rufin Solas, Marie-Gabrielle Parisaki & Elpida Kosmidou
By Peter van Alfen
This volume contains papers that were delivered at two conferences, entitled La Roumanie, Le livre, l’Europe, held in Rumania organized by the Bibliothèque Métropolitaine de Bucarest in 2010 and 2011, and held under the auspices of a Paris-based research. Monograph Series Akanthina 7
In this richly illustrated catalogue of the ANS exhibit, "Full Circle: The Olympic Heritage in Coins and Medals," the author examines the role that numismatic material relating to both the ancient and modern Games has played in social and political contexts. In addition to the introductory essay, the catalogue provides a brief overview of the history of the Games and discusses over 130 objects.
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CRUSTUMERIUM
archaeology and identity of a latin settlement near rome
Edited by P.A.J. Attema, F. di Gennaro & E. Jarva This volume is the first of the series Corollaria Crustumina aimed at the publication of conference proceedings, doctoral theses and specialist studies on the Latin settlement of Crustumerium (Rome). It contains papers of an international group of archaeologists discussing new fieldwork data on Crustumerium’s settlement. Corollaria Crustumina 1 9789491431203, $38, PB, 155p, illus, 2014, NYP, English/Italian text, Barkhuis Pre-Publication Price $30.40
THE ANTIGONID ARMY
AGORANOMIA
By Nicholas Sekunda
studies in money and
A FRAGMENTED HISTORY
exchange presented to
a methodological and
john h kroll
artefactual approach
Edited by Peter van Alfen
to the study of ancient
This book deals with the Macedonian army under the Antigonid dynasty, who ruled Macedon from 294 BC until 168 BC. The representational evidence is mainly dealt with in the first two chapters. Chapter 1 deals with the Tomb of Lyson and Kallikles, and Chapter 2 with the survival of some Antigonid Court art in Roman copies. The rest of the book deals with the literary and epigraphic material relating to the army. Monograph Series Akanthina 8 9788375312669, $70, HB, 131p, 55 figs & 2 tbls, 2014, NYP, Akanthina Pre-Publication Price $56 THE ISLAND STANDARD
Offered to John H Kroll upon his retirement from the University of Texas at Austin, this volume features essays on Greek coinage, exchange, and polis economies from the Archaic to Hellenistic periods. Included in the collection are studies that explore aspects of Homeric and Archaic exchange. 9780897222983, $125, HB, 290p, 14pls, 2007, American Numismatic Society Bargain Price $24.98 NEW EPIGRAMS OF PALLADAS a fragmentary papyrus
the classical, hellenistic,
codex
and roman coinages of paros
By Kevin Wilkinson
By John Tully
p.ctybr inv. 4000
This book is the first comprehensive study of the monetary history of one of the major coin-producing states of the Hellenistic and Roman Aegean. It analyzes the Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman coinages of the Cycladic island of Paros. It presents a die study of all known silver and bronze issues All coin types are fully described, and die varieties are illustrated in 27 plates. Numismatic Studies 28
P.CtYBR inv. 4000, owned by Yale University's Beinecke Library, is a fragmentary papyrus codex that comprises parts of six bifolia and contains Greek elegiac epigrams. Of the approximately 60 epigrams that are partially extant, two were previously known from the Greek Anthology, but the others survive nowhere else and appear here for the first time in a modern edition. American Studies in Papyrology 52
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By K. A. Worp, P. J. Sijpesteijn, Klaas A. Worp, T. Gagos & Arthur Verhoogt
The coinage struck posthumously in the name of Faustina the Elder, wife of the Roman emperor Antoninus Pius, was the largest such issue ever produced by the mint of Rome. Until now it has been impossible to date these coins with any accuracy, and thus difficult to determine their place in imperial ideology. This study definitively resolves the chronological difficulties of these undated issues by means of die study of Diva Faustina's gold and bronze coinage. Numismatic Studies 26
settlement in the territories of satricum and antium
By G. Tol This dissertation presents four methodological case studies that elaborate on the results of two field survey projects (the Astura and Nettuno surveys) that were carried out by the Groningen Institute of Archaeology (GIA). Groningen Archaeological Studies 18 9789491431036, $87, PB, 405p, 2012, Barkhuis Special Offer Price $69.60 FIELDS, FARMS AND COLONISTS 2 X VOLUMES intensive field survey and early roman colonization in the pontine regions
By T.C.A. de Haas In this study, it is argued that detailed site and off-site collection strategies have much to offer in understanding site chronology and land use patterns. The author also explores the context and impact of the foundation of Roman colonies and rural tribes on rural settlement systems.Groningen Archaeological Studies 15 9789077922934, $93, PB, 2011, Barkhuis Special Offer Price $74.40
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ROMANO-BRITISH
THE ROMAN TOWN OF
COMMUNITIES AT
GREAT CHESTERFORD
OF HADRIAN'S WALL
COLNE FEN, EARITH
By Maria Medlycott
1:25 000 scale
an inland port and supply farm
By Christopher Evans, Graham Appleby, Sam Lucy & Roddy Regan Charting a decade of intensive fieldwork along a 2km stretch of the Colne Fen, Earith fen-edge, the scope of these books is formidable and together they include the work of 65 contributing specialists. The fieldwork involved innovative methodologies, and groundbreaking scientific and micro-sampling studies are presented within the volumes. Process and History at Colne Fen, Earith 2 9780957559202, $90, HB, 244 figs & 119 tbls, 2014, NYP, Cambridge Archaeological Unit Pre-Publication Price $72 A ROMAN VILLA AT THE EDGE OF EMPIRE excavations at ingleby barwick, stockton-on-tees,
This volume presents the results of published and unpublished excavations in Roman Great Chesterford and an account of the origins and development of the town. The principal archive sources were the antiquarian excavations of the mid-19th century, mainly by the Hon R. C. Neville; rescue excavations by Major J. G. S. Brinson in the late 1940s; and the Great Chesterford Archaeological Society excavations of the 1970s-90s. Great Chesterford is sited on the north-western boundary of Essex in the valley of the River Cam. East Anglian Archaeology Monograph 137 9781841940724, $80, PB, 380p, 200 illus, catalogs & apendices on CD, 2011, East Anglian Archaeology Special Offer Price $64
2003–04. archaeological
IACTA STIPS
services durham university
il deposito votivo
Edited by Steven Willis & Peter Carne
della sorgente di
Located on the south side of the River Tees, in north-east England, the Roman villa at Ingleby Barwick is one of the most northerly in the Roman Empire. Discovered originally through aerial photography and an extensive program of evaluation, the site was excavated in 2003-04 in advance of housing development. CBA Research Report 170 9781902771908, $50, PB, 244p, 93 figs incl col, 2013, Council for British Archaeology Special Offer Price $40 FARM AND FORGE late iron age/romanobritish farmsteads at marsh leys, kempston, bedfordshire
By Mike Luke & Tracy Preece Between 1998 and 2001, Albion Archaeology (formerly Bedfordshire County Archaeology Service) carried out a series of archaeological investigations in advance of development at Marsh Leys on the outskirts of Bedford. East Anglian Archaeology Monograph 138
It was more than just a wall: it was a whole military zone designed to control movement across the northern frontier of the Roman province of Britannia. Great earthwork barriers survive, along with the remains of forts and temporary camps; watchtowers and fortified gates; civilian settlements, temples, cemeteries, bath-houses, roads and bridges. Stretching across the spine of England from the North-East coast to the Irish Sea, the line of the frontier extends for over 100 miles through every type of landscape. A brief text explains the remains on the ground, and how to use the map to find them – including the museums and the best places to visit. Revised edition 9781848022638, $20, MAP, 2014, English Heritage Special Offer Price $16 ETRUSCAN STUDIES VOLUME 14 (2011) journal of the etruscan
doccia della testa
foundation
a san casciano dei
Edited by David Soren
bagni (siena)
Edited by Mario Iozzo This volume presents the finds from a votive deposit discovered in 2004 in the waters of the thermal spring “Doccia della Testa,” located at San Casciano dei Bagni. Datable from 500-490 B.C. to the era of Maxentius, the deposit comprises metallic artifacts exclusively (a small marble base to which a metal sculpture had been attached also numbers among the finds). The oldest artifacts are represented by statuettes of divinities and by devotional offerings, an aes formatum and two anatomical ex votos (an ear and a breast), while from the Imperial age, a dedication of a series of coins was recovered, dating from the time of Tiberius to the middle of the third century A.D. 9788859613039, $29.90, PB, 64p, 2013, Italian text, Edizioni Polistampa Special Offer Price $23.92
Etruscan Studies: Journal of the Etruscan Foundation is the leading scholarly publication on Etruscology and related disciplines in the English language. The journal details activities in all areas of research and study related to the Etruscan civilisation, with articles contributed by scholars from around the world, including reviews of meetings and publications of noteworthy interest to the professional community. The editors invite submissions of original research in all disciplines relating to Etruscan and Italic studies, such as archaeology, archaeometry, art history, epigraphy and history. 9780981969282, $100, HB, 224p, b/w illus, 2011, Etruscan Foundation Special Offer Price $80 LEGIONS IN CRISIS transformation of the
THE ACROPOLIS
roman soldier ad
the new acropolis
By Katerina Servi
ROMANO-BRITISH AND SAXON OCCUPATION AT BILLINGFORD, CENTRAL NORFOLK
By Heather Wallis This book describes excavations undertaken at Billingford by the Norfolk Archaeological Unit, ahead of gravel extraction in the 1990s. The excavations were located on the periphery of a Romano-British small town, the center of which, as identified from aerial photography, lies north of the excavated area.
One of the most important monuments of human civilization and the new architectural jewel of Athens are both presented through informative, easy to read texts in a fully illustrated edition with color representations and detailed site plans. This brand new book begins with a look at the history of Athens and the Acropolis. Starting at prehistoric times, this historical overview describes the town's development, from a quite modest Mycenaean settlement to one of the most powerful city-states of the classical era, the one that gave birth to democracy and theatre, and then its downfall to a small, provincial fortified town of the Byzantine Empire. 9789602134528, $36, PB, 168p, 320 illus, 2011, Ekdotike Athenon Special Offer Price $28.80
192–284
By Paul Elliott
museum
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AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL MAP
The third century AD was a turbulent and testing time for the Roman Empire. A new and powerful foe in the east had risen up to challenge Rome. Barbarians on the northern frontiers were now more aggressive and more numerous than before and internally the population of the empire had to contend with rampant inflation and a series of terrible plagues. Unfortunately, the chaos became magnified by a lack of continuity on the imperial throne. The army had real political power in the third century, making and unmaking emperors as it saw fit. While the army gained rapidly in size, stature and political savvy during the reign of Septimius Severus, it also accelerated a material transformation. 9781781553343, $29.95, HB, 176p, 32 full col, 2014, Fonthill Media Pre-Publication Price $23.96
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The Institute for Aegean Prehistory (INSTAP) was founded in 1982 to support projects relevant to the history of the Aegean world from the Paleolithic to the 8th century B.C. The Press is a scholarly publisher specializing in the publication of primary source material from archaeological excavations as well as individual studies dealing with material from the prehistoric periods. ELITE MINOAN ARCHITECTURE
KE-RA-ME-JA
INTRODUCTION TO
its development at knossos,
studies presented to
AEGEAN ART
phaistos, and malia
cynthia w. shelmerdine
By Philip P. Betancourt
By Joseph W. Shaw
Edited by Dimitri Nakassis, Joann Gulizio & Sarah A. James
The goal of this book is to trace the development of elite Minoan architectural forms that arose during the late Protopalatial (Middle Minoan II) and early Neopalatial periods (Middle Minoan III). The study of this architectual development concentrates on the older, larger sites of Knossos, Malia, and Phaistos where those very forms seem to have originated. Prehistory Monographs 49 9781931534772, $65, HB, 210p, 5 tbls & 179 b/w pls, 2014, NYP, INSTAP Academic Press Pre-Publication Price $52 MOCHLOS III: THE LATE
The title of this volume, ke-ra-meja in Linear B, was chosen because it means “potter” (Κεράμεια, from Greek κέραμος, “potter’s clay”) and combines two major strands of Cynthia Shelmerdine’s scholarship: Mycenaean ceramics and Linear B texts. It thereby signals her pioneering use of archaeological and textual data in a sophisticated and integrated way. Prehistory Monographs 46 9781931534765, $80, HB, 336p, 23 tbls & 31 b/w figs, 2014, INSTAP Academic Press Special Offer Price $64
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HELLENISTIC SETTLEMENT
MYCENAEAN MESSENIA AND
a prepalatial cemetery
the beam-press complex
THE KINGDOM OF PYLOS
and its environs in the
By Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan
By Richard Hope Simpson
This volume presents several Late Hellenistic buildings that were uncovered on the island of Mochlos, located off the northeastern coast of Crete, during the Greek-American excavations of the last 25 years. It also provides an introduction to the Hellenistic settlement that flourished on the island for nearly a century. Prehistory Monographs 48
This study outlines our knowledge concerning the Mycenaean settlements in Messenia and examines the evidence for reconstructing the political geography of the “Kingdom” of Pylos. The progress of archaeological exploration in Messenia is reviewed in relation to the Mycenaean period. Prehistory Monographs 45
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asterousia, southern crete
By Andonis Vasilakis & Keith Branigan This volume presents the final report on the excavation of two Prepalatial tholos tombs and their associated remains at Chatzinas Liophyto near the Moni Odigitria (monastery) in southcentral Crete. The grave goods and burial remains include pottery, metal objects, stones, vases, jewelry, sealstones, and human skeletal material. Prehistory Monographs 30 9781931534581, $80, HB, 530p, 117 tbls, 137 b/w figs & 70 b/w pls, 2010, INSTAP Academic Press Bargain Price $40 9781623030032, $48, pdf Special Offer Price $38.40
GOURNIA, VASILIKI, AND
MORTUARY BEHAVIOR AND
OTHER PREHISTORIC
SOCIAL TRAJECTORIES IN PRE-
SITES ON THE ISTHMUS
AND PROTOPALATIAL CRETE
PSEIRA X
OF HIERAPETRA, CRETE
By Borja Legarra Herrero
the excavation of block af
excavations of the wellshouston-cramp expeditions
1901, 1903, 1904 By Harriet Boyd Hawes, Blanche A. Williams, Richard B. Seager & Edith H. Hall This volume presents the primary archaeological report about the excavation of the Late Minoan I town of Gournia in eastern Crete, directed by Harriet Boyd Hawes at the beginning of the 20th century. Plans, pottery, and small finds among many other topics on the Bronze Age archaeology of eastern Crete are all included. 2nd edition 9781931534796, $50, HB, 154p, 44 b/w figs, 12 b/w pls & 11 col pls, 2014, NYP, INSTAP Academic Press Pre-Publication Price $40 HAGIOS CHARALAMBOS: A MINOAN BURIAL CAVE IN CRETE i. excavation and portable objects
By Philip P. Betancourt This is the first of five planned volumes to present the primary archaeological report about the excavation of the cave of Hagios Charalambos in eastern Crete. Prehistory Monographs 47 9781931534802, $60, HB, 200p, 43 b/w figs & 26 b/w pls, 2014, NYP, INSTAP Academic Press Pre-Publication Price $48
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This textbook is a compilation of the author's more than 35 years of teaching and excavation experience in the field of Aegean Bronze Age art history and archaeology. It is geared toward an audience of undergraduate and graduate students as an introduction to the Bronze Age art objects and architecture that have been uncovered on Crete, the Greek peninsula, and the Cycladic Islands.
