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Voices at Work Women, Performance, and Labor in Ancient Greece

Reconstructing Ancient Linen Body Armor

Andromache Karanika

Unraveling the Linothorax Mystery Gregory S. Aldrete, Scott Bartell, and Alicia Aldrete

“Voices at Work is ambitious and original in its subject matter and scope and will complement the steady stream of scholarship on gender,

“Essential for anyone interested in ancient

women’s performances, and female speech in

warfare and/or experimental archaeology,

ancient Greece.”—Laura Kathleen McClure,

from academic to layman, and is a defining and

University of Wisconsin

valuable contribution to our understanding of

2014 320 pp., 6 b&w photos 978-1-4214-1255-9 $59.95 hc Also available as an e-book

Review

the ancient world.”—Bryn Mawr Classical

2013 304 pp.

21 b&w illus., 16 line drawings, 8 color plates 978-1-4214-0819-4 $29.95 hc Also available as an e-book

Homeric Speech and the Origins of Rhetoric

The Poetics of Consent

Rachel Ahern Knudsen

Collective Decision Making and the Iliad

Knudsen believes that the academic distinction between poetry and rhetoric should be challenged. Based on a close analysis of persuasive

David F. Elmer “Elmer achieves what is harder and harder to do—he makes totally new points about our

speeches in the Iliad, Knudsen argues that

oldest Greek compositions, as he convincingly

Homeric poetry displays a systematic and

tracks the theme of consent throughout the

technical concept of rhetoric and that many

Iliad and demonstrates how it structures the

Iliadic speakers in fact employ the rhetorical

entire poem. This is one of the most important

techniques put forward by Aristotle.

books on Homer in decades.”—Richard Martin,

2014 248 pp., 3 line drawings 978-1-4214-1226-9 $49.95 hc Also available as an e-book

Stanford University 2012 336 pp.

978-1-4214-0826-2 $55.00 hc

Pythagorean Women

Reading Herodotus

Their History and Writings

A Guided Tour through the Wild Boars, Dancing Suitors, and Crazy Tyrants of The History

Sarah B. Pomeroy “A book about Pythagorean women is sorely needed and long overdue. Pomeroy rectifies that situation and could fill large gaps not only in the

Also available as an e-book

Debra Hamel “Hamel presents Herodotus and his material in

social history of Pythagoreanism but more generally in the history of the lives of these women, including their intellectual lives.”—Pamela Gordon, University of Kansas 2013 200 pp., 9 halftones, 3 line drawings 978-1-4214-0956-6 $49.95 hc Also available as an e-book

an original, illuminating, and entertaining way.

By leading the reader through Herodotus’s text from beginning to end, the book 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 $29.95 pb Also available as an e-book

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The Lives of the Greek Poets

Plato’s Political Philosophy

second edition

Mark Blitz “Blitz’s book. . . clearly contains the fruits of

Mary R. Lefkowitz Lefkowitz has extensively revised and rewritten her 1981 classic to introduce a new generation of students to the lives of the Greek poets.

Thoroughly updated with references to the most recent scholarship, this second edition includes new material and fresh analysis of the ancient

many years of thoughtful reflection on Plato’s philosophy, and there is much that a discerning reader might learn from it.”—International

Journal of the Classical Tradition 2010 336 pp.

978-0-8018-9765-8 $24.95 pb Also available as an e-book

biographies of Greece’s most famous poets.

The Birth of Comedy

2012 240 pp.

978-1-4214-0464-6 $25.00 pb

Texts, Documents, and Art from Athenian Comic Competitions, 486–280

Financing the Athenian Fleet

edited by Jeffrey Rusten

Public Taxation and Social Relations

translated by Jeffrey Henderson, David Konstan, Ralph Rosen, Jeffrey Rusten, and Niall W. Slater

Vincent Gabrielsen

“The Birth of Comedy is a singularly ambitious

“All will appreciate the significance of Gabrielsen’s book, for he has demonstrated,

and very welcome work.”—Times Literary

more clearly than his predecessors in the study

Supplement

of the trierarchy, the delicate balance between

2011 816 pp., 42 halftones, 1 line drawing 978-0-8018-9448-0 $110.00 hc

the state and the ‘private sector’ in this supreme military installation.”—American Historical

Review 2010 328 pp.

