Scenes from a Roman Century
An offbeat meander through the streets and histories of the great Italian capital, where the past is always present. Hollywood film stars, fascist assassins. Bombs on San Lorenzo, la dolce vita on Via Veneto. Baroque fountains, umbrella pines. Urban planning, unregulated house-building. After half a century living in Rome, David Lane turns his eye on events and streetscapes in the...Paperback$4499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Roman History, Volume VIII
Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), circa 150–235 CE, was born at Nicaea in Bithynia in Asia Minor. Upon the death of his father, who was the Roman governor of Cilicia, he moved to Rome in 180, entered the Senate, and under the emperor Commodus, became an advocate. He held high offices and became a close friend of several emperors. His distinguished...Hardback$9400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Roman History, Volume VII
Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), ca. 150–235 CE, was born at Nicaea in Bithynia in Asia Minor. On the death of his father, who was the Roman governor of Cilicia, he went to Rome in 180, entered the Senate, and under the emperor Commodus became an advocate. He held high offices and became a close friend of several emperors. Dio was...Hardback$9400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Reminiscences of a Student's Life
The arch, witty, outspoken memoirs of the pioneering archaeologist and scholar Mary Beard has called 'my hero'. First published by Virginia and Leonard Woolf in 1925, Jane Ellen Harrison's Reminiscences of a Student's Life are the irreverent memoirs of a student who declared Victorian education 'ingeniously useless', who blazed a trail for female scholars, and who changed the way we...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
On the Republic. On the Laws
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$9400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
On the Nature of the Gods. Academics
Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106–43 BCE), a Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, is among the most well-documented figures of ancient Rome. He lived through a tumultuous period marked by the rise, dictatorship, and assassination of Julius Caesar, set against the backdrop of a crumbling republic. His political speeches and extensive correspondence reveal the excitement, tension, and political manoeuvring of the...Hardback$9500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
On Old Age. On Friendship. On Divination
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$9400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
On Invention. The Best Kind of Orator. Topics
On Invention. The Best Kind of Orator. Topics by Cicero presents the works of Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 BCE), a Roman lawyer, orator, politician, and philosopher. Cicero, of whom we know more than any other Roman, lived through the era that witnessed the rise, dictatorship, and death of Julius Caesar in a tottering republic. In his political speeches, especially, and...Hardback$9400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
On Ends
On Ends by Cicero transports us to the life and times of Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 BCE), a renowned Roman lawyer, orator, politician, and philosopher. Cicero's era was marked by the rise and fall of Julius Caesar amidst a fragile republic. Through his political speeches and extensive correspondence, we gain insight into the excitement, tension, and intrigue of Roman politics,...Hardback$9400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Lives, Volume IV
Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. 45–120 CE, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece. He studied philosophy at Athens, and after coming to Rome as a teacher in philosophy, he 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...Hardback$9400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Lives, Volume III
Plutarch (Plutarchus), circa 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$9400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Lives of the Caesars, Volume I
Suetonius (C. Suetonius Tranquillus, born ca. 70 CE), son of a military tribune, was at first an advocate and a teacher of rhetoric, but later became the emperor Hadrian's private secretary from 119 to 121. He dedicated to C. Septicius Clarus, prefect of the praetorian guard, his Lives of the Caesars. After the dismissal of both men for some breach...Hardback$9400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Laws, Volume I
Plato, the great philosopher of Athens, was born in 427 BCE. In early manhood, an admirer of Socrates, he later founded the famous school of philosophy in the grove Academus. Much else recorded of his life is uncertain; that he left Athens for a time after Socrates' execution is probable; that later he went to Cyrene, Egypt, and Sicily is...Hardback$9400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Julian, Volume I
Julian, Volume I follows the life of Julian (Flavius Claudius Iulianus), known as "the Apostate". He was a Roman Emperor who lived from 331 or 332 to 363 CE. Born and educated as a Christian in Constantinople, Julian survived a precarious childhood and later devoted himself to literature and philosophy, eventually converting to paganism. He studied in various Greek cities,...Hardback$9400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Iliad, Volume II
Here is a new Loeb Classical Library edition of Homer's stirring heroic account of the Trojan war and its passions. The eloquent and dramatic epic poem captures the terrible anger of Achilles, "the best of the Achaeans," over a grave insult to his personal honour and relates its tragic result—a chain of consequences that proves devastating for the Greek forces...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