The archaeological remains of Preand Protopalatial Crete include a tombs and cemeteries dating to the third and second millennium B.C.E. This book constitutes an effort to reach a better understanding of a key period in Cretan and European history by a clear and concise approach to the funerary evidence. Prehistory Monographs 44 9781931534741, $80, HB, 464p, 8 tbls & 141 b/w figs, 2014, INSTAP Academic Press Special Offer Price $64 9781623033545, $48, pdf Special Offer Price $38.40 MIDEA: THE MEGARON COMPLEX AND SHRINE AREA
By Gisela Walberg This volume presents the 1994-1997 excavation of the Lower Terraces of the Mycenaean citadel of Midea in the Argolid Plain of Greece. The stratigraphy, architecture, pottery, lithics, small finds, and human and faunal remains dating from the Final Neolithic through Byzantine periods are discussed and cataloged. Prehistory Monographs 20 9781931534192, $130, HB, 550p, 295p in figs vol with 256 b/w illus, 36 b/w pls, 3 col pls, 4 folded plans; 62 tabs & 16 figs in text vol, 2007, INSTAP Academic Press Bargain Price $65 9781623030452, $78, pdf Special Offer Price $62.40
By Philip P. Betancourt This book is the tenth volume in the series of excavation reports about the harbor town of Pseira, which is located on the island of the same name, just off the northeast coast of Crete. The book focuses on the excavation and interpretation of the architecture and material culture in Block AF. Prehistory Monographs 28 9781931534567, $80, HB, 330p, 19 b/w illus in text, 42 tbls, 45 b/w figs, 21 b/w pls, 2009, INSTAP Academic Press Bargain Price $40 9781623031114, $48, pdf Special Offer Price $38.40 MOCHLOS IIB period iv. the mycenaean settlement and cemetery: the pottery
By R. Angus K. Smith Excavations carried out at two Late Minoan III sites at Mochlos in eastern Crete yielded a pottery assemblage from 31 tombs and 11 houses, which are cataloged, discussed, and illustrated together with petrographic analyses. Prehistory Monographs 27 9781931534543, $80, HB, 320p, 40 tbls, 93 b/w figs & 35 b/w pls, 2010, INSTAP Academic Press Bargain Price $40 9781623030513, $48, pdf Special Offer Price $38.40
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The Institute for Aegean Prehistory (INSTAP) was founded in 1982 to support projects relevant to the history of the Aegean world from the Paleolithic to the 8th century B.C. The Press is a scholarly publisher specializing in the publication of primary source material from archaeological excavations as well as individual studies dealing with material from the prehistoric periods. MOCHLOS IIA
KAVOUSI IIA
KRINOI KAI LIMENES
period iv: the mycenaean
the late minoan iiic
studies in honor of joseph
settlement and cemetery:
settlement at vronda.
and maria shaw
the sites
the buildings on the summit
By Jeffrey S. Soles
By Leslie Preston Day, Nancy L. Klein & Lee Ann Turner
Edited by Philip P. Betancourt, Michael C. Nelson & Hector Williams
The results of excavations carried out at two Late Minoan III sites at Mochlos in eastern Crete are presented. The stratigraphy and architecture of 31 tombs and 11 houses are discussed. Prehistory Monographs 23 9781931534239, $80, HB, 402p, 7 tbls, 142 b/w figs & 57 b/w pls, 2008, INSTAP Academic Press Bargain Price $40 9781623030483, $48, pdf Special Offer Price $38.40 MOCHLOS IC
This volume is the second in the series of final reports on the work of the Kavousi Project and the first volume on the cleaning (19821984) and excavations (19871992) at the mountain sites located above the modern village of Kavousi in eastern Crete. Prehistory Monographs 26
Joseph and Maria Shaw received the Archaeological Institute of America's Gold Medal for a lifetime of outstanding achievement in January of 2006. This is a collection of the papers presented at the Gold Medal Colloquium held in their honour in Montreal, Quebec. Prehistory Monographs 22
9781931534512, $80, HB, 400p, 40 tbls, 60 charts, 107 b/w figs & 26 b/w pls, 2009, INSTAP Academic Press Bargain Price $40 9781623030421, $48, pdf Special Offer Price $38.40
9781931534222, $80, HB, 315p, 5 tbls, 169 b/w figs & 16 col pls, 2007, INSTAP Academic Press Bargain Price $40 9781623031053, $48, pdf Special Offer Price $38.40
period iii. neopalatial
KAVOUSI I
THE CAVE OF THE CYCLOPS
settlement on the coast:
the archaeological survey
mesolithic and neolithic-
the artisans' quarter
of the kavousi region
networks in the northern
and the farmhouse at
By Donald C. Haggis
chalinomouri. the small finds
By Jeffrey S. Soles & et al. Mochlos is a Minoan town set on a fine harbor at the eastern side of the Gulf of Mirabello, in northeast Crete. This book presents the results of the excavations in the Neopalatial levels of the Artisans' Quarter and the farmhouse at Chalinomouri. Prehistory Monographs 9 9781931534086, $80, HB, 300p, 46 b/w figs, 44 tbs, 1 col & 29 b/w pls, 2004, INSTAP Academic Press Bargain Price $40 9781623030216, $48, pdf Special Offer Price $38.40
Kavousi I is the initial volume of the Kavousi Excavation Series, which presents the final report of the Kavousi Project, a program of archaeological investigation near the modern village of Kavousi in eastern Crete. It sets the stage for the report on the excavations and provides an introduction to the local soils and to the pottery classification used by the excavators. Prehistory Monographs 16 9781931534185, $80, HB, 392p, 112 b/w illus, 18 tabs & 1 chart, 2005, INSTAP Academic Press Bargain Price $40 9781623030360, $48, pdf Special Offer Price $38.40 THE POLITICS OF STORAGE
MOCHLOS IB
aegean, greece: volume i: intra-site analysis, local industries, and regional site distribution
By Adamantios Sampson This is the first volume detailing the excavation of the "Cave of the Cyclops" on the island of Youra in the North Aegean. The cave was occupied at various times from the Mesolithic through Roman periods. Prehistory Monographs 21 9781931534208, $80, HB, 430p, 127 b/w illus, 37 b/w pls & 35 tabs, 2008, INSTAP Academic Press Bargain Price $40 9781623030636, $48, pdf Special Offer Price $38.40
period iii. neopalatial
storage and sociopolitical
PSEIRA IX
settlement on the coast:
complexity in neopalatial crete
the pseira island survey, part
the artisans' quarter and the
By Kostandinos S. Christakis
2: the intensive surface survey
farmhouse at chalinomouri.
Mochlos is a Minoan town set on a fine harbour at the eastern side of the Gulf of Mirabello, in northeast Crete. It was first inhabited during the Neolithic period, and it had a Minoan settlement during most of the Bronze Age. Prehistory Monographs 8
The storage of staples and its importance for the functioning of Cretan Bronze Age society has become an active topic of debate. This study reassesses the intrinsic relationship between storage and sociopolitical complexity by combining testimonies on the storage of staples from palatial, nonpalatial elite, and ordinary domestic contexts dated to the LM I period. Prehistory Monographs 25
9781931534079, $80, HB, 345p, 4 col & 59 b/w figs, 63 tbs & 28 b/w pls, 2003, INSTAP Academic Press Bargain Price $40 9781623030186, $48, pdf Special Offer Price $38.40
9781931534505, $60, HB, 185p, 10 tbls & 36 b/w figs, 2008, INSTAP Academic Press Bargain Price $30 9781623030124, $36, pdf Special Offer Price $28.80
the neopalatial pottery
By Kellee A. Barnard & Thomas M. Brogan
By Richard Hope Simpson, Philip P. Betancourt, Costis Davaras & Jacqueline Simpson Richard B. Seager excavated the Minoan town and cemetery at Pseira in 1906-1907, but the work was not fully published. The excavations conducted an intensive surface survey of the island. Prehistory Monographs 12 9781931534116, $80, HB, 350p, 89 b/w illus & 44 b/w pls, 2005, INSTAP Academic Press Bargain Price $40 9781623030995, $48, pdf Special Offer Price $38.40 PSEIRA VIII
MOCHLOS IA
MONASTIRAKI KATALIMATA
the archaeological survey
period iii. neopalatial
excavation of a cretan
of pseira island, part
settlement on the coast:
refuge site, 1993-2000
the artisans' quarter and the
By Krzysztof Nowicki
Edited by Costis Davaras, Philip P. Betancourt & Richard Hope Simpson
farmhouse at chalinomouri.
1
The Artisans' Quarter consisted of a series of workshops with evidence for pottery manufacture, metalworking, and weaving. Prehistory Monographs 7
The natural terraces hanging high on the northern cliff of the Cha Gorge at the site of Monastiraki Katalimata in eastern Crete were discovered as a refuge site for the first time about 5,500 years ago. Prehistory Monographs 24
Richard B. Seager excavated the Minoan town and cemetery at Pseira in 1906-1907, but the work was not fully published. Pseira VIII presents the results from the corollary studies that accompany the surface survey. Prehistory Monographs 11
9781931534062, $80, HB, 337p, 4 col & 83 b/w figs, 36 b/w pls, 2003, INSTAP Academic Press Bargain Price $40 9781623030155, $48, pdf Special Offer Price $38.40
9781931534246, $70, HB, 275p, 1 tbl, 91 b/w figs & 32 b/w pls, 2008, INSTAP Academic Press Bargain Price $35 9781623030605, $42, pdf Special Offer Price $33.60
9781931534109, $75, HB, 200p, 25 b/w illus 5 tbs & 14 b/w pls, 2004, INSTAP Academic Press Bargain Price $37.50 9781623030964, $45, pdf Special Offer Price $36
By Jeffrey S. Soles
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The Institute for Aegean Prehistory (INSTAP) was founded in 1982 to support projects relevant to the history of the Aegean world from the Paleolithic to the 8th century B.C. The Press is a scholarly publisher specializing in the publication of primary source material from archaeological excavations as well as individual studies dealing with material from the prehistoric periods. PSEIRA VII
PSEIRA II
MARSA MATRUH I
the pseira cemetery ii.
building ac (the `shrine')
the excavation
excavation of the tombs
and other buildings in area a
By Donald White
Edited by Philip P. Betancourt & Costis Davaras
By Philip P. Betancourt
This volume of the reports on the Temple University excavations at the Minoan cemetery on Pseira, a small island off the northeast coast of Crete, covers the excavation and cleaning of the 19 tombs that still exist at the Pseira cemetery. The artifacts included clay vases, stone vessels, obsidian, bronze tools, jewellery, and other objects. Prehistory Monographs 6 9781931534055, $75, HB, 192p, 5 b/w figs & 67 b/w pls, 2003, INSTAP Academic Press Bargain Price $37.50 9781623030933, $45, pdf Special Offer Price $36
9780924171444, $70, HB, 150p, 48 b/w pls & 8 col pls, 1997, INSTAP Academic Press Bargain Price $35
The excavations of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at Marsa Matruh on Bates's Island uncovered a small site with a metalworking workshop and nearby houses. The pottery found indicates that the Late Bronze Age settlement had links to several cultures. Prehistory Monographs 1 9781931534000, $80, HB, 126p, 46 b/w figs, 4 plans & 47 b/w pls, 2002, INSTAP Academic Press Bargain Price $40 9781623031237, $48, pdf Special Offer Price $38.40 THE BRONZE AGE BEGINS
PSEIRA I
the ceramics revolution of
PSEIRA VI
the minoan buildings on
early minoan i and the new
the pseira cemetery i. the
the west side of area a
forms of wealth that
surface survey
By Philip P. Betancourt
transformed prehistoric
Edited by Philip P. Betancourt & Costis Davaras This volume, Pseira VI, covers the methodology that was employed in the investigation, the topography of the cemetery area, details of Seager's campaign, the ceramic petrography for the cemetery pottery, and the results of the intensive surface survey. Prehistory Monographs 5 9781931534048, $65, HB, 188p, 19 b/w pls, 2002, INSTAP Academic Press Bargain Price $32.50 9781623030902, $39, pdf Special Offer Price $31.20
Pseira, a tiny islet near the coast of eastern Crete, has been called a priceless jewel in Crete's archaeological crown. In 1906 and 1907, the American archaeologist Richard Seager unearthed the extensive remains of a Bronze Age village on Pseira. This is the first volume in a series of final publications on the joint American-Greek archaeological excavations at Pseira in northeast Crete. 9780924171406, $60, HB, 200p, 56 illus, 30 pls & 4 fold-outs, 1995, INSTAP Academic Press Bargain Price $30 MARSA MATRUH II
society
By Philip P. Betancourt This book focuses on economic and social changes, particularly during the opening phase of the Minoan civilization on the island of Crete. New developments in ceramics that reached Crete at the end of the Neolithic period contributed to the creation of economic, technological, social, and religious advancements we call the Early Bronze Age. 9781931534529, $36, PB, 162p, 69 b/w figs, 2009, INSTAP Academic Press Special Offer Price $28.80 9781623030094, $21.60, pdf Special Offer Price $17.28
PSEIRA IV
the objects
THE CRETAN COLLECTION IN
minoan buildings in areas
By Donald White
THE UNIVERSITY MUSEUM,
bcdf
By Philip P. Betancourt & Costis Davaras Volume four in the series of final reports on the Bronze Age town of Pseira located on Pseira island just off the coast of Crete. This volume reports on the architectural remains and associated finds from Areas B, C, D and F, including pottery, stone tools, lithics, fauna and micro-fauna. 9780924171741, $85, HB, 346p, 38 b/w pls & 59 b/w figs, 1999, INSTAP Academic Press Bargain Price $42.50
This volume on the excavations at Marsa Matruh on Bates's Island, which is located on the seacoast at the north of Egypt's western desert, publishes the local and imported pottery, the crucibles and other evidence for metalworking. Prehistory Monographs 2 9781931534017, $90, HB, 174p, 4 plans & 20 b/w pls, 2002, INSTAP Academic Press Bargain Price $45 9781623031206, $54, pdf Special Offer Price $43.20 AYIORYITIKAIT
the 1928 excavations of
PSEIRA III
carl blegen at a neolithic
the plateia building
to early helladic
By Cheryl Floyd
settlement in arcadia
This third volume in the series of publications on the Minoan site of Pseira focuses on the Plateia building discovered in 1986. This report on the findings includes an introduction to the project, followed by a detailed discussion of the architecture and small finds: pottery, stone tools, terracotta objects, sealstones, shell artifacts, faunal remains, charcoal, lithics, plaster and so on. 9780924171604, $70, HB, 329p, 21 b/w pls & 47 b/w figs, 1998, INSTAP Academic Press Bargain Price $35
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Pseira, in northeast Crete, was a port dating from the end of the Neolithic until the Late Minoan. The second volume on the recent joint American-Greek archaeological excavations reports on the new researches on building AC, the Late Minoan I shrine, first excavated in 1907, but badly recorded and then studied only for its beautiful reliefs, not its architecture.
