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gay activism.
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The Greek Experience of India (2019), was described by the TLS as ‘the best book ever written on the subject’.
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of immortality and discussed the purpose of
life with the naked sages of India, he became a model for military achievement as well as a
as the controversy attached to the followers of Epicurus in Italy, ranging
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He is author and editor of An Archaeology of Interaction (2011), Network Analysis in Archaeology (2013) and Thinking through Material Culture (2005). Since 2011, he has directed an archaeological fieldwork project at the Bronze Age site of Palaikastro in east Crete.
other facets of his reception in various cultures
around the world, right up to the present and his role in gay activism.
Horatian Lyric Discourse (1984) and Parthenope: The Interplay of Ideas
by Simonides and Archilochus. Another chapter argues against the widespread
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suggesting instead that she was a virtuoso singer and lyre-player, entertaining
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in several other chapters of the book. Two more volumes of collected papers will
Meaning in the Making
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Jason W. Carter, Caleb M. Cohoe, Klaus Corcilius, Christopher Frey, Jessica Gelber, Katerina Ierodiakonou, Mark A. Johnstone,
Volume 1 Greek Poetry before 400 BC
understanding. But rather than dismiss them on the grounds that they are incommensurable with our own and to that extent unintelligible,
we should see them as offering opportunities for us to revise many of our own preconceptions. We should accept that the realities to be accounted for are multidimensional and that all such accounts are to some extent
value-laden. In the process insights from current anthropology and the
ARISTOTLE’S On the Soul
study of ancient Greece and China especially are brought to bear to
suggest how the remit of the history of science can be expanded to achieve a cross-cultural perspective on the problems.
Sir Geoffrey Lloyd is Emeritus Professor of Ancient Philosophy and
Science at the University of Cambridge and Senior Scholar in Residence at the Needham Research Institute. He has authored or edited more than thirty books and won numerous international prizes and medals
The Comparative Approach G. E. R. Lloyd
(Dan David Prize, Fyssen Prize, Sarton Medal, Kenyon Medal) for pioneering studies in the comparative history of science.
A Critical Guide
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Caleb M. Cohoe
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A Social Archaeology Anna Lucille Boozer
roman people
Kellis was a village in the Dakhleh Oasis in the Egyptian Western Desert unexcavated, it has in recent decades yielded a wealth of data unsurpassed by most sites of the period due to the excellent state of preservation. We know the layout of the village with its temples, churches, residential sectors and cemeteries, and
A Roman-Period Village in Egypt’s Dakhleh Oasis Edited by Colin A. Hope, Gillian E. Bowen the excavators have retrieved vast quantities of artefacts, including a wealth of
documents. The study of this material yields an integrated picture of life in the
village, including the transition from ancient religious beliefs to various branches of Christianity. This volume provides accounts of the lived-in environment
and its material culture, social structure and economy, religious beliefs and
Oasis Project, for which he directs excavations at Kellis and Mut al-Kharab, of Egypt’s Western Desert and Egyptian ceramics of the New Kingdom, and co-founded the archaeology programme at Monash University.
Cultures at Monash University. She is deputy director of excavations at Kellis,
director of excavations at Dayr Abu Matta, Dakhleh Oasis, and numismatist for the Dakhleh Oasis Project. An authority on the archaeology of early Christian Egypt, she has published extensively and has excavated four fourth-century
radical reinterpretation of a figure of profound point of Roman history from Republic to Empire.
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Music and Memory in the Ancient Greek and Roman Worlds
In Greek mythology, the Muses are Memory’s daughters. Their genealogy suggests a deep connection between music and memory in Graeco-Roman culture, but how was this connection understood and experienced by ancient authors, artists, performers, and audiences? How is music remembered and how does it memorialize in a world before recording technology, where sound accumulated differently than it does today? This volume explores music’s role in the discourses of cultural memory, communication, and commemoration in ancient Greek and Roman societies. It reveals the many and varied ways in which musical memory
Expanding Horizons in the History of Science The Compar ative Approach G. E. R. Lloyd
formed a fundamental part of social, cultural, ritual, and political life in ancient Greek- and Latin-speaking communities, from classical Athens to Ptolemaic Alexandria and ancient Rome. Drawing on the contributors’ interdisciplinary expertise in art history, philology, performance studies, history, and ethnomusicology, eleven original chapters and the editors’ Introduction offer new approaches for the study of Graeco-Roman music and musical culture.
Lauren Curtis is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at Bard College. She is the author of Imagining the Chorus in Augustan Poetry (2017) and is currently working on a commentary on Ovid, Tristia 3 for Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics.
