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THE LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY®: The Loeb Classical Library® is the only series of books which, through original text and English translation, gives access to all that is important in Greek and Latin literature. Epic and lyric poetry; tragedy and comedy; history, travel, philosophy, and oratory; the great medical writers and mathematicians; those Church fathers who made particular use of pagan culture--in short, our entire classical heritage is represented here in convenient and well-printed pocket volumes.

Actors in the Audience: Theatricality and Doublespeak from Nero to Hadrian; Shadi Bartsch; Shadi Bartsch examines the changes that took place in the relationship between Roman audiences and the emperor from the reign of Nero to that of Hadrian. Carefully documenting her work through contemporary sources--e.g., Tacitus, Suetonius, Dio, Juvenal, Martial, Pliny--she focuses on the theater and the gladiatorial games as a most appropriate place to analyze this interaction through the time of Nero; she draws on dramatic works as well for her analysis in the post-Nero period...Bartsch has taken an unusual and original approach to her material, and her book has much to recommend it. Her work should be of interest to both students and scholars of theater, history, classics, and sociology.
--M. K. Thornton, Contemporary Drama

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.

The Ancient Greeks: A Critical History; John V. A. Fine; Fine...conveys the excitement of historical discovery and disputation with the relaxed, assured spontaneity of the lecturer. In his discussion of early Greece, he provides a rich blend of social, political, and cultural history.
--Michael Gorra, New York Times Book Review

Ancient Literacy: William V. Harris

Ancient Mystery Cults: Walter Burkert; Fascinating...The writing is clear and engaging...[Readers will] learn much about how ancient human beings attempted to find security and joy in a difficult world. They will be able to enter, at least partially, into very different minds and glimpse experiences of ecstasy and wonder that took place many centuries ago.
--Judith Amory, Wilson Library Bulletin

Ancient Slavery and the Ideal of Man: Joseph Vogt

Ancilla to Pre-Socratic Philosophers: A Complete Translation of the Fragments in Diels, Fragmente der Vorsokratiker; Kathleen Freeman; As a knowledge of [these texts] is necessary for any proper appreciation of the mature development of Greek philosophy, this book supplies a conspicuous need.

Aristotle and the Renaissance: Charles B. Schmitt

Archilochos Heros: The Cult of Poets in the Greek Polis; Diskin Clay; The discovery of the Mnesiepes inscription on Paros revealed the third century BC 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.

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.

The Art of Bacchylides: Anne Pippin Burnett

The Art of Plato: Ten Essays in Platonic Interpretation; R. B. Rutherford; This book is not a study of Plato's philosophy, but a contribution to the literary interpretation of the dialogues, through analysis of their formal structure, characterization, language, and imagery. Among the dialogues considered in these interrelated essays are some of Plato's most admired and influential works, including Gorgias, the Symposium, the Republic and Phaedrus.

The Art of Plato: Ten Essays in Platonic Interpretation; R. B. Rutherford; This book is not a study of Plato's philosophy, but a contribution to the literary interpretation of the dialogues, through analysis of their formal structure, characterization, language, and imagery. Among the dialogues considered in these interrelated essays are some of Plato's most admired and influential works, including Gorgias, the Symposium, the Republic and Phaedrus.

The Ascension of Authorship: Attribution and Canon Formation in Jewish, Hellenistic and Christian Traditions; 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.

Athanasius and Constantius: Theology and Politics in the Constantinian Empire; Timothy D. Barnes; Barnes's contribution to late Roman studies has been of the first importance. He often plays the role of devil's advocate, scrutinizing our preconceptions about the period and provoking us to think again about issues of central importance...Barnes has provided us with another masterpiece of historical reconstruction. A lucid narrative is supported by appendices and notes so detailed that they take up more than one-third of the book...No review can really do Barnes's work justice and it is impossible not to admire its richness...At a time when such studies are unfashionable, it is good to know that they have a defender of remarkable calibre.
--Mark Humphries, Classical Review

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.

Augustine the Reader: Meditation, Self-Knowledge, and the Ethics of Interpretation; Brian Stock; Augustine of Hippo, a central figure in the history of Western thought, is also the author of a theory of reading that has had a profound influence on Western letters from the ages of Petrarch, Montaigne, Luther, and Rousseau to Freud and our own time. Brian Stock provides the first full account of this theory within the evolution of Augustine's early dialogues, his Confessions, and his systematic treatises.

Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis: Eastern Contexts of Greek Culture; 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.

