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Classical Studies
Painting, Poetry, and the Invention of Tenderness in the Early Roman Empire
Herica Valladares | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill This book’s subject and interdisciplinary approach will interest scholars in several subfields of Classics: art history, archaeology, literary and cultural studies. Its focus on pictorial and poetic representations of love stories will also appeal to academics who study the history of emotions, and the wider public intrigued by ancient Rome. • Analyses Roman wall painting and Latin love elegy through an interdisciplinary lens that highlights previously unexamined connections between early imperial art and literature • Prior knowledge of Greek and Roman art and literature is not assumed; all Greek and Latin passages are translated into English • Delineates the emergence and dissemination of a new amatory ideal in early imperial art and literature, calling attention to long overlooked connections between Roman representations of love stories and later poetic and pictorial iterations of these narratives December 2020 253 x 177 mm c.300pp 978-1-108-83541-1 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Greek and Latin Letters in Late Antiquity The Christianisation of a Literary Form
Pauline Allen | University of Pretoria The first general book on Greek and Latin letterwriting in Late Antiquity (400-600 CE). Allen and Neil examine early Christian Greek and Latin literary letters, their nature and function, the mechanics of their production and dissemination and their crucial importance to the society of their time. • The first ever comprehensive treatment of Greek and Latin letterwriting in Late Antiquity • Takes the reader through the genre of the letter, the process of writing letters and the materials used, and their dissemination down to our own times • Demonstrates that, with the Christianisation of the letter, its pagan antecedents were not ignored but adapted September 2020 228 x 152 mm c.224pp 978-1-316-51013-1 Hardback £74.99 / US$99.99 P 978-1-316-64950-3 Paperback £18.99 / US$24.99 P
Classical Philology and Theology Entanglement, Disavowal, and the Godlike Scholar
Edited by Catherine Conybeare | Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania Modern disciplinary silos tend to separate classical philology and theology. This book explores for the first time the deep and significant interactions between them, revealing the often hidden or disavowed reliance of two major ways of understanding the world. • Explores the crucial history of two major disciplines and their interactions • Develops fascinating test cases which reveal the two disciplines’ reliance on one another • Showcases the distinct and contrasting approaches of nine distinguished scholars September 2020 228 x 152 mm c.288pp 978-1-108-49483-0 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
The Rhetoric of Roman Transportation Vehicles in Latin Literature
Jared Hudson | Harvard University, Massachusetts Offers the first systematic study of Roman vehicles in Latin literary texts. Examining key modes of transport including carts, carriages, chariots, and litters, Jared Hudson shows how Roman authors articulate ideas about power, gender, and empire through vivid vehicular portrayals. • Offers the first systematic examination of the literary portrayal of
Roman vehicles • Analyzes recurring depictions of Roman transportation across a wide range of Latin texts • Contributes to the Latin lexicography of Roman vehicles January 2021 228 x 152 mm c.348pp 978-1-108-48176-2 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Cicero’s Political Personae Joanna Kenty
Argues that Cicero assumed eight distinctive personae in the speeches of the latter half of his career to maximize political leverage and persuasion. Provides new insights into his political manoeuvring and the subtleties of his Latin prose. Accessible to students and non-specialists as well as scholars. • Addresses all of the speeches from the second half of Cicero’s career • Explores Cicero’s use of literary and rhetorical techniques to intervene in specific political and historical circumstances • Includes close philological readings of ancient texts with an appreciation for linguistic subtleties September 2020 228 x 152 mm c.300pp 978-1-108-83946-4 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Music and Metamorphosis in Graeco-Roman Thought
Pauline A. LeVen | Yale University, Connecticut Examines aesthetic and ontological questions raised by Greco-Roman myths of human metamorphosis into non-human musical beings. Placing the myths within their ancient intellectual contexts, it reads them in dialogue with contemporary questions about what it means to be human. Aimed at classicists, musicologists, and scholars of the posthumanities. • Examines important questions of musical aesthetics from a new perspective (that of mythical narratives of musical metamorphosis) and in a period rarely examined (the first to third centuries CE) • Engages with contemporary critical theory (in the posthumanities, animal studies, and sound studies) from an ancient perspective • Provides for the first time an intellectual history of musical metamorphosis November 2020 228 x 152 mm 228pp 978-1-107-14874-1 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Solo Dance in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature Representing the Unruly Body