History of the Peloponnesian War, Volume II
Thucydides of Athens, one of the greatest historians, was born about 471 BCE. He witnessed the rise of Athens to greatness under the inspired leadership of Pericles. In 430, during the second year of the Peloponnesian War, he caught and survived the horrible plague, which he described so graphically. Later, as a general in 423, he failed to save Amphipolis...Hardback$9400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
History of Rome, Volume XII
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$9400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
History of Rome, Volume I
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$9400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Heroides. Amores
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BCE–17 CE), born at Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law at Rome. Later he did considerable public service there, and otherwise devoted himself to poetry and to society. Famous at first, he offended the emperor Augustus by his Ars Amatoria, and was banished because of this work and some other reason unknown to us, and dwelt...Hardback$9400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Helen's Judgement
She's the most scapegoated heroine in Greek mythology, but there's never just one side to any story. This new framing uncovers the complexities of Helen of Troy—a woman tormented by the blame placed on her by others, and tortured by her own guilt. We all blamed Helen. Haunted by her decision to leave her child behind in fleeing her unhappy...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Epistles, Volume I
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, born at Corduba (Cordova) around 4 BCE, hailed from a prominent and wealthy family. He spent an ailing childhood and youth in Rome under an aunt's care. Seneca became renowned in rhetoric, philosophy, financial affairs, and imperial service. Despite some disgrace during Claudius’ reign, he became a tutor and later, in 54 CE, an advising minister to...Hardback$9400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Eclogues. Georgics. Aeneid, Books 1–6
Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) was born in 70 BCE near Mantua and was educated at Cremona, Milan and Rome. Slow in speech, shy in manner, thoughtful in mind, weak in health, he went back north for a quiet life. Influenced by the group of poets there, he may have written some of the doubtful poems included in our Virgilian manuscripts....Hardback$9400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Cyropaedia, Volume II
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$9400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Circus Maximus: Rivals On the Track
Dido is the only girl ever to have raced to victory at the Circus Maximus, Rome's greatest sporting arena. Now she and her beloved horse, Porcellus, are in hiding, and Emperor Caligula has put a price on their heads. Can she outwit the emperor and his bounty hunters? And will a shocking family secret stop her in her tracks, or...Hardback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
China between Empires
After the collapse of the Han dynasty in the third century CE, China divided along a north-south line. Mark Lewis traces the changes that both underlay and resulted from this split in a period that saw the geographic redefinition of China, more engagement with the outside world, significant changes to family life, developments in the literary and social arenas, and...Paperback$6599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Captivity
A literary sensation in Hungary, Gyorgy Spiro's Captivity is set in the tumultuous first century A.D., between the year of Christ's death and the outbreak of the Jewish War. It follows the adventures of the feeble-bodied, bookish Uri, a young Roman Jew. Frustrated with his hapless son, Uri's father sends the young man to the Holy Land to regain the...Hardback$6499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
At the Gates of Rome
A dramatic retelling of the final years of the Western Roman Empire and the downfall of Rome itself from the perspective of the Roman general Stilicho and Alaric, king of the Visigoths. It took little more than a single generation for the centuries-old Roman Empire to fall. In those critical decades, while Christians and pagans, legions and barbarians, generals and...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Ancient China
Richly illustrated with photographs of historical heritage, Ancient China chronicles significant events that led to the rise and fall of dynasties. The focus is also on historical figures such as a petty bureaucrat in the Qin dynasty, a writer who loved travelling, or a scholar-official devoted to calligraphy and painting. In this way, the authors, all young historians, narrate stories...Paperback$6100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
All the Violet Tiaras
Ancient Greece was rich with stories of queer love and genderfluid identity, but what can these ancient stories tell us about our contemporary world? Tales as old as antiquity—whether the love affair of Achilles and Patroclus, the genderfluid Tiresias, or the infamous Heracles—are still capturing our imaginations thousands of years later. But was antiquity's relationship with queer folk more complicated...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Aeneid, Books 7–12. Appendix Vergiliana
Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) was born in 70 BCE near Mantua and was educated at Cremona, Milan and Rome. Slow in speech, shy in manner, thoughtful in mind, weak in health, he went back north for a quiet life. Influenced by the group of poets there, he may have written some of the doubtful poems included in our Virgilian manuscripts....Hardback$9400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Working with Manuscripts
