The Learned Banqueters, Volume I: Books 1–3.106e
In The Learned Banqueters, Athenaeus describes a series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature. The work, which dates to the very end of the second century CE, is amusing reading and of extraordinary value as a treasury of quotations from works now lost. Athenaeus also preserves a wide range of information about different cuisines...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Graveyard of the Hesperides
From renowned author Lindsey Davis, creator of the much-loved character, Marcus Didius Falco and his friends and family, comes the fourth novel in her all-new series set in ancient Rome. We first met Flavia Albia, Falco's feisty adopted daughter, in The Ides of April. Albia is a remarkable woman in what is very much a man's world: young, widowed and...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Goths
The volume is divided into three parts, corresponding to the three main phases in Gothic history: their early history down to the fourth century, the revolution in Gothic society set in motion by the arrival of the Huns, and the history of the Gothic successor states to the western Roman Empire. At its heart lies a new vision of Gothic...Paperback$16700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The Care of the Brain in Early Christianity
The Care of the Brain in Early Christianity is a history of the brain during late antiquity. Through close attention to ancient medical material and its transformation in Christian texts, Jessica Wright traces the roots of cerebral subjectivity—the identification of the individual self with the brain, a belief very much still with us today—to tensions within early Christianity over the...Hardback$18099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Age of Augustus
In this updated edition of his concise biography, Werner Eck tells the extraordinary story of Augustus, Rome's first monarch. This work incorporates literary, archaeological, and legal sources to provide a vivid narrative of Augustus' brutal rise to power. It is written by one of the world's leading experts on the Roman empire and traces the history of the Roman revolution...Paperback$16100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Sasanian Persia
Of profound importance in late antiquity, the Sasanian Empire is virtually unknown today, except as a counterpoint to the Roman Empire. In this highly readable history, Touraj Daryaee fills a significant gap in our knowledge of world history. He examines the Sasanians' complex and colourful narrative and demonstrates their unique significance, not only for the development of Iranian civilization but...Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Roman History, Volume V
Appian (Appianus) is among our principal sources for the history of the Roman Republic, particularly in the 2nd and 1st centuries BC, and sometimes our only source, as for the Third Punic War and the destruction of Carthage. Born circa AD 95, Appian was an Alexandrian official at ease in the highest political and literary circles who later became a...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Restless Dead
During the archaic and classical periods, Greek ideas about the dead evolved in response to changing social and cultural conditions—most notably changes associated with the development of the polis, such as funerary legislation, and changes due to increased contacts with cultures of the ancient Near East. In Restless Dead, Sarah Iles Johnston presents and interprets these changes, using them to...Paperback$6699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Power, Pleasure, and Profit
A provocative history of the changing values that have given rise to our present discontents. We pursue power, pleasure, and profit. We want as much as we can get, and we deploy instrumental reasoning—cost-benefit analysis—to get it. We judge ourselves and others by how well we succeed. It is a way of life and thought that seems natural, inevitable, and...Hardback$7199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Poseidon's Spear
Arimnestos of Plataea is a man who has seen and done things that most men only dream about. Sold into slavery as a boy, he fought his way to freedom - and then to everlasting fame: standing alongside the Athenians at the Battle of Marathon where the Greeks crushed the invading Persians. Sometimes, however, a man's greatest triumph is followed...Paperback$10700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Objects Untimely
Objects generate time; time does not generate or change objects. That is the central thesis of this book by the philosopher Graham Harman and the archaeologist Christopher Witmore, who defend radical positions in their respective fields. Against a current and pervasive conviction that reality consists of an unceasing flux – a view associated in philosophy with New Materialism – object-oriented...Paperback$4299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Muhammad and the Empires of Faith
