CLASSICAL STUDIES & ARCHAEOLOGY
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Epic, Novel and the Progress of Antiquity
Ahuvia Kahane, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
This book rethinks the characterization of two highly contrastive forms of ancient literary tradition - epic and novel - and re-frames their function as dynamic points of reference in the history of ideas and in our understanding of the interface between antiquity and the modern Ahuvia Kahane sets out to construct a new understanding of epic and novel in antiquity as part of a more fragile, dynamic framework, governed by intertextuality and openness on the one hand, and by fragmented interpretive traditions on the other
UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 256 pages • 3 bw illus
PB 9781350278257 • £19 99 / $26 95 • HB 9780715636770 • £65 00 / $90 00
ePub 9781472504074 • £17 99 / $24 29
ePdf 9781472504081 • £17 99 / $17 99
Bloomsbury Academic
Women Re-Creating Classics
Contemporary
Voices
Edited by Emily Hauser, University of Exeter, UK & Helena Taylor, University of Exeter, UK
In the last few years, there has been a major and unmissable surge in women’s retellings and recreations of ancient myths and texts that has put women’s re-creations of Classics centre-stage Drawing together an interdisciplinary range of creative and scholarly voices, this volume asks why classical creative retellings by women are so popular now—and considers what creativity can do to foster new ways of thinking and writing about Classics, thus blurring the boundary between the creative and the critical Contributors engage with debates on how to make Classics more accessible through the medium of creative works, so that it is not just a discipline for the select few
UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 336 pages • 4 bw illus
PB 9781350445086 • £24 99 / $34 95 • HB 9781350445079 • £75 00 / $100 00
ePub 9781350445093 • £22 49 / $31 04
ePdf 9781350445062 • £22 49 / $22 49
Bloomsbury Academic
Kathleen Raine Classics and Consciousness
Jenny Messenger, Independent Scholar, UK
For the poet and scholar Kathleen Raine, ancient texts were not obsolete, but vital handbooks for reading reality Drawing on Graeco-Roman philosophy alongside modernist receptions of the ancient world, this book is the first study of her engagement with classical antiquity Raine’s interpretation of the classical past not only informed her literary work, but also gave her a compelling perspective, which located consciousness as the basis of reality This way of seeing the world, traceable from antiquity to the present day via the ‘perennial philosophy’, claimed little distinction between inner self and outer world, and stressed the interconnectedness of all beings
UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 208 pages
HB 9781350260542 • £75 00 / $100 00
ePub 9781350260566 £67 50 / $91 79
ePdf 9781350260559 £67 50 / $67 50
Series: Classical Receptions in Twentieth-Century Writing • Bloomsbury Academic
Women Creating Classics A Retrospective
Edited by Emily Hauser, University of Exeter, UK & Helena Taylor, University of Exeter, UK
From Madeline Miller’s The Song of Achilles (2011) to Pat Barker’s The Voyage Home (2024), there has been a huge rise in women’s rewritings of ancient myths and texts in recent years Women writers are looking back to the classical past more than ever before, and there is serious public interest in women’s reworkings of the ancient world But at the same time, this is nothing new: women have been responding to the worlds of Greece and Rome for hundreds of years, across many different time periods, and multiple cultures and languages
UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 288 pages • 10 bw illus
PB 9781350444362 • £24 99 / $34 95 • HB 9781350444379 • £75 00 / $100 00
ePub 9781350444393 • £22 49 / $31 04
ePdf 9781350444386 £22 49 / $22 49
Bloomsbury Academic
Classical Taste in the Architectural World of Thomas Jefferson
Alley Marie Jordan, Independent Scholar, UK
Reaching beyond politics and law, this book focuses on Thomas Jefferson as an aesthetic classicist. Jefferson embraced the influence of antiquity through his adoption of classical architecture in his Virginia residences, in order to establish Rome as an ancestor to America. In a time of significant political and cultural change, he aligned himself with a Greco-Romano legacy that represented knowledge, power and art Alley Marie Jordan studies the architectural and landscape spaces of Jefferson’s classical taste, which include the villas of Monticello and Poplar Forest, as well as the University of Virginia
UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 224 pages • 9 b&w illus
HB 9781350428508 £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9781350428522 £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9781350428515 £76 50 / $76 50
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception • Bloomsbury Academic
Radical Formalisms
Reading, Theory, and the Boundaries of the Classical
Edited by Sarah Nooter, University of Chicago, USA & Mario Telò, University of California, Berkeley, USA
