Classical Studies

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Ancient Bovillae

History, Art, and Archaeology of a Lost City in the Roman Hinterland

Edited by Peter Hatlie
Subjects: Archaeology, Roman, Classical Studies, Roman, History, European History

The first comprehensive study in English of the ancient Roman city and its decline

Beyond the River, Under the Eye of Rome

By Timothy C Hart
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, History, European History

Explores how Roman perceptions of Danubian peoples influenced some of the most politically and socially significant events of Roman antiquity

Between Sahara and Sea

Africa in the Roman Empire

By David J. Mattingly
Subjects: Archaeology, Roman, African Studies, History, Medieval and Early Modern History, Classical Studies, Roman
Series: Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures

David Mattingly’s long-awaited book on North Africa and the Romans

Writing Imperial History

Tacitus from Agricola to Annales

By Bram L.H. ten Berge
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, History, European History

Analyzes how Tacitus contributed to our current understanding of history and reveals the themes that permeated his writing

Lucian’s Laughing Gods

Religion, Philosophy, and Popular Culture in the Roman East

By Inger NI Kuin
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, History, European History

The first English-language monograph about religion and Lucian of Samosata

Christians and Muslims in Early Islamic Egypt

By Lajos Berkes
Subjects: Papyrology, Archaeology, Classical Studies, History
Series: American Studies in Papyrology

Yale Papyri in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library IV

By Hélène Cuvigny, Ruth Duttenhoefer, and Ann Ellis Hanson
Subjects: Classical Studies, Papyrology, History
Series: American Studies in Papyrology

Examines a group of papyri held at Yale’s rare book library, the Beinecke

Bombing Pompeii

World Heritage and Military Necessity

By Nigel Pollard
Subjects: History, Classical Studies

A timely analysis of the bombing of Pompeii in 1943 and the importance of protecting world heritage sites

The Black Widows of the Eternal City

The True Story of Rome's Most Infamous Poisoners

By Craig A. Monson
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Classical Studies, Roman, History, European History

An intriguing and well-researched account behind the dozens of female poisoners in seventeenth-century Rome

Ostraka and Other Inscribed Material from Bir Shawish, Small Oasis

Excavation Seasons 2005 and 2007

By Marek Dospel
Subjects: Archaeology, Papyrology, Classical Studies, History
Series: American Studies in Papyrology

Detailed insight on writings from a Late Antique settlement in Egypt

Commerce with the Classics

Ancient Books and Renaissance Readers

By Anthony Grafton
Subjects: Classical Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature, History
Series: Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures

A distinctive history of the traditions of reading and life in the Renaissance library, as seen in the texts of Renaissance intellectuals

Miletos, the Ornament of Ionia

A History of the City to 400 B.C.E.

By Vanessa B Gorman
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, History

A lively, detailed history of one of the most important ancient Greek cities

Adoption, Memory, and Cold War Greece

Kid pro quo?

By Gonda Van Steen
Subjects: American Studies, History, American History, European History, Classical Studies, Greek, Literary Studies, European Literature

Reveals the history of how 3,000 Greek children were shipped to the United States for adoption in the postwar period

Hellenistic Poetry

A Selection

Edited by David Sider
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, History

A major new collection of use to all students and scholars working on Hellenistic Greek poetry

A Family of Gods

The Worship of the Imperial Family in the Latin West

By Gwynaeth McIntyre
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, History
Series: Societas: Historical Studies in Classical Culture

Important examination of Roman imperial power structure

Provincial Soldiers and Imperial Instability in the Histories of Tacitus

By Jonathan Master
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, History

Considers what Tacitus’ presentation of provincial soldiers was intended to teach Roman imperial readers

Portraits of the Vestal Virgins, Priestesses of Ancient Rome

By Molly Lindner
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, History

Examines portraits of Rome’s Vestal Virgins as artistic documents and political vehicles

Epiphanius of Cyprus

Imagining an Orthodox World

By Young Richard Kim
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Religion, History, Medieval and Early Modern History

Brings a balanced perspective to a controversial scholar of heresies

Clio's Other Sons

Berossus and Manetho

By John D Dillery
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, History

A discussion of the first written histories of Babylon and Egypt

Heroic Offerings

The Terracotta Plaques from the Spartan Sanctuary of Agamemnon and Kassandra

By Gina Salapata
Subjects: Archaeology, Greek, Classical Studies, Greek, History

The first in-depth study of the terracotta plaques from the sanctuary of Agamemnon and Kassandra at Amyklai

Treasure Map

A Guide to the Delian Inventories

By Richard Hamilton
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Archaeology, Greek, History

A peek at the gifts the Greeks offered to their gods

A Student Commentary on Pausanias Book 1

By Patrick Hogan
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Archaeology, History
Series: Michigan Classical Commentaries

The first student commentary on Pausanias in over a century

Finding Italy

Travel, Nation, and Colonization in Vergil's Aeneid

By Kristopher Fletcher
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, History

The Trojans' journey to Italy in Vergil’s Aeneid teaches them to love their new homeland and their new name—the Romans

Corrupting Luxury in Ancient Greek Literature

By Vanessa B Gorman & Robert Gorman
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, History, Archaeology, Greek

Traces the principle that luxury corrupts its possessor as seen through a millennium of Greek literature

Ushering in a New Republic

Theologies of Arrival at Rome in the First Century BCE

By Trevor S. Luke
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, History

Exploring the theological framing of Republican leaders’ arrivals in Rome

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