JHUP books in Ancient Studies 2014-2015

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Children and Childhood in Classical Athens second edition

Voices at Work Women, Performance, and Labor in Ancient Greece Andromache Karanika

Mark Golden A thoroughly revised and updated edition of Golden’s groundbreaking study of childhood in

“Karanika offers a landmark study of female labour and Greek poetics. The book. . . offers important new insights into Greek poetry.”

ancient Greece.

Ancient Society and History 2015 256 pp., 17 halftones 978-1-4214-1686-1 $24.95 paperback

The Battle of Arginusae

—Times Higher Education

2014 320 pp., 6 b&w photos 978-1-4214-1255-9 $59.95 hardcover

Victory at Sea and Its Tragic Aftermath in the Final Years of the Peloponnesian War

Homeric Speech and the Origins of Rhetoric

Debra Hamel

Rachel Ahern Knudsen

“A captivating account of the battle of Arginusae and its fateful consequences for the Athenians

Based on a close analysis of persuasive speeches in the Iliad, Knudsen argues that

in their great struggle with Sparta. The Battle

Homeric poetry displays a systematic and

of Arginusae is a gripping read.”—Lawrence

technical concept of rhetoric and that many

A. Tritle, author of A New History of the

Iliadic speakers in fact employ the rhetorical

Peloponnesian War

techniques put forward by Aristotle.

Witness to Ancient History, Gregory S. Aldrete, Series Editor 2015 160 pp., 4 halftones, 4 line drawings, 4 maps 978-1-4214-1681-6 $19.95 paperback

Approaches to Greek Myth second edition edited by Lowell Edmunds “Well organized, edited, and arranged, this text is of unquestioned value to all teachers of mythology, to the advanced student of the classics, and to the research scholar, a welcome resource volume.”—Classical World

2014 480 pp., 2 line drawings, 3 maps, 10 plates 978-1-4214-1419-5 $29.95 paperback

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2014 248 pp., 3 line drawings 978-1-4214-1226-9 $49.95 hardcover

Pythagorean Women Their History and Writings Sarah B. Pomeroy “A delight to read. . . This look at the female followers of Pythagoras in ancient times is a very valuable addition to the literature.”—Sun News Miami

2013 200 pp., 9 halftones, 3 line drawings 978-1-4214-0956-6 $49.95 hardcover


Greece Reconstructing Ancient Linen Body Armor Unraveling the Linothorax Mystery Gregory S. Aldrete, Scott Bartell, and Alicia Aldrete “Essential for anyone interested in ancient warfare and/or experimental archaeology.” —Bryn Mawr Classical Review

2013 304 pp. 21 b&w illus., 16 line drawings, 8 color plates 978-1-4214-0819-4 $29.95 hardcover

The Birth of Comedy Texts, Documents, and Art from Athenian Comic Competitions, 486–280 edited by Jeffrey Rusten translated by Jeffrey Henderson, David Konstan, Ralph Rosen, Jeffrey Rusten, and Niall W. Slater “A unique resource for the serious study of comedy, this book is vast in scope and of incalculable value for those who do not read Greek.”—Choice

2011 816 pp., 42 halftones, 1 line drawing 978-0-8018-9448-0 $110.00 hardcover

The Poetics of Consent

Greek Mythology

Collective Decision Making and the Iliad

An Introduction

David F. Elmer

Fritz Graf

“The book is exemplary in approaching large poetic and cultural issues through details of language and patterns of formulaic usage.” —American Journal of Philology

2012 336 pp. 978-1-4214-0826-2

$55.00 hardcover

translated by Thomas Marier “The best general introduction to Greek mythology in English.”—Bryn Mawr Classical Review

1996 264 pp., 12 b&w illus. 978-0-8018-5395-1 $25.00 paperback

Reading Herodotus A Guided Tour through the Wild Boars, Dancing Suitors, and Crazy Tyrants of The History Debra Hamel Hamel takes us on a delightful, audacious romp through The History of the Persian Wars.

