CHICAGO STUDIES ANCIENT
The Odyssey
Homer
A landmark new translation of Homer’s most popular epic by distinguished author and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn.
2025 560 p. 61/2 x 93/8 4 line drawings
1 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-60442-8
$39.00 Your Price: $27.30
Penelope’s Bones
A New History of Homer’s World through the Women Written Out of It
Emily Hauser
Weaving together literary and archaeological evidence, Emily Hauser illuminates the rich, intriguing lives of the real women behind Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey.
2025 496 p. 6 x 9 30 color plates, 70 halftones
3 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-83968-4
$30.00 Your Price: $21.00
*Featuring author photo in place of cover. Cover forthcoming.
The Buried City
Unearthing the Real Pompeii
Gabriel Zuchtriegel
Director of the Pompeii Archaeological Park offers a vivid view of daily life in the lost city, shares the latest discoveries, and reflects on preserving heritage.
2025 256 p. 6 x 9 53 color plates, 1 halftone
2 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-83960-8
$25.00 Your Price: $17.50
The Library of Ancient Wisdom
Mesopotamia and the Making of the Modern World
Selena Wisnom
A tour of an ancient library transports readers to Mesopotamia, introducing us to its people, their ideas, and their humanity.
2025 400 p. 6 x 9 8 color plates
4 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82255-6
$30.00 Your Price: $21.00
The Trouble with Ancient DNA
Telling Stories of the Past with Genomic Science
Anna Källén
A thoughtful consideration of the storytelling and science behind ancient DNA discoveries.
2025 160 p. 51/2 x 81/2 10 halftones
5 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83557-0
$20.00 Your Price: $14.00
Sensations
French Archaeology between Science and Spectacle, 1890–1940
Daniel J. Sherman
Delves into two controversies from the French archaeological world to illuminate the tension between the discipline’s scientific ambitions and its hunger for media attention.
2025 288 p. 6 x 9 8 color plates, 40 halftones
7 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-83537-2
$47.50 Your Price: $33.25
Yearning for Immortality
The European Invention of the Ancient Egyptian Afterlife
Rune Nyord
How our understanding of the ancient Egyptian afterlife was shaped by Christianity.
2025 272 p. 6 x 9 10 halftones
6 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83825-0
$32.50 Your Price: $22.75
So Much Stuff
How Humans Discovered Tools, Invented Meaning, and Made More of Everything
Chip Colwell
How humans became so dependent on things and how this need has grown dangerously out of control.
2024 304 p. 6 x 9 60 halftones
8 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83663-8
$20.00 Your Price: $14.00
The Sky Is Our Song
The “Phaenomena” of Aratus Aratus
An ancient Greek guide to the heavens, translated in a new accessible modern English edition.
2025 136 p. 6 x 71/2 26 halftones, 1 line drawing
9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-83698-0
$25.00 Your Price: $17.50
Seneca
Fifty Letters of a Roman Stoic Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A selection of Seneca’s most significant letters that illuminate his philosophical and personal life.
2021 320 p. 51/2 x 81/2
11 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-78293-5
$18.00 Your Price: $12.60
The Complete Works
Handbook, Discourses, and Fragments
Epictetus
The complete surviving works of Epictetus, the most influential Stoic philosopher from antiquity.
2022 480 p. 6 x 9 10 halftones
10 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-76947-9
$18.00 Your Price: $12.60
The Aeneid Virgil
Updated English edition of Virgil’s Aeneid with new introduction and glossary.
2022 480 p. 6 x 9 2 halftones
12 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81728-6
$22.00 Your Price: $15.40
Populus
Living and Dying in Ancient Rome
Guy de la Bédoyère
This revealing look at life in ancient Rome offers a compelling journey through the vivid landscape of politics, domestic life, entertainment, and inequality experienced daily by Romans of all social strata.
2024 496 p. 6 x 9 32 color plates, 3 halftones
13 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-83294-4
$30.00 Your Price: $21.00
The Making of a King
Antigonus Gonatas of Macedon and the Greeks
Robin Waterfield
Waterfield takes us to third century BCE Greece, writing the first 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
15 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-61137-2
$30.00 Your Price: $21.00
Gladius
The World of the Roman Soldier
Guy de la Bédoyère
Gladius delivers a stunning ground-level recreation of what it was like to be a soldier in the fighting force that made the Roman Empire.