A first-of-its-kind handbook outlining best practices and common pitfalls for students and textual scholars interested in beginning to work with manuscripts. While manuscripts are rare in most of the world today, they were once ubiquitous. Before the printing press, literature was preserved and transmitted through handwritten copies containing variant readings, mistakes, corrections, and other unique features. Those who study premodern...Hardback$15499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Wandering, Begging Monks
An apostolic lifestyle characterized by total material renunciation, homelessness, and begging was practiced by monks throughout the Roman Empire in the fourth and fifth centuries. Such monks often served as spiritual advisors to urban aristocrats whose patronage gave them considerable authority and independence from episcopal control. This book is the first comprehensive study of this type of Christian poverty and...Paperback$6699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Tragedies, Volume I
Seneca is a figure of first importance in both Roman politics and literature: a leading adviser to Nero who attempted to restrain the emperor's megalomania; a prolific moral philosopher; and the author of verse tragedies that strongly influenced Shakespeare and other Renaissance dramatists. Seneca's plays depict intense passions and interactions in rhetoric that is equally strong. Their perspective is much...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The World between Empires
A timely and definitive exploration of the art and culture of the ancient civilizations situated between Rome and the Middle East that presents a new way of understanding the region’s influential heritage. This publication examines the art and architecture of regions that served as major trade routes between the Roman and Parthian Empires from 100 B.C. to A.D. 250. The...Hardback$10799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Treasures of Darkness
A recreation of the spiritual life of ancient Mesopotamia demonstrating that the roots of Western civilization lie in the ancient Near East “A brilliant presentation of Mesopotamian religion from the inside, backed at every point by meticulous scholarship and persistent adherence to original texts... A classic in its field.”—Religious Studies Review The Treasures of Darkness is the culmination of a...Paperback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Just State
An intellectual history of one of the most important contributions to Western society The Just State explores influential Greek and Roman ideas about justice and their institutional context, and discusses their legacy in later political thought. Bringing Greco-Roman and modern ideas into conversation with each other, Benjamin Straumann traces the history of ancient political thought by focusing on classical ideas...Paperback$9899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Ides of April
Flavia Albia is the adopted daughter of a famous investigating family. In defiance of tradition, she lives alone on the colourful Aventine Hill and battles out a solo career in a male-dominated world. As a woman and an outsider, Albia has special insight into the best, and worst, of life in ancient Rome. A female client dies in mysterious circumstances....Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Histories, Volume V
The historian Polybius (ca. 200–118 BC) was born into a leading family of Megalopolis in the Peloponnese and served the Achaean League in arms and diplomacy for many years. From 168 to 151, he was held hostage in Rome, where he became a friend of Scipio Aemilianus, whose campaigns, including the destruction of Carthage, he later attended. As a trusted...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Golden Peaches of Samarkand
In the seventh century, the kingdom of Samarkand sent formal gifts of fancy yellow peaches, large as goose eggs and with a colour like gold, to the Chinese court at Ch'ang-an. What kind of fruit these golden peaches really were cannot now be guessed, but they have the glamour of mystery, and they symbolise all the exotic things longed for,...Paperback$7999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Forge and the Crucible
Primitive man's discovery of the ability to change matter from one state to another brought about a profound change in spiritual behaviour. In The Forge and the Crucible, Mircea Eliade follows the ritualistic adventures of these ancient societies, adventures rooted in the people's awareness of an awesome new power. The new edition of The Forge and the Crucible contains an...Paperback$7999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Final Pagan Generation
A compelling history of radical transformation in the fourth-century—when Christianity decimated the practices of traditional pagan religion in the Roman Empire. The Final Pagan Generation recounts the fascinating story of the lives and fortunes of the last Romans born before the Emperor Constantine converted to Christianity. Edward J. Watts traces their experiences of living through the fourth century’s dramatic religious...Paperback$5699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Eagle's Vengeance: Empire VI
The Tungrian auxiliary cohorts return to Hadrian's Wall after their successful Dacian campaign, only to find Britannia in chaos. The legions are overstretched, struggling to man the forts of the northern frontier in the face of increasing barbarian resistance. The Tungrians are the only soldiers who can be sent into the northern wastes, far beyond the long-abandoned wall built by...Paperback$3199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
The Creation of Inequality