Before Color Prejudice: The Ancient View of Blacks; Frank M. Snowden; This elegantly written book...collects evidence for artistic representations of African individuals in the ancient world from Egyptian to Roman times...[The] illustrations are well chosen and [show] how the ancient world saw the people of its southern frontiers.
--P. L. Shinnie, American Historical Review

Black Doves Speak: Herodotus and the Languages of Barbarians; 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.

Blacks in Antiquity: Ethiopians in the Greco-Roman Experience; Frank M. Snowden; This book, by reason of its scrupulous, balanced scholarship and quietly reasoned argument, will be of lasting value not only to scholars but to anyone interested in questions of race and historical and social perceptions of race.
--Michael Thelwell, Boston Globe

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.

Catullus: Catullus
Edited by Elmer Truesdell Merrill

A Chronicle of the Last Pagans: Pierre Chuvin
B. A. Archer, Translator

The City in the Ancient World: Mason Hammond

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.

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.

Commerce and Social Standing in Ancient Rome: John H. D'Arms

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.

A Concordance to Livy: Vol I: A-D; Vol. II: E-I; Vol III: K-P; Vol. IV: Q-Z; David W. Packard

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.

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.

The Craft of Zeus: Myths of Weaving and Fabric; 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.

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.

Culture and Society of Lucian: Christopher P. Jones; The works of Lucian of Samosata, the second-century satirist, are not only a delight to the reader, but they also provide a wealth of information regarding the culture and society of the Greek and Roman world. As his previous studies on Plutarch and Dio Chrysostom have shown, C.P. Jones is eminently equipped to guide modern readers, as it must be done in every generation anew, to the words of Lucian. For the scholar already familiar with the author, there is plenty of new information and new insights.
--Marvin A. Sweeney, Religious Studies Review

The Culture of Kitharoidia: Timothy Power; The Culture of Kitharoidia is the first study dedicated exclusively to the art, practice, and charismatic persona of the citharode. Traversing a wide range of discourse and imagery about kitharoidia--poetic and prose texts, iconography, inscriptions--the book offers a nuanced account of the aesthetic and sociocultural complexities of citharodic song and examines the iconic role of the songmakers in the popular imagination.

Democracy and Classical Greece, Second Edition: J. K. Davies; Davies has produced a perceptive, readable narrative, filled with sensible insights and enriched with a generous and judicious selection of quotations from sources...[He] skillfully interweaves social and cultural history with political and military matters. Students--and some historians--will benefit from his deft exegesis of texts (inscriptions, plays, philosophic pieces, anecdotes) and his cautionary reminders of what we do not know about the past...All in all, this is the best short history of Greece on the market.
--Thomas W. Africa, The Historian [UK]

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.

The Development of Greek Biography, Expanded Ed.: Arnaldo Momigliano; Tightly packed and brilliantly intelligent...There are two interesting features about this book. One of them is the examination, in some depth, of a significant subject. The other is the satisfaction to be derived from reading the conclusions based on many years of incisive study, reached by an exceptional scholar.

The Dialects of Ancient Gaul: Prolegomena and Records of the Dialects; Joshua Whatmough

Diaspora: Jews amidst Greeks and Romans; 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.

Dionysos at Large: Marcel Detienne
Arthur Goldhammer, Translator

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.

Dumbarton Oaks Papers 59: Edited by Alice-Mary Talbot; Dumbarton Oaks Papers is an annual journal of scholarly articles on Byzantine topics. Many of the articles are based upon presentations made at the Byzantine conferences hosted by Dumbarton Oaks. Numerous maps, tables, illustrations, and color plates provide supplementary information. Dumbarton Oaks Papers 59 includes papers from a colloquium on Byzantine glass, guest edited by David Whitehouse of the Corning Museum of Glass. Other articles feature a discussion of zodiac cycles in ancient Palestinian synagogues, a study of early Christians' responses to the spectacles of fifth-century Carthage, and an analysis of scientific and literary sources pertaining to the mysterious cloud that darkened the sky for about a year in 536, to determine what, if any, immediate effects it had. A fieldwork report on the ongoing excavations at the Amorium project is also featured.

Early Greece, Second Edition: Oswyn Murray; This book cannot fail to be challenging, and not only to the general reader...[The era covered in this study] was perhaps the most important in Greek history and indeed one of the most significant in all history. Murray...has done it full justice.
--Paul Cartledge, Times Literary Supplement

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.

The End of the Past: Ancient Rome and the Modern West; 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.

The Epic City: Urbanism, Utopia, and the Garden in Ancient Greece and Rome; 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.

