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Classical Studies The Retrospective Muse

Pathways through Ancient Greek Literature and Culture Froma I. Zeitlin

Foreword by Simon Goldhill Over many decades, Zeitlin's innovative studies have changed the field of classics. Her instantly recognizable work brings together anthropology, gender studies, cultural studies, and an acute literary sensibility to open ancient texts and ideas to new forms of understanding. A selection of her luminous essays on topics still timely today are collected for the first time in a volume that shows the full range and flair of her remarkable intellect.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Myth and Poetics II December 2023 6 b&w halftones 426pp 9781501772962 £51.00 HB now £35.70

Plato's "Letters"

The Political Challenges of the Philosophic Life Plato

Translated by Ariel Helfer In Plato's "Letters", Ariel Helfer provides to readers, for the first time, a highly literal translation of the Letters, complete with extensive notes on historical context and issues of manuscript transmission. Plato's "Letters" recovers and rehabilitates what has been until now a minority view concerning the Letters, according to which this misunderstood Platonic text will be of tremendous new importance for the study of Platonic political philosophy.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Agora Editions December 2023 318pp 9781501772894 £38.00 HB now £26.60

Embattled

How Ancient Greek Myths Empower Us to Resist Tyranny Emily Katz Anhalt As tyrannical passions plague twenty-first-century politics, ancient Greek epics and tragedies provide a vital antidote. Classicist Emily Katz Anhalt retells tales from key ancient Greek texts and interprets the important messages they hold, showing how their lessons can help us to eradicate tyranny in all its toxic forms.

STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS September 2021 320pp 9781503628564 £29.99 HB now £20.99

Sexual Labor in the Athenian Courts Allison Glazebrook

Oratory is a valuable source for reconstructing the practices, legalities, and attitudes surrounding sexual labor in classical Athens. Examining five key speeches, Allison Glazebrook shows how sex laborers represented diverse anxieties concerning social legitimacy and how the public discourse about them is in fact a discourse on Athenian society.

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS December 2021 4 maps 240pp 9781477324400 £49.00 HB now £34.30

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Before Writing, Vol. I

From Counting to Cuneiform Denise Schmandt-Besserat Before Writing gives a new perspective on the evolution of communication. It points out that when writing began in Mesopotamia it was not, as previously thought, a sudden and spontaneous invention. Instead, it was the outgrowth of many thousands of years' worth of experience at manipulating symbols.

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS December 2022 162 b&w, 31ld, 6 tables, 16 charts 284pp 9781477325766 £45.00 PB now £31.50

Bronze Monsters and the Cultures of Wonder

Flooded Pasts

UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology William Carruthers "Today, as one witnesses the violence being inflicted upon modern-day Cairo (also under the guise of the state's modernization and developmental projects), with certain histories deemed insignificant and cursorily erased and others being cheaply promoted with pomp (e.g., the mummy parade; the sphinx avenue celebrations), Flooded Pasts could not be a more timely contribution."-The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS December 2022 29 b&w halftones, 2 maps 336pp 9781501766442 £54.00 HB now £37.80

Griffin Cauldrons in the Preclassical Mediterranean Nassos Papalexandrou

Hearing, Sound, and the Auditory in Ancient Greece

In the eighth and seventh centuries BCE, bronze cauldrons featuring the image of the griffin, a mythical monster, were imported from the Near East into the Mediterranean.

Nassos Papalexandrou takes the griffin cauldrons as case studies in the shifting material and visual universes of preclassical antiquity.

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"The essays in Hearing, Sound, and the Auditory in Ancient Greece share an attention to hearing as something philosophically significant across numerous texts and figures in ancient Greek philosophy...This thematic focus allows for the authors to address the connection to a range of phenomena of interest to philosophers: logos, sense-perception, silence, crowd noise, the experience of pain. The collection as a whole makes for fascinating reading."—Robert Metcalf, University of Colorado Denver INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS

November 2021 46 b&w photos, 11 b&w illus., 1 b&w map 320pp 9781477323618 £49.00 HB now £34.30

City of Saints

Rebuilding Rome in the Early Middle Ages Maya Maskarinec Winner of the 2019 Hagiography Society Book Prize Examines how Rome interacted with the Mediterranean world in the Byzantine period, documenting Rome’s spectacular physical transformation during this period.

The analysis covers 500-900AD, when the city’s ties to the Byzantine world weakened, and Rome’s political and economic orbits moved toward the Carolingian world.

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS Series: The Middle Ages Series November 2022 21 color, 33 b&w illus. 320pp 9781512823721 £40.00 PB now £28.00

Edited by Jill Gordon

Series: Studies in Continental Thought September 2022 1 b&w illus 424pp 9780253062826 £45.00 PB now £31.50

Households in Context

Dwelling in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt Edited by Caitlín Eilís Barrett & Jennifer Carrington Households in Context shifts the focus from monumental temples, tombs, and elite material and visual culture to households and domestic life to provide a crucial new perspective on everyday dwelling practices and the interactions of families and individuals with larger social and cultural structures.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS January 2024 33 b&w halftones, 30 b&w line drawings, 4 maps, 6 charts 368pp 9781501771309 £32.00 PB now £22.40

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Incidental Archaeologists

Reclaiming the Past

In Incidental Archaeologists, Bonnie Effros examines the archaeological contributions of nineteenth-century French military officers, who, raised on classical accounts of warfare and often trained as cartographers, developed an interest in the Roman remains they encountered when commissioned in the colony of Algeria.