In Muhammad and the Empires of Faith, Sean W. Anthony demonstrates how critical readings of non-Muslim and Muslim sources in tandem can breathe new life into the historical study of Muhammad and how his message transformed the world. By placing these sources within the intellectual and cultural world of Late Antiquity, Anthony offers a fresh assessment of the earliest sources...Hardback$6299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Moralia, V
Plutarch (Plutarchus), circa 45–120 CE, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece. He studied philosophy at Athens and, after arriving in Rome as a teacher of philosophy, was granted consular rank by the Emperor Trajan and a procuratorship in Greece by Hadrian. He was married and the father of one daughter and four sons. Plutarch is remembered as...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Metaphysics, Volume II
Aristotle, the great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, was born at Stagirus in 384 BCE. He was the son of Nicomachus, a physician, and Phaestis. Aristotle studied under Plato at Athens and taught there between 367 and 347 BCE. Subsequently, he spent three years at the court of a former pupil, Hermeias, in Asia Minor, where he married Pythias,...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Medusa
Medusa literally petrifies: her face turned the ancients to stone. For Perseus and his patriarchal culture, she was a dangerous female monster that had to be destroyed; for Dante, she was the erotic power that could destroy men. Freud saw in her hair a nest of terrifying penises signalling castration. Yet in our time, Medusa's reputation has improved: feminists see...Hardback$4799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Londinium: A Biography
Winner of the PROSE Award (2019) for Classics This major new work on Roman London brings together the many new discoveries of the last generation and provides a detailed overview of the city from before its foundation in the first century to the fifth century AD. Richard Hingley explores the archaeological and historical evidence for London under the Romans, assessing...Paperback$6899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Lives of the Caesars
Lives of the Caesars tells the stories of 12 of Rome’s most fascinating and influential rulers, uncovering the unique features of their reigns which allowed them to earn their places in history. A comprehensive and engaging account of the lives of the Caesars, who helped shape one of the most significant periods in history. Each chapter entertainingly recounts the life...Paperback$8399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Incorruptible Bodies
In the early sixth-century eastern Roman empire, anti-Chalcedonian leaders Severus of Antioch and Julian of Halicarnassus debated the nature of Jesus's body: Was it corruptible prior to its resurrection from the dead? Viewing the controversy in light of late antiquity's multiple images of the 'body of Christ,' Yonatan Moss reveals the underlying political, ritual, and cultural stakes and the long-lasting...Paperback$6699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
History of the Peloponnesian War, Volume IV
Thucydides of Athens, one of the greatest of historians, was born about 471 BCE. He saw the rise of Athens to greatness under the inspired leadership of Pericles. In 430, the second year of the Peloponnesian War, he caught and survived the horrible plague which he described so graphically. Later, as general in 423, he failed to save Amphipolis from...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Euripides V
Euripides V includes the plays The Bacchae, translated by William Arrowsmith; Iphigenia in Aulis, translated by Charles R. Walker; The Cyclops, translated by William Arrowsmith; and Rhesus, translated by Richmond Lattimore. Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedies that would be the ultimate resource for teachers, students, and...Hardback$7299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Euripides I
Euripides I contains the plays "Alcestis," translated by Richmond Lattimore; "Medea," translated by Oliver Taplin; "The Children of Heracles," translated by Mark Griffith; and "Hippolytus," translated by David Grene. Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedies that would be the ultimate resource for teachers, students, and readers. They...Hardback$8199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Demons in the Details
The Babylonian Talmud is full of stories of demonic encounters, and it also includes many laws that attempt to regulate such encounters. In this book, Sara Ronis takes the reader on a journey across the rabbinic canon, exploring how late antique rabbis imagined, feared, and controlled demons. Ronis contextualises the Talmud's thought within the rich cultural matrix of Sasanian Babylonia,...Paperback$6699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Deadly Election
Deadly Election is set in the blazing July heat of imperial Rome, where Flavia Albia inspects a decomposing corpse. It has been discovered in lots to be auctioned by her family business, so she is determined to identify the dead man and learn how he met his gruesome end. The investigation gives her a chance to work with the magistrate,...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Complacency