Our early ancestors lived in small groups and worked actively to preserve social equality. As they created larger societies, however, inequality rose, and by 2500 BCE truly egalitarian societies were on the wane. In The Creation of Inequality, Kent Flannery and Joyce Marcus demonstrate that this development was not simply the result of population increase, food surplus, or the accumulation...Paperback$5499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
The Classical Reception and Impact of Wonder Woman in Comics and Film
Employing a wide range of scholarly approaches, such as reception studies, feminist studies, racial studies and posthumanism studies, this volume examines the classical influence on the character of Wonder Woman. In particular, the contributors look at the cultural phenomenon of this female superhero across comic books and film. The result is an in-depth study that examines the influence ancient Greek...Hardback$19800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Royal Traditions and the Consolidation of Power by Alexander’s Successors
Examining the period of political consolidation after Alexander the Great’s death, John Holton reconstructs how the successors used new frameworks of royal ideology to create long-term kingships. There is a particular focus on the deeper manoeuvres within the inter-generational impact ranging from the influence of religion and family relations, to succession-planning and royal funerals. In this innovative book, Holton expertly...Paperback$5499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Rome: A Sourcebook on the Ancient City
The ancient city of Rome was the site of daily activities as well as famous historical events. It was not merely a backdrop, but rather an active part of the experiences of its inhabitants, shaping their actions and infusing them with meaning. During each period in Rome's imperial history, her emperors also used the city as a canvas to be...Paperback$6599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Rage of Ares
Rage of Ares by Christian Cameron tells the gripping tale of Arimnestos of Plataea, a celebrated hero who played a pivotal role in the Battle of Marathon, where the heroic Greeks halted the invading Persians in their tracks. Arimnestos also fought in the equally celebrated naval battle at Salamis. Despite these stunning victories, they only served to buy the Greeks...Paperback$2499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Playing the Other
Relations between the sexes was a pervasive concern of ancient Greek thought and literature, extending from considerations of masculine and feminine roles in domestic and political spheres to the organisation of the cosmos in a pantheon of gods and goddesses. In Playing the Other, Froma Zeitlin explores the diversity and complexity of these interactions through the most influential literary texts...Paperback$7999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Peasant-Citizen and Slave
The controversial thesis at the center of this study is that, despite the importance of slavery in Athenian society, the most distinctive characteristic of Athenian democracy was the unprecedented prominence it gave to free labour. Wood argues that the emergence of the peasant as citizen, juridically and politically independent, accounts for much that is remarkable in Athenian political institutions and...Paperback$7800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece
This book presents a state-of-the-art debate about the origins of Athenian democracy by five eminent scholars. The result is a stimulating, critical exploration and interpretation of the extant evidence on this intriguing and important topic. The authors address such questions as: Why was democracy first realised in ancient Greece? Was democracy "invented" or did it evolve over a long period...Paperback$6099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
On Agriculture
Cato (M. Porcius Cato) the elder (234–149 BCE) of Tusculum, statesman and soldier, was the first important writer in Latin prose. His speeches, works on jurisprudence and the art of war, his precepts to his son on various subjects, and his great historical work on Rome and Italy are lost. But we have his De Agricultura; terse, severely wise, grimly...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Old Age in Greek and Roman Art
Old Age in Greek and Roman Art offers a comprehensive look at ancient sculptures, wall paintings, vases, and more, depicting the elderly in Greek and Roman society. Some of the most vivid portraits in ancient art depict older members of society. In marble and bronze sculptures, on coins and painted vases, and in wall paintings and mosaics, elderly men and...Hardback$11999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
OCR Classical Civilisation AS and A Level Component 11
This textbook is endorsed by OCR and supports the specifications for AS and A-Level Classical Civilisation (first teaching September 2017). It covers all three options for Component 11: World of the Hero (Homer’s Iliad, Homer’s Odyssey and Virgil’s Aeneid). Why does the Trojan War continue to fascinate us? What makes Odysseus a hero? What links can be drawn between the...Paperback$3699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
OCR Ancient History AS and A Level Component 2
This textbook supports the specification for AS and A-Level Ancient History (first teaching September 2017). It covers the whole of Component 2, both the compulsory Period Study and the three optional Depth Studies: Period Study: The Julio-Claudian Emperors, 31 BC–AD 68 by Robert Cromarty and James Harrison Depth Study: The Breakdown of the Late Republic, 88–31 BC by Steve Matthews...Paperback$4299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Object Biographies