Euripides and the Full Circle of Myth: Cedric H. Whitman

The Faunas of Hayonim Cave, Israel: A 200,000-Year Record of Paleolithic Diet, Demography, and Society; 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.

Fronto and Antonine Rome: Edward Champlin

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.

The Greek Concept of Justice: From Its Shadow in Homer to Its Substance in Plato; Eric Havelock

The Greek Discovery of Politics: Christian Meier
David McLintock, Translator

Greek Grammar: Herbert Weir Smyth
Revised by Gordon M. Messing

A Guide to Greek Thought: Major Figures and Trends; 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.

Greek Homosexuality: Updated and with a new Postscript; K. J. Dover; A landmark study...One cannot underestimate the importance of Mr. Dover's book. With philological brilliance and scholarly objectivity, he presents facts that can no longer be ignored. It is a step closer toward understanding the complex nature of the Greeks, whom we claim as cultural fathers. It is also a step closer to understanding human nature.
--Erich Segal, New York Times Book Review

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.

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.

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.

Greek Thought: A Guide to Classical Knowledge; 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.

Greek Virginity: Giulia Sissa
Arthur Goldhammer, Translator

A Guide to Greek Thought: Major Figures and Trends; 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.

Harvard Slavic Studies: Volume 5; Edited by Horace G. Lunt
Albert B. Lord, Associate Editor
Vsevolod Setchkarev, Associate Editor
Wiktor Weintraub, Associate Editor
Robert A. Rothstein, Associate Editor

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Vol 103: Edited by Albert Henrichs; Volume 103 of Harvard Studies in Classical Philology includes the following contributions: "Perceiving Iliadic Gods" by Daniel Turkeltaub; "The Gods Visit to the Ethiopians in Iliad 1" by Ruth Scodel; "The Poetics of the Bath in the Iliad" by Jonas Grethlein; "The Theologian Pherecydes of Syros & the Early Days of Natural Philosophy" by Herbert Granger; "The Derveni Theogony: Many Questions and Some Answers" by Alberto Bernabé; "Winds and Ancestors: The Physika of Orpheus" by Renaud Gagné; "Sinister Omens, Troubling Oracles, Bad Dreams, and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies: Patterns of Divination in Greek Tragedy" by Albert Henrichs; "The Toys of Dionysos" by Olga Levaniouk; "Philia in Plato's Lysis" by David Wolfsdorf; "How to Make a Monostichos: Strategies of Variation in the Sententiae Menandri" by Vayos Liapis; "The Use of Adjective Interlacing (Double Hyperbaton) in Latin Poetry" by Stanley Hoffer; "The Imperial Pontifex" by Alan Cameron; "Further to Ps.-Quintilian's Longer Declamations" by D. R. Shackleton Bailey; "Neither Fish nor Fowl? Metrical Selection in Martial's Xenia" by Llewelyn Morgan; "A Rhetorical Riddle: The Subject of Dio Chrysostom's First Tarsian Oration" by Christina Kokkinia; "Frontinus and Domitian: Laudes principis in the Strategemata" by Andrew Turner; "The Younger Pliny's Debt to Moral Philosophy" by Miriam Griffin; "Further Notes on Fulgentius" by Gregory Hays; "Re-evaluating E. R. Dodds' Platonism" by Wayne Hankey; "A Copper Alloy Cypriot Tripod at the Harvard University Art Museums" by Seán Hemingway and Henry Lie; and "Odysseus and the Ram in Art and (Con)text: Arthur M. Sackler Museum 1994.8 and the Heros Escape from Polyphemos" by Maura Giles.