978-0-8018-9815-0 $35.00 pb Also available as an e-book

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Rome

The Annals of Quintus Ennius and the Italic Tradition

From Plautus to Macrobius

Roman Literary Culture

Jay Fisher

second edition

Fisher argues that Ennius does not simply

Elaine Fantham

translate Homeric models into Latin, but

In this expanded edition, Fantham broadens

blends Greek poetic models with Italic

the scope of her study to include the work

diction to produce a poetic hybrid. His

of Cicero and Varro as well as Pagan and

investigation uncovers a poem that blends

Christian literature in the fourth and fifth

foreign and familiar cultural elements in

centuries.

order to generate layers of meaning for his Roman audience.

2013 368 pp., 1 b&w illus.

978-1-4214-0836-1 $30.00 pb Also available as an e-book

2014 224 pp.

978-1-4214-1129-3 $69.95 hc Also available as an e-book

The Empire of the Self

Maternal Megalomania

Self-Command and Political Speech in Seneca and Petronius

Julia Domna and the Imperial Politics of Motherhood

Christopher Star

Julie Langford

“This [review] can hardly do justice to the

“Langford successfully uses an extremely

scope and richness of Star’s argument in each chapter, to the thoroughness with

important methodology to illuminate facts

which he discusses his chosen texts, and

about not only what happened but also how

to the creativity with which he exploits

events and policies were advertised to the

his simultaneous treatments of Seneca

subjects of the Empire. She does an excel-

and Petronius. This book makes a major

lent job of presenting Julia Domna as a case

contribution to the modern bibliography of

study of how this communication worked

selfhood and self-formation in the early

during a tumultuous time—just as the new

empire, and it will doubtless generate

Severan dynasty was being founded.”

—Brian K. Harvey, Kent State University 2013 232 pp., 30 b&w illus.

978-1-4214-0847-7 $55.00 hc Also available as an e-book

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further debate in so vibrant an area of study.”—Classical Journal 2012 312 pp.

978-1-4214-0674-9 $65.00 hc Also available as an e-book

Chariot Racing in the Roman Empire

The Latin Inscriptions of Rome

Fik Meijer

Tyler Lansford

A Walking Guide

translated by Liz Waters

“If this book is not slipped into many a Rome-bound suitcase, there is no justice

Following close on the heels of his successful book on gladiators, Meijer reveals

in the world. I can think of few more enjoy-

all there is to know about chariot racing in

able companions on a prowl through the

the Roman Empire. From the length of the

city.”—Times Literary Supplement

track and the need to ride small horses, to the risks, techniques, and training methods involved in racing, Meijer recreates ancient

2009 600 pp., 15 b&w illus., 1 line drawing, 16 maps 978-0-8018-9150-2 $29.95 pb Also available as an e-book

Rome’s favorite pastime in impressive

Rome and the Barbarians, 100 B.C.–A.D. 400

detail.

2010 208 pp., 19 halftones, 3 line drawings, 2 maps 978-0-8018-9697-2 $29.95 hc

Thomas S. Burns “Anyone who has struggled to convey to a class the manifold ways in which the

Rome

establishment of a legionary fortress

A Living Portrait of an Ancient City

revolutionized the life of a region will envy

Stephen L. Dyson

Burns’ pedagogical fluency.”—Bryn Mawr

“This book successfully manages to link

Classical Review

the tangible remains to the wider themes

2009 480 pp., 12 halftones, 6 maps 978-0-8018-9270-7 $31.00 pb Also available as an e-book

of Roman history.”—Journal of Roman

Studies 2010 488 pp., 28 halftones, 16 line drawings 978-0-8018-9254-7 $35.00 pb Also available as an e-book

Examination copies

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Translations from Antiquity

The Iliad

The Other Four Plays of Sophocles

Homer

Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, and Philoctetes

translated by Edward McCrorie with an introduction and notes by Erwin F. Cook

Sophocles translated by David R. Slavitt

“The energetic and rhythmic translation is quite faithful to the original.”—Choice

Famed translator David Slavitt lends his distinctly contemporary voice to four lesser-known plays of Sophocles.

