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Garden of Egypt

Irrigation, Society, and the State in the Premodern Fayyum

By Brendan Haug
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, Greek
Series: New Texts from Ancient Cultures

Examining how relationships with water flow through Egyptian history

Constructing Communities in Vergil's Aeneid

Cultural Memory, Identity, and Ideology

By Tedd Wimperis
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory

A new take on the Aeneid, drawing previously unexplored connections between Vergil’s fictional world and its political context

The Reputation of the Roman Merchant

By Jane Sancinito
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman

Defying a reputation for deceit and greed, Roman merchants strategized to present their good traits and successes

Between Sahara and Sea

Africa in the Roman Empire

By David J. Mattingly
Subjects: Archaeology, Roman, African Studies, History, Medieval and Early Modern History, Classical Studies, Roman
Series: Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures

David Mattingly’s long-awaited book on North Africa and the Romans

Writing Imperial History

Tacitus from Agricola to Annales

By Bram ten Berge
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, History, European History

Analyzes how Tacitus contributed to our current understanding of history and reveals the themes that permeated his writing

Images and Translations

The Etruscans Abroad

By Larissa Bonfante
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, Greek
Series: Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures

A lively journey to meet the Etruscans, one of Europe’s most enigmatic societies, by world-renowned archaeologist Larissa Bonfante

Comparing Roman Hellenisms in Italy

Edited by Basil Dufallo & Riemer A. Faber
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman

Examines in detail the local, historical, and material circumstances that distinguish different types of Roman Hellenism

Stock Characters Speaking

Eight Libanian Declamations Introduced and Translated

By Robert Penella
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, Greek

A translation of eight declamations written by or ascribed to Libanius, fourth-century CE sophist of Antioch

The Greco-Egyptian Magical Formularies

Libraries, Books, and Individual Recipes

By Christopher Faraone & Sofia Torallas Tovar
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Roman
Series: New Texts from Ancient Cultures

Essays on the magical handbooks of Greco-Roman Egypt

Confiscation or Coexistence

Egyptian Temples in the Age of Augustus

By Andrew Connor
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman
Series: New Texts from Ancient Cultures

A new interpretation of the administrative restructuring of lands held by temples in Roman Egypt

Golden Cynthia

Essays on Propertius

Edited by Sharon L. James
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman

New approaches to the poetry of Propertius

Aeneas

By Lee Pearcy
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman

An exploration into the elusive, and sometimes unlikable, hero of Rome’s most important poem

Ancient Latin Poetry Books

Materiality and Context

By Gabriel Nocchi Macedo
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, Papyrology
Series: New Texts from Ancient Cultures

Presents the first comprehensive study of the material aspects of the oldest surviving manuscripts of Latin secular poetry

Foodways in Roman Republican Italy

By Laura M. Banducci
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, Archaeology

Uncovering Roman Republican life through food

The Life of Comedy after the Death of Plautus and Terence

By Mathias Hanses
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman

A novel study of the popularity of Roman comedies well into the second century CE

Poetics of the First Punic War

By Thomas Biggs
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman

Latin poetry’s place in the ever-changing landscape of Ancient Roman memory

A Casebook on Roman Water Law

By Cynthia Jordan Bannon
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, Law

Engaging study of key issues in Roman water regulation from legal and environmental history, both ancient and modern.

The Black Widows of the Eternal City

The True Story of Rome's Most Infamous Poisoners

By Craig A. Monson
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Classical Studies, Roman, History, European History

An intriguing and well-researched account behind the dozens of female poisoners in seventeenth-century Rome

Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, Vol. 63/64

By Sinclair Bell
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman
Series: Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome

Collection of articles on Roman archaeology; Italian history, art, and architectural history; and Latin literature

The Discovery of the Fact

By Clifford Ando & William P. Sullivan
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, Law, Legal History
Series: Law and Society in the Ancient World

Lively investigation of the role of legal institutions in shaping notions of fact from classical Greece and Roman, and beyond

A Commentary on Cicero, De Divinatione II

By Andrew R. Dyck
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman
Series: Michigan Classical Commentaries

An attractive choice for the study of Latin texts in classrooms by advanced undergraduate and graduate students

While Rome Burned

Fire, Leadership, and Urban Disaster in the Roman Cultural Imagination

By Virginia M. Closs
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman

Explores the intersection of fire and politics in the literature of Rome

Cosa

The Sculpture and Furnishings in Stone and Marble

By Jacquelyn Collins-Clinton
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, Archaeology, Roman
Series: Supplements to the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome

Surveys the beautiful but functional marbles from Roman Cosa

Following Chaucer

Offices of the Active Life

By Lynn Staley
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Classical Studies, Roman

Understanding the relationship between individuals and their communities in the works of Chaucer

Laughing Atoms, Laughing Matter

Lucretius' De Rerum Natura and Satire

By T. H. M. Gellar-Goad
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, Literary Studies

Unexpected satire in a classic philosophical text

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