The Sacred Band
From classicist James Romm comes a “striking...fascinating” (Booklist) deep dive into the last decades of ancient Greek freedom leading up to Alexander the Great’s destruction of Thebes—and the saga of the greatest military corps of the time, the Theban Sacred Band, a unit composed of 150 pairs of male lovers. The story of the Sacred Band, an elite 300-man corps...Paperback$5600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The Riddle of the Rosetta
In 1799, a French Army officer was rebuilding the defences of a fort on the banks of the Nile when he discovered an ancient stele fragment bearing a decree inscribed in three different scripts. So begins one of the most familiar tales in Egyptology—that of the Rosetta Stone and the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs. This book draws on fresh archival...Hardback$11300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Pursuit of Equality in the West
One of the world's foremost historians of Western political and legal thought proposes a bold new model for thinking about equality at a time when its absence threatens democracies everywhere. How much equality does democracy need to survive? Political thinkers have wrestled with that question for millennia. Aristotle argued that some are born to command and others to obey. Antiphon...Hardback$8399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Prehistory of Egypt
The Prehistory of Egypt covers the history of the Nile Valley from Nubia to the Mediterranean, during the period from the earliest hominid settlement, around 700,000 BC, to the beginnings of dynastic Egypt at the end of the fourth millennium BC. The book focuses primarily on the fifteen millennia from 18,000 to 3,000 BC, when different cultures can be identified...Paperback$9999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
The Poison King
Machiavelli praised his military genius. European royalty sought out his secret elixir against poison. His life inspired Mozart's first opera, while for centuries poets and playwrights recited bloody, romantic tales of his victories, defeats, intrigues, concubines, and mysterious death. But until now, no modern historian has recounted the full story of Mithradates, the ruthless king and visionary rebel who challenged...Paperback$6999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
The Picts
The Picts is a survey of the historical and cultural developments in northern Britain between AD 300 and AD 900. Discarding the popular view of the Picts as savages, they are revealed to have been politically successful and culturally adaptive members of the medieval European world. Re-interprets our definition of ‘Pict’ and provides a vivid depiction of their political and...Paperback$7199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Minoans
Bronze Age Crete is one of the most thoroughly explored archaeological regions, yet the island retains an air of mystery. This book offers an authoritative introduction to the world of the Minoans, the first 'modern' civilisation on European soil. With its grand palaces, a sophisticated bureaucracy complete with writing (including undeciphered scripts), exquisite artworks, powerful depictions of women, and advanced...Hardback$4499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Lost World of Byzantium
The Lost World of Byzantium offers a fresh, concise, and accessible history of one of the medieval world’s greatest empires. For more than a millennium, the Byzantine Empire presided over the juncture between East and West, as well as the transition from the classical to the modern world. Jonathan Harris, a leading scholar of Byzantium, eschews the usual run-through of...Paperback$3599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Land of Ionia
Incorporating over a century of archaeological research, Greaves offers a reassessment of Archaic Ionia that attempts to understand the region within its larger Mediterranean context and provides a thematic overview of its cities and people. Key Features: Seeks to balance the Greek and Anatolian cultural influences at work in Ionia during this important period of its history (700BC to the...Paperback$6199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The King's Harvest
A multidisciplinary environmental history of early China’s political systems, featuring newly available Chinese archaeological data The King's Harvest is a multidisciplinary study of the ecology of China’s early political systems up to the fall of the first empire in 207 BCE. Brian Lander traces the transformation of lowland North China’s landscapes from diverse forests and steppes to farmland. He argues...Hardback$7199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Illyrians
For more than a thousand years before the arrival of the Slavs in the sixth century AD, the lands between the Adriatic and the river Danube, now Yugoslavia and Albania, were the home of the peoples known to the ancient world as Illyrians. The Illyrians, now available in paperback, draws upon the considerable archaeological evidence that has become available since...Paperback$9299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Huns
This is a history of the Huns in Europe from their first attacks on the Goths north of the Black Sea to the collapse of their central European empire after the death of the legendary Attila. In the only connected narrative account of the rise and fall of the Huns in English, Professor Thompson reconstructs their campaigns in detail from...Paperback$10299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Horde
2021 Cundill History Prize Finalist A Financial Times Best Book of the Year A Spectator Best Book of the Year A Five Books Best Book of the Year "Outstanding, original, and revolutionary. Favereau subjects the Mongols to a much-needed re-evaluation, showing how they were able not only to conquer but to control a vast empire. A remarkable book." - Peter...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The History of the Peloponnesian War