By Susan L. Petrakis Ayioryitika, a large open-air settlement in Arcadia, in central Greece, was inhabited during the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age. It was excavated in 1928 by Carl Blegen under the auspices of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, but the research was never published. Prehistory Monographs 3 9781931534024, $75, HB, 144p, 40p of illus, 2002, INSTAP Academic Press Bargain Price $37.50 9781623031022, $45, pdf Special Offer Price $36
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA II pottery from gournia
By Philip P. Betancourt The Minoan town at Gournia flourished from the Early Bronze Age until its destruction at the end of the Late Minoan IB period. It was later resettled before being abandoned again in LM IIIB. The town was substantial, with houses arranged in irregular blocks. This book presents the pottery found during Gournia's excavation in 1901, 1903 and 1904. This collection is the largest and most important group of Minoan objects from a single site outside of Europe. 9780924171062, $65, HB, 111p, 42 b/w pls, 1991, INSTAP Academic Press Bargain Price $32.50 THE CRETAN COLLECTION IN THE UNIVERSITY MUSEUM, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSLYVANIA I minoan objects excavated from vasilike, pseira, sphoungaras, priniatikos pyrgos, and other sites
By Philip P. Betancourt 9780934718462, $60, HB, 160p, 21 figs & 24 pls, 1983, INSTAP Academic Press Bargain Price $30
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The Museum of London Archaeology Service produces high quality monographs and glossy books on the work of the Archaeology Service in the Greater London area. These often high profile excavations have included discovery of the lost Roman amphitheatre, work in advance of the construction of the Jubilee Line extension, London's most famous river crossing, London Bridge and a Medieval abbey. URBAN DEVELOPMENT
ROMAN ROADSIDE
ROMAN LONDON
IN THE NORTH-WEST
SETTLEMENT AND
AND THE WALBROOK
OF LONDINIUM
RURAL LANDSCAPE
STREAM CROSSING
excavations at 120–122
AT BRENTFORD
14–18 gresham street, city of london, 2005–7
archaeological
By Julian Hill & Peter Rowsome
By Sadie Watson
waldorf astoria
cheapside to
investigations at london syon park
2004–10
Two adjacent excavations in the City of London revealed new information about Roman and later development of an area which lay within the west part of the Roman town, directly north of the main east–west road (beneath modern Cheapside). The earliest Roman buildings may pre-date the Boudican fire of AD 60/61, although most date to the Flavian period, and were ranged along the street to the south. 32
Excavations in Syon Park, Brentford, have made a substantial contribution to our knowledge of this Roman rural settlement on the London–Silchester road, by a ford across the Thames. The site yielded a well-dated sequence including occupation deposits and two 2nd-century timber buildings destroyed by fire. MoLAS Archaeology Studies Series 29
9781907586279, $34, PB, 140p, 89 col, 2014, NYP, Museum of London Archaeology Pre-Publication Price $27.20
9781907586194, $30, PB, 110p, fully illus in col, 2013, Museum of London Archaeology Special Offer Price $24
By Robert Cowie, Amy Thorp & Angela Wardle
ROMANS IN
ROMAN AND
RESIDENCE
MEDIEVAL
excavations at
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By Robin Wroe-Brown
9781907586040, $116, HB, 592p, 410 col & b/w illus, 55 tbls & CD-ROM with additional data, 2011, Museum of London Archaeology Special Offer Price $92.80 LONDINIUM
DEVELOPMENT
a new map and guide
SOUTH OF CHEAPSIDE
to roman london
By Museum of London Archaeology
excavations at bow bells house, city of
Excavations near the Roman forum on Londinium’s eastern hill (modern Cornhill) have revealed archaeological evidence from the earliest period of London’s history. There was intensive domestic occupation on the site from c. AD 50–5, which was interrupted by the Boudican fire of AD 60/61. A comprehensive collection of pottery, with a wealth of early Roman material, includes mid 1stcentury AD wares. 31 9781907586248, $30, PB, 128p, 78 col illus, 2014, NYP, Museum of London Archaeology Pre-Publication Price $24 ROMANO-BRITISH
london, 2005–6
By Isca Howell, Lyn Blackmore, Christopher Phillpotts & Amy Thorp Excavations on the south side of Cheapside found evidence for Roman timber buildings and pits dating to the later 1st and 2nd centuries AD, and a masonry building constructed after c AD 125. Evidence for later Roman occupation was limited by modern truncation. No medieval ground surfaces survive, but the site was reoccupied from the 10th century with at least one substantial building existing by the 13th century. MoLAS Archaeology Studies Series 26 9781907586170, $30, PB, 120p, fully illus in col, 2013, Museum of London Archaeology Special Offer Price $24
ROUND HOUSES TO MEDIEVAL PARISH excavations at
The site of 1 Poultry, excavated in the 1990s, is located near the Bank of England in the heart of the City of London. It lay immediately west of the point where the main east-west road through Roman London bridged the Walbrook stream and proved to be one of the most significant archaeological sites ever excavated in the City, with an unparalleled sequence of buildings, roads and open spaces. Together, the sites provide a record of the development of Londinium over the entire Roman period. MOLAS Monograph 37
DISCOVERY OF OF
10
THE ROMAN FORT
gresham street, city of london, 1999–2002
By Lindy Casson, James Drummond-Murray & Antony Francis
Londinium was founded by the Romans nearly 2,000 years ago, shortly before AD 50. Roman London was built on a "greenfield" site which is now occupied by the City of London and north Southwark. This map graphically presents our most up-to-date knowledge of that lost world: the Roman city's topography, plan and appearance, including its roads, waterfronts, public buildings, houses and defences. The accompanying guide provides a descriptive history of Londinium and illustrations of important sites, many of which can be seen in the Museum of London galleries. 9781907586057, $12.50, PB, map 990 x 890mm (folded), in full col, 2011, Museum of London Archaeology Special Offer Price $10 ROMAN LONDON'S
AT CRIPPLEGATE,
AMPHITHEATRE
CITY OF LONDON
By Nick Bateman
excavations by w f grimes
1947-68
By John Shepherd
Good preservation in the western part of 10 Gresham Street has led to an unusually complete picture of the archaeological sequence. The discovery here of the largest group of Romano-British round houses yet excavated in London, clustered round a rectangular building, is of considerable significance for the Iron Age– Roman transition. Significant finds include a double gold finger ring of the 1st century AD, while close study of face pots and tazze leads to a rethinking of their possible ritual functions. MOLAS Monograph 67 9781907586224, $50, HB, 250p, fully illus in col, 2014, NYP, Museum of London Archaeology Pre-Publication Price $40
When Grimes received a CBE for the discovery of the Temple of Mithras, he remarked that he was proud but wished that it had been in recognition for his work at Cripplegate - the discovery of the Mithraeum was "a fluke". His initial was to understand more about the dating sequence of the city's defences. He soon discovered that the outline of the walls there represented the location of a 2nd-century fort. 9781907586088, $30, PB, 176p, 131 col & b/w illus, 2011, Museum of London Archaeology Special Offer Price $24
For over a hundred years people had searched for the Roman amphitheatre of London. In 1988, during a dig at the City's medieval Guildhall, the astonishing discovery was made. The curving stone walls of the arena and timber beams for the seating tiers confirmed that the gladiators' place of spectacle - lost for over 1500 years - had finally been found. This popular book about London's Roman amphitheatre is now available in a new updated edition. 9781907586064, $20, PB, 52p, col illus, 2011, Museum of London Archaeology Special Offer Price $16
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APOLLON, ARTEMIS, LETO
ISSUS & GAUGAMELA
eine untersuchung zur typologie, ikonographie
alexander the great vs darius iii
und hermeneutik der drei gottheiten auf
By Frédéric Bey
griechischen weihreliefs
By Evgenia Vikela Research into the votive relief of the Apollonian triad, which was imbued with great significance from the Archaic to the late Hellenistic period, provides a wealth of material. The relief compositions provide evidence of attempts to establish contact with the gods by believers, both as individuals and as family groups. Athenaia 7 9783777422893, $86, PB, 379p, 69, 2014, NYP, German text, Hirmer Verlag GmbH Pre-Publication Price $68.80 GRIECHISCHE GRABBEZIRKE KLASSISCHER ZEIT
Edited by Katja Sporn Norms and Regionalisms Files of the International Colloquium at the German Archaeological Institute, Athens Department. 20 – 21 November 2009. Ideas about the design of Greek gave precincts of the classical period are nowadays profoundly influenced by the findings in Attica and, most importantly, by the Kerameikos of Athens. Considerable differences are already to be seen within the necropolises of Attica, however, while the “Third Greece” has hitherto not been examined in a recapitulatory manner. The papers given at the international colloquium held at the German Archaeological Institute in Athens in 2009 provide a multi-layered picture of various forms of monuments, which in part result from separate regional traditions. Athenaia 6 9783777420349, $78, HB, 282p, 165 col illus, 2013, German text, Hirmer Verlag GmbH Special Offer Price $62.40 THE CORINTHIA AND THE NORTHEAST
In just three years and two battles against the 'king of kings' Darius III, the young monarch of Macedonia brought the great Persia to its knees. Alexander the Great, with the help of the mighty Macedonian war machine – phalanx, heavy cavalry – overcame the Persian army at Issus (-333), opening the doors of Phenicia, Syria and Egypt. At Gaugamela (-331), the two rivals and their soldiers fight again a decisive battle which see the death of Darius and the accession of Alexander as the new ruler of the ancient East. From a military point of view, the victories of Alexander show both a tactical genius and a personal involvement from the young leader in the heart of battle. Men and Battles 15 9782352503767, $19.95, PB, 2014, NYP, Histoire and Collections Pre-Publication Price $15.96 LA GUERRE DES GAULES
By Frédéric Bey In the last century BC, the still independent Gaul was involved in the process of expanding the Roman power. In a more direct way, Gaul became a purely political issue between the triumvirs Pompey, Crassus and Caesar, when they got hold of an ending Republic. It was therefore a victim of issue that was foreign to Gaul when it entered the political strategy of Julius Caesar. 9782352503521, $19.95, PB, 64p, 120 illus, 2014, NYP, French text, Histoire and Collections Pre-Publication Price $15.96 THE SETTLEMENT AT DHASKALIO
Edited by Colin Renfrew, Olga Philaniotou, Neil Brodie, Giorgos Gavalas & Michael Boyd
PELOPONNESE topography and history from prehistoric times until the end of antiquity
Edited by W.-D. Niemeier In March 2009 the international conference for which this volume is named was held in Loutraki by the 37th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities in collaboration with the Greek Ministry of Culture’s Directorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities, and the German Archaeological Institute of Athens. The results of research carried out by international research institutes and individual researchers working in Corinthia, and first and foremost by the Greek Antiquities Service, were presented at the conference. Athenaia 4 9783777421223, $110, HB, 582p, 438 illus, 2013, German text, Hirmer Verlag GmbH Special Offer Price $88 NEUE FUNDE ARCHAISCHER PLASTIK AUS
9781902937649, $160, HB, 832p, 587 illus, 2013, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Special Offer Price $128
GRIECHISCHEN HEILGTÜMERN UND
MALTA
NEKROPOLEN
origini della civiltà mediterranea/malta:
Edited by W.-D. Niemeier
origins of mediterranean civilization
An astonishing number of new discoveries of archaic sculptures has come to light over the course of the last two decades. A symposium held jointly by the University of Athens and the German Archaeological Institute of Athens in 2007 explored these important developments. The present volume contains the papers given at the symposium on sculptures from sanctuaries and necropolises in Athens and Attica (with the exception of the Kerameikos), Laconia, Boeotia, on Crete, the Aegean Islands and in Asia Minor. Athenaia 3 9783777470412, $78, HB, 262p, 305 illus, 2013, German text, Hirmer Verlag GmbH Special Offer Price $62.40
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The Settlement at Dhaskalio is the first volume in the series The Sanctuary on Keros: Excavations at Dhaskalio and Dhaskalio Kavos, 2006-2008, edited by Colin Renfrew, Olga Philaniotou, Neil Brodie, Giorgos Gavalas and Michael Boyd. Here the findings are presented from the well-stratified settlement of Dhaskalio, today an islet near the Cycladic island of Keros, Greece. A series of radiocarbon dates situates the duration of the settlement from around 2750 to 2300 BC. The volume begins with a discussion of the geological setting of Keros and of sea-level change, concluding that Dhaskalio was in the third millennium BC linked to Keros by a narrow causeway. The excavation and finds (excluding the pottery, discussed in later volumes) are fully documented, with consideration of stratigraphy, geomorphology, organic remains, and the evidence for metallurgy. McDonald Institute Monographs
By Luigi Ugolini, Louis J. Scerri & Andrea Pessina The Italian archaeologist Luigi Maria Ugolini (1895 - 1936) visited Malta on several occasions between 1924 and 1935 to study the megalithic monuments of the archipelago. An able photographer and acute observer, in the course of his work Ugolini gathered together a large number of photographs, illustrations, notes, and reports dedicated to the prehistoric temples and the archaeological objects found within. Published with the support of the Office of the Prime Minister and the Ministry for Culture, Malta. 9789993273929, $73, HB, 392p, Limited Edition, 2012, English/Italian text, Midsea Books Special Offer Price $58.40
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THE ROMANS AT
FROM MESOLITHIC TO
MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY
NOSTELL PRIORY
MOTORWAY
AND ANCIENT TRADE IN
excavations at the new
the archaeology of the m1
THE MEDITERRANEAN
2009
( junction 6a-10) widening scheme, hertfordshire
Edited by Damian Robinson & Andrew Wilson
visitor car park in
By Dave Pinnock A National Trust archaeological project revealed the remains of a previously unknown multi-phase Romano-British settlement at the site of a new visitor car park at Nostell Priory, Wakefield. The remains had a surprising Roman military connection with implications both for our understanding of the Roman occupation in this region and the later, medieval history of the site. On-Site Archaeology Monographs 3 9780956196521, $18, PB, 95p, 25 b/w figs & 20 b/w pls, 2013, On-Site Archaeology Special Offer Price $14.40 SLAVES AND HOUSEHOLDS IN THE NEAR EAST
Edited by Laura Culbertson
Edited by Dan Stansbie, Paul Booth, Andrew Simmonds, Valerie Diez & Seren Griffiths Excavation in advance of engineering works along the M1 from Junctions 6a to 10 (between Hemel Hempstead and Luton) revealed significant archaeological remains of wide-ranging date. Important evidence for late Mesolithic and early Neolithic activity, including pits, was found at Junction 9, while later prehistoric features were more widely distributed but less concentrated. Late Iron Age and Roman features were most common, with significant rural settlements at Junctions 8 and 9, and further evidence for trackways and enclosures elsewhere. Oxford Archaeology Monograph 14
This book comprises twelve papers that look at the shifting patterns of maritime trade as seen through archaeological evidence across the economic cycle of Classical Antiquity. Papers range from an initial study of Egyptian ship wrecks dating from the sixth to fifth century BC from the submerged harbour of Heracleion-Thonis through to studies of connectivity and trade in the eastern Mediterranean during the Late Antique period. The majority of the papers focus on the high point in ancient maritime trade during the Roman period and examine developments in shipping, port facilities and trading routes. OCMA Monograph 6 9781905905171, $80, HB, 250p, 36 col photos, 125 col & b/w illus, 2011, Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology (OCMA) Special Offer Price $64
This volume contains papers that emerged from the seminar "Slaves and Households in the Near East." Despite widespread mention of enslaved people in historical records from the ancient, medieval and early modern Near East, scholars struggle to understand what defines this phenomenon in both particular contexts and in general. Oriental Institute Seminars 7
9780904220650, $40, PB, 230p, 110 illus, 2012, Oxford Archaeology Special Offer Price $32
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Excavations along the new road line have revealed nearly 6000 years of human activity, from a massive marker post erected by early Neolithic farmers at the head of a dry valley to a bizarre burial of several different animals dating to the sixteenth century AD. Prehistoric discoveries include two enclosures of the middle Bronze Age, both associated with some of the earliest cobbled roads in Kent, a collection of Iron Age storage pits rich in diverse deliberate offerings, and the emergence of a nucleated hamlet in the middle Iron Age. Oxford Archaeology Monograph 16
This volume provides a much needed contribution to island archaeology by examining the characteristics of the initial occupation of the Mediterranean islands. It enhances our understanding of the mechanisms, strategies, cultural contingencies and social alliances that enabled the consolidation of a permanent human presence in these settings. Particular attention is given to small islands, which can present increased demands on people to adapt and survive due to their more marginal environments. OUSA Monograph 74
9780904220681, $64, HB, 620p, 267 illus (mostly col) & 91 pls (mostly col), 2012, Oxford Archaeology Special Offer Price $51.20
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THE IRON AGE AND ROMAN LANDSCAPE OF MARSTON VALE, BEDFORDSHIRE
investigations along the a421 improvements, m1 junction 13 to bedford By Andrew Simmonds & Ken Welsh A program of improvements to the A421 south-west of Bedford afforded Oxford Archaeology an opportunity to investigate early settlement along a corridor of the clay landscape of Marston Vale, within the catchment of the River Great Ouse. The investigations comprised nine areas of excavation. Oxford Archaeology Monograph 19 9780904220728, $40, PB, 330p, 204 illus & 57 tbls, 2013, Oxford Archaeology Special Offer Price $32 LONDON GATEWAY iron age and roman salt making in the thames estuary, excavation at stanford wharf nature reserve, essex
Edited by Edward Biddulph, Stuart Foreman, Elizabeth Stafford, Dan Stansbie & Rebecca Nicholson Excavation by Oxford Archaeology in 2009 uncovered remarkable evidence for Iron Age and Roman-period salt making and associated activities. Structures included a probable boathouse, unique in Roman Britain. The excavations shed light on evolving methods of salt production. Oxford Archaeology Monograph 18 9780904220711, $40, HB, 209p, 178 (mostly col), 2012, Oxford Archaeology Special Offer Price $32
A ROADTHROUGHTHE PAST
THE FIRST
archaeological
MEDITERRANEAN
discoveries on the a2 pepperhill to cobham
ISLANDERS
road-scheme in kent
initial occupation and
By Tim Allen, Michael Donnelly, Alan Hardy & Kelly Powell
survival strategies
By Nellie Phoca-Cosmetatou
THE ROMAN VILLA AT
THONIS-HERACLEION IN
BRADING, ISLE OF WIGHT
CONTEXT
the excavations of 2008-10
Edited by Damian Robinson & Franck Goddio
By Barry Cunliffe
This book presents the papers delivered at the symposium Heracleion in Context held in Oxford in March 2013. Scholars explore the maritime trading economy of the Egyptian port of Thonis-Heracleion during the Late Period and place it within the wider context of maritime trade at this time. Thonis-Heracleion was the gateway to Egypt, the obligatory port of entry and customs point, and a vital node in the trading network of the eastern Mediterranean through which goods flowed into and out of Egypt. Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology Monograph 8
Brading Roman Villa is a fine example of a maritime courtyard villa with in situ mosaics which rank among the best of their kind in northern Europe. This volume reports on a new program of excavations carried out in 2008-10, whilst also delving into earlier work to provide context. The research involved a full re-excavation of the North Range, an examination of the buildings of the South Range by sample excavations, a detailed study of the extant remains of the West Range to establish the building sequence and a sample excavation of the early enclosures identified by geophysical survey to the east of the North Range.
