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Against Moab
Interrogating the Archaeology of Iron Age Jordan Benjamin W., Porter | University of California, Berkeley
The Element simultaneously examines recent research on Moab as well as illustrating the challenges of reconstructing an ancient society with a problematic textual and archaeological record. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
Elements in The Archaeology of Ancient Israel
96pp
Apr. 2025 9781009334945 Paperback GBP 18.00 / USD 23.00
Apr. 2025 9781009547840 Hardback GBP 55.00 / USD 70.00
eISBN 9781009334952
Ancient Mythologies of the Wilderness
Narrative, Nature, and Religious Identity
Formation from the Babylonians to the Late Antique Christians Laura, Feldt | University of Southern Denmark Ancient wilderness mythologies have been criticised for their role in forming anthropocentric outlooks on the natural world, and idealising human separateness from the rest of the living world. Laura Feldt here challenges these ideas and presents a new, narrative approach to the question of the formative role of ancient wilderness mythologies.
354pp
Critical Perspectives on the Application of Technology on Art and Cultural Heritage
Anna, Foka | Uppsala University
AI and Image illustrates the importance of critical perspectives in the study of AI and its application to image collections in the art and heritage sector. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Elements in Critical Heritage Studies
75pp
Apr. 2025 9781009574549 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009574556
The Bible's First Kings
Uncovering the Story of Saul, David, and Solomon Avraham, Faust | Bar Ilan University, Israel
This book argues that the Jewish kingdom of the Bible was real, as were its first three kings, Saul, David, and Solomon – even if the biblical stories distort their actions to glorify them.
Combining fresh archaeological evidence with astute readings of key texts, the authors offer a compelling reconstruction of this fascinating ancient polity. Elements in Evolutionary Economics
464pp
Feb. 2025 9781009526333 Hardback GBP 35.00 / USD 49.99
eISBN 9781009526364
An Anthropology of Science
Francesca, Rochberg | University of California, Berkeley
Extends an anthropology of science to the historical world of cuneiform texts of ancient Babylonia. Exploring how Babylonian science has been understood, she proposes a new direction for scholarship by recognizing the world of ancient science, not as a less developed form of modern science, but as legitimate and real in its own right.
278pp
Sep. 2025 9781009505499 Paperback GBP 18.00 / USD 23.00
Sep. 2025 9781009505482 Hardback GBP 55.00 / USD 70.00
eISBN 9781009505468
Caroline, Arbuckle Macleod | University of Saskatchewan
This Element is an accessible discussion of the study of archaeological wood which introduces a number of approaches involved in the analysis of these organic remains. This includes a brief overview of wood science, the factors that impact the survival of wood materials, wood anatomy, and dendrochronology.
Elements in Current Archaeological Tools and Techniques
96pp
Apr. 2025 9781009054584 Paperback GBP 18.00 / USD 23.00
Apr. 2025 9781009598040 Hardback GBP 55.00 / USD 70.00
eISBN 9781009053815
Jennifer, Bates | Seoul National University
The Indus civilization in South Asia (c. 3200 – 1500BC) was one of the most important Old World Bronze Age cultures. This study offers new insights into the Indus civilisation through an archaeobotanical reconstruction of its environment. It synthesizes the available data on genetics, archaeobotany, and archaeology.
398pp
Jan. 2025 9781009522335 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00
eISBN 9781009522298
Jan. 2025 9781009424448 Paperback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00
eISBN 9781009424424
Ancient Assyrians
Identity and Society in Antiquity and Beyond Nine Methodological Issues
Jonathan, Valk | Spanish National Research Council
In this book, Jonathan Valk asks what did it mean to be Assyrian in the 2nd millennium BCE. To answer this question, Valk develops a new theory of social categories that facilitates an understanding of how collective identities work. This study demonstrates how changing historical circumstances condition identity and society.
345pp
Oct. 2025 9781009610551 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009610575
Beyond the Grass Paradigm
Emily, Hammer | University of Pennsylvania
In this book, Emily Hammer articulates a new framework for investigating variability in past pastoral practices. She proposes ways to develop a more rigorous relationship with pastoralist ethnographies and illustrates new archaeological and scientific methodologies for collecting direct data on herding, mobility, and social complexity in the past.
424pp
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Exploring Economic and Political Networks through Data Modelling
Michael, Loy | University of Cambridge
A new history of Greece in the seventh and sixth centuries BC written for the twenty-first century. It brings together archaeological material from over 100 years, employing experimental modelling techniques from the digital humanities to reveal new patterns about how Greece's first city-states traded with one another and made alliances.
British School at Athens Studies in Greek Antiquity
350pp 35 b/w illus. 30 colour illus. 10 maps
Sep. 2025 9781009561655 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 155.00
eISBN 9781009561709\
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A Social Archaeology
Anna Lucille, Boozer | Bernard M. Baruch College, City University of New York
This book introduces both specialists and non-specialists to the lives of ordinary people in Roman Egypt. It explores the life course of these individuals by examining conception, childbirth, childhood, youth, adulthood, disability, religion, health, old age, death and the afterlife, among other themes.
380pp
Jul. 2025 9781108823746 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781108914543
Apr. 2025 9781009343831 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99
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and Anatolia
Material Connections and Artistic Exchange
Elizabeth P. Baughan | University of Richmond, Virginia
Explores what the striking similarities in Etruscan and Anatolian material culture reveal about contact and exchange between these distant regions in the Mediterranean. Identifies shared practices, common visual language and movements of objects and artisans in both directions and presents a complex picture of connectivity's modes and implications.
Mediterranean Studies in Antiquity
370pp 34 b/w illus. 47 colour illus. 3 maps
Apr. 2025 9781009151030 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99
eISBN 9781009151016
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In the Footsteps of the Etruscans
Changing Landscapes around Tuscania from Prehistory to Modernity
Graeme, Barker | University of Cambridge Explores the 7500-year history of the area around Tuscania, a small town near Rome, using the results of an extended archaeological investigation. Demonstrates the power of this approach to write longterm histories that complement and enrich historical and geographical studies.
British School at Rome Studies
404pp 130 b/w illus. 2 colour illus. 24 maps 48 tables
Apr. 2025 9781009229975 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 38.99
eISBN 9781009230018
Dora, Vassilikou | The Archaeological Society at Athens
The first English edition of a complete introduction to Mycenaean life and archaeology by one of Greece's most distinguished archaeologists, the Greek editions of which have been widely acclaimed. Discusses the main Mycenaean centres, the palaces and kingship, social structure, writing, religion, foreign relations, art, and architecture.
Classical Scholarship in Translation
740pp 50 b/w illus. 290 colour illus. 20 maps
Nov. 2025 9781009493123 Hardback GBP 150.00 / USD 195.00
eISBN 9781009493154
Globalization, Christianization and Resilience
Rebecca, Sweetman | University of St. Andrews
By analyzing material culture produced from the late 1st century BCE through to the 7th century CE, Rebecca Sweetman offers a fresh interpretation of Cycladic societies. Drawing on concepts related to Globalization, Christianization, and Resilience, this book highlights the complex relationships between the islands and their Imperial contexts.
350pp
The World of Homer
Archaeology, Social Memory, and the Emergence of Greek Epic Poetry
Michael B. Cosmopoulos | University of Missouri, St. Louis
Using a fresh, dynamic approach, Michael Cosmopoulos reconstructs the world of the Homeric poems and explores the interplay between poetry, social memory, and material culture. By integrating key insights from archaeology, philology, anthropology, and oral tradition, he offers a nuanced perspective of the early development of Greek epic.
370pp
Oct. 2025 9781009563475 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781009563505
The Destruction of Cities in the Ancient Greek World
Integrating the Archaeological and Literary Evidence
Sylvian, Fachard
The book studies the destruction of cities in the Ancient Greek World by comparing literary and archaeological evidence. It shows that ancient authors often exaggerated the impact of destruction. The book highlights the resilience of ancient populations and focuses on the recovery phase of cities in the long term.
376pp
Feb. 2025 9781108818780 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108850292
Pottery Industries of the Roman East Craft Communities and Working Practices
Elizabeth A. Murphy | Florida State University
What was the social experience of work in the ancient world? This study approaches the topic through the lens of the potters and ceramicists in the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire. It reconstructs the complex lives of people in the past, demonstrating the importance of studying work & labor as central topics in social and cultural histories.
263pp
Jun. 2025 9781009582889 Hardback GBP 35.00 / USD 44.99
eISBN 9781009582834
Premodern Economies
A Comparative Study
Kenneth, Hirth | Pennsylvania State University
This volume examines of how premodern societies produced and mobilized resources to support social, political, and religious institutions. Topics discussed include the nature of productive self-sufficiency, forms of economic specialization, the economics of labor, economic inequality and stratification, and commerce and the marketplace.
350pp
Apr. 2025 9781009514606 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009514613
The Temple of Artemis at Sardis
The Hellenistic Temple Tradition in Asia Minor
Fikret, Yegul | University of California, Santa Barbara
Offering a close archaeological analysis of the Temple of Artemis at Sardis, this book provides new insights into its unique design; the changing nature of religious and cult practices at the temple; the relationship to its setting and benefactors. It places this extraordinary temple in the larger context of Greek and Roman religious architecture.
340pp
Nov. 2025 9781009677219 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009677202
An Intellectual History with Andre Leroi-Gourhan
Nathan, Schlanger | Ecole des Chartes, Universite de Paris I
What is technology? How and why did techniques – including materials, tools, processes and products – become central subjects of study in anthropology and archaeology? In this book, Nathan Schlanger explores the invention of technology through the work of the eminent ethnologist and prehistorian André Leroi-Gourhan.
Studies in Macroeconomic History
325pp
Jul. 2025 9781009532167 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009532143
Jan. 2026 9781009562225 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009562195
Early Human Settlement at the Crossroads of Continents
Aram, Yardumian | Bryn Athyn College, Pennsylvania
Based on analysis of archaeological site reports, linguistic relationships, and genetic data first published in different languages, this synthesis of the latest evidence sheds light on the peopling process of the Caucasus from the Upper Palaeolithic to the Iron Age. It will appeal to students in anthropology, history, Indo-European studies.