Sarah Olsen | Williams College, Massachusetts This is the first investigation of solo dancers in Archaic and Classical Greek literature. It demonstrates that dancing alone signifies transgression and vulnerability in the Greek cultural imagination, and that the solo dancer is a powerful figure for literary exploration and experimentation in a wide variety of Greek genres. • Offers the first investigation of solo dance in Archaic and Classical
Greek literature and culture • Interrogates the relationship between dance and literature across a range of genres • Compares ancient Greek representations of dance to performances and theories drawn from other times and places December 2020 228 x 152 mm c.320pp 978-1-108-48503-6 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
The Grotesque in Roman Love Elegy
Mariapia Pietropaolo | McMaster University, Ontario Explores the theme of corporeal, intellectual, and social degradation in Latin elegy from the vantage point of its aesthetic of grotesque imagery. Shows how and why the simultaneous occurrence of feelings of repugnance and admiration is a fundamental aesthetic premise of the genre. • Introduces the fundamental aspects of grotesque aesthetics and shows their relevance to the genre of love elegy • Demonstrates that grotesque and refined images constitute the polarities of a dialectic – epistemological and ontological as well as artistic – that is at the core of Roman love elegy • Uses close readings of well-known poems to reveal hidden complexities in their composition in the light of these new insights September 2020 228 x 152 mm c.248pp 978-1-108-48869-3 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Catullus and Roman Comedy Theatricality and Personal Drama in the Late Republic
Christopher B. Polt | Boston College, Massachusetts Argues that the largest extant theatrical tradition of the third and second centuries BCE continued to be vital for writers of the first century BCE, especially in helping them to communicate strange and difficult ideas about their personal anxieties and concerns to public audience. • Analyzes Catullus’ engagement with Roman comedy, revealing the intersection of two genres and literary periods that have often been understudied • Provides a fresh interpretation of Catullus’ poetic program in light of the comic elements he incorporates • Relates Catullus’ literary practice with contemporary assumptions and ideas about theater’s role in elite Roman social life December 2020 229 x 152 mm c.232pp 978-1-108-83981-5 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
A Literary Commentary on Panegyrici Latini VI(7) An Oration Delivered before the Emperor Constantine in Trier, ca. AD 310
Edited and translated by Catherine Ware | University College Cork This oration from AD 310, which covers Maximian’s rebellion, Constantine’s claim of descent from Claudius II and his vision of Apollo, is crucial for understanding Constantine’s early career. The commentary examines the literary context and the role of the classical literary and rhetorical tradition in creating a new imperial persona. • Provides full commentary on the speech, examining in detail the presentation of key events • Illustrates the continuing importance of the classical tradition in late antique Gaul, the role of rhetoric, the knowledge of earlier authors and the use of allusion and intertextuality • Places the speech in the context of the corpus as a whole, showing how the orator uses earlier speeches to shape the persona of
Constantine December 2020 228 x 152 mm 336pp 978-1-107-12369-4 Hardback c. £75.00 / c. US$115.00 C
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Livy: Ab urbe condita Book XXII Editor (introduction and notes) John Briscoe
Book XXII, narrating Hannibal’s defeats of Rome at Trasimene and Cannae, is Livy’s most dramatic book in which he transformed Polybius’ source material into a rhetorical masterpiece. A new text is provided and the introduction and commentary treat historical, religious, literary and linguistic matters. It is suitable for students at all levels. • Provides the first detailed commentary on this book for half a century • Provides a new text as well as an Introduction and Commentary suitable for undergraduates and graduate students • Gives full treatment of historical, linguistic and stylistic matters as well as aids to translation Contents: Introduction; 1. Livy’s life and work; 2. Course of the war; 3. Sources; 4. Structure; 5. Chronology; 6. Language and style; 7. Literary aspects; 8. Religion in Livy; 9. Roman politics and Fabian strategy; 10. Manpower; 11. The text; Livy Book XXII; Commentary.
Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
October 2020 216 x 138 mm c.320pp 4 maps 978-1-108-48014-7 Hardback £74.99 / US$99.99 X 978-1-108-72708-2 Paperback £24.99 / US$32.99 X
The Resurrection of Homer in Imperial Greek Epic Quintus Smyrnaeus’ Posthomerica and the Poetics of Impersonation
Emma Greensmith | University of Oxford The first literary and cultural reading of Quintus Smyrnaeus’ Posthomerica, a major Greek epic from the height of the Roman Empire which tells the story ‘in between’ Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, and reveals the aesthetic and identity politics of the era. Important for understanding Homer and epic in Greco-Roman culture. • Provides a literary and cultural-historical analysis of the Posthomerica, which has too often fallen outside of contextualized study due to a lack of precise information about its providence • Connects Quintus’ Posthomerica with a far wider range of ancient literature: not only poetry but also (and unlike previous scholarship) prose historiography, rhetoric, educational papyri; and not only Greek, but also Latin • Moves away from the individualized study of imperial Greek authors to a joined-up understanding of this era of epic as a corpus engaging dialogically with the same issues of empire and cultural change
Greek Culture in the Roman World
October 2020 228 x 152 mm c.380pp 1 b/w illus. 978-1-108-83033-1 Hardback £90.00 / US$120.00 C
A Hellenistic Anthology
Second edition Editor (introduction and notes) Neil Hopkinson | Trinity College, Cambridge Makes accessible a wide range of important poetic texts from the third and second centuries BC. It provides help with the background to these writers and with the Greek of these often allusive and challenging works. This second edition has been thoroughly updated and substantially expanded. • Helps students gain an overall picture of the range of poetry produced during this important but often unfamiliar period so that they can relate the authors and poems one with another • Provides full notes on matters of syntax and unfamiliar vocabulary and with allusions to Homer and other poets • This second edition has been thoroughly updated and includes three hundred more lines of Greek text Contents: 1. Introduction; 2. The apparatus criticus; Commentary; Appendix. Doric dialect; Indexes.
Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
September 2020 216 x 138 mm c.300pp 3 maps 978-1-108-47240-1 Hardback £79.99 / US$105.00 X 978-1-108-45956-3 Paperback £24.99 / US$32.99 X
Oppian’s Halieutica Charting a Didactic Epic
Emily Kneebone | University of Nottingham Demonstrates the sophistication, influence, and cultural centrality of an understudied imperial Greek didactic epic. Written for students and scholars of imperial Greek literature and culture (including the ancient novel), ancient heroic and didactic epic poetry, and those interested in human-animal relations in the ancient world. • Offers the first sustained and comprehensive literary reading of the
Halieutica • Contextualises the poem within a range of ancient perspectives and debates • Addresses the poem’s place within ancient attitudes towards humananimal relations
Greek Culture in the Roman World
October 2020 228 x 152 mm c.432pp 978-1-108-84083-5 Hardback £90.00 / US$120.00 C
Plato: Menexenus
Editor (introduction and notes) David Sansone | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign In Menexenus Plato depicts an elderly Socrates reciting an inspiring funeral oration learned from his teacher Aspasia, although such a scenario is entirely fictional. The work reveals Plato’s mastery of prose style and his critique of rhetoric and democratic ideology. Suitable for intermediate and advanced students of ancient Greek. • Integrates literary, rhetorical, and historical discussion and comments in order to show how Plato uses rhetorical means to misrepresent and distort historical reality • Provides grammatical help for students as well as introducing techniques of discourse analysis • Helps students appreciate the radically divergent interpretations of the text proposed by scholars Contents: Introduction; 1. The Athenian state funeral; 2. The epitaphios logos; 3. The Menexenus of Plato; A note on the presentation of the text; Text; Commentary; Bibliography.
Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
August 2020 216 x 138 mm 202pp 978-1-108-49940-8 Hardback £79.99 / US$105.00 X 978-1-108-73056-3 Paperback £26.99 / US$34.99 X
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Hellenistic Epigrams A Selection
Editor (introduction and notes) Alexander Sens | Georgetown University, Washington DC Greek ‘literary’ epigrams constitute one of the most versatile and dynamic poetic forms in the Hellenistic period. This edition introduces students to this variable genre. It provides substantial grammatical and linguistic help to less experienced readers of Greek, whilst its interpretive material will also be of interest to scholars. • Provides substantial help with difficult grammar and vocabulary suitable for the advanced undergraduate and graduate student • Illustrates the way the individual poems play with generic conventions to create meaning • Each poem is preceded by an interpretive essay discussing the relationship of form to content Contents: Introduction: 1. The Origins of Literary Epigram; 2. ‘Genres’ of Hellenistic Epigram; 3. ‘Fictive’ and ‘Inscribed’ Epigrams; 4. Formal and Literary Aspects of Hellenistic Epigrams; 5. Transmission; 6. Organizing Principles of this Anthology; Epigrams; Commentary.
Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
November 2020 216 x 138 mm 320pp 978-0-521-84955-5 Hardback £74.99 / US$99.99 X 978-0-521-61481-8 Paperback £24.99 / US$32.99 X
Galen and the Arabic Reception of Plato’s Timaeus
Aileen R. Das | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Explores the Timaeus’ impact on pre-modern Greek and Arabic conceptualizations of medicine and will appeal to classicists, medievalists, and historians of philosophy, science, and the Middle East. Its five case studies examine how thinkers such as Galen and Avicenna used Plato’s dialogue to define their expertise and professional identities. • Explores diverse historical contexts in assessing Galen’s impact on medieval Arabic readings of Plato’s Timaeus • Promotes a reception-based approach to the study of Greco-Roman texts and ideas in medieval Islamic, Christian, and Jewish contexts • Employs methodologies from Science, Technology and Society Studies (STS) to examine how Plato’s Timaeus provoked new ways of thinking about knowledge categories October 2020 228 x 152 mm c.320pp 978-1-108-49948-4 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Pseudo-Aristotle: De Mundo (On the Cosmos) A Commentary
Edited by Pavel Gregoric | Institute of Philosophy in Zagreb, Croatia De mundo is a protreptic to philosophy and a work of both cosmology and theology, inspired by Aristotle. It is unique in presenting both a scientific explanation of the universe and a philosophical account focusing on the supreme cause of the universe’s coherence and stability, God. • One of the first extended studies of De mundo to focus on its philosophical content rather than issues of authorship, dating and style • Argues that the work provides an interpretation of Aristotle’s position about God and his relation to the universe which is at once philosophically compelling and methodologically interesting for the author’s use of analogy • Offers a glimpse into the philosophical debates in the Hellenistic period and late antiquity, but also into the genre of popular philosophy characteristic of the time December 2020 228 x 152 mm c.320pp 8 b/w illus. 2 maps 978-1-108-83478-0 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Productive Knowledge in Ancient Philosophy The Concept of Technê
Edited by Thomas Kjeller Johansen | Universitetet i Oslo Sets out for the first time the ancient views and debates about productive knowledge or technê through the whole period of antiquity, covering all the major schools of ancient philosophy. Readers will come to understand the central role that technê played in ancient intellectual life. • Explains in detail what ancient philosophers thought technê was • Shows the wide use of technê as a model for ethics, rhetoric, the arts, politics and cosmology • Traces debates through the history of ancient philosophy from the fifth century BC to the fifth century AD December 2020 229 x 152 mm c.348pp 978-1-108-48584-5 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Aristotle on Language and Style The Concept of Lexis