2022 526 p. 6 x 9 34 color plates, 4 maps
14 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82390-4
$19.00 Your Price: $13.30
Homer
The Very Idea
James I. Porter
The story of our ongoing fascination with Homer, the man and the myth.
2023 280 p. 6 x 9
16 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-67590-9
$19.00 Your Price: $13.30
Tools and the Organism
Technology and the Body in Ancient Greek and Roman Medicine
Colin Webster
The first book to show how the concept of bodily organs emerged and how ancient tools influenced conceptualizations of human anatomy and its operations.
2023 320 p. 6 x 9 23 halftones
17 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82877-0
$45.00 Your Price: $31.50
Plato’s “Laws”
The Discovery of Being
Seth Benardete
An insightful commentary on Plato’s Laws, his complex final work.
2024 432 p. 6 x 9
19 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82642-4
$30.00 Your Price: $21.00
Oikonomia
Ancient Greek Philosophers on the Meaning of Economic Life
Étienne Helmer
A detailed analysis of oikonomia , an underexplored branch of knowledge in ancient Greek philosophy.
2024 176 p. 51/2 x 81/2
18 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82734-6
$35.00 Your Price: $24.50
The Argument of the Action
Essays on Greek Poetry and Philosophy
Seth Benardete
This volume brings together Seth Benardete’s studies of Hesiod, Homer, and Greek tragedy, eleven Platonic dialogues, and Aristotle’s Metaphysics.
2024 456 p. 6 x 9
20 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82643-1
$30.00 Your Price: $21.00
Rome as a Guide to the Good Life
A Philosophical Grand Tour
Scott Samuelson
A unique, portable guidebook that sketches Rome’s great philosophical tradition while also providing an engaging travel companion to the city.
2023 272 p. 51/2 x 81/2 14 color plates, 2 halftones
21 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-78004-7
$20.00 Your Price: $14.00
Speaking the Truth about Oneself
Lectures at Victoria University, Toronto, 1982
Michel Foucault
Foucault explores antiquity, from classical Greece and the early Roman Empire to Christian monasticism, tracing the historical formation of the hermeneutics of the self.
The Chicago Foucault Project
2023 304 p. 51/2 x 81/2 4 line drawings
23 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82645-5
$24.00 Your Price: $16.80
Inventing the Alphabet
The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present
Johanna Drucker
The first comprehensive intellectual history of alphabet studies.
2022 384 p. 7 x 10 100 halftones
22 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-81581-7
$40.00 Your Price: $28.00
Botanical Icons
Critical Practices of Illustration in the Premodern Mediterranean
Andrew Griebeler
A richly illustrated account of how premodern botanical illustrations document evolving knowledge about plants and the ways they were studied in the past.
2024 344 p. 7 x 10 96 color plates
24 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82679-0
$55.00 Your Price: $38.50
The Art of Terrestrial Diagrams in Early China
Michelle H. Wang
A study of early Chinese maps using interdisciplinary methods.
2023 256 p. 7 x 10 46 color plates, 15 halftones
25 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82746-9
$55.00 Your Price: $38.50
Amaravati
Art and Buddhism in Ancient India
Jas Elsner
A visual exploration of the Buddhist stupa or reliquary mounds at one of ancient India’s most remarkable monuments at Amarāvatī.
Distributed for Reaktion Books
2024 308 p. 7.48 x 9.84 125 color plates, 25 halftones
27 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-869-5
$64.00 Your Price: $44.80
Nominal Things
Bronzes in the Making of Medieval China
Jeffrey Moser
How the medieval study of ancient bronzes influenced the production of knowledge and the making of things in East Asia.
2023 336 p. 7 x 10 50 color plates, 28 halftones
26 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82246-4
$50.00 Your Price: $35.00
The Connected Iron Age
Interregional Networks in the Eastern Mediterranean, 900-600 BCE
Edited by Jonathan M. Hall and James F. Osborne
An interdisciplinary consideration of how eastern Mediterranean cultures in the first millennium BCE were meaningfully connected.
2022 272 p. 6 x 9 40 halftones
28 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-81904-4
$45.00 Your Price: $31.50
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
29 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81859-7
$22.50 Your Price: $15.75
Coming Fall 2025: Revolution by Miriam Leonard
Complacency
Classics and Its Displacement in Higher Education
John T. Hamilton
A critical reflection on complacency and its role in the decline of classics in the academy.
2022 144 p. 51/2 x 81/2
30 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81862-7
$22.50 Your Price: $15.75
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