322pp
Jan. 2025 9781009520232 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009520201
Understanding the Archaeology of our Origins
Manuel, Dominguez-Rodrigo | Rice University, Houston
This volume offers a critical examination of early human behavior by challenging traditional narratives and pushing for a more scientific, theoretically informed approach to archaeology. It inspires a reevaluation of the approaches that can be applied to an interpretation of the evidence for human evolution in the archaeological record.
350pp
Heather, Pulliam | University of Edinburgh
How did the living world – bodies, time, motion, and natural environment – frame the art of early medieval Britian and Ireland? Using phenomenological and eco-critical methodologies, Heather Pulliam probes intersections between art objects, the living world, and the embodied eye.
350pp
Nov. 2025 9781009670593 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009670562
The Palladian House Between Country and City Johanna D. Heinrichs | University of Kentucky Johanna D. Heinrichs offers the first comprehensive study of the Villa Pisani in this book, providing a critical analysis of Palladio's hybrid design, the villa's original setting and uses, and the preoccupations of its patron. Heinrichs argues that the Villa Pisani served as the owner's principal residence.
375pp
Mar. 2026 9781009407458 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9781009407472
Leon Battista Alberti in Exile
Tracing the Path to the First Modern Book on Painting
Peter, Weller
Jan. 2025 9781009492232 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009492256
Art, Knowledge, and Papal Politics in Medieval Rome
Interpreting the Aula Gotica Fresco Cycle at Santi Quattro Coronati
Marius B. Hauknes | University of Notre Dame, Indiana
This volume offers a thorough investigation of the fresco cycle-which include allegorical representations of the liberal arts, the virtues and vices, the seasons, the signs of the zodiac, and the months of the year-in relation to the papacy's growing interest in fields of worldly knowledge such as music, time, astrology, and medicine.
373pp
Leon Battista Alberti emerged in 1435 with De pictura, the modern era's earliest discourse on Western art. Peter Weller challenges the popular notion that De pictura's compendium on lines, points, mathematics, composition, narrative, and portraiture is primarily the result of Alberti's return to Florence and his short exposure to its visual art.
400pp
Mar. 2025 9781009548663 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009548632
Marie-Louise, Lillywhite | University of Oxford
Jan. 2025 9781009535762 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00
eISBN 9781009535779
This book considers the impact of religious reform on the devotional art and architecture of sixteenth-century Venice. Interrogating early modern censorship, artistic liberty, notions of decorum tied to depictions of the body, and the role of sacred images in the shaping of local identity, it showcases a study through which to explore these themes.
432pp
Feb. 2025 9781009557498 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00
eISBN 9781009557474
Ancients and Moderns on Seeing and Thinking
Sarah, Bassett | Indiana University, Bloomington Style and Meaning in Late Antique Art: Ancients and Moderns on Seeing and Thinking proposes a new approach to the enduring question of how best to see and understand the art of late antiquity.
257pp
Jan. 2025 9781009466325 Paperback GBP 30 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009466356
Cult
Art, Devotion, and Liturgy in Orvieto
Sara Nair, James | Mary Baldwin University
Focusing on two fourteenth-century narrative programs in the tribune of Orvieto Cathedral: Giovanni di Bonino's stained-glass window and Ugolino di Prete Ilario's frescoes, this book explores the mysterious allure of the Virgin Mary and the manifestation of her cult in Italy. It shows how the narratives promoted agendas tied to the city's history.
360pp
Jul. 2025 9781009526401 Paperback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009526388
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The Making of Medieval Rome
A New Profile of the City, 400 – 1420
Hendrik, Dey | Hunter College, City University of New York
A wide-ranging synthesis of decades' worth of specialized research and remarkable archaeological discoveries, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in how and why the ancient imperial capital transformed into the spiritual heart of Western Christendom.
350pp
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Articulating Resistance under the Roman Empire
Daniel, Jolowicz | Downing College, Cambridge Explores the diverse strategies by which elite Greeks and Romans resisted the cultural and political domination of the Roman Empire in ways that avoided direct confrontation. These encompass the affirmation of identity via language choice, the use of genre, the negotiation of identity, and religion.
314pp
Jul. 2025 9781108971560 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781108975162
Wall Painting, Civic Ceremony, and Sacred Space in Early Renaissance Italy
Jean K. Cadogan | Trinity College, Connecticut
Focusing on four large mural decorations created by celebrated Florentine artists between 1377 and 1484, this book investigates how mural paintings affirmed civic identities by visualizing ideas, experiences, memory, and history. It offers new insights into the motives and mechanics of patronage and artistic production.
460pp
Sep. 2025 9781009535229 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 155.00
eISBN 9781009535267
Ancient history
Amazons
The History Behind the Legend
David, Braund | University of Exeter
The Amazon myth flattered the Greeks who had created it. This was a myth for their male-dominated society. Yet it highlighted the power of women too –even on the battlefield. This vibrant new book shows how the Amazons passed from myth into history, while revealing the truth behind the legends.
318pp 30 colour illus.
Apr. 2025 9781108718851 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99
eISBN 9781108753425
Athena's Sisters
Reclaiming the Women of Classical Athens
Katherine, Backler | Trinity College, Oxford Rewrites the history of Classical Athenian culture and society from women's perspectives. With men often absent, women redefined the boundaries of the family, formed deep relationships with other women, and built new identities. They also expressed themselves through dedications and tombstones which reveal their experiences, values and emotions.
406pp 20 colour illus.
Jan. 2026 9781009672320 Hardback GBP 30.00 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009672290
Athens, 403 BC
A Democracy in Crisis?
Vincent, Azoulay | Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
Tells the gripping stories of ten individuals, from Socrates to the priestess Lysimakhe and the former slave Gerys, to reassess the period when democracy was abolished in Classical Athens and then restored in 403 BC after a bitter civil war. This is a tale with lessons for our tormented present. Classical Scholarship in Translation 392pp 2 b/w illus. 3 maps
Mar. 2025 9781009490962 Hardback GBP 40.00 / USD 49.99
eISBN 9781009490979
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Athletes and Artists in the Roman Empire
The History and Organisation of the Ecumenical Synods
Bram, Fauconnier | Universiteit Gent, Belgium
Apr. 2025 9781108834490 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781108993418
The first comprehensive study of the associations of athletes and artists in the Roman empire. They were active across the Mediterranean world and played a key role in Greek festival culture. Due to their cultural activities and court and social connections, they left a distinctive stamp on Greco-Roman elite culture.
416pp 3 b/w illus. 1 table
Apr. 2025 9781009202862 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 38.99
eISBN 9781009202855
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Maria, Gerolemou | Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington
Explores the ways in which the human body and the world of machines and technological artefacts intersected in the ancient world. Traces the origins of the body-machine interface from Homer's automata down to the figural assimilation between body parts and products of human craft in Greek and Roman medicine.
346pp 8 b/w illus. 14 colour illus.
Apr. 2025 9781009088060 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 eISBN 9781009085786
Sector Theory in the Twenty-First Century
Daniel J. Gargola | University of Kentucky
A full study of the Roman calendar which reassesses three key issues: the relationship between the calendar of republican Roman and celestial phenomena; its core significance in cult and law; and its relationship to Caesar's reformed calendar and the context of this reform.
348pp
Martin T. Dinter | King's College London
Cultural memory theory explains why, how, and with what results we remember. This book explores these questions in relation to late Republican and Augustan Rome and provides an excellent and accessible starting point for readers who are new to the topic, whilst also appealing to the seasoned scholar.
491pp 15 b/w illus. 2 maps
Feb. 2026 9781009623223 Paperback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009623230
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Christianity, Philosophy, and Roman Power
Constantine, Julian, and the Bishops on Exegesis and Empire Lea, Niccolai | University of Cambridge
Shows that the paradox of the late antique clash between Christianity and Greco-Roman culture is that classical culture wrote the script for the Christianisation of Roman power. Emperor Julian's writings reveal the continuous influence of traditional philosophical ideals in shaping the competition between fourth-century pagan and Christian leaders. Greek Culture in the Roman World
380pp
Apr. 2025 9781009299275 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99
eISBN 9781009299312
Cicero
The Man and His Works
Andrew R. Dyck
Introduces students of Classics and Ancient History and educated general readers to the life and works of Cicero. By detailed analysis of his works in relation to his life, it aims to draw a more comprehensive picture of the man and his personality than previous biographies provide.
1117pp
Sep. 2025 9781009327770 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009327749
Cyril of Alexandria: Against Julian
Introduction and Translation
Matthew R. Crawford | Australian Catholic University, Melbourne
In this book Cyril, bishop of Alexandria, presented a detailed and learned rebuttal of the Emperor Julian's critique of Christianity in his Against the Galileans, composed sixty years earlier in 362/363.
This is the first full translation of the work into English.
662pp
Sep. 2025 9781108485692 Hardback GBP 150.00 / USD 200.00
eISBN 9781108757874
Books 21-40: From the Battle of Ipsos (301 BC) to the Catilinarian Conspiracy (62 BC)
Duane W. Roller | Ohio State University
Diodoros is a major source for the last centuries BC, including the career of Hannibal, the slave wars, and the increasing instability of the Roman Republic. This is the first English translation in seventy years and the first ever commentary on those portions of the text.
384pp 10 maps
May 2025 9781107085640 Hardback GBP 150.00 / USD 195.00
eISBN 9781316084342
Sep. 2025 9781009277495 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009277501
From Constantinople to Baghdad, 500-1000 CE Jelle, Bruning
The first volume to map the interregional political, economic and cultural networks in which Egypt functioned as it was transformed from a Graeco-Roman to an Arabic-Islamic region. Brings together a wide range of disciplines, serving historians of late antiquity and Islam, archaeologists and papyrologists.
