2015 Classical Studies

Daily Life in the Hellenistic Age From Alexander to Cleopatra

By James Allan Evans

In lively narrative chapters, Evans explores such topics as marriage customs; women in Hellenistic societies; festivals, sports, and spectacles; symposia (drinking parties); the agricultural and commercial components of the polis (city-state); food and drink; education; science and technology; and the legacy of the Hellenistic age in the modern world. $19.95 PAPER · 978-0-8061-4255-5 · 248 PAGES

Homeric Greek

A Book for Beginners Fourth Edition

By Clyde Pharr, John Wright, and Paula Debnar

Homeric Greek has been a standard textbook for first-year Greek courses in college and preparatory schools. It offers students the exciting experience of learning to read a Homeric poem in the original language, while introducing them to the fundamentals of ancient Greek. This fourth edition addresses the needs of today’s teachers and students, while retaining those elements of the original book responsible for its longevity. $34.95 PAPER · 978-0-8061-4164-0 · 456 PAGES

Caesar’s Gallic War A Commentary

By Herbert W. Benario

A classic of western literature, Julius Caesar’s Gallic War is also a staple of Latin language. This new edition for students, prepared by a senior classical scholar and translator, is among the most comprehensive available and will be especially valuable because Caesar is one of the two authors chosen for the new Advanced Placement curriculum in high school Latin. $19.95 PAPER · 978-0-8061-4252-4 · 176 PAGES

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Acts of Compassion in Greek Tragic Drama

By James Franklin Johnson

Originally written and published in Italian, this English-language translation of Death in the Greek World includes the most recent scholarship on newly discovered texts and objects, and engages the latest theoretical perspectives on the gendered roles of men and women as agents of mourning. The volume also features a new section dealing with hero cults and a new appendix outlining fundamental developments in modern studies of death in the ancient Greek world.

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The Satyrica of Petronius

A comic masterpiece of classical antiquity, the Satyrica (or Satyricon) of Petronius is a tantalizing work of fiction. In The Satyrica of Petronius, Beth Severy-Hoven makes the work, with its flights of language and vision of Roman culture around the time of Nero, accessible to a new generation of students of Latin.

Syntactical Mechanics

A New Approach to English, Latin, and Greek

By Bruce A. McMenomy

The Natural Histories of Pliny the Elder

Syntax, Bruce McMenomy would like the beleaguered student to know, is not a collection of inconsistent and arbitrary rules, but rather an organic expression of meaning that evolved over time. Aimed at students of classical languages, this book shows how understanding grammatical concepts as channels for meaning makes learning them that much easier and, in a word, natural.

An Advanced Reader and Grammar Review

By P. L. Chambers

For students of Latin—even those at an advanced level—reading original works by Latin authors can be daunting. Students must remember a seemingly endless array of grammatical rules and vocabulary, and often the material to be translated seems dull and lengthy beyond endurance. Here P. L. Chambers overcomes these challenges through her engaging presentation of the writings of Pliny the Elder.

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The Student’s Catullus Fourth Edition

By Daniel H. Garrison

Acharnians, Knights, and Peace

By Aristophanes Translated and with Theatrical Commentaries by Michael Ewans

Most readers nowadays encounter the plays of Aristophanes in the classroom, not the theater. Yet the “father of comedy” wrote his plays for the stage, not as literary texts. Here Michael Ewans offers new and lively translations of three of Aristophanes’ earliest surviving plays: Acharnians, Knights, and Peace. $24.95 PAPER · 978-0-8061-4231-9 · 304 PAGES

The Arena of Satire

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The Arena of Satire presents the satirist as flaneur traversing the streets of Rome in search of its authentic core—those distinctly Roman virtues that have disappeared amid the corruption of the age.

What the vengeful, punishing satirist does to his victims, as Larmour shows, echoes what the Roman state did to outcasts and criminals in the arena of the Colosseum.

An Intermediate Reader with Commentary and Guided Review

By Beth Severy-Hoven

Although his audacious, erotic, and satirical verses survived the Middle Ages in only a single copy, Catullus has become in our time a canonical author, ranking in popularity and importance with Virgil, Horace, and Ovid. And for students and teachers of Latin, Daniel H. Garrison’s The Student’s Catullus is a definitive introductory text.

In ancient Greece, the epics of Homer and the tragic dramas performed each spring in the Theater of Dionysus offered citizens valuable lessons concerning the necessity and proper application of compassionate action. This book is the first full-length examination of compassion (eleos or oiktos in Greek) as a dramatic theme in ancient Greek literature.

Juvenal’s Search for Rome

By David H. J. Larmour

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From Homer to the Classical Age

By Maria Serena Mirto Translated by A. M. Osborne

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Drawing on his extensive classroom experience and linguistic expertise, Paul Ryan offers a commentary that is both rich in detail and—in contrast to earlier, more austere commentaries on the Phaedrus—fully engaging. Line by line, he explains subtle points of language, explicates difficulties of syntax, and brings out nuances of tone and meaning that students might not otherwise notice or understand.

