Classical history & classical civilisation books

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Euripides: Bacchae

Euripides: Bacchae

Author: William Allan (University of Oxford) ,  Laura Swift (University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9781108948388
Format: Paperback
$64.66

An up-to-date edition of one of the most widely read and performed Greek tragedies. Offers new interpretative suggestions...  Read More >>

A Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses: Volume 2, Books 7-12

A Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses: Volume 2, Books...

Author: Alessandro Barchiesi (New York University) ,  E. J. Kenney (University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9780521895804
Format: Hardback
$310.50

Ovid's Metamorphoses is one of the longest extant Latin poems from the ancient world and one of the most influential...  Read More >>

A Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses: Volume 3, Books 13–15 and Indices

A Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses: Volume 3, Books...

Author: Alessandro Barchiesi (New York University) ,  Phillip Hardie (Trinity College, Cambridge)
ISBN: 9780521895811
Format: Hardback
$310.50

Ovid's Metamorphoses is one of the longest extant Latin poems from the ancient world and one of the most influential...  Read More >>

Euripides: Bacchae

Euripides: Bacchae

Author: William Allan (University of Oxford) ,  Laura Swift (University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9781108844550
Format: Hardback
$219.91

An up-to-date edition of one of the most widely read and performed Greek tragedies. Offers new interpretative suggestions...  Read More >>

The Renaissance Battle for Rome: Competing Claims to an Idealized Past in Humanist Latin Poetry

The Renaissance Battle for Rome: Competing Claims to...

Author: Dr Susanna de Beer (Director of Ancient Studies and Classical Receptions at the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome and Senior Lecturer in (Renaissance) Latin Literature at Leiden University)
ISBN: 9780198878902
Format: Hardback
$178.95

The Renaissance Battle for Rome examines a rhetorical battle fought simultaneously between many parties seeking...  Read More >>

Aristotle on the Scope of Practical Reason: Spectators, Legislators, Hopes, and Evils

Aristotle on the Scope of Practical Reason: Spectators,...

Author: Pavlos Kontos
ISBN: 9780367760496
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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The Story of the Roman Amphitheatre

The Story of the Roman Amphitheatre

Author: David Bomgardner (Visiting Research Fellow, Dept. of Archaeology, University of Winchester (initially for five years: 2015-2020).)
ISBN: 9780367625115
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This thoroughly updated and enlarged edition illuminates the epic story of the birth, early development, widespread...  Read More >>

Making and Unmaking Ancient Memory

Making and Unmaking Ancient Memory

Author: Martine De Marre (University of South Africa) ,  Rajiv Bhola (University of Ottawa)
ISBN: 9781032251349
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This volume explores ancient Greek and Roman representations of the past, and modern approaches to the reception...  Read More >>

Pompeian Peristyle Gardens

Pompeian Peristyle Gardens

Author: Samuli Simelius
ISBN: 9780367650001
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book examines how Pompeian peristyle gardens were utilized to represent the socioeconomic status of Roman homeowners,...  Read More >>

Rethinking the Roman City: The Spatial Turn and the Archaeology of Roman Italy

Rethinking the Roman City: The Spatial Turn and the...

Author: Dunia Filippi
ISBN: 9781032161877
Format: Paperback
$83.99

The spatial turn has brought forward new analytical imperatives about the importance of space in the relationship...  Read More >>

Urbanisation in Roman Spain and Portugal: Civitates Hispaniae in the Early Empire

Urbanisation in Roman Spain and Portugal: Civitates...

Author: Pieter Houten (University of Nottingham, UK)
ISBN: 9780367708672
Format: Paperback
$83.99

The principal aims of the book Urbanisation in Roman Spain and Portugal: Civitates Hispaniae in the Early Empire...  Read More >>

Dionysus and Politics: Constructing Authority in the Graeco-Roman World

Dionysus and Politics: Constructing Authority in the...

Author: Filip Doroszewski ,  Dariusz Karłowicz
ISBN: 9780367507282
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This volume presents an essential but underestimated role that Dionysus played in Greek and Roman political thought....  Read More >>

Greek Cities and Roman Governors: Placing Power in Imperial Asia Minor

Greek Cities and Roman Governors: Placing Power in Imperial...

Author: Garrett Ryan
ISBN: 9780367756857
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This volume uses the travels of Roman governors to explore how authority was defined in and by the public places...  Read More >>

Julian the Apostate in Byzantine Culture

Julian the Apostate in Byzantine Culture

Author: Stefano Trovato
ISBN: 9781032017488
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book analyses Julian the Apostate from the perspectives of Byzantine Culture.  Read More >>

Art, Power, and Patronage in the Principality of Epirus, 1204–1318

Art, Power, and Patronage in the Principality of Epirus,...

Author: Leonela Fundić
ISBN: 9781032254173
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book explores a corpus of Epirote architecture, frescoes, sculpture, and inscriptions from the early thirteenth...  Read More >>

The Poetry of Ennodius: Translated with an Introduction and Notes

The Poetry of Ennodius: Translated with an Introduction...

Author: Bret Mulligan
ISBN: 9781032196503
Format: Paperback
$83.99

The Poetry of Ennodius offers the first translation into English verse of the entire eclectic corpus of sacred and...  Read More >>

Carpocrates, Marcellina, and Epiphanes: Three Early Christian Teachers of Alexandria and Rome

Carpocrates, Marcellina, and Epiphanes: Three Early...

Author: M. David Litwa
ISBN: 9781032285368
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This volume is the definitive study of three early Carpocratian leaders, including the first full-length study and...  Read More >>

Plato’s Timaeus and the Biblical Creation Accounts: Cosmic Monotheism and Terrestrial Polytheism in the Primordial History

Plato’s Timaeus and the Biblical Creation Accounts:...

Author: Russell E. Gmirkin
ISBN: 9781032020846
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book argues that the biblical creation accounts draw directly from Plato's Timaeus, demonstrating the influence...  Read More >>

Married Life in Greco-Roman Antiquity

Married Life in Greco-Roman Antiquity

Author: Claude-Emmanuelle Centlivres Challet
ISBN: 9781032149653
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Beyond the institution of marriage, its norms, and rules, what was life like for married couples in Greco-Roman...  Read More >>

New Perspectives on Platonic Dialectic: A Philosophy of Inquiry

New Perspectives on Platonic Dialectic: A Philosophy...

Author: Jens Kristian Larsen ,  Vivil Valvik Haraldsen
ISBN: 9780367629144
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This volume offers fresh perspectives on Platonic dialectic. Its 13 chapters explore this crucial aspect of Plato’s...  Read More >>

Christian Emperors and Roman Elites in Late Antiquity

Christian Emperors and Roman Elites in Late Antiquity...

Author: Rita Lizzi Testa (University of Perugia, Italy.)
ISBN: 9781032262512
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This collection of case studies, available in English for the first time, explores case studies in relations between...  Read More >>

Between Byzantine Men: Desire, Homosociality, and Brotherhood in the Medieval Empire

Between Byzantine Men: Desire, Homosociality, and Brotherhood...

Author: Mark Masterson
ISBN: 9781032284446
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book foregrounds desire between men in and around the imperial court of the 900s.  Read More >>

Mithras

Mithras

Author: Andrew Fear (The University of Manchester, United Kingdom)
ISBN: 9781032252032
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Mithras explores the history, practices, and reception of Mithraism through literary and material evidence. It attempts...  Read More >>

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