Classical history & classical civilisation books

Focusing on forms of interaction and methods of negotiation in multicultural, multi-ethnic and multilingual contexts...  Read More >>

Pytheas of Massalia (Marseille), mariner, explorer, geographer and astronomer, made a pioneering voyage into the...  Read More >>

The modern global economy and discipline of economics place mathematical calculation above human concern. However,...  Read More >>

This volume offers for the first time a translation of the poetic corpus of Alcuin of York (c. 735-804), with detailed...  Read More >>

Pyrrhonian Buddhism reconstructs the path to enlightenment shared both by early Buddhists and the ancient Greek...  Read More >>

Peter Chrysologus is the first book to offer an introduction to the life of Peter Chrysologus and a selection of...  Read More >>

This volume offers a counterbalance to the dismissal that Orosius’s Histories Against the Pagans has suffered in...  Read More >>

This study is devoted to the channels through which geographic knowledge circulated in classical societies outside...  Read More >>

This collection of essays seeks to demonstrate that many biblical authors deliberately used Classical and Hellenistic...  Read More >>

Text and Intertext in Greek Epic and Drama offers a selection of essays exploring Greek epic, drama, and their reception...  Read More >>

Democracies and Republics Between Past and Future focuses on the concepts of direct rule by the people in early...  Read More >>

This volume focuses on teaching Classics in carceral contexts in the US and offers an overview of the range of incarcerated...  Read More >>

Alexander the Great and Propaganda explores the use of propaganda - whether literature, coinage, or iconography...  Read More >>

This book investigates the epigraphic habit of the Eastern Mediterranean in antiquity from the inception of alphabetic...  Read More >>

This groundbreaking and detailed study uses the province of Asia as a case study to examine the formation and evolution...  Read More >>

This English translation of Giorgio Buccellati’s ambitious work offers readers an insightful discussion of ancient...  Read More >>

This book aims to fill crucial temporal and disciplinary gaps in the field of Mediterranean Studies to provide a...  Read More >>

This English translation of Giorgio Buccellati’s ambitious work offers readers an insightful discussion of ancient...  Read More >>

In this volume, tragedy in antiquity is examined synoptically, from its misty origins in archaic Greece, through...  Read More >>

This volume illustrates how the epigraphic habit is ubiquitous but variously expressed. Inscriptions become part...  Read More >>

Essential reading for anyone interested in the artistry of Pliny's Epistles and, more broadly, in Latin prose intertextuality,...  Read More >>

Warriors' Wives compares the experiences of women in classical literature and mythology to the emotional, psychological,...  Read More >>

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Offers intermediate Greek students a reliable, up-to-date introduction to Plato's most influential work. Plato's...  Read More >>