University of Chicago Press 2023 Ancient Studies Catalog

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Populus

Living and Dying in Ancient Rome Guy de la Bédoyère

This revealing look at life in ancient Rome offers a compelling journey through the vivid landscape of politics, domestic life, entertainment, and inequality experienced daily by Romans of all social strata.

2024 496 p. 6 x 9 32 color plates, 3 halftones 1 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-83294-4 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00 Also of Interest: Gladius, Page 3

So Much Stuff

How Humans Discovered Tools, Invented Meaning, and Made More of Everything Chip Colwell

How humans became so dependent on things and how this need has grown dangerously out of control.

2023 304 p. 6 x 9 60 halftones 3 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-80142-1 $29.00 Your Price: $20.30 Also of interest: Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits, Page 5

Tools and the Organism

Technology and the Body in Ancient Greek and Roman Medicine Colin Webster

The first book to show how the concept of bodily organs emerged and how ancient tools influenced conceptualizations of human anatomy and its operations.

2023 320 p. 6 x 9 23 halftones 2 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82877-0 $45.00 Your Price: $31.50

Rome as a Guide to the Good Life A Philosophical Grand Tour Scott Samuelson

A unique, portable guidebook that sketches Rome’s great philosophical tradition while also providing an engaging travel companion to the city.

2023 272 p. 51/2 x 81/2 14 color plates, 2 halftones 4 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-78004-7 $20.00 Your Price: $14.00

Inventing the Alphabet

The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present Johanna Drucker

The first comprehensive intellectual history of alphabet studies.

2022 384 p. 7 x 10 100 halftones 5 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-81581-7 $40.00 Your Price: $28.00

Nominal Things

Bronzes in the Making of Medieval China Jeffrey Moser

How the medieval study of ancient bronzes influenced the production of knowledge and the making of things in East Asia.

2023 336 p. 7 x 10 50 color plates, 28 halftones 7 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82246-4 $50.00 Your Price: $35.00

The Art of Terrestrial Diagrams in Early China Michelle H. Wang

A study of early Chinese maps using interdisciplinary methods.

2023 256 p. 7 x 10 46 color plates, 15 halftones 6 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82746-9 $55.00 Your Price: $38.50

The Connected Iron Age

Interregional Networks in the Eastern Mediterranean, 900-600 BCE Edited by Jonathan M. Hall and James F. Osborne

An interdisciplinary consideration of how eastern Mediterranean cultures in the first millennium BCE were meaningfully connected.

2022 272 p. 6 x 9 40 halftones 8 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-81904-4 $45.00 Your Price: $31.50

Homer

Seneca

James I. Porter

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The story of our ongoing fascination with Homer, the man and the myth.

A selection of Seneca’s most significant letters that illuminate his philosophical and personal life.

The Very Idea

2023 280 p. 6 x 9 9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-67590-9 $19.00 Your Price: $13.30

Gladius

The World of the Roman Soldier Guy de la Bédoyère

Gladius delivers a stunning ground-level recreation of what it was like to be a soldier in the fighting force that made the Roman Empire.

2022 526 p. 6 x 9 34 color plates, 4 maps 11 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82390-4 $19.00 Your Price: $13.30

Fifty Letters of a Roman Stoic

2021 320 p. 51/2 x 81/2 10 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-78293-5 $16.00 Your Price: $11.20

The Making of a King

Antigonus Gonatas of Macedon and the Greeks Robin Waterfield

Waterfield takes us to third century BCE Greece, writing the first book in more than a century to tell in full the story of Macedonian king Antigonus Gonatas.

2021 296 p. 6 x 9 16 halftones, 8 maps 12 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-61137-2 $27.50 Your Price: $19.25

The Complete Tragedies, Volume 1

The Aeneid

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

2022 480 p. 6 x 9 2 halftones 14 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81728-6 $18.00 Your Price: $12.60

Medea, The Phoenician Women, Phaedra, The Trojan Women, Octavia The first of two volumes collecting the complete tragedies of Seneca.

Virgil

Updated English edition of Virgil’s Aeneid with new introduction and glossary.

2022 274 p. 51/2 x 81/2 13 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82109-2 $19.00 Your Price: $13.30

The Complete Tragedies, Volume 2

Oedipus, Hercules Mad, Hercules on Oeta, Thyestes, Agamemnon Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The second of two volumes collecting the complete tragedies of Seneca.

2022 320 p. 51/2 x 81/2 15 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82108-5 $19.00 Your Price: $13.30

Egyptomania

A History of Fascination, Obsession and Fantasy Ronald H. Fritze

Egyptomania excavates our enduring enthrallment with the land of the pharaohs and Great Pyramids—from Napoleon’s motives for invasion to the global fascination with King Tutankhamun.