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Vol. 102: Edited by Albert Henrichs; Volume 102 of Harvard Studies in Classical Philology includes the following contributions: Mika Kajava, "Hestia: Hearth, Goddess, and Cult"; Jonathan Burgess, "Untrustworthy Apollo and the Destiny of Achilles: Iliad 24.55–63"; Anna Bonifazi, "Relative Pronouns and Memory: Pindar beyond Syntax"; William Race, "Pindar's Olympian 11 Re-Visited Post-Bundy"; Michael Clarke, "An Ox-Fronted River-God (Sophocles, Trachiniae 12–13)"; William Allan, "Religious Syncretism: The New Gods of Greek Tragedy"; Edward Harris, "Notes on a Lead Letter from the Athenian Agora"; Myriam Hecquet-Devienne, "A Legacy from the Library of the Lyceum? Inquiry into the Joint Transmission of Theophrastus' and Aristotle's Metaphysics based on evidence provided by manuscripts E and J"; Jordi Pàmias, "Dionysus and Donkeys on the Streets of Alexandria: Eratosthenes' Criticism of Ptolemaic Ideology"; Craige B. Champion, "Polybian Demagogues in Political Context"; Marco Fantuzzi, "The Magic of (Some) Allusions: Philodemus AP 5.107 (GPh 3188ff.; 23 Sider)"; Brian Krostenko, "Binary Phrases and the Middle Style as Social Code: Rhetorica ad Herennium"; Deborah Steiner, "Catullan Excavations: Pindar's Olympian 10 and Catullus 68"; Andrew Dyck, "Cicero's devotio: The Rôles of dux and Scape-Goat in his post reditum Rhetoric"; Mario Geymonat, "Capellae at the End of the Eclogues"; Sergio Casali, "Nisus and Euryalus: Exploiting the Contradictions in Virgil's Doloneia"; Thomas Cole, "Ovid, Varro, and Castor of Rhodes: The Chronological Architecture of the Metamorphoses"; Niklas Holzberg, "Impersonating the Banished Philosopher: Pseudo-Seneca's Liber Epigrammaton"; E. Courtney, "On Editing the Silvae"; D. R. Shackleton Bailey, "'On Editing the Silvae': A Response."

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 100: Charles Segal, Editor; This volume celebrates 100 years of Harvard Studies in Classical Philology. It contains essays by Harvard faculty, emeriti, currently enrolled graduate students and most recent Ph.D.s. It displays the range and diversity of the study of the Classics at Harvard at the beginning of the 21st century.

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 101: 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.

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Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 97: Greece in Rome: Influence, Integration, Resistance; Charles Segal, Editor; There are no reviews available at this time.

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 99: Charles Segal, Editor; Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 99 Edited by Charles Segal, Albert Henrichs, Carolyn Higbie, Christopher P. Jones, Gregory Nagy, and Richard F. Thomas Volume 99 of Harvard Studies in Classical Philology will include, among others, the following contributions: Francis Cairns, "Virgil Eclogue 1.1–2: A Literary Programme?"; Wendell Clausen, "Propertius 2-32-35-6"; Nancy Felson, "Vicarious Transport: Fictive Deixis in Pindar's Pythian Four"; Bernard Frischer et al., "Word-Order Transference between Latin and Greek"; Douglas E. Gerber, "Pindar Nemean 6: A Commentary"; Michael Hendry, "Epidaurus, Epirus…Epidamnus? Vergil Georgics 3.44"; John Hunt, "Readings in Apollonius of Tyre"; Alexander Jones, "Geminus and the Isia"; Craig Kallendorf, "Historicizing the 'Harvard School': Pessimistic Readings of the Aeneid in Italian Renaissance Scholarship"; Peter Knox, "Lucretius on the Narrow Road"; Jennifer Clarke Kosak, "Therapeutic Touch and Sophokles' Philoktetes"; F. S. Naiden, "The Prospective Imperfect in Herodotus"; John Ramsey, "Mithridates, the Banner of Ch'ih-yu, and the Comet Coin"; Thomas Schmitz, "'I Hate All Common Things': The Reader's Role in Callimachus' Aetia"; Charles Segal, "Ovid's Meleager and the Greeks: Trials of Gender and Genre"; Benjamin Victor, "Further Remarks on the Andria of Terence"; and Dimitrios Yatromanolakis, "Alexandrian Sappho Revisited." Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, 99 January 51⁄2 x 81⁄4 425 pp. ISBN 0-674-37947-0 (HSCP99) $45.00x (£27.95 UK) cloth Classics

Hellenistic World, Revised Edition: F. W. Walbank; Walbank's erudition is predictably wide as well as deep, his mastery of the essential documents assured...He is also commendably up-to-date on many vexed questions of interpretation...Walbank is clear and perceptive.
--Peter Green, Times Literary Supplement

Helots and Their Masters in Laconia and Messenia: Histories, Ideologies, Structures; Nino Luraghi, Editor
Susan Alcock, Editor; 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.

Herodotean Narrative and Discourse: Mabel Lang

History of Imperial China, : The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han; 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.

Holon: A Lower Paleolithic Site in Israel; 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 ASPR 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.

Homer and the Nibelungenlied: Comparative Studies in Epic Style; Bernard Fenik

Homer's Odyssey: John H. Finley Jr

Homeric Conversation: Deborah Beck; Homeric Conversation is the first full-length study of conversation in the Homeric poems. Deborah Beck argues that conversation should be considered a traditional Homeric type scene, alongside recognized types such as arrival, sacrifice, battle, and hospitality. This book is a wide-ranging, closely argued aesthetic analysis of repetition and variation in the Homeric epics.

