Classics 2021 HIGHLIGHTS COSA
2020 277pp 9780472131594 Hardback US$125.00
Supplements to the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome Cosa, a small Roman town, has been excavated since 1948. This new volume presents the surviving sculpture and furniture, and examines their nature and uses. These artefacts provide an insight into not just life in a small Roman town but also its embellishment mainly from the late Republic and through the early Empire to the time of Hadrian. University of Michigan Press
WHAT ARE THE GOSPELS?
A GUIDE TO SCENES OF DAILY LIFE ON ATHENIAN VASES
The Sculpture and Furnishings in Stone and Marble Jacquelyn Collins-Clinton
A Comparison with Graeco-Roman Biography, 25th Anniversary Edition Richard A. Burridge
John H. Oakley
2020 272pp, 33 colour, 215 b&w illustrations 9780299327248 Paperback US$34.95 9780299327200 Hardback US$99.95
Wisconsin Studies in Classics The first comprehensive volume to present visual representations of everything, from pets and children's games to drunken revelry and funerary rituals. John Oakley's clear, accessible writing provides sound information with just the right amount of detail. Specialists of Greek art will welcome this book for its text and illustrations. University of Wisconsin Press
2020 524pp 9781481308755 Paperback US$44.95
The publication of Richard Burridge's What Are the Gospels? in 1992 inaugurated a transformation in Gospel studies by overturning the previous consensus about Gospel uniqueness. Burridge argued convincingly for an understanding of the Gospels as biographies, a ubiquitous genre in the Graeco-Roman world. Baylor University Press
AENEAS
ARISTOPHANES' CLOUDS
Lee T. Pearcy
A Commentary
Jul 2021 224pp 9780472054909 Paperback US$34.95
S. Douglas Olson
Third Revised Edition
Mar 2021 248pp 9780472054770 Paperback US$29.95 9780472074778 Hardback US$75.00
Richard Cutter
Michigan Classical Commentaries
A textbook that teaches ancient Greek language and grammar which includes helpful charts, vocabulary words, and example sentences and Bible verses to aid students in their learning of the Greek language.
Gives readers new translations and close readings of important passages, restoring Aeneas to the centre of Rome's most important poem. University of Michigan Press
ANCIENT LATIN POETRY BOOKS Materiality & Context Gabriel Nocchi Macedo Jun 2021 320pp 9780472132393 Hardback US$80.00
New Texts from Ancient Cultures
Presents a detailed study of the oldest manuscripts that contain texts by Latin poets, such as Virgil, Terence, and Ovid. Analysing their physical characteristics, script, and historical contexts, this volume shows how manuscripts can help us gain a better understanding of the history of texts. University of Michigan Press
The first substantial commentary on Clouds since Dover's 1968 edition. Intended for intermediate Greek students at undergraduate and graduate levels, the commentary pays careful attention to the basic characteristics of ancient Greek syntax, as well as to how Greek words are formed and can be analysed.
A BEGINNING GRAMMAR OF CLASSICAL AND HELLENISTIC GREEK 2020 179pp 9781481315098 Hardback US$49.99
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THE BEST OF THE GRAMMARIANS
ATHENS 415
Francesca Schironi
The City in Crisis Clara Shaw Hardy Translated by Robert B. Hardy 2020 210pp 9780472074464 Hardback US$70.00
Key Dates in the Ancient World
Designed for classroom use, this is a source-based presentation of ancient urban life ideal for the study of a people and their institutions and beliefs. University of Michigan Press
Aristarchus of Samothrace on the Iliad 2018 1,016pp 9780472130764 Hardback US$150.00
A founding father of the ‘art of philology’, Aristarchus of Samothrace developed a sound, almost scientific method of literary exegesis. This book offers a systematic study of the most famous grammarian in Alexandria, and places Aristarchus and his Iliadic scholia within the context and cultural environment of his own time. University of Michigan Press
BOMBING POMPEII World Heritage & Military Necessity
Commentary on Cicero De Divinatione II
Nigel Pollard 2020 336pp 9780472132201 Hardback US$54.95
Examines the circumstances under which over 160 Allied bombs hit the archaeological site of Pompeii in August and September 1943, and the wider significance of this event. University of Michigan Press
A CASEBOOK ON ROMAN WATER LAW Cynthia Jordan Bannon
2020 262pp 9780472037865 Paperback US$34.95 9780472132072 Hardback US$80.00
The Romans are famous for constructing aqueducts, canals, and dams. But their law is also a lasting, if less visible, monument to their attempts to control water. This work presents an analytical collection of Roman sources for water rights.