A revealing look at ancient art in the Menil Collection that addresses the problem of objects lacking archaeological context This innovative anthology discusses a diversity of ancient Mediterranean objects—a Mesopotamian votive figure, an Egyptian relief from the New Kingdom, and a Greek Geometric fawn among them—in the Menil Collection and three other US museums. It offers new models for understanding...Hardback$9599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Melania
Melania the Elder and her granddaughter Melania the Younger were major figures in early Christian history, using their wealth, status, and forceful personalities to shape the development of nearly every aspect of the religion we now know as Christianity. This volume examines their influence on late antique Christianity and provides an insightful portrait of their legacies in the modern world....Paperback$6699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Looking Back through Our Identities
An accessible monograph that invites readers to rethink traditional historical boundaries in its exploration of myth and memory. Looking Back through Our Identities explores the intricate relationship between myth and history in shaping the identities of diverse Indian communities. Through a meticulous analysis of ancient texts and oral traditions, Aloka Parasher Sen examines how the past is interpreted and navigated...Hardback$2299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Library of History, Volume XI
Diodorus Siculus, a Greek historian from Agyrium in Sicily, lived around 80–20 BCE. He authored forty books of world history, referred to as Library of History, which is divided into three parts: mythical history of non-Greek and Greek peoples up to the Trojan War; history up to Alexander's death in 323 BCE; and history up to 54 BCE. Out of...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Library of History, Volume II
Diodorus Siculus, Greek historian of Agyrium in Sicily, ca. 80–20 BCE, wrote forty books of world history, called Library of History, in three parts: mythical history of peoples, non-Greek and Greek, to the Trojan War; history to Alexander's death (323 BCE); history to 54 BCE. Of this we have complete Books I–V (Egyptians, Assyrians, Ethiopians, Greeks) and Books XI–XX (Greek...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Invitation to Syriac Christianity
Despite their centrality to the history of Christianity in the East, Syriac Christians have generally been excluded from modern accounts of the faith. Originating from Mesopotamia, Syriac Christians quickly spread across Eurasia, from Turkey to China, developing a distinctive and influential form of Christianity that connected empires. These early Christians wrote in the language of Syriac, the lingua franca of...Paperback$7599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
How to Read Greek Sculpture
Featuring decorative, religious, and utilitarian objects from the Geometric period to the Hellenistic Age, this is the ideal introduction to Greek sculpture. Introducing eight centuries of Greek sculpture, this latest addition to The Met’s compelling and widely acclaimed How to Read series traces this artistic tradition from its early manifestations in the Geometric period (ca. 900–700 BCE) through the groundbreaking...Paperback$7400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Herodotus: Book III
This accessible edition for students presents Herodotus as one of the most fascinating and colourful authors from the ancient world. Book III of Herodotus’ nine-book work is one of the richest in its exploration of themes, such as the practices and customs of different peoples and the nature of political power, issues still much debated today. This commentary illuminates the...Paperback$6899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 110
This volume includes: Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz, "Half Slave, Half Free: Partial Manumission in the Ancient Near East and Beyond"; Chris Eckerman, "I Weave a Variegated Headband: Metaphors for Song and Communication in Pindar's Odes"; Alexander Nikolaev, "Through the Thicket: The Text of Pindar Olympian 6.54 (βατιᾶι τ' ἐν ἀπειράτωι)"; Tobias Joho, "Alcibiadean Mysteries and Longing for 'Absent' and 'Invisible Things' 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...Hardback$4799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Fortress of Spears: Empire III
The Romans have vanquished the rebel alliance; Calgus, Lord of the Northern Tribes, is the prisoner of the chieftains he once led. And the Roman leader has an audacious plan to capture Dinpaladyr, the barbarians' fortress of spears. Marcus Aquila—burning for revenge on an enemy that has killed one of his best friends—rides north with the Petriana cavalry. He believes...Paperback$9800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Exposed
Exposed by Caroline Vout is a captivating exploration of the body in antiquity, bringing to light truths about the Greek and Roman bodies that defy the flawless image they are often given. Vout, a distinguished classicist, challenges the notion of perfection cast in bronze and marble, revealing a more nuanced reality. This book is the WINNER OF THE LONDON HELLENIC...Paperback$4500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Euripides II
Euripides II contains the plays “Andromache,” translated by Deborah Roberts; “Hecuba,” translated by William Arrowsmith; “The Suppliant Women,” translated by Frank William Jones; and “Electra,” translated by Emily Townsend Vermeule. 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....Hardback$7299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Dictee
This restored edition reflects Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s original vision and intentions for Dictee, a foundational and unparalleled text of modern Asian American literature. Dictee is the best-known work of the multidisciplinary Korean American artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. This restored edition, produced in partnership with the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), captures Cha’s original vision for...Hardback$4799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Christianity and Classical Culture
