European History

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The Lord, the Slave, and the Tailor’s Son

Andrea Casali and Identity Theft in Renaissance Italy

Settling the uncertainty of “a certain man”

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

A Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Volume 2

Cataloging newly discovered manuscripts and fragments in one of the largest collections of Greek manuscripts in North America

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

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 Mind of the Slave

The Limits of Ownership in Roman Law and Society

Investigating slave ownership and the limits of ownership in ancient Rome

Badanj

Epipaleolithic Excavations in Herzegovina, 1986-1987

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

Commentary on Thucydides, Book 3

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

Theater, War, and Memory in Crisis

Vichy, Algeria, the Aftermath

Explores how French and Algerian dramatists addressed violence, conflict, and war trauma after the German occupation and Algerian War

Ancient Bovillae

History, Art, and Archaeology of a Lost City in the Roman Hinterland

The first comprehensive study in English of the ancient Italian city and its later decline

The Arcadia of Jacopo Sannazaro

A New Translation with Commentary

Translating the foundational text of pastoral fiction and poetry into English for the modern scholar and reader

Beyond the River, Under the Eye of Rome

Explores how Roman perceptions of Danubian peoples influenced some of the most politically and socially significant events of Roman antiquity

Performing the Greek Crisis

Navigating National Identity in the Age of Austerity

Examining how changes in dance amid the Greek financial crisis altered perceptions and discourses of Greece’s culture and national identity

Writing Imperial History

Tacitus from Agricola to Annales

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

Lucian’s Laughing Gods

Religion, Philosophy, and Popular Culture in the Roman East

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

Decolonizing German and European History at the Museum

How do museums confront the violence of European colonialism, conquest, dispossession, enslavement, and genocide?

The Black Widows of the Eternal City

The True Story of Rome's Most Infamous Poisoners

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

Dispossession

Plundering German Jewry, 1933-1953

Comparative context for understanding the experience of the German Jewry in the wake of Nazi plundering, racism, and genocide

Adoption, Memory, and Cold War Greece

Kid pro quo?

Reveals the history of how 3,000 Greek children were shipped to the United States for adoption in the postwar period