2012 360 pp., 5 halftones, 9 line drawings 978-1-4214-0656-5 $29.95 paperback

The Lives of the Greek Poets second edition Mary R. Lefkowitz “A major book which aims at demolishing the underpinnings of much that has passed for Greek literary criticism . . . its proper application to classical studies will have a very positive effect.”—American Journal of Philology

2012 240 pp. 978-1-4214-0464-6

$25.00 paperback

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ROME Patients and Healers in the High Roman Empire Ido Israelowich “An original, innovative, and provocative history

Maternal Megalomania Julia Domna and the Imperial Politics of Motherhood Julie Langford

of ancient medicine in the High Roman Empire

Langford uses the example of Julia Domna (the

from the patient’s point of view.”—Manfred

wife of Severus, Roman emperor from 193 –211

Horstmanshoff, Leiden University

AD) and the construction of her maternal image

2015 208 pp., 3 halftones 978-1-4214-1628-1 $59.95 hardcover

as a case study for examining the relationship between the imperial administration and various populations in the Roman Empire

Rome’s Christian Empress Galla Placidia Rules at the Twilight of the Empire

2013 232 pp., 30 b&w illus. 978-1-4214-0847-7 $55.00 hardcover

Roman Literary Culture

Joyce E. Salisbury

From Plautus to Macrobius

The page-turning account of Galla Placidia, a

second edition

remarkable ruler at the twilight of the Roman Empire.

2015 256 pp., 11 halftones, 1 line drawing, 7 maps 978-1-4214-1700-4 $34.95 hardcover

Elaine Fantham “An important work, full of learning, which serves simultaneously to deepen our appreciation of Latin literature in its social context, to provoke further exploration of the questions the author

The Day Commodus Killed a Rhino Understanding the Roman Games Jerry Toner

raises, and to continue debate concerning certain of the answers.”—New England Classical Journal

Ancient Society and History

“This engaging, non-judgmental description of the Roman games seamlessly integrates sophisticated insights with clear examples and

2013 368 pp., 1 b&w illus 978-1-4214-0836-1 $30.00 paperback

evidence. Readers will be amazed at the scale, sights, and wonders of the spectacles.”—Donald G. Kyle, University of Texas–Arlington

Witness to Ancient History, Gregory S. Aldrete, Series Editor 2014 144 pp., 6 halftones, 2 line drawings 978-1-4214-1586-4 $19.95 paperback

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Rome The Empire of the Self

The Latin Inscriptions of Rome

Self-Command and Political Speech in Seneca and Petronius

A Walking Guide

Christopher Star

Tyler Lansford “If this book is not slipped into many a Rome-

“This book makes a major contribution to the modern bibliography of selfhood and

bound suitcase, there is no justice in the world. I can think of few more enjoyable companions

self-formation in the early empire, and it will

on a prowl through the city.”—Times Literary

doubtless generate further debate in so vibrant

Supplement

an area of study.”—Classical Journal

2009 600 pp., 15 b&w illus., 1 line drawing, 16 maps 978-0-8018-9150-2 $29.95 paperback

2012 312 pp. 978-1-4214-0674-9

$65.00 hardcover

Chariot Racing in the Roman Empire Fik Meijer

Rome and the Barbarians, 100 B.C.– A.D. 400 Thomas S. Burns

translated by Liz Waters

“Anyone who has struggled to convey to a class

“Readers will find an excellent overview of our knowledge of ancient Roman chariot racing in this fairly short and readable book.”—Bryn Mawr Classical Review

the manifold ways in which the establishment of a legionary fortress revolutionized the life of a region will envy Burns’ pedagogical fluency.” —Bryn Mawr Classical Review

2010 208 pp., 19 halftones, 3 line drawings, 2 maps 978-0-8018-9697-2 $29.95 hardcover

Ancient Society and History 2009 480 pp., 12 halftones, 6 maps 978-0-8018-9270-7 $31.00 paperback

Rome A Living Portrait of an Ancient City Stephen L. Dyson “This exploration of Rome and what happened there seeks not only to examine the physical

The Annals of Quintus Ennius and the Italic Tradition Jay Fisher

A fresh look at the multicultural influences on

and structural evolution of the city from earliest

Quintus Ennius and his epic poem, the Annals.

times until the early Christian era, but also to

2014 224 pp. 978-1-4214-1129-3

explore its social and cultural history.”—Oxbow

$69.95 hardcover

Book News

Ancient Society and History 2010 488 pp., 28 halftones, 16 line drawings 978-0-8018-9254-7 $35.00 paperback

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TR ANSL ATIONS FROM ANTI QUIT Y The Other Four Plays of Sophocles

The Orphic Hymns

Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, and Philoctetes

translation, introduction, and notes by Apostolos N. Athanassakis and Benjamin M. Wolkow

Sophocles translated by David R. Slavitt Famed translator David Slavitt lends his distinctly contemporary voice to four lesser-known plays

and cosmic Greek poetry known as the Orphic

Hymns.