The term "radical formalism" refers to strategies aimed at defamiliarising and revitalising conventional modes of formalistic reading and theorising form These strategies disrupt and unsettle established norms while incorporating a metadiscursive awareness of their broader political implications
This volume presents a radical reconceptualisation of literary works from Greek and Roman antiquity Engaging in an ongoing dialogue with critical theory and postcritique, as well as drawing inspiration from traditions rooted in Black art, poetry and philosophy—both directly and indirectly connected to the classical tradition—the essays in this collection explore subversions of canonical norms and resistances to the hegemony of textual order
UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 312 pages • 10 bw illus
PB 9781350377479 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350377431
ePub 9781350377455 • £81 00 / $110 69
ePdf 9781350377448 • £81 00 / $81 00
Bloomsbury Academic
Phryne A Life in Fragments
Melissa Funke, University of Winnipeg, Canada
How did Mnesarete, a girl from Boeotia, turn into Phryne the famous beauty, and how did she end up as an enduring symbol of ancient Greek culture? This book pieces together the story of the notorious fourth-century Athenian sex worker, Phryne It considers her early life and her development into a cultural figure, whose influence and legacy have lasted from her own lifetime to the present day It also investigates her infamous nude courtroom appearance, her influence on one of the most well-known statues from antiquity and her connection to celebrated figures from Alexander the Great to the artist Apelles
UK August 2025 US August 2025 208 pages 18 bw illus
PB 9781350371910 £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350371873
ePub 9781350371897 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9781350371880 • £76 50 / $76 50
Bloomsbury Academic
Hellenistic Literature and Culture
Studies in Honor of Susan A Stephens
Edited by Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, Ohio State University, USA, Jacqueline Arthur-Montagne, University of Virginia, USA & Phiroze Vasunia, University College London, UK
In this book, leading Greek scholars explore the rich and diverse poetry and prose of the long Hellenistic period Chapters focus on the poets of Alexandria such as Callimachus, Theocritus, Apollonius, and Posidippus and on prose texts written in Greek in the Roman Empire This volume demonstrates the versatility of this literature and examines its multiple cultural affiliations.
UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 410 pages • 21 colour illus
PB 9781350288119 £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350286016
ePub 9781350286030 • £90 00 / $122 84
ePdf 9781350286023 • £90 00 / $90 00
Bloomsbury Academic
Praise and Blame in Greek Tragedy
Kate Cook, University of St Andrews, UK
Exploring the use of praise and blame in Greek tragedy in relation to heroic identity, Kate Cook demonstrates that the distribution of praise and blame, a significant social function of archaic and classical poetry, also plays a key role in Greek tragedy Both concepts are a central part of the discourse surrounding the identity of male heroic figures in tragedy, and thus are essential for understanding a range of tragedies in their literary and social contexts In the tragic genre, the destructive or dangerous aspects of the process of kleos (glory) are explored, and the distribution of praise and blame becomes a way of destabilising identity and conflict between individuals in democratic Athens
UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 264 pages
PB 9781350410534 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350410497
ePub 9781350410510 £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9781350410503 • £76 50 / $76 50
Bloomsbury Academic
Aristophanes: Cavalry
Robert Tordoff, York University, Canada
A student introduction to Aristophanes’ most explosive political satire, this volume is an essential guide to the context, themes and later reception of Cavalry The ancient comedy is a fascinating insight into power relations between slaves and slaveholders and the upper and lower classes in classical Athens, and its political and social themes resonate with a modern audience now more than ever before
UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 192 pages • 6 bw illus
PB 9781350065680 • £22 99 / $30 95
Previously published in HB 9781350065673
ePub 9781350065697 £63 00 / $86 39
ePdf 9781350065703 £63 00 / $63 00
Series: Bloomsbury Ancient Comedy Companions Bloomsbury Academic
Jokes in Greek Comedy
From Puns to Poetics
Naomi Scott, University of Bristol, UK
In ancient Greek comedy, nothing is ever ‘just a joke’ This book treats jokes with the seriousness they deserve, and shows that far from being mere surface-level phenomena, jokes in Greek comedy are in fact a site of poetic experimentation whose creative force expressly rivals that of serious literature
UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 192 pages