526pp 15 b/w illus. 12 maps 6 tables
Apr. 2025 9781009170024 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 38.99
eISBN 9781009170031
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Ephorus of Cyme and Greek Historiography
Giovanni, Parmeggiani | Università degli Studi di Trieste
Through a careful study of the surviving fragmentary evidence, Giovanni Parmeggiani throws new light on the lost Histories of the fourth-century BC Greek historian Ephorus of Cyme, the first, according to Polybius, to have written a universal history.
450pp
Apr. 2025 9781108926423 Paperback GBP 39.99 / USD 51.99 eISBN 9781108923484
Hubris, Ancient and Modern Concepts, Comparisons, Connections
Douglas, Cairns | University of Edinburgh
Hubris is now a term of art in a number of academic disciplines and remains a hotly debated topic in Classics. This unique volume of essays by experts in Classics, Business and Management Studies and Psychology explores the connections, continuities and differences between ancient hubris and its modern counterparts.
300pp
Editions, Translations, and Essays
Raymond, Van Dam | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Inscriptions engraved on monuments and milestones offer alternative perspectives on Emperor Constantine (306-337). This book includes the Greek and Latin texts of over 800 inscriptions from the early fourth century, with translations and critical annotations, as well as an extended Introduction and almost 200 short essays providing context.
1072pp 10 maps
Oct. 2025 9781009461399 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009461405
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Imagining the Roman Emperor
Perceptions of Rulers in the High Empire Panayiotis, Christoforou | University of Oxford
A fresh approach to the Roman emperor, the most widely discussed figure and disseminated image in the Roman empire. Panayiotis Christoforou delves into the many underappreciated mythical and fictional stories about the emperor to uncover the perspectives of his subjects, which oscillated between love and hate, fear and reverence.
294pp
Nov. 2025 9781009474603 Hardback GBP 175.00 / USD 230.00
eISBN 9781009474597
Volume 50
Jonathan, Davies | University of Copenhagen
This book provides an essential introduction to the works of Flavius Josephus, a complex, challenging and rewarding author, situating them in the context of Josephus' life and times in the Roman Empire, providing readings of each of his four surviving texts, and surveying the reception of those texts from antiquity to the present day.
New Surveys in the Classics
200pp
Apr. 2025 9781009362528 Hardback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99
eISBN 9781009362504
Nico, Dogaer | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris
Provides a reassessment of Ptolemaic state intervention in industry and trade, an issue central to the economic and political history of Hellenistic Egypt. Also makes an important contribution to broader debates about the relation between states and markets in historical societies.
380pp
Mar. 2025 9781009651912 Paperback GBP 17.99 / USD 30.99
eISBN 9781009651929
Classical Education and the End of Roman Rule
Alison, John | All Souls College, Oxford
This book explores the relationships between cultural practices and political structures in late antique Gaul. It investigates what uses and values education has in a society – how is education valued by communities, governments and by individuals, and how does this change in response to political, religious, and cultural upheavals?
320pp
Dec. 2025 9781009543422 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
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Lavagnon A. Ika | University of Ottawa
Why do projects often deviate from their assigned paths despite careful planning?
Oct. 2025 9781009413374 Hardback GBP 110.00 / USD 145.00
eISBN 9781009413411
Leading international scholars in project management research offer invaluable insights into the complex outcomes of projects and the challenges posed by their high complexity and uncertainty. A key resource for practitioners, policymakers, and project professionals.
344pp
Aug. 2025 9781009322768 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 160.00
eISBN 9781009322737
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Making the Middle Republic
New Approaches to Rome and Italy, c.400-200 BCE
Seth, Bernard | University of Toronto
Shows the importance of the Middle Republic for the broader study of Roman and Mediterranean history, with the forging in Italy of new political relationships, new economic practices, and new sociocultural structures.
Employs a range of approaches from numismatics to bioarchaeology, landscape archaeology, fiscal sociology, art history, and beyond.
356pp 10 b/w illus. 10 colour illus. 10 maps 10 tables
Apr. 2025 9781009327992 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99
eISBN 9781009327978
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Monastic Economies in Late Antique Egypt and Palestine
Louise, Blanke | University of Edinburgh
Reveals that Late Antique monasteries in Egypt and Palestine were actively engaged in regional societies, contradictory to the traditional understanding of monastic life as 'isolated'. Draws on the rich corpus of textual sources and archaeological remains and brings together scholars from across traditional disciplinary divides.
414pp 37 colour illus. 13 maps 8 tables
Apr. 2025 9781009278942 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 38.99
eISBN 9781009278959
Music at Social Meals in Greek and Roman Antiquity
From the Archaic Period to the Age of Augustine Charles H. Cosgrove
The first comprehensive history of music at social recreations in antiquity, from private parties to festivals, demonstrating not only its diverse pleasures but also the various personal and social purposes it served.
460pp 6 b/w illus. 15 colour illus.
Apr. 2025 9781009161053 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 38.99
eISBN 9781009161060
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Music, Politics and Society in Ancient Rome
Harry, Morgan | Harvard University, Massachusetts
Demonstrates that music was fundamental to Roman political culture and social relations, shaping debates about class, gender, ethnicity and more. Draws on a wide range of literary texts, inscriptions and material artefacts from the second century BCE to the end of the reign of Nero in 68 CE.
300pp 31 colour illus.
Apr. 2025 9781009232319 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99
eISBN 9781009232326
Rubina, Raja | Aarhus Universitet, Denmark
An innovative collection illuminating Palmyra's and Palmyrene society's negotiations, struggles, benefits and disadvantages from being part of the Roman Empire, situated on the fringes between the East and the West, and their use of this location to recreate themselves as a central power player within a rapidly changing world.
Mediterranean Studies in Antiquity
300pp 50 b/w illus. 24 colour illus. 1 map
Sep. 2025 9781009532082 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009532044
Peter, Van Nuffelen | Universiteit Gent, Belgium
In the Later Roman Empire (AD 300–650), power seems to manifest itself mostly through legislation, bureaucracy, and an increasingly distant emperor. This book focuses instead on personal interaction as crucial to the exercise of power. It thus shows how subaltern individuals could exploit hierarchical relations to their own benefit.
162pp
Aug. 2025 9781009603669 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009603706
A Cultural History
Julia, Kindt | University of Sydney Explores ancient Greek personal religion in all its different facets, featuring the individual as agent, participant, observer, and interpreter of religious beliefs and practices. The personal emerges as a complementary perspective that evolves within, alongside, and occasionally in opposition to the civic dimension of ancient Greek religion.
500pp 12 colour illus.
Jan. 2026 9781009628839 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 155.00
eISBN 9781009628815
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Annalisa, Marzano | Università di Bologna
The first comprehensive and interdisciplinary treatment of Roman arboriculture and the movement of plants from one corner of the empire to the other. Incorporates historical, textual and archaeobotanical data, making this material more widely accessible, and highlights the extent to which arboriculture was a cultural and political phenomenon.
378pp 10 b/w illus.
Jan. 2025 9781009113960 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99
eISBN 9781009121958
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Pliny
Natural History, Books 2-6
Brian, Turner | Portland State University
This new translation of the Natural History's opening books lets readers immerse themselves in the natural world and universe as seen by Romans and absorbed by Western scholars through the Renaissance. Pliny's wide range of knowledge, his quirky style and frank opinions command attention, even awe, throughout. 330pp
Apr. 2025 9781108723220 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108592758
Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches to Stasis, 500–301 BCE
Scott Lawin, Arcenas | University of Montana
Political violence, which the ancient Greeks called stasis, was a fundamental aspect of Greek society. In this book, Scott Arcenas reshapes our understanding of this important phenomenon. He also introduces new methods and new tools to confront some of the greatest methodological challenges that face scholars of the ancient world. 376pp 100 b/w illus.
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Prosthetics and Assistive Technology in Ancient Greece and Rome
Jane, Draycott | University of Glasgow
The first comprehensive study of prosthetics and assistive technology in ancient Greece and Rome, integrating literary, documentary, archaeological, and bioarchaeological evidence to provide as full a picture as possible of their importance for the lived experience of people with disabilities in classical antiquity.
226pp 54 colour illus. 4 tables
Apr. 2025 9781009168403 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99
eISBN 9781009168410
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Rome and America
Communities of Strangers, Spectacles of Belonging
Dean, Hammer | Franklin and Marshall College, Pennsylvania
Both Rome and the USA created national identities of belonging based on founding myths of the dislocation of strangers.
Dec. 2025 9781009522885 Hardback GBP 110.00 / USD 145.00
eISBN 9781009522892
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Pre-Islamic Arabia
Societies, Politics, Cults and Identities during Late Antiquity
Valentina A. Grasso | Catholic University of America, Washington DC
Full study of the interactions of cultures in pre-Islamic Arabia. Investigates the cultural milieu where the inhabitants of the peninsula lived and connects the neglected socio-political, religious and economic history of Arabia with its surroundings in order to construct a coherent historical narrative out of our fragmentary sources. Organizations and the Natural Environment 280pp 2 maps 5 tables
Dean Hammer explores the tensions that have thereby arisen and uses this lens to reassess a wide range of texts and cultural and political phenomena from Virgil's Aeneid to the western.
266pp 10 colour illus.
Apr. 2025 9781009249614 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99
eISBN 9781009249621
The artes and the Emergence of a Scientific Culture in the Early Roman Empire
James L. Zainaldin | Vanderbilt University, Tennessee
The first full-scale account of the Latin technical treatises called artes, arguing that their flourishing in the early Roman Empire represents the emergence and development of a uniquely Roman scientific culture. Discusses the artes on architecture, agriculture, land-surveying, medicine, and the art of war without assuming specialist knowledge.