Naomi Weiss is the Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of the
Music and Memory in the Ancient Greek and Roman Worlds Edited by Lauren Curtis and Naomi Weiss
Humanities at Harvard University. She is the author of The Music of Tragedy: Performance and Imagination in Euripidean Theater (2018) and coeditor of Genre in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry: Theories and Models (2019).
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GR EEK EPITA PHIC POETRY A SEL EC T ION
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Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
Oil, Wine, and the Cultural Economy of Ancient Greece
Oil, Wine, and the Cultural Economy of Ancient Greece
From the Bronze Age to the Archaic Era Catherine E. Pratt
From the Bronze Age to the Archaic Era Catherine E. Pratt
CL ASSICS A FTER A NTIQUIT Y
Egyptian gods and its impact on Greek identity in the Roman Empire. Bringing together archaeological, art historical, and textual evidence, she demonstrates how the diverse devotees of gods such as Isis and Sarapis considered Greek ethnicity in
to Isis that grounded her in Greek geography and mythology, funerary portraits that depicted devotees dressed as Isis, and sanctuaries that used natural and artistic features to evoke stereotypes of the Nile. Mazurek’s volume offers a fresh, material history of ancient globalization, one that highlights the role that religion played in the self-identification of provincial Romans and their place in the Mediterranean world.
Martin Revermann
Brecht and Tragedy Radicalism, Traditionalism, Eristics
Classics after Antiquity
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Greek Identity through Egyptian Religion in Roman Greece Lindsey A. Mazurek
Lindsey A. Mazurek is Assistant Professor of Classical Studies at Indiana
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University, Bloomington, and co-editor of Across the Corrupting Sea: PostBraudelian Approaches to the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean. Her scholarship has been supported by the Loeb Classical Library Foundation, the German Archaeological Institute, the Hardt Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Isis in a Global Empire Greek Identity through Egyptian Religion in Roman Greece Lindsey A. Mazurek
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have long shaped our understanding of Roman Greece. These ideas were expressed in various ways – sculptures of Egyptian deities rendered in a Greek style, hymns
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ways that differed significantly from those of the Greek male elites whose opinions
Iverson
In Isis in a Global Empire, Lindsey Mazurek explores the growing popularity of
Mazurek
Isis in a Global Empire
painstaking reanalysis of the ancient sources in light of recent advances in our understanding
historical importance who stands at the turning
churches, including the earliest surviving purpose-built basilica.
Ewen Bowie
ultimately preferred to precipitate civil war rather than accept its political defeat. Based on
facile determinism that often substitutes
Edited by Colin A. Hope and Gillian E. Bowen
Gillian E. Bowen is Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Ancient
mobilized a determined opposition that
for historical explanation, this book offers a
A Roman-Period Village in Egypt’s Dakhleh Oasis
and co-ordinates ceramic studies. He is also an authority on the archaeology
the Republic or its norms and institutions, but because Caesar’s extraordinary success
on agents’ choices rather than structural
Kellis
Colin A. Hope is Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Ancient
heroes of the past. Catastrophe befell Rome not because Caesar (or anyone else) turned against
causation, and deep skepticism toward the
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inhabited continuously from the first to the late fourth century AD. Previously
successful republican leader who was measured against the Republic’s traditions and its greatest
of the participatory role of the People in the
printed in the united kingdom
Kellis
Julius Caesar was no aspiring autocrat seeking to realize the imperial future but an unusually
republican political system, a strong emphasis
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Cultures at Monash University. He is a founding member of the Dakhleh
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At Home in Roman Egypt
A Selection Edited with Introduction and Notes by Richard Hunter
jacket illustration: Portrait of Julius Caesar carved in Egyptian graywacke (Berlin, Staatliche Museen, Antikensammlung sk 342; late first century bc/early first century ad). Some scholars have disputed the identification, authenticity, or both. Photo courtesy of Hans R. Goette.
and the
life in Roman Egypt.
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At Home in Roman Egypt
Thousands of Greek verse epitaphs, covering a millennium of history, survive inscribed or painted on stone. These largely anonymous poems shed rich light on areas such as ancient moral values, religious ideas, gender relations and attitudes, as well as on the transmission and reception of ‘canonical’ poetry; many of these poems are of very high literary quality. This is the first modern commentary on a selection of these poems. Problems of syntax, metre and language are fully explained, accompanied by sophisticated literary discussion of the poems. There is a full introduction to the nature of these poems and to their context within Greek ideas of death and the afterlife. This comprehensive edition will be of interest to advanced undergraduates and graduate students studying Greek literature, as well as to scholars.
