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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
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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
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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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