A definitive and refreshingly readable new translation of Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War, paired with a brilliant introduction on how to read and understand Thucydides. Thucydides called his work a "possession for all time," and his History of the Peloponnesian War has been essential reading for generals and politicians for centuries. Robin Waterfield's translation of Thucydides's sweeping narrative vividly...Paperback$4499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The History of the Church
Eusebius’s groundbreaking History of the Church remains the single most important source for the history of the first three centuries of Christianity and stands among the classics of Western literature. His iconic story of the church’s origins, endurance of persecution, and ultimate triumph — with its cast of martyrs, heretics, bishops, and emperors — has profoundly shaped the understanding of...Paperback$6000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The Histories, Volume IV
The historian Polybius (ca. 200–118 BCE) was born into a leading family of Megalopolis in the Peloponnese and served the Achaean League in arms and diplomacy for many years, favouring alliance with Rome. From 168 to 151, he was held hostage in Rome, where he became a friend of Lucius Aemilius Paulus and his two sons, especially Scipio Aemilianus, whose...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Histories, Volume III
The historian Polybius (c. 200–118 BCE) was born into a leading family of Megalopolis in the Peloponnese and served the Achaean League in arms and diplomacy for many years, favouring alliance with Rome. From 168 to 151 he was held hostage in Rome, where he became a friend of Lucius Aemilius Paulus and his two sons, especially Scipio Aemilianus, whose...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Greeks and the Rational
This revisionist history traces an influential theory of practical reason from its origins in ancient Greece to its modern and contemporary permutations. The Greek discovery of practical reason, as the skilled performance of strategic thinking in public and private affairs, was an intellectual breakthrough that remains both a feature and a bug of our modern world. Countering arguments that rational...Hardback$6699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
The Great Cauldron
A sweeping history of southeastern Europe from antiquity to the present that reveals it to be a vibrant crossroads of trade, ideas, and religions. We often think of the Balkans as a region beset by turmoil and backwardness, but from late antiquity to the present, it has been a dynamic meeting place of cultures and religions. Combining deep insight with...Hardback$8099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta
A fresh appreciation of the pivotal role of Spartan strategy and tactics in the defeat of the mightiest empire of the ancient world More than 2500 years ago, a confederation of small Greek city-states defeated the invading armies of Persia, the most powerful empire in the world. In this meticulously researched study, historian Paul Rahe argues that Sparta was responsible...Paperback$4099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Global Prehistory of Human Migration
The Global Prehistory of Human Migration by Immanuel Ness was previously published as the first volume of The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration. This work is devoted exclusively to prehistoric migration, covering all periods and places from the first hominin migrations out of Africa through the end of prehistory. This book presents an interdisciplinary coverage of the topic, including scholarship...Paperback$8399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
The Fifth Beginning
“I have seen yesterday. I know tomorrow.” This inscription in Tutankhamun’s tomb summarises The Fifth Beginning. Here, archaeologist Robert L. Kelly explains how the study of our cultural past can predict the future of humanity. In an eminently readable style, Kelly identifies four key pivot points in the six-million-year history of human development: the emergence of technology, culture, agriculture, and...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
The Etruscans
The Etruscans are one of history's extraordinary casualties. For many centuries, they flourished exuberantly in central Italy, only to be completely absorbed into the growing Roman state. Their power, at its height, extended well beyond their borders: they were known and feared by Romans and Greeks alike. Their arresting visual culture was second to none in the peninsula, embracing complex...Paperback$22300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The Eternal City
One of the most visited places in the world, Rome attracts millions of tourists each year to walk its storied streets and see famous sites like the Colosseum, St. Peter’s Basilica, and the Trevi Fountain. Yet this ancient city’s allure is due as much to its rich, unbroken history as to its extraordinary array of landmarks. Countless incarnations and eras...Hardback$9699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Crucible of Islam
Little is known about Arabia in the sixth century, yet from this distant time and place emerged a faith and an empire that stretched from the Iberian Peninsula to India. Today, Muslims account for nearly a quarter of the global population. A renowned classicist, G. W. Bowersock seeks to illuminate this obscure and dynamic period in the history of Islam—exploring...Paperback$4299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
The Corrupting Sea
The Corrupting Sea is a history of the relationship between people and their environments in the Mediterranean region over some 3,000 years. It offers a novel analysis of this relationship in terms of microecologies and the often extensive networks to which they belong.Paperback$9999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