Robert Morstein-Marx
practices, and burial traditions. The topics are covered by an international team
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Greek Epitaphic Poetry
Julius Caesar was no aspiring autocrat seeking to realize the imperial future but an unusually successful republican leader who was measured against the Republic’s traditions and its greatest heroes of the past. Catastrophe befell Rome not because Caesar (or anyone else) turned against the Republic or its norms and institutions, but because Caesar’s extraordinary success mobilized a determined opposition that ultimately preferred to precipitate civil war rather than accept its political defeat. Based on painstaking reanalysis of the ancient sources in light of recent advances in our understanding of the participatory role of the People in the republican political system, a strong emphasis on agents’ choices rather than structural causation, and deep skepticism toward the facile determinism that often substitutes for historical explanation, this book offers a radical reinterpretation of a figure of profound historical importance who stands in Roman history at the turning point from Republic to Empire.
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of specialists, culminating in an inter-disciplinary approach that will illuminate
frameworks within which the members of earlier societies and of modern
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Radicalism, Traditionalism, Eristics Martin Revermann
Expanding Horizons in the History of Science indigenous groups worked admittedly pose severe problems for our
of R.D. Hicks published by Cambridge
Brecht and Tragedy
and Archaic and Classical Choral Song (Berlin, 2011), edited one on Herodotus
scientists since the so-called scientific revolution. The conceptual
cambridge critical guides
University Press.
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Roman Empire. He co-edited volumes on Philostratus (Cambridge, 2009)
Ewen Bowie
cover illustration: The text of
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and Literature at the University of Oxford. He writes on early Greek poetry; Old Comedy; Hellenistic poetry; and the Greek literature and culture of the
(Berlin, 2018), and published a commentary on Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe
De Anima III 4 as printed in the 1907 edition
A Social Archaeology Anna Lucille Boozer
Ewen Bowie is the Emeritus E. P. Warren Praelector and Fellow in Classics at
Corpus Christi College, Oxford and Emeritus Professor of Classical Languages
(Cambridge, 2019).
Cambridge Critical Guides
Anna Lucille Boozer is Associate Professor of Roman Mediterranean Archaeology and Ancient History at Baruch College and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York (CUNY). Her research focuses on Roman Egypt, Meroitic Sudan, empires, and everyday life. She directs the CUNY excavations at Amheida (Egypt) and MAP: The Meroë Archival Project (Sudan). She has written widely on the social archaeology and history of Egypt and Sudan. Among her books are A Late RomanoEgyptian House in the Dakhla Oasis: Amheida House B2 (2015) and Archaeologies of Empire: Local Participants and Imperial Trajectories (2020).
follow devoted to later Greek literature and culture.
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Christopher Shields, Rosemary Twomey.
What was life like for ordinary people who lived in Roman Egypt? In this volume, Anna Lucille Boozer reconstructs and examines the everyday lives of non-elite individuals. It is the first book to bring a “life course” approach to the study of Roman Egypt and Egyptology more generally. Based on evidence drawn from objects, portraits, and letters, she focuses on the quotidian details that were most meaningful to those who lived during the centuries of Roman occupation. Boozer explores these individuals through each phase of the life cycle – from conception, childbirth, childhood, and youth, to adulthood and old age – and focuses on essential themes such as religion, health, disability, death, and the afterlife. Illuminating the lives of people forgotten by most historians, her richly illustrated volume also shows how ordinary people experienced and enacted social and cultural change.
men in the elite symposia whose verbal and musical components are explored
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Sean Kelsey, Jessica Moss, C. D. C. Reeve, Krisanna Scheiter,
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view that Sappho composed and performed chiefly for audiences of young girls,
roman people
Music and Memory in the Ancient Greek and Roman Worlds
Contributors
Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture
and the
Curtis and Weiss
and Aristotle’s continuing relevance. It will prove invaluable for researchers in ancient philosophy and the history of science and ideas.
when papyri published in 1992 and 2005 yielded fragments of such long poems
Expanding Horizons in the History of Science
his intricate views. It also highlights ongoing interpretive debates
chapters have become seminal, e.g. that which first proposed the importance of
now-lost long narrative elegies, and others exploring their performance contexts
focus of the history of science should be the achievements of Western
A R I S T O T L E ’ S On the Soul
Aristotle in his intellectual context and draws judiciously from his
above all of elegiac poetry and its relation to fifth-century prose historiography,
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but also of early Greek epic, iambic, melic and epigrammatic poetry. Many
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This book challenges the common assumption that the predominant
inquiry on biology, psychology and philosophy of mind from antiquity
other works as well as the history of interpretation to shed light on
contributions over four decades to our understanding of early Greek literature,
1. THEORISING ‘MEANING IN THE MAKING’
through examining soul’s causal powers. The thirteen new essays in
to the present. They deepen our understanding of his key concepts,
Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture
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this Critical Guide demonstrate the profound influence of Aristotle’s
including form, reason, capacity, and activity. This volume situates
University. His major publications include: Polyhymnia: The Rhetoric of in Vergilian Bucolic (2012).