Ana Kotarcic | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium The first systematic analysis of Aristotle’s concept of lexis, which is approached on three interconnected levels: the first dealing with language as a system, the second with actual language usage, and the third with prescriptions for the kind of language to be used in poetic and rhetorical compositions. • The first systematic analysis of Aristotle’s concept of lexis • Discusses other major concepts featuring in Aristotle’s works, like mimēsis, phantasia and energeia, to show the importance of lexis for his thought in general • Written accessibly for a wide range of scholars and students, with all
Greek and Latin translated October 2020 228 x 152 mm c.288pp 978-1-108-49952-1 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Calcidius on Plato’s Timaeus Greek Philosophy, Latin Reception, and Christian Contexts
Gretchen Reydams-Schils | University of Notre Dame, Indiana The first study to assess in its entirety the fourthcentury Latin commentary on Plato’s Timaeus by the otherwise unknown Calcidius, as well as features of his Latin translation. The text represents a distinctive cultural encounter between the Greek and the Roman philosophical traditions, and between non-Christian and Christian currents of thought. • The first analysis of the text in its entirety • Sheds new light on the interactions between the so-called ‘pagan’ and
Christian traditions • Presents an overview of the reception of Plato’s cosmology in his
Timaeus, also in the Latin tradition September 2020 228 x 152 mm c.232pp 978-1-108-42056-3 Hardback £74.99 / US$99.99 C
Relative Change
Matthew Duncombe | University of Nottingham A relative change occurs when some item changes a relation. This Element examines how Plato, Aristotle, Stoics and Sextus Empiricus approached relative change.
Elements in Ancient Philosophy
September 2020 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 978-1-108-71342-9 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P
Rulers and Ruled in Ancient Greece, Rome, and China
Edited by Hans Beck | Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany Explores the creative potential of juxtaposing the cultural foundations of the Mediterranean world and ancient China. Embarking from the observation that Greek, Roman, and Han-Chinese societies were governed by comparable features, the contributors to this volume explain the dynamic interplay between political rulers and the ruled masses. • Captures the political cultures of the two largest civilizations in antiquity • Focusses on the relation between political leaders and the masses • Fosters a new comparative approach to the ancient world January 2021 228 x 152 mm c.448pp 978-1-108-48577-7 Hardback £90.00 / US$120.00 C
Xenophon and the Athenian Democracy The Education of an Elite Citizenry
Matthew R. Christ | Indiana University Fresh examination of how Xenophon instructs his elite readers concerning the values, knowledge, and practical skills they need to lead the Athenian democracy. Of interest to all those concerned with the role of elites in democracies, ancient and modern. • Explores the significant continuities in Xenophon’s political thinking across his Athenian works • Contextualizes Xenophon’s writings in the aftermath of the disastrous reign of the oligarchic Thirty (404/ 3 BC), and explores their significance for contemporary elite Athenian readers • Translates all Greek into English and uses clear language throughout in order to maximize accessibility September 2020 228 x 152 mm c.260pp 978-1-108-49576-9 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Social Control in Late Antiquity The Violence of Small Worlds
Edited by Kate Cooper | Royal Holloway, University of London Explores power relations in the households, schools, and monasteries of late antiquity in light of social theory, in a way that will be of interest to advanced undergraduates and postgraduate historians, as well as to scholars in the humanities and social sciences with interests in religion, law, and the family. • Sheds light on the small-scale environments such as households, schools, and monasteries, where ancient people spent much of their daily lives • Documents the experience of low-status people including women, children, and slaves • Offers an interdisciplinary view of late Roman social life informed by modern social science October 2020 228 x 152 mm c.348pp 978-1-108-47939-4 Hardback £90.00 / US$120.00 C
Benefactors and the Polis The Public Gift in the Greek Cities from the Homeric World to Late Antiquity