Complacency is a critical reflection on complacency and its role in the decline of classics in the academy. In response to philosopher Simon Blackburn’s portrayal of complacency as a vice that impairs university study at its core, John T. Hamilton examines the history of complacency in classics and its implications for our contemporary moment. The subjects, philosophies, and literatures of...Paperback$4299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Before Religion
For much of the past two centuries, religion has been understood as a universal phenomenon, a part of the “natural” human experience that is essentially the same across cultures and throughout history. Individual religions may vary through time and geographically, but there is an element, religion, that is to be found in all cultures during all time periods. Taking apart...Paperback$4799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
A History of Rome
'...a unique achievement in its genre: a masterly synthesis of a huge mass of material. It deals with the political, military, social and cultural aspects of Roman civilisation, extending over a millennium.' - KLEIO '...we must indeed be grateful for what we have been given, which is immense. It is not often that a new edition of an old book...Paperback$9899Elsewhere:$10095Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
A Companion to Julius Caesar
A Companion to Julius Caesar comprises 30 essays from leading scholars examining the life and afterlife of this great polarising figure. Explores Caesar from a variety of perspectives: military genius, ruthless tyrant, brilliant politician, first-class orator, sophisticated man of letters, and more. Utilises Caesar’s own extant writings. Examines the viewpoints of Caesar’s contemporaries and explores Caesar’s portrayals by artists and...Paperback$17000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
A Companion to Aristophanes
Provides a comprehensive and systematic treatment of the life and work of Aristophanes A Companion to Aristophanes provides an invaluable set of foundational resources for undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars alike. More than a basic reference text, this innovative volume situates each of Aristophanes' surviving plays within a discussion of key themes relevant to the study of the Aristophanic corpus....Hardback$41199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles
This is the first survey of religious beliefs in the British Isles from the Old Stone Age to the coming of Christianity, one of the least familiar periods in Britain's history. The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles by Ronald Hutton draws upon a wealth of new data, much of it archaeological, that has transformed interpretation over the past...Paperback$18900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
The Greco-Persian Wars
This edition, The Greco-Persian Wars, taps our knowledge of the Persian Empire and its interactions with the Greek world. Hackett's Passages: Key Moments in History series titles include original-source documents in accessible editions, intended for the student-user or general audience. The sources examined were created in different times and places, for different purposes, and with different intended audiences. Using these...Paperback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Tacitus: Germania
Tacitus: Germania has been an abiding interest for all who study the Roman world from a northern European perspective. Anderson’s edition, first published in 1938, was designed to replace that of Furneaux and to take particular account of the light thrown by archaeology on Tacitus's account of the Germanic peoples. It is such a thorough edition that it has never...Paperback$6899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Starting to Teach Latin
This book for teachers provides both practical, up-to-date guidance and a theoretical overview on a number of key topics in Latin teaching. Updated throughout, this new edition includes information about and analysis of recent Latin textbook publications and curriculum developments across the globe. Using a wealth of interviews, observations and pupil transcripts, Steven Hunt utilizes case-study evidence of excellent practice...Paperback$5499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Sparta's First Attic War
A companion volume to The Spartan Regime and The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta that explores the collapse of the Spartan–Athenian alliance "Provocative, intriguing and cogently argued.”—David Stuttard, Classics for All During the Persian Wars, Sparta and Athens worked in tandem to defeat what was, in terms of relative resources and power, the greatest empire in human history. For the...Hardback$6599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Spartans
Spartans: A New History chronicles the complete history of ancient Sparta from its origins to the end of antiquity. Helps bridge the gap between the common conceptions of Sparta and what specialists believe and dispute about Spartan history. Applies new techniques, perspectives, and archaeological evidence to the question of what it was to be a Spartan. Takes into account new...Paperback$8099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
OCR Anthology for Classical Greek GCSE 2027-2028
