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

The Shadow of an Ass

Philosophical Choice and Aesthetic Experience in Apuleius' Metamorphoses

By Jeffrey P. Ulrich
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Roman, Philosophy

An examination of philosophical choice and aesthetic reception in the reading of Apuleius’ novel Metamorphoses

A Commentary on Plautus' Curculio

By T. H. M. Gellar-Goad
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, Reference, Theater and Performance
Series: Michigan Classical Commentaries

The first commentary on Plautus’ Curculio in over forty years

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

Classical Myth

An Introduction

2nd Edition

By Barry B. Powell
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek

An overview of the history, theory, and stories of myths

Specters of Cavafy

By Maria Boletsi
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: Greek / Modern Intersections

Haunting the future through poetry

Garden of Egypt

Irrigation, Society, and the State in the Premodern Fayyum

By Brendan Haug
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, Greek, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies
Series: New Texts from Ancient Cultures

Examining how relationships with water flow through Egyptian history

Constructing Communities in Vergil's Aeneid

Cultural Memory, Identity, and Ideology

By Tedd A. Wimperis
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory

A new take on the Aeneid, drawing previously unexplored connections between Vergil’s fictional world and its political context

The Reputation of the Roman Merchant

By Jane Sancinito
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman
Series: Law and Society in the Ancient World

Defying a reputation for deceit and greed, Roman merchants strategized to present their good traits and successes

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

Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus

By Arum Park
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek

How Pindar and Aeschylus—in distinct but complementary ways—treat the concepts of reciprocity, truth, and gender as interlocked and intertwined

Images and Translations

The Etruscans Abroad

By Larissa Bonfante
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, Greek
Series: Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures

A lively journey to meet the Etruscans, one of Europe’s most enigmatic societies, by world-renowned archaeologist Larissa Bonfante

Comparing Roman Hellenisms in Italy

Edited by Basil Dufallo & Riemer A. Faber
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman

Examines in detail the local, historical, and material circumstances that distinguish different types of Roman Hellenism

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

Accustomed to Obedience?

Classical Ionia and the Aegean World, 480–294 BCE

By Joshua P. Nudell
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek

A dedicated study of Classical Ionia

Stock Characters Speaking

Eight Libanian Declamations Introduced and Translated

By Robert Penella
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, Greek

A translation of eight declamations written by or ascribed to Libanius, fourth-century CE sophist of Antioch

The Greco-Egyptian Magical Formularies

Libraries, Books, and Individual Recipes

By Christopher Faraone & Sofia Torallas Tovar
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Roman
Series: New Texts from Ancient Cultures

Essays on the magical handbooks of Greco-Roman Egypt

Confiscation or Coexistence

Egyptian Temples in the Age of Augustus

By Andrew Connor
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman
Series: New Texts from Ancient Cultures

A new interpretation of the administrative restructuring of lands held by temples in Roman Egypt

Golden Cynthia

Essays on Propertius

Edited by Sharon L. James
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman

New approaches to the poetry of Propertius

Tales of Dionysus

The Dionysiaca of Nonnus of Panopolis

By William Levitan & Stanley Lombardo
Subjects: Classical Studies, Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism

The first English verse translation of the Dionysiaca of Nonnus of Panopolis

Discourse, Knowledge, and Power in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses

By Evelyn Adkins
Subjects: Classical Studies

The first in-depth examination of speech and discourse as tools of characterization in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses

The Scent of Ancient Magic

By Britta K. Ager
Subjects: Classical Studies, Religion

Examines the complex association of the sense of smell and the supernatural in classical antiquity

Contested Pasts

A Determinist History of Alexander the Great in the Roman Empire

By Jennifer Finn
Subjects: Classical Studies

A fresh approach to the Roman imperial tradition on Alexander the Great

Amor Belli

Love and Strife in Lucan's Bellum Civile

By Giulio Celotto
Subjects: Classical Studies

Examines Lucan's literary adaptation of the cosmological dialectic of Love and Strife

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