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Featured are three of Casemate Academic’s distribution partners, PreConstruct Archaeology, Roman Society Publications, and Sidestone Press. View more from these great publishers by visiting our website. THE ROMAN ROADSIDE
SETTLEMENT, CEREMONY
SILCHESTER
SETTLEMENT AND MULTI-
AND INDUSTRY ON
city in transition. the
PERIOD RITUAL COMPLEX
MOUSEHOLD HEATH
mid-roman occupation of
AT NETTLETON AND
excavations at laurel
insula ix c. a.d. 125-250/300.
farm (phase ii), broadland
a report on excavations
ROTHWELL, LINCOLNSHIRE the central lincolnshire
business park, thorpe st
wolds research project,
andrew, norfolk
volume
1
By Steven Willis The unremarkable arable landscape around Mount Pleasant today belies the importance of the area in the past; at the highest point of the Lincolnshire Wolds and at the head of three radial valleys, this was a highly significant locality in earlier times. 9780956305497, $78, PB, 441p, 215 illus, 2014, NYP, Pre-Construct Archaeology Special Offer Price $62.40 ROMAN BURIALS IN SOUTHWARK
52–56 lant street and 56 southwark bridge road, london se1 excavations at
By Victoria Ridgeway, Kathleen Leary & Berni Sudds The extent of the Romano-British cemetery to the south of Londinium has only recently begun to be recognized. The excavations reported in this publication took place on two sites in the London Borough of Southwark in 2003. Together these revealed over a hundred inhumations, along with two cremation burials, of second to late fourth or early fifthcentury date. Pre-Construct Archaeology Limited Monograph 17 9780992667207, $30, PB, 178p, col illus throughout, 2013, Pre-Construct Archaeology Special Offer Price $24 FAVERDALE, DARLINGTON excavations at a major settlement in the northern frontier zone of roman britain
By Jennifer Proctor The discovery in 2004 of a Roman period settlement during archaeological investigations by Pre-Construct Archaeology was highly unexpected given the paucity of remains of this date in the Darlington area. Pre-Construct Archaeology Monograph 15 9780956305466, $40, PB, 245p, 73 b/w, 35 col, 57 tbls & 7 apendices, 2014, Pre-Construct Archaeology Special Offer Price $32 ROMAN ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE UPPER REACHES OF THE WALBROOK VALLEY
6-8 tokenhouse yard, london ec2
By Barry Bishop, Jennifer Proctor & Victoria Ridgeway This publication presents the results of archaeological investigations by Pre-Construct Archaeology at Laurel Farm to the south-east of Norfolk. An extraordinarily long and complex history of occupation and exploitation was revealed, dating back to the Lower Palaeolithic. The site was visited in the Upper Palaeolithic by hunter-gatherer communities who used the shelter provided by the roots of an upturned tree to knap flint into blades and tools. Pre-Construct Archaeology Monograph 9780956305442, $30, PB, 170p, 73 figs in b/w & col, 2011, Pre-Construct Archaeology Special Offer Price $24 A ROMAN SETTLEMENT AND BATH HOUSE AT SHADWELL excavations at tobacco
Tokenhouse Yard in the City of London lies in the upper reaches of the valley of the Walbrook. The results of excavation presented in this volume tell the story of the struggle to live alongside the river, attempts to control its course and alleviate flooding. Pre-Construct Archaeology Monograph 9780956305459, $30, PB, 150p, 70 b/w & col figs, 2012, Pre-Construct Archaeology Special Offer Price $24
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Characterising urban life, City in Transition is the second volume reporting on the archaeology of the continuing excavation of Silchester Insula IX, taking the story down to the early 2nd century. In describing the evidence for the occupation of the 2nd and 3rd centuries it follows on from Life and Labour in Late Roman Silchester (2006), which published the late Roman occupation. Geochemical and micromorphological analyses inform the interpretation of the use of space within buildings and, together with the study of an abundant material culture and environmental record, provide a rich characterisation of the houses and their occupants. Britannia Monographs 25 9780907764373, $150, PB, 544p, 150 col & b/w illus, 2011, Roman Society Publications Special Offer Price $120 WITHOUT HAVING SEEN
dock and babe ruth
THE QUEEN
restaurant, the highway
the
london
travel journal of
By Alistair Douglas, James Gerrard & Berni Sudds
a transcription and
1846 european
heinrich schliemann, annotated translation
Excavations in 2002 by PreConstruct Archaeology on two adjacent sites in Shadwell revealed an extensive late Romano-British settlement over a kilometre beyond the walls of Londinium on an escarpment overlooking the north bank of the Thames. The area's importance became apparent in the 1970s through the discovery of monumental masonry and 3rd-century settlement and burial practice. This volume presents the evidence for Roman Shadwell and considers its place within the broader context of Londinium and its hinterland. Pre-Construct Archaeology Monograph 12 9780956305428, $40, PB, 225p, 29 col & 94 b/w illus & 41 tbls, 2011, Pre-Construct Archaeology Special Offer Price $32 MONUMENTA ASIAE MINORIS ANTIQUA VOL. XI monuments from phrygia and lykaonia recorded
By Wout Arentzen & Christo Thanos Heinrich Schliemann, a shrewd trader and later in life one of the best known archaeologists of the 19th century, made many travels around the world. He recorded his experiences in several diaries. This publication is a transcription and translation of Schliemann's first travel diary: his European journey in the winter of 1846/47. This journey was his first as a commercial trader and through the diary he kept we get to know Heinrich Schliemann more as a tourist and human being than as a trader. This publication presents a unique view of Schliemann's life before rising to fame as the discoverer of Troy. 9789088900877, $55, PB, 212p, 14 b/w, 11 col images & 182 x 257 mm, 2012, Sidestone Press Special Offer Price $44 GOEDEREEDE-OUDE OOSTDIJK
by m.h. ballance, w.m.
een havenplaats uit de
calder, a.s. hall and r.d.
romeinse tijd
barnett
Edited by Peter Thonemann
excavations at
By Jim Leary, Jonathan Butler & Victoria Ridgeway
undertaken since
By Michael Fulford & Amanda Clarke
This title is a corpus of 387 Greek and Latin inscriptions and other ancient and medieval monuments from inner Anatolia. Most of these monuments were recorded by William Calder and Michael Ballance in annual expeditions to Asia Minor between 1954 and 1957. The results of these expeditions were never published, and around three-quarters of the monuments in the volume are published here for the first time. JRS Monograph 12 9780907764380, $60, HB, 399p, 9 maps & numerous b/w illus, 2013, Roman Society Publications Special Offer Price $48
By Guus Besuijen, Hans Siemons, Jeroen van Zoolingen & Jasper De Bruin In the 1950's and 1980's a settlement from the Roman period was excavated in Goedereede. Until now the results had not been published. The analysis shows a settlement with a harbour that was in use between 85 and 225 AD. This settlement will have had an important role in the distribution trade goods, including ceramics and food. The book contains an extensive catalog of Terra Sigilata. 9789088900839, $90, PB, 200p, 61 b/w & 39 col figs, 2012, Dutch text, Sidestone Press Special Offer Price $72
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SETTLING THE
SETTLING THE
ROMAN EMPIRE
EBBSFLEET VALLEY
EBBSFLEET VALLEY
the african frontiers
ctrl excavations
ctrl excavations at
By David J. Mattingly, Alan Rushworth, Martin Sterry & Victoria Leitch
at springhead and
springhead and
northfleet, kent:
northfleet, kent:
the late iron age,
the late iron age, roman, saxon, and
The frontiers of the Roman Empire form the largest surviving monument of one of the world's greatest states, and stretch for around 7500km through 20 countries. The remains of these have been studied for many centuries. Inscriptions, sculpture, weapons, pottery and artifacts created and used by the soldiers and civilians who lived on the frontier form the basis for this history and are outlined in this book. 9781900971164, $16.95, PB, 96p, 2013, English/German/French text, Society for Libyan Studies Special Offer Price $13.56 SNAKES, SANDS AND
roman, saxon, and medieval landscape, volume
medieval landscape,
3: late iron
volume
2: late iron
age to roman human
age to roman finds
remains and envi-
reports
ronmental reports
By Edward Biddulph, Rachael Seager Smith & Jörn Schuster
By Catherine Barnett, Jessica M. Grimm, Jacqueline McKinley & Chris Stevens The detailed specialist reports in this volume cover the late Iron Age and Roman human bone and animal bone assemblages recovered during the reported excavations, as well as environmental remains and dating evidence relating to contemporary landscape, subsistence and economy. 9780954597054, $60, HB, 240p, 31 b/w & col illus, 9 col pls & CD, 2011, Wessex Archaeology Special Offer Price $48
This volume presents specialist reports on the Late Iron Age and Roman artifacts recovered from Springhead and Northfleet. These include over 2 tonnes of pottery, 1,756 coins and tokens, over 2,500 other metal small finds and 3,000 nails. 9780954597047, $60, HB, 448p, 152 b/w & col illus, 22 col pls & CD, 2011, Wessex Archaeology Special Offer Price $48 PREHISTORIC ACTIVITY
SILPHIUM
SETTLING THE
AND A ROMANO-
travels in
EBBSFLEET VALLEY
BRITISH SETTLEMENT
classical libya
ctrl excavations at
AT POUNDBURY FARM,
By Paul Wright
springhead and northfleet, kent:
Egypt, Carthage and other African civilizations are well documented but the land and people between them are less well known yet also worthy of consideration. This collection of extracts on subjects relating to ancient Libya presents more than fifty writers from Homer to the end of the Roman Empire and provides an eclectic mixture of descriptions of Libya, its people, flora, fauna, climate, geography and episodes in its history as presented by politicians, poets, philosophers, priests, historians and soldiers, both native and foreign. 9781900971126, $26.95, PB, 272p, 29 figs, 9 maps, 2011, Silphium Press Special Offer Price $21.56 BY RIVER, FIELDS AND FACTORIES
By Philipa Bradley & Kirsten Egging Dinwiddy
the late iron age, roman, saxon, and medieval landscape, volume 4: post-roman finds and environmental reports
By Phil Andrews, Lorraine Mepham, Jörn Schuster & Chris J. Stevens Fifth to early 6th-century pottery was recovered from the Northfleet villa site, including from demolition layers over the Roman buildings, nine sunken-featured buildings and the area of the Saxon mill. The metal small finds come largely from 36 graves in two cemeteries, which contained 30 individuals.
Excavations at Poundbury Farm as well as Poundbury Parkway, Dorchester, Dorset recorded a series of pits containing a variety of Neolithic artifacts including one which contained a group of flint axe roughouts and another containing a substantial deposit of grain. Middle and Late Bronze Age field systems, pits and possible roundhouses and a number of cremation burials were identified. Wessex Archaeology Reports 9781874350569, $50, HB, 192p, 28 col illus, 2011, Wessex Archaeology Special Offer Price $40 PEVENSEY CASTLE,
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SUSSEX excavations in the
SETTLING THE
the making of the lower lea valley. archaeological and
roman fort and
EBBSFLEET VALLEY
medieval keep, 1993-95
ctrl excavations at
By Michael Fulford & Stephen Rippon
springhead and
cultural heritage
northfleet, kent:
investigations on
the late iron age,
the site of the london
DORCHESTER, DORSET
roman, saxon, and
2012
medieval landscape,
olympic games and
volume
paralympic games
1: the sites
By Phil Andrews, Edward Biddulph & Alan Hardy
By Andrew B. Powell Excavations and built heritage recording on the site of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games have revealed evidence dating from the last Ice Age up to the modern period. Extensive geoarchaeological and palaeo-environmenal studies, coupled with a comprehensive radiocarbon dating program, have enabled the valley's past environments to be reconstructed.
The Ebbsfleet Valley is just 2.5 km long, with Springhead at its head and Northfleet near its confluence with the Thames, and contains many important sites of many periods. Construction of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link provided a unique opportunity to undertake largescale investigations of Late Iron Age and Roman settlements.