This is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Classical Greek GCSE set text prescriptions examined from 2027 to 2028. The texts covered are: Herodotus:Sections VI (How Arion was Saved by a Dolphin), VII (Story of Euenius) and X (Respect for Suppliants enforced by an oracle). Lysias:On the Murder of Eratosthenes 6–14 and 15–27. Homer:Odyssey, Book 10, lines 203–245, 302–347 and 371–399....Paperback$3299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
History of Rome, Volume Xi
Livy (Titus Livius), the great Roman historian, was born at Patavium (Padua) in 64 or 59 BC, where after years in Rome he died in AD 12 or 17. Livy's history, composed as the imperial autocracy of Augustus was replacing the republican system that had stood for over 500 years, presents in splendid style a vivid narrative of Rome's rise...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Herculaneum – Italy′s Buried Treasure
A vivid portrayal of life in Pompeii's sister city, this book includes a detailed description of the ancient Villa dei Papiri, on which the present Getty Museum in Malibu is modeled. This vivid re-creation of life in Pompeii's sister city includes a detailed description of the ancient Villa dei Papiri, on which the present Getty Museum in Malibu is modeled....Paperback$5299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
God’s Other Book
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In God's Other Book, Mohammad Salama presents a powerful critique of the ways we study and analyse early Islam and its sacred text, filling a glaring hole in our understanding of this formative environment. Interrogating the...Paperback$6699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Food in the Ancient World
In Food in the Ancient World, a respected classicist and a practising world-class chef explore a millennium of eating and drinking. The book focuses on ancient Greece and Rome but also looks at Persian, Egyptian, Celtic, and other cultures. It embraces people from all walks of life, from impoverished citizens subsisting on cereals, chickpeas, and even locusts, to the meat-eating...Paperback$8599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Anabasis
Xenophon (ca. 430 to ca. 354 BCE) was a wealthy Athenian and friend of Socrates. He left Athens in 401 and joined an expedition including ten thousand Greeks led by the Persian governor Cyrus against the Persian king. After the defeat of Cyrus, it fell to Xenophon to lead the Greeks from the gates of Babylon back to the coast...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
The Persians
Now available in paperback, The Persians tells the story of this cultured ancient civilisation, tracing the unique features of Persian life as well as their influence down the centuries. During the first and second millennia BCE, a swathe of nomadic peoples migrated outward from Central Asia into the Eurasian periphery. One group of these people found themselves encamped in an...Paperback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
The Origins of Judaism
Groundbreaking research that utilises archaeological discoveries and ancient texts to revolutionise our understanding of the beginnings of Judaism "A bravura study."—Publishers Weekly (starred review) Throughout much of history, the Jewish way of life has been characterised by strict adherence to the practices and prohibitions legislated by the Torah: dietary laws, ritual purity, circumcision, Sabbath regulations, holidays, and more. But precisely...Paperback$4799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Ramesses the Great
The life, dramatic reign, and enduring legacy of the pharaoh Ramesses the Great, with lessons for the present, from internationally acclaimed Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson. "The author succeeds in bringing this distant age to life through telling detail and insightful analysis. . . . Whenever he can, the author takes advantage of opportunities to peer beneath the mask."—The Economist Ramesses the...Paperback$5600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Orations, Volume II
Publius Aelius Aristides Theodorus was among the most celebrated authors of the Second Sophistic and an important figure in the transmission of Hellenism. Born to wealthy landowners in Mysia in 117, he studied in Athens and Pergamum before he fell chronically ill in the early 140s and retreated to Pergamum's healing shrine of Asclepius. By 147, Aristides was able to...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
OCR Anthology for Classical Greek AS and A Level: 2026–2028
The only exam-board approved book for OCR's Greek AS and A-Level set text prescriptions for examination 2026–28, providing the full Greek text, commentary, vocabulary, and a detailed introduction for each text. This also includes coverage of the prescription to be read in English for A Level. The texts covered are: AS and A Level Groups 1 & 3 Herodotus, Histories,...Paperback$6899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Living Latin
What kind of language is Latin, and who is it for? Contrary to most accounts, this book tells the story of Latin as a language of ordinary people. Surveying the whole span of the language’s history, it explores the evidence that exists for ordinary Latin around the Roman world, arguing that this material is just as worthy of readers’ attention...Paperback$4099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Lives, Volume IX
Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. 45–120 CE, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming to Rome as a teacher in philosophy, was given consular rank by the emperor Trajan and a procuratorship in Greece by Hadrian. He was married and the father of one daughter and four sons. He appears as a man...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
History of Rome, Volume II
Livy (Titus Livius), the great Roman historian, was born at or near Patavium (Padua) in 64 or 59 BCE; he may have lived mostly in Rome but died at Patavium, in 12 or 17 CE. Livy’s only extant work is part of his history of Rome from the foundation of the city to 9 BCE. Of its 142 books, we...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 112
This volume includes: Olga Levaniouk, "The Dreams of Barčin and Penelope"; Paul Hosle, "Bacchylides' Theseus and Vergil's Aristaeus"; Vayos Liapis, "Arion and the Dolphin: Apollo Delphinios and Maritime Networks in Herodotus"; Nino Luraghi, "The Peloponnesian Peace: Herodotus, Thucydides and the Ideology of the Peace of Nicias"; Andrea Capra, "The Staging and Meaning of Aristophanes' Assemblywomen"; Konstantine Panegyres, "Moses, Pharaoh, and...Hardback$9999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Fulvia
The charismatic Fulvia amassed a degree of military and political power that was unprecedented for a woman in Ancient Rome. Married three times to men who moved in powerful circles, including Marc Antony, Fulvia was not content to play the usual background role that was expected of a wife—instead she challenged the Roman patriarchy and sought to increase her influence...Hardback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Augustan Rome
Written by Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, one of the world's foremost scholars on Roman social and cultural history, this introduction to Rome in the Age of Augustus provides a fascinating insight into the social and physical contexts of Augustan politics and poetry, exploring in detail the impact of the new regime of government on society. Taking an interpretative approach, the ideas and...Paperback$3899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
We the People!
Award-winning author Don Brown explores the history of democracy in the United States in this installment of the Big Ideas That Changed the World series. The Greek word democracy comes from demos (people) and kratos (rule)—meaning “the people hold power.” In this timely graphic novel, acclaimed author-illustrator Don Brown explores the history of democracy—from civilization’s beginnings as hunter-gatherers to the...Hardback$4600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Tiberius and His Age
Rome's second emperor, Tiberius (42 BCE-CE 37), has traditionally been seen as a villainous hypocrite—treacherous, grasping, vindictive, and depraved. But in Tiberius and His Age, Edward Champlin draws on vast and diverse evidence to show that Tiberius was, and was seen by contemporaries to be, recognisably human and far more complex than the monster of the hostile tradition that began...Hardback$6999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
The Picts
This is a new edition of this popular history of the Picts, an ancient nation who ruled most of northern and eastern Scotland during the Dark Ages. Despite their historical importance, they remain shrouded in myth and misconception. Absorbed by the kingdom of the Scots in the ninth century, they lost their unique identity, their language and their vibrant artistic...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
The Norse Myths
The great Norse myths are among the most dramatic and unforgettable stories in all human history. These fascinating, fantastical tales have inspired centuries of art, culture and literature, including the storytelling of Tolkien, Neil Gaiman, George R. R. Martin's GAME OF THRONES, Wagner's RING CYCLE and Marvel Comics. The Norse Myths takes us on a thrilling journey through the Norse...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
The Learned Banqueters, Volume IV: Books 8–10.420e
In The Learned Banqueters, Athenaeus describes a series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature. The work, which dates to the very end of the second century CE, is amusing reading and of extraordinary value as a treasury of quotations from works now lost. Athenaeus also preserves a wide range of information about different cuisines...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
The History of Ancient Israel: A Guide for the Perplexed
The History of Ancient Israel: A Guide for the Perplexed provides the student with the perfect guide to why and how the history of this most contested region has been studied, and why it continues to be studied today. Philip R. Davies, one of the leading scholars of Ancient Israel in recent years, begins by examining the relevance of the...Paperback$6399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
The Book of Looms – A History of the Handloom from Ancient Times to the Present