thinking. Aristotle develops a general account of all types of living
A Critical Guide Edited by Caleb Cohoe
Gregson Davis is Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emeritus at Duke
Lloyd
Aristotle calls psuchē (soul). For Aristotle, soul is the form which gives life to a body and causes all its living activities, from breathing to
Cohoe
Aristotle’s On the Soul aims to uncover the principle of life, what
Archaeology, and Religion at the University of Missouri. He is the author
Carl Knappett
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Aristotle’s On the Soul
of Epicurean Ethics in Horace: The Psychology of Satire (2018).
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and fascinating volume explores these and many
Robert Morstein-Marx is Professor of Classics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Mass Oratory and Political Power in the Late Roman Republic (Cambridge University Press, 2004), Hegemony to Empire: The Development of the Roman Imperium in the East, 148–62 b.c. (1995), and coeditor of A Companion to the Roman Republic (2006).
Philosophical Perspectives in the Ciceronian Age
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C A R L K N A P P E T T is the Walter Graham/Homer Thompson
Chair in Aegean Prehistory at the University of Toronto.
Sergio Yona is Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics,
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Epicurus in Rome
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areas in novel ways.
religious prophet bringing Christianity (in the
Crusades) and Islam (in the Qur’an and beyond) to the regions he conquered. This innovative
Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture Volume 1: Greek Poetry before 400 BC
to life the fascinating art of Minoan Crete and surrounding
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Meaning in the Making Carl Knappett
materials themselves. By showing how these actions work in the context of specific bodies of material, Knappett brings
from ethical and political concerns to the understanding of scientific and celestial phenomena.
Bowie
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with ancient texts in order to interpret its meaning. But for earlier periods, without texts, such as the Bronze Age
identifying distinct actions – such as modelling, combining
leading authors is explored in a way that illuminates the popularity as well
In this book one of the world’s leading Hellenists brings together his many
How do we interpret ancient art created before written
and imprinting – whereby meaning is scaffolded through the
representatives and supporters of Epicureanism at the time. Throughout
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texts? Scholars usually put ancient art into conversation
theory from art history, archaeology and anthropology,
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exclusively) on the works and views of Cicero, premier politician and Roman philosopher of the day, and Lucretius, foremost among the
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Carl Knappett offers a new approach to this problem by
Epicureanism, in the late Republic. It focuses primarily (although not
the volume, the impact of such disparate reception on the part of these
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Aegean, this method is redundant. Using cutting-edge
commissioned specially from a distinguished international group of
period, and the Alexander Romance transmitted his legendary biography to every language
of medieval Europe and the Middle East. As well as an adventurer who sought the secret
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scholars, explores the role and influence of Greek philosophy, specifically
writers and political actors developed it. He acquired the surname ‘Great’ by the Roman
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The role of Greek thought in the final days of the Roman Republic is a topic that has garnered much attention in recent years. This volume of essays,
his own legend in his lifetime, and subsequent
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for the Runciman Prize. His most recent work,
Epicurus in Rome
Alexander III of Macedon (356–323 BC) has for over 2000 years been one of the best recognized names from antiquity. He set about creating
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conquered. This innovative and fascinating volume explores these and many other facets of his reception in various cultures around the world, right up to the present and his role in
A History of
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Epicurus in Rome
and Alexander the Great: A Life in Legend (2008), both of which have been shortlisted
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India, he became a model for military achievement as well as a religious prophet bringing Christianity (in the Crusades) and Islam (in the Qur’an and beyond) to the regions he
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to every language of medieval Europe and the Middle East. As well as an adventurer who sought the secret of immortality and discussed the purpose of life with the naked sages of
conferences. His books include Land of Lost Gods: The Search for Classical Greece (1987)
and the roman people
by the Roman period, and the Alexander Romance transmitted his legendary biography
work on the Alexander legends, having both organised and participated in various Alexander
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Alexander III of Macedon (356–323 BC) has for over 2000 years been one of the best recognized names from antiquity. He set about creating his own legend in his lifetime, and subsequent writers and political actors developed it. He acquired the surname ‘Great’
(UK) in 2010, and is widely known for his
Yona and Davis
R ICH A R D STONEM A N is an Honorary
Visiting Professor at the University of Exeter. He was President of the Classical Association
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A History of Alexander the Great in World Culture
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