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Actors in the Audience

Shadi Bartsch

This is a book about language, theatricality, and empire--about how the Roman emperor dramatized his rule and how his subordinates in turn staged their response. Informed by theories of dramaturgy, sociology, new historicism, and cultural criticism, this close reading of literary and historical texts gives us a new perspective on the politics of the Roman empire--and on the languages and representation of power.

Hardcover 1998

After the Ice

Steven Mithen

20,000 B.C., the peak of the last ice age--the atmosphere is heavy with dust, glaciers span vast regions, and people face the threat of extinction. But these people live on the brink of seismic change--10,000 years of climate shifts culminating in abrupt global warming that will usher in a fundamentally changed human world. This is the story of this momentous period--one in which a seemingly minor alteration in temperature could presage anything from the spread of lush woodland to the coming of apocalyptic floods--and one in which we find the origins of civilization itself.

Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2006

Amber

Andrew Ross

The fossilized resin of ancient trees, amber preserves organic material--most commonly insects and other invertebrates--and with it the shape and surface detail that are usually obliterated or hopelessly distorted during the mineralization we associate with fossils. This fascinating substance offers a unique intersection of the fields of paleontology, botany, entomology, and mineralogy.

Paperback 1999

Ancient Cyprus

Veronica Tatton-Brown

Paperback

Ancient Greek Love Magic

Christopher A. Faraone

The ancient Greeks commonly resorted to magic spells to attract and keep lovers--as numerous allusions in Greek literature and recently discovered "voodoo dolls," magical papyri, gemstones, and curse tablets attest. Surveying and analyzing these various texts and artifacts, Christopher Faraone reveals two distinct types of love magic: the curselike charms used primarily by men to torture unwilling women with fiery and maddening passion until they surrender sexually; and the binding spells and debilitating potions generally used by women to sedate angry or philandering husbands and make them more affectionate.

Hardcover 1999 / Paperback 2001

The Ancient Greeks

John V. A. Fine

John Fine offers a major reassessment of the history of Greece from prehistoric times to the rise of Alexander. Throughout he indicates the nature of the evidence on which our present knowledge is based, masterfully explaining the problems and pit-falls in interpreting ancient accounts.

Hardcover 1983 / Paperback

Ancient Literacy

William V. Harris

Hardcover 1989 / Paperback 1991

Ancient Mystery Cults

Walter Burkert

The foremost historian of Greek religion providers the first comprehensive, comparative study of a little-known aspect of ancient religious beliefs and practices.

Hardcover 1987 / Paperback

Ancient Religions

Sarah Iles Johnston, General Editor

Religious beliefs and practices, which permeated all aspects of life in antiquity, traveled well-worn routes throughout the Mediterranean: itinerant charismatic practitioners peddled their skills as healers, purifiers, cursers, and initiators; and vessels decorated with illustrations of myths traveled with them. This collection of essays, drawn from the groundbreaking reference work Religion in the Ancient World, offers an expansive, comparative perspective on this complex spiritual world.

Paperback 2007

Ancient Roman Gardens

Edited by Elizabeth Blair MacDougall

Edited by Wilhelmina F. Jashemski

Hardcover 1981

Ancient Roman Villa Gardens

Edited by Elizabeth Blair MacDougall

Hardcover 1987

Ancient Slavery and the Ideal of Man

Joseph Vogt

Hardcover 1975

Archilochos Heros

Diskin Clay

The discovery of the Mnesiepes inscription on Paros revealed the third century B.C. belief that the young Archilochos was transformed into a poet by an encounter with the Muses. It also revealed that the poet had become the object of a cult by his fellow islanders as he was transformed in death to a local hero. This is the first attempt to trace the history of this cult and addresses for the first time the larger phenomenon of the cult of poets in the Greek states.

Paperback 2005

Art of Ancient Egypt

Gay Robins

From the awesome grandeur of the Great Pyramids to the delicacy of a face etched on an amulet, the power of ancient Egyptian art persists to this day. Spanning three thousand years, this illustrated history offers a thorough and delightfully readable introduction to the artwork.

Paperback 2008

The Art of Ancient Egypt

Gay Robins

What did art, and the architecture that housed it, mean to the ancient Egyptians? Why did they invest such vast wealth and effort in its production? These are the puzzles Gay Robins explores as she examines the objects of Egyptian art--the tombs and wall paintings, the sculpture and stelae, the coffins, funerary papyri, and amulets--from its first flowering in the Early Dynastic period to its final resurgence in the time of the Ptolemies.

Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 2000

The Ascension of Authorship

Jed Wyrick

This book traces the history of the idea of the author in the ancient world, beginning with the attribution practices of Second Temple and Rabbinic Judaism. Wyrick argues that the fusion of Jewish and Hellenistic approaches toward attribution helped lead to St. Augustine's reinvention of the writer of scripture as an author whose texts were governed by both divine will and human intent.

Paperback 2004 / Hardcover 2004

Athanasius and Constantius

Timothy D. Barnes

In this new reconstruction of Athanasius's career, Barnes analyzes the nature and extent of the Bishop's power, especially as it intersected with the policies of these emperors. Untangling longstanding misconceptions, Barnes reveals the Bishop's true role in the struggles within Christianity, and in the relations between the Roman emperor and the Church at a critical juncture.

Paperback 2001 / Hardcover

Athens from Alexander to Antony

Christian Habicht

Deborah Lucas Schneider, Translator

The conquests of Alexander the Great transformed the Greek world into a complex of monarchies and vying powers, a vast sphere in which the Greek city-states struggled to survive. This is the compelling story of one city that despite long periods of subjugation persisted as a vital social entity throughout the Hellenistic age.

Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 1999

Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis

Walter Burkert

At the distant beginning of Western civilization, according to European tradition, Greece stands as an insular, isolated, near-miracle of burgeoning culture. This book traverses the ancient world's three great centers of cultural exchange--Babylonian Nineveh, Egyptian Memphis, and Iranian Persepolis--to situate classical Greece in its proper historical place, at the Western margin of a more comprehensive Near Eastern-Aegean cultural community that emerged in the Bronze Age and expanded westward in the first millennium B.C.

Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2007

Before Color Prejudice

Frank M. Snowden

In this account of black-white contacts from the Pharaohs to the Caesars, Snowden demonstrates that the ancients did not discriminate against blacks because of their color. He sheds light on the reasons for the absence in antiquity of virulent color prejudice and for the difference in attitudes of whites toward blacks in ancient and modern societies.

Hardcover 1983 / Paperback 1991

Black Doves Speak

Rosaria Munson

In Greek thought, barbaroi are utterers of unintelligible or inarticulate sounds. What importance does the text of Herodotus's Histories attribute to language as a criterion of ethnic identity? The answer to this question illuminates the empirical foundations of Herodotus's pluralistic worldview.

Paperback 2005

Blacks in Antiquity

Frank M. Snowden

Paperback

Byzantine Court Culture from 829 to 1204

Edited by Henry Maguire

The imperial court in Constantinople has been central to the outsider's vision of Byzantium. However, in spite of its fame in literature and scholarship, there have been few attempts to analyze the Byzantine court in its entirety as a phenomenon. The studies in this volume aim to provide a unified composition by presenting Byzantine courtly life in all its interconnected facets.

Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 2004

Byzantine Magic

Edited by Henry Maguire

The authors reveal the scope, the forms, and the functioning of magic in Byzantine society, throwing light on a hitherto relatively little-known aspect of Byzantine culture, and, at the same time, expanding upon the contemporary debates concerning magic and its roles in pre-modern societies.