PB 9781350248496 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350248489
ePub 9781350248519 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9781350248502 £76 50 / $76 50
Bloomsbury Academic
Temporalities, Texts, Ideologies
Ancient and Early Modern Perspectives
Edited by Bobby Xinyue, King's College London, UK
Temporalities, Texts, Ideologies provides a new analysis of the significance of time in Classical and early modern literature, demonstrating that literary temporality continually intervenes in questions of ontology, hierarchy and politics Examining a diverse range of texts from Homeric epic to eighteenth-century poems on the Last Judgement, this collection of essays contends that temporality in literature sits at the heart of how authors from antiquity through to the early modern period understood and negotiated the structures that shaped their lives and may shape lives to come
UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 288 pages • 3 bw illus
PB 9781350257269 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350257221
ePub 9781350257245 • £81 00 / $110 69
ePdf 9781350257238 • £81 00 / $81 00
Bloomsbury Academic
The Roman Mourner Funeral Rites, Gender and the Body
Valerie M. Hope, Open University, UK
To date, mourning has not featured prominently in studies of ancient Roman society, and this book redresses this by presenting a comprehensive analysis of who mourners were and what mourners did, as well as investigating the social, cultural and ritual significance of mourning. It brings together varied evidence, ranging from literature and art to epigraphy, which helps to illustrate the rituals of mourning Valerie M Hope addresses fundamental questions about how mourning was expressed, displayed and performed, and in turn what mourning can reveal about Roman society
UK July 2025 US July 2025 304 pages 20 bw illus
HB 9781350320796 £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9781350320819 £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9781350320802 • £76 50 / $76 50
Bloomsbury Academic
The Poems of Optatian
Puzzling out the Past in the Time of Constantine the Great Linda Jones Hall, St Mary’s College of Maryland, USA
For the first time, the poems and accompanying letters of Publilius Optatianus Porfyrius (Optatian) are published here with a translation and detailed commentary, along with a full introduction to Optatian’s work during this period Optatian was sent into exile by Constantine sometime after the Emperor’s ascent to power in Rome in 312 AD Hoping to receive pardon, Optatian sent a gift of probably twenty design poems to Constantine around the time of the ruler’s twentieth anniversary (325/326 AD)
UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 256 pages • 23 bw illus
PB 9781350374416 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350374379
ePub 9781350374393 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9781350374386 • £76 50 / $76 50
Bloomsbury Academic
An Anthology of Neo-Latin Poetry by Classical Scholars
Edited by Stephen Harrison, University of Oxford, UK, Gesine Manuwald, University College London, UK, William M. Barton, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies, Austria & Bobby Xinyue, King's College London, UK
Presenting a range of Neo-Latin poems written by distinguished classical scholars across Europe from c 1490 to c 1900, this anthology includes a selection of celebrated names in the history of scholarship Individual chapters present the Neo-Latin poems alongside new English translations (usually the first) and accompanying introductions and commentaries that annotate these verses for a modern readership, and contextualise them within the careers of their authors and the history of classical scholarship
UK June 2025
• US June 2025
• 344 pages • 1 bw illus
PB 9781350379459 • £29 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350379442
ePub 9781350379473 £85 50 / $116 09
ePdf 9781350379466 £85 50 / $85 50
Series: Bloomsbury Neo-Latin Series: Early Modern Texts and Anthologies • Bloomsbury Academic
Money, Warfare and Power in the Ancient World
Studies in Honour of Matthew Freeman Trundle
Edited by Jeremy Armstrong, University of Auckland, New Zealand, Arthur J. Pomeroy, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. & David Rosenbloom, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
Money, Warfare and Power in the Ancient World offers twelve papers analysing the processes, consequences and problems involved in the monetization of warfare and its connection to political power in antiquity The contributions explore not only how powerful men and states used money and coinage to achieve their aims, but how these aims and methods had often already been shaped by the medium of coined money – typically with unintended consequences
UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 304 pages • 31 bw illus
PB 9781350283800 £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350283763
ePub 9781350283787 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9781350283770 • £76 50 / $76 50
Bloomsbury Academic