Apr. 2025 9781009253000 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99
eISBN 9781009252997
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Procopius of Caesarea: The Persian Wars
Translation, with Introduction and Notes
Geoffrey, Greatrex | University of Ottawa
The first stand-alone English translation of the Persian Wars, a work that not only describes the wars between Byzantium and Sasanian Persia, but also provides a detailed account of the Nika riot that nearly unseated Justinian and the first outbreak of bubonic plague in Constantinople. 279pp
Jun. 2025 9781316617076 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 25.99
eISBN 9781316694077
474pp 20 b/w illus.
Feb. 2025 9781009501637 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 155.00
eISBN 9781009501651
After Nicole Loraux
David M. Pritchard | University of Queensland
A funeral speech was delivered almost every year in classical Athens. Forty years ago, Loraux showed how important it was for maintaining Athenian self-identity. But her famous book left many questions unanswered. In answering them, this volume puts the study of war in Athenian culture on a completely new footing.
554pp 21 colour illus. 3 tables
Sep. 2025 9781009413039 Paperback GBP 34.99 / USD 45.99
eISBN 9781009413053
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The Authoritative Historian Tradition and Innovation in Ancient Historiography
K. Scarlett, Kingsley | Agnes Scott College, Decatur
Explores how Greek and Roman historians frame innovations against generic tradition. Combining close readings and broader thematic analyses, the book presents a holistic vision of the development of the genre of historiography in Greece and Rome and the historian's dynamic position within this practice.
492pp
Apr. 2025 9781009159449 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 38.99 eISBN 9781009159463
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The Bacchic Gold Tablets and Poetic Tradition
Memory and Performance
Mark, McClay | Hillsdale College, Michigan
Examines a collection of gold tablets, products of Greek mystery religions offering post-mortem salvation, and reads them in the performance context and thought of early Greek poetry. Applies a range of new analytical tools to these materials, including approaches from epigraphy and religious studies.
226pp
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The Greeks and Their Histories
Myth, History, and Society
Hans-Joachim, Gehrke | Albert-LudwigsUniversität Freiburg, Germany
Like every society, the Greek communities needed a unifying concept of their past, an 'intentional history'. In direct interaction with poets, they formed an aesthetic network in which myths were considered as historical events. This volume considers how Greeks' histories were consciously employed to help shape political and social realities.
Classical Scholarship in Translation 186pp
Apr. 2025 9781108987035 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99
eISBN 9781108982092
The Fragmentary Greek Chronicles after Eusebius
Edition, Translation and Commentary
Peter, Van Nuffelen | Universiteit Gent, Belgium
The first systematic collection of the remains of the lost Greek chronicles during AD 350–650, with texts, translations and commentaries.
Reconsiders the evolution of historiography from Antiquity to the Middle Ages, discusses the intercultural transmission of history writing and adds new information on the development of Easter and Christmas.
704pp
Apr. 2025 9781009011150 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99
eISBN 9781009022279
Idea of the City in Late Antiquity
A Study in Resilience
Andrew, Wallace-Hadrill | University of Cambridge
The city was one of the central and defining features of the Greek and Roman Mediterranean. Andrew Wallace-Hadrill argues that, far from 'declining and falling', cities used memories of the past to adapt and remain relevant in the changing postRoman world.
456pp 49 colour illus. 8 maps
Jul. 2025 9781108420280 Hardback GBP 150.00 / USD 195.00
eISBN 9781108333061
The God and the Bureaucrat
Roman Law, Imperial Sovereignty, and Other Stories
Zachary, Herz | University of Colorado, Boulder
This book offers a wholly new theory of how Roman law operates as a medium for political storytelling, in both ancient and modern contexts. It will interest students and scholars of legal history and classics.
Studies in Legal History
420pp
Feb. 2025 9781009527071 Hardback GBP 44.99 / USD 59.99
eISBN 9781009527118
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The Local Horizon of Ancient Greek Religion
Hans, Beck | Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany
Addresses all those interested in the manifold links between ancient Greek religion and society. Illustrates what can be gained from paying careful attention to the various ways in which ancient Greek religious beliefs and practices were encoded in and in communication with their various local environments.
406pp 3 b/w illus. 11 colour illus. 2 maps 1 table
Jul. 2025 9781009629959 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009629928
Apr. 2025 9781009301824 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 38.99
eISBN 9781009301862
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The Mechanical Tradition of Hero of Alexandria
Courtney Ann, Roby | Cornell University, New York
The first sustained study of Hero, who is a key figure in the history of technology in antiquity and the early modern period. It also contributes much to the history of the book and to an understanding of the broader role of material texts in supporting technical and scientific investigation.
310pp 15 colour illus.
Apr. 2025 9781009014052 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99
eISBN 9781009029261
The Nile Delta Histories from Antiquity to the Modern Period
Katherine, Blouin | University of Toronto
The first volume on the history of the Nile Delta to cover the c.7000 years from the Predynastic period to the twentieth century. This was and remains the most fertile, populated and strategic part of Egypt and the topics covered range from settlement and water management to tourism and archaeology.
674pp 15 b/w illus. 35 colour illus. 10 maps
Sep. 2025 9781009175159 Paperback GBP 42.99 / USD 55.99
eISBN 9781009175166
A Triumph of the Periphery
Jordan Thomas, Christopher | Loyola Marymount University, California
A pioneering interdisciplinary study of Argead Macedon and Qin, which critically analyzes Greek and Chinese ethnic identities and establishes a multi-layered comparison of Alexander the Great and the First Emperor of China in their social and cultural contexts.
Antiquity in Global Context
304pp
Jun. 2025 9781009534895 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009534871
The Role of Ex-Consuls in Republican Rome, 218–31 BCE
Francisco, Pina Polo | Universidad de Zaragoza
The first book in any language to explore systematically the political activities of ex-consuls, who formed the top of the aristocracy during the Roman Republic and were therefore expected to play a prominent role in Roman politics and society.
Antiquity in Global Context
260pp
May 2025 9781009597371 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009597401
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The Boni, the Nobles and Cicero Henrik, Mouritsen | King's College London
Reconfiguring the social and political landscape of the late Roman republic, this book discovers the boni as a distinct social and economic class. This has important implications for our understanding of the process that led to the fall of the republic.
332pp 15 colour illus.
Roman Republic and Political Culture
German Scholarship in Translation Amy, Russell | Brown University, Rhode Island Makes available in English translation a series of hugely influential articles about Roman Republican politics which were all originally published in German. Three new essays discuss the history of German scholarship on the Republic and its interactions with Anglophone research, and each piece is situated in its intellectual context.
Classical Scholarship in Translation
422pp
Feb. 2025 9781009515108 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009515115
The Ruins of Rome
A Cultural History
Roland, Mayer | King's College London Rome's ruins were little regarded before tourists, architects and painters in the Renaissance found them both historically interesting and aesthetically attractive. This prompted their conservation, restoration and presentation over the centuries as modern visitors see them now. This fascinating book will captivate all lovers of 'the Eternal City'.
394pp 200 colour illus.
Feb. 2025 9781009430104 Hardback GBP 30.00 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009430074
The State, the Law, and the People in the Roman Empire
A Sourcebook
Brian, Campbell | Queen's University Belfast Aimed at students and teachers of Roman history, this volume provides easy access to new translations of legal texts that are an enormously valuable historical resource for the study of the administrative, economic, and social history of the empire when citizens encountered magistrates, governors, and officials empowered by the state.
530pp
May 2025 9781009180672 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99
eISBN 9781009180665
Sep. 2025 9781107163164 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 160.00 eISBN 9781316678688
The Topography and Monuments of Ancient Rome
C. Brian, Rose | University of Pennsylvania
Tracing the development of Rome over a span of 1200 years, this book offers an overview of the changing appearance of the city and the social, political, and military factors that shaped it. It places Rome's architecture, coinage, inscriptions and monuments in historical context and offers a nuanced analysis regarding the evolution of the city.
500pp
Jan. 2026 9780521762069 Hardback GBP 210.00 / USD 275.00
eISBN 9780511980473
Bart, Danon | University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Dismantles the simplistic equation of wealth, political power and social rank in the Roman Empire. Adopts an innovative approach which combines economic modelling with archaeological and epigraphic evidence, providing fresh perspectives on the complexities of wealth and power. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
306pp 45 b/w illus. 1 map 20 tables
Jul. 2026 9781009496964 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009496940
The Problematic Miracle that was Greece Reviel, Netz | Stanford University, California
The ancient Greeks were consequential –not by creating 'timeless values', but by questioning them. This book is for anyone interested in the ancient world and its modern meaning and follows the history of science and of the literary canon to reveal how the Greeks set off a train of progress.
206pp 2 b/w illus.
Feb. 2026 9781009505598 Hardback GBP 19.99 / USD 25.00
eISBN 9781009505604
Anders Dahl, Sørensen | University of Copenhagen
'Anonymus Iamblichi' is a mysterious but crucial figure in the history of Greek philosophy with a strikingly modern approach to the analysis of society and economy. This new commented edition of the fragments will be a standard work of reference for readers interested in early Greek moral and political thought.
Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries, 68 255pp
Mar. 2026 9781009538794 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009538831
A Critical Guide
Sophia M. Connell | Birkbeck, University of London
Aristotle's Parts of Animals is a foundational work in both the philosophy of science and the history of biology. This Critical Guide provides a comprehensive philosophical overview of the methodology, themes and concepts of the work, as well as of its influence and legacy.
Cambridge Critical Guides
400pp
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Cicero and the People's Will
Philosophy and Power at the End of the Roman Republic
Lex, Paulson | Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique, Morocco
The first book to trace Cicero's role in inventing 'the will of the people' and the will as an engine of self-creation. Adept at Greek philosophy and defender of a dying republic, Cicero's ideal of rational elitism has both shaped and fractured the modern world.
286pp
Jan. 2025 9781009077385 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99
eISBN 9781009082587
Cicero's Tusculan Disputations
Charles, Brittain | Cornell University, New York
A collection of new essays from worldleading experts exploring the philosophical context and content of Cicero's Tusculan Disputations. Topics include discussions of the emotions, of the fear of death, and the possibility that virtue may be sufficient for a happy life.
