University of Chicago Press 2022 Ancient Studies Subject Catalog

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Homer The Very Idea

James I. Porter

The story of our ongoing fascination with Homer, the man and the myth.

2021 280 p. 6 x 9 14 halftones

1 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-67589-3 $27.50 Your Price: $22.00

Democratic Swarms

Ancient Comedy and the Politics of the People Page duBois

Considers how ancient Greek comedy o ers a model for present-day politics.

2022 312 p. 6 x 9

3 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-81574-9 $45.00 Your Price: $36.00

Seneca

Fi y Letters of a Roman Stoic Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A selection of Seneca’s most signi cant letters that illuminate his philosophical and personal life.

2021 320 p. 51/2 x 81/2

2 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-78293-5 $16.00 Your Price: $12.80

The Making of a King Antigonus Gonatas of Macedon and the Greeks

Robin Waterfield

Water eld takes us to third century BCE Greece, writing the rst book in more than a century to tell in full the story of Macedonian king Antigonus Gonatas.

2021 296 p. 6 x 9 16 halftones, 8 maps

4 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-61137-2 $27.50 Your Price: $22.00

The Complete Tragedies, Volume 1

Medea, The Phoenician Women, Phaedra, The Trojan Women, Octavia

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The rst of two volumes collecting the complete tragedies of Seneca.

2022 274 p. 51/2 x 81/2

5 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82109-2 $19.00 Your Price: $15.20

Aristotle’s Art of Rhetoric

Aristotle

Translated and with an Interpretive Essay by Robert C. Bartlett

One of the foundational works of Western culture, Art of Rhetoric has shaped our understanding of speech and persuasion for millennia now; this fresh translation makes it available anew for today’s readers.

2021 288 p. 6 x 9

7 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-78990-3 $17.00 Your Price: $13.60

The Complete Tragedies, Volume 2

Oedipus, Hercules Mad, Hercules on Oeta, Thyestes, Agamemnon

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The second of two volumes collecting the complete tragedies of Seneca.

2022 320 p. 51/2 x 81/2

6 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82108-5 $19.00 Your Price: $15.20

The Aeneid

Virgil

Translated by David Ferry

This updated English edition of Virgil’s Aeneid features a new introduction and glossary.

2022 480 p. 6 x 9 2 halftones

8 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81728-6 $18.00 Your Price: $14.40

The Pocket Epicurean

John Sellars

A short, smart guide to living the good life through an introduction to the teachings of Epicurus.

2022 64 p. 41/2 x 6

9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-79864-6 $12.50 Your Price: $10.00

Martial

The World of the Epigram

William Fitzgerald

Fitzgerald o ers a insight into the epigrams of Martial and presents a fresh view of this signi cant Roman poet.

2021 268 p. 51/4 x 8 11 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-25255-1 $35.00 Your Price: $28.00

The Pocket Stoic

John Sellars

Concise and accessible and perfect for the aspiring Stoic, The Pocket Stoic provides an introduction to the lives and thought of the key Stoics: Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius.

2020 64 p. 41/2 x 6

10 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-68296-9 $12.00 Your Price: $9.60

Gladius

The World of the Roman Soldier Guy de la Bédoyère

In Gladius, Guy de la Bédoyère takes us straight to the heart of what it meant to be a part of the Roman army, with a stunning ground-level recreation of what it was like to be a soldier in the ghting force that made the empire.

2020 352 p. 6 x 9 16 halftones, 4 tables 12 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-75023-1 $30.00 Your Price: $24.00

The Critical Antiquities Series

Emergency Reading the Popol Vuh in a Time of Crisis Edgar Garcia

Nine short essays exploring the K’iche’ Maya story of creation, the Popol Vuh.

2022 144 p. 51/2 x 81/2 1 halftones

13 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81859-7 $22.50 Your Price: $18.00

Inventing the Alphabet

The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present Johanna Drucker

The rst comprehensive intellectual history of alphabet studies.

2022 384 p. 7 x 10 100 halftones

15 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-81581-7 $40.00 Your Price: $32.00

Complacency

Classics and Its Displacement in Higher Education

John T. Hamilton

A critical re ection on complacency and its role in the decline of classics in the academy.