Distributed for Reaktion Books 2021 448 p. 61/4 x 91/4 50 halftones 16 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-348-5 $20.00 Your Price: $14.00

Hijrah

Tibetan Mustang

Edited by Idries Trevathan

Luigi Fieni and Kenneth Parker

A unique retelling of the famous Hijrah story through the landscape and previously unseen artifacts from collections around Saudi Arabia.

Words and photographs evoke the remote beauty of Nepal’s Mustang region.

In the Footsteps of the Prophet

Distributed for Hirmer Publishers 2022 240 p. 91/2 x 113/4 167 color plates 17 Cloth ISBN: 978-3-7774-3996-9 $70.00 Your Price: $49.00

Laughing Shall I Die

Lives and Deaths of the Great Vikings Tom Shippey

Laughing Shall I Die presents Vikings for what they were: not peaceful explorers and traders, but warriors, marauders, and storytellers.

Distributed for Reaktion Books 2021 368 p. 6 x 9 5 halftones 19 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-217-4 $18.00 Your Price: $12.60

A Cultural Renaissance

Distributed for Hirmer Publishers 2023 248 p. 11 x 14 180 color plates 18 Cloth ISBN: 978-3-7774-4197-9 $70.00 Your Price: $49.00

Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits

Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America’s Culture Chip Colwell

A careful and intelligent chronicle of the battle over Native American artifacts from a leading curator.

2019 360 p. 6 x 9 10 halftones 20 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-68444-4 $19.00 Your Price: $13.30

Speaking the Truth about Oneself

The Complete Works

Michel Foucault

The complete surviving works of Epictetus, the most influential Stoic philosopher from antiquity.

Lectures at Victoria University, Toronto, 1982 A collection of Foucault’s lectures that trace the historical formation and contemporary significance of the hermeneutics of the self.

2023 304 p. 51/2 x 81/2 4 line drawings 21 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82645-5 $24.00 Your Price: $16.80

Handbook, Discourses, and Fragments Epictetus

2022 480 p. 6 x 9 10 halftones 22 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-76947-9 $18.00 Your Price: $12.60

The Pocket Stoic

The Pocket Epicurean

Concise and accessible and perfect for the aspiring Stoic, The Pocket Stoic provides an introduction to the lives and thought of the key Stoics: Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius.

A short, smart guide to living the good life through an introduction to the teachings of Epicurus.

John Sellars

2020 64 p. 41/2 x 6 23 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-68296-9 $12.00 Your Price: $8.40

John Sellars

2022 64 p. 41/2 x 6 24 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-79864-6 $12.50 Your Price: $8.75

The Postclassicisms Collective

Emergency

Postclassicisms

Edgar Garcia

The Postclassicisms Collective brings together eight prominent scholars as they reflect on the current and future state of Classics as a discipline.

Reading the Popol Vuh in a Time of Crisis Nine short essays exploring the K’iche’ Maya story of creation, the Popol Vuh. 2022 144 p. 51/2 x 81/2 1 halftones 25 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81859-7 $22.50 Your Price: $15.75

Complacency

Classics and Its Displacement in Higher Education John T. Hamilton

A critical reflection on complacency and its role in the decline of classics in the academy.

2022 144 p. 51/2 x 81/2 27 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81862-7 $22.50 Your Price: $15.75

The Postclassicisms Collective

2019 256 p. 6 x 9 3 halftones, 1 line drawing 26 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-67231-1 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50

Democratic Swarms

Ancient Comedy and the Politics of the People Page duBois

Considers how ancient Greek comedy offers a model for present-day politics.

2022 312 p. 6 x 9 28 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-81574-9 $45.00 Your Price: $31.50

Lost Civilizations Series Distributed for Reaktion Books

The Persians

Brenda Parker and Geoffrey Parker

2023 208 p. 51/2 x 81/2 41 color plates, 10 halftones 29 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-689-9 $18.00 Your Price: $12.60

The Hittites Damien Stone

2023 192 p. 51/2 x 81/2 50 color plates, 13 halftones 30 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-684-4 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50

The Etruscans

The Maya

2024 208 p. 51/2 x 81/2 40 color plates, 17 halftones 31 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-832-9 $18.00 Your Price: $12.60

2022 296 p. 51/2 x 81/2 60 color plates, 24 halftones 33 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-550-2 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50

Lucy Shipley

Megan E. O’Neil

The Inca

The Phoenicians

2022 208 p. 51/2 x 81/2 45 color plates, 8 halftones 32 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-546-5 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50

2022 248 p. 51/2 x 81/2 39 color plates, 23 halftones 34 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-478-9 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50

Kevin Lane

Vadim S. Jigoulov

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