ARCHAEOLOGICAL HISTORIES

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Aeschylus: Agamemnon

Leah Himmelhoch, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, USA

This accessible edition for students brings the Agamemnon, Aeschylus' opening play in the Oresteia trilogy, to life for first-time readers. A hugely popular play in antiquity and with a rich reception history to the present day, this is an essential play for students of classics, drama and the canon of western literature Leah Himmelhoch provides a helpful guide for students and instructors wishing to study and teach the play, building on her over twenty-five years of experience teaching college and university students

UK August 2023

• US August 2023 • 272 pages

PB 9781350154902 • £34 99 / $47 95 • HB 9781350154896 • £110 00 / $150 00 ePub 9781350154919 • £31 49 / $43 19 ePdf 9781350154926 • £31 49 / $43 19

Series: Greek Texts • Bloomsbury Academic

Future Fame in the Iliad Epic Time and Homeric Studies

Yukai Li, Carleton University, Canada

When Homeric heroes think about the meaning of their actions, they expect this to take the form of kleos, 'fame', in a future song This volume explores the consequences of this mode of thinking in the Iliad in particular, and argues that the form of kleos and the interposition of a gap of time between event and meaning produces widespread effects, not only for the thought and psyche of the heroes, but also for the nature of poetry and scholarship in the Homeric tradition

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 240 pages

PB 9781350239203 • £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350239197 ePub 9781350239227 • £76 50 / $103 94 ePdf 9781350239210 £76 50 / $103 94

Bloomsbury Academic

Greek Tragedy in a Global Crisis Reading through Pandemic Times

Mario Telò, University of California, Berkeley, USA

What does it mean to read Greek tragedy in a pandemic, a global crisis? How can Greek tragedy address urgent contemporary troubles? One of the outstanding and most widely read theorists in the discipline, Mario Telò, brings together a deep understanding of Greek tragedy and its most famous icons with contemporary times In close readings of plays such as Alcestis, Antigone, Bacchae, Hecuba, Oedipus the King, Prometheus Bound, and Trojan Women, our experience is precariously refracted back in the formal worlds of plays named after and, to an extent, epitomized by tragic characters

UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 296 pages

PB 9781350348127 • £19 99 / $26 95 • HB 9781350348110 • £65 00 / $90 00 ePub 9781350348141 • £17 99 / $24 29 ePdf 9781350348134 £17 99 / $24 29

Bloomsbury Academic

Ronald Knox’s Lectures on Virgil’s Aeneid With Introduction and Critical Essays

Edited by Francesca Bugliani Knox, University College London, UK

This book makes available Ronald Knox’s hitherto unpublished lectures on Virgil’s Aeneid delivered at Trinity College, Oxford, as part of a lecture course on Virgil in 1912 Written with Knox’s customary incisiveness and with frequent allusions to contemporary life, the lectures are devoted to the appreciation of the Aeneid and focus on what he called the ‘essential and dominant characteristics’ that make up its greatness They deal with Virgil’s political and religious outlook, ideas of the afterlife, sense of romance and pathos, narrative style, sources, versification and appreciation of scenery His interpretation of the relationship between Dido and Aeneas renders redundant the question, much debated to this day, of whether Aeneas loved Dido, and also portrays Aeneas more sympathetically than is currently fashionable

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 272 pages • 6 bw illus

HB 9781350118287 £85 00 / $115 00 ePub 9781350118300 £76 50 / $103 94 ePdf 9781350118294 • £76 50 / $103 94

Bloomsbury Academic

Tacitus’ Wonders

Empire and Paradox in Ancient Rome

Edited by James McNamara, University of Potsdam, Germany & Victoria Emma Pagán, University of Florida, USA

This volume approaches the broad topic of wonder in the works of Tacitus, encompassing paradox, the marvellous and the admirable Recent scholarship on these themes in Roman literature has tended to focus on poetic genres, with comparatively little attention paid to historiography: Tacitus, whose own judgments on what is worthy of note have often differed in interesting ways from the preoccupations of his readers, is a fascinating focal point for this complementary perspective

UK April 2023

• US April 2023

PB 9781350241732

• 296 pages

• £24 99 / $34 95

Previously published in HB 9781350241725 ePub 9781350241756

• £58 50 / $79 64 ePdf 9781350241749 £58 50 / $79 64

Bloomsbury Academic

Chaos, Cosmos and Creation in Early Greek Theogonies

An Ontological Exploration

Olaf Almqvist, University College Dublin, Ireland

Combining approaches from classical studies, anthropology and philosophy, this book studies three competing cosmologies of the early Greek world: Hesiod’s Theogony; the Orphic Derveni Theogony; and Protagoras’ creation myth in Plato’s eponymous dialogue Olaf Almqvist argues that they offer very different answers to an ongoing debate on what it is to be human, how the world is composed, and humanity’s place within it Engaging closely with the work of Philippe Descola, this book outlines three key sets of ontological assumptions – analogism, pantheism, and naturalism – in early Greek literature and explores how these competing ontological assumptions result in very different attitudes to rituals such as prayer and sacrifice.

