Classical Studies

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The Art of the Roman Jurists

An American Perspective

Offers a rich perspective on changes in the international field of Roman law studies

Classical Receptions in the Struggle for Justice

How ancient pasts were used to interrogate modern injustices and promote visions of a better world

Prometheus Bound

A Student Commentary

A fresh text and commentary on the pseudo-Aeschylean Prometheus Bound that imagines the play as a live theatrical performance

Classical Reception in Asian American Literature

The first study devoted entirely to classical reception in Asian American culture

Roman Family Festivals

The social significance of family festivals for Roman families and society

Archaeological Survey at Notion / Colophon-by-the-Sea

A survey of the ancient Ionian city of Notion / Colophon-by-the-Sea

The Roots of Cooperation

Constructing Interstate Alliances in Ancient Greece

How words, performative acts, and symbolic representations shaped alliances, shared identities, and collective meanings among Greek city-states

Practicing Classics

A Memoir

A compelling journey through a period of cultural and academic turmoil

Non-Lyric and Lyric in Horace's Odes

The Poetics of Disguise and Infiltration

Sheds new light on Horace's metapoetics, uncovering patterns in the metaphors of the Odes

Tacitus and the Incomplete

Reconstructions of lost episodes, narratives, and books in Tacitus' Histories and Annals

The Athenian Experiment

Building an Imagined Political Community in Ancient Attica, 508-490 B.C.

Rome's Visceral Reactions

Politics and Poetics in Flesh and Blood

How the word viscera is intrinsic to public discourses around civil war, fertility, and succession in Roman history

Stealing from the Gods

Temple Robbery in the Roman Imagination

Charts the narratives surrounding temple robbery in ancient Rome

The Lives of Cato the Younger from Ancient Rome to Modern America

The influence of the philosopher, traitor, and statesman from antiquity to present day

The Mind of the Slave

The Limits of Ownership in Roman Law and Society

Investigating slave ownership and the limits of ownership in ancient Rome

Bringing Their Mother Home

Roman Multiculturalism and the Mother of the Gods

An exploration of the Magna Mater and her genderfluid cult followers in Rome

All in the Family

Childhood and Fictive Kinship in Roman Society

The development of fictive kinship around young Roman children

Commentary on Thucydides, Book 3

A literary commentary on the History of the Peloponnesian War that brings Thucydides’ ideas to a wider audience

A Companion to Apollonius of Rhodes

A complementary text to the Greek poet of Argonautica

A Commentary on Cicero, De Natura Deorum II

First English commentary on Cicero’s examination of the gods in over fifty years
 

Ugly Productions

An Aesthetics of Greek Drama

Charts the historical development and deployment of ugliness in Greek drama