214pp
Sep. 2025 9781009586054 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009586047
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Deification in Classical Greek Philosophy and the Bible
James Bernard, Murphy | Dartmouth College, New Hampshire
The goal of human life, according to Plato, Aristotle, and the Bible, is to become as much like god as possible. This book, written in vivid and lucid English, illuminates Greek philosophy by showing how it grows out of ancient Greek religion and how it compares to biblical religion.
376pp
Dec. 2026 9781316516119 Hardback GBP 110.00 / USD 145.00
eISBN 9781009031882
Sep. 2025 9781009392969 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009392945
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Divination and Revelation in Later Antiquity
Elsa Giovanna, Simonetti | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Explores divination in antiquity from a range of perspectives, looking both at practices and theories and how and why these changed over time. Important for students and academics working in classics, history of philosophy, and history of religion.
238pp 1 b/w illus. 1 table
Sep. 2025 9781009328807 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99
eISBN 9781009328777
Galen: Writings on Plato's Timaeus
Compendium of Plato's Timaeus; Commentary on the Medical Statements in Plato's Timaeus
Aileen R. Das | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Plato's Timaeus was of enormous significance to Galen's thought on the body's structure and functioning and a key source of inspiration for his teleological world view. This is the first critical English translation of two previously inaccessible readings of the text which also shaped later Islamicate engagements with Plato's dialogue.
Cambridge Galen Translations
385pp
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Plato's Moral Realism
Lloyd P. Gerson | University of Toronto
This book attempts to situate Plato's ethics within his profoundly revisionist metaphysics. It aims to show why Plato makes the keystone of his metaphysical system a normative principle, the Idea of the Good. In doing this, we can see how Plato's metaphysics helps explain his politics and his theological doctrines.
274pp
Sep. 2025 9781009552677 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9781009552707
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Phrenitis and the Pathology of the Mind in Western Medical Thought
(Fifth Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)
Chiara, Thumiger | Cluster of Excellence Roots, Christian-Albrechts Universität zu Kiel, Germany
From an archaic, unfamiliar and Greeksounding disease described by the Hippocratics, 'phrenitis', to meningitis, stress syndrome and delirium: this book takes the reader on a journey through key phases of Western ideas about human physiology and mental health and reflects on loss and survival in the history of disease.
460pp
Sep. 2025 9781009329941 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 35.99
eISBN 9781009329934
The Astronomy of Hipparchus
An Annotated Translation of and Introduction to the Commentary on the Phenomena of Aratus and Eudoxus
Eric, Glover
Sep. 2025 9781009241342 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009241311
Platonic Autonomy
Self-Determination, Unity, and Cooperation Olof, Pettersson | Uppsala Universitet, Sweden
Analyses Plato's notion of personal autonomy in its philosophical and historical context. Questions an exclusively individualistic account and argues that the autonomous subject is a unified agent who in both collaborative and personal activities originates her own motions and reasons and commits in a profound sense to her own actions.
282pp
Jul. 2025 9781009520485 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781009520461
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Plato's Charmides
Raphael, Woolf | King's College London Plato's Charmides is a rich mix of provocative drama and intricate argument. This book offers a comprehensive interpretation of its disparate elements. Paying close attention to its complex structure, and to the methodology of reading Plato, Raphael Woolf presents a compelling and unified reading of the work as a whole.
Cambridge Studies in the Dialogues of Plato
282pp
A thorough introduction to the most important ancient Greek astronomer, Hipparchus. Features a translation and analysis of his only surviving work, the Commentary on the Phenomena of Aratus and Eudoxus, and reconstructs his catalogue of the stars, which has not survived, using a modern precession model.
576pp 15 b/w illus. 1 map 10 tables
Apr. 2026 9781009607537 Hardback GBP 140.00 / USD 175.00
eISBN 9781009607544
First Principles in Early Greek Medicine
David H. Camden | St Paul's School, New Hampshire
The goal of human life, according to Plato, Aristotle, and the Bible, is to become as much like god as possible.
This book, written in vivid and lucid English, illuminates Greek philosophy by showing how it grows out of ancient Greek religion and how it compares to biblical religion.
376pp
Sep. 2025 9781009308182 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 35.99
eISBN 9781009308175
Sep. 2025 9781009203005 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009392945
Selected Essays
Dominic J. O'Meara | Université de Fribourg, Switzerland
Sciences and philosophy developed in new ways in late antiquity, influencing intellectual culture in the Latin West, the Greek East, and the Islamic world. This is the first comprehensive view of this development and of the importance it gave to sciences (ethics, politics, mathematics, metaphysics) for leading a good life.
Cambridge Texts and Studies in Platonism
400pp
Jan. 2026 9781009539937 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00
eISBN 9781009539890
The Stoic Cosmos
Conflagration, Cosmogony, and Recurrence in Early Stoicism
Ricardo, Salles | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
A detailed and accessible reconstruction of the Stoic philosophical doctrine that our cosmos is periodically destroyed and restored. Explains its uniqueness compared to earlier cosmologies and refers to central questions in the interpretation of Stoicism, such as the role of the Stoic god in cosmology.
318pp
Jul. 2025 9781009422796 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009422819
Rebuilding Histories in the Roman World
Architectural Restoration and Temporality from Augustus to Justinian Ann Marie, Yasin | University of Southern California
Reveals the subtle ways in which Roman patrons across the Mediterranean affected perception of change and continuity by reactivating and modifying preexisting architecture. Reorients traditional ways of writing architectural history by focusing on the social mechanics and material manifestations of rebuilding, as distinct from new construction.
448pp
Baptismal Art in Late Antiquity
Stefanie, Lenk | Georg-AugustUniversität, Göttingen, Germany
Demonstrates, by examining the decoration of Mediterranean baptisteries from the fifth to the seventh century, that Roman popular culture had a strong impact on how common Christians defined what it meant to them to be Christian. Important for scholars of ancient history, late antique Christianity and art history.
Greek Culture in the Roman World 280pp 72 b/w illus. 31 colour illus. 12 maps
Oct. 2025 9781009564700 Hardback GBP 130.00 / USD 170.00
eISBN 9781009564748
Relief in Greek, Roman, and Late Antique Art
Jas', Elsner | University of Oxford Images in relief pervaded ancient visual culture from the archaic Greek to the Christian era. This book traces their significance across the chronological and geographic borders of the ancient world, and demonstrates the ubiquity, fluidity, and power of relief as an artistic category, in both antiquity and modernity.
Yale Classical Studies, 40 392pp 100 colour illus.
Sep. 2025 9781009505765 Hardback GBP 110.00 / USD 145.00
eISBN 9781009505789
Religious Architecture and Roman Expansion
Temples, Terracottas, and the Shaping of Identity, 3rd-1st c. BCE
Sophie, Crawford-Brown | Rice University, Houston
Feb. 2025 9781009408653 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009408677
Leonard V. Rutgers | Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
A wide-ranging guide, written by leading scholars in archaeology, architecture and art history, which reviews and explores past and current knowledge of the multiple themes that comprise the social, cultural, religious and economic landscapes of the late Roman to early medieval world.
1040pp
Jul. 2025 9781107037243 2 Hardback books GBP 160.00 / USD 210.00
eISBN 9781139583893
Maria Chiara, Scappaticcio | Università degli
Studi di Napoli 'Federico II'
A comprehensive, up-to-date and unique reference-tool in six volumes, gathering nearly 1500 Latin texts on papyrus. This corpus includes literary and documentary texts, dating from the first century BC to the Middle Ages, and provides new knowledge about the circulation of Latin and many aspects of the ancient Mediterranean world.
2832pp
Religious Architecture and Roman Expansion uses architectural terracottas as a lens for examining the changing landscape of central Italy during the period of Roman military expansion. It investigates the interactions between colonies and indigenous communities, asking why conquerors might visually emulate the conquered.
296pp
Mar. 2025 9781009445115 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009445122
Sep. 2025 9781108868709 6 Hardback books GBP 850.00 / USD 1,050.00
eISBN 9781108868686
Linguistic Investigations into the Languages They Encode
Brent, Davis | University of Melbourne
The decipherment of undeciphered scripts is a topic that fascinates a very wide range of people, but very few have ever had a chance to see it in action. In this book, readers are given a rare firsthand view of the kind of work involved in that process.
520pp 50 b/w illus. 5 maps 200 tables
Dec. 2025 9781009562348 Hardback GBP 125.00 / USD 165.00
eISBN 9781009562331
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A Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses
Volume 1 General Introduction and Books 1-6
Alessandro, Barchiesi | New York University
Ovid's Metamorphoses is one of the longest extant Latin poems from the ancient world and one of the most influential works in Western culture. This is the first complete commentary in English on the poem and covers all aspects of the text – from textual interpretation to poetics, imagination, and ideology.
784pp
Jul. 2025 9781009167963 Paperback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99
eISBN 9781139047272
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A Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses
Volume 2 Books 7-12
Alessandro, Barchiesi | New York University
Ovid's Metamorphoses is one of the longest extant Latin poems from the ancient world and one of the most influential works in Western culture. This is the first complete commentary in English on the poem and covers all aspects of the text – from textual interpretation to poetics, imagination, and ideology.
689pp
Volume 1 The Theatre Festivals of Athens: Documents with Translation and Commentary
Eric, Csapo | University of Warwick
The first fully comprehensive historical study of the festivals of Dionysus in the city of Athens that hosted performances of drama. Presents all the relevant evidence offering critical texts with translation and discussion of all important documents and illustrations and commentary for the most important material evidence.
1036pp
Jul. 2025 9781009168038 Paperback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99
eISBN 9781139021586
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A Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses
Volume 3 Books 13–15 and Indices
Alessandro, Barchiesi | New York University
Ovid's Metamorphoses is one of the longest extant Latin poems from the ancient world and one of the most influential works in Western culture. This is the first complete commentary in English on the poem and covers all aspects of the text – from textual interpretation to poetics, imagination, and ideology.
