Classical history & classical civilisation books

This volume explores ancient Greek and Roman representations of the past, and modern approaches to the reception...  Read More >>

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

The spatial turn has brought forward new analytical imperatives about the importance of space in the relationship...  Read More >>

The principal aims of the book Urbanisation in Roman Spain and Portugal: Civitates Hispaniae in the Early Empire...  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 >>

The Poetry of Ennodius offers the first translation into English verse of the entire eclectic corpus of sacred and...  Read More >>

This book argues that the biblical creation accounts draw directly from Plato's Timaeus, demonstrating the influence...  Read More >>

Beyond the institution of marriage, its norms, and rules, what was life like for married couples in Greco-Roman...  Read More >>

This volume offers fresh perspectives on Platonic dialectic. Its 13 chapters explore this crucial aspect of Plato’s...  Read More >>

This collection of case studies, available in English for the first time, explores case studies in relations between...  Read More >>

This book foregrounds desire between men in and around the imperial court of the 900s.  Read More >>

Mithras explores the history, practices, and reception of Mithraism through literary and material evidence. It attempts...  Read More >>

Psychoanalysis and Euripides' Suppliant Women applies the ‘tragic’ reading of politics, presented by Euripides in...  Read More >>

Antonio Gramsci and the Ancient World explores the relationship between the work of the Italian Marxist thinker...  Read More >>

The Stoic Doctrine of Providence attempts to reconstruct the Stoic doctrine of providence (as argued for in ancient...  Read More >>

This book explores how teachings and ideas of specific historical mystical thinkers might influence all aspects...  Read More >>

"This volume explores the role that republican political participation played in forging elite Roman masculinity....  Read More >>

This collection employs a multi-disciplinary approach treating ancient childhood in a holistic manner according...  Read More >>

This volume offers the most comprehensive survey available of the philosophical background to the works of early...  Read More >>

Pliny and the Eruption of Vesuvius is a forensic examination of two of the most famous letters from the ancient...  Read More >>

This volume is the definitive study of three early Carpocratian leaders, including the first full-length study and...  Read More >>

Heracles in Early Greek Epic examines Heracles in Homeric and Hesiodic poetry, as well as in fragmentary epic poems...  Read More >>