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A program of excavations on and around the keep of Pevensey Castle established that the fort wall of the late Roman "Saxon Shore" fort was constructed AD 280-300, very possibly during the usurpation of Allectus. A deep sequence of "dark earth" built up against the inside of the Roman fort wall during the Roman and early medieval periods, before and after the establishment of William I's castle after 1066. A substantial stone keep and probably the gatehouse and inner bailey were constructed around 1200. Wessex Archaeology Reports 26 9781874350552, $40, HB, 160p, 49 b/w illus & 14 b/w pls, 2011, Wessex Archaeology Special Offer Price $32
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Pen & Sword Books is part of The Barnsley Chronicle newspaper group. The Barnsley Chronicle is one of the UK's oldest provincial newspapers and one of the few weeklies still in private ownership. With over 350 books published every year, Pen & Sword has established itself as a specialist book publisher. SPARTA’S LAST STAND
MILITARY HISTORY OF LATE
LOST LEGION
By Alex Dimond
ROME 284-361
REDISCOVERED
By Ilkka Syvanne
the mystery of the
By the time Cleomenes III became king in 235 BC, Spartan power and prestige had been in steady decline for a century and a half. The state that had defied the Persians at Thermopylae and Plataea and humbled the Athenians in the Peloponnesian War was reduced to a minor player in Greek affairs. Sparta had never recovered from defeat by the Thebans at Leuktra in 371 BC. Much of its territory had been lost and its army, once feared and respected throughout the Eastern Mediterranean, was outdated and crippled by a chronic manpower shortage. 9781848841840, $24.95, HB, 176p, 16 illus, 2015, NYP, Pen and Sword Pre-Publication Price $19.96 CAESAR’S HEIRS
9781848848559, $44.95, HB, 320p, b/w maps & battle diagrams, 8p pls, 2014, NYP, Pen and Sword Pre-Publication Price $35.96 MARCUS AGRIPPA right-hand man of caesar
wolves in the forum
augustus
By John Bassett, OBE
By Lindsay Powell
Caesar’s Heirs is the first full-length English-language military history in recent times of the wars that wracked Rome from the assassination of Caesar to the Battle of Actium. Volume I, Wolves in the Forum covers events down to the defeat of the last Republicans at Philippi. It is the story of how ruthless warlords gambled everything and broke every rule in their quest for power. 9781848847750, $34.95, HB, 256p, 8p b/w pls & 8 maps, 2015, NYP, Pen and Sword Pre-Publication Price $27.96 THE ARMIES OF ANCIENT PERSIA: THE SASSANIANS
By Kaveh Farrokh Throughout most of the classical period, Persia was one of the great superpowers, placing a limit on the expansion of Western powers. It was the most formidable rival to the Roman Empire for centuries, until Persia, by then under the Sassanians, was overwhelmed by the Islamic conquests in the seventh century AD. This work is the first of three volumes that will form the most comprehensive study of ancient Persian armies available. 9781848848450, $39.95, HB, 256p, at least 8p col photos, some tactical maps/diagrams, 2014, NYP, Pen and Sword Pre-Publication Price $31.96 THE MILITARY HISTORY OF LATE ROME AD 361-395
By Ikka Syvanne This is the second volume in an ambitious series giving the reader a comprehensive narrative of late Roman military history from AD 284-641. This volume covers the tumultuous period from the death of Constantius II in AD 361 to the death of Theodosius. Such calamities illustrate the level of external threat Rome’s armies faced in this difficult period. 9781783462735, $50, HB, 256p, 16p pls, plus integrated b/w drawings & maps , 2015, NYP, Pen and Sword Pre-Publication Price $40
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Volume I covers the period 284-361, starting with recovery from the 'thirdcentury crisis' and the formation of the Tetrarchy. Constantine's civil wars and stabilization are also major themes, with the pattern repeated under his sons. Constantius II’s wars against the usurper Magnentius, the Danubian tribes and the Sassanid Persians illustrate the serious combination of internal and external threats the Empire faced at this time.
Marcus Agrippa personified the term 'right-hand man'. As Emperor Augustus' deputy, he waged wars, pacified provinces, beautified Rome, and played a crucial role in laying the foundations of the Pax Romana for the next two hundred years. Why he did so, and never grasped power exclusively for himself, has perplexed historians for centuries. Lindsay Powell presents a new assessment of the life and achievements of the multifaceted man. 9781848846173, $44.95, HB, 384p, 16p col photos & 6 maps, 2014, NYP, Pen and Sword Pre-Publication Price $35.96 THE RISE OF THE SELEUKID EMPIRE (323-223 BC) seleukos i to seleukos iii
By John D Grainger The Seleukid kingdom was the largest state in the world for a century and more between Alexander's death and the rise of Rome. It was ruled by a succession of able kings, but broke down twice, before eventually succumbing to dynastic rivalries, and external invasions along with internal grasps for independence. In the first volume, the author relates the remarkable twists of fortune and daring that saw Seleukos emerge from the wars of the diadochi.
theban legion
By Donald O'Reilly In AD383, according to Bishop Eucherius of Lyon, flooding caused part of the bank of the River Rhone to collapse, revealing a massed grave of thousands of bodies. Eucherius identified these as a legion recruited for the Roman army from the Christians of the Theban district in Egypt, whom he claimed had been massacred nearly a century previously (near the modern village of St Mauriceen-Valais in southwestern Switzerland) for refusing to obey orders they considered immoral. This incident, asserted by Eucherius as matter of fact, is unrecorded elsewhere. Even the existence of this Theban legion is unclear. 9781848843783, $39.95, HB, 224p, approx 12 b/w integrated, 2014, NYP, Pen and Sword Pre-Publication Price $31.96 MARK ANTONY a plain blunt man
By Paolo De Ruggiero Mark Antony was embroiled in the tumultuous events of the mid-1st century BC, which saw the violent transformation from the Roman Republic to the Roman Empire. After being defeated by Augustus he has often been characterized by hostile historians as a loyal henchman of his uncle Julius Caesar but without the guile and vision to attain greatness in his own right (hence Shakespeare casts him as a 'plain, blunt man' whom Caesar's assassins don't think it worthwhile to kill). In his infamous alliance and love affair with Cleopatra of Egypt he is also often seen as duped and manipulated by a sharper mind. Despite this there is no doubt Antony was a capable soldier. 9781783462704, $39.95, HB, 320p, 8p photos, 2014, Pen and Sword Special Offer Price $31.96 SULLA a dictator reconsidered
By Lynda Telford
With the death of Nero by his own shaky hand, the ill-sorted, ill-starred Iulio-Claudian dynasty came to an ignominious end, and Rome was up for the taking. The following year, commonly known as the ‘Year of the Four Emperors’, was probably one of Rome’s worst. How could a new man occupy the vacant throne in Rome and establish a new dynasty? Nic Fields narrates the military events of this short but bloody period of Roman history.
Lucius Cornelius Sulla is one of the central figures of the late Roman Republic. Indeed, he is often considered a major catalyst in the death of the republican system. The ambitious general whose feud with a rival (Marius) led to his marching on Rome with an army at his back, leading to civil war and the terrible internecine bloodletting of the proscriptions. In these things, and in his appropriation of the title of dictator with absolute power, he set a dangerous precedent to be followed by Julius Caesar a generation later. Lynda Telford believes Sulla's portrayal as a monstrous, brutal tyrant is unjustified. While accepting that he was responsible for much bloodshed, she contends that he was no more brutal than many of his contemporaries.
9781781591888, $34.95, HB, 256p, 5 maps & 8p b/w pls, 2014, NYP, Pen and Sword Pre-Publication Price $27.96
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By Nic Fields
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IN THE NAME OF
the forgotten war that
LYKOURGOS
THE ROMAN ROADS OF
almost destroyed rome
the rise and fall of the
By Philip Matyszak
BRITAIN
spartan revolutionary
By M.C. Bishop
At the start of the first century BC, Rome faced a hostile army less than a week's march from the Capitol. Before that point, three Roman consuls had died in battle, and two Roman armies had been soundly defeated. So who was this enemy who so comprehensively knocked Rome to its knees? These questions are answered in this book, a military and political history of the Social War of 90-88BC. 9781848847897, $34.95, HB, 256p, 8p pls & 3 to 4 b/w maps, 2014, NYP, Pen and Sword Pre-Publication Price $27.96 XERXES: KING OF KINGS the true story
By Ian MacGregor Morris Xšaya-rša (Khshayarshan) to the Persians, Ahasuerus to the Jews, Xerxes to the Greeks. So great was his power, that he was hailed by the Persians as ‘King of Kings’, and by the Greeks as “The Great King.” Morris reviews the background of Xerxes’ upbringing and his early taste of power, the problems of the succession, and the challenges he faced as a new king. 9781473822993, $32.95, HB, 8p b/w photos & 3 to 4 maps, 2015, NYP, Pen and Sword Pre-Publication Price $26.36 BELISARIUS the last roman general
By Ian Hughes A military history of the campaigns of Belisarius, the greatest general of the Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian. He twice defeated the Persians and reconquered North Africa from the Vandals in a single year at the age of 29, before going on to regain Spain and Italy, including Rome, from the barbarians. It discusses the evolution from classical Roman to Byzantine armies and systems of warfare. 9781473822979, $24.95, PB, 288p, 16p pls, 15 b/w drawings, 27 maps & 18 Battle Plans, 2014, NYP, Pen and Sword Pre-Publication Price $19.96 9781844689415, $1.99, ePub, 9781783371457, $1.99, pdf Pre-Publication Price $1.60 ANTIGONUS THE ONE-EYED greatest of the successors
By Jeff Champion Plutarch described Antigonus the One Eyed 'as 'the oldest and greatest of Alexander's successors,' Antigonus loyally served both Philip II and Alexander the Great as they converted his native Macedonia into an empire stretching from India to Greece. After Alexander’s death, Antigonus seemed one of the least likely of his commanders to seize the dead king’s inheritance. Jeff Champion narrates the career of this titanic figure with the focus squarely on the military aspects. 9781783030422, $34.95, HB, 240p, b/w maps & battle diagrams, 8p b/w pls, 2014, NYP, Pen and Sword Pre-Publication Price $27.96
movement
THE SECRET HISTORY OF
(243-146bc)
By Miltiadis Michalopoulos In the middle of the 3rd century B.C. Sparta was a shadow of its glorious past. Politically and militarily weakened and with huge inner social problems, she seemed to have followed the fate of most contemporary city- states and fallen on the fringe of the political developments of her time. The 3rd century was a time when the great states and the Hellenistic empires were prominent. But contrary to the other city states, which compromised with the new political forces of their time, Sparta resisted stubbornly and tried to reclaim the hegemony of southern Greece. in this book with exhaustive bibliography and special emphasis on the military aspects of this epic fight. 9781783030231, $39.95, HB, 272p, 8p section of col maps & photos, 2015, NYP, Pen and Sword Pre-Publication Price $31.96
There have been many books on Britain's Roman roads, but none have considered in any depth their long-term strategic impact. Mike Bishop shows how the road network was vital not only in the Roman strategy of conquest and occupation, but influenced the course of British military history during subsequent ages. The author starts with the preRoman origins of the network before describing how the Roman army built, developed, maintained and used it. Most books on Roman roads are concerned with cataloging or tracing them, or just dealing with aspects like surveying. This one makes them part of military landscape archaeology. 9781848846159, $39.95, HB, 256p, approx 24 maps & plans; 8p pls, 2014, NYP, Pen and Sword Pre-Publication Price $31.96 THE SPARTAN SUPREMACY
THE ROMAN EMPIRE AND
412-371 BC
THE INDIAN OCEAN
By Mike Roberts & Bob Bennett
rome’s dealings with the ancient kingdoms of india, africa and arabia
By Raoul McLaughlin The ancient evidence suggests that international commerce supplied Roman government with up to a third of the revenues that sustained their empire. In ancient times large fleets of Roman merchant ships set sail from Egypt on voyages across the Indian Ocean. They sailed from Roman ports on the Red Sea to distant kingdoms on the east coast of Africa and the seaboard off southern Arabia. Many continued their voyages across the ocean to trade with the rich kingdoms of ancient India. This book examines Roman commerce with Indian kingdoms from the Indus region to the Tamil lands. 9781783463817, $44.95, HB, 272p, 18 illus, 2014, NYP, Pen and Sword Pre-Publication Price $35.96
Sparta was a small city which consistently punched above its weight in the affairs of classical Greece, happily meddling in the affairs of the other cities. For two centuries her warriors were acknowledged as second to none. Yet at only one period in its long history, in the late fourth and early third century BC, did the home of these grim warriors seem set to entrench itself as the dominant power in the Greek world. This period includes the latter stages of the Peloponnesian War from 412 BC to the Spartan victory in 402, and then down to the Spartan defeat by the Thebans at Leuctra in 371 BC, where it all began to unravel for the Spartan Empire. 9781848846142, $39.95, HB, 336p, approx 16 photos, 17 b/w maps & battle plans, 2014, NYP, Pen and Sword Pre-Publication Price $31.96 WARFARE IN NORTHERN
GREAT WALLS AND
EUROPE BEFORE THE
LINEAR BARRIERS
ROMANS
By Peter Spring
evidence from archaeolgy
By Julie Rosemary Wileman
Everyone has heard of the Great Wall of China and knows of Hadrian’s Wall and the other barriers lining stretches of Rome’s imperial frontiers. But Peter Spring’s original new study demonstrates that the building of walls and other linear defenses was commonplace among the peoples and states of pre-modern era. He finds examples virtually all across the globe and analyzes their forms and strategic functions. He finds patterns for their distribution, an important recurrent theme being the divide between settled agriculture and nomads. This study brings new light and insight to a fascinating and neglected aspect of human political and military history.
Julie Wileman challenges the traditional view of the barbaric fighting which went on prior to the Roman occupation of Northern Europe as she uncovers the true nature of warfare before the Romans. Aspects investigated include what war meant in a pre-state society, the many levels of battle and warfare, the reasons why prehistoric people fought, evidence of early attacks and massacres, ways in which prehistoric war can be identified, heroic warfare, and the rise of war in the Iron Age. Wileman also looks at the Roman evidence for the portrayal of the drunken, savage and barbaric fighting as well as the tactics they employed against one another.