473pp
Jul. 2025 9781009168069 Paperback GBP 39.99 / USD 51.99
eISBN 9781139017213
A Narratological Commentary on Herodotus' Histories
Irene J. F. de Jong | Universiteit van Amsterdam
This commentary offers a close reading of one of the most famous ancient texts, Herodotus' Histories. It focuses on the way in which the story is told and both deepens readers' appreciation of this masterful work of art and helps them to get a grip on its complex structure.
790pp
Dec. 2025 9780521765527 Hardback GBP 170.00 / USD 225.00
eISBN 9781139015547
Aelius Aristides and the Poetics of Lyric in
Francesca, Modini | University of Warwick
This is the first major study of Greek lyric poetry in imperial Greek culture. It shows how knowledge of lyric enabled imperial writers to demonstrate a more sophisticated level of paideia; and reveals how lyric traditions mobilised distinctive discourses of self-fashioning, local identity, communitymaking and power crucial for Greeks under Rome.
Greek Culture in the Roman World 327pp 7 b/w illus.
May 2025 9781009518246 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009518215
Richard, Seaford | University of Exeter Traces a progressive and complex shift in Greece between the eight and fourth centuries BCE from aggregation to antithesis in literature, philosophy and visual art, and correlates this with the shift from a pre-monetary and pre-polis society to a monetised polis. Includes contrasts with Near Eastern society and art. 216pp 20 colour illus.
Aug. 2025 9781009517577 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009517584
Zachary P. Biles | Franklin and Marshall College, Pennsylvania
Dec. 2025 9781108470988 Hardback GBP 150.00 / USD 195.00
eISBN 9781108647380
Aristophanes' Knights was the first comic drama devoted to a sustained, open satire of an individual political figure and also the first play Aristophanes produced in his own name. This is the new standard text of and commentary on a major play by one of Athens' greatest comic playwrights.
Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries 720pp
Mar. 2025 9781108479998 Hardback GBP 150.00 / USD 195.00
eISBN 9781108846912
Gail, Trimble | University of Oxford
This major new edition of a pivotal Roman poem is an essential resource for advanced students and scholars of Latin literature. It provides a newly edited text accompanied by a lineby-line commentary exploring all aspects of Catullus 64, together with a comprehensive introduction and a ground-breaking interpretative epilogue.
Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries, 66 904pp
Feb. 2025 9781107018594 Hardback GBP 150.00 / USD 195.00
eISBN 9781139088213
Greek Poetics and Musical Ritual
Claude, Calame | Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
Re-examines the chorus in Greek tragedy and argues for the fundamentally poetic and musical nature of the genre, and its deep connection to the cultic and ritual contexts in which it was performed.
Classical Scholarship in Translation 243pp 100 colour illus.
Sep. 2025 9781009014427 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99
eISBN 9781009029421
C. B. Watson | University of Oklahoma
Indispensable for students and scholars of Latin literature, ancient rhetoric, and Roman law, this new critical edition, destined to become the new standard, is accompanied by a thorough commentary that overturns long-held assumptions about Roman legal procedure and reveals Cicero's innovative rhetorical manipulation of the occasion.
Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries, 66 552pp
Sep. 2025 9781108844079 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 160.00 eISBN 9781108933292
Martin M. Winkler | George Mason University, Virginia, Pennsylvania
Demonstrates the affinities between antiquity and today by interpreting several themes in classical literature and arts and illustrating these with numerous films, ranging from silents, classic Hollywood, and European popular and art films to documentaries, animation, and digital media and special effects.
552pp 27 b/w illus. 81 colour illus.
Sep. 2025 9781009396684 Paperback GBP 34.99 / USD 45.99
eISBN 9781009396691
Jesse, Hill | University of Edinburgh Quintus Ennius (239–169 BCE) was Latin literature's extraordinary founding father: he composed in a striking array of literary genres, many of which he introduced to, or invented at, Rome. This collection, featuring an international team of experts, provides the first assessment of Ennius' corpus in all of its unruly totality.
Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries, 66 348pp
Oct. 2025 9781009586160 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009586153
Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture
Volume 2 Comedy, Herodotus, Hellenistic and Imperial Greek Ewen, the Novels Claude, Bowie | University of Oxford Brings together the many, often seminal, contributions of a leading Hellenist to our understanding of major genres of Greek literature, above all the Greek novel, but also Attic Comedy, historiography, Hellenistic and Imperial Greek poetry. An invaluable resource for scholars, enhanced by Professor Bowie's new Introduction and extensive indexes.
Classical Scholarship in Translation
1070pp
Sep. 2025 9781107672895 Paperback GBP 44.99 / USD 58.99
eISBN 9781107415430
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Greek Declamation and the Roman Empire
William, Guast | Winchester College Re-evaluates a genre that was central to the Greek literature of the high Roman empire. Rejecting traditional conceptions of the genre as 'nostalgic', it explores the significance of Greek declamation's re-enactment of classical history for its own times and how it contributed to identity formation, social interaction and political discussion. Greek Culture in the Roman World 320pp
Sep. 2025 9781009297141 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99
eISBN 9781009297158
Herodotus and the Greek Poetic Tradition
Charles C. Chiasson | University of Texas, Arlington The first comprehensive analysis in any language of Herodotus' interaction with the Greek poetic tradition, including epic, lyric, and tragic poetry. Essential reading for scholars of ancient Greek storytelling (including myth) and those interested in the hybrid nature of narrative history.
768pp
Nov. 2025 9781009503693 Hardback GBP 140.00 / USD 180.00
eISBN 9781009503716
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Homer's Living Language
Formularity, Dialect, and Creativity in OralTraditional Poetry
Chiara, Bozzone | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
Munchen
An accessible, up-to-date, and innovative account of key features of Homer's poetry (formularity, meter, and dialect). This book is informed by contemporary linguistics and cognitive sciences, and leverages unexpected modern-day parallels (popular music, jazz improvisation, sports commentary) to illustrate Homer's creativity.
300pp 20 b/w illus. 20 tables
Sep. 2025 9781009065887 Paperback GBP 27.99 / USD 36.99
eISBN 9781009067157
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Intertextuality in Pliny's Epistles
Margot, Neger | University of Cyprus
Essential reading for anyone interested in the artistry of Pliny's Epistles and, more broadly, in Latin prose intertextuality, in the generic enrichment of Latin epistolography and in the literary and cultural interactions of the Imperial period. The book also serves as an advanced introduction to Latin prose poetics.
356pp
Herodotus and the Greek Poetic Tradition
Charles C. Chiasson | University of Texas, Arlington
The first comprehensive analysis in any language of Herodotus' interaction with the Greek poetic tradition, including epic, lyric, and tragic poetry. Essential reading for scholars of ancient Greek storytelling (including myth) and those interested in the hybrid nature of narrative history.
768pp
Sep. 2025 9781009294799 Paperback GBP 27.99 / USD 36.99
eISBN 9781009294751
Latin Texts on Papyrus and the Study of Classics
Maria Chiara, Scappaticcio | Università degli
Studi di Napoli 'Federico II'
This volume gathers 25 chapters focused on Latin texts on papyrus, exploring them from multi- and cross-disciplinary perspectives in order to demonstrate their potential to illuminate the field of Classics. It serves as a companion to the texts published in The Corpus of Latin Texts on Papyrus (Cambridge, forthcoming).
450pp 10 b/w illus.
Dec. 2025 9781009586597 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 155.00
eISBN 9781009586634
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Lucretius
Michael, Pope | Brigham Young University, Utah
The first book-length study of sexuality and gender in De rerum natura. Argues that the understanding of the universe it presents represents an unremitting assault upon the fictions that comprise Roman masculinity. Nevertheless, Lucretius offers an Epicurean vision of masculinity that just might save the Republic.
240pp
Nov. 2025 9781009503693 Hardback GBP 140.00 / USD 180.00
eISBN 9781009503716
Medieval Responses to Ovid's Exile
Rebecca, Menmuir | University of Oxford
Examines a variety of creative scholastic and literary responses to Ovid's exile across medieval culture, ranging across the medieval schoolroom, literary pilgrimages, fantasies of meeting or dismembering Ovid and the enduring influence of Ovid's exilic voice. Focuses especially on Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, John Lydgate and Christine de Pizan.
Classics after Antiquity
262pp
Jun. 2025 9781009553926 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009553940
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Monody in Euripides
Character and the Liberation of Form in Late Greek Tragedy
Claire, Catenaccio | Georgetown University, Washington DC
Reveals Euripides' ground-breaking use of monody, or solo actor's song, in his late tragedies. Contributing to the current scholarly debate on music, emotion, and characterization in Greek drama, Claire Catenaccio examines the role of monody in the musical design of Ion, Iphigenia among the Taurians, Phoenician Women, and Orestes.
228pp
Sep. 2025 9781009242325 Paperback GBP 27.99 / USD 36.99
eISBN 9781009242349
Sep. 2025 9781009300131 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99
eISBN 9781009300179
Disturbing Realities
Peter, Kelly | Princeton University, New Jersey
Explores how Ovid turns to philosophy, and especially the dialogues of Plato, to find meaning in a world that is fluid, uncertain, and dangerous. However, he highlights the limits of philosophy to capture the changing nature of reality and thereby realigns the boundaries between poetry and science.
208pp
Jul. 2025 9781009601511 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009601504
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Ovid on Screen
A Montage of Attractions
Martin M. Winkler | George Mason University, Virginia
Demonstrates the creative affinities between ancient verbal and modern visual modes of narrative through the example of Ovid's influence on cinema history in both theory (Sergei Eisenstein, Gabriele D'Annunzio) and practice.
Ranges from classic Hollywood and European films to modernism, animation, and contemporary digital media and special effects.
466pp 47 b/w illus. 28 colour illus.