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

PB 9781350221949

• 256 pages

• £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350221840 ePub 9781350221888 ePdf 9781350221864

• £76 50 / $103 94

• £76 50 / $103 94

Series: Classical Literature and Society

• Bloomsbury Academic

Plautus: Mostellaria

George Fredric Franko, Hollins University, USA

Plautus' Mostellaria is one of ancient Rome’s most breezy and amusing comedies. This is the first book to offer an in-depth study of the play in its literary and historical contexts, and aims to help readers appraise the script as both cultural document and performed comedy In Mostellaria’s farce, sleek simplicity replaces complexity as Plautus aggrandizes his comic hero by stripping plot to the minimum and leaving Tranio to operate alone with no resources other than his quick wit The enduring appeal of the genre is explored in a chapter on the play's reception, which reveals modernity’s continuing fascination with farce and shifting engagement with Roman culture

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 176 pages

PB 9781350205383 • £22 99 / $30 95

Previously published in HB 9781350188419 ePub 9781350188433 £63 00 / $86 39 ePdf 9781350188426 £63 00 / $86 39

Series: Bloomsbury Ancient Comedy Companions • Bloomsbury Academic

Luxury and Wealth in Sparta and the Peloponnese

Edited by Stephen Hodkinson, University of Nottingham, UK & Chrysanthi Gallou, University of Nottingham, UK

A Spartan lifestyle proverbially describes austerity; ancient Greek luxury was associated with Ionia and the oriental world The contributions to this book, first presented at a conference held by the University of Nottingham's Centre for Spartan and Peloponnesian Studies, reverse the stereotype and explore the role of luxury and wealth at Sparta and among its Peloponnesian neighbours from the Iron Age to the Hellenistic period

UK October 2022 300 pages

HB 9781910589830 • £80 00

Classical Press of Wales World English (excluding Canada/Mexico/USA)

Ptolemy I Soter

Themes and Issues

Edward M. Anson, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA

Ptolemy I, whose epithet was Savior, was in many respects the most successful of all of Alexander the Great’s successors He created the longest lasting of the Hellenistic kingdoms that rose in the aftermath of the great conqueror’s death, ending with the death of Cleopatra VII and Egypt’s incorporation into the Roman Empire This book is not a standard biography, but rather an examination of the major issues surrounding his reign, the major controversies and questions surrounding Ptolemy's career and legacy Each chapter includes a discussion of the major academic positions on each issue and an evaluation of the primary historical and archaeological evidence

Ptolemy I Soter: Themes and Issues brings new clarity to the history of one of the chief architects of the Hellenistic Age

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

PB 9781350260801

Heracles and Athenian Propaganda Politics, Imagery and Drama

Sofia Frade, University of Lisbon, Portugal

Heracles and Athenian Propaganda examines how the hero was appropriated and portrayed by Athens in religion, politics, architecture and literature, with a detailed study of Euripides' Heracles in relation to this interplay between the hero and the city's ideology, examining how this particular play fits within the space of the polis and its political ideology By looking at the play's larger contexts – literary, civic, political, religious and ideological – new readings are offered to the most problematic elements of the play, including the question of its unity, the nature of the hero's madness and the role of the gods

UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 176 pages

HB 9781472505590 • £85 00 / $115 00 ePub 9781472510433 • £76 50 / $103 94 ePdf 9781472511157 £76 50 / $103 94

Bloomsbury Academic

Military Departures, Homecomings and Death in Classical Athens

Hoplite Transitions

Owen Rees, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

This volume sheds new light on the experience of ancient Greek warfare by identifying and examining three fundamental transitions undergone by the classical Athenian hoplite as a result of his military service: his departure to war, his homecoming from war having survived, and his homecoming from war having died Taking each in turn, Owen Rees examines the transitions both from the perspective of the hoplite as a member of an oikos and as a member of the army, effectively mapping his experience as he moves between his domestic and military duties and allowing us to identify moments with the potential for a traumatic impact on the individual

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 264 pages • 18 bw illus

PB 9781350188747 £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350188648 ePub 9781350188662 £76 50 / $103 94 ePdf 9781350188655 • £76 50 / $103 94

Bloomsbury Academic

A Thousand Miles up the Nile

Amelia B. Edwards

A chance visit to Egypt in 1873 by Amelia Edwards changed the future of British Egyptology forever Her travelogue, A Thousand Miles up the Nile, would inspire generations to take up her cause to support and promote Egyptian cultural heritage

This modern reprint is accompanied by a new introduction by Carl Graves (the Egypt Exploration Society) and Anna Garnett (The Petrie Museum, UCL) reflecting on Amelia’s life and its legacy in Egyptology today

UK November 2022

PB 9780856982514

• 59 colour and 41 bw illus

• 650 pages

• £29 50

Egypt Exploration Society

World English (excluding Canada/Mexico/USA)

• 2 bw illus

• 272 pages

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• £24 99 / $34 95