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Founded in 1980, Aris & Phillips has been an imprint of Oxbow Books since 2002. Aris & Phillips publishes two prestigious series; Classical Texts, edited by Professor Christopher Collard (The Queens College Oxford) and Hispanic Classics edited by Dr Jonathan Thacker, (Merton College Oxford). THUCYDIDES HISTORY 1
AESCHYLUS: SUPPLIANT WOMEN
By P. J. Rhodes
By A. J. Bowen
With this edition of book I P. J. Rhodes provides the ‘prequel’ to his editions of Thucydides’ books on the Archidamian War. As before he provides an Introduction on Thucydides’ history and on the Peloponnesian War, a Greek text with selective critical apparatus and facing translation, and a commentary which should be useful both to specialists and to readers with litttle or no Greek, and which assumes no previous acquaintance with Thucydides. The emphasis is on Thucydides’ subject-matter — the Peloponnesian War presented as the greatest war in Greek history, and accounts of the events directly leading to the war and of the growth of Athenian power since the Persian Wars which explain why this war between the two great powers of fifth-century Greece was fought. Classical Texts 9781908343956, $100, HB, 200p, 2014, Aris & Phillips Pre-Publication Price $80 9781908343963, $39.99, PB Pre-Publication Price $32 AUGUSTINE: DE CIVITATE DEI X
By P. G. Walsh This edition of St Augustine's City of God is the only one in English to provide a text and translation as well as a detailed commentary of this most influential document in the history of western Christianity. In these books Augustine replies to the pagans, who attributed the fall of Rome to the Christian religion and its prohibition of the worship of the pagan gods. Following on from Book IX, this book discusses the issue of demons and their role in Platonism as being partly identical with the lesser gods. Having previously argued that in order to achieve the blessed life, we must worship one true God alone, Augustine now continues his discussion using the celebrated Neoplatonist Porphyry as his main source. 9780856688492, $85, HB, 2014, English/Latin text, Aris & Phillips Pre-Publication Price $68 9780856688485, $38, PB Pre-Publication Price $30.40 APULEIUS: METAMORPHOSES book
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By Regine May Apuleius’ Metamorphoses or The Golden Ass, our only complete Latin novel, tells the story of Lucius, a young man turned into a donkey by magic because of his unfettered curiosity. After many adventures he is finally saved by the goddess Isis, whose follower he becomes. The famous first book of the novel introduces the protagonist’s character, his interest in magic and his gullibility, but also important themes of the novel such as metamorphosis from man into beast. A substantial part of the first book concentrates on the tale about a certain Socrates and his unhappy experiences with murderous Thessalian witches. Aris & Phillips Classical Texts 9781908343802, $100, HB, 320p, 2013, Aris & Phillips Special Offer Price $80 9781908343819, $39.99, PB Special Offer Price $32 EURIPIDES: CYCLOPS AND MAJOR FRAGMENTS OF GREEK SATYRIC DRAMA
Edited by Patrick O'Sullivan & Chris Collard Satyric is the most thinly attested genre of Greek drama, but it appears to have been the oldest and according to Aristotle formative for tragedy. By the 5th Century BC at Athens it shared most of its compositional elements with tragedy, to which it became an adjunct; for at the annual great dramatic festivals, it was performed only together with, and after, the three tragedies which each poet was required to present in competition. This volume provides English readers for the first time with all the most important texts of satyric drama, with facing-page translation, substantial introduction and detailed commentary. Aris & Phillips Classical Texts 9781908343352, $85, HB, 528p, 2013, English/Greek text, Aris & Phillips Special Offer Price $68 9781908343772, $38, PB Special Offer Price $30.40
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Aeschylus starts his tetralogy boldly, making the Danaids themselves prologue, chorus and protagonist. Guided by their father Danaus, these girls have fled from Egypt, where their cousins want to marry them, to seek asylum in Argos: they claim descent from Io, who was driven to Egypt five generations earlier when Zeus’ love for her was detected by jealous Hera. In the long first movement of the play the Danaids argue their claim, pressing it with song and dance of pathos and power, upon the reluctant Argive king. A remarkable tussle of two choruses ensues; in the nick of time the king arrives, sees off the Egyptians (but they promise a return) and offers his hospitality. Aris & Phillips Classical Texts 9781908343789, $85, HB, 374p, 2013, Aris & Phillips Special Offer Price $68 9781908343345, $34, PB Special Offer Price $27.20 EURIPIDES: ELECTRA
By M. J. Cropp King Agamemnon is long dead and his killers rule at Argos. Orestes returns from exile to avenge his father by killing his mother Clytemnestra and her seducer Aegisthus. His vengeance will release his sister Electra from oppression and restore Orestes to his home and kingdom. This is the only episode from Greek legend treated in surviving plays by all three of the great Athenian tragedians of the fifth century B.C. — Aeschylus in his Libationbearers (part of the Oresteia trilogy), Sophocles and Euripides each in plays named Electra. The three plays provide a unique record of development and divergence in the content and style of Athenian tragic drama. Aris & Phillips Classical Texts, 2nd edition 9781908343697, $34, PB, 256p, 2013, Greek, Ancient (to 1453) text, Aris & Phillips Special Offer Price $27.20 GREEK DRAMA IV: TEXTS, CONTEXTS, PERFORMANCE
Edited by David Rosenbloom & John Davidson Greek Drama IV: Texts, Context, Performance contains fourteen papers that comprise a snapshot of current work on Greek drama. How do notions of performance and performance context influence interpretation of individual plays? How do we reconstruct fragmentary plays and understand the experience of watching plays in succession? To what extent does genre shape dramatic performance and its reception? Is tragedy an art form that interrogates the basic structures of experience that audiences take for granted outside the theatre? These are questions the contributions collected in Greek Drama IV seek to answer. 9780856688706, $96, HB, 328p, 2 b/w illus, 2012, Aris & Phillips Special Offer Price $76.80 AUGUSTINE: DE CIVITATE DEI VIII AND IX
By P. G. Walsh This edition of St Augustine's City of God is the only one in English to provide a text and translation as well as a detailed commentary of this most influential document in the history of western Christianity. In these books, written in the aftermath of the sack of Rome in AD 410 by the Goths, Augustine replies to the pagans, who attributed the fall of Rome to the Christian religion and its prohibition of the worship of the pagan gods. Aris & Phillips Classical Texts 9780856688546, $85, HB, 2013, Aris & Phillips Special Offer Price $68 9780856688539, $38, PB Special Offer Price $30.40 TERENCE: PHORMIO
Edited by Robert Maltby Terence's Phormio, based on a Greek original by Apollodorus of Carystus, was produced towards the end of his short dramatic career in 161 BC. With its lively action, based on the traditional elements of love, deception and mistaken identity, the play provides an ideal introduction to the genre of New Comedy. What makes the Phormio unique amongst Terence's works is the central importance of the witty and scheming parasite who gives his name to the play and directs and controls its action throughout, even when absent from the stage. Aris & Phillips Classical Texts 9780856686061, $85, HB, 160p, 2012, Aris & Phillips Special Offer Price $68 9780856686078, $34, PB Special Offer Price $27.20
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Featured are three of Casemate Academic’s distribution partners, Akanthina, Barkhuis, and Cambridge Philological Society. Also featured are titles from Aris & Phillips. View more from these great publishers by visiting our website. SOPHOCLES: SELECTED FRAGMENTARY PLAYS,
THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE
MENANDER
VOLUME 2
REAL AND THE IDEAL IN THE
eleven plays
By Alan H. Sommerstein & Thomas H. Talboy
ANCIENT NOVEL
Edited by Colin Austin
Following the volume of six fragmentary Sophoclean tragedies published in this series in 2006, Alan Sommerstein and Thomas Talboy now present seven more. Three of these dramatise successive phases of the story of how a jealous and treacherous Odysseus brought about the judicial murder of the culture-hero Palamedes and of the terrible revenge taken by Palamedes' father Nauplius. Aris & Phillips Classical Texts 9780856688874, $85, HB, 320p, 2011, Aris & Phillips Special Offer Price $68 9780856688928, $38, PB Special Offer Price $30.40
Edited by Michael Paschalis & Stelios Panayotakis
EURIPIDES: MEDEA
By Judith Mossman Jason, in exile in Corinth, is marrying the king's daughter. It looks as though his problems are over, though it's hard on Medea, who has betrayed her family for him, followed him all the way from Colchis, killed for him, and borne him two sons. Euripides' Medea is a compelling study of love turned to hatred and a rejected woman's burning desire for revenge. Aris & Phillips Classical Texts 9780856687839, $85, HB, 392p, 2011, Aris & Phillips Special Offer Price $68 9780856687884, $38, PB Special Offer Price $30.40 XENOPHON greece, persia, and beyond
By Bogdan Burliga The importance of Xenophon as a historical source for the history of Greece in the classical period has long been recognized as an established fact. Many scholars also rightly judge him to be a priceless source of information about the Achemenid Empire and the nature of its relations with the Greeks. Given the amazing variety, and the value, of his literary output, his importance in the history of Greek literature has also started to be appreciated, albeit quite recently. Monograph Series Akanthina 5 9788375311037, $30, PB, 191p, 2011, Akanthina Special Offer Price $24 THE ANCIENT NOVEL AND EARLY CHRISTIAN AND JEWISH NARRATIVE: FICTIONAL
This volume comprises thirteen of the papers delivered at RICAN 5, which was held in Rethymnon, Crete, on May 25-26, 2009. The theme of the volume allows the contributors the freedom to use their skills to examine the real and the ideal either individually or in conjunction or in interaction. Ancient Narrative Supplementum 17 9789491431258, $116, HB, 312p, full col illus, 2013, Barkhuis Special Offer Price $92.80 9789491431531, $69.60, pdf Special Offer Price $55.68 ALEXANDER ROMANCE IN PERSIA AND THE EAST
Edited by Richard Stoneman, Kyle Erickson & Ian Richard Netton Alexander the Great of Macedon was no stranger to controversy in his own time. Conqueror of the Greek states, of Egypt and of the Persian Empire as well as many of the principalities of the Indus Valley, he nevertheless became revered as well as vilified Ancient Narrative Supplementum 15 9789491431043, $130, HB, 416p, 2012, Barkhuis Special Offer Price $104 9789491431517, $78, pdf Special Offer Price $62.40 ECHOING NARRATIVES studies of intertextuality in greek and roman prose fiction
Edited by Konstantin Doulamis Intertextuality has been recognized as an important feature of ancient prose fiction and yet it has only received sporadic attention in modern scholarship, despite the recent explosion of interest in the ancient novels. This volume draws attention to the presence in ancient Greek and Roman narratives of earlier literary echoes. Ancient Narrative Supplementum 13
Colin Austin, was one of the world’s foremost experts in the reconstruction and interpretation of Greek comedy. When he died in 2010, he was working towards a new edition of Menander for the series Oxford Classical Texts, for which he had completed only the shorter pieces: Dis Exapaton, Encheiridion, Georgos, Heros, Karchedonios, Kitharistes, Koneiazomenai, Leukadia, Perinthia, Phasma and Theophoroumene. The present volume contains the papyri and book fragments of these eleven plays, edited by Colin Austin. Cambridge Classical Journal Supplement 37 9780956838124, $70, PB, 84p, 2013, English/Greek/Latin text, Cambridge Philological Society Special Offer Price $56 RATIO ET RES IPSA classical essays presented by former pupils to james diggle on his retirement
By S. P. Oakley, R. J. E. Thompson & Paul Millett Since 1966, when James Diggle was elected to his Fellowship at Queen's College, Cambridge, his teaching and scholarly example have inspired many of his pupils to embark on their own academic careers. In this volume fourteen former pupils have contributed essays to mark his retirement. The contributions cover many of the diverse disciplines of Classics. Cambridge Classical Journal Supplement 36 9780956838117, $90, HB, 296p, 2011, Cambridge Philological Society Special Offer Price $72 UNCLASSICAL TRADITIONS. VOL. II perspectives from east and west in
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late antiquity
Edited by Christopher Kelly, Richard Flower & Michael Stuart Williams
SOPHOCLES’ JEBB
INTERSECTIONS
Edited by Marília P. Futre Pinheiro, Judith Perkins & Richard Pervo
a life in letters
Edited by Chris Stray
This innovative collection explores the vital role played by fictional narratives in Christian and Jewish self-fashioning in the early Roman imperial period. Employing a diversity of approaches, including cultural studies, feminist, philological, and narratological, expert scholars from six countries offer twelve essays on Christian fictions or fictionalized texts and one essay on Aseneth. Ancient Narrative Supplementum 16
Sir Richard Jebb was the most celebrated classical scholar in late Victorian Britain: his edition of Sophocles, which remains a classic, brought him a knighthood. Professor of Greek at Cambridge from 1889, and MP for the University from 1891 until his death, Jebb became a national spokesman for the humanities. He charts his career through 275 newly discovered letters. Cambridge Classical Journal Supplement 38
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This is the second of two collections of essays by leading scholars discussing the nature and extent of the lateantique engagement with the classical past. Rather than concentrating on developments at the center of empire the aim here is to present a set of views from the margins: social, political, religious, literary, geographical and linguistic. The eight papers here seek to establish the persistent importance of the classical tradition throughout a broadly defined late antiquity. Cambridge Classical Journal Supplement 35 9780956838100, $90, HB, 160p, 2011, Cambridge Philological Society Special Offer Price $72
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The Classical Press of Wales, an independent venture, was founded in 1993 - initially to support the work of classicists and ancient historians in Wales, and their collaborators from further afield. It now publishes work initiated by scholars internationally, and welcomes contributions from all parts of the world. HINDSIGHT IN GREEK AND
TRAGEDY AND ARCHAIC
SPORT AND FESTIVAL
ROMAN HISTORY
GREEK THOUGHT
IN THE ANCIENT
Edited by Anton Powell
Edited by D. L. Cairns
One of the most fertile and fastdeveloping themes of recent historiography is treated by the 10 papers in this volume. The history of the ancient world has traditionally been studied with a view to tracing the origins of those grand developments which eventually occurred. The writing of history is often simplified so as to read almost teleologically. Further, even real and quite grand events are likely to be neglected if they do not seem to have led to larger developments still. 9781905125586, $100, HB, 300p, 2013, Classical Press of Wales Special Offer Price $80 VIRGIL THE PARTISAN
Eight leading contemporary interpreters of Classical Greek tragedy here explore its relation to the thought of the Archaic Period. Topics include the nature and possibility of divine justice; the influence of the gods on humans; fate and human responsibility; the instability of fortune and the principle of alternation; hybris and ate; and the inheritance of guilt and suffering. Other themes are tragedy’s relation with Pre-Socratic philosophy, and the interplay between ‘Archaic’ features of the genre and fifth-century ethical and political thought. 9781905125579, $100, HB, 320p, 2013, Classical Press of Wales Special Offer Price $80
a study in the re-integration
MAGNUS PIUS
of classics
sextus pompeius and the
By Anton Powell
transformation of the
This book has changed the landscape of Virgilian studies. Analyzing closely the logic and the literary genres of Virgil's three poems, it politely confronts the modern orthodoxy that Virgil signalled distaste for the methods of his ruler, Octavian-Augustus. It refreshes the study of Virgil's poetry by comparing it with the detail of Rome's civil wars after Julius Caesar's death. 9781905125548, $56, PB, 310p, b/w illus, 2013, Classical Press of Wales Special Offer Price $44.80 9781905125937, $33.50, ePub Special Offer Price $26.80 GREEK AND ROMAN
roman republic
By Kathryn Welch Sextus Pompeius Magnus Pius, son of Pompey the Great, fits uneasily into narratives of Rome’s civil war of 49-31BC.’ His military success punctures the myth of continuous Caesarian victory. Welch places Sextus Pompeius at the center of Rome’s transition from Republic to Empire and so reveals an ideological landscape very different from 20th-century representations. 9781905125449, $100, HB, 350p, b/w illus, 2012, Classical Press of Wales Special Offer Price $80
CONSOLATIONS
EMPEROR AND AUTHOR
eight studies of a tradition
the writings of julian
and its afterlife
'the apostate'
Edited by H. Baltussen
Edited by Nicholas J. Baker-Brian & Shaun Tougher
In the Ancient World death came – on average - at a far earlier age than in today’s West, and without the authoritative warnings given by modern medicine. Consolation for the trauma of loss had, accordingly, a more prominent role to play. This volume presents eight studies on consolatory writings from ancient Greek, Roman, early Christian and Arabic societies.
This volume offers the first comprehensive analysis in English of all the writings of Julian (r. AD 361-363), the last pagan emperor of Rome, noted for his frontal and self-conscious challenge to Christianity. The book also contains treatments of Julian's laws, inscriptions, coinage, as well as his artistic program.
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SPARTA'S GERMAN CHILDREN
SOCIABLE MAN
the ideal of ancient sparta
essays on ancient greek
in the royal prussian cadet-
social behaviour in
corps, 1818-1920, and in
honour of nick fisher
national-socialist elite
Edited by S. D. Lambert
schools (the napolas), 1933-45
From the eighteenth century until 1945, German children were taught to model themselves on the young of an Ancient Greek city-state: Sparta. Helen Roche collects and analyzes official and published German evocations of Sparta and reconstructs the experiences of German children taught to be `little Spartans.’
Sociable Man, which celebrates the work of Nick Fisher, Emeritus Professor of Ancient History at Cardiff University, contains essays by leading classicists, ancient historians and archaeologists on the theme of ancient Greek social behaviour. Fifteen original papers reflect the diversity and the unities in the honorand's interests. The book also includes tributes by Paul Cartledge and P. J. Shaw, respectively.