Edited by Marc Domingo Gygax | Princeton University, New Jersey Fresh analysis of elite public giving in the Greek cities in all periods of ancient history, highlighting it as a structural feature of polis society. Surveys the main scholarly debates on the phenomenon and continuities and changes between periods, and provides new theories and insights. • Provides a long-term perspective on the practice of public giving in the ancient Greek city • Introduces the current debates surrounding the practice both in general terms and for specific periods • Employs a range of theoretical perspectives and many different kinds of ancient evidence January 2021 228 x 152 mm c.348pp 978-1-108-84205-1 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
The Scribes of Rome A Cultural and Social History of the Scribae
Benjamin Hartmann | Universität Zürich Explores the lives of Rome’s public scribes, the scribae. In analysing a wide range of source material, it examines the cultural significance of these literate experts and their work and its implication for their position in Roman society and the state. • The first book-length treatment of the subject • Adopts a thematic rather than a chronological approach • Focuses on cultural and social history within an overarching theoretical framework September 2020 228 x 152 mm c.252pp 8 b/w illus. 1 table 978-1-108-49396-3 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
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Women and Society in the Roman World A Sourcebook of Inscriptions from the Roman West
Emily A. Hemelrijk | Universiteit van Amsterdam Offers a lively view into a wide range of activities, occupations and social and family roles of women in the cities of the Roman West on the basis of translated inscriptions. Makes this material accessible for students, scholars and anyone interested in the history of women and gender. • The most wide-ranging and comprehensive sourcebook of inscriptions relating to the lives of women published to date • Presents a representative sample of inscriptions by, for and about women, with brief introductions, accessible translations and references to further reading • The accompanying webpage provides the original texts in the same order as in the book with added layout and punctuation October 2020 244 x 170 mm 450pp 72 b/w illus. 3 maps 978-1-107-14245-9 Hardback £99.99 / US$130.00 R
The Future of Rome Roman, Greek, Jewish and Christian Visions
Edited by Jonathan J. Price | Tel-Aviv University Demonstrates that Romans, Greeks, Jews and Christians imagined the future of Rome in strikingly different ways, revealing profound differences in their conceptions of history and historical time, the purpose of history, the meaning of written words and oral traditions. • A cutting-edge volume on a topic never before systematically explored • Reveals profound differences between the views of the different peoples living under the Roman Empire on the same fundamental question • Explores concepts of historical time and other modes of time October 2020 228 x 152 mm c.320pp 978-1-108-49481-6 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
A Commentary on Panegyrici Latini II(12) An Oration Delivered by Pacatus Drepanius before the Emperor Theodosius II in the Senate at Rome, AD 389
Edited and translated by Roger Rees | University of St Andrews, Scotland The renowned Gallic poet Pacatus Drepanius journeyed to Rome in the summer of AD 389 to deliver a speech to the Emperor Theodosius; both men stood for the first time before the Roman Senators. This edition provides a complete Latin text and English translation, with extensive introduction and full commentary. • Makes an important but neglected speech available to classicists and ancient historians • Considers the place of the speech in the rhetorical tradition • Argues that epideictic oratory deserves to be taken seriously as a literary form July 2020 216 x 138 mm 400pp 978-1-107-15504-6 Hardback c. £80.00 / c. US$130.00 R
The Social Dynamics of Roman Imperial Imagery
Edited by Amy Russell | Brown University, Rhode Island The visual language of the Roman Empire was remarkably consistent. These images were made, used, and reinterpreted at all social levels, and often for local purposes. From a historical and archaeological perspective, this book explores the visual contribution of ordinary people across Rome’s empire. • Explores the contributions of all levels of society to imperial imagery and image-making around the Mediterranean • Moves beyond top-down and bottom-up communication to consider peer-to-peer interactions • Introduces theories of social dynamics with wide potential application to the study of ancient history November 2020 244 x 170 mm c.348pp 978-1-108-83512-1 Hardback c. £75.00 / c. US$105.00 C
Children and Family in Late Antique Egyptian Monasticism
