Classics Studies 2020

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Early Modern Aristotle

On the Making and Unmaking of Authority EVA DEL SOLDATO

In Early Modern Aristotle, Del Soldato contends that, because the authority of Aristotle—like that of any other ancient, including Plato—was a construct, it could be tailored and customized to serve agendas that were often in direct contrast to one another, at times even in open conflict with the very tenets of Peripatetic philosophy. Del Soldato investigates the ways in which the authority of Aristotle was exploited in a variety of contexts.

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS May 2020 6 illus. 320pp 9780812251968 £44.00 HB now £30.80

Democratic Law in Classical Athens MICHAEL GAGARIN

The democratic legal system created by the Athenians was completely controlled by ordinary citizens, with no judges, lawyers, or jurists involved. It placed great importance on the litigants’ rhetorical performances. Gagarin offers a new perspective for viewing a legal system that was democratic in a way only the Athenians could achieve. The Athenians, Gagarin shows, adhered to the law as they understood it, which was a set of principles more flexible than our current understanding allows and which probably produced just results as often as modern legal systems do.

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Greek Warfare beyond the Polis

Defense, Strategy, and the Making of Ancient Federal States DAVID A. BLOME

Greek Warfare beyond the Polis assesses the nature and broader significance of warfare in the mountains of classical Greece. Based on detailed reconstructions of four unconventional military encounters, the book argues that the upland Greeks of the classical mainland developed defensive strategies to guard against external aggression. Blome drives ancient Greek military history and ancient Greek scholarship "beyond the polis" into dialogue with each other.

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Platonism and Naturalism

The Possibility of Philosophy LLOYD P. GERSON

In his third and concluding volume, Lloyd P. Gerson presents an innovative account of Platonism, the central tradition in the history of philosophy, in conjunction with Naturalism, the “anti-Platonism” in antiquity and contemporary philosophy. Gerson contends that Platonism identifies philosophy with a distinct subject matter, namely, the intelligible world and seeks to show that the Naturalist rejection of Platonism entails the elimination of a distinct subject matter for philosophy.

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Ancient Greek Law in the 21st Century

Boiotia in the Fourth Century B.C.

EDITED BY PAULA PERLMAN

EDITED BY SAMUEL D. GARTLAND

Ancient Greek Law in the 21st Century charts new directions for the study of Greek law in the twenty-first century through contributions from eleven leading scholars. This edited volume covers central debates in the field, redefines substantive areas of law, and evaluates a number of methdological approaches to the study of Ancient Greek law.

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The first book to examine Boiotia in depth over the whole of the 4th century B.C., rather than turning away from the region following the Macedonian victory at Chaironeia in 338 B.C., or the destruction of Thebes.

Offers a new historical vision based on recent archaeological work and the discovery of new material evidence.

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS February 2017 38 illus. 248pp 9780812248807 £56.00 HB now £39.20

Ancient States and Infrastructural Power

Sexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome KIRK ORMAND

Europe, Asia, and America EDITED BY CLIFFORD ANDO & SETH RICHARDSON

Controlling Desires

Since its first publication this book has been widely lauded as an accessible introduction to sexual practices in the While ancient states are often classical world. Treating Greece and characterized in terms of the powers Rome in separate sections, Ormand that they claimed to possess, Ancient presents a wide array of evidence from States and Infrastructural Power argues literary texts and visual arts, including that they were in fact fundamentally two new chapters on Greek vase weak. This book examines how early painting and Roman artifacts and wall states built their territorial, legal, and paintings. political powers before they had the UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS capabilities to enforce them.

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UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS Series: Empire and After July 2017 20 illus. 320pp TRANSLATED BY EDWARD M. HARRIS 9780812249316 £60.00 HB now £42.00 This volume provides introductions, translations, and notes for speeches

Demosthenes, Speeches 23-26

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from the Demosthenic corpus. These translations are designed for the needs of today’s undergraduates, Greekless scholars in other disciplines, and the general public. In the first two speeches, the litigants stress the importance of the rule of law. The remaining two are forgeries from the Hellenistic period.

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS Series: The Oratory of Classical Greece February 2018 306pp 9781477313527 £18.99 PB now £13.29

From Plato to Platonism LLOYD P. GERSON

Was Plato a Platonist? While ancient disciples of Plato would have answered this question in the affirmative, modern scholars have generally denied that Plato’s own philosophy was in substantial agreement with that of the Platonists of succeeding centuries.

Lloyd P. Gerson argues that the ancients were correct in their assessment, challenging fundamental assumptions about how Plato’s teachings have come to be understood.

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Herodotus and the Question Why CHRISTOPHER PELLING

In the 5th century B.C.E., Herodotus wrote the first known history to break from the tradition of Homeric storytelling, basing his text on empirical

observations and arranging them systematically. Pelling examines the methods behind the Histories and the challenge of documenting human experiences, from the Persian Wars to cultural traditions.

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contains three Romes: Christian Rome, the pagan Rome of the historian Titus Livy, and the Rome of Machiavelli’s imagination.