9781905125555, $90, HB, 320p, b/w illus, 2013, Classical Press of Wales Special Offer Price $72
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By Helen Roche
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GREEK WORLD
By David Phillips & David Pritchard First launched at the time of the Athens Olympics, this title has become a classic study in its field. The 15 illustrated chapters of this collection not only explore many aspects of the ancient Olympics and the rich program of competitive festivals in democratic Athens but also the broader religious, social and political contexts in which sport and festival flourished in ancient Greece. The book shows how the values of sport pervaded Greek society and helped to create fundamental practices of ancient Greek democracy. 9781905125524, $56, PB, 416p, b/w illus, 2011, Classical Press of Wales Special Offer Price $44.80 VELLEIUS PATERCULUS making history
Edited by Eleanor Cowan Velleius Paterculus' short work is the earliest surviving attempt on the part of a post-Augustan historian to survey the history of the res publica from its origins to his own times. In a period from which no other contemporary historical narrative survives in more than meagre fragments, Velleius' work is uniquely important. It is a critical counter to the later accounts of Tacitus, Suetonius and Cassius Dio, not simply because it offers a different view of Tiberius, but because Velleius saw continuity where later authors saw only radical change which destroyed the Republic and put monarchy in its place. For other reasons, too, Velleius occupies a unique position in Roman historiography. This collection of papers, by a distinguished cast of scholars, represents a wide-ranging reexamination of Velleius' work, of its place within, and contribution to, Roman historiography and the intellectual history of the early Principate. 9781905125456, $100, HB, 308p, 2011, Classical Press of Wales Special Offer Price $80 PLUTARCH AND HISTORY
eighteen studies By Christopher Pelling Much of ancient history can only be written thanks to evidence supplied by Plutarch. His historical methods and qualities were for long subjected to little systematic analysis. However, in recent decades an authoritative and profoundly influential set of studies has appeared in the field, the work of Christopher Pelling. This book contains eighteen of Pelling's most important papers, revised by the author. Together, they form an essential work of reference for serious students of Greece and Rome. 9781905125531, $66, PB, 493p, 2011, Classical Press of Wales Special Offer Price $52.80 9781905125814, ePub, $39.50 Special Offer Price $31.60
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Franz Steiner Verlag has its company headquarters in Stuttgart, Vienna, Berlin, Hamburg and Wroclaw. With a total of approximately 270 employees, it is one of the twenty leading specialist printers in the German language area. Its range of products includes some 100 journals, more than 8,000 books, as well as numerous online services, ebooks and apps. EMBRACING THE IMMIGRANT
DIE AUSSENBEZIEHUNGEN
SOLON: DAS GESETZESWERK
the participation of metics
PONTISCHER UND
– FRAGMENTE
in athenian polis religion
KLEINASIATISCHER STÄDTE
übersetzung und kommentar
(5th–4th century bc)
IN HELLENISTISCHER UND
By Eberhard Ruschenbusch (†) & Klaus Bringmann
By Sara M. Wijma
RÖMISCHER ZEIT
What does it mean to belong to a community? How is membership conceptualised and in what way is the position of newcomers negotiated and the community’s cohesion secured? Although no clear definition of citizenship survives from classical Athens, many sources include the statement that belonging to the polis consisted of participation in public life, often specified as sharing in the ritual obligations of the Athenians. This book explores this notion of the polis as a cultic and participatory community. Historia - Einzelschrift 223 9783515106429, $85, HB, 197p, 2014, NYP, Franz Steiner Verlag Pre-Publication Price $68
rumänischen tagung in constanta, 20.-24. september 2010
Edited by Victor Cojocaru & Christof Schuler The case studies in this volume combine political aspects and less noticeable forms of external contact to create a comprehensive view of external relations in Antiquity and to show that the Black Sea area was an integral part of the Greek World with particularly close ties to Asia Minor.
This is a translation of the 93 fragments of Solon’s laws which Eberhard Ruschenbusch first published in the original Greek in 1966. It also contains a commentary of the social and legal context of these laws together with other legal texts from the Athenian archaic period. Historia - Einzelschrift 215, 2nd edition 9783515107839, $74, PB, 168p, 2014, NYP, German text, Franz Steiner Verlag Pre-Publication Price $59.20 CURA ET TUTELA le origini del potere imperiale
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sulle province proconsolari
By Alberto Dalla Rosa
DER RÖMISCHE KAISERHOF
CICERO ein biographischer versuch
By Matthias Gelzer & Werner Riess This is the second edition of Matthias Gelzer’s biography of Cicero first published in 1969. It contains an introduction which situates Gelzer’s work within the context of the field and provides a bibliography of works cited by Gelzer along with a supplemental bibliography and chronology. 2nd edition 9783515099035, $63, PB, 434p, 2014, NYP, German text, Franz Steiner Verlag Pre-Publication Price $50.40 STAATLICHKEIT IN ROM?
diskurse und praxis (in) der römischen republik Edited by Christoph Lundgreen Through answering the question ‘was the Roman Republic a state?’ the authors of this volume offer an overview of the development of the Roman Republic. Staatsdiskurse 28 9783515107105, $84, PB, 276p, 8 b/w illus, 2014, NYP, German text, Franz Steiner Verlag Pre-Publication Price $67.20 THE HIGH COMMAND IN THE ROMAN REPUBLIC the principle of the summum imperium auspiciumque from
509 to 19 bce By Frederik J. Vervaet While the terminology has long been noted, the republican principle of the summum imperium auspiciumque, the high command and the prevailing auspices, has never been subject to comprehensive scrutiny. This enquiry identifies this principle as a coherent concept in Roman constitutional and administrative practice. A number of case studies yield striking new insights into the constitutional ramifications for the allocation of public triumphs, the position of the consuls in the provinces, and the official hierarchy in combined commands. Historia - Einzelschrift 232 9783515106306, $111, HB, 369p, 2014, NYP, Franz Steiner Verlag Pre-Publication Price $88.80
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Historia - Einzelschrift 227
IN SEVERISCHER ZEIT
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(193–235 N. CHR.) By Björn Schöpe Septimius Severus, Caracalla and Elagabal are all notorious members of the Severan family who ruled to Roman Empire around 200 AD and historical research has long discussed whether the Severans contributed to the descent into crisis of the Empire. This book focuses on their relationship with the imperial court to answer this question. Historia - Einzelschrift 231 9783515106955, $116, HB, 401p, 2014, NYP, German text, Franz Steiner Verlag Pre-Publication Price $92.80 EMBASSIES – NEGOTIATIONS
DIE WIRTSCHAFT SPARTAS
By Lukas Thommen This book discusses the economics of Sparta and the development of the Spartan economy from Archaic to Roman ties. It shows that Sparta had a state-organized financial budget. 9783515106757, $63, HB, 192p, 2014, NYP, German text, Franz Steiner Verlag Pre-Publication Price $50.40
– GIFTS
BONA DEA AND THE CULTS
systems of east roman
OF ROMAN WOMEN
diplomacy in late antiquity
By Attilio Mastrocinque
By Ekaterina Nechaeva This book offers an original approach to late Roman/early Byzantine diplomacy as a system. Assessing both official and clandestine perspectives, Ekaterina Nechaeva examines the working mechanisms of this diplomatic machine and reveals the 'block' organization of embassies as a basic feature of international communication. Geographica Historica 30 9783515106320, $87, PB, 306p, 2014, NYP, Franz Steiner Verlag Pre-Publication Price $69.60
Bona Dea was a very important goddess of female initiations in Rome, and several features of hers were shared by similar goddesses in ancient Italy. This book sheds light on two unexplored features: the Dionysiac character and the Lydian style of her festivals. Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge 49 9783515107525, $84, PB, 209p, 16 b/w illus, 2014, Franz Steiner Verlag Special Offer Price $67.20 ROM – DIE ANTIKE SEEREPUBLIK
OVID IN ANTIKE UND
untersuchungen zur
MITTELALTER
thalassokratie der res
geschichte der
publica populi romani
anfängen bis zur
philologischen rezeption
von den
By Pierluigi Leone Gatti
begründung des principat
Pierluigi Leone Gatti discusses the history of the philological reception of Ovid’s work. Using exegetical material he traces the place of Ovid and his work from Antiquity through to the Middle Ages focusing particularly on the commentary on the Metamorphoses and the Ibis. Hermes - Einzelschrift 106 9783515103756, $87, PB, 276p, 9 b/w illus & 15 pls, 2014, NYP, German text, Franz Steiner Verlag Pre-Publication Price $69.60
By Marco Ladewig The author traces the genesis of Roman naval supremacy here. He considers Roman cults, the architecture, and the domestic and economic policies concerning the sea or, “mare nostrum”. Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge 48 9783515107303, $103, PB, 373p, 17 b/w illus, 2014, German text, Franz Steiner Verlag Special Offer Price $82.40
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Franz Steiner Verlag has its company headquarters in Stuttgart, Vienna, Berlin, Hamburg and Wroclaw. With a total of approximately 270 employees, it is one of the twenty leading specialist printers in the German language area. Its range of products includes some 100 journals, more than 8,000 books, as well as numerous online services, ebooks and apps. GRIECHISCHE PROFANHIS-
HELLENISM IN THE EAST
TORIKER DES FÜNFTEN
studies on greek
AND THEIR SANCTUARIES
NACHCHRISTLICHEN
intellectuals in palestine
identity and integration
JAHRHUNDERTS
By Joseph Geiger
Edited by Peter Funke & Matthias Haake
Edited by Bruno Bleckmann & Timo Stickler The fifth century CE was a period of accelerated change in the Mediterranean world. Knowledge of this period is based on fragmentary sources and this volume reexamines the source material of late ancient historians including Eunapius of Sardis, Olympiodorus of Thebes, Priscus of Panion, Malchus of Philadelpheia, Kandidos and Hydatius of Aquae Flaviae. Historia - Einzelschrift 228 9783515106412, $90, HB, 228p, 2014, German text, Franz Steiner Verlag Special Offer Price $72 TRA LA VIGNA E LA CROCE dioniso nei discorsi letterari e figurativi cristiani
(ii–iv secolo) By Francesco Massa The analysis of the role of Dionysus in the process of forming an Christian identity during the imperial ages (2nd–4th century) is at the center of this study. Its main purpose is that of understanding the part that Dionysian traditions played in the encounter of Christianity and the religions of the Greek and Roman worlds. Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge 47 9783515106313, $100, PB, 325p, 23 b/w illus, 2014, Italian text, Franz Steiner Verlag Special Offer Price $80 DIE HERRSCHAFT DES CARUS, CARINUS UND NUMERIANUS ALS VORLÄUFER DER TETRARCHIE
By Klaus Altmayer Diocletian’s time as Roman Emperor is widely considered a turning point in Roman History and the beginning of Late Antiquity because the Diocletian reforms fundamentally changed the Roman Empire. The author here examines epigraphic, papyrological and numismatic sources to show that a number of Diocletian’s innovations were pioneering. Historia - Einzelschrift 230 9783515106214, $132, HB, 506p, 28 b/w illus, 2014, German text, Franz Steiner Verlag Special Offer Price $105.60 MEMORY AND RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE IN THE GRECO-ROMAN WORLD
Edited by Nicola Cusumano, Valentino Gasparini, Attilio Mastrocinque & Jorg Rupke The concepts of memory and experience have stimulated interest in a wide range of recent cultural studies. Contributions address the individual processes of memorialization and remembrance. They analye the collective evocation of memories and their shaping of individual memory. Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge 45 9783515104258, $85, PB, 223p, 24 b/w photos & figs, 2013,Franz Steiner Verlag Special Offer Price $68
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While Jewish Palestine has been at the focus of scholarly interest, Greek Palestine has not yet received similar attention. This book attempts to investigate the intellectual life in that country in the Hellenistic world and in the Roman Empire. The two perspectives taken are a full prosopographical survey of Greek intellectuals in ancient Palestine and an in-depth study of the Greek intellectuals in one particular city, Ascalon. A survey of the penetration of Latin among the educated Greek-speaking inhabitants of the country concludes the book. Historia - Einzelschrift 229 9783515106177, $79, HB, 177p, 2013, Franz Steiner Verlag Special Offer Price $63.20 UNVEILING EMOTIONS II emotions in greece and rome: texts, images, material culture
Edited by Angelos Chaniotis & Pierre Ducrey The study of emotions has emerged as one of the most dynamic topics of research in Ancient History, Classics, and Archaeology. Studying a variety of sources (historiography, Greek and Latin poetry and oratory, the New Testament, inscriptions, medical authors, Greek vase-painting and sculpture, skeletal remains) and using different methodological approaches, the authors of this volume address a selection of questions related with the study of emotions in Greek and Roman culture. Heidelberger Althistorische Beiträge und Epigraphische Studien 55 9783515106375, $100, PB, 387p, 33 b/w ilus, 2013, Franz Steiner Verlag Special Offer Price $80 DIVINATION IN THE ANCIENT WORLD
GREEK FEDERAL STATES
In ancient Greece, religion and politics were inextricably linked. This symbiosis manifests itself particularly clearly in Greek sanctuaries as locations of both cult practices and political activities. A colloquium held at Münster aimed at analysing the formative function of trans-regional sanctuaries in mainland Greece and on the Greek islands in the genesis and legitimisation of political order in Greek tribal alliances and federal states from the Archaic down to the Hellenistic period. 9783515103077, $84, HB, 244p, 6 b/w illus, 2013, Franz Steiner Verlag Special Offer Price $67.20 RUTHENIA CLASSICA AETATIS NOVAE a collection of works by russian scholars in ancient greek and roman history
Edited by Andreas Mehl, Alexander V. Makhlayuk & Oleg Gabelko The book presents research mostly done by younger Russian scholars of ancient history to a readership that does not speak and read the Russian language. The articles cover a wide range of time and topics: Greek history from the archaic far into the Hellenistic period and Roman history from the republic to the empire – politics, finance, ideology, constitution, society with prosopography, and population. By sketching the peculiarities of research in antiquity in pre-revolutionary and socialist Russia and the conditions under which post-socialist classicists and historians work, an introductory article helps readers to understand the achievement of today's Russian studies in antiquity. 9783515103442, $74, PB, 235p, 3 illus, 2013, Franz Steiner Verlag Special Offer Price $59.20 REINSTATING THE
religious options and
HOPLITE
the individual
arms, armour and phalanx
Edited by Veit Rosenberger
fighting in archaic and
The search for knowledge of the future and for divine help is found in all ancient Mediterranean cultures. The key question of this book is: What are the interdependences between divination and processes of individualization or deindividualization in the ancient world? Individualization is understood as a process of change on the societal level. In contrast, individuation is a development on the personal level. Discussions about the definition of these terms are continuing. Divination may always have some effects on processes of individuation and individualization.This book covers aspects from archaic Greece to the High Empire and not all articles argue along the same lines. Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge 46 9783515106290, $77, PB, 177p, 11 b/w ilus, 2013, Franz Steiner Verlag Special Offer Price $61.60
classical greece
By Adam Schwartz Recent research into the military history of ancient Greece has questioned the central rôle traditionally ascribed to the famous hoplite phalanx by historians and suggested that even as late as the Persian Wars of 480479 BC, Greek battles consisted essentially of open fighting and duels between individual combatants, in an almost Homeric fashion. In this meticulous study, Adam Schwartz in turn questions the new orthodoxy. Departing from a detailed scrutiny of hoplite equipment and its physical characteristics, the author demonstrates that this equipment must in fact have been developed specifically to meet the needs of warriors fighting in phalanx formations. 9783515103985, $103, PB, 337p, b/w illus, 2013, Franz Steiner Verlag Special Offer Price $82.40
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Franz Steiner Verlag has its company headquarters in Stuttgart, Vienna, Berlin, Hamburg and Wroclaw. With a total of approximately 270 employees, it is one of the twenty leading specialist printers in the German language area. Its range of products includes some 100 journals, more than 8,000 books, as well as numerous online services, ebooks and apps. THE INSCRIPTIONS OF
THE FABII AND THE GAULS
RITUAL DYNAMICS IN THE
DODONA AND A NEW
studies in historical
ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN
HISTORY OF MOLOSSIA
thought and
agency, emotion, gender,
By Elizabeth A. Meyer
historiography in
representation
republican rome
Edited by Angelos Chaniotis
Molossia is perhaps most famous as the kingdom of the third-century warlord Pyrrhus. The Inscriptions of Dodona and A New History of Molossia re-examines the nonoracular stone and bronze inscriptions, re-dating some of the most important to the third century BC rather than the fourth. This re-dating in turn forms the basis of the new history presented here. Heidelberger Althistorische Beiträge und Epigraphische Studien 54 9783515103114, $63, PB, 201p, 15 b/w photos, 29 illus & 6 plans, 2013, Franz Steiner Verlag Special Offer Price $50.40 ARISTOTLE'S DE CAELO III introduction, translation and commentary
