Books in
Ancient Studies
2016 – 2017
Rome
The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire
Patients and Healers in the High Roman Empire
From the First Century CE to the Third
Ido Israelowich
revised and updated edition Edward N. Luttwak “Lucidly and vigorously written. It is a long time since I have read so important a contribution to Roman history.” — Times Literary Supplement 2016 296 pp. 10 line drawings, 15 maps 978-1-4214-1945-9 $29.95 pb Also available as an e-book
“An original, innovative, and provocative history of ancient medicine in the High Roman Empire from the patient’s point of view.” — Manfred Horstmanshoff, Leiden University 2015 208 pp., 3 halftones 978-1-4214-1628-1 $59.95 hc Also available as an e-book
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Rome’s Christian Empress The Day Commodus Killed a Rhino Galla Placidia Rules
Maternal Megalomania
at the Twilight of the Empire
Understanding the Roman Games
Julia Domna and the Imperial Politics of Motherhood
Joyce E. Salisbury
Jerry Toner
Julie Langford
The page-turning account of Galla Placidia, a remarkable ruler at the twilight of the Roman Empire. 2015 248 pp. 11 halftones, 1 line drawing, 7 maps 978-1-4214-1700-4 $34.95 hc Also available as an e-book
“Provocative and original . . . Langford’s conclusions are daring and . . . mark out significant new territory in the study of the political culture Witness to Ancient History, of the High Empire.” — Bryn Gregory S. Aldrete, Series Editor Mawr Classical Review 2014 144 pp. 2013 232 pp., 30 b&w illus. 6 halftones, 2 line drawings 978-1-4214-0847-7 $58.00 hc 978-1-4214-1586-4 $19.95 pb Also available as an e-book Also available as an e-book
“Toner’s excellent new book provides the historical context for Ridley Scott’s emperorgladiator.” — History Today
Rome
Roman Literary Culture
Rome
The Annals of Quintus Ennius and the Italic Tradition
second edition
Fik Meijer
A Living Portrait of an Ancient City
Jay Fisher
Elaine Fantham
translated by Liz Waters
Stephen L. Dyson
“A fascinating study of the language of the first hexametric epic in Rome . . . I enjoyed and learned much in reading this fine monograph.” — Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2014 224 pp. 978-1-4214-1129-3 $69.95 hc Also available as an e-book
From Plautus to Macrobius
Chariot Racing in the Roman Empire
“An important work, full of “Readers will find an excellent learning, which serves sioverview of our knowledge multaneously to deepen our of ancient Roman chariot appreciation of Latin literature racing in this fairly short and in its social context, to provoke readable book.” — Bryn Mawr further exploration of the ques- Classical Review tions the author raises, and to 2010 208 pp. continue debate concerning 19 halftones, 3 line drawings, 2 maps certain of the answers.” 978-0-8018-9697-2 $32.00 hc — New England Classical Journal 2013 368 pp., 1 b&w illus. 978-1-4214-0836-1 $33.00 pb Also available as an e-book
The Latin Inscriptions of Rome A Walking Guide
Tyler Lansford “This exploration of Rome and “If this book is not slipped what happened there seeks into many a Rome-bound not only to examine the physisuitcase, there is no justice in cal and structural evolution of the world. I can think of few the city from earliest times more enjoyable companions until the early Christian era, on a prowl through the but also to explore its social city.” — Times Literary and cultural history.” — Oxbow Supplement Book News 2009 600 pp., 15 b&w illus., 2010 488 pp. 1 line drawing, 16 maps 28 halftones, 16 line drawings 978-0-8018-9150-2 $32.95 pb 978-0-8018-9254-7 $38.00 pb Also available as an e-book Also available as an e-book Johns Hopkins University Press 3
Greece
Athens Burning
Children and Childhood in Classical Athens
The Persian Invasion of Greece and the Evacuation of Attica
second edition
Robert Garland
Mark Golden
The gripping story of how the Athenians survived the Persian invasion of their homeland — one of the central events in ancient Greek history.