The Concept of Presocratic Philosophy
When we talk about Presocratic philosophy, we are speaking about the origins of Greek philosophy and Western rationality itself. But what exactly does it mean to talk about Presocratic philosophy in the first place? How did early Greek thinkers come to be considered collectively as Presocratic philosophers? In this brief book, André Laks provides a history of the influential idea...Paperback$10100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The Arsacids of Rome
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. At the beginning of the common era, the two major imperial powers of the ancient Mediterranean and Near East were Rome and Parthia. In this book, Jake Nabel analyses Roman-Parthian interstate politics by focusing on a...Paperback$6699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
The Ancient Shore
An esteemed historian explores the natural and social dynamics of the ancient coastline, demonstrating for the first time its integral place in the world of Mediterranean antiquity. As we learn from The Odyssey and the Argonauts, Greek dramas frequently played out on a watery stage. In particular, antiquity's key events and exchanges often occurred on coastlines. Yet the shore was...Hardback$9099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Testimonia. Origines
Ancient Rome's original archconservative. M. Porcius Cato (234–149 BC), one of the best-known figures of the middle Roman Republic, remains legendary for his political and military career, especially his staunch opposition to Carthage; his modest way of life; his integrity of character and austere morality; his literary works, composed in a style at once sophisticated and down-to-earth; his pithy sayings;...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
TA-U-RO-QO-RO
José Luis Melena Jiménez is a peerless scholar known for his expertise in editing texts written in the Mycenaean writing system of the late second millennium BCE and for explicating their linguistic and "historical" contents. This volume, TA-U-RO-QO-RO, addresses problems related to script and language representation as well as textual interpretation. Topics range from the use of punctuation markers and...Paperback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Summoned to the Roman Courts
Summoned to the Roman Courts is the first work by Detlef Liebs, an internationally recognised expert on ancient Roman law, to be made available in English. Originally presented as a series of popular lectures, this book brings to life a thousand years of Roman history through sixteen studies of famous court cases—from the legendary trial of Horatius for the killing...Paperback$6699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Strike
Historian Sarah E. Bond retells the traditional story of Ancient Rome, revealing how groups of ancient workers unified, connected, and protested as they helped build an empire. From plebeians refusing to join the Roman army to bakers withholding bread, this is the first book to explore how Roman workers used strikes, boycotts, riots, and rebellion to get their voices—and their...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient World
The second edition of Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient World updates Donald G. Kyle's award-winning introduction to this topic, covering the Ancient Near East up to the late Roman Empire. It challenges traditional scholarship on sport and spectacle in the Ancient World and debunks claims that there were no sports before the ancient Greeks. This edition explores the cultural...Paperback$10699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Satyricon. Apocolocyntosis
The Satyrica (Satyricon liber), a comic-picaresque fiction in prose and verse traditionally attributed to the Neronian Petronius (d. AD 66) but possibly of Flavian or Trajanic date, survives only as fragments of a much larger whole. It takes the form of a first-person narrative by the endearing ne'er-do-well Encolpius, a brilliant storyteller, parodist, and mimic who recalls episodes from his...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Saints of Ninth- and Tenth-Century Greece
Saints of Ninth- and Tenth-Century Greece collects funeral orations, encomia, and narrative hagiography. Together, these works illuminate one of the most obscure periods of Greek history—when holy men played central roles as the Byzantine administration reimposed control on southern and central Greece in the wake of Avar, Slavic, and Arab attacks and the collapse of the late Roman Empire. The...Hardback$7199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Roman Honor
This book is an attempt to coax Roman history closer to the bone, to the breath and matter of the living being. Drawing from a remarkable array of ancient and modern sources, Carlin Barton offers the most complex understanding to date of the emotional and spiritual life of the ancient Romans. Her provocative and original inquiry focuses on the sentiments...Hardback$6699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Roman History, Volume IV
Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), ca. 150–235 CE, was born at Nicaea in Bithynia in Asia Minor. On the death of his father, the Roman governor of Cilicia, he went to Rome in 180, entered the Senate, and served as an advocate under the emperor Commodus. He held high offices and became a close friend of several emperors. He was appointed...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Roman Heavy Cavalry (1)
From the army of Marc Antony in the 1st century BC, Roman generals hired heavy armoured Eastern cavalry to serve in their military alongside the legions. These troops, both from the northern steppes and the Persian frontiers, continued an ancient tradition of using heavy armour and long lances, and fought in a compact formation for maximum shock effect. They were...Paperback$3299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Roma Aeterna
