Classical history & classical civilisation books

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Emotion and Historiography in Polybius’ Histories

Emotion and Historiography in Polybius’ Histories

Author: Regina M. Loehr
ISBN: 9781032423623
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This volume explores emotion and its importance in Polybius’ conception of history, his writing of historiography,...  Read More >>

Power and Representation in Byzantium: The Forging of the Macedonian Dynasty

Power and Representation in Byzantium: The Forging of...

Author: Neil Churchill
ISBN: 9781032185927
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book instead adopts a chronological approach and considers how Basil justified his seizure of power, and how...  Read More >>

Critical Ancient World Studies: The Case for Forgetting Classics

Critical Ancient World Studies: The Case for Forgetting...

Author: Mathura Umachandran ,  Marchella Ward
ISBN: 9781032120119
Format: Paperback
$77.99

This volume explores and elucidates Critical Ancient World Studies, a new model for the study of the ancient world...  Read More >>

Critical Ancient World Studies: The Case for Forgetting Classics

Critical Ancient World Studies: The Case for Forgetting...

Author: Mathura Umachandran ,  Marchella Ward
ISBN: 9781032120126
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This volume explores and elucidates Critical Ancient World Studies, a new model for the study of the ancient world...  Read More >>

Cause and Explanation in Ancient Philosophy

Cause and Explanation in Ancient Philosophy

Author: Alberto Ross (Universidad Panamericana, Mexico) ,  Daniel Vázquez (Mary Immaculate College, Ireland)
ISBN: 9781032307442
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This volume offers an updated analysis of the use, meaning, and scope of the classical notion of aitía. It clarifies...  Read More >>

The Voices of the Consul: The Rhetorics of Cicero's de lege agraria I and II

The Voices of the Consul: The Rhetorics of Cicero's...

Author: Brian A. Krostenko (Associate Professor of Classics, Associate Professor of Classics, University of Notre Dame)
ISBN: 9780199734207
Format: Hardback
$202.95

"This is the first book-length study of the rhetoric of Cicero's ""On the Agrarian Law"" I and II. Through a close...  Read More >>

Julius Caesar and the Roman People

Julius Caesar and the Roman People

Author: Robert Morstein-Marx (University of California, Santa Barbara)
ISBN: 9781108932080
Format: Paperback
$77.60

A thorough reconsideration of Julius Caesar's career throughout the crisis of the Roman Republic. Argues that Caesar...  Read More >>

Blessed Thessaly: The Identities of a Place and Its People from the Archaic Period to the Hellenistic

Blessed Thessaly: The Identities of a Place and Its...

Author: Emma Aston
ISBN: 9781789621242
Format: Hardback
$284.63

There, individual communities were linked by a regional superstructure of identity and organisation: being Thessalian....  Read More >>

Architecture in Ancient Central Italy: Connections in Etruscan and Early Roman Building

Architecture in Ancient Central Italy: Connections in...

Author: Charlotte R. Potts (University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9781108931380
Format: Paperback
$72.42

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

Transformation and the History of Philosophy

Transformation and the History of Philosophy

Author: G. Anthony Bruno (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK) ,  Justin Vlasits (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
ISBN: 9780367520885
Format: Hardback
$452.00

Transformation and the History of Philosophy is an outstanding survey of the history, nature and development of...  Read More >>

Cardinal Bessarion (1403–1472): Most Latin of Greeks, Most Greek of Latins

Cardinal Bessarion (1403–1472): Most Latin of Greeks,...

Author: Michael Malone-Lee
ISBN: 9781032442402
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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

Cicero and the Early Latin Poets

Cicero and the Early Latin Poets

Author: Hannah Čulík-Baird (Boston University)
ISBN: 9781009013703
Format: Paperback
$64.66

The writings of Cicero contain hundreds of quotations of Latin poetry. This book examines his citations of Latin...  Read More >>

Housing in the Ancient Mediterranean World: Material and Textual Approaches

Housing in the Ancient Mediterranean World: Material...

Author: J. A. Baird (Birkbeck College, University of London) ,  April Pudsey (Manchester Metropolitan University)
ISBN: 9781108949972
Format: Paperback
$85.36

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

Late Hellenistic Greek Literature in Dialogue

Late Hellenistic Greek Literature in Dialogue

Author: Jason König (University of St Andrews, Scotland) ,  Nicolas Wiater (University of St Andrews, Scotland)
ISBN: 9781009015950
Format: Paperback
$77.60

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

Greek and Latin Poetry of Late Antiquity: Form, Tradition, and Context

Greek and Latin Poetry of Late Antiquity: Form, Tradition,...

Author: Berenice Verhelst (Universiteit van Amsterdam) ,  Tine Scheijnen (Universiteit Gent, Belgium)
ISBN: 9781009013673
Format: Paperback
$67.25

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

Roman Ionia: Constructions of Cultural Identity in Western Asia Minor

Roman Ionia: Constructions of Cultural Identity in Western...

Author: Martin Hallmannsecker (Universität Wien, Austria)
ISBN: 9781009158510
Format: Paperback
$72.42

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

New Essays on Aristotle’s Organon

New Essays on Aristotle’s Organon

Author: António Pedro Mesquita ,  Ricardo Santos
ISBN: 9780367637897
Format: Hardback
$315.00

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Origen Against Plato

Origen Against Plato

Author: Mark Julian Edwards
ISBN: 9781138733367
Format: Hardback
$168.00

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

Dokumentarische Texte Der Berliner Papyrussammlung Aus Byzantinischer Und Fr�harabischer Zeit: Zur Wiederer�ffnung Des Neuen Museums

Dokumentarische Texte Der Berliner Papyrussammlung Aus...

Author: Fabian Reiter
ISBN: 9783110329933
Format: Hardback
$277.17

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

Humanism: The Greek Ideal and Its Survival

Humanism: The Greek Ideal and Its Survival

Author: Moses Hadas
ISBN: 9781032189895
Format: Paperback
$58.99

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Owning Disaster: Coping with Catastrophe in Abrahamic Narrative Traditions

Owning Disaster: Coping with Catastrophe in Abrahamic...

Author: Aaron M. Hagler (Geffen Academy at UCLA, USA)
ISBN: 9781032454740
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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

Ancient Medicine

Ancient Medicine

Author: Vivian Nutton (University College London, UK)
ISBN: 9781032282824
Format: Paperback
$79.99

The third edition of this magisterial account of medicine in the Greek and Roman worlds has been updated to incorporate...  Read More >>

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