“A superb book, an important substantive and methodological contribution to the social history of ancient Athens and a model for comparable Witness to Ancient History, studies.” — American Historical Review Gregory S. Aldrete, Series Editor
2017 184 pp., 8 halftones, 6 maps 978-1-4214-2196-4 $19.95 pb Also available as an e-book
2015 272 pp., 17 halftones 978-1-4214-1686-1 $24.95 pb Also available as an e-book
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The Battle of Arginusae Victory at Sea and Its Tragic Aftermath in the Final Years of the Peloponnesian War Debra Hamel
Approaches to Greek Myth second edition
Women, Performance, and Labor in Ancient Greece
edited by Lowell Edmunds
Andromache Karanika
“Well organized, edited, and arranged, this text is of unquestioned value to all teachers of mythology, to the advanced student of the classics, and to the research Witness to Ancient History, scholar, a welcome resource Gregory S. Aldrete, Series Editor volume.”— Classical World
“A captivating account of the battle of Arginusae. A gripping read.” — Lawrence A. Tritle, author of A New History of the Peloponnesian War
2015 152 pp. 4 halftones, 4 line drawings, 4 maps 978-1-4214-1681-6 $19.95 pb Also available as an e-book
Voices at Work
2014 480 pp. 2 line drawings, 3 maps, 10 plates 978-1-4214-1419-5 $29.95 pb Also available as an e-book
“Drawing from a wealth of ancient and comparative sources, and harnessing a range of theoretical approaches, Karanika offers a landmark study of female labour and Greek poetics.” — Times Higher Education 2014 320 pp., 6 b&w photos 978-1-4214-1255-9 $59.95 hc Also available as an e-book
Greece
Reconstructing Ancient Linen Body Armor Unraveling the Linothorax Mystery Gregory S. Aldrete, Scott Bartell, and Alicia Aldrete “Essential for anyone interested in ancient warfare and/ or experimental archaeology, from academic to layman . . . a defining and valuable contribution to our understanding of the ancient world.” — Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2013 304 pp., 21 b&w illus., 16 line drawings, 8 color plates 978-1-4214-0819-4 $32.95 hc Also available as an e-book
The Poetics of Consent
Reading Herodotus
Collective Decision Making and the Iliad
A Guided Tour through the Wild Boars, Dancing Suitors, and Crazy Tyrants of The History
David F. Elmer “The book is exemplary in approaching large poetic and cultural issues through details of language and patterns of formulaic usage.” — American Journal of Philology 2012 336 pp. 978-1-4214-0826-2 $58.00 hc Also available as an e-book
Debra Hamel “Provides an accessible introduction both to Herodotus and to an exciting period of Greek history, which culminates in the Persian Wars.” — Timothy E. Duff, University of Reading 2012 360 pp. 5 halftones, 9 line drawings 978-1-4214-0656-5 $32.95 pb Also available as an e-book
The Lives of the Greek Poets
New in Paperback
The Birth of Comedy
second edition Mary R. Lefkowitz “A major book which aims at demolishing the underpinnings of much that has passed for Greek literary criticism . . . its proper application to classical studies will have a very positive effect.” — American Journal of Philology 2012 240 pp. 978-1-4214-0464-6 $28.00 pb
Texts, Documents, and Art from Athenian Comic Competitions, 486 –280 edited by Jeffrey Rusten translated by Jeffrey Henderson, David Konstan, Ralph Rosen, Jeffrey Rusten, and Niall W. Slater “A singularly ambitious and very welcome work.” — Times Literary Supplement 2011 816 pp. 42 halftones, 1 line drawing 978-1-4214-2118-6 $49.95 pb Also available as an e-book
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Translations from Antiquity
The Other Four Plays of Sophocles
Cut These Words into My Stone
Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, and Philoctetes
Ancient Greek Epitaphs
Sophocles
foreword by Richard P. Martin
translated by David R. Slavitt Famed translator David Slavitt lends his distinctly contemporary voice to four lesser-known plays of Sophocles. 2013 272 pp. 978-1-4214-1137-8 $22.95 pb Also available as an e-book
translated by Michael Wolfe “As you turn the pages of this modest-seeming book you begin to succumb to magic.” — The Anglo-Hellenic Review 2012 208 pp. 978-1-4214-0804-0 $27.95 pb Also available as an e-book
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The Orphic Hymns
The Iliad
translation, introduction, and notes by Apostolos N. Athanassakis and Benjamin M. Wolkow
Homer
Homer
translated by Edward McCrorie with an introduction and notes by Erwin F. Cook
translated by Edward McCrorie with an introduction and notes by Richard P. Martin
The only English translation of the mysterious and cosmic Greek poetry known as the Orphic Hymns. 2013 280 pp. 978-1-4214-0882-8 $29.95 pb Also available as an e-book
Edward McCrorie offers a new verse translation of the Iliad, capturing the meaning and music of Homer’s original Greek. Johns Hopkins New Translations from Antiquity 2012 552 pp., 1 line drawing 978-1-4214-0642-8 $28.00 pb Also available as an e-book
The Odyssey
“[As] close to the original as is possible without reading the original Greek. It is refreshing, accurate, and direct.” — Bloomsbury Review Johns Hopkins New Translations from Antiquity 2004 472 pp. 978-0-8018-8267-8 $24.00 pb Also available as an e-book
The Ancient World
Women’s Life in Greece and Rome
The Mediterranean World
Comic Democracies
A Source Book in Translation
From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Napoleon
From Ancient Athens to the American Republic
fourth edition Mary R. Lefkowitz and Maureen B. Fant The essential collection of source materials on the lives of women in the ancient world. 2016 496 pp., 40 b&w illus. 978-1-4214-2113-1 $32.00 pb
Women and War in Antiquity edited by Jacqueline Fabre-Serris and Alison Keith Women in ancient Greece and Rome played a much more active role in battle than previously assumed. 2015 360 pp., 13 halftones 978-1-4214-1762-2 $55.00 hc Also available as an e-book
Monique O’Connell and Eric R Dursteler “A magisterial book.” — Scott K. Taylor, University of Kentucky 2016 352 pp., 25 color illus., 68 halftones, 8 maps 978-1-4214-1901-5 $34.95 pb Also available as an e-book
New in Paperback
Cults and Conspiracies A Literary History Theodore Ziolkowski “Ziolkowski has read everything, taking even a 3,000page German novel in his stride, and summarizes and analyses his material fascinatingly for lesser mortals.” — Times Literary Supplement 2016 248 pp. 978-1-4214-2243-5 $24.95 pb Also available as an e-book
Angus Fletcher The forgotten history of comedy’s contribution to world democracy. 2016 224 pp. 978-1-4214-1934-3 $49.95 hc Also available as an e-book
Therapoetics after Actium Narrative, Medicine, and Authority in Augustan Epic Julia Nelson Hawkins A sophisticated account of the relationship between poetry and medical knowledge in the ancient world. 2015 352 pp., 2 halftones 978-1-4214-1730-1 $59.95 hc Also available as an e-book
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