Roma Aeterna (the main book of Pars II of the Lingua Latina per se illustrata series) introduces some of the most celebrated authors of Roman antiquity through the lens of Roman literature and mythology. A vivid description of the city's monuments precedes a prose retelling of the first four books of Virgil's Aeneid, with many of the most famous passages...Paperback$5499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Religion in Ancient Mesopotamia
One of the world's foremost experts on Assyriology, Jean Bottéro has studied the religion of ancient Mesopotamia for more than fifty years. Building on these many years of research, Bottéro here presents the definitive account of one of the world's oldest known religions. He shows how ancient Mesopotamian religion was practiced both in the public and private spheres, how it...Paperback$11900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Ramesside Inscriptions, Addenda
A useful companion to the seventh volume of K. A. Kitchen’s seminal Ramesside Inscriptions Ramesside Inscriptions: Translated and Annotated Notes and Comments, Volume VII complements the seventh volume of Kitchen's seminal hieroglyphic texts (KRI VII) and its companion volume of translations (KRITA VII) that cover the period between Ramesses I and Ramesses XI. This newly published reference work contains the...Hardback$61699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Praetorian
A riveting account of ancient Rome’s imperial bodyguard, the select band of soldiers who wielded the power to make—or destroy—the emperors they served. Founded by Augustus around 27 B.C., the elite Praetorian Guard was tasked with the protection of the emperor and his family. As the centuries unfolded, however, Praetorian soldiers served not only as protectors and enforcers but also...Paperback$3099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Pox Romana
In the middle of the second century AD, Rome was at its prosperous and powerful apex. The emperor Marcus Aurelius reigned over a vast territory that stretched from Britain to Egypt. The Roman-made peace, or Pax Romana, seemed to be permanent. Then, apparently out of nowhere, a sudden sickness struck the legions and laid waste to cities, including Rome itself....Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Plato and the Tyrant
Plato is one of history's most influential thinkers, the "sublime philosopher" whose writings remain foundational to Western culture. He is known for the brilliant dialogues in which he depicted his teacher, Socrates, discussing ethical truths with prominent citizens of Athens. Yet the image we have of Plato—an ethereal figure far removed from society and politics, who conjured abstract ideas in...Hardback$6099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Placita
An ancient compendium of ancient philosophy. Placita (Tenets), generally attributed to an author named Aëtius and dating from the late first or early second century AD, was a compendium setting out in summary fashion the principal doctrines and opinions of philosophers and philosophical schools in response to questions and topics in the domain of natural philosophy. Now lost, Placita can...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Phoenicians and the Making of the Mediterranean
The first comprehensive history of the cultural impact of the Phoenicians, who knit together the ancient Mediterranean world long before the rise of the Greeks. Imagine you are a traveler sailing to the major cities around the Mediterranean in 750 BC. You would notice a remarkable similarity in the dress, alphabet, consumer goods, and gods from Gibraltar to Tyre. This...Hardback$9299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Phoenicians and the Making of the Mediterranean
"An important new book…offers a powerful call for historians of the ancient Mediterranean to consider their implicit biases in writing ancient history and it provides an example of how more inclusive histories may be written." - Denise Demetriou, New England Classical Journal "With a light touch and a masterful command of the literature, López-Ruiz replaces old ideas with a subtle...Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Philosophy as a Way of Life
In the ancient world, philosophy was understood to be a practical guide for living, or even itself a way of life. This volume of essays brings historical views about philosophy as a way of life, coupled with their modern equivalents, more prevalently into the domain of the contemporary scholarly world. Philosophy as a Way of Life illustrates how the articulation...Paperback$4799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Philippics 1–6
Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106–43 BCE), Roman advocate, orator, politician, poet, and philosopher, about whom we know more than we do of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise, dictatorship, and death of Julius Caesar in a tottering republic. In Cicero's political speeches and in his correspondence, we see the excitement, tension, and intrigue of politics,...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Palmyra
Located northeast of Damascus, in an oasis surrounded by palms and two mountain ranges, the ancient city of Palmyra has the aura of myth. According to the Bible, the city was built by Solomon. Regardless of its actual origins, it was an influential city, serving for centuries as a caravan stop for those crossing the Syrian Desert. It became a...Paperback$3599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Orations. Other Fragments
Ancient Rome's original archconservative. M. Porcius Cato (234–149 BC), one of the best-known figures of the middle Roman Republic, remains legendary for his political and military career, especially his staunch opposition to Carthage; his modest way of life; his integrity of character and austere morality; his literary works, composed in a style at once sophisticated and down-to-earth; his pithy sayings;...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
