JHUP Books in Ancient Studies 2016

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Ancient Studies 2015–2016

Rome

The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire From the First Century CE to the Third

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 272 pp.

10 line drawings, 15 maps 978-1-4214-1945-9 $29.95 pb Also available as an e-book

Patients and Healers in the High Roman Empire Ido Israelowich “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

Rome’s Christian Empress

The Day Commodus Killed a Rhino

Galla Placidia Rules at the Twilight of the Empire

Understanding the Roman Games

Joyce E. Salisbury

Jerry Toner

The page-turning account of Galla Placidia, a remarkable ruler at the twilight of the Roman Empire.

“Toner’s excellent new book provides the historical context for Ridley Scott’s emperor-gladiator.”

—History Today

2015 248 pp.

11 halftones, 1 line drawing, 7 maps 978-1-4214-1700-4 $34.95 hc Also available as an e-book

Witness to Ancient History Gregory S. Aldrete, Series Editor 2014 144 pp.

6 halftones, 2 line drawings 978-1-4214-1586-4 $19.95 pb Also available as an e-book

Johns Hopkins University Press

Maternal Megalomania Julia Domna and the Imperial Politics of Motherhood Julie Langford “Provocative and original . . .

Langford’s conclusions are daring and . . . mark out significant new territory in the study of the political culture of the High Empire.”—Bryn Mawr Classical Review

2013 232 pp., 30 b&w illus.

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

Rome

The Annals of Quintus Ennius and the Italic Tradition Jay Fisher “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

Roman Literary Culture From Plautus to Macrobius

second edition Elaine Fantham “An important work, full of learning, which serves simultaneously to deepen our appreciation of Latin literature in its social context, to provoke further exploration of the questions the author raises, and to continue debate concerning certain of the answers.”—New England Classical Journal

2013 368 pp., 1 b&w illus.

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

Rome

Chariot Racing in the Roman Empire Fik Meijer

A Living Portrait of an Ancient City

translated by Liz Waters

Stephen L. Dyson

“Readers will find an excellent overview of our knowledge of ancient Roman chariot racing in this fairly short and readable book.”—Bryn Mawr Classical Review

2010 208 pp.

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

“This exploration of Rome and what happened there seeks not only to examine the physical and structural evolution of the city from earliest times until the early Christian era, but also to explore its social and cultural history.”

—Oxbow Book News

2010 488 pp.

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

Johns Hopkins University Press

The Latin Inscriptions of Rome A Walking Guide Tyler Lansford “If this book is not slipped into many a Rome-bound suitcase, there is no justice in the world. I can think of few more enjoyable companions on a prowl through the city.”—Times Literary Supplement

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

Greece

Children and Childhood in Classical Athens second edition Mark Golden “A superb book, an important substantive and methodological contribution to the social history of ancient Athens and a model for comparable studies.”

—American Historical Review

2015 272 pp., 17 halftones 978-1-4214-1686-1 $24.95 pb Also available as an e-book

The Battle of Arginusae Victory at Sea and Its Tragic Aftermath in the Final Years of the Peloponnesian War Debra Hamel “A captivating account of the battle of Arginusae. A gripping read.”—Lawrence A. Tritle, author of A New History of the Peloponnesian War

Witness to Ancient History Gregory S. Aldrete, Series Editor 2015 152 pp.

4 halftones, 4 line drawings, 4 maps 978-1-4214-1681-6 $19.95 pb Also available as an e-book

Approaches to Greek Myth

Voices at Work

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 scholar, a welcome resource volume.”—Classical World

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. The book. . . offers important new insights into Greek poetry.”—Times Higher Education

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

Johns Hopkins University Press

Homeric Speech and the Origins of Rhetoric Rachel Ahern Knudsen Based on a close analysis of persuasive speeches in the Iliad, Knudsen argues that Homeric poetry displays a systematic and technical concept of rhetoric and that many Iliadic speakers in fact employ the rhetorical techniques put forward by Aristotle.

2014 248 pp., 3 line drawings 978-1-4214-1226-9 $49.95 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. . . 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 $29.95 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 $55.00 hc Also available as an e-book

Debra Hamel “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

The Lives of the Greek Poets 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 $25.00 pb

Johns Hopkins University Press

The Birth of Comedy 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 unique resource for the serious study of comedy, this book is vast in scope and of incalculable value for those who do not read Greek.”—Choice

2011 816 pp.

42 halftones, 1 line drawing 978-0-8018-9448-0 $110.00 hc

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 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 $19.95 pb Also available as an e-book

translated by Michael Wolfe foreword by Richard P. Martin The lively ancient epitaphs in this bilingual collection fit together like small mosaic tiles, forming a vivid portrait of Greek society.

2012 208 pp.

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

The Orphic Hymns

The Iliad

translation, introduction, and notes by Apostolos N. Athanassakis and Benjamin M. Wolkow

Homer

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

translated by Edward McCrorie with an introduction and notes by Erwin F. Cook 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 $25.00 pb Also available as an e-book

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Johns Hopkins University Press

The Odyssey Homer translated by Edward McCrorie with an introduction and notes by Richard P. Martin “[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 $22.00 pb Also available as an e-book

The Ancient World

Comic Democracies From Ancient Athens to the American Republic Angus Fletcher “An admirably ambitious and meaningfully interdisciplinary book. The breadth of knowledge on display here is impressive.”

—John Zumbrunnen, author of Aristophanic Comedy and the Challenge of Democratic Citizenship

2016 224 pp.

978-1-4214-1934-3 $49.95 hc Also available as an e-book

Women and War in Antiquity

Therapoetics after Actium

edited by Jacqueline Fabre-Serris and Alison Keith

Narrative, Medicine, and Authority in Augustan Epic Julia Nelson Hawkins

“Sheds important new light on “Hawkins skillfully demonstrates a complex issue while offering the profound ways in which penetrating interpretations at medical metaphor contributes the intersection of history and to the sociopolitical message of literature.”—Kurt Raaflaub, the Augustan epic.”—Gareth D. coeditor of Raymond Westbrook’s Williams, author of The Cosmic Ex Oriente Lex: Near Eastern Viewpoint: A Study of Seneca’s Influences on Ancient Greek and “Natural Questions” Roman Law

2015 360 pp., 13 halftones 978-1-4214-1762-2 $55.00 hc Also available as an e-book

2016 352 pp., 2 halftones 978-1-4214-1730-1 $59.95 hc Also available as an e-book

Ex Oriente Lex Near Eastern Influences on Ancient Greek and Roman Law Raymond Westbrook edited by Deborah Lyons and Kurt Raaflaub “Both experts and non-experts in the study of the ancient world are indebted to the editors for this splendid edition of Raymond Westbrook’s papers.”—Gregory Nagy, author of The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours

2015 288 pp.

978-1-4214-1467-6 $59.95 hc Also available as an e-book

Johns Hopkins University Press

Environmental Problems of the Greeks and Romans Ecology in the Ancient Mediterranean

second edition J. Donald Hughes “A significant contribution to understanding the relationship between classical civilization in the Mediterranean Basin and its contemporary natural environment during the period from 800 B.C. to 600 A.D.”—Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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

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