Hardcover

Byzantium, A World Civilization

Edited by Angeliki E. Laiou

Edited by Henry Maguire

These seven chapters, originally given as lectures honoring the fiftieth anniversary of Dumbarton Oaks, cover a wide range of topics, from the relationship of Byzantium with its Islamic, Slavic, and Western European neighbors to the modern reception of Byzantine art.

Paperback 1992 / Hardcover 1995

Caesar

Mattias Gelzer

Peter Needham, Translator

The political career of one of the great statesmen of Antiquity--indeed of all times--is here captured in a full, authoritative, and lively biography that has long been a classic.

Hardcover / Paperback

Catalogue of the Byzantine Coins in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection and in the Whittemore Collection, 1, Anastasius I to Maurice, 491-602

Alfred R. Bellinger

Hardcover 1996

A Chronicle of the Last Pagans

Pierre Chuvin

B. A. Archer, Translator

Hardcover 1990

Cicero, XXV, Letters to Friends

Cicero

Edited and translated by D. R. Shackleton Bailey

The 435 letters collected here represent Cicero's correspondence with friends and acquaintances over a period of 20 years, from 62 BCE, when Cicero's political career was at its peak, to 43 BCE, the year he was put to death by the victorious Triumvirs.This new Loeb Classical Library edition of the Letters to Friends, in three volumes, brings together D. R. Shackleton Bailey's standard Latin text, now updated, and a revised version of his much admired translation first published by Penguin. The first volume of Letters to Friends contains letters 1-113.

Hardcover 2001

Cicero, XXVI, Letters to Friends

Cicero

Edited and translated by D. R. Shackleton Bailey

Volume II contains letters 114-280.

Hardcover 2001

Cicero, XXVII, Letters to Friends

Cicero

Edited and translated by D. R. Shackleton Bailey

Volume III contains letters 281-435.

Hardcover 2001

The City in the Ancient World

Mason Hammond

Hardcover 1972

Cleopatra and Rome

Diana E. E. Kleiner

In this beautifully illustrated book, we experience the synthesis of Cleopatra's and Rome's defining moments through surviving works of art and other remnants of what was once an opulent material culture. This culture best chronicles Cleopatra's legend and suggests her subtle but indelible mark on the art of imperial Rome at the critical moment of its inception.

Hardcover 2005

Codex Parisinus Graecus 1115 and Its Archetype

Alexander Alexakis

Hardcover 1996

The Colosseum

Keith Hopkins

Mary Beard

The history of the Colosseum--chockfull of romantic but erroneous myths--is, in reality, much stranger than the legend. In this engaging book, we learn the details of how the arena was built and at what cost; we are introduced to the emperors who sometimes fought in gladiatorial games staged at the Colosseum; and we take measure of the audience who reveled in, or opposed, these games. The authors also trace the strange afterlife of the monument--as fortress, shrine of martyrs, church, and glue factory.

Hardcover 2005

Commentaries on Plato, Volume 1, Phaedrus and Ion

Marsilio Ficino

Edited and translated by Michael J. B. Allen

Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus, was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. This volume contains Ficino’s extended analysis and commentary on the Phaedrus.

Hardcover 2008

Commerce and Social Standing in Ancient Rome

John H. D'Arms

D'Arms explores here a question of central importance for the social economic history of the Roman world: which sectors of society were actively engaged in trade?

Hardcover 1981

Comparative Anthropology of Ancient Greece

Marcel Detienne

Comparative Anthropology of Ancient Greece looks at the anthropology of the Greeks and other cultures across space and time, and in the process discovers aspects of the art of comparability. Marcel Detienne tries to see how cultural systems react not just to a touchstone category, but also to the questions and concepts that arise from the reaction.

Paperback

Consent and Coercion to Sex and Marriage in Ancient and Medieval Societies

Edited by Angeliki E. Laiou

This collection of essays addresses a number of questions regarding the role of consent in marriage and in sexual relations outside of marriage in ancient and medieval societies. Ranging from ancient Greece and Rome to the Byzantine Empire and Western Medieval Europe.

Hardcover 1995 / Paperback 1998

Constantine and Eusebius

Timothy D. Barnes

Here is the fullest available narrative history of the reigns of Diocletian and Constantine, and a new assessment of the part Christianity played in the Roman world of the third and fourth centuries.

Paperback / Hardcover

Constantinople and the Latins

Angeliki E. Laiou

In this penetrating account of Andronicus' foreign policy, Laiou focuses on Byzantium's relations with the Latin West, the far-reaching domestic implications of the hostility of western Europe, and the critical decision that faced Andronicus: whether to follow his father's lead and allow Byzantium to become a European state or to keep it an Eastern, orthodox power.

Hardcover 1972

Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance

John M. Riddle

John Riddle uncovers the obscure history of contraception and abortifacients from ancient Egypt to the seventeenth century with forays into Victorian England. His findings will be useful to anyone interested in learning whether it was possible for premodern people to regulate their reproduction without resorting to the extremities of dangerous surgical abortions, the killing of infants, or the denial of biological urges.

Hardcover 1992 / Paperback

Corpus des Mosaiques de Tunisie, Volume II, Thurburbo Majus, Fasc. 4

Edited by M. A. Alexander

Edited by Ben Abed-Ben Khader

Paperback

The Craft of Zeus

John Scheid

Jesper Svenbro

Carol Volk, Translator

In this dazzling commentary on Greek and Roman myth and society, weaving emerges as a metaphor rich with possibility. From rituals symbolizing the cohesion of society to the erotic and marital significance of weaving, this lively book defines the logic of one of the central concepts in Greek and Roman thought.

Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 2001

Culture and Power in the Reconstitution of the Chinese Realm, 200-600

Scott Pearce, Editor

Audrey Spiro, Editor

Patricia Buckley Ebrey, Editor

The period between the fall of the Han in 220 and the reunification of the Chinese realm in the late sixth century receives short shrift in most accounts of Chinese history. The period is usually characterized as one of disorder and dislocation, ethnic strife, and bloody court struggles. In the eight essays of Culture and Power in the Reconstitution of the Chinese Realm, 200-600, the authors seek to chart the actual changes occurring in this period of disunion, and to show its relationship to what preceded and followed it.

Hardcover 2001

Culture and Society of Lucian

Christopher P. Jones

C. P Jones examines Lucian's work, setting this brilliant writer in the social and intellectual context of an age that proved pivotal in Greco-Roman history. The result is a fresh portrait of Lucian and a vivid picture of a society whose outward assurance masked uncertainty and the onset of profound change.

Hardcover 1986

The Death of Socrates

Emily Wilson

Socrates's death in 399 BCE has figured largely in our world ever since, shaping how we think about heroism and celebrity, religion and family life, state control and individual freedom, the distance of intellectual life from daily activity--many of the key coordinates of Western culture. In this book, Wilson analyzes the enormous and enduring power the trial and death of Socrates has exerted over the Western imagination.

Hardcover 2007

Democracy and Classical Greece, Second Edition

J. K. Davies

Paperback

Democracy, Empire, and the Arts in Fifth-Century Athens

Deborah Boedeker, Editor

Kurt A. Raaflaub, Editor

Athens in the fifth century B.C. offers a striking picture: the first democracy in history; the first empire created and ruled by a Greek city; and a flourishing of learning, philosophical thought, and visual and performing arts so rich as to leave a remarkable heritage for Western civilization. To what extent were these three parallel developments interrelated? An international group of fourteen scholars expert in different fields explores the ways in which the fifth-century "cultural revolution" depended on Athenian democracy and the ways it was influenced by the fact that Athens was an imperial city.