Caroline T. Schroeder | University of Oklahoma The first book about children in one of the birthplaces of Christian monasticism, Egypt. Uses diverse written and visual sources to demonstrate how early Egyptian monasteries provided an intergenerational continuity of social, cultural, and economic capital while also contesting the traditional family’s claims to these forms of social continuity. • The first book about children in one of the birthplaces of Christian monasticism • Adopts an interdisciplinary approach drawing on history, religious studies, papyrology, literary studies, gender studies, and art history • Examines the symbolism of children in literature and art as well as the social history of children September 2020 228 x 152 mm 248pp 10 b/w illus. 978-1-107-15687-6 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Skilled Labour and Professionalism in Ancient Greece and Rome
Edited by Edmund Stewart | University of Nottingham This book is a history of ancient professionals: the makers of ancient Greek and Roman artworks, the authors of classical literature and the performers at ancient dramatic, musical and athletic contests. These individuals were specialist workers deemed to possess rare skills, for which they had undergone a period of training. • Provides a definition of professionalism and other terminology in the introduction and throughout • Provides a detailed discussion of specialization in ancient Athens and
Ostia and details 276 distinct occupations in Athens • Provides surveys and case studies of major professions, including ancient theatrical performers, doctors, philosophers, sculptors and artists September 2020 228 x 152 mm c.350pp 20 b/w illus. 978-1-108-83947-1 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Plato’s Pigs and Other Ruminations Ancient Guides to Living with Nature
M. D. Usher | University of Vermont Plato’s Pigs is a rarity: a compelling, engaging book of broad learning and careful scholarship that is fully accessible to general audiences. Its subject – the origin of modern ideas about systems and sustainability in Classical life and thought – is timely, and its arguments important for human flourishing in the Anthropocene. • Introduces readers interested in the environment, ecology, and sustainable living to the important contributions made to these topics by the ancient Greeks and Romans • Engages seriously with modern science and ecology as well as the
Classical sources • Full of lively anecdotal detail based on personal experience October 2020 228 x 152 mm c.320pp 978-1-108-83958-7 Hardback £29.99 / US$39.99 P
The Athenian Empire Using Coins as Sources
Lisa Kallet | University of Oxford This extensively illustrated book addresses the significance of coins as historical documents in the larger narrative of the empire and those who came into conflict with it. While written principally for an undergraduate audience, much of the coin evidence is new and will also interest a more advanced readership. • Presents a new narrative of the Athenian empire with an emphasis on its economic and monetary foundations and drawing heavily on significant recent research • Includes images of nearly 100 Greek coinages that illuminate the detailed history of Aegean Greece in the fifth century BC • Written accessibly for undergraduate students and their instructors Contents: 1. Introduction; 2. The Silver Owl Coinage of Athens; 3. Coinages of the Allied Cities; 4. Numismatic Narratives in the Pentecontaetia, 479-431 BC; 5. The Archidamian War, 431-421 BC; 6. The Peace of Nikias and the Rethinking of Monetary Policy, 421-413 BC; 7. The Ionian War and Loss of Empire, 412-404 BC; 8. Epilogue: From Tribute to Taxation.
Guides to the Coinage of the Ancient World
October 2020 216 x 138 mm 200pp 198 b/w illus. 2 maps 3 tables 978-1-107-01537-1 Hardback £54.99 / US$71.99 X 978-1-107-68670-0 Paperback £17.99 / US$22.99 X
Warfare in the Roman World
A. D. Lee | University of Nottingham Situates warfare in its broader political, social and economic context in the Roman world, and is distinctive in integrating consideration of developments during Late Antiquity alongside those during earlier periods of Roman history. Important for all students, instructors and scholars of ancient and military history. • Situates warfare in its broader political, social and economic context in the Roman world • Gives fuller attention to developments during Late Antiquity alongside earlier periods of Roman history • Adopts a thematic approach which better reveals continuities and changes across a millennium of Roman history
Key Themes in Ancient History
September 2020 228 x 152 mm 200pp 6 b/w illus. 5 maps 978-1-107-01428-2 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 P 978-1-107-63828-0 Paperback £17.99 / US$23.99 P