The momentous encounter between Christian thought and Greek philosophy reached a high point in fourth-century Byzantium, and the principal actors were four Greek-speaking Christian thinkers whose collective influence on the Eastern Church was comparable to that of Augustine on Western Latin Christendom. In this erudite and informative book, a distinguished scholar provides the first coherent account of the lives and...Paperback$16700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Cave Art
Deep underground, hidden from view, some of humanity's earliest artistic endeavours have lain buried for thousands of years. The most ancient artworks were portable objects, left on cave floors. Shell beads signal that 100,000 years ago, humans had developed a sense of self and a desire to beautify the body. Ostrich eggshells incised with curious geometric patterns hint at how...Paperback$6500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Being Christian in Vandal Africa
Being Christian in Vandal Africa investigates conflicts over Christian orthodoxy in the Vandal kingdom, the successor to Roman rule in North Africa, approximately 439 to 533 C.E. Exploiting neglected texts, author Robin Whelan exposes a sophisticated culture of disputation between Nicene ("Catholic") and Homoian ("Arian") Christians, exploring their rival claims to political and religious legitimacy. These contests—sometimes violent—are key to...Paperback$6699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Babylon
'This may be the greatest tale of the ancient world. Hugely enjoyable' — CONN IGGULDEN 'Excellent . . . scintillating' — The Times Who will save the fallen city? Let the games begin . . . Alexander the Great's sudden death has left his empire in chaos. The ragged survivors of war limp home on foot, while funeral pyres across...Hardback$4100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Attic Nights, Volume II
Aulus Gellius (ca. 123–170 CE) is known almost wholly from his Noctes Atticae, Attic Nights, so called because it was begun during the nights of an Attic winter. The work collects in twenty books (of Book VIII only the index is extant) interesting notes covering philosophy, history, biography, all sorts of antiquities, points of law, literary criticism, lexicographic matters, explanations...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
A Short History of the Byzantine Empire
Incorporating the latest scholarly developments to offer an in-depth account of the history of the Byzantine Empire, this revised edition sheds new light on the Empire’s culture, theology, and economic and socio-political spheres. Charting from the Empire’s origins, to its expansion and influence over the Mediterranean, later revival, and eventual fall – this book covers more than 1,000 years of...Paperback$3699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
An Introduction to the New Testament
“A truly magnificent book, composed by our Catholic national treasure.”—Commonweal “This judicious and reassuring approach may comfort many.”—Anthony J. Saldarini, New York Times Book Review “A tour de force.”—America From the experience of a lifetime of scholarship, preaching, teaching, and writing, Raymond E. Brown covers the entire scope of the New Testament with ease and clarity. He walks readers book...Hardback$13199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Angels
'An intriguing exploration of the many roles that angels have played in spiritual life.' - The Sunday Times: Nick Rennison In a 2016 poll, one in 10 Britons claimed to have experienced the presence of an angel, while one in three remain convinced that they have a guardian angel. These are huge numbers and mean that, on some counts, angels...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Ancient Persia and the Book of Esther
A Spectator 2023 Book of the Year Esther is the most visual book of the Hebrew Bible and was largely crafted in the Fourth Century BCE by an author who was clearly au fait with the rarefied world of the Achaemenid court. It therefore provides an unusual mélange of information which can enlighten scholars of Ancient Iranian Studies whilst offering...Paperback$5899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
A Man at Arms
Jerusalem and the Sinai desert, AD 55. In the turbulent aftermath of the crucifixion of Jesus, agents of the Roman Empire receive information about a pilgrim bearing an incendiary letter from a religious fanatic calling himself Paul the Apostle to insurrectionists in Corinth. What's in the letter could bring down an empire. The Romans hire a former legionary, a solitary...Hardback$5299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
What's Wrong with Democracy?
Fifth-century Athens is praised as the cradle of democracy and sometimes treated as a potential model for modern political theory or practice. In this daring reassessment of classical Athenian democracy and its significance for the United States today, Loren J. Samons provides ample justification for our founding fathers' distrust of democracy, a form of government they scorned precisely because of...Paperback$5299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
The Living Goddesses
This text crowns a lifetime of influential work by one of the 20th-century's most remarkable scholars. Marija Gimbutas wrote and taught with rare clarity in her original—and originally shocking—interpretation of prehistoric European civilization. Gimbutas flew in the face of contemporary archaeology when she reconstructed goddess-centered cultures that predated historic patriarchal cultures by many thousands of years. The Living Goddesses, which...Paperback$6499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
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