A heavily illustrated classic on the evolution of the handloom. The handloom—often no more than a bundle of sticks and a few lengths of cordage—has been known to almost all cultures for thousands of years. Eric Broudy places the wide variety of handlooms in their historical context. What influenced their development? How did they travel from one geographic area to...Paperback$6699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
River of Gold: Empire XI
After saving the emperor's life in Rome, Marcus and his comrades have been sent across the sea to the wealthy, corrupt Greek metropolis of Aegyptus, Alexandria. An unknown enemy has slaughtered the garrison of the Empire's last outpost before its border with the mysterious kingdom of Kush. Caravans can no longer reach the crucial Red Sea port of Berenike, from...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Rhetorica ad Herennium
Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106–43 BCE), Roman lawyer, orator, politician, and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era which saw the rise, dictatorship, and death of Julius Caesar in a tottering republic. In his political speeches especially and in his correspondence, we see the excitement, tension, and intrigue of politics and the...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Philosophical Orations, Volume I
A Platonic evangelist's lectures on the good life. Maximus of Tyre, active probably in the latter half of the second century AD, was a devoted Platonist whose only surviving work consists of forty-one brief addresses on various topics of ethical, philosophical, and theological import including the nature of divinity, the immortality of the soul, the sources of good and evil,...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Not All Dead White Men
A Times Higher Education Book of the Week A virulent strain of antifeminism is thriving online that treats women's empowerment as a mortal threat to men and to the integrity of Western civilization. Its proponents cite ancient Greek and Latin texts to support their claims—from Ovid's Ars Amatoria to Seneca and Marcus Aurelius—arguing that they articulate a model of masculinity...Paperback$4099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Lives of the Sophists. Lives of Philosophers and Sophists
Two sophists on the history of sophistry. Flavius Philostratus, known as "the Elder" or "the Athenian," was born to a distinguished family with close ties to Lesbos in the later second century, and died around the middle of the third. A sophist who studied at Athens and later lived in Rome, Philostratus provides in Lives of the Sophists a treasury...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 113
This volume includes: Andrew Merritt, "ἔρυμαι and ἐρύκω"; Georgios Kostopoulos, "Vowel Lengthening in Attic Primary Comparatives"; Christian Vassallo, "Xenophanes on the Soul: Another Chapter of Ancient Physics"; Guy Westwood, "Making a Martyr: Demosthenes and Euphraeus of Oreus (Third Philippic 59–62)"; Peter Osorio, "Trust and Persuasion: Testimony in [Plato], Demodocus"; James J. Clauss and Scott B. Noegel, "Near Eastern Poetics in...Hardback$9999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Greek Poems to the Gods
The ancient Greek hymnic tradition translated beautifully and accessibly. The hymn—as poetry, as craft, as a tool for worship and philosophy—was a vital art form throughout antiquity. Although the Homeric Hymns have long been popular, other equally important collections have not been readily accessible to students eager to learn about ancient poetry. In reading hymns, we also gain valuable insight...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Fractured Tablets
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. This book examines the significant role that memory failures play in early rabbinic literature. The rabbis who shaped Judaism in late antiquity envisioned the commitment to the Torah and to its commandments as governing every single...Paperback$6699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Escape from Pompeii
The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 meant death for most of the Roman citizens living in Pompeii. But some people must have survived – and Christina Balit has used this as the starting point for her story. It tells of Tranio, an actor's son, and his friend Livia, the baker's daughter, who witness one of the most terrifying...Paperback$3700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Enslavement
Slavery is one of humanity’s most ancient and persistent inequities. It predates the rise of civilisation, played a key role in the growth of Western and Islamic cultures, and was an integral part of the emergence and global spread of capitalism. Given its historical significance, it is not surprising that the problem of slavery is still passionately debated today and...Paperback$4499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Aristotle
A thought-provoking exploration of assertiveness within Aristotle's work and how it affects democratic functioning. Today, democracy is seen as the best or even the only legitimate form of government. With this book, Delba Winthrop punctures this complacency and takes up the challenge of justifying democracy through Aristotle's political science. In Aristotle's time and in ours, democrats want inclusiveness; they want...Paperback$5699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Ancient Christianities