Hardcover 1999 / Paperback 2003

Demons and Dancers

Ruth Webb

Compared to the wealth of information available to us about classical tragedy and comedy, not much is known about the culture of pantomime, mime, and dance in late antiquity. Webb fills this gap in our knowledge of the ancient world and provides us with a detailed look at social life in the late antique period through an investigation of its performance culture.

Hardcover 2008

Diaspora

Erich S. Gruen

What was life like for Jews settled throughout the Mediterranean world of Classical antiquity--and what place did Jewish communities have in the diverse civilization dominated by Greeks and Romans? In a probing account of the Jewish diaspora in the four centuries from Alexander the Great's conquest of the Near East to the Roman destruction of the Jewish Temple, Gruen reaches often surprising conclusions.

Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2004

The Discovery of the Greek Bronze Age

J. Lesley Fitton

J. Lesley Fitton traces an exciting tale of archaeological discovery and weaves it into an engaging, in-depth portrait of Greek Bronze Age civilizations. The result is an elegant assimilation of vast historical detail and a fully illustrated tour of the art and artifacts, the grand palaces and tombs, the mythical heroes, and the Trojan treasures that form at least one cradle of our own civilization.

Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1998

Dumbarton Oaks Papers 59

Edited by Alice-Mary Talbot

Hardcover 2007

Dumbarton Oaks Papers 60

Edited by Alice-Mary Talbot

Volume 60 of this annual journal explores a range of Byzantine subjects: the classification of stamping objects, the date and purpose of the construction of Constantinople's church of Saints Sergius and Bacchus, the Coptic Church's literary construction of its identity in post-conquest Egypt, the evidence for the tenth-century revision of the so-called Chronicle of 811, an unusual development in the iconography of St. Menas, and versions of Niketas Choniates' History.

Hardcover 2007

The Early Chinese Empires

Mark Edward Lewis

Timothy Brook, General Editor

In 221 B.C. the First Emperor of Qin unified what would become the heart of a Chinese empire whose major features would endure for two millennia. In the first of a six-volume series on the history of imperial China, Lewis highlights the key challenges facing the court officials and scholars who set about governing an empire of such scale and diversity.

Hardcover 2007

Early Greece, Second Edition

Oswyn Murray

Paperback

Egyptian Life

Miriam Stead

Contrary to the popular view that they were a people obsessed with religion and death, the ancient Egyptians were in fact very much concerned with the enjoyment of life--so much so that they desired their civilized, often exuberant existence to be continued for ever in the afterlife. Thus they equipped their tombs with all the trappings of life on earth and decorated the walls with colorful scenes depicting their many activities, pleasures and pastimes. With the aid of a wealth of illustrations from the British Museum's rich Egyptian collections, Miriam Stead combines the evidence from the tombs with that of excavation and written sources to recreate a remarkably vivid and wide-ranging picture of life in ancient Egypt.

Paperback

Egyptian Mummies

Carol Andrews

Why did the Egyptians try to preserve their dead for eternity? How did they succeed? Carol Andrews answers these questions in a fully illustrated survey of the techniques of mummification, the religious beliefs that lay behind the practice, the ornate coffins and elaborate tombs that housed the bodies, and the grave goods that accompanied them.

Paperback 2004

The End of the Past

Aldo Schiavone

Margery J. Schneider, Translator

Western history is split into two discontinuous eras, Aldo Schiavone tells us: the ancient world was fundamentally different from the modern one. He locates the essential difference in a series of economic factors: a slave-based economy, relative lack of mechanization and technology, the dominance of agriculture over urban industry. Schiavone's lively and provocative examination of the ancient world offers a stimulating opportunity to view modern society in light of the experience of antiquity.

Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2002

The Epic City

Annette L. Giesecke

As Greek and Trojan forces battled in the shadow of Troy's wall, Hephaistos created a wondrous, ornately decorated shield for Achilles. Viewed as Homer's blueprint for an ideal, or utopian, social order, the Shield reveals that restraining and taming Nature would be fundamental to the Hellenic urban quest. It is this ideal that Classical Athens, with her utilitarian view of Nature, exemplified. This new ideal, vividly expressed through the domestication of Nature in villas and gardens and also through primitivist and Epicurean tendencies in Latin literature, informed the urban endeavors of Rome.

Paperback 2007

Et Tu, Brute?

Greg Woolf

Beginning with Caesar's legendary political assassination, immortalized in art and literature through the ages, Woolf delivers a remarkable meditation on Caesar's murder as it echoes down the corridors of history, affecting notions and acts of political violence to our day.

Hardcover 2007

Euripides, II, Children of Heracles. Hippolytus. Andromache. Hecuba

Euripides

Edited and translated by David Kovacs

Hippolytus has been judged to be one of Euripides' masterpieces. Hecuba and Andromache recreate the tragic stories of two noble Trojan women after their city's fall. Children of Heracles celebrates an incident long a source of Athenian pride: the city's protection of the sons and daughters of the dead Heracles.

Hardcover 1995

Euripides, VII, Fragments

Euripides

Edited and translated by Christopher Collard

Edited and translated by Martin Cropp

The extant plays and the fragments together make Euripides by far the best known of the classic Greek tragedians. This edition offers the first complete English translation of the fragments together with a selection of testimonia bearing on the content of the plays. Each play is prefaced by a select bibliography and an introductory discussion of its mythical background, plot, and location of the fragments, general character, chronology, and impact on subsequent literary and artistic traditions.

Hardcover 2008

The Faunas of Hayonim Cave, Israel

Mary C. Stiner

A decade of zooarchaeological fieldwork went into Mary Stiner's pathbreaking analysis of changes in human ecology from the early Mousterian period through the end of Paleolithic cultures in the Levant. Stiner employs a comparative approach to understanding early human behavioral and environmental change, based on a detailed study of fourteen bone assemblages from Hayonim Cave and Meged Rockshelter in Israel's Galilee.

Paperback 2006

The Fires of Vesuvius

Mary Beard

Although Pompeii still does not give up its secrets quite as easily as it may seem, Mary Beard makes sense of the remains. From sex to politics, food to religion, slavery to literacy, she offers us the big picture of the inhabitants of the lost city.

Hardcover 2009

The Founders and the Classics

Carl J. Richard

The influence of Greek and Roman authors on our American forefathers finally becomes clear in this fascinating book--the first comprehensive study of the founders' classical reading. In this analysis, we see how the classics not only supplied the principal basis for the U.S. Constitution but also contributed to the founders' conception of human nature, their understanding of virtue, and their sense of identity and purpose within a grand universal scheme.

Paperback 1995 / Hardcover

From Egypt to Babylon

Paul Collins

For those who believe that globalization is a purely modern phenomenon, this book holds a startling and absorbing lesson. Readers are immersed in a world of exotic empires and states as they waxed and waned and interacted in a period of extraordinary internationalism—all before the rise of the Persian Empire.

Hardcover 2007

Fronto and Antonine Rome

Edward Champlin

This is a study of a man who was the presiding genius of Latin letters in the second century, the leading orator and lawyer of his day, a prominent senator and consul, the close friend of four emperors and the teacher of two, including the philosopher-emperor Marcus Aurelius. It is a history that tells as much about the age as the man.

