Classical history & classical civilisation books

Off-Stage Groups in Athenian Drama analyses how off-stage groups in fifth- and early fourth-century tragedy and...  Read More >>

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This is the first volume devoted to the sections of the Aristotelian Mirabilia on natural science, filling a significant...  Read More >>

Colloquia are manuals designed to help ancient Greeks and Romans get around in each other's languages. In describing...  Read More >>

Extensive reassessment of the rich body of encyclopaedic writing surviving from the two millennia before the Enlightenment....  Read More >>

Sarah Derbew brings into brilliant new focus varied portrayals...  Read More >>

Explores the process by which the intellectual speculations pursued by Plato in the Academy assumed the nature of...  Read More >>

This volume addresses Social Network Analysis (SNA) as a methodological approach in the field of Egyptology, exploring...  Read More >>

This book presents the first English translation to appear for over a hundred years of a key text, Books 36-40 of...  Read More >>

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What kind of language is Latin, and who is it for? Contrary to most accounts, this book tells the story of Latin...  Read More >>

English summary: The Roman camps of Novaesium, today's Neuss, which are part of the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage,...  Read More >>

Provides philosophical definitions which help scholars and students to understand Plotinus’ notions of eternity...  Read More >>

Athenian Power in the Fifth Century BC offers a new study of a canonical topic in ancient Greek history, the fifth-century...  Read More >>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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