Classical history & classical civilisation books

This innovative book applies findings from the field of cognitive linguistics to the study of emotions in the Bible,...  Read More >>

The strategic context of the battle as well as details of the weapons, organization and tactics of Roman armies...  Read More >>

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of Persian literature from 650BCE through until the seventeenth...  Read More >>

This study examines the extent to which Thucydides' example inspired Flavius Josephus' language, style and content,...  Read More >>

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This volume is the first to undertake a large-scale, longue durée study of pain in antiquity across multiple contexts,...  Read More >>

What happens when we juxtapose medicine and law in the ancient Roman world? This book shows how both fields were...  Read More >>

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Frankness, Greek Culture, and the Roman Empire discusses the significance of parrhēsia (free and frank speech) in...  Read More >>

This book reconnoiters the appearances of the exceptional in Plato: as erotic desire (in the Symposium and Phaedrus),...  Read More >>

By triangulating the Greco-Roman world, classical reception and disability studies, this book presents a range of...  Read More >>

Material Hermeneutics explores the ways that new imaging technologies and scientific instruments have changed our...  Read More >>

This book offers, in one volume, a modern English translation of all 17 books of Silius Italicus’ Punica.  Read More >>

Livy’s Women explores the profound questions arising from the presence of women of influence and power in the socio-political...  Read More >>

Xenophon’s Socratic Works demonstrates that Xenophon, a student of Socrates, military man, and man of letters, is...  Read More >>

This book provides a new translation of all the surviving portions of the description of India written by Megasthenes...  Read More >>

The Roman official and intellectual Pliny the Elder’s Natural History constitutes our primary source on the figural...  Read More >>

The Byzantine Neighbourhood contributes to a new narrative regarding Byzantine cities through the adoption of a...  Read More >>

Byzantine Childhood examines the intricacies of growing up in Medieval Byzantium, children’s everyday life experiences,...  Read More >>

Hellenic Common argues that theatrical adaptations of Greek tragedy exemplify the functioning of a cosmopolitan...  Read More >>

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This book provides a new approach to the study of the History of Roman Law. It collects the first results of the...  Read More >>