Edited by Amin Benaissa, University of Oxford, UK & Michael Zellmann-Rohrer, Free University of Berlin, Germany This volume contains editions of forty-one texts, theological, literary, subliterary, and documentary. The theological section includes large fragments of the First Apocalypse of James (5533), an early Christian narrative of conversations between Jesus and his brother, James, before and after Jesus' death. The first of seven magical papyri is a secondcentury exorcism manual (5542), with the divine name written in Palaeo-Hebrew letters. A series of potted lives of the Successors of Alexander the Great illuminates the history of ancient life-writing before Plutarch (5535). A fragment of commentary on Aristophanes (5536) and five grammatical texts (5537–41) complete Section II. The twenty-four documents in Section III provide a mass of new evidence concerning slavery in the Roman world. The photographs show all the new theological, literary, and subliterary texts, and eleven of the documents. UK November 2021 • 155 pages HB 9780856982491 • £85.00 Series: Graeco-Roman Memoirs • Egypt Exploration Society World English (excluding Canada/Mexico/USA)
Conceptions of the Watery World in Greco-Roman Antiquity Georgia L. Irby, College of William and Mary, USA
Water is an essential resource that affects every aspect of human life, and it inspired great curiosity in the Greeks and Romans, who sought to control the natural world by understanding it. This volume explores ancient efforts to explain the scientific, philosophical and spiritual aspects of water, looking at issues ranging from the ways in which water helps to shape the world, to how it affects health, as a vector of disease or of healing, and what spiritual forces can protect those who must travel on water. UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 296 pages • 16 bw illus PB 9781350239449 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781784538293 ePub 9781350136465 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350136458 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic
New Perspectives on the Hellenistic Peloponnese
History, Politics and Material Culture Edited by Manolis Pagkalos, University of Groningen, the Netherlands & Andrea Scarpato, University of Leeds, UK This volume fills a gap in current research on the Hellenistic Peloponnese, complementing and challenging traditional interpretations by adopting new perspectives on its complex social and political history. The individual chapters promote interdisciplinary approaches to ancient evidence and examine aspects of the region's interstate relations, contemporary politics and modes of representation that have been relatively little studied to date. Together they afford a much more well-rounded picture of the Hellenistic Peloponnese and form a rich basis for broadening scholarly debate and stimulating further research on the area. UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 288 pages • 30 bw illus HB 9781350228900 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781350228931 • £81.00 / $112.65 ePdf 9781350228924 • £81.00 / $112.65 Bloomsbury Academic
Using and Conquering the Watery World in Greco-Roman Antiquity Georgia L. Irby, College of William and Mary, USA
This volume considers how Greco-Roman authorities manipulated water on the practical, technological, and political levels. Water was controlled and harnessed with legal oversight and civic infrastructure. The Mediterranean Sea and Outer Ocean (and numerous rivers) were mastered by means of navigation for the purposes of warfare, exploration, maritime trade, and the exploitation of marine resources. These waterways were also a robust source of propaganda on coins, public monuments, and poetic encomia as governments vied to establish or spread their identities and predominance. UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 312 pages • 27 bw illus PB 9781350250789 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350155848 ePub 9781350155855 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350155862 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic
C L A S S I C A L S T U D I E S – Egyptology / Ancient History & Philosophy
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri vol. LXXXVI
Ancient Commentators on Aristotle Richard Sorabji, Kings College London, UK; Michael Griffin, University of British Columbia, Canada
Hermias: On Plato Phaedrus 245E–257C
Michael Share, University of Tasmania, Australia & Dirk Baltzly, University of Tasmania, Australia This commentary records, through notes taken by Hermias, Syrianus' seminar on Plato's Phaedrus, one of the world's most influential celebrations of erotic beauty and love. It is the only Neoplatonic commentary on Plato's Phaedrus to have survived in its entirety. The second of two volumes of Hermias' commentary, the chapters translated here begin with a discussion of how the discarnate soul is visualised as a winged chariot team whose charioteer may gain some glimpse of beauty itself, which can explain subsequent erotic longing. UK November 2022 • US November 2022 • 336 pages HB 9781350051928 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350051942 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350051935 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: Ancient Commentators on Aristotle • Bloomsbury Academic
'Alexander': On Aristotle Metaphysics 12
Translated by Fred D. Miller, Jr., University of Arizona and Bowling Green State University, USA This volume presents a commentary by pseudoAlexander on Aristotle’s Metaphysics Book 12, which posits a god as the supreme cause of motion in the cosmic system Aristotle elaborates elsewhere. Presenting a new translation accompanied by explanatory notes, Fred D. Miller, Jr. argues that the author of the commentary is in fact not Alexander of Aphrodisias, Aristotle’s distant successor in early 3rd century CE Athens and his leading defender and interpreter, but Michael of Ephesus from Constantinople as late as the 12th century CE. UK November 2022 • US November 2022 • 272 pages PB 9781350185623 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350179356 ePub 9781350179370 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350179363 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: Ancient Commentators on Aristotle • Bloomsbury Academic
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