Andrew R. Dyck
Andrew R. Dyck
Equips students and scholars with the kinds of historical and philosophical background, and linguistic and stylistic information needed to understand Cicero's text on Roman religion and divination. michigan cl assical commentaries
This comprehensive, fully illustrated catalogue of the largest collection of Greek manuscripts in America contains a trove of fascinating information related to Byzantine culture that will be available for the first time. University of Michigan Press
A COMMENTARY ON ARISTOPHANES' KNIGHTS Carl Arne Anderson & T. Keith Dix
2020 256pp 9780472054459 Paperback US$29.95 9780472074457 Hardback US$80.00
Michigan Classical Commentaries
A thoroughly modern commentary on a key play in the theatrical genre of Old Comedy, which satirised virtually every aspect of Athenian life in a period when Athens was at the height of its power and international prestige. University of Michigan Press
DOMITIAN'S ROME AND THE AUGUSTAN LEGACY
Edited by Raymond Marks & Marcello Mogetta Sep 2021 344pp 9780472132676 Hardback US$80.00
The first book-length treatment of the reception of Augustus and his age during the reign of Domitian. Its thirteen chapters offer readers a glimpse into the fascinating history and culture of Domitian’s Rome and its multifaceted engagement with the Augustan past. University of Michigan Press
DICTATOR
The Evolution of the Roman Dictatorship
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COMMERCE WITH THE CLASSICS
Mark B. Wilson
Ancient Books & Renaissance Readers
Sep 2021 472pp 9780472132669 Hardback US$85.00
Anthony Grafton 2020 264pp 9780472034383 Paperback US$29.95
The style of reading in Renaissance Europe, as seen in the margins of books and in the texts of Renaissance intellectuals themselves, is deftly charted in this welcome volume.
Makes the first detailed and comprehensive examination of the role and evolution of the dictatorship as an integral element of the Roman Republic.
University of Michigan Press
University of Michigan Press
Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures
THE DISCOURSE OF MARRIAGE IN THE GRECO-ROMAN WORLD
CORNELIUS NEPOS A Study in the Evidence and Influence
John Alexander Lobur
A CATALOGUE OF GREEK MANUSCRIPTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, ANN ARBOR Jan 2021 356pp 9780472131891 Hardback US$99.00
2020 338pp 9780472054572 Paperback US$29.95
Michigan Classical Commentaries
University of Michigan Press
Nadezhda Kavrus-Hoffmann & Pablo Alvarez
COMMENTARY ON CICERO DE DIVINATIONE II
Edited by Jeffrey Beneker & Georgia Tsouvala
Sep 2021 328pp 9780472132744 Hardback US$80.00
Seeks to fully rehabilitate Nepos as a writer emblematic of the Italian intelligentsia by exploring the writer's ancient reception, which suggests he was in no way seen as beneath consideration by the Romans themselves. University of Michigan Press
CTESIAS' PERSICA AND ITS NEAR EASTERN CONTEXT Matt Waters
2020 184pp 9780299310943 Paperback US$21.95
2020 272pp 9780299328405 Hardback US$99.95
Wisconsin Studies in Classics
Contributes to our understanding of the era and will fascinate anyone interested in depictions of marriage and the role and status of women in the late Hellenistic and early Imperial periods. University of Wisconsin Press
The
DISCOVERY of the FACT
University of Wisconsin Press
Edited by Clifford Ando & William P. Sullivan
2020 214pp 9780472131884 Hardback US$75.00
Wisconsin Studies in Classics
The Persica is an extensive history of Assyria and Persia written by the Greek historian Ctesias, who served as a doctor to the Persian king Artaxerxes II around 400 BCE. Matt Waters offers an interdisciplinary analysis of the Persica, and shows how it was infused with two millennia of Mesopotamian and Persian motifs, legends, and traditions.