Hardcover 1980

The Galilee in Late Antiquity

Lee Levine, Editor

Paperback / Hardcover

Genos Dikanikon

Victor Bers

Under the Athenian democracy, litigants were expected to speak for themselves, though they could memorize a speech written for them. These amateur performances often manifested an unmanly yielding to emotions of anger or fear; professional speech, Bers seeks to demonstrate, was to a large degree crafted in reaction to amateur stumbling.

Paperback 2008

Greek Architecture and Its Sculpture

Ian Jenkins

From Athens and Arcadia on one side of the Aegean Sea and from Ionia, Lycia, and Karia on the other, this book brings together some of the great monuments of classical antiquity--among them two of the seven wonders of the ancient world, the later temple of Artemis at Ephesos and the Mausoleum at Halikarnassos. With 250 photographs and specially commissioned line drawings, the book comprises a monumental narrative of the art and architecture that gave form, direction, and meaning to much of Western culture.

Hardcover 2007

The Greek Discovery of Politics

Christian Meier

David McLintock, Translator

Hardcover 1990

Greek Homosexuality

K. J. Dover

To what extent and in what ways was homosexuality approved by the ancient Greeks? An eminent classicist examines the evidence--vase paintings, archaic and classical poetry, the dialogues of Plato, speeches in the law courts, the comedies of Aristophanes--and reaches provocative conclusions. A discussion of female homosexuality is included.

Paperback

The Greek Pursuit of Knowledge

Edited by Jacques Brunschwig

Edited by Geoffrey E. R. Lloyd

Translated by Catherine Porter

Ancient Greek thought is the essential wellspring from which the intellectual, ethical, and political civilization of the West draws and to which, even today, we repeatedly return. In this volume drawn from the reference work Greek Thought: A Guide to Classical Knowledge, major scholars take up basic topics in philosophy and science, offering an account of the extraordinary explosion of desire for knowledge in the classical Greek world.

Paperback 2003

Greek Religion

Walter Burkert

In this book Walter Burkert, the most eminent living historian of ancient Greek religion, has produced the standard work for our time on that subject. First published in German in 1977, it has now been translated into English with the assistance of the author himself. A clearly structured and readable survey for students and scholars, it will be welcomed as the best modern account of any polytheistic religious system.

Hardcover 1985 / Paperback

Greek Ritual Poetics

Edited by Dimitrios Yatromanolakis

Edited by Panagiotis Roilos

Investigating ritual in Greece from cross-disciplinary and transhistorical perspectives, this book offers novel readings of the pivotal role of ritual in Greek traditions by exploring a broad spectrum of texts, art, and social practices. This collection of essays written by an international group of leading scholars in a number of disciplines presents a variety of methodological approaches to secular and religious rituals, and to the narrative and conceptual strategies of their reenactment and manipulation in literary, pictorial, and social discourses.

Paperback 2005

Greek Thought

Jacques Brunschwig, Editor

Geoffrey E. R. Lloyd, Editor

Catherine Porter, Translator

Ancient Greek thought is the essential wellspring from which the intellectual, ethical, and political civilization of the West draws and to which, even today, we repeatedly return. In more than sixty essays by an international team of scholars, this volume explores the full breadth and reach of Greek thought--investigating what the Greeks knew as well as what they thought about what they knew, and what they believed, invented, and understood about the conditions and possibilities of knowing.

Hardcover 2000

Greek Virginity

Giulia Sissa

Arthur Goldhammer, Translator

The image of prophecies taking shape inside a virginal body provides the starting point for this revealing exploration of the concept of the female body in Greece before the impact of Christianity. In an analysis drawing upon Greek drama, myths, vase paintings, religious practices, the philosophers, and the Hippocratic medical writings, Sissa draws striking conclusions about the classical conceptions of sexual purity and of the female body as vehicle and vessel.

Hardcover 1990

Greek and Roman Life

Ian Jenkins

Paperback

Greetings in the Lord

AnneMarie Luijendijk

This is the first book-length study on Christians in the ancient Egyptian city of Oxyrhynchus, the site where some of the most important and oldest fragments of early Christian books were unearthed. Bringing the people in these dry papyrus letters and documents back to life, the book reveals how diverse Christians lived in this city of diverse situations.

Paperback 2008

A Guide to Greek Thought

Edited by Jacques Brunschwig

Edited by Geoffrey E. R. Lloyd

Catherine Porter, Translated under the direction of

The philosophers, historians, and scientists of ancient Greece inaugurated and nourished the tradition of Western thought. This volume, drawn from the reference work Greek Thought: A Guide to Classical Knowledge, gives fresh insight into the originality of major figures and the legacy of important currents of thought.

Paperback 2003

Hadrian

Thorsten Opper

Even in the panoply of Roman history, Hadrian stands out. This book moves beyond the familiar image of Hadrian to offer a new appraisal of this Emperor’s contradictory personality, his exploits and accomplishments, his rule, and his military role, against the backdrop of his twenty-one-year reign.

Hardcover 2008

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 101,

Department of Classics Harvard University

This volume includes: Lucia Athanassaki, "Transformations of Colonial Disruption into Narrative Continuity in Pindar's Epinician Odes"; Christina Clark, "Minos' Touch and Theseus' Glare: Gestures in Bakkhylides 17"; James J. Clauss, "Once upon a Time on Cos: A Banquet with Pan on the Side in Theocritus Idyll 7"; David M. Engel, "Women's Role in the Home and the State: Stoic Theory Reconsidered"; John Gibert, "Apollo's Sacrifice: The Limits of a Metaphor in Greek Tragedy"; Peter Grossardt, "The Title of Aeschylus' Ostologoi"; D. R. Shackleton Bailey, "New Readings in Valerius Maximus"; and many others.

Hardcover 2003

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 99,

Charles Segal, Editor

Hardcover 2000

The Healing Hand

Guido Majno

Majno pieces together the difficulties people faced in the effort to survive their injuries, as well as the odd, chilling, or inspiring ways in which they rose to the challenge. In asking whether the early healers might have benefited their patients, or only hastened their trip to the grave, Dr. Majno uncovered surprising answers by testing ancient prescriptions in a modern laboratory.

Hardcover 1975 / Paperback 1991

Hellenistic World, Revised Edition

F. W. Walbank

Walbank's lucid and authoritative history of the Hellenistic world examines political events, describes the different social systems and mores of the people under Greek rule, traces important developments in literature and science, and discusses the new religious movements.

Paperback

Helots and Their Masters in Laconia and Messenia

Edited by Nino Luraghi

Edited by Susan Alcock

The Helots fulfilled all the functions that slaves carried out elsewhere in the Greek world, allowing their masters the leisure to be full-time warriors. Yet, despite their crucial role, Helots remain essentially invisible in our ancient sources and peripheral and enigmatic in modern scholarship. This book is devoted to a much-needed reassessment of Helotry and of its place in the history and sociology of unfree labor.

Paperback 2004

Hippocrates, VIII, Places in Man. Glands. Fleshes. Prorrhetic 1-2. Physician. Use of Liquids. Ulcers. Haemorrhoids and Fistulas

Hippocrates

Paul Potter, Translator

This is the eighth volume in the Loeb Classical Library®'s edition of these invaluable texts which are essential sources of information about the practice of medicine in antiquity and about Greek theories concerning the human body. Paul Potter presents the Greek text and facing English translation for ten treatises that offer an illuminating overview of Hippocratic medicine.