Jun. 2025 9781108706957 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 38.99
eISBN 9781108756891
Rosa, Andújar | King's College London
The role of the chorus in ancient Greek drama has been conceived too narrowly by many scholars since Aristotle, and by modern audiences. Rosa Andújar argues that the chorus' multiple activities besides singing reveal it to be as nimble and dynamic as the actors that populated the ancient dramatic stage.
344pp
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The Cambridge Critical Guide to Latin Literature
Roy, Gibson | University of Durham
Focusing on the texts, tools and territories of Latin literature from the classical to Neo-Latin, the Critical Guide situates classical Latin within its global context; recalibrates links with adjoining disciplines (e.g. history, philosophy, material culture, Greek); and takes a fresh look at key tools (editing, reception, intertextuality, theory).
948pp
Dec. 2025 9781009653602 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009653626
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Sappho and Homer
A Reparative Reading
Melissa, Mueller | University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Juxtaposing Sappho and Homer within the embrace of a non-hierarchical, 'reparative reading' culture, as first conceived by queer theorist and poet Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, this book reintroduces readers to a Sappho who supplements Homer's vision, allowing for a sustaining, collaborative way of reading both lyric and epic.
250pp
Sep. 2025 9781108431293 Paperback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99
eISBN 9781108363303
The Cambridge History of Later Latin Literature 2 Volume Hardback Set
Gavin, Kelly | University of Edinburgh
The most comprehensive and detailed history of Latin literature from the second to the seventh centuries, which includes towering figures like Apuleius, Claudian, Prudentius, Augustine, Jerome, Boethius, and Isidore. An essential point of reference for students and an inspiration for the next generation of scholars on late antique Latin literature.
2000pp
Jun. 2025 9781108740609 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99
eISBN 9781108666732
The Ancient Scholia to Homer's Iliad
A Translation Volume 1 Books 1-2
Bill, Beck | Indiana University
This is the first English translation of the ancient scholia to the Iliad, the richest and most extensive collection of ancient criticism on the most widely read poem in Greco-Roman antiquity. It will be of value to anyone interested in discovering how ancient readers discussed and responded to the Iliad.
368pp
Nov. 2025 9781009540643 2 Hardback books GBP 300.00 / USD 390.00
eISBN 9781009540650
The Performance Reception of Greek Tragedy in Ancient Theatres
Sebastiana, Nervegna | Reconstructs the rich afterlife of Greek tragedy on ancient stages across the entire Mediterranean area, from the fourth century BC to the early third century AD. Draws on an extensive collection of documentary, literary and visual sources and considers the role of actors and audiences in the plays' survival.
438pp
Sep. 2025 9781009547383 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009547369
Apr. 2025 9781107111370 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00
eISBN 9781316275900
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The Stories of Similes in Greek and Roman Epic
Deborah, Beck | University of Texas, Austin Explores what kind of stories emerge from classical epic when similes are front and center. Combines the interdisciplinary field of embodied cognition with literary analyses of Classical epic similes to show how the distinctive themes of an individual poem emerge from the experiences that similes create.
292pp
Sep. 2025 9781108741415 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 35.99
eISBN 9781108668071
The Servant, the Lover, and the Fool Christopher, Metcalf | University of Oxford
Starting from detailed reconsiderations of a wide range of ancient Near Eastern literary sources, the book proposes original and persuasive readings of familiar early Greek authors including Homer, Hesiod and Herodotus, and of other famous works such as the Hebrew Bible. 302pp
Jan. 2025 9781009481496 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009481519
A Cultural History of the Western Tradition from the Eleventh Century to the Present Susanna Morton, Braund | University of British Columbia, Vancouver
American theatre
August Wilson in Context
Khalid Y. Long | Howard University, Washington DC
The authoritative guide to the singular career and artistic legacy of one of America's most celebrated playwrights, this collection not only chronicles August Wilson's career and artistic legacy, but also makes apparent his continuing relevance to culture and politics today.
Literature in Context
412pp
The first synthesis and analysis of the translation history of Roman poet Virgil's works into European languages. A wideranging interdisciplinary investigation that contributes to western intellectual history and challenges classicists and other literary scholars to reassess the features of Virgil's poems to which the translators respond.
Classics after Antiquity 1022pp
Jun. 2025 9781108470612 Hardback GBP 150.00 / USD 195.00
eISBN 9781108556828
Myth, Ritual, and Society in Mycenaean Anatolia
Identifying Asian Influences
Roger D. Woodard | University at Buffalo (SUNY)
Despite the Mycenaean Linear B script having been deciphered some seventy years ago, much has remained uncertain regarding the ritual ideology of Mycenaean society. This book explores this problem by investigating a new range of sources from the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age. 340pp
Aug. 2025 9781009424516 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009424479
Volume 49 Second edition
Lorna, Hardwick | The Open University, Milton Keynes
How classical culture is transplanted into new contexts, and how Greek and Roman values are perceived and used continues to be a force in current debates. The main concepts and explanatory frameworks used in the field are introduced through chapters on reception within antiquity and case studies of more global recent receptions.
New Surveys in the Classics
140pp
Jun. 2025 9781009363211 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009363204
María Irene Fornés In Context
Brian Eugenio, Herrera | Princeton University, New Jersey
An engaging guide to the multi-faceted life, work and legacy of the award-winning Cuban-American playwright, director and educator, María Irene Fornés, this volume provides diverse points of entry to specialists and students alike.
Literature in Context
416pp
Aug. 2025 9781009280419 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00
eISBN 9781009280396
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Staging Haiti in NineteenthCentury America
Revolution, Race and Popular Performance
Peter, Reed | University of Mississippi
Peter P. Reed examines the meanings of Haiti in America's nineteenth-century popular performance. Plays, social performances, and literary narratives of Haiti's revolutionary slave revolts transformed racial revolution into popular entertainments and diversions, dramatizing themes of race, freedom, and power in ways that remain impactful today.
Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre
227pp
Apr. 2025 9781009614832 Paperback GBP 17.99 / USD 30.99
eISBN 9781009614863
Jun. 2025 9781009113182 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99
eISBN 9781009118972
The Arthur Miller Tapes
A Life In His Own Words
Christopher, Bigsby | University of East Anglia Private, previously unpublished conversations between the author and one of the twentieth century's greatest dramatists bring fresh and surprising insights into the life, motivations and relationships of the playwright behind such seminal works as Death of a Salesman and The Crucible.
384pp
May 2025 9781009636926 Hardback GBP 25.00 / USD 29.95
eISBN 9781009636940
British theatre
#WakingTheFeminists and the Data-Driven Revolution in Irish Theatre
Claire, Keogh
This Element examines the #WakingTheFeminists movement, a grassroots campaign for gender equality in Irish theatre, sparked by Lian Bell's Facebook post about the gender disparity in Abbey Theatre's 2016 programme. It highlights its success, impact on policy and cultural changes, and its research-informed strategy.
Elements in Women Theatre Makers
80pp
20
European theatre
Theatre and Censorship in France from Revolution to Restoration
Clare, Siviter | University of Bristol
The very first book-length study of theatre censorship in France between the end of the Ancien Régime and the Restoration. Clare Siviter draws on over 150,000 pages of archival material to develop the new concept of 'lateral censorship', a model with far-reaching consequences for a wide range case studies throughout history.
270pp
Feb. 2025 9781009523097 Paperback GBP 18.00 / USD 23.00
Feb. 2025 9781009523103 Paperback GBP 55.00 / USD 70.00
eISBN 9781009523066
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An Apology for the Life of Mr Colley Cibber, Comedian and Late Patentee of the Theatre Royal
A Modernized Text
David, Roberts | Birmingham City University Transformative for students and scholars of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century theatre history, literature and life writing, this modernised text makes Cibber's Apology more accessible than ever before. Including comprehensive footnotes and a scholarly introduction, this edition is invaluable for researchers and captivating for general readers.
462pp
Feb. 2026 9781009645966 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009645942
American Performance in 1976
The Evolution of an Avant-Garde
Marc, Robinson | Yale University, Connecticut
A panoramic account of a single year uncommonly crowded with seminal works of performance. Surveying American drama, theater, dance, and performance art across the 1970s, this study then delves into five representative works of avantgarde theater from 1976 to reveal the poetics of a transformative moment in American culture.
Theatre and Performance Theory
344pp
Sep. 2025 9781009096232 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 34.95 eISBN 9781009093019
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Theatre in the Chocolate Factory
Performance at Cadbury's Bournville, 1900–1935
Catherine, Hindson | University of Bristol
A symbol of Britain's industrial heyday, Cadbury's offered recreational and educational schemes that included an astonishing amount of theatre. Focusing on the staff and performances central to the tale, Catherine Hindson situates theatre at the heart of understanding Cadbury's operation and the wider industrial histories it represents.
264pp
Nov. 2025 9781009490382 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009490375
Ecology and Climate in Theatre and Australian Performance
Peta, Tait | La Trobe University, Victoria
Apr. 2025 9781009271844 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99
eISBN 9781009271837
Charting a history of theatrical resistance to environmental exploitation, this study places Australian theatre within the context of international scholarship to address major concerns about changing ecological systems. It raises a bold challenge to the ways in which socioecological disaster is strategically placed outside human responsibility.
Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre
280pp
Mar. 2026 9781009618267 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009618298
NEW IN PAPERBACK State of the Arts
An Ethnography of German Theatre and Migration
Jonas, Tinius | Saarland University
Introducing key debates about German public theatre, Jonas Tinius shows how anthropological methods provide insights into cultural history, nation-building, and artistic production. His rigorous analysis covers case studies from a post-industrial region in transition, featuring in-depth examples of migrant and refugee urban theatre projects.
Theatre and Performance Theory
262pp
Apr. 2025 9781009321136 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99
eISBN 9781009321150
Maria M. Delgado | Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London
With a broader range of entries than any other reference book on stage directors, this Encyclopaedia showcases the extraordinary diversity of theatre as a national and international artistic medium. It covers both individual directors and a range of directorial modes and styles across different global traditions in contemporary theatre.