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.

Ideology in Cold Blood: A Reading of Lucan's Civil War; Shadi Bartsch; Is Lucan's brilliant and grotesque epic Civil War an example of ideological poetry at its most flagrant, or is it a work that despairingly proclaims the meaninglessness of ideology? Shadi Bartsch offers a startlingly new answer to this split debate on the Roman poet's magnum opus.

The Inner Citadel: The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius; Pierre Hadot
Michael Chase, Translator; The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius has been a popular text since the sixteenth century, and is a vital source in understanding the ideas of the Stoic School. Hadot seeks to demonstrate the context and background to Marcus Aurelius' writings, and helps to explain them to a modern readership. He makes the crucial point that Stoics considered the sole purpose of studying philosophy was to improve one's moral conduct. Hence Marcus' writings are in the form of a personal journal designed to develop the practice of acting morally and reflectively...Throughout the book Hadot stresses the depth of Stoic thought, and the interest it holds for modern philosophy...I would particularly recommend this book to those whose education in Ancient Philosophy has centred on Plato and Aristotle, and who are interested in finding out how their ideas were developed by later philosophers.
--Matthew Clark, JACT Review

The Invention of Jane Harrison: Mary Beard; Jane Ellen Harrison (1850-1928) is the most famous female Classicist in history, the author of books that revolutionized our understanding of Greek culture and religion. This lively and innovative portrayal of a fascinating woman raises the question of who wins (and how) in the competition for academic fame. Questioning the common criteria for identifying intellectual "influence" and "movements," Mary Beard exposes the mythology that is embedded in the history of Classics. At the same time she provides a vivid picture of a sparkling intellectual scene.

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," liberally illustrated with interpretations of the foreigners drawn from a range of sources.

The Jews in the Greek Age: Elias Bickerman; The last posthumous work of one of the greatest of all scholars of Judaism in Graeco-Roman antiquity...Note the power and brilliance, as well as the (as ever) bold and controversial character of its representation of Judaism and Jewish history in the period between Alexander and the Maccabees.
--Fergus Millar, Journal of Jewish Studies

Judeophobia: Attitudes toward the Jews in the Ancient World; 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.

Julian the Apostate: G. W. Bowersock; Bowersock has written the best narrative history of Julian's career...His success is due not only to the vivid style but to the command of the very wide variety of sources that enables him to derive new insights from unexpected facts.
--W. H. C. Frend, New York Review of Books

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.

Labored in Papyrus Leaves: Perspectives on an Epigram Collection Attributed to Posidippus (P. Mil. Vogl. VIII 309); 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.

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.

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.

The Life and Miracles of Thekla: A Literary Study; Scott Fitzgerald Johnson; The Life and Miracles of Thekla offers a unique view on the reception of classical and early Christian literature in Late Antiquity. This study examines the Life and Miracles as an intricate example of Greek writing and attempts to situate the work amidst a wealth of similar literary forms from the classical world.

Lore and Science in Ancient Pythagoreanism: Walter Burkert
Translated by Edwin L. Minar, Jr.

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.

The Making of a Christian Aristocracy: Social and Religious Change in the Western Roman Empire; 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.

The Making of Late Antiquity: Peter Brown; No summary of its contents can do justice to this complex and fascinating book, written with all Peter Brown's refreshing panache. We are presented with an age of vitality, where historians used to find a creeping paralysis; the canvas comes alive with the spectacular successes of individuals who belie the conventional wisdom of the stifling oppressiveness of late Roman institutions...In a book devoted to human beings it is the portraits of individuals, perceptively located in their social and religious surroundings, which are naturally to the fore.

Master of the Game: Competition and Performance in Greek Poetry; 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.

Matrices of Genre: Authors, Canons, and Society; Mary Depew, Editor
Dirk Obbink, Editor; The literary genres given shape by the writers of classical antiquity are central to our own thinking about the various forms literature takes. Examining those genres, the essays collected here focus on the concept and role of the author and the emergence of authorship out of performance in Greece and Rome.

The Meaning of Stoicism: Ludwig Edelstein

Medicine in the Days of the Pharaohs: Bruno Halioua
Bernard Ziskind
Translated by M. B. DeBevoise; 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.

Menaechmi: Plautus

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 CE 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.