Hardcover 1995

Histoires Grecques

Maurice Sartre

Translated by Catherine Porter

Sartre spans the grand narrative of Greek culture over a thousand years and a vast expanse of land and sea. Ranging from Afghanistan to the Mediterranean world, these excursions amount to a panoramic vision of one of the most important civilizations of all time.

Hardcover 2009

A History of Private Life, Volume I, From Pagan Rome to Byzantium

Series edited by Phillippe Ariès

Series edited by Georges Duby

Paul Veyne, Volume editor

Arthur Goldhammer, Translator

First of the widely celebrated and sumptuously illustrated series, this book reveals in intimate detail what life was really like in the ancient world.

Hardcover 1987 / Paperback 1992

A History of Women in the West, Volume I, From Ancient Goddesses to Christian Saints

Georges Duby, Series Editor

Michelle Perrot, Series Editor

Pauline Schmitt Pantel, Editor

Arthur Goldhammer, Translator

Informed by the work of seventy-five distinguished historians, this five-volume series sets before us an engaging, panoramic chronicle that extends from antiquity to the present day

Hardcover 1992 / Paperback 1994

Holon

Michael Chazan

Liora Kolska Horwitz

Excavations at the open-air site of Holon, carried out by Tamar Noy between 1963 and 1970, were some of the first successful salvage projects in the region. This volume brings together the results of interdisciplinary research on the site of Holon--geology, dating, archaeology, paleontology, taphonomy, and spatial analysis--by a team of leading international researchers. This book will be an essential point of reference for students and specialists working in the archaeology of human evolution.

Paperback 2008

Hypatia of Alexandria

Maria Dzielska

F. Lyra, Translator

Hypatia--brilliant mathematician, eloquent Neoplatonist, and a woman renowned for her beauty--was brutally murdered by a mob of Christians in Alexandria in 415. She has been a legend ever since. In this engrossing book, Maria Dzielska searches behind the legend to bring us the real story of Hypatia's life and death, and new insight into her colorful world.

Paperback 1996 / Hardcover

Iliad, I

Homer

William Wyatt, Translator

A. T. Murray, Translator

The works attributed to Homer include the two oldest and greatest European epic poems, the Odyssey and the Iliad. These have been published in the Loeb Classical Library for three quarters of a century, the Greek text facing a faithful and literate prose translation by A. T. Murray. William F. Wyatt brings the Loeb's Iliad up to date, with a rendering that retains Murray's admirable style but is written for today's readers.

Hardcover 1924

The Inner Citadel

Pierre Hadot

Michael Chase, Translator

Written by the Roman emperor for his own private guidance and self-admonition, the Meditations set forth principles for living a good and just life. Hadot probes Marcus Aurelius's guidelines and convictions and discerns the hitherto unperceived conceptual system that grounds them.

Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 2001

Italy and Its Invaders

Girolamo Arnaldi

Translated by Antony Shugaar

From the earliest times, successive waves of foreign invaders have left their mark on Italy. Beginning with Germanic invasions that undermined the Roman Empire and culminating with the establishment of the modern nation, Girolamo Arnaldi explores the dynamic exchange between outsider and “native.”

Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2008

The Jews in the Greek Age

Elias Bickerman

Bickerman presents a vivid account of the Jewish people from the conquest of Palestine by Alexander the Great in 332 B.C.E. to the revolt of the Maccabees. In a historical narrative told with consummate skill, he portrays Jewish life in the context of a broader picture of the Near East and traces the interaction between the Jewish and Greek worlds throughout this period.

Hardcover 1988 / Paperback 1990

Judeophobia

Peter Schäfer

Taking a fresh look at what the Greeks and Romans thought about Jews and Judaism, Peter Schäfer locates the origin of anti-Semitism in the ancient world and firmly establishes Hellenistic Egypt as the generating source of anti-Semitism, with roots extending back into Egypt's pre-Hellenistic history.

Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 1998

Julian the Apostate

G. W. Bowersock

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 Gaul, and his emergence as sole ruler in the course of a dramatic march to Constantinople. In Bowersock's analysis of Julian's religious revolution, the emperor's ardent espousal of a lost cause is seen to have made intolerable demands upon pagans, Jews, and Christians alike.

Hardcover 1978 / Paperback 1997

Kinship Diplomacy in the Ancient World

Christopher P. Jones

From the Homeric age to Byzantium, peoples and nations sharing the same fictive ancestry appealed to their kinship when forging military alliances, settling disputes, or negotiating trade connections. In this intriguing study of the political uses of perceived kinship, Christopher Jones gives us an unparalleled view of mythic belief in action and addresses fundamental questions about communal and national identity.

Hardcover 1999

Kourion

Edited by A. H. S. Megaw

More than fifty years after the earthquake of 365 destroyed Kourion, the seat of the Roman administration of Cyprus, a Christian basilica was built upon the remains of its pagan predecessor. Replete with mosaics and revetment, the basilica was the center of the ecclesiastical administration until its destruction in the late seventh century. In this long-awaited report, Megaw and colleagues present in full the results of excavations from the 1930s, 1950s, and 1970s.

Hardcover 2008

Labored in Papyrus Leaves

Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, Editor

Elizabeth Kosmetatou, Editor

Manuel Baumbach, Editor

This colloquium volume celebrates a new Hellenistic epigram collection attributed to the third-century B.C.E. poet Posidippus, one of the most significant literary finds in recent memory. Included in this collection are an unusual variety of voices and perspectives: papyrological, art historical, archaeological, historical, literary, and aesthetic.

Paperback 2004

Late Antiquity

Peter Brown

Paperback 1998

The Later Roman Empire

Averil Cameron

Marked by the shift of power from Rome to Constantinople and the Christianization of the Empire, this pivotal era requires a narrative and interpretative history of its own. Averil Cameron, an authority on later Roman and early Byzantine history and culture, captures the vigor and variety of the fourth century, doing full justice to the enormous explosion of recent scholarship.

Paperback / Hardcover

Later Travels

Cyriac of Ancona

Edited and translated by Edward W. Bodnar

Cyriac of Ancona 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 classical archaeology. Cyriac's accounts of his travels, with their commentary reflecting his wide-ranging antiquarian, political, religious, and commercial interests, provide a fascinating record of the encounter of the Renaissance world with the legacy of classical antiquity. The Latin texts assembled for this edition have been newly edited and most of them appear here for the first time in English.

Hardcover 2004

The Learned Banqueters, I, Books 1-3.106e

Athenaeus

Edited and translated by S. Douglas Olson

In The Learned Banqueters, Athenaeus describes a series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from valuable Greek works that have been lost. Athenaeus also preserves a wide range of information about Greek culture. S. Douglas Olson has undertaken to produce a complete new edition of the work, replacing the previous seven-volume Loeb Athenaeus (published under the title Deipnosophists).

Hardcover 2007

The Learned Banqueters, II, Books 3.106e-5

Athenaeus

Edited and translated by S. Douglas Olson

In The Learned Banqueters, Athenaeus describes a series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from valuable Greek works that are now lost. Athenaeus also preserves a wide range of information about Greek culture. S. Douglas Olson has undertaken to produce a complete new edition of the work, replacing the previous seven-volume Loeb Athenaeus (published under the title Deipnosophists).

Hardcover 2007

The Learned Banqueters, IV, Books 8-10.420e

Athenaeus

Edited and translated by S. Douglas Olson

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 and of extraordinary value as a treasury of quotations from works now lost.

