Classical Studies

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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

Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus

By Arum Park
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek

How Pindar and Aeschylus—in distinct but complementary ways—treat the concepts of reciprocity, truth, and gender as interlocked and intertwined

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

Lucian’s Laughing Gods

Religion, Philosophy, and Popular Culture in the Roman East

By Inger NI Kuin
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, History, European History

The first English-language monograph about religion and Lucian of Samosata

Accustomed to Obedience?

Classical Ionia and the Aegean World, 480–294 BCE

By Joshua P. Nudell
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek

A dedicated study of Classical Ionia

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

Tales of Dionysus

The Dionysiaca of Nonnus of Panopolis

By William Levitan & Stanley Lombardo
Subjects: Classical Studies, Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism

The first English verse translation of the Dionysiaca of Nonnus of Panopolis

Discourse, Knowledge, and Power in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses

By Evelyn Adkins
Subjects: Classical Studies

The first in-depth examination of speech and discourse as tools of characterization in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses

The Scent of Ancient Magic

By Britta K. Ager
Subjects: Classical Studies, Religion

Examines the complex association of the sense of smell and the supernatural in classical antiquity

Contested Pasts

A Determinist History of Alexander the Great in the Roman Empire

By Jennifer Finn
Subjects: Classical Studies

A fresh approach to the Roman imperial tradition on Alexander the Great

Amor Belli

Love and Strife in Lucan’s Bellum Civile

By Giulio Celotto
Subjects: Classical Studies

Examines Lucan's literary adaptation of the cosmological dialectic of Love and Strife

Amor belli

Love and Strife in Lucan's Bellum civile

By Giulio Celotto
Subjects: Classical Studies

Examines Lucan's literary adaptation of the cosmological dialectic of Love and Strife

Christians and Muslims in Early Islamic Egypt

By Lajos Berkes
Subjects: Papyrology, Archaeology, Classical Studies, History
Series: American Studies in Papyrology

Yale Papyri in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library IV

By Hélène Cuvigny, Ruth Duttenhoefer, and Ann Ellis Hanson
Subjects: Classical Studies, Papyrology, History
Series: American Studies in Papyrology

Examines a group of papyri held at Yale’s rare book library, the Beinecke

Quantifying Mentalities

The Use of Numbers by Ancient Greek Historians

By Catherine Rubincam
Subjects: Classical Studies

Groundbreaking study of numbers in the works of five major ancient Greek historians

Making Money in Ancient Athens

By Michael Leese
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek

Explores how ancient Athenians made economic decisions

Cornelius Nepos

A Study in the Evidence and Influence

By John Lobur
Subjects: Classical Studies

Seeks to fully rehabilitate Nepos as a writer emblematic of the Italian intelligentsia

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