2012 552 pp., 1 line drawing 978-1-4214-0642-8 $25.00 pb Also available as an e-book

2013 272 pp.

978-1-4214-1137-8 $19.95 pb Also available as an e-book

The Odyssey Homer

translated by Edward McCrorie with an introduction and notes

by Richard P. Martin

Cut These Words into My Stone Ancient Greek Epitaphs translated by Michael Wolfe foreword by Richard P. Martin

“Refreshing, accurate, and direct.”

—Bloomsbury Review

“This pleasing volume should introduce a

2005 472 pp.

978-0-8018-8267-8 $22.00 pb Also available as an e-book

new generation of general readers to the important poetic tradition of the ancient Greek grave epigram.”—Choice

The Theban Plays

2012 208 pp.

978-1-4214-0804-0 $24.95 pb Also available as an e-book

Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone

The Orphic Hymns

translated, with notes and an introduction, by Ruth Fainlight and Robert J. Littman

Sophocles translation, introduction, and notes

by Apostolos N. Athanassakis and Benjamin M. Wolkow

“These graceful translations are quite

The only English translation of the mysterious and cosmic Greek poetry known as the Orphic Hymns.

2013 280 pp.

978-1-4214-0882-8 $22.95 pb Also available as an e-book

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appealing.”—Mouseion: Journal of

Classical Association of Canada 2009

284 pp., 1 line drawing, 1 map, 1 chart

978-0-8018-9134-2 $18.95 pb Also available as an e-book

The Ancient World

Lure of the Arcane

Environmental Problems of the Greeks and Romans

The Literature of Cult and Conspiracy

Ecology in the Ancient Mediterranean

Theodore Ziolkowski Fascination with the arcane is a driving

second edition

force in this comprehensive survey of

J. Donald Hughes Hughes examines the environmental history of the classical period and argues that the

conspiracy fiction. Ziolkowski traces the evolution of cults, orders, lodges, secret societies, and conspiracies through various

decline of ancient civilizations resulted in

literary manifestations from Euripides’s

part from their exploitation of the natural

Bacchae to the thrillers of the twenty-first

world.

century.

2014 320 pp., 44 halftones 978-1-4214-1211-5 $27.95 pb Also available as an e-book

2013 248 pp.

978-1-4214-0958-0 $39.95 hc Also available as an e-book

Origins of Mathematical Words

Disciples of the Desert

A Comprehensive Dictionary of Latin, Greek, and Arabic Roots

Monks, Laity, and Spiritual Authority in Sixth-Century Gaza

Anthony Lo Bello

Jennifer L. Hevelone-Harper

The most comprehensive math root diction-

“An important contribution and a wel-

ary ever published explains the origins of

come addition to the burgeoning study of

mathematical terms such as ergodic, biholo-

Palestinian monasticism in general and

morphic, and strophoid.

of Gaza in particular.”—Religious

2013 368 pp.

978-1-4214-1098-2 $49.95 pb Also available as an e-book

Studies Review 2005 224 pp., 3 halftones 978-1-4214-1386-0 $34.95 pb

Ordained Women in the Early Church A Documentary History edited and translated by Kevin Madigan and Carolyn Osiek “An invaluable resource for all who are interested in the historical evidence relating to the ordination of women as deacons and presbyters in the early centuries up to roughly the sixth century.”—Review of

Biblical Literature 2005 240 pp., 14 halftones, 2 maps 978-1-4214-0037-2 $30.00 pb Also available as an e-book

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