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The Greek Sanctuary at Pantanello JOSEPH COLEMAN CARTER & KEITH SWIFT

This volume is a study of the Greek sanctuary at Pantanello. This is the first Greek rural sanctuary in southern Italy that has been fully excavated and Rhapsodes, Narrators, and exhaustively documented. Its evidence Characters Ovid’s Erotic Poems offers a modern offers unparalleled insights into the EDITED BY JONATHAN READY & English translation of the Amores and development of cults and of Greek Ars Amatoria that retains the irreverent CHRISTOS TSAGALIS material culture between the seventh wit and verve of the original. AwardBreaks new ground covering all and third centuries B.C. winning poet Len Krisak captures the speakers involved in the performance UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS music of Ovid’s richly textured Latin of Homeric poetry: rhapsodes, March 2018 1744pp meters through rhyming couplets that narrators, and characters. Contributors 9781477314234 £159.00 HB now render the verse as playful and agile as to this volume include scholars from £111.30 it was meant to be. across an expansive spectrum of the UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS humanities. The interdisciplinary October 2014 232pp approach makes this volume an indispenable guide to readers from new 9780812246254 £26.99 HB now £18.89 undergraduates to veteran professors.

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BY A. M. JUSTER, INTRODUCTION BY August 2018 8 b&w photos, 4 b&w Comparative Approaches to Greek MICHAEL ROBERTS maps 440pp and Phoenician Art A. M. Juster presents a faithful, poetic 9781477316030 £44.00 HB now £30.80 translation of the elegies of S. REBECCA MARTIN Argues that art is especially positioned Maximianus, “last of the Roman poets.”

This comprehensive volume includes an to revise conventional accountings of introduction by renowned classicist the history of Greek-Phoenician interaction. Explicating the relationship Michael Roberts, the first English Religion, Human Liberty, and translation of an additional six poems between theory, method, and Politics Reformed attributed to Maximianus, and the first interpretation, this book destabilizes VICKIE B. SULLIVAN commentary in English on the elegies categories such as orientalism and Some scholars insist that Machiavelli is Hellenism and offers fresh perspectives since 1900. a Christian, others that he is a pagan. In UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS on Greek and Phoenician art history. this illuminating study, Sullivan shows February 2018 240pp UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS that Machiavelli’s political thought May 2017 38 color, 59 b/w illus. 320pp 9780812249798 £52.00 HB now £36.40

Homer in Performance

Ovid’s Erotic Poems

“Amores” and “Ars Amatoria” OVID, TRANSLATED BY LEN KRISAK, INTRODUCTION BY SARAH RUDEN

The Elegies of Maximianus

The Art of Contact

Machiavelli’s Three Romes

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The Mind of Thucydides JACQUELINE DE ROMILLY, INTRODUCTION BY HUNTER R. RAWLINGS III & JEFFREY RUSTEN, TRANSLATED BY ELIZABETH TRAPNELL RAWLINGS

First published in France in 1956 and now available in English for the first time, this narratological analysis of Thucydides’s “History of the Peloponnesian War” highlights the power and sophistication of the Greek historian’s rhetoric. Thucydides uses rigorous principles of selection, suggestive juxtapositions, and artfully opposed speeches to reveal systematic relationships between plans and outcomes and impose meaning on the smallest events.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Cornell Studies in Classical Philology December 2017 216pp 9781501714825 £15.99 PB now £11.19

The Oratory of Classical Greece Collected Set EDITED BY MICHAEL GAGARIN

This series presents all of the surviving speeches from the late fifth and fourth centuries B.C. in new translations prepared by leading classical scholars.

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS Series: The Oratory of Classical Greece May 2018 1000pp 9781477314722 £199.00 PB now £139.30

The Rhetoric of Seeing in Attic Forensic Oratory PETER A. O’CONNELL

Offering new interpretations of Athenian forensic speeches, this book shows how litigants turned the jurors’ scrutiny in courts of law to their advantage by manipulating their sense of sight. Drawing on ancient rhetorical theories about performance, seeing, and knowledge as well as modern legal discourse analysis, this deepens our understanding of Athenian notions of visuality.

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comprehensive English-language overview of the history and archaeology of Roman Sicily since R. J. A. Wilson’s Sicily under the Roman Empire (1990). Laura Pfuntner traces the development of cities and settlement networks in Sicily in order to understand the island’s political, economic, social, and cultural role in Rome’s evolving Mediterranean hegemony.

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Veii EDITED BY JACOPO TABOLLI & ORLANDO CERASUOLO

Reputed to be the richest city of Etruria, Veii was one of the most important cities in the ancient Mediterranean world. The most complete volume on the city in English, EDITED BY GREGORY CLAEYS & LYMAN this title presents the research and interpretations of multiple generations TOWER SARGENT of Etruscan scholars who are at the The Utopia Reader compiles primary forefront of the discipline. This texts from a variety of authors and movements in the history of theorizing pioneering research offers a new utopias. The volume includes texts from understanding of the development of Veii and its territory from the late classical Greek literature, the Old Bronze Age to the Roman conquest.

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The Utopia Reader, Second Edition

Urbanism and Empire in Roman Sicily LAURA PFUNTNER

This book offers the first

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