Classical history & classical civilisation books

This open access book provides the first scholarly account of the role of hope and hopefulness from the perspective...  Read More >>

Examines a variety of creative scholastic and literary responses to Ovid's exile across medieval culture, ranging...  Read More >>

Exploring the intriguing interplay between tradition and modernity in the 19th-century capitals of London, Athens...  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of Roman Imagery and Iconography offers a comprehensive overview of visual imagery in the Roman...  Read More >>

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Demonstrates the creative affinities between ancient verbal and modern visual modes of narrative through the example...  Read More >>

A comic tour of history's greatest mistakes and how they have shaped our world, packed with reckless rulers, hare-brained...  Read More >>

A comic tour of history's greatest mistakes and how they have shaped our world, packed with reckless rulers, hare-brained...  Read More >>

The first synthesis and analysis of the translation history of Roman poet Virgil's works into European languages....  Read More >>

Exploring persistent connections between absolute rulers and dramatic performance in Greek and Roman drama and history,...  Read More >>

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This edited volume presents a multi-perspectival inquiry into the models that have shaped the study of ancient economies...  Read More >>

Social Psychology and the Ancient World: Methods and Applications fosters interdisciplinary dialogues between classics...  Read More >>

Greek Mythology is an accessible and nuanced overview of creation myths from the ancient Greek and Near Eastern...  Read More >>

This book is about four cornerstones of modern thought that were put in place by people living in the ancient Mediterranean...  Read More >>

This study is the first extensive comparison of poems by Gregory of Nazianzus and Ephrem the Syrian focused on their...  Read More >>

Es ist ein gepflegter Gemeinplatz, dass der Einzug des Christentums mit einer Verengung des breiten Spektrums erotischer...  Read More >>

Julia Trompeter offers a comprehensive account of the ethics and moral psychology of Galen of Pergamum (c.129–c....  Read More >>

A history of historians that demonstrates how the telling of history is inevitably influenced by the life and beliefs...  Read More >>

Reconfiguring the social and political landscape of the late Roman republic, this book discovers the boni as a distinct...  Read More >>

This book provides the first detailed study of the water supply of households in antiquity. Chapters explore settings...  Read More >>

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

This book examines the hero-cults of Sparta on the basis of the archaeological and literary sources. Nicolette Pavlides...  Read More >>