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The Odyssey

Translated by Herbert Jordan

One of the two major ancient Greek epics, Homer’s Odyssey, has been a classic of Western Literature for centuries. This new translation into spare, elegant blank verse, is certain to attract the same praise and admiration as Herbert Jordan’s translation of Homer’s Iliad. $19.95 PAPER · 978-0-8061-4412-2 · 444 PAGES

From Republic to Empire

Rhetoric, Religion, and Power in the Visual Culture of Ancient Rome

By John Pollini

Political image-making is the focus of this masterful study of Roman culture. John Pollini explores how various artistic and ideological symbols of religion and power, based on Roman Republican values and traditions, were taken over or refashioned to convey new ideological content in the constantly changing political world of imperial Rome. $60.00 CLOTH · 978-0-8061-4258-6 · 576 PAGES

A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect Expanded Edition

By Richard John Cunliffe

For nearly a century, Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect has served as an invaluable resource for students and scholars of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. As both an English-Homeric dictionary and a concordance, the Lexicon lists and defines in English all instances of Greek words that appear in the two epics. Now, with the inclusion of Cunliffe’s “Homeric Proper and Place Names”—a fortytwo page supplement to the Lexicon—this expanded edition will be even more useful to readers of Homer. $32.95 PAPER · 978-0-8061-4308-8 · 512 PAGES

Eros at the Banquet

Reviewing Greek with Plato’s Symposium

By Louise Pratt

This intermediate-level textbook reinforces the first-year lessons and enables students to read Plato’s Symposium, one of the most engaging works in Attic Greek, the dialect taught in most first-year courses. $29.95 PAPER · 978-0-8061-4142-8 · 400 PAGES

Euripides’ Electra

A Commentary

By H. M. Roisman and C. A. E. Luschnig

This book is a new edition of this seminal tragedy designed for twenty-first-century classrooms. Included with the Greek text are a useful introduction, line-by-line commentary, and other materials in English, all intended to support intermediate and advanced undergraduate students. $24.95 PAPER · 978-0-8061-4119-0 · 352 PAGES

Lysistrata, The Women’s Festival, and Frogs Translated and with Theatrical Commentaries by Michael Ewans

Michael Ewans offers new and lively translations of three of Aristophanes’ finest plays: Lysistrata, The Women’s Festival, and Frogs. While remaining faithful to the original Greek, these translations are accessible to a modern audience—and actable on stage.

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Ovid’s Amores, Book One

A Commentary

By Maureen B. Ryan and Caroline A. Perkins

This edition of the first book of the Amores—the only one available for both intermediate- and advancedlevel classes—addresses the needs of students of varying abilities and experience, helping them comprehend, and more fully enjoy, the rich complexities of Ovid’s poetry. $24.95 PAPER · 978-0-8061-4144-2 · 264 PAGES

Selections from Herodotus

Second Edition

By Amy Barbour and Megan O. Drinkwater

The writings of Herodotus, historian, observer, and delightful storyteller, have long been favorites among teachers and students of the Greek language. The selections in this book will provide reading in the second year for the student who has begun his or her Greek with Homer and who presumably has had no acquaintance with Attic Greek. $32.95 PAPER · 978-0-8061-4170-1 · 408 PAGES

The Essentials of Greek Grammar

A Reference for Intermediate Readers of Attic Greek

By Louise Pratt

Designed for intermediate-level students and based on the author’s many years of classroom experience, this textbook presents an outline of the essential forms and syntax of ancient Attic Greek.

Louise Pratt also includes a handy appendix listing two hundred common Attic verbs and their principal parts $16.95 PAPER · 978-0-8061-4143-5 · 156 PAGES

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Plato’s Apology of Socrates

A Commentary

By Paul Allen Miller and Charles Platter

Plato’s account of the famous trial of Socrates in 399 b.c., appeals to historians, philosophers, political scientists, and classicists. It is also essential reading for students of ancient Greek. Paul Allen Miller and Charles Platter provide running commentary, glosses of unfamiliar words, introductions that address historical and philosophical issues, and thought-provoking essays on each chapter. $26.95 PAPER · 978-0-8061-4025-4 · 240 PAGES

Sport in Ancient Times

By Nigel B. Crowther

Taking in twenty premodern societies on five continents—with particular emphasis on ancient Greece and Rome and the Byzantine Empire—Crowther traces connections to modern sporting attitudes, practices, and institutions as he describes how athletics figured in cultural arenas that extended beyond physical prowess to ritual, social status, military associations, and politics. $19.95 PAPER · 978-0-8061-3995-1 · 210 PAGES