Miles Gloriosus: Plautus
Mason Hammond, Editor
Arthur W. Mack, Editor
Walter Moskalew, Editor; At last we have an excellent edition for college students of Plautus's Miles with notes in English...Its virtues are many...The Miles [will be] a joy to read and teach.

The Mind of Egypt: History and Meaning in the Time of the Pharaohs; 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.

Mosaics as History: The Near East from Late Antiquity to Islam; 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.

Moses the Egyptian: The Memory of Egypt in Western Monotheism; 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.

Mycenaean Pictorial Vase Painting: Emily Vermeule

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.

A New Introduction to Greek: Alston Hurd Chase
Henry Phillips, Jr.

New Perspectives on Plato, Modern and Ancient: Julia Annas, Editor
Christopher J. Rowe, Editor; In recent years, scholars have looked more closely at the philosophical importance of the imaginative and literary aspects of Plato's writing, and have begun to appreciate the methods of the ancient philosophers and commentators who studied Plato and their attitudes to Plato's appropriation of Socrates. This study brings together leading philosophical and literary scholars who investigate these new-old approaches and their significance in distancing us from the standard ways of reading Plato.

The Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Age; Walter Burkert
Margaret Pinder, Translator; Brilliant...[Burkert] is consistently thorough and challenging...Without denying the role of innate talent, he shows that much of the Greek miracle grew from an openness to influences from other cultures...[His] careful scholarship...has constructed the bridge that he set out to build.
--Carol G. Thomas, American Historical Review

Paradise' Earned: The Bacchic-Orphic Gold Lamellae of Crete; 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.'

Plato's Symposium: Issues in Interpretation and Reception; Edited by James H. Lesher
Edited by Deborah Nails
Edited by Frisbee Sheffield; In his Symposium, Plato crafted a set of speeches in praise of love that has influenced writers and artists from antiquity to the present. Early Christian writers read the dialogue's 'ascent passage' as a vision of the soul's journey to heaven. The dialogue's view of love is still of enormous philosophical interest in its own right. Nevertheless, questions remain concerning the meaning of specific features, the significance of the dialogue as a whole, and the character of its influence. This volume brings together an international team of scholars to address such questions.

Platonic Theology, Volume 4: Books XII-XIV; Marsilio Ficino
Translated by Michael J. B. Allen
Edited by James Hankins; Platonic Theology is a visionary work and the philosophical masterpiece of Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus who was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. His Platonic evangelizing was eminently successful and widely influential, and his Platonic Theology, translated into English for the first time in this edition, is one of the keys to understanding the art, thought, culture, and spirituality of the Renaissance.

Platonic Theology, Volume 5: Books XV-XVI; Marsilio Ficino
Translated by Michael J. B. Allen
Edited by James Hankins; The Platonic Theology is a visionary work and the philosophical masterpiece of Ficino, the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus who was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. His Platonic evangelizing was eminently successful and widely influential, and his Platonic Theology, translated into English for the first time in this edition, is one of the keys to understanding the art, thought, culture, and spirituality of the Renaissance. This is the fifth of a projected six volumes.

Platonic Theology, Volume 6: Books XVII-XVIII: Marsilio Ficino
Translated by Michael J. B. Allen
Edited by James Hankins; The Platonic Theology is the philosophical masterpiece of Marsilio Ficino, the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus who was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. He was committed to reconciling Platonism with Christianity, in the hope that such a reconciliation would initiate a spiritual revival and return of the golden age. This book is one of the keys to understanding the art, thought, culture, and spirituality of the Renaissance.

Poetic and Performative Memory in Ancient Greece: Heroic Reference and Ritual Gestures in Time and Space; Claude Calame; The Ancient Greeks not only spoke of time unfolding in a specific space, but also projected the past upon the future in order to make it active in the social practice of the present. Poetic and Performative Memory in Ancient Greece shows how the Ancient Greeks' collective memory was based on a remarkable faculty for the creation of ritual and narrative symbols.

Pointing at the Past: From Formula to Performance in Homeric Poetics; Egbert J. Bakker; With numerous fresh linguistic observations Bakker shows that the epic narrator makes the epic past come to the present: epic is not only a verbal artifact that points to the past; it also is a performer's act of pointing at a past that has become present in and through language. Building on his earlier work, Egbert Bakker demonstrates the power of discourse analysis as an essential tool for elucidating the poetics of the Homeric tradition.