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Reclaiming the Past examines the postantique history of Argos and how the city's archaeological remains have been perceived and experienced since the late eighteenth century by both local residents and foreign visitors to the Greek Peloponnese.

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French Officers and the Rediscovery of Roman North Africa Bonnie Effros

December 2021 42 b&w halftones, 1 map 396pp 9781501761676 £29.99 PB now £20.99

Kainua (Marzabotto) Edited by Elisabetta Govi

"The material in Kainua (Marzabotto) is a gold mine for archaeologists and students of ancient architectural history as well as for Etruscologists. The work of Elisabetta Govi and her predecessor, Giuseppe Sassatelli, has gone a long way toward making Marzabotto understood as a more complex place than it had originally been thought to be. This is the first comprehensive study in English of this critically important gateway Etruscan community of the Bologna area." - David Soren, editor emeritus of Etruscan Studies UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS Series: Cities and Communities of the Etruscans May 2023 280pp 9781477326626 £49.00 HB now £34.30

Ovid's Tragic Heroines

Gender Abjection and Generic CodeSwitching Jessica A. Westerhold Ovid's Tragic Heroines expands our understanding of Ovid's incorporation of Greek generic codes and the tragic heroines, Phaedra and Medea, while offering a new perspective on the Roman poet's persistent interest in these two characters and their paradigms. Ovid presents these two Attic tragic heroines as symbols of different passions that are defined by the specific combination of their gender and generic provenance.

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Argos and Its Archaeological Heritage in the Modern Era Jonathan M. Hall

December 2021 21 b&w halftones, 2 maps 264pp 9781501760532 £45.00 HB now £31.50

Religion in the Art of Archaic and Classical Greece Tyler Jo Smith

Richly illustrated with 245 halftones and seventeen color plates of mostly smallscale objects, Religion in the Art of Archaic and Classical Greece examines what objects and images can tell us about the experiences and impressions of ancient Greek religion.

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS June 2021 16 color, 216 b&w illus. 476pp 9780812252811 £81.00 HB now £56.70

Roma Traversata

Tracing Historic Pathways through Rome Allan Ceen Roma Traversata analyzes pathways to decipher the complexity of Rome's urban layout. Nearly all of the prehistoric country paths converging on what was to become the Roman Forum (the ancient city center) are still traceable in the modern city. To these were added other major streets in ancient times. Additional Medieval and Renaissance streets developed the city further as its center shifted from the Forum toward the Vatican. Some of these provided the framework for Rome's late 19th century urban development.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS November 2022 383 b&w halftones, 50 color halftones 272pp 9781501762901 £36.00 PB now £25.20

July 2023 1 b&w halftone 228pp 9781501770357 £45.00 HB now £31.50

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Saeculum

Unfinished Christians

How the notion of unique eras influenced the Roman view of time and the narration of history from various perspectives. Hay returns to Rome in the first century BCE to glimpse the beginnings of periodization as it is still commonly practiced. Saeculum describes nothing less than an intellectual and cognitive revolution, that fundamentally reorganized the meanings of history and time.

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What can we know about the everyday experiences of Christians during the fourth, fifth, and sixth centuries? Unfinished Christians explores the sensory and affective dimensions of ordinary Christians who assembled for rituals. With precious few first-person accounts by common Christians, it relies on written sources not typically associated with lived religion: sermons, liturgical instruction books, and festal hymns.

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Defining Historical Eras in Ancient Roman Thought Paul Hay

August 2023 280pp 9781477327395 £49.00 HB now £34.30

The Essential Isocrates Jon D. Mikalson

In Mikalson’s treatment, Isocrates receives his due not only as a major thinker but as one whose work has resonated across time, influencing even modern education practices and theory. The foundational writings of Isocrates, newly translated and placed in historical context, invites general and expert readers alike to engage with one of antiquity’s most compelling men of ideas.

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS July 2022 240pp 9781477325520 £40.00 HB now £28.00

The Return of the Absent Father

A New Reading of a Chain of Stories from the Babylonian Talmud Haim Weiss & Shira Stav Translated by Batya Stein Offers a new reading of stories from tractate Ketubot in the Babylonian Talmud in which sages abandon their homes and families to study. The authors focus on the relations between fathers and children to reveal a complex tension between mundane domesticity and the sphere of spiritual learning.

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS Series: Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion February 2022 176pp 9780812253634 £45.00 HB now £31.50

Ritual Objects and Silent Subjects in Late Antiquity Georgia Frank

February 2023 none 208pp 9781512823950 £54.00 HB now £37.80

Western Self-Contempt Oikophobia in the Decline of Civilizations Benedict Beckeld

Western Self-Contempt travels through civilizations since antiquity, examining major political events and literature of ancient Greece, Rome, France, Britain, and the United States, to study evidence of cultural self-hatred and its cyclical recurrence.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS May 2022 264pp 9781501763182 £27.99 HB now £19.59

Women's Lives, Women's Voices Roman Material Culture and Female Agency in the Bay of Naples Edited by Brenda Longfellow & Molly Swetnam-Burland

Literary evidence is often silent about the lives of women in antiquity, particularly those from the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. In this collection, an outstanding group of scholars gives voice to both the elite and ordinary women living on the Bay of Naples before the eruption of Vesuvius.

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS November 2021 408pp 9781477323588 £49.00 HB now £34.30

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