The Erotics of Domination

Male Desire and the Mistress in Latin Love Poetry

By Ellen Green

In The Erotics of Domination, Ellen Greene re-examines long-held scholarly attitudes concerning the representation of male sexual desire and female subjection in the Latin love poetry of Catullus, Propertius, and Ovid. $19.95 PAPER · 978-0-8061-4050-6 · 162 PAGES

The Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius

An Intermediate Reader and Grammar Review

By P. L. Chambers

This classroom-tested, accessible text will motivate second-year Latin students to continue their study. Aulus Gellius, a welleducated nobleman, began his observations during the long winter nights spent in Attica. These selections touch on diverse aspects of Roman culture and can be easily understood and translated by intermediate students. $19.95 PAPER · 978-0-8061-3993-7 · 128 PAGES

Daily Life in the Roman City Rome, Pompeii, and Ostia

By Gregory S. Aldrete

Although most Romans lived outside urban centers, the core of Roman civilization lay in its cities. In Gregory S. Aldrete’s exhaustive account, readers can peer into the inner workings of daily life in ancient Rome and examine the history, infrastructure, government, and economy of Rome. $19.95 PAPER · 978-0-8061-4027-8 · 296 PAGES

Roman Political Thought and the Modern Theoretical Imagination

By Dean Hammer

This book offers provocative reading for classicists, political scientists, and anyone interested in political theory and philosophy. It is also a timely meditation on the hidden ways in which democracy can give way to despotism when the animating spirit of politics succumbs to resignation, cynicism, and fear. $39.95 CLOTH · 978-0-8061-3927-2 · 360 PAGES

The Iliad

Translated by Herbert Jordan

A classic of Western literature for three millennia, Homer’s Iliad captivates modern readers—as it did ancient listeners—with its tale of gods and warriors at the siege of Troy.

Now Herbert Jordan’s line-for-line translation brilliantly renders the original Greek into English blank verse—the poetic form most closely resembling our spoken language. $19.95 CLOTH · 978-0-8061-3942-5 · 544 PAGES $16.95 PAPER · 978-0-8061-3974-6 · 544 PAGES

Clodia

A Sourcebook

By Julia Dyson Hejduk

Latin Alive and Well An Introductory Text

By P. L. Chambers

Latin Alive and Well is designed for both high school and university classes, in both twosemester courses and intensive one-semester courses. Clear and direct, it avoids lengthy explanations in teaching grammar, instead introducing modern students to this venerable language by focusing on exercises and translations that make fine points of grammar more readily understandable. $24.95 PAPER · 978-0-8061-3816-9 · 370 PAGES

A Concise Guide to Teaching Latin Literature Edited by Ronnie Ancona

Bringing together works by Cicero, Catullus, and others in which Clodia plays a part, Julia Dyson Hejduk has produced a striking portrait of one of the most fascinating women in Roman history. Her accurate and accessible English translations include not only all the classical texts that mention Clodia, but also a substantial selection of Roman erotic poetry by Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid.

Catullus, Horace, Ovid, Cicero, and Vergil are the official Advanced Placement Program Latin authors as well as standard reading for college and advanced secondary students of Latin. This book provides accessible information about recent scholarship on these authors to show how an awareness of current academic debates can enhance the teaching of their work.

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Caesar and the Crisis of the Roman Aristocracy A Civil War Reader

By James S. Ruebel

Propertius

Elegies I-IV Edited by L. Richardson, Jr.

A Student’s Seneca

Ten Letters and Selections from De Providentia and De Vita Beata Edited by M. D. Usher

Despite a common perception that most writing in antiquity was produced by men, some important literature written by women during this period has survived.

Edited by I. M. Plant, Women Writers of Ancient Greece and Rome is a comprehensive anthology of the surviving literary texts of women writers from the Graeco-Roman world that offers new English translations from the works of more than fifty women.

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Selections from Plato

With Introduction and Notes by Lewis Leaming Forman

Forman’s detailed and helpful notes enhance appreciation of how Greek prose—particularly Plato’s—produces its effects. They include helpful discussions of syntax, the uses of particles, the effects of word order, and rhetorical devices. Forman also includes an appendix with an additional set of notes containing information chiefly on various syntactic patterns in the Greek language. $26.95 PAPER · 978-0-8061-3776-6 · 576 PAGES

O Tempora! O Mores!

Cicero’s Catilinarian Orations A Student Edition with Historical Essays

By Susan O. Shapiro

Through an in-depth introduction and explanatory notes, Richardson strives to make the poems as readable as possible, at the same time examining the complexities and textual difficulties of the texts. Each elegy is accompanied by an introductory note providing a literary interpretation of the poem, followed by full and detailed commentary.