On the Essence of Language and the Question of Art
The texts and notes collected in this volume offer unique insight into the development of Heidegger’s thinking on language and art from the late 1930s to the early 1950s—a tumultuous period both for Heidegger personally and for Germany as a whole. Following Germany’s defeat in World War II, Heidegger was banned from teaching at Freiburg University, where he had been...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
On Temperaments. On Non-Uniform Distemperment. The Soul’s Traits Depend on Bodily Temperament
Galen of Pergamum (129–?199/216), physician to the court of the emperor Marcus Aurelius, was a philosopher, scientist, medical historian, theoretician, and practitioner. He wrote forcefully and prolifically on an astonishing range of subjects, and his impact on later eras rivalled that of Aristotle. Galen synthesized the entirety of Greek medicine as a basis for his own doctrines and practice, which...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 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 ontology asserts that objects...Hardback$13199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Natural Questions
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE–65 CE) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, statesman, and adviser to the emperor Nero, all during the Silver Age of Latin literature. The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca is a fresh and compelling series of new English-language translations of his works in eight accessible volumes. Edited by world-renowned classicists Elizabeth Asmis, Shadi Bartsch, and...Paperback$11900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Miscellaneous Epics and Elegies. Other Fragments. Testimonia
Callimachus (ca. 303–ca. 235 BC), a proud and well-born native of Cyrene in Libya, came as a young man to the court of the Ptolemies at Alexandria, where he composed poetry for the royal family. He helped establish the Library and Museum as a world centre of literature, science, and scholarship and wrote an estimated 800 volumes of poetry and...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Military Theory and Practice in the Age of Xenophon
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1970.Paperback$9499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Menander Rhetor. Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Ars Rhetorica
This volume contains three rhetorical treatises dating probably from the reign of Diocletian (AD 285–312) that provide instruction on how to compose epideictic (display) speeches for a wide variety of occasions both public and private. Two are attributed to one Menander Rhetor of Laodicea (in southwestern Turkey); the third, known as the Ars Rhetorica, incorrectly to the earlier historian and...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Medicine in the Talmud
Despite the Talmud being the richest repository of medical remedies in ancient Judaism, this important strain of Jewish thought has been largely ignored—even as the study of ancient medicine has exploded in recent years. In a comprehensive study of this topic, Jason Sion Mokhtarian recuperates this obscure genre of Talmudic text that has been marginalised in the Jewish tradition since...Hardback$18099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Medicine, Health, and Healing in the Ancient Mediterranean (500 BCE–600 CE)
Medicine, Health, and Healing in the Ancient Mediterranean (500 BCE–600 CE) provides an expansive picture of medicine, health, and healing in ancient Greece and Rome. Covering a wide array of fascinating topics—such as ancient diagnostic practices using the pulse and urine, gynaecological theories of women’s illness, treatments involving drugs and surgery, the training and work of physicians, the experiences of...Paperback$7599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Making the Heavens Speak
The idea of a connection between poetry and religion is as old as civilization. Homer consulted the Olympian gods on the fate of the fighters on the plain before Troy, and the poet made the heavenly ones speak. It was through poetry that the gods were brought within reach of human hearing. In the centuries after Homer, the Athenian stage...Paperback$4299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Making the Heavens Speak
The idea of a connection between poetry and religion is as old as civilisation. Homer consulted the Olympian gods on the fate of the fighters on the plain before Troy, and the poet made the heavenly ones speak. It was through poetry that the gods were brought within reach of human hearing. In the centuries after Homer, the Athenian stage...Hardback$13199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Libraries in the Ancient World
This work tells the story of ancient libraries from their very beginnings, when books were clay tablets and writing was a new phenomenon. Classicist Lionel Casson takes us on a tour from the royal libraries of the Ancient Near East, through the private and public libraries of Greece and Rome, down to the first Christian monastic libraries. He explains what...Paperback$3099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Later Travels
Early Renaissance humanists discovered the culture of ancient Greece and Rome mostly through the study of classical manuscripts. Cyriac of Ancona (Ciriaco de' Pizzecolli, 1391-1452), a merchant and diplomat as well as a scholar, was among the first to study the physical remains of the ancient world in person and for that reason is sometimes regarded as the father of...Hardback$7199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Julian the Apostate