800pp
Jul. 2025 9781107190597 Hardback GBP 150.00 / USD 200.00 eISBN 9781108115995
Apparatus, Nostalgia, Obsolescence
W. B. Worthen | Barnard College, Columbia University
In this paradigm-shifting study, W. B. Worthen shows how the dynamics of obsolescence and affective nostalgia that shape the passing of technologies into history also shape and reshape theatrical practice, covering topics as diverse as Zoom theatre, the proscenium, and artificial intelligence in theatre making.
900pp
Capital of Dance
The 'feste di ballo' Tradition in the Long Eighteenth Century
Jan. 2026 9781009647359 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9781009647311
The Prompts You Need to Help You Write the Book You Want to Write
Practical Exercises for Fiction Writers
Sarah, Burton
How can you take your writing to the next level? Offering accessible practical exercises, this book is designed to inspire fiction writers and give confidence. It is a follow-up to the authors' acclaimed handbook The Book You Need to Read to Write the Book You Want to Write.
2080pp
Anthony R. DelDonna | Georgetown University, Washington DC Court festivities in eighteenth-century Naples included elaborate celebratory balls featuring social dance, hosted by the aristocracy and highlighted by the direct participation of the monarchs. This book offers a fascinating account of these spectacular events, for readers interested in Southern Italian history, culture, music, and dance.
262pp
Apr. 2025 9781009440271 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781009440288
The Archives and Afterlives of Nautch Dancers in India
Prarthana, Purkayastha Revealing acts of refusal performed by forgotten Indian nautch dancers, Prarthana Purkayastha brings to light rare materials on nautch women, decolonising existing ontologies of dance and performance as disappearance and advocating for the restless remains of nautch in animating urgent debates on race, caste, gender and sexuality today.
Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre
280pp
Sep. 2025 9781009391474 Paperback GBP 17.99 / USD 26.99 eISBN 9781009391481
Nov. 2025 9781009396868 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009396899
George Frideric Handel
Collected Documents
Donald, Burrows | The Open University, Milton Keynes
Handel's life and career are intricately documented in a wide range of contemporary sources. This six-volume publication presents a comprehensive, fully annotated collection of those documents in chronological order, with commentaries incorporating recent research. It is an essential resource for anyone studying Handel and his music.
800pp
Oct. 2025 9781107080249 Hardback GBP 140.00 / USD 175.00 eISBN 9781139946094
Nancy, November | University of Auckland
Showcasing the latest approaches to Haydn and his music, this benchmark volume demonstrates how Haydn scholarship has developed since the turn of this century. It will enrich readers' understanding of Haydn's cultural contexts and reception, as well as including new analyses of a selection of well-known and lesser-known compositions.
Cambridge Composer Studies
300pp
Sep. 2025 9781009337144 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009337151
Haydn's Minuets and Eighteenth-Century
Joseph, Fort | King's College London
Audiences in eighteenth-century Vienna attended the city's popular public balls, where they danced the minuet. This book reconstructs this dance, enabling audiences today to understand Haydn's minuets through the kinaesthetic associations and expectations that bodily knowledge of the dance brings, revealing previously hidden features of this music.
Music in Context
280pp
Texts, Melodies, and Devotion in Early Medieval Iberia
Emma, Hornby | University of Bristol
Incorporating notational, musical, theological and historical perspectives, this path-breaking study brings Old Hispanic chant into the mainstream of medieval music studies. Based on new methodologies for working with early medieval liturgy from Spain, it introduces this distinctive body of manuscripts, services and liturgical genres.
476pp
Sep. 2025 9781009515597 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009515603
Nicholas, Chong | Rutgers University, New Jersey
In the history of Western music, no figure has been as closely tied to the Enlightenment as Beethoven. But what if we have got this narrative all wrong?
Through a careful historical re-evaluation, this book questions the portrait of Beethoven in the scholarly imagination and redefines his role in music history.
320pp
Feb. 2025 9781108994019 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781108991223
Lettera amorosa
Musical Love-Letters in Early Modern Italy
Roseen, Giles | Duke University
This Element traces the breadth and significance of the musical love letter with a focus on the provocative lettere amorose of the seventeenth century. Elements in Music, 1600-1750
104pp
Mar. 2026 9781009411301 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9781009411318
Maddalena Casulana
Music Advocating for Women in Early Modern Italy
Catherine, Deutsch | Universite de Lorraine
Sixteenth-century Italian composer
Maddalena Casulana was the first woman to publish music under her own name, but her legacy has long been overlooked. This book explores her life, work and times, and offers valuable insights for scholars and musicians alike, combining musicology, feminist history and early modern history.
280pp
Mar. 2025 9781009446785 Paperback GBP 18.00 / USD 23.00
Mar. 2025 9781009517447 Hardback GBP 55.00 / USD 70.00
eISBN 9781009446808
Cambridge
Walter A. Clark | University of California, Riverside Spanish music is universally popular but seldom well understood. For the first time in English, in a single volume, and in a style that will be accessible to specialists and non-specialists alike, leading experts survey a rich legacy of classical music as well as a diverse heritage of regional folklore.
The Cambridge History of Music 500pp
Nov. 2025 9781009569163 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009569156
Apr. 2026 9781108493819 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 150.00
eISBN 9781108663335
Vienna
A Musical History
Simon P. Keefe | University of Sheffield
Vienna is world-famous for its unique musical ambience and status. This wide-ranging study probes the history underlying the mystique, uncovering the deep roots of the city's colourful musical past and present, and revealing the musicians, traditions, institutions and cultures behind Vienna's acclaimed musical accomplishments.
350pp
Mar. 2026 9781009399463 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009399456
Music criticism
A History of Music in the Czech Lands
Martin, Nedbal | University of Kansas
An overview of major topics connected to the history of musical culture in what is now the Czech Republic. Whereas most previous musicological scholarship focused on music that was understood as ethnically Czech, this book also considers German, Jewish, and Romani musics from the region.
550pp
Clara and Robert Schumann in Context
Joe, Davies | New York University Abu Dhabi
Reappraises the Schumanns' artistic and cultural contexts and traces their critical reception from the nineteenth century to the present day. This book will appeal to students and educators in musicology, women's studies, and cultural studies, as well as music professionals working in broadcasting, festival curation, and audience engagement.
Composers in Context
Nov. 2025 9781009168656 Hardback GBP 125.00 / USD 160.00
eISBN 9781009168663
Four Centuries of Women's Musical Salons
A Cross-Cultural History
Jacqueline, Avila | University of Texas, Austin For centuries, women have organized social gatherings known as 'salons', which have served as sites of women's creativity in the arts, sciences, and letters – especially music. Through case studies ranging across Europe, the Americas, North Africa, and the Ottoman Empire, this volume foregrounds women's musicianship in cross-cultural perspective.
500pp
400pp
Feb. 2026 9781108834278 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781108992626
Hensel and Felix Mendelssohn in Context
Thomas, Schmidt | University of Manchester
Mar. 2026 9781009098137 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009103633
Violin Culture in Britain, 1870–1930
Music-making, Society, and the Popularity of Stringed Instruments
Christina, Bashford | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
A historical, thematically organised study of the unprecedented growth and popularity of stringed instruments in Britain from the Victorian era to 1930, this book examines the social spread of string playing, its infrastructure and grass-roots activities, and the presence of the violin in the British popular imagination of the time.
354pp
An authoritative overview of the personal, professional, cultural, political and religious contexts in which Hensel and Mendelssohn lived. The authors provide insights into nineteenth-century musical culture, including gender roles and private and public music-making, enhancing our understanding of the music of these immensely gifted siblings.
Composers in Context
340pp
Dec. 2025 9781009172752 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 125.00
eISBN 9781009172769
Guitar in Victorian England
A Social and Musical History
Christopher, Page | University of Cambridge
The guitar could be taken anywhere: a boat, a village hall, a workhouse. Its social and musical history therefore touches upon many aspects of Victorian life such as the growth of leisure activities, the rise of music hall, parish entertainments for good causes and the freedoms newly enjoyed by women. Musical Performance and Reception
244pp
Sep. 2025 9781108842877 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00
eISBN 9781108906548
Jun. 2025 9781316511800 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009053884
Studies
Steven, Vande Moortele | University of Toronto
Ten leading international Wagner scholars discuss analytical or theoretical questions posed by Wagner's music. Addressing the works from Die Feen through Parsifal, they combine a variety of music-analytical methods with approaches to dramaturgy, hermeneutics, reception history, and discursive analysis of sexuality and ideology.
Cambridge Composer Studies
259pp
Apr. 2025 9781108837064 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781108938099
Anton Webern at the Dawn of Modernism
Sebastian, Wedler | Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
The first extended account of Webern's tonal music, this book provides fresh glimpses into the intellectual fabric of European modernism and its concept of 'earliness' and sheds new light on this pivotal figure. Bringing analytical insights into dialogue with new biographical and philological perspectives, it will be valuable across the humanities.
Music in Context
234pp
Sep. 2025 9781009453691 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009453646
Boulez in Context
Edward, Campbell | University of Aberdeen Pierre Boulez's career as composer, conductor, recording artist, writer, teacher and systems builder was both influential and controversial. This book explores his early life, education, engagements with his modernist predecessors and contemporaries, and the importance for him of literature, visual art, mathematics, philosophy and technology.
Composers in Context
436pp
Jul. 2025 9781009168649 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 125.00
eISBN 9781009168632
Schoenberg in Context
Alexander, Carpenter | University of Alberta, Augustana
Breathes new life into the study of Schoenberg's worlds and work, exploring his multi-faceted environments and showcasing his centrality to the understanding of musical modernism. Providing fresh, multi-disciplinary perspectives, the book will be essential reading for those interested in the intersections of music, modernity, society and culture. Composers in Context
376pp
Sep. 2025 9781316513828 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 125.00 eISBN 9781009075114
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