O Tempora! O Mores! is designed to fit a variety of pedagogical approaches. Shapiro’s historical essays bring a new dimension to Latin study, explaining the history and politics behind the texts. The volume is further amplified by a vocabulary, maps, a bibliography, and appendices.

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By Stanley M. Burstein

In this engaging and multifaceted account, Stanley M. Burstein displays Cleopatra in the full manifold brilliance of the multiple cultures, countries, and people that surrounded her throughout her compelling life, and in so doing develops a stunning picture of a legendary queen and a deeply historic reign. $19.95 PAPER · 978-0-8061-3871-8 · 212 PAGES

The Trojan War

By Carol G. Thomas and Craig Conant

Carol G. Thomas and Craig Conant’s broad and varied account of the Trojan War allows readers to investigate the archaeological and historical foundations that underlie the epic poems featuring Achilles and Aeneas, and to examine how the poems altered understanding of the war for the many cultures and civilizations touched by their narrative power. $19.95 PAPER · 978-0-8061-3874-9 · 224 PAGES

Lucian

Seventy Dialogues Introduction and Commentary by Harry L. Levy

Lucian is intended for those who have just finished first-year Greek and are going on to Lucian as the first author to read in extensor, as well as for more advanced students who need a refresher course in Greek based on a rapid but thorough reading of a fairly simple text. $24.95 PAPER · 978-0-8061-3894-7 · 348 PAGES

Cleopatra

A Sourcebook

By Prudence J. Jones

Women Poets in Ancient Greece and Rome Edited by Ellen Greene

This fascinating sourcebook documents what we know of the historical figure and also shows how she has evolved through the lens of interpretation. Arranged both chronologically and thematically, the volume consists of a series of readings about Cleopatra—historical, literary, and documentary— extending from ancient times to the twentieth century.

The first collection of essays to examine virtually all surviving poetry by Greek and Roman women. It elevates the status of the poems by demonstrating their depth and artistry. Edited and with an introduction by Ellen Greene, the volume covers a broad time span, beginning with Sappho (ca. 630 b.c.e.) in archaic Greece and extending to Sulpicia (first century B.C.E.) in Augustan Rome.

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Genghis Khan’s Greatest General Subotai the Valiant

By Richard A. Gabriel

This book tells the story of Subotai the Valiant, a warrior for Genghis Khan and one of the greatest generals in military history. Subotai commanded armies whose size, scale, and scope of operations surpassed those led by any other commander in the ancient world. $19.95 PAPER · 978-0-8061-3734-6 · 176 PAGES

An Anthology Edited by I. M. Plant

Seneca’s letters and essays are ideally suitable for intermediate- level Latin students. Written in a clear and crisp style, they are universal in scope and psychological in orientation. For this edition, M. D. Usher has arranged the selections by theme, length, and degree of difficulty. Usher also provides line-by-line notes on grammar, style, and content, and a vocabulary listing all Latin words found in the texts.

In Caesar and the Crisis of the Roman Aristocracy, Ruebel introduces students of Latin to Caesar and the civil war that Pompey led against him from 49 to 48 B.C. By presenting the Roman leader in his own words and those of his contemporaries, the book forces readers to confront the same choices that Cicero and others faced in this tumultuous period.

The Reign of Cleopatra

Women Writers of Ancient Greece and Rome

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Cavalry Operations in the Ancient Greek World

By Robert E. Gaebel

In this comprehensive narrative, Robert E. Gaebel challenges conventional views of cavalry operations in the Greek world. Applying both military and historical perspectives, Gaebel shows that until the death of Alexander the Great in 323 b.c., cavalry played a larger role than is commonly recognized. $24.95 CLOTH · 978-0-8061-3365-2 · 368 PAGES $21.95 PAPER · 978-0-8061-3444-4 · 368 PAGES

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Euripides’ Alcestis

Notes and Commentary by C. A. E. Luschnig and H. M. Roisman

Euripides’ Alcestis—perhaps the most anthologized Attic drama--is an ideal text for students reading their first play in the original Greek. Literary commentaries and language aids in most editions are too advanced or too elementary for intermediate students of the language, but in their new student edition, C. A. E. Luschnig and H. M. Roisman remedy such deficiencies. $29.95 CLOTH · 978-0-8061-3458-1 · 304 PAGES $26.95 PAPER · 978-0-8061-3574-8 · 304 PAGES

Gender and Aging in Mesopotamia

The Gilgamesh Epic and Other Ancient Literature

By Rivkah Harris

Rivkah Harris’s cross-cultural and multidisciplinary approach breaks new ground in assessing Mesopotamian attitudes toward youth and mature adulthood, aging and the elderly, generational conflict, gender differences in aging, relationships between men and women, women’s contributions to cultural activities, and the “ideal woman.” $26.95 CLOTH · 978-0-8061-3167-2 · 304 PAGES $24.95 PAPER · 978-0-8061-3539-7 · 304 PAGES

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