How, over the course of five centuries, one particular god and one particular Christianity came to dominate late Roman imperial politics and piety. The ancient Mediterranean teemed with gods. For centuries, a practical religious pluralism prevailed. How, then, did one particular god come to dominate the politics and piety of the late Roman Empire? In Ancient Christianities, Paula Fredriksen traces...Hardback$5799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
American Classicist
A biography of the remarkable woman whose bestselling Mythology has introduced millions of readers to the classical world. Edith Hamilton (1867–1963) didn't publish her first book until she was sixty-two. But over the next three decades, this former headmistress would become the twentieth century's most famous interpreter of the classical world. Today, Hamilton's Mythology (1942) remains the standard version of...Hardback$7999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Alexandria
Founded in 331 BC by Alexander the Great, Alexandria’s unique urban, political and religious organisation evolved alongside the numerous scientific innovations and philosophical expressions that shaped the city into one of the ancient world’s civilisational centres. Located at the intersection of art and history, this book revisits the former Egyptian megapolis of Alexandria with the aim of going beyond the...Paperback$10799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Abduction of a Slave
The gripping new historical mystery from New York Times bestselling author Dana Stabenow. In Cleopatra’s Egypt, the clouds of war are on the horizon… Cleopatra, seventh of her name, all-powerful ruler of Egypt, has found her most able and trusted agent in Tetisheri, her Eye of Isis. So when Tetisheri asks permission to visit the Kingdom of Cyrenaica, she is...Paperback$2499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
TUTANKHAMUN
Pharaoh. Icon. Enigma. Lost for three thousand years, misunderstood for a century. A hundred years ago, a team of archaeologists in the Valley of the Kings made a remarkable discovery: a near-complete royal burial, an ancient mummy, and golden riches beyond imagination. The lost tomb of Tutankhamun ignited a media frenzy, propelled into overdrive by rumours of a deadly ancient...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Thrace and the Classical World
A captivating examination of the profound impact Thracian art and culture had on the Greeks and the entire northern Aegean region. The Thracians—a collection of tribal peoples who inhabited territories north of ancient Greece, an area that comprises present-day Bulgaria, much of Romania, and parts of Greece and Turkey—were renowned for their skill as warriors and horsemen, as well as...Hardback$13199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Sky Is Our Song
An ancient Greek guide to the heavens, translated in a new accessible modern English edition. A poetic guide to the heavens, the Phaenomena of Aratus—dating from around 270 BCE—was widely known across the ancient world, second only in fame to the works of Homer. Beginning with an invocation to Zeus, the poem describes the constellations of the northern and southern...Hardback$4799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Belial Warrior
Could Delaney's Past Hold the Key to Humanity's Future? The world knows the legend of Helen of Troy, but not her story. Even the name by which she is remembered is not her true title. She was Helen, Queen of Sparta—and much more than a pretty face. Delaney McPhearson has been branded a public pariah. Barely escaping from Colorado with...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
The Belial Plan
Laney's disappearance is only the beginning. A collision is coming, and no one will escape the fallout. Six months have passed since Delaney McPhearson disappeared, and Jake Rogan has been leading the search. But every lead has ended in frustration and heartbreak, leaving him no closer to finding her. Now, a new crisis demands Jake's attention. Children are vanishing across...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
The Belial Guard
An ancient power stirs. A shadowed threat rises. And Laney's greatest battle is yet to come. Delaney McPhearson has faced danger after danger. With every battle, she's lost more than she thought she could bear. But there is always more to lose. For the first time, Laney has fully embraced who she is and what's expected of her. She's ready...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
The Belial Fall
Samyaza's death wasn't the end of the war. It was the beginning of a whole new fight. Since Samyaza's death, Delaney McPhearson has been pulled from one crisis to the next. Fires flare up across the globe, each one demanding her attention. At the same time, she's struggling to calm public fears about the Fallen. Stretched impossibly thin, Delaney is...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
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