2013 280 pp. 978-1-4214-0882-8

of Sophocles.

2013 272 pp. 978-1-4214-1137-8

The only English translation of the mysterious

$22.95 paperback

$19.95 paperback

The Iliad The Theban Plays Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone Sophocles translated, with notes and an introduction, by Ruth Fainlight and Robert J. Littman

Homer translated by Edward McCrorie with an introduction and notes by Erwin F. Cook Edward McCrorie offers a new verse translation of the Iliad, capturing the meaning and music of Homer’s original Greek.

Johns Hopkins New Translations from Antiquity

“I would recommend the translation without reservations. It is clearly a translation well suited to success both in the classroom and in

2012 552 pp., 1 line drawing 978-1-4214-0642-8 $25.00 paperback

the theater.”—Robin Mitchell-Boyask, Temple University

Johns Hopkins New Translations from Antiquity 2009 284 pp., 1 line drawing, 1 map, 1 chart 978-0-8018-9134-2 $18.95 paperback

The Odyssey Homer translated by Edward McCrorie with an introduction and notes by Richard P. Martin “McCrorie’s new translation can be

Cut These Words into My Stone Ancient Greek Epitaphs translated by Michael Wolfe foreword by Richard P. Martin The lively ancient epitaphs in this bilingual collection fit together like small mosaic tiles, forming a vivid portrait of Greek society.

2012 208 pp. 978-1-4214-0804-0

$24.95 paperback

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recommended without reservation to the generations of students to whom it is bound to be assigned and to any reader who’d like to get as close to the original as is possible. . . . It is refreshing, accurate, and direct.”—Bloomsbury Review

Johns Hopkins New Translations from Antiquity 2004 472 pp. 978-0-8018-8267-8

$22.00 paperback


THE ANCIENT WORLD Ex Oriente Lex

Ordained Women in the Early Church

Near Eastern Influences on Ancient Greek and Roman Law

A Documentary History

Raymond Westbrook edited by Deborah Lyons and Kurt Raaflaub An essential collection of Raymond Westbrook’s groundbreaking work on the cross-cultural history of ancient law.

2015 288 pp. 978-1-4214-1467-6

edited and translated by Kevin Madigan and Carolyn Osiek “An invaluable resource for all who are interested in the historical evidence relating to the ordination of women as deacons and presbyters in the early centuries up to roughly the sixth century.”—Review of Biblical Literature

$59.95 hardcover

Environmental Problems of the Greeks and Romans Ecology in the Ancient Mediterranean second edition

2005 240 pp., 14 halftones, 2 maps 978-1-4214-0037-2 $30.00 paperback

Origins of Mathematical Words A Comprehensive Dictionary of Latin, Greek, and Arabic Roots Anthony Lo Bello

J. Donald Hughes “A significant contribution to understanding the relationship between classical civilization in the Mediterranean Basin and its contemporary natural environment during the period from 800 B.C. to 600 A.D.”—Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Ancient Society and History

“A true labor of love, this book will delight mathematicians. . . Others can only applaud the knowledge, curiosity, and delight Lo Bello brings to his work.”—Library Journal

2013 368 pp. 978-1-4214-1098-2

$49.95 paperback

2014 320 pp., 44 halftones 978-1-4214-1211-5 $27.95 paperback

Now in Paperback Disciples of the Desert Monks, Laity, and Spiritual Authority in Sixth-Century Gaza Jennifer L. Hevelone-Harper “An important contribution and a welcome addition to the burgeoning study of Palestinian monasticism in general and of Gaza in particular.”—Religious Studies Review

2005 224 pp., 3 halftones 978-1-4214-1386-0 $34.95 paperback

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