Classical history & classical civilisation books

This volume explores innovative ways of opening up Classics to educational and museum audiences. It demonstrates...  Read More >>

This book is focussed on the development of modern understanding of how the ways of seeing and recording the past...  Read More >>

The first comprehensive study of the importance of fecunditas (human fertility) in Roman society, c. 100 BC - AD...  Read More >>

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Sheds new light on Plato's cosmology in relation to Greek religion by examining the contested distinction between...  Read More >>

This book provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary view of the relationship between the Greeks and Buddhist...  Read More >>

This book provides the first full-length study of personal religious experience in the Greek Archaic and Classical...  Read More >>

Sheds new light on Plato's cosmology in relation to Greek religion by examining the contested distinction between...  Read More >>

Explores how Virgil's incorporation of Stoic thought on human responsibility and providential world fate into the...  Read More >>

These volumes contain the collected papers of one of the most important and influential scholars of the late 20th/early...  Read More >>

This volume explores a range of perspectives on diversity and inclusion in modern classics education, particularly...  Read More >>

Explores new ways of understanding texts, practices and ideas that connected different cultural and religious groups...  Read More >>

What is art's relationship to play? Those interested in this question tend to look to modern philosophy for answers....  Read More >>

Analyses afresh the naturalistic version of Peripatetic ethics preserved in Cicero's On Ends 5, our major source...  Read More >>

The first full-length treatment of the Panathenaia, the most important festival in ancient Athens. Investigates...  Read More >>

A historical and historiographical study of the historian Cassius Dio and his account of political culture under...  Read More >>

A fully updated edition of this unique training guide for teachers of Latin.  Read More >>

A ground-breaking analysis of the origins of Western linguistic thought, exploring how ancient Greek and Mesopotamian...  Read More >>

""Covering more than 1,000 years of history, and an empire that stretched from Scotland to Syria, Ancient Rome reveals...  Read More >>

This volume contains the collected papers of one of the most important and influential scholars of the late 20th/early...  Read More >>

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Interprets the important pair of Senecan letters, which have been used primarily as evidence for a critical debate...  Read More >>

The doubts about the letters mostly come from the fact that the Romance of Alexander is considered a sort of epistolary...  Read More >>

Ancient Greek Lists brings together catalogic texts from a variety of genres, both literary and epigraphic, arguing...  Read More >>