Hardcover 2008

Lighting in Early Byzantium

Laskarina Bouras

Maria Parani

This book is the first general survey of lighting in Byzantium. The first part of the book discusses the technology and types of lighting devices and explains their decorative symbolism and social function. The second half illustrates this narrative by drawing on a Dumbarton Oaks exhibition.

Paperback 2008

Love for Lydia

Edited by Nicholas D. Cahill

This generously illustrated volume, presents new studies by scholars closely involved with Professor Greenewalt’s excavations during the Sardis Expedition in western Turkey.

Hardcover 2009

Magic in the Ancient World

Fritz Graf

Franklin Philip, Translator

Ancient Greeks and Romans often turned to magic to achieve personal goals. Magical rites were seen as a route for direct access to the gods, for material gains as well as for spiritual satisfaction. In this fascinating survey of magical beliefs and practices from the sixth century B.C.E. through late antiquity, Fritz Graf sheds new light on ancient religion.

Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 1999

The Making of Late Antiquity

Peter Brown

Peter Brown presents a masterly history of Roman society in the second, third, and fourth centuries. Brown interprets the changes in social patterns and religious thought, breaking away from conventional modern images of the period.

Hardcover 1978 / Paperback 1993

The Making of a Christian Aristocracy

Michele Renee Salzman

What did it take to cause the Roman aristocracy to turn to Christianity, changing centuries-old beliefs and religious traditions? Salzman takes a fresh approach to this much-debated question. Focusing on a sampling of individual aristocratic men and women as well as on writings and archeological evidence, she brings new understanding to the process by which pagan aristocrats became Christian, and Christianity became aristocratic.

Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2004

Master of the Game

Derek Collins

The interest in the performance of ancient Greek poetry has grown dramatically in recent years. But the competitive dimension of Greek poetic performances, while usually assumed, has rarely been directly addressed. This study provides for the first time an in-depth examination of a central mode of Greek poetic competition--capping, which occurs when speakers or singers respond to one another in small numbers of verses, single verses, or between verse units themselves.

Paperback 2005

Medicine in the Days of the Pharaohs

Bruno Halioua

Bernard Ziskind

Translated by M. B. DeBevoise

Foreword by Donald Redford

Evidence of the medical practice of ancient Egypt has come down to us not only in pictorial art but also in papyrus scrolls, in funerary inscriptions, and in the mummified bodies of ancient Egyptians themselves. Halioua and Ziskind provide a comprehensive account of pharaonic medicine that is illuminated by what modern science has discovered about the lives (and deaths) of people from all walks of life.

Hardcover 2005

Menander, II, Heros. Theophoroumene. Karchedonios. Kitharistes. Kolax. Koneiazomenai. Leukadia. Misoumenos. Perikeiromene. Perinthia

Menander

W. G. Arnott, Translator

Volume II contains the surviving portions of ten Menander plays. Among these are the recently published fragments of Misoumenos ("The Man She Hated"), which sympathetically presents the flawed relationship of a soldier and a captive girl; and the surviving half of Perikeiromene ("The Girl with Her Hair Cut Short"), a comedy of mistaken identity and lovers' quarrel.

Hardcover 1997

The Middle East under Rome

Maurice Sartre

Translated by Catherine Porter

Translated by Elizabeth Rawlings

Sartre has written a long overdue and comprehensive history of the Semitic Near East (modern Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Israel) from the eve of the Roman conquest to the end of the third century C.E. and the dramatic rise of Christianity. His broad yet finely detailed perspective takes in all aspects of this history, not just the political and military, but economic, social, cultural, and religious developments as well.

Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2007

The Mind of Egypt

Jan Assmann

Translated by Andrew Jenkins

The Mind of Egypt presents an unprecedented account of the mainsprings of Egyptian civilization--the ideals, values, mentalities, belief systems, and aspirations that shaped the first territorial state in human history. Drawing on a range of literary, iconographic, and archaeological sources, the renowned historian Jan Assmann reconstructs a world of unparalleled complexity, a culture that, long before others, possessed an extraordinary degree of awareness and self-reflection.

Paperback 2003

Mosaics as History

G. W. Bowersock

Over the past century, exploration and serendipity have uncovered mosaic after mosaic in the Near East--maps, historical images and religious scenes that constitute a treasure of new testimony from antiquity. In their complex language, G. W. Bowersock finds historical evidence, illustrations of literary and mythological tradition, religious icons, and monuments to civic pride. Attending to one of the most evocative languages of the ages, his work reveals a fusion of cultures and religions that speaks to us across time.

Hardcover 2006

Moses the Egyptian

Jan Assmann

Standing at the very foundation of monotheism, and so of Western culture, Moses is a figure not of history, but of memory. As such, he is the quintessential subject for the innovative historiography that Jan Assmann both defines and practices in this work. It is a study of the ways in which factual and fictional events and characters are stored in religious beliefs and transformed in their philosophical justification, literary reinterpretation, philological restitution (or falsification), and psychoanalytic demystification.

Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 1998

The Murder of Regilla

Sarah B. Pomeroy

Born to an illustrious Roman family in 125 BCE, Regilla was married at the age of fifteen to Herodes, a wealthy Roman. Twenty years later--and eight months pregnant with her sixth child--Regilla died under mysterious circumstances, after a blow to the abdomen delivered by Herodes's freedman. Though Herodes was charged, he was acquitted. Pomeroy's investigation suggests that despite Herodes's erection of numerous monuments to his deceased wife, he was in fact guilty of the crime.

Hardcover 2007

Mycenaean Pictorial Vase Painting

Emily Vermeule

Vassos Karageorghis

Here is a vividly written and fully illustrated assessment of the figured decoration on Late Bronze Age vessels from the Greek mainland, Cyprus, and the Aegean islands. It will become a standard source on the Mycenaean imagination.

Hardcover 1982

Nero

Edward Champlin

The Roman emperor Nero is remembered by history as the vain and immoral monster who fiddled while Rome burned. He murdered his younger brother and rival to the throne, probably at his mother's prompting. He then murdered his mother, with whom he may have slept. He ordered the spectacular punishment of Christians for the burning of Rome, many of whom were burned as human torches to light up his gardens at night. Edward Champlin reinterprets Nero's enormities on their own terms, as the self-conscious performances of an imperial actor with a formidable grasp of Roman history and mythology and a canny sense of his audience.

Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2005

The Orientalizing Revolution

Walter Burkert

Margaret Pinder, Translator

The splendid culture of the ancient Greeks has often been described as emerging like a miracle from a genius of its own, owing practically nothing to its neighbors. Walter Burkert offers a decisive argument against that distorted view, pointing toward a balanced picture of the archaic period "in which, under the influence of the Semitic East--from writers, craftsmen, merchants, healers--Greek culture began its unique flowering, soon to assume cultural hegemony in the Mediterranean.

Paperback 1998 / Hardcover

Paradise Earned

Yannis Tzifopoulos

This is a study of the twelve small gold lamellae from Crete that were tokens for entrance into a golden afterlife. The lamellae are placed within the context of a small corpus of similar texts, and published with extensive commentary on their topography, lettering and engraving, dialect and orthography, meter, chronology, and usage. This work adduces parallels to the texts on the lamellae from the Byzantine period and modern Greece to illuminate the everlasting and persistent human quest for "earning Paradise."

