Classical history & classical civilisation books

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The Nero-Antichrist: Founding and Fashioning a Paradigm

The Nero-Antichrist: Founding and Fashioning a Paradigm...

Author: Shushma Malik (Roehampton University, London)
ISBN: 9781108798358
Format: Paperback
$59.49

Refutes the commonly-held perception that Nero should be understood as the Antichrist figure in the Bible, and argues...  Read More >>

Afterlives of the Roman Poets: Biofiction and the Reception of Latin Poetry

Afterlives of the Roman Poets: Biofiction and the Reception...

Author: Nora Goldschmidt (University of Durham)
ISBN: 9781316632086
Format: Paperback
$72.42

Brings innovations in modern life-writing studies to Roman poetry and its reception. While its core fields are Latin...  Read More >>

Localism in Hellenistic Greece

Localism in Hellenistic Greece

Author: Sheila Ager ,  Hans Beck
ISBN: 9781487548315
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Localism in Hellenistic Greece explores, in exemplary fashion, how ancient societies positioned themselves in a...  Read More >>

From Esztergom to the Urals and Syria: Esztergomt�l AZ Ur�lig �s Sz�ri�ig, a Magyar őst�rt�nettől a Kereszteslovagokig

From Esztergom to the Urals and Syria: Esztergomt�l...

Author: Bal�zs Major ,  Attila T�rk
ISBN: 9786155766466
Format: Paperback
$87.12

The volume is an overview of the research projects and educational activities of the Archaeological Department at...  Read More >>

Cassiodoro Varie. Volume 1: Introduzione Generale, Libri I E II

Cassiodoro Varie. Volume 1: Introduzione Generale, Libri...

Author: Andrea Giardina ,  Giovanni Cecconi
ISBN: 9788891300126
Format: Hardback
$971.52

English summary: The Variae is, until now, the only of the great works of Latin culture to not have been completely...  Read More >>

Plutarch and his Contemporaries: Sharing the Roman Empire

Plutarch and his Contemporaries: Sharing the Roman Empire...

Author: Katarzyna Jażdżewska ,  Filip Doroszewski
ISBN: 9789004687295
Format: Hardback
$483.12

The volume puts into the spotlight overlaps between Plutarch and other imperial writers. By examining the Plutarchan...  Read More >>

A Commentary on Books 3 and 4 of Achilles Tatius’ Leucippe and Clitophon

A Commentary on Books 3 and 4 of Achilles Tatius’ Leucippe...

Author: John Hilton
ISBN: 9789004691520
Format: Hardback
$435.60

This book presents a full commentary on a subversive second-century narrative of the shipwreck, capture by bandits,...  Read More >>

The Excavations at Ismant al-Kharab: Volume II - The Christian Monuments of Kellis: The Churches and Cemeteries

The Excavations at Ismant al-Kharab: Volume II - The...

Author: Gillian E. Bowen
ISBN: 9781789259636
Format: Hardback
$205.00

The first detailed publication of three of the earliest Christian churches known in Egypt.  Read More >>

Emotion and Historiography in Polybius’ Histories

Emotion and Historiography in Polybius’ Histories

Author: Regina M. Loehr
ISBN: 9781032423623
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This volume explores emotion and its importance in Polybius’ conception of history, his writing of historiography,...  Read More >>

Power and Representation in Byzantium: The Forging of the Macedonian Dynasty

Power and Representation in Byzantium: The Forging of...

Author: Neil Churchill
ISBN: 9781032185927
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book instead adopts a chronological approach and considers how Basil justified his seizure of power, and how...  Read More >>

Critical Ancient World Studies: The Case for Forgetting Classics

Critical Ancient World Studies: The Case for Forgetting...

Author: Mathura Umachandran ,  Marchella Ward
ISBN: 9781032120119
Format: Paperback
$77.99

This volume explores and elucidates Critical Ancient World Studies, a new model for the study of the ancient world...  Read More >>

Critical Ancient World Studies: The Case for Forgetting Classics

Critical Ancient World Studies: The Case for Forgetting...

Author: Mathura Umachandran ,  Marchella Ward
ISBN: 9781032120126
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This volume explores and elucidates Critical Ancient World Studies, a new model for the study of the ancient world...  Read More >>

Cause and Explanation in Ancient Philosophy

Cause and Explanation in Ancient Philosophy

Author: Alberto Ross (Universidad Panamericana, Mexico) ,  Daniel Vázquez (Mary Immaculate College, Ireland)
ISBN: 9781032307442
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This volume offers an updated analysis of the use, meaning, and scope of the classical notion of aitía. It clarifies...  Read More >>

Julius Caesar and the Roman People

Julius Caesar and the Roman People

Author: Robert Morstein-Marx (University of California, Santa Barbara)
ISBN: 9781108932080
Format: Paperback
$77.60

A thorough reconsideration of Julius Caesar's career throughout the crisis of the Roman Republic. Argues that Caesar...  Read More >>

Blessed Thessaly: The Identities of a Place and Its People from the Archaic Period to the Hellenistic

Blessed Thessaly: The Identities of a Place and Its...

Author: Emma Aston
ISBN: 9781789621242
Format: Hardback
$284.63

There, individual communities were linked by a regional superstructure of identity and organisation: being Thessalian....  Read More >>

Transformation and the History of Philosophy

Transformation and the History of Philosophy

Author: G. Anthony Bruno (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK) ,  Justin Vlasits (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
ISBN: 9780367520885
Format: Hardback
$452.00

Transformation and the History of Philosophy is an outstanding survey of the history, nature and development of...  Read More >>

Cardinal Bessarion (1403–1472): Most Latin of Greeks, Most Greek of Latins

Cardinal Bessarion (1403–1472): Most Latin of Greeks,...

Author: Michael Malone-Lee
ISBN: 9781032442402
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This biography presents Cardinal Bessarion in his time and explores his personal perspective on his times and experience....  Read More >>

Cicero and the Early Latin Poets

Cicero and the Early Latin Poets

Author: Hannah Čulík-Baird (Boston University)
ISBN: 9781009013703
Format: Paperback
$64.66

The writings of Cicero contain hundreds of quotations of Latin poetry. This book examines his citations of Latin...  Read More >>

Housing in the Ancient Mediterranean World: Material and Textual Approaches

Housing in the Ancient Mediterranean World: Material...

Author: J. A. Baird (Birkbeck College, University of London) ,  April Pudsey (Manchester Metropolitan University)
ISBN: 9781108949972
Format: Paperback
$85.36

With chapters ranging from early Greek housing in Homeric poetry, to the sounds of Pompeiian villas, to graffiti...  Read More >>

Late Hellenistic Greek Literature in Dialogue

Late Hellenistic Greek Literature in Dialogue

Author: Jason König (University of St Andrews, Scotland) ,  Nicolas Wiater (University of St Andrews, Scotland)
ISBN: 9781009015950
Format: Paperback
$77.60

Argues for the need to rethink the place of late Hellenistic literature within the wider landscape of Greek and...  Read More >>

Greek and Latin Poetry of Late Antiquity: Form, Tradition, and Context

Greek and Latin Poetry of Late Antiquity: Form, Tradition,...

Author: Berenice Verhelst (Universiteit van Amsterdam) ,  Tine Scheijnen (Universiteit Gent, Belgium)
ISBN: 9781009013673
Format: Paperback
$67.25

Adopts and promotes a bilingual focus on the Greek and Latin poetry of late antiquity. Sheds light on the literary...  Read More >>

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