By Theokritos Kouremenos This is the first commentary on Aristotle's de Caelo III to appear in recent decades. de Caelo III can serve as a good introduction to Aristotle's physics and its character. In it he answers some general questions about the elements of all material things except celestial objects: how many these elements are, why they cannot be infinitely many but must be more than one, whether they are eternal or can be generated and decay, and, if the second, how. Palingenesia. Schriftenreihe für Klassische Altertumswissenschaft 100 9783515103367, $56, HB, 121p, 2013, Franz Steiner Verlag Special Offer Price $44.80 IMPERIAL CULT AND IMPERIAL REPRESENTATION IN ROMAN CYPRUS
By Takashi Fujii Cyprus, the third largest island in the Mediterranean, came under Roman domination during the late Republican Civil War. This book investigates communication between this “quiescent” province and the Roman emperor through the exploration of fascinating epigraphic evidence concerning the imperial cult and imperial representation on the island. Heidelberger Althistorische Beiträge und Epigraphische Studien 53 9783515102575, $71, PB, 248p, 2013, Franz Steiner Verlag Special Offer Price $56.80 UNVEILING EMOTIONS sources and methods for the study of emotions in the greek world
Edited by Angelos Chaniotis This volume presents the first results of research conducted on 'The Social and Cultural Construction of Emotions: The Greek Paradigm' by a research group in Oxford funded by the European Research Council.Heidelberger Althistorische Beiträge und Epigraphische Studien (HABES) 52 9783515102261, $111, PB, 490p, 25 b/w illus, 2013, Franz Steiner Verlag Special Offer Price $88.80
By James H. Richardson This book explores how Roman ideas about human behaviour and historiography affected the ways in which the Romans wrote about their past. The first of the book's three chapters considers Roman views concerning human behaviour and the impact that these had on the traditions of Rome's past. The second looks at the presentation of the gens Fabia in the literary evidence and at the ways individual Fabii were said to have behaved. The final chapter examines the evidence for the Gallic sack of Rome and considers the influence that Greek historical traditions had on Rome's own traditions. Historia - Einzelschriften 222 9783515100403, $84, HB, 186p, 2012, Franz Steiner Verlag Special Offer Price $67.20
This volume assembles the approaches to rituals in several cultures of the Ancient Mediterranean (Egyptian, Punic, Greek, Italian, Roman) from the second millennium BCE to Late Antiquity. 'Ritual dynamics' is the common theme of the fourteen chapters. Rituals are understood as complex socio-cultural constructs that are connected with tensions: tensions within the cult community; tensions between norm and performance, expectation and reality, traditional significance and reinterpretation, stereotype and variability. Heidelberger Althistorische Beiträge und Epigraphische Studien (HABES) 49 9783515099165, $93, PB, 390p, illus, 2011, Franz Steiner Verlag Special Offer Price $74.40 PRIESTS AND STATE IN
DEMETER, ISIS, VESTA,
THE ROMAN WORLD
AND CYBELE
Edited by James H. Richardson & Federico Santangelo
studies in greek and roman religion in honour of giulia sfameni gasparro
Edited by Attilio Mastrocinque & Concetta Giuffre Scibona Foreign cults of female divinities were often accepted among different cultures and female cults were often reshaped after new models. The transcultural nature of many goddesses and the related problems are at the core of this book, which is dedicated to a prominent scholar in this field, G. Sfameni Gasparro. Social, political and cultural factors are especially taken into account in order to explain different iconographies, names, and kinds of worship which were adopted for goddesses in different areas and times. The multifaceted nature of many female cults is focused thanks to different methodologies, according to the topics which are investigated. Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge (PAwB) 36
This collection of 24 essays, written by a group of international scholars who specialise in the religious, political and social history of ancient Rome, explores the relationship between priests and State in the Roman world. Attention is devoted to a number of interconnected problems: the nature and scope of priesthoods in the Roman world, the rules governing access to them, the role that priests played in the various levels of government, from the imperial court to the cities on the fringes of the empire, the different development of priesthoods across the empire, and more generally the relationship between religion and power. Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge (PAwB) 33 9783515098175, $132, PB, 643p, illus, 2011, Franz Steiner Verlag Special Offer Price $105.60 APOLLODORUS MECHANICUS,
9783515100755, $87, PB, 248p, illus, 2012, Franz Steiner Verlag Special Offer Price $69.60
SIEGE-MATTERS translated with intro
STABILITY AND CRISIS IN
and commentary
THE ATHENIAN DEMOCRACY
By David Whitehead
Edited by Gabriel Herman Was the Athenian democracy anarchic, given to domestic violence and hence unstable, as claimed by some scholars, or was it a stable, well-ordered, social system, provided with inbuilt mechanisms to overcome crisis? Various aspects of this question, central to the understanding of the Athenian democracy, are investigated in this volume by a team of distinguished experts. The often surprising answers they provide should be of interest to specialists as well as laymen. The volume is dedicated to the memory of the late Professor Alexander Fuks. 9783515098670, $69, HB, 165p, 2011, Franz Steiner Verlag Special Offer Price $55.20
Apollodorus of Damascus is the best-known architect of the early second century AD, the era of Trajan and Hadrian. In the civil domain, he is credited with planning and constructing prestigious projects in Rome itself, including Trajan's Forum and Baths; in the military sphere he bridged the Danube and wrote a Siegematters treatise for his patron-emperor. Addressed to Trajan rather than Hadrian, and with a view to the campaigning conditions anticipated in Dacia, the treatise therefore proffered suggestions and designs suitable for a Roman army operating in that rugged terrain and attacking its hill-top settlements. Historia - Einzelschriften 216 9783515097109, $69, HB, 162p, illus, 2011, Franz Steiner Verlag Special Offer Price $55.20
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BACCHYLIDES five epinician odes
(3, 5, 9, 11, 13)
By D. L. Cairns & J. G. Howie Among the works of the fifth-century BC lyric poet Bacchylides are epinician odes celebrating victors in the cycle of Greek Games, which were occasions of major political, cultural and religious significance in the Greek world. Fourteen of Bacchylides' epinician odes survive wholly or in part. The five included in this volume are those that have come down to us in fullest form; they are of great importance for the study of epinician poetry in particular and of early fifth-century lyric in general. In his Introductory Essays and Commentary D. L. Cairns explicates the social, ethical, cultural, and artistic features of Bacchylidean epinician within the contexts in which it is so deeply embedded. The volume will be of interest to advanced students and scholars with a good knowledge of the Greek language. It is also designed to be usable by students with little or no Greek. The commentary is keyed to the translation as well as to the Greek text, and the emphasis throughout is more on contextual and literary interpretation than on purely technical aspects of language and metre. ARCA, Classical and Medieval Texts, Papers and Monographs 49 9780905205526, $160, HB, 380p, 2010, Francis Cairns (Publications) Ltd Special Offer Price $128
By J. G. Howie J. Gordon Howie's seminal papers on Homer, Hesiod, Sappho, Pindar, Euripides, Thucydides, and Xenophon document the vitality and influence of cultural and intellectual patterns first visible in early Greek epic and lyric, and reveal the impact of those patterns on Attic drama and on the Greek historians. A focal figure in this process, and throughout Howie's papers, is Pindar, who transmitted his poetic past while transforming it in ways that made it acceptable to fifth-century Athenian culture. These papers, composed over a period of nearly thirty years, from the mid1970s on, are collected in this volume, together with one new chapter and a new appendix to chapter 9, a consolidated bibliography, and indexes. The volume will be of interest to classical scholars and teachers, and to students of the Classics. Collected Classical Papers 3 9780905205540, $160, HB, 443p, 2012, Francis Cairns (Publications) Ltd Special Offer Price $128 CULPA. FACETS OF LIABILITY IN ANCIENT LEGAL THEORY AND PRACTICE
CULT, MYTH, AND OCCASION IN PINDAR’S
proceedings of the seminar held in warsaw
VICTORY ODES
17-19 february 2011
a study of isthmian and olympian
4, pythian 5, olympian 1,
3
By Eveline Krummen & J. G. Howie In this pioneering study, first published in German as Pyrsos Hymnon. Festliche Gegenwart und mythischrituelle Tradition als Voraussetzung einer Pindarinterpretation (Isthmie 4, Pythie 5, Olympie 1 und 3) (1990), Eveline Krummen examines the related problems of the unity (or intelligibility and cohesion) and the ‘occasionality’ (the heuristic importance of the original performance situation) of Pindaric epinicia. She uses various approaches - including narratology, archaeology, and art history, as well as philology - to recover information about original performance occasions and original audience expectations, and thus to come to a clearer understanding of the structure and strategies of this sometimes baffing poetry. Throughout the book she focuses primarily on the interactions between myths and cult festivals, and on Pindar’s skill in integrating and innovating upon traditional material. An introductory chapter discusses ‘occasionality’ and surveys scholarly views of the unity of Pindaric victory odes in general. The four main chapters deal in turn with each of the Odes selected as ‘case-studies’. These all contain a passage referring to a cult festival. Krummen delineates the historical settings of the cults and their related festivals, and each chapter ends with a consideration of how the cult passage fits into the poem as a whole. ARCA Classical and medieval Texts, Papers and Monographs 52 9780905205564, $150, HB, 356p, 3 b/w sketch maps, 2014, Francis Cairns (Publications) Ltd Special Offer Price $120 PAPERS OF THE LANGFORD LATIN SEMINAR, FIFTEENTH VOLUME, 2012
Edited by Francis Cairns The fifteenth volume of PLLS (and the fifth in the Langford series) contains major papers on early Greek epic and tragedy, aspects of ekphrasis, Roman republican culture and politics, and astrology in the imperial period. ARCA, Classical and Medieval Texts, Papers and Monographs 51 9780905205557, $110, HB, 350p, 2012, Francis Cairns (Publications) Ltd Special Offer Price $88
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CREATION
papers on early greek literature
Edited by Jakub Urbanik This work presents the newest trends appearing in the field of Roman Law particularly devoted to the faultbased liability – culpa – that were addressed at the International Conference organized by the Faculty of Law and Administration of Warsaw University in February 2010. Articles written by Merola, Rampazzo and Tucillo touch the problem of culpa in the public law. The authors concentrated on the question of liability of public officers and their culpa or negligence during the performance of their duties. The social scope of culpa as the prerequisite for a censorial note has been presented by Tarwacka. Adamo addressed some important aspect of fault-related liability in criminal law dealing with the regulations of Theodosian Code. Private law side fault based-liability in contracts was presented by Benincasa and Kordasiewicz. These studies provide a wealth of information on the law of antiquity in the subject of liability based on fault, both in the aspect of private and public law. JJP Supplements XIX 9788392591979, $102, HB, 300p, NYP, 2014, English/Italian, Journal of Juristic Papyrology Pre-Publication Price $81.60 TRA LOGICA E GIURISPRUDENZA argumentum a simili nel topici di cicerone
By Agnieszka Kacprzak Cicero's Topica is a kind of compendium of arguments that functioned in ancient philosophy and rhetoric and were destined for jurists. The present book analyzes one of the patterns of argumentation described by Cicero, an argument drawn from the similarity of cases (argumentum a simili). Although this pattern was so important for the Roman legal discourse, it has hardly been discussed in modern scholarly literature so far, as it extends beyond formal logic. The study by Agnieszka Kacprzak is clearly interdisciplinary, drawing from the Roman law, theory of rethoric, philosophy, and history of logic. Therefore, its should be of interest not only for specialists in the Roman law but also for those who study antiquity in its various aspects. JJP Supplements 17 9788392591962, $70, HB, 250p, 5 graphs, 2012, Journal of Juristic Papyrology Pre-Publication Price $56
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THE FOUR BOOKS OF PSEUDO-DEMOCRITUS
Edited by Edith Hall, Fiona Macintosh & Oliver Taplin
sources of alchemy and chemistry: sir
The extensive performance history of Euripides' Medea since the Renaissance underscores its lasting social and political relevance. Here, papers drawn from an interdisciplinary colloquium hosted at Somerville College by the University of Oxford's Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama in August 1998 are augmented by additional essays from specialists. The contributors to this important volume include Ian Christie, David Gowne, Edith Hall, Fiona Macintosh, Platon Mavromoustakos, Marianne McDonald, Diane Purkiss, Margaret Reynolds, Mae Smethurst, Eva Stehlikovà, Oliver Taplin, and Olga Taxidou. Legenda Main Series
robert mond studies in the history of early
9781900755351, $65, PB, 304p, 2013, Legenda Special Offer Price $52 READING GAMES IN THE GREEK NOVEL
By Eleni Papargyriou How is play constituent in the formation of the Greek modernist novel? Reflecting competition with European and North American models as well as internal antagonism with more established literary genres in Greece, the novel after the 1930s employed playfulness as a means to demonstrate or even perform its novelty. Innovations unexpectedly came from the Greek periphery rather than Athens, and the Greek novel swiftly exchanged a passively understood realism for communicative patterns that actively involve the reader and educate him into bringing scraps of plot into a meaningful synthesis. Featuring key Greek authors such as Yannis Skarimbas, Stratis Tsirkas and Nikos Kachtitsis, this is a comprehensive and innovative study of Greek modernist prose fiction and the first of its kind to appear in English. Eleni Papargyriou is Lecturer in Modern Greek Literature at Kings College London. Legenda Main Series 9781906540838, $89.50, HB, 200p, 2011, Legenda Special Offer Price $71.60 LITERARY SOURCES FOR ROMAN BRITAIN
By J. C. Mann A collection of literary evidence from major and minor authorities for the whole period of Roman interest in Britain. Each author is introduced and a full topical guide given. LACTORS 11 9780903625265, $20, PB, 84p, 2012, London Association of Classical Teachers Occasional Research Series Special Offer Price $16
TIBERIUS TO NERO
Edited by Melvin Cooley This volume contains 450 pages of less easily available sources on this frequently studied period of Roman history, concentrating on a greater range of material more contemporary than Tacitus, Suetonius and Dio. It will be of use to students and teachers, studying Roman history in the UK and at English speaking universities. Part one long texts, and part two is arranged by themes focused on political history and the emperors. The documents include inscriptions, 55 coins and 8 other illustrations; there are 7 family trees, 2 maps of the period and explanatory notes by leading academics. LACTORS 19
chemistry
By Matteo Martelli, Lawrence M. Principe & Jennifer M. Rampling The Four Books of pseudo-Democritus, written in the first century AD, rank among the very earliest known alchemical writings. In this volume, Matteo Martelli presents not only a fresh edition and translation of the surviving Greek fragments, but also, for the first time, additional materials preserved in Syriac. The volume also presents important examples of the medieval and early modern reception of these writings, including the dialogue of Synesius and Dioscorus – the most influential Byzantine commentary on the Four Books – and previously unpublished Latin translations of both the Four Books and Synesius’ commentary made by Matthaeus Zuber in 1606. Accompanied by a full introduction and commentary, these sources offer new and significant insights into the world of ancient chemistry: practical recipes and lists of ingredients, clues to the doctrinal content of ancient alchemy, and early hints of a tradition that linked the alchemist ‘Democritus’ to the wisdom of Egypt and Persia. Sources of Alchemy and Chemistry: Sir Robert Mond Studies in Early Chemistry 9781909662285, $48, PB, 2014, Maney Publishing Special Offer Price $38.40 THE HOMERIC GODS the spiritual significance of greek religion
By Walter Friedrich Otto In many respects, this book is considered to be the best guide ever written on Homeric religion. The analysis by W. F. Otto, while being very careful in terms of interpretation, denotes an open consonance of the author with the spirit - sometimes brutal and, for our mentality, immoral - of Greek polytheism. A thrilling and amazing journey to the Olympus. 1 9788857523996, $24.50, PB, 310p, 2014, NYP, Mimesis Edizioni Pre-Publication Price $19.60 THE ORIENTAL CULTS IN ROMAN BRITAIN
By Eve Harris & John Richard Harris What are the reasons behind the contamination of oriental cults in Roman Britain? What circumstances led to this spiritual upheaval, the results of which contributed to the triumph of Christianity? This problem, which is fundamental to the history of religions and for the identification of the origins of Western civilization, is at the center of this classic study by E. Harris and J.R. Harris. It is a work of immense value for its methodological rigour and the subtlety with which it is able to reconstruct the articulations and the organic unity of a singularly complex and elusive phenomenon. This is a new edition of the Leiden Brill 1965 publication. 1 9788857524009, $14, PB, 120p, figs, 2014, NYP, Mimesis Edizioni Pre-Publication Price $11.20
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