Classical history & classical civilisation books

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

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

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

Through a detailed study of Roman Ionia, this book offers insight into the perceptions and constructions of collective...  Read More >>

Argues that buildings in early Italy serve as windows into the minds and lives of those who made and used them,...  Read More >>

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

This collection of new essays by an international group of scholars closely examine the works of Aristotle’s Organon...  Read More >>

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This title was first published in 2002. Origen (185-254) is regarded as one of the figures chiefly responsible for...  Read More >>

Juxtaposing Sappho and Homer within the embrace of a non-hierarchical, 'reparative reading' culture, as first conceived...  Read More >>

Originally published in the UK in 1961 this was an unconventional book when first published but a powerful interpretation...  Read More >>

This volume contains first editions of 29 documentary texts from the Berlin papyrus collection from Byzantine and...  Read More >>

Delving into the intertwined tapestry of Jewish, Christian and Muslim sacred texts, exegesis, philosophy, theology,...  Read More >>

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

This volume offers a detailed study of Ptolemy of Alexandria’s Geographical Guide, whose eight books contain a wealth...  Read More >>

Ideas of Europe is a critical essay reassessing the founding myths of Europe and the making of a European identity...  Read More >>

This book offers a study into the perceptions of ancient and medieval Iran in the Byzantine Empire, as well as the...  Read More >>

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This study examines third- and fourth-century portraits of married Christians and associated images, reading them...  Read More >>

Including both traditional and underrepresented accounts and geographies of soul, body, gender, and sexuality in...  Read More >>

Radegund is a biography of a remarkable woman--princess, war captive, queen, deaconess, nun, and saint--who lived...  Read More >>