2022 144 p. 51/2 x 81/2

14 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81862-7 $22.50 Your Price: $18.00

Lives of the Great Languages

Arabic and Latin in the Medieval Mediterranean

Karla

Mallette

The story of how Latin and Arabic spread across the Mediterranean to create a cosmopolitan world of letters.

2021 264 p. 6 x 9

16 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-79606-2 $35.00 Your Price: $28.00

edited by Brooke Holmes and Mark Payne

Essays on Ancient and Modern Judaism

Arnaldo Momigliano

Brings together twenty-six essays by a signi cant scholar of ancient history.

2022 270 p. 6 x 9

17 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-79492-1 $35.00 Your Price: $28.00

The Contested Crown Repatriation Politics between Europe and Mexico

Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll

Following con icting desires for an Aztec crown, this book explores the possibilities of repatriation.

2022 200 p. 6 x 9 27 halftones

19 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-80206-0 $27.50 Your Price: $22.00

Speaking the Truth about Oneself Lectures at Victoria University, Toronto, 1982

Michel Foucault

A collection of Foucault’s lectures that trace the historical formation and contemporary signicance of the hermeneutics of the self.

2021 304 p. 51/2 x 81/2 4 line drawings

18 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-61686-5 $30.00 Your Price: $24.00

Encounters in the New World

Jesuit Cartography of the Americas

Mirela Altic

Analyzing more than 150 historical maps, this book traces the Jesuits’ signi cant contributions to mapping and mapmaking from their arrival in the New World.

2022 504 p. 7 x 10 48 color plates, 121 halftones

20 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-79105-0 $75.00 Your Price: $60.00

Egyptomania

A History of Fascination, Obsession and Fantasy

Ronald H. Fritze

Egyptomania excavates our enduring enthrallment with the land of the pharaohs and Great Pyramids—from Napoleon’s motives for invasion to the global fascination with King Tutankhamun.

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2021 448 p. 61/4 x 91/4 50 halftones

21 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-348-5 $20.00 Your Price: $16.00

The Sound of Byzantium

The Byzantine Musical Instruments

Antonios Botonakis, Nikos Maliaras, and Chriastian Troelsgard Essays, imagery, and an illustrated dictionary for the instruments of the Byzantine era.

Distributed for Koç University Press

2022 250 p. 73/4 x 93/4 113 color plates

23 Paper ISBN: 978-605-7685-85-8 $50.00 Your Price: $40.00

Laughing Shall I Die Lives and Deaths of the Great Vikings

Tom Shippey

Laughing Shall I Die presents Vikings for what they were: not peaceful explorers and traders, but warriors, marauders, and storytellers.

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2021 368 p. 6 x 9 5 halftones

22 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-217-4 $18.00 Your Price: $14.40

Health and Disease in the Neolithic Lengyel Culture

Edited by Václav Smr č ka and Olivér Gábor

This book provides important details about the changes in the diet, health, and mobility of a people who were crucial to the development of early European civilization.

Distributed for Karolinum Press

2022 396 p. 7 x 93/4

24 Paper ISBN: 978-80-246-4514-8 $35.00 Your Price: $28.00

The Phoenicians Lost Civilizations

Vadim

S. Jigoulov

Drawing on an impressive range of archaeological and textual sources, this book o ers a valuable reappraisal of the enigmatic Phoenicians.

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2022 248 p. 51/2 x 81/2 39 color plates, 23 halftones

25 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-478-9 $25.00 Your Price: $20.00

Egypt Lost Civilizations

Christina Riggs

Examining the history, art, and religion of ancient Egypt, this is an illuminating look at why it has been so in uential throughout the centuries.

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2022 208 p. 51/2 x 81/2 31 color plates, 15 halftones

27 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-587-8 $18.00 Your Price: $14.40

The Aztecs

Lost Civilizations

Frances

F. Berdan

The Aztecs draws on the latest archaeological evidence to reveal an extraordinarily sophisticated, artistically accomplished lost civilization.

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2021 208 p. 51/2 x 81/2 40 color plates, 20 halftones

26 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-360-7 $25.00 Your Price: $20.00

The Indus Lost Civilizations

Andrew Robinson

Comprehensive and accessible, this book is an eye-opening introduction to one of the founding ancient civilizations of India and Pakistan.

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2021 208 p. 51/2 x 81/2 78 halftones

28 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-385-0 $15.00 Your Price: $12.00

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