The Power of Thetis and Selected Essays: Laura Slatkin; Laura Slatkin's influential and widely admired book explores the superficially minor role of Thetis in the Iliad. Slatkin uncovers alternative traditions about the power of Thetis and shows how an awareness of those myths brings a far greater understanding of Thetis's place in the thematic structure of the Iliad. This second edition also includes six additional essays, which cover a broad range of topics in the study of the Greek Epic.

Preface to Plato: Eric Havelock; This book makes a major contribution...will offer the reader many hours of stimulating thought and a powerful challenge to reexamine some basic assumptions about the early Greek mind.

Profile of Horace: D. R. Shackleton Bailey

Promised Verse: Poets in the Society of Augustan Rome; Peter White; Winner of the 1995 Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit American Philological Association

Prophets and Emperors: Human and Divine Authority from Augustus to Theodosius; David Potter

Religions of the Ancient World: A Guide; 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.

Restraining Rage: The Ideology of Anger Control in Classical Antiquity; 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.

Riding for Caesar: The Roman Emperors’ Horse Guard; 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.

Ritual and Performativity: The Chorus in Old Comedy; Anton Bierl
Translated by Alexander Hollmann; In this groundbreaking study, Anton Bierl uses recent approaches in literary and cultural studies to investigate the chorus of Old Comedy. After an extensive theoretical introduction that also serves as a general introduction to the dramatic chorus from the comic vantage point, a close reading of Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae shows that ritual is indeed present in both the micro- and macrostructure of Attic comedy, not as a fossilized remnant of the origins of the genre but as part of a still existing performative choral culture.

Ritual Poetics in Greek Culture: Panagiotis Roilos, Editor
Dimitrios Yatromanolakis, Editor; The first book to explore ritual in Greece from cross-disciplinary perspectives, this work offers novel readings of the pivotal role of ritual in Greek traditions by exploring a broad spectrum of texts, art, and social practices. It examines diverse material that ranges from the Homeric epics up to contemporary Greece, through the intervening millennium of Byzantium, thus offering penetrating insights on the topic across chronological and disciplinary boundaries.

Roman Arabia: G. W. Bowersock; This is an important and exceedingly useful work, informed and informative, based on a wide knowledge of ancient evidence and modern scholarship, and offers a rich store of suggestions.
--T. R. S. Broughton, Phoenix

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.

The Roman Empire: Paul Veyne; This compact book--which appeared earlier in the multivolume series A History of Private Life--is a history of the Roman Empire in pagan times. It is an interpretation setting forth in detail the universal civilization of the Romans--so much of it Hellenic--that later gave way to Christianity.

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.

The Roman Near East: 31 BC-AD 337; 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.

The Roman Republic: Michael Crawford; During the centuries of its history the republic burst its city-state shell... Wars, rural impoverishment, the concentration of wealth in the hands of a few families, civil discord, the increase in number of slaves and robbery of overseas provinces caused irreversible changes... This is the material of Crawford's study. He handles its complexities with acuteness and balance. He is sophisticated about political motives and economic causes... Crawford's readable book is a fine contribution to the understanding of this important period.

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.

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.

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.

The Rosetta Stone and the Rebirth of Ancient Egypt: John Ray; The Rosetta Stone is one of the world's great wonders, attracting thousands of pilgrims each year. Ray tells the Stone's story, from its discovery to its current controversial status as the single most visited object in the British Museum. Capturing the drama of the race to decode this key to the ancient past, the book concludes with a chapter on the political and cultural controversy surrounding the Stone and an appendix with a full translation of the Stone's text.

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.

Sappho's Immortal Daughters: Margaret Williamson; This book is a search for Sappho through the poetry she wrote, the culture she inhabited, and the myths that have arisen around her. It is an expert and thoroughly engaging introduction to one of the most enduring and enigmatic figures of antiquity.

The Second Umayyad Caliphate: The Articulation of Caliphal Legitimacy in al-Andalus; 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.

Society and Civilization in Greece and Rome: Victor Ehrenberg

Soldier and Civilian in the Later Roman Empire: Ramsey MacMullen

Soliciting Darkness: Pindar, Obscurity, and the Classical Tradition; 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.

Sophocles' Tragic World: Divinity, Nature, Society; 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.

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.

Subhasitaratnakosa: Compiled by Vidyakara
Edited by and Introduction by D. D. Kosambi
Edited by V. V. Gokhale; This is draft copy for internal HUP use only.

Surviving Sacrilege: Cultural Persistence in Jewish Antiquity; 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).

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.

The Theban Hegemony, 371-362 BC: John Buckler

Three Classical Poets: Sappho, Catullus, and Juvenal; Richard Jenkyns

Thucydides on the Nature of Power: A. Geoffrey Woodhead

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.

