Ancient Studies

Giza and the Pyramids

The Definitive History

Mark Lehner and Zahi Hawass

“This volume was some 30 years in the making, being continually expanded and rewritten to keep pace with the wealth of new evidence uncovered on the Giza plateau. . . . You will need a strong coffee table for this one—here in this huge, richly illustrated volume is everything you ever wanted to know about Giza, the pyramids and the people who built them.” —Ancient Egypt

2017 560 p. 9 x 11 442 color plates, 14 halftones 159 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-42569-6 $75.00

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A History of Trust in Ancient Greece

Steven Johnstone

“Well-written and interesting. . . . The main attraction of this book is that it describes how the rambunctious, commercially oriented democracies of ancient Greece attempted to come to grips with the same practical problems modern societies face today.”—Journal of the History of Economic Thought

“A fresh, highly intelligent, and well-reasoned take on institutions and social practices, public and private, in the world of the Greek citystates. . . . There is no other book that covers this terrain.” —Josiah Ober, Stanford University

2011 272 p. 6 x 9 160 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-40509-4 $62.00

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The Making of a King

Antigonus Gonatas of Macedon and the Greeks

Robin Waterfield

“Waterfield wisely takes the city states of European Greece as the backdrop for Antigonus’ life and the arena where his influence was principally felt. The Making of a King is only in part a biography of Antigonus. It also details the decline, economic devastation and political fragmentation of post-classical Greece, and makes plain why the Stoic and Epicurean schools, both founded during Antigonus’ youth, became so central to Greek intellectual life.” —London Review of Books

2021 296 p. 6 x 9 16 halftones, 8 maps 161 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-61137-2 $27.50

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A Study of Plato’s Phaedo, Parmenides, and Symposium

Laurence Lampert

Plato dispersed his account of how Socrates became Socrates across three dialogues. Thus, Plato rendered his becoming discoverable only to readers truly invested. In How Socrates Became Socrates, Lampert recognizes the path of Plato’s strides and guides us through the true account of Socrates’ becoming. He divulges how and why Plato ordered his Phaedo, Parmenides, and Symposium chronologically to give readers access to Socrates’ development on philosophy’s fundamental questions of being and knowing.

2021 248 p. 6 x 9 162 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-74633-3 $45.00

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Seeming and Being in Plato’s Rhetorical Theory

Robin Reames

“This is a masterful book. Each chapter proffers a new take on platonic dialogues that have been read and interpreted endlessly. Reames provides a fresh new view bolstered by innovative and well-supported philological arguments. Every chapter provides a new twist and original insight into Plato’s texts. I am not engaging in hyperbole when I say that this book has no peer.” —Edward Schiappa, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2018 240 p. 6 x 9 1 line drawing, 1 table 163 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-56701-3 $48.00

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Oedipus the King

Sophocles

Available for the first time as an independent work, David Grene’s legendary translation of Oedipus the King renders Sophocles’ Greek into cogent, vivid, and poetic English for a new generation to savor.

“These authoritative translations consign all other complete collections to the wastebasket.”—New Republic

2010 88 p. 51/4 x 8 164 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-76868-7 $8.00

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Tiber

Eternal River of Rome

Bruce Ware Allen

In this rich history of Italy’s Tiber River, Bruce Ware Allen charts the main currents, mythic headwaters, and hidden tributaries of one of the world’s most renowned waterways. The Tiber has served as the realm of protomythic creatures and gods, a battleground for armies and navies, a livelihood for boatmen and fishermen, the subject matter of poets and painters, and the final resting place for criminals and martyrs. This book is a highly readable history and a go-to resource for information about Italy’s most storied river. The Threshold Myth from Sophocles through Freud to Cocteau

Almut-Barbara Renger

“Renger delivers a beautiful contribution to the general theory of myth by unfolding the history of a single ‘big myth.’ Big myths require new approaches and retellings, and Renger delivers both a general introduction to a core problem of religious studies and comparative literature and a surprising new perspective on an old story.” —Eckart Goebel, New York University

2013 136 p. 51/2 x 81/2 4 halftones, 1 table 166 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-04808-6 $31.00

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The Persians

Lost Civilizations

Geoffrey Parker and Brenda Parker

The authors examine the unique features of Persian life and trace their influence throughout the centuries. They examine the environmental difficulties the early Persians encountered and how, in overcoming them, they were able to develop a unique culture that would culminate in the massive, first empire, the Achaemenid Empire.

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2016 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2 50 halftones 167 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-650-6 $25.00

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The Barbarians

Lost Civilizations

Peter Bogucki

“Bogucki successfully shows that the barbarian world was not flat and monolithic, and he sheds light on the development of the barbarian cultures over the centuries as a result of migrations and interactions with other civilizations.” —The Historian

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2017 208 p. 51/2 x 81/2 25 color plates, 25 halftones 168 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-718-3 $25.00

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The Greeks

Lost Civilizations

Philip Matyszak

“Matyszak’s book covers 2,000 years of Greek history: from the prehistorical settlements in the shores of the Black Sea to the capture of the medieval Greek capital of Constantinople by Moslem Turks in 1453. The Greeks is a breath of fresh air in the stories it tells about the Greeks who lived primarily outside of mainland Greece: Southern Italy, Sicily, North Africa, Egypt, Syria, Palestine, France, Spain, Black Sea, and Asia Minor. . . . Timely and riveting.”—Counterpunch

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2018 208 p. 51/2 x 81/2 40 color plates, 30 halftones 169 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-900-2 $25.00

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