Paperback 2008

Pindar, I, Olympian Odes. Pythian Odes

Pindar

William H. Race, Translator

William H. Race gives us, in two volumes, a new edition and translation of Pindar's four books of victory odes, along with surviving fragments of his other poems. Brief introductions to each ode and full explanatory footnotes afford invaluable guidance throughout. Like Simonides and Bacchylides, Pindar wrote elaborate odes in honor of prize-winning athletes. His 45 victory odes celebrate triumphs in athletic contests at the four great Panhellenic festivals: the Olympic, Pythian (at Delphi), Nemean, and Isthmian games. In these poems, Pindar commemorates the achievement of athletes and powerful rulers against the backdrop of divine favor, human failure, heroic legend, and the moral ideals of aristocratic Greek society. Readers have long savored their rich poetic imagery, moral maxims, and vivid portrayals of sacred myths.

Hardcover 1997

Pindar, II, Nemean Odes. Isthmian Odes. Fragments

Pindar

William H. Race, Translator

Pindar's forty-five victory odes celebrate triumphs in athletic contests at the four great Panhellenic festivals: the Olympic, Pythian (at Delphi), Nemean, and Isthmian games. In these complex poems, Pindar commemorates the achievement of athletes and powerful rulers against the backdrop of divine favor, human failure, heroic legend, and the moral ideals of aristocratic Greek society.

Hardcover 1997

The Politics of Ethnicity and the Crisis of the Peloponnesian League

Edited by Peter Funke

Edited by Nino Luraghi

The crisis of Spartan power in the first half of the fourth century has been connected to Spartan inability to manage the hegemony built on the ruins of the Athenian Empire. The present book offers a new perspective, suggesting that the crisis that finally brought down Sparta was in important ways a result of centrifugal impulses within the Peloponnesian League.

Paperback 2008

Practitioners of the Divine

Beate Dignas

Kai Trampedach

“What is a Greek priest?” The volume, which has its origins in a symposium held at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C., focuses on the question through a variety of lenses: the visual representation of cult personnel, priests as ritual experts, variations of priesthood, ideal concepts and their transformation, and the role of manteis.

Paperback 2008

Procopius, VII, On Buildings. General Index

Procopius

Translated by H. B. Dewing

Translated by Glanville Downey

The Byzantine historian's graphic description of the churches, public buildings, fortifications, and bridges erected by Justinian throughout his empire--from the Church of St. Sophia in Constantinople to city walls at Carthage--is a rich source of information on architecture of the 6th century. This volume also contains a General Index to all seven volumes of the Loeb edition of Procopius.

Hardcover 1940

Religions of the Ancient World

Sarah Iles Johnston, Editor

Religious beliefs and practices, which permeated all aspects of life in antiquity, traveled well-worn routes throughout the Mediterranean. New gods encountered in foreign lands by merchants and conquerors were sometimes taken home to be adapted and adopted. A full understanding of this complex spiritual world unfolds in Religions of the Ancient World, the first basic reference work that collects and organizes available information to offer an expansive, comparative perspective.

Hardcover 2004

Restraining Rage

William V. Harris

The angry emotions, and the problems they presented, were an ancient Greek preoccupation from Homer to late antiquity. Drawing on a wide range of ancient texts, and on recent work in anthropology and psychology, Restraining Rage explains the rise and persistence of this concern. W. V. Harris shows that the discourse of anger-control was of crucial importance in several different spheres, in politics--both republican and monarchical--in the family, and in the slave economy.

Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2004

Riding for Caesar

Michael P. Speidel

Written by one of the world's leading authorities on the Roman army, this history reveals the remarkable part the horse guard played in the fate of the Roman empire. Riding for Caesar follows the horsemen in political maneuvers and on the battlefield, from Caesar to Constantine. It offers a colorful picture of these horsemen in all their changing guises and duties--as the emperor's bodyguard or his parade troops, as a training school and officer's academy for the Roman army, or as a shock force in the endless wars of the second and third centuries.

Hardcover 1994 / Paperback 1997

Roman Arabia

G. W. Bowersock

Paperback 1998 / Hardcover

The Roman Empire

Paul Veyne

Paperback 1997

The Roman Empire

Colin Wells

This sweeping history of the Roman Empire from 44 B.C. to A.D. 235 has three purposes: to describe what was happening in the central administration and in the entourage of the emperor; to indicate how life went on in Italy and the provinces, in the towns, in the countryside, and in the army camps; and to show how these two different worlds impinged on each other. Colin Wells's vivid account is now available in an up-to-date second edition.

Paperback 1995

The Roman Frontier in Central Jordan

S. Thomas Parker

Until the 1980s, the Roman frontier in modern Jordan was among the least studied of the empire's far-flung border regions. From 1980 until 1989, excavation focused on the late Roman legionary fortress of el-Lejjun as well as four smaller but contemporaneous forts. This report presents detailed results from the excavated forts, a broad range of material evidence from animal bones to bedouin burials, and provides a synthesis of the history of this frontier, which witnessed the first confrontation between the Byzantine Empire and the forces of Islam.

Hardcover 2006

The Roman Near East

Fergus Millar

From Augustus to Constantine, the Roman Empire in the Near East expanded step by step, southward to the Red Sea and eastward across the Euphrates to the Tigris. In a remarkable work of interpretive history, Fergus Millar shows us this world as it was forged into the Roman provinces of Judea, Arabia, Mesopotamia, and Syria. His book conveys the magnificent sweep of history as well as the rich diversity of peoples, religions, and languages that intermingle in the Roman Near East.

Hardcover 1993 / Paperback 1995

The Roman Republic

Michael Crawford

Paperback

The Roman Theatre and its Audience

Richard Beacham

Drawing on recent archaeological investigations, new scholarship, and the author's own original research and staging experience, this book offers a new and fascinating picture of theatrical performance in the ancient world. Richard Beacham traces the history of the Roman theatre, from its origins in the fourth century B.C. to the demise of formal theatrical activity at the end of antiquity. He characterizes the comedy of Plautus and Terence and the audience to which the Roman playwrights were appealing; describes staging, scenery, costuming, and performance style; and details a variety of theatrical forms, including comedy, tragedy, mime, pantomime, and spectacles.

Hardcover 1992 / Paperback 1996

The Roman Triumph

Mary Beard

A radical reexamination of the most extraordinary of ancient ceremonies, this book explores the magnificence of the Roman Triumph--but also its darker side. The Triumph, Beard contends, prompted the Romans to question as well as celebrate military glory. Her richly illustrated work is a testament to the profound importance of the triumph in Roman culture--and for monarchs, dynasts and generals ever since.

Hardcover 2007

The Roman World of Dio Chrysostom

Christopher P. Jones

C.P. Jones offers here the first full-length portrait of Dio in English and, at the same time, a view of life in cities such as Alexandria, Tarsus, and Rhodes in the first centuries of our era.

Hardcover 1978

Rome from the Ground Up

James H. S. McGregor

Rome is not one city but many, each with its own history unfolding from a different center. Beginning with the very shaping of the ground on which Rome first rose, this book conjures all these cities, past and present, conducting the reader through time and space to the complex and shifting realities--architectural, historical, political, and social--that constitute Rome.

Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2006

The Rosetta Stone and the Rebirth of Ancient Egypt

John Ray

The Rosetta Stone is one of the world's great wonders, attracting awed pilgrims by the tens of thousands each year. This book tells the Stone's story, from its discovery by Napoleon's expedition to Egypt to its current--and controversial-- status as the single most visited object on display in the British Museum.

Hardcover 2007

Ruling the Later Roman Empire

Christopher Kelly

In this highly original work, Kelly paints a remarkable picture of running a superstate. He portrays a complex system of government openly regulated by networks of personal influence and the payment of money. Focusing on the Roman Empire after Constantine's conversion to Christianity, Kelly illuminates a period of increasingly centralized rule through an ever more extensive and intrusive bureaucracy.

Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2006

The Second Umayyad Caliphate

Janina M. Safran

The Second Umayyad Caliphate recovers the Andalusi Umayyad argument for caliphal legitimacy through an analysis of caliphal rhetoric--based on proclamations, correspondence, and panegyric poetry--and caliphal ideology, as shown through monuments, ceremony, and historiography.

Paperback 2001

Society and Civilization in Greece and Rome

Victor Ehrenberg

Hardcover 1964

Soldier and Civilian in the Later Roman Empire

Ramsey MacMullen

Hardcover 1963

Soliciting Darkness

John T. Hamilton

In discussing both poets and scholars from a broad historical span, with special emphasis on the German legacy of genius, Soliciting Darkness investigates how Pindar's obscurity has been perceived and confronted, extorted and exploited. As such, this study addresses a variety of pressing issues, including the recovery and appropriation of classical texts, problems of translation, representations of lyric authenticity, and the possibility or impossibility of a continuous literary tradition.

Paperback 2004 / Hardcover 2004

Sophocles' Tragic World

Charles Segal

In a series of interconnected essays, Charles Segal studies five of Sophocles' seven extant plays: Ajax, Oedipus Tyrannus, Philoctetes, Antigone, and the often neglected Trachinian Women.

Hardcover 1995 / Paperback 1998

Studies on the Internal Diaspora of the Byzantine Empire

Edited by Hélène Ahrweiler

Edited by Angeliki E. Laiou

Although ethnicity is a modern concept and would not have been recognized by the Byzantines, throughout its history the Byzantine Empire was a multi-ethnic state. The papers in this volume examine questions of the uniformity and separateness of the various Byzantine populations and the degree and mechanisms of acculturation.

Hardcover 1998

Surviving Sacrilege

Steven Weitzman

In a world of relentless and often violent change, what does it take for a culture to survive? Weitzman addresses this question by exploring the "arts of cultural persistence"--the tactics that cultures employ to sustain themselves in the face of intractable realities. This book focuses on a famously resilient culture caught between two disruptive acts of sacrilege: ancient Judaism between the destruction of the First Temple (by the Babylonians) and the destruction of the Second Temple (by the Romans).

Hardcover 2005

The Temple of Jerusalem

Simon Goldhill

It was destroyed nearly 2000 years ago, and yet the Temple of Jerusalem--cultural memory, symbol, and site--remains one of the most powerful, and most contested, buildings in the world. This glorious structure, imagined and re-imagined, reconsidered and reinterpreted again and again over two millennia, emerges in all its historical, cultural, and religious significance in Simon Goldhill's account.

Hardcover 2005

The Theban Hegemony, 371-362 BC

John Buckler

Buckler provides a totally new look at Theban diplomacy and politics. He examines, for the first time, the social and economic backgrounds of the leaders of Thebes during the period of its hegemony.

Hardcover 1980

Theophrastus, VI, Theophrastus, Characters. Herodas, Mimes. Sophron and Other Mime Fragments

Theophrastus

Herodas

Sophron

Jeffrey Rusten, Ed. and Trans.

I. C. Cunningham, Ed. and Trans.

This volume collects important examples of Greek literary portraiture. The Characters of Theophrastus consists of thirty fictional sketches of men who are each dominated by a single fault, such as arrogance, boorishness, or superstition. The Hellenistic poet Herodas wrote Mimes, a popular entertainment in which one actor or a small group portrayed a situation from everyday life, concentrating on depiction of character rather than on plot. The volume also includes a new translation and text of extant portions of the mimes of Sophron. Here too is a selection of anonymous mime fragments.

Hardcover 2003

Thucydides on the Nature of Power

A. Geoffrey Woodhead

Hardcover 1970

The Tomb of Agamemnon

Cathy Gere

Mycenae, the fabled city of Homer's King Agamemnon, leapt into the headlines in the late nineteenth century when Heinrich Schliemann announced that he had opened the Tomb of Agamemnon and found the body of the hero smothered in gold treasure. In this book, historian of science Cathy Gere tells the story of these extraordinary ruins.

Hardcover 2006

Twin Tollans

Edited by Cynthia Kristan-Graham

Edited by Jeff Kowalski

This volume had its beginnings in the colloquium, "Rethinking Chichen Itza, Tula and Tollan," that was held at Dumbarton Oaks. The selected essays revisit long-standing questions regarding the nature of the relationship between Chichen Itza and Tula. These essays place the cities in the context of the emerging social, political, and economic relationships that took shape during the transition from the Epiclassic period in Central Mexico, the Terminal Classic period in the Maya region, and the succeeding Early Postclassic period.

Hardcover 2007

Urban Religion in Roman Corinth

Edited by Daniel Schowalter

Edited by Steven J. Friesen

This book discusses the history, topography, and urban development of Corinth with special attention to civic and private religious practices in the Roman colony. Expert analysis of the latest archaeological data is coupled with consideration of what can be known about the emergence and evolution of religions in Corinth. The volume seeks to gain insight into the nature of the Greco-Roman city visited by Paul, and the ways in which Christianity gradually emerged as the dominant religion.

Paperback 2005 / Hardcover 2005

The Virgin and the Bride

Kate Cooper

During the last centuries of the Roman Empire, the prevailing ideal of feminine virtue was radically transformed: the pure but fertile heroines of Greek and Roman romance were replaced by a Christian heroine who ardently refused the marriage bed. How this new concept and figure of purity is connected with--indeed, how it abetted--social and religious change is the subject of Kate Cooper's lively book.

Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1999

War and Society in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds

Kurt A. Raaflaub, Editor

Nathan Rosenstein, Editor

A unique, multi-authored social history of war from the third millennium B.C.E. to the tenth century C.E. in the Mediterranean, the Near East, and Europe (Egypt, Achaemenid Persia, Greece, the Hellenistic World, the Roman Republic and Empire, the Byzantine Empire, the early Islamic World, and early Medieval Europe), with parallel studies of Mesoamerica (the Maya and Aztecs) and East Asia (ancient China, medieval Japan). The product of a colloquium at Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies, this volume offers a broadly based, comparative examination of war and military organization in their complex interactions with social, economic, and political structures as well as cultural practices.

Hardcover 1999 / Paperback 2001

Women in Ancient Egypt

Gay Robins

An idealised version of women appears everywhere in the art of ancient Egypt, but the true nature of these women's lives has long remained hidden. Robins' book, gracefully written and copiously illustrated, cuts through the obscurity of the ages to show us what the archaeological riches of Egypt really say about how these women lived, both in the public eye and within the family.

Paperback

Women in Ancient Greece

Susan Blundell

By examining the roles that men assigned to women, the ideals they constructed for them, and the anxieties they expressed about them, Blundell sheds light on the cultural dynamics of a male-dominated society. Lively and richly illustrated, her work offers a fresh look at women in the ancient world.

Paperback 1995

Xenophon's Retreat

Robin Waterfield

In The Expedition of Cyrus, Xenophon told how, in 401 b.c., a band of unruly Greek mercenaries traveled east to fight for the Persian prince Cyrus the Younger in his attempt to wrest the throne from his brother. With this first masterpiece of Western history forming the backbone of his book, Robin Waterfield explores what remains unsaid and assumed in Xenophon's account. The result is a nuanced and dramatic perspective on a critical moment in history that may tell us as much about our present-day adventures in the Middle East.

Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2008