Tragedy and Civilization: An Interpretation of Sophocles; Charles Segal

Tragic Ways of Killing a Woman: Nicole Loraux; A vivid demonstration of how women die in Greek tragedy...Exciting and erudite... the graceful scholarship and sound judgment that Loraux demonstrates should nudge the classical tradition toward more writing in this direction.
--John Chioles, New York Times Book Review

The Transmission of the Text of Lucan in the Ninth Century: Harold C. Gotoff

Twin Tollans: Chichen Itza, Tula, and the Epiclassic to Early Postclassic Mesoamerican World; 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.

Unruly Eloquence: Lucian and the Comedy of Traditions; Bracht Branham; 1988 Thomas J. Wilson Prize of Harvard University Press

Urban Religion in Roman Corinth: Interdisciplinary Approaches; 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.

The Veil of Isis: An Essay on the History of the Idea of Nature; Pierre Hadot
Translated by Michael Chase; Nearly twenty-five hundred years ago the Greek thinker Heraclitus supposedly uttered the cryptic words "Phusis kruptesthai philei." How the aphorism, usually translated as "Nature loves to hide," has haunted Western culture ever since is the subject of this engaging study by Pierre Hadot. Taking the allegorical figure of the veiled goddess Isis as a guide, and drawing on the work of both the ancients and later thinkers such as Goethe, Rilke, Wittgenstein, and Heidegger Hadot traces successive interpretations of Heraclitus' words.

Victim of The Muses: Poet as Scapegoat, Warrior and Hero in Greco-Roman and Indo-European Myth and History; Todd Merlin Compton; This book probes the narratives of poets who are exiled, tried or executed for their satire. It views the scapegoat as a group's dominant warrior, sent out to confront predators or besieging forces. Both poets and warriors specialize in madness and aggression and are necessary, yet dangerous, to society.

The Virgin and the Bride: Idealized Womanhood in Late Antiquity; Kate M. 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.

War and Society in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds: Asia, The Mediterranean, Europe, and Mesoamerica; Kurt A. Raaflaub, Editor
Nathan Rosenstein, Editor; Thucydides and his contemporaries knew war from bitter experience. Peace to them was an illusion, war the true constant...War and Society in the Ancient and Medieval World shows how and why Thucydides's vision prevailed throughout pre-industrial times in the Mediterranean and elsewhere. Because of the omnipresence of war or its specter within ancient Greek--and Roman--culture, editors Kurt Raaflaub and Nathan Rosenstein recognize the real need to explore in theoretical terms how war (including military technology and organization) affected ancient society (including economic and political systems) and vice versa.
--Thomas Palaima, Times Higher Education Supplement

Weaving Truth: Essays on Language and the Female in Greek Thought; Ann Bergren; "What if truth were a woman?" asked Nietzsche. In ancient Greek thought, truth in language has a special relation to the female by virtue of her pre-eminent art-form--the one Freud believed was even invented by women--weaving. The essays in this book explore the implications of this nexus: language, the female, weaving, and the construction of truth.

What Is Ancient Philosophy?: Pierre Hadot
Michael Chase, Translator; This work revises our view of ancient philosophy--and in doing so, proposes that we change the way we see philosophy itself. Hadot shows how the various schools, trends, and ideas of ancient Greek and Roman philosophy all strove to transform the individual's mode of perceiving and being in the world. For the ancients, philosophical theory and the philosophical way of life were inseparably linked. Hadot asks us to consider whether and how this connection might be reestablished today.

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.

Written Voices, Spoken Signs: Tradition, Performance, and the Epic Text; Egbert J. Bakker, Editor
Ahuvia Kahane, Editor; Written Voices, Spoken Signs is a stimulating introduction to new perspectives on Homer and other traditional epics. Taking advantage of recent research on language and social exchange, the nine innovative essays in this volume--by leading scholars of Homer, oral poetics, and epic--focus on performance and audience reception of oral poetry.

Xenophon's Retreat: Greece, Persia, and the End of the Golden Age; 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, site of Cyrus's debacle and the last act of the Golden Age, as it does about the great powers of antiquity in a volatile period of transition.

Yearning for the Infinite: Desire and Possession in Three Platonic Dialogues; Steven Lowenstam; This work about Plato investigates the aims and objects of human desire, the ways in which humans can identify what they most need, the likelihood of realizing their goals, and the prospect of whether they ever cease to desire. The book focuses on three Platonic dialogues: the Symposium, Lysis, and Phaedrus.