This portrayal of one of antiquity's most enigmatic figures offers a vivid and compact assessment of the Apostate's life and reign. Proceeding directly from an evaluation of the ancient sources—the testimony of friends and enemies of Julian as well as the writings of the emperor himself—the author traces Julian's youth, his years as the commander of the Roman forces in...Paperback$6699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Jerusalem
A captivating journey through the hidden libraries of Jerusalem, where some of the world’s most enduring ideas were put into words. In this enthralling book, Merav Mack and Benjamin Balint explore Jerusalem’s libraries to tell the story of this city as a place where some of the world’s most enduring ideas were put into words. The writers of Jerusalem, although...Hardback$5399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Introduction to Presocratics
Introduction to Presocratics "The general public and scholars alike will find Introduction to Presocratics stimulating, engaging, and exceptionally useful. Stamatellos' intriguing and illuminating theme-based approach to this subject and his inclusion of a fresh translation of all the major fragments make this book a 'must have' for anyone interested in Presocratic philosophy." Robert D. Luginbill, University of Louisville "An excellent...Paperback$8199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Into the Land of Bones
The so-called first war of the twenty-first century actually began more than 2,300 years ago when Alexander the Great led his army into what is now a sprawling ruin in northern Afghanistan. Frank L. Holt vividly recounts Alexander's invasion of ancient Bactria, situating it in a broader historical perspective with America's war in Afghanistan. In Into the Land of Bones,...Paperback$5699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
In Search of the Phoenicians
Who were the ancient Phoenicians—and did they actually exist? The Phoenicians travelled the Mediterranean long before the Greeks and Romans, trading, establishing settlements, and refining the art of navigation. But who these legendary sailors really were has long remained a mystery. In Search of the Phoenicians makes the startling claim that the "Phoenicians" never actually existed as such. Taking readers...Paperback$5699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire
The Roman empire remains unique. Although Rome claimed to rule the world, it did not. Rather, its uniqueness stems from the culture it created and the loyalty it inspired across an area that stretched from the Tyne to the Euphrates. Moreover, the empire created this culture with a bureaucracy smaller than that of a typical late-twentieth-century research university. In approaching...Paperback$6699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
How to Be a Leader
Timeless advice on how to be a successful leader in any field The ancient biographer and essayist Plutarch thought deeply about the leadership qualities of the eminent Greeks and Romans he profiled in his famous—and massive—Lives, including politicians and generals such as Pericles, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, and Mark Antony. Luckily for us, Plutarch distilled what he learned about...Hardback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
How to Be a Bad Emperor
What would Caligula do? What the worst Roman emperors can teach us about how not to lead If recent history has taught us anything, it's that sometimes the best guide to leadership is the negative example. But that insight is hardly new. Nearly 2,000 years ago, Suetonius wrote Lives of the Caesars, perhaps the greatest negative leadership book of all...Hardback$4499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Homosexuality in Greece and Rome
Homosexuality in Greece and Rome presents the most important primary texts on homosexuality in ancient Greece and Rome, translated into modern, explicit English and collected for the first time in this comprehensive sourcebook. Covering an extensive period—from the earliest Greek texts in the late seventh century b.c.e. to Greco-Roman texts of the third and fourth centuries c.e.—the volume includes well-known...Paperback$8199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
History of Rome, Volume VII
Livy (Titus Livius), the great Roman historian, was born at Patavium (Padua) in 64 or 59 BC, and 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 -
History of Rome, Volume V
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 -
History of Rome, Volume IX
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 -
Hippocrates, Volume I
This is the first volume in the Loeb Classical Library's complete edition of Hippocrates' invaluable texts, which provide essential information about the practice of medicine in antiquity and about Greek theories concerning the human body. Here, Paul Potter presents the Greek text with facing English translation of five treatises that showcase the range of Hippocratic theory, philosophy, and practice: Ancient...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Herculaneum and the House of the Bicentenary
This volume provides a striking account of the life, destruction, rediscovery, and cultural significance of the Roman town of Herculaneum and its grandest residence—the House of the Bicentenary. Herculaneum and the House of the Bicentenary vividly recounts, for general readers, the Roman town of Herculaneum, destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE and uniquely preserved for nearly...Paperback$7199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Hecale. Hymns. Epigrams
Callimachus (ca. 303–ca. 235 BC), a proud and well-born native of Cyrene in Libya, came as a young man to the court of the Ptolemies at Alexandria, where he composed poetry for the royal family. He helped establish the Library and Museum as a world centre of literature, science, and scholarship, and wrote an estimated 800 volumes of poetry and...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
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