THE DISCOVERY OF THE FACT
Law and Society in the Ancient World
Draws on expertise from lawyers, historians of philosophy, and scholars of classical studies and ancient history to investigate, historically and comparatively, the relationship between the law, legal institutions, and the boundaries of knowledge in classical Greece and Rome. Clifford Ando and William P. Sullivan, EDITORS
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FOODWAYS IN ROMAN REPUBLICAN ITALY
LAUGHING ATOMS, LAUGHING MATTER
Mar 2021 366pp 9780472132300 Hardback US$85.00
T. H. M. Gellar-Goad
Laura M. Banducci
Explores the production, preparation, and consumption of food and drink in Republican Italy to illuminate the nature of cultural change during this period. University of Michigan Press
THE GODS OF THE GREEKS Erika Simon Translated by Jakob Zeyl Edited by Alan Shapiro
Lucretius' De Rerum Natura and Satire
2020 288pp 9780472131808 Hardback US$85.00
Argues that what has often been understood as an artfully persuasive exposition of Epicurean philosophy designed to convert the uninitiated is actually a mimesis of the narrator's attempt to effect such a conversion on his internal narrative audience. University of Michigan Press
THE LIFE OF COMEDY AFTER THE DEATH OF PLAUTUS AND TERENCE
Mar 2021 277pp, 312 b&w illustrations 9780299329402 Hardback US$119.95
Wisconsin Studies in Classics
This careful and fluid translation finally makes Simon’s landmark edition accessible to English-language readers. With an abundance of beautiful illustrations, the book examines portrayals of the thirteen major gods in art over the course of two millennia. University of Wisconsin Press
GRIEF AND THE HERO
The Futility of Longing in the Iliad Emily P. Austin Mar 2021 202pp 9780472132324 Hardback US$70.00
Examines Achilles' experience of the futility of grief in the context of the Iliad's study of anger. Rather than assuming that grief gives rise to anger, as most scholars have done, Grief and the Hero pays close attention to the poem's representation of the origin of these emotions.
Mathias Hanses
2020 416pp 9780472132256 Hardback US$85.00
Documents the ongoing popularity of Roman comedies, and shows that they continued to be performed in the late Republic and early Imperial periods of Rome. University of Michigan Press
LYRIC POETRY AND SOCIAL IDENTITY IN ARCHAIC GREECE Jessica M. Romney
2020 248pp 9780472131853 Hardback US$75.00
Demonstrates that sympotic lyric focuses on the same basic behaviours and values to construct social identities regardless of the content or subgenre of the poems in question. University of Michigan Press
LYSISTRATA
MAKING MONEY IN ANCIENT ATHENS Michael Leese
Oct 2021 304pp 9780472132768 Hardback US$85.00
Argues that the evidence overwhelmingly demonstrates that ancient Athenians achieved the type of long-term profit and wealth maximisation, and continuous reinvestment of profits into additional productive enterprise, that have been argued as unique to (and therefore responsible for) the modern industrial-capitalist system. University of Michigan Press
MILETOS, THE ORNAMENT OF IONIA A History of the City to 400 B.C.E. Vanessa B. Gorman 2020 320pp 9780472037773 Paperback US$39.95
A history of Miletos is long overdue. Vanessa Gorman provides the first modern history of the city, collecting and scrutinising sources from the first signs of habitation until 400 BCE. University of Michigan Press
OEDIPUS; OR, THE LEGEND OF A CONQUEROR Marie Delcourt Translated by Malcolm DeBevoise Foreword by Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge
2020 347pp 9781611863512 Paperback US$29.95
Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture
Marie Delcourt's brilliant study of the Oedipus legend, an unjustly neglected monument of twentieth-century classical scholarship published in 1944 and issued here for the first time in English translation, bridges the gap between Carl Robert's influential Oidipus and the work of Lowell Edmunds seventy years later.
University of Michigan Press
A New Verse Translation
INSULTS IN CLASSICAL ATHENS
Aristophanes Translated by David Mulroy
THE OEDIPUS CASEBOOK
2020 272pp 9780299328009 Hardback US$99.95
Jan 2021 277pp 9780299329846 Paperback US$12.95
Edited by Mark R. Anspach Translated by Wm. Blake Tyrrell
Deborah Kamen
Wisconsin Studies in Classics
Scholarly investigations of the rich field of verbal and extra verbal Athenian insults have typically been undertaken piecemeal. Deborah Kamen provides an overview of this vast terrain and synthesises the rules, content, functions, and consequences of insulting fellow Athenians. University of Wisconsin Press
Aristophanes was born c. 450 BCE. Today forty-three of his plays are known by title; eleven survive. The most famous of these is the whimsical fantasy Lysistrata. David Mulroy's exciting new translation retains the original's verse format, racy jokes, and vibrancy. University of Wisconsin Press
Michigan State University Press
Reading Sophocles' Oedipus the King
2020 473pp 9781611863390 Paperback US$29.95
Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture
Who killed Laius? Most readers assume Oedipus did. With selections from a stellar assortment of critics, this book reopens the Oedipus case and lets readers judge for themselves. Michigan State University Press
OSTRAKA AND OTHER INSCRIBED MATERIAL FROM BĪR SHAWĪSH, SMALL OASIS Excavation Seasons 2005 and 2007 Marek Dospěl 2020 230pp 9780979975875 Hardback US$85.00
American Studies in Papyrology
Published here in their archaeological context and with any relevant artefacts, the documents and inscriptions excavated recently in Egypt's Western Desert represent a valuable addition to our meagre documentation of the Bahriya Oasis in the first centuries CE. American Society of Papyrologists University of Michigan Press
QUANTIFYING MENTALITIES The Use of Numbers by Ancient Greek Historians Catherine Rubincam
As 21st century citizens, we are constantly bombarded by numbers in every aspect of our lives, and almost automatically we learn to interpret how numbers are used in our language. However, context of this kind is lacking when we read a historical narrative composed in an ancient language. Catherine Rubincam helps overcome this barrier by providing a standard against which their credibility can be more accurately judged.
Prompted by the abundant historical allusions in Athenian political and diplomatic discourse, Bernd Steinbock analyses the uses and meanings of the past in fourth-century Athens, using Thebes' role in Athenian memory as a case study.
University of Michigan Press
RESET IN STONE Sarah A. Rous
2020 272pp 9780299327040 Paperback US$21.95
Ancient Athenians were known to reuse stone artefacts, architectural blocks, and public statuary in the creation of new buildings and monuments. Sarah Rous develops the concept of upcycling to refer to this meaningful reclamation, the intentionality of reemploying each particular object for its specific new context.
By turns outlandish, humorous, and scatological, the Historia Augusta is an eccentric compilation of biographies of the Roman emperors and usurpers of the second and third centuries. David Rohrbacher offers a literary analysis of the work, focusing on its many playful allusions. University of Wisconsin Press
Jun 2021 392pp 9780299322847 Paperback US$29.95
Wisconsin Studies in Classics
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SILENCED VOICES
The Poetics of Speech in Ovid Bartolo A. Natoli Jan 2021 248pp 9780299312145 Paperback US$26.95
Wisconsin Studies in Classics
POETICS OF THE FIRST PUNIC WAR Thomas Biggs
2020 248pp 9780472132133 Hardback US$80.00
Combining theoretical approaches with advances in the philological and editorial analysis of Latin literature, this work investigates the literary afterlives of Rome’s first conflict with Carthage. University of Michigan Press
Bernd Steinbock 2020 424pp 9780472037780 Paperback US$44.95
Memory and Reuse in Ancient Athens
Wisconsin Studies in Classics
Uses and Meanings of the Past
Aug 2021 360pp 9780472132409 Hardback US$95.00
THE PLAY OF ALLUSION IN THE HISTORIA AUGUSTA David Rohrbacher
SOCIAL MEMORY IN ATHENIAN PUBLIC DISCOURSE
Offers a pointed examination of the loss of speech, exile from community, and memory throughout the literary corpus of the Roman poet Ovid. University of Wisconsin Press
SLAVERY AND SEXUALITY IN CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY
Edited by Deborah Kamen & C. W. Marshall Jun 2021 336pp 9780299331900 Hardback US$99.95
Slavery and sexuality in the ancient world are well researched on their own, yet rarely have they been examined together. This volume explores the range of roles that sex played in the lives of enslaved people in antiquity beyond prostitution.
University of Michigan Press
THE TOPOGRAPHY OF VIOLENCE IN THE GRECO-ROMAN WORLD Edited by Werner Riess & Garrett G. Fagan 2020 422pp 9780472038442 Paperback US$39.95
Contributors take on a task not yet addressed in classical scholarship: they examine how topography shaped the perception and interpretation of violence in Greek and Roman antiquity. University of Michigan Press
THE UNKNOWN ODYSSEUS
Alternate Worlds in Homer's Odyssey Thomas Van Nortwick 2020 160pp 9780472037797 PaperbackUS$24.95
A study of how Homer creates two versions of his hero: one who is the triumphant protagonist of the revenge plot and another, more subversive, anonymous figure whose various personae exemplify an entirely different set of assumptions about the world through which each hero moves. University of Michigan Press
WHILE ROME BURNED
Fire, Leadership, and Urban Disaster in the Roman Cultural Imagination Virginia M. Closs 2020 352pp 9780472131907 Hardback US$80.00
Explores the intersection of fire, city, and emperor in ancient Rome, tracing the critical role that urban conflagration played as both reality and metaphor in the politics and literature of the early imperial period. University of Michigan Press
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