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Sallust: The War Against Jugurthaedited with a translation, introduction and commentary by Michael Comber and Catalina BalmacedaSallust is the creator of a particular manner of writing history. His style has at-tracted attention and discussion both in ancient times and today because it is simultaneously archaic and innovatory, abrupt and artistic. The translation of this new edition seeks to be faithful to that characteristic Sallustian style.289p (Aris & Phillips 2009, Aris & Phillips Classical Texts) paperback, 9780856686382, $36.00. Special Offer $29.00hardback, 9780856686375, $80.00. Special Offer $64.00

Herodas: Mimiambsedited with a translation, introduction and commentary by Graham ZankerHerodas’ Mimiambs are short humorous dra-matic scenes written in verse, often bawdy, reflecting everyday life and dialect. This volume explores what we know of the poet, including the language, dialect and meter that he used. Each poem is translated and accompanied by an individual commentary with synopsis, information on date, setting, sources and purpose, as well as close exami-nation of vocabulary and grammar.240p (Aris & Phillips, August 2009, Aris & Phillips Classical Texts) paperback, 9780856688737, $36.00. Special Offer $29.00hardback, 9780856688836, $80.00. Special Offer $64.00

Euripides: Medeaedited with a translation, introduction and commentary by Judith MossmanEuripides’ Medea is a compelling study of love turned to hatred and a rejected woman’s burning desire for revenge. This edition examines a wide range of aspects of the play, including text, performance, interpretation, Euripides’ sources, other lost plays about Medea, and Euripides’ portrayal of character and gender.200p (Aris & Phillips, December 2010, Aris & Phillips Classical Texts) paperback, 9780856687884, $36.00. Special Offer $29.00; hardback, 9780856687839, $80.00. Special Offer $64.00

Music in the Odes of Horaceby Stuart LyonsChallenging the perception of the Odes as purely literary works and drawing on extensive evidence in Horace and other ancient sources, Lyons argues that Horace’s objective was to produce a unique type of performance art, a Latin re-interpretation of Greek lyric song to entertain the Roman elite. With 50 illustrations and a comprehensive set of indexes.216p, 50 col & b/w illus (Aris & Phillips 2010) hardback, 9780856688447, $80.00. Special Offer $64.00

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Horace’s Odes and the Mystery of the Do-Re-Miby Stuart Lyons244p (Aris & Phillips 2007) paperback, 9780856687907, $40.00. Special Offer $32.00

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Roman PerspectivesStudies on Political and Cultural History, from the First to the Fifth Centuryby John MatthewsThe fifteen papers in this volume dis-cuss issues of Roman social, cultural and political history from the foundation of the Principate to the age of barbarian settle-ments of the west. Working imagina-tively from within the diverse evidence, they show the insti-tutional continuity of the Roman empire between its early and later periods, and reveal the roots of political behavior in social practice. Five of the papers, including three of the most substantial, are previously unpublished; others have appeared in collections which are now difficult to find. The author has edited the whole to bring out thematic connec-tions, as well as for consistency of presentation.422p, b/w illus (Classical Press of Wales 2010) hardback, 9781905125395, $100.00. Special Offer $60.00

George BuchananPoet and Dramatistby Philip Ford and Roger P H Green Educated in Scotland and France, George Buchanan became one of the most influential writers of 16th-century Europe. Writing in the lingua franca of his time – Classical Latin – he was to be hailed internationally as ‘easily the prince of poets.’ Here, fifteen scholars from many countries analyse his writings, his creative use of ancient texts for contemporary purposes, and his impact on the culture of Scotland and of Europe – not least in the spheres of tragedy and music.Contents: Buchanan’s poetic achievement; ‘Redundant’ epithets in Buchanan’s Pastorals; Literary metamorphosis in Buchanan’s De Sphaera; The writing of memory in George Buchanan’s Iusta; Homo exsul as the lyric persona in Buchanan’s Psalms; The Heavens are Telling: a Psalm-paraphrase-poem analysed; The historical importance of Jean Servin’s settings of Buchanan’s Psalm Paraphrases; Buchanan’s Psalms and the musical settings by Statius Olthof; Buchanan’s tragedies and contemporary dramatic theory; Biblical inspiration in Buchanan’s tragedies; Buchanan and the poetics of borrowing in the Latin translation of Euripides’ Medea; ‘Translating’ Buchanan; Drama out of the ‘closet:’ Buchanan on stage; ‘Return, Buchanan!’ The Letter of Walter Dennistoun to George Buchanan and Buchanan’s Reply; Dry Bones of Contention? Picking apart Buchanan’s Psalms; George Buchanan’s Half Millennium.355p, b/w illus (Classical Press of Wales 2009) hardback, 9781905125364, $100.00. Special Offer $60.00

Polygamy, Prostitutes and DeathThe Hellenistic Dynastiesby Daniel OgdenDaniel Ogden’s Polygamy, Prostitutes and Death, first published in 1999, has established itself as the princi-pal guide to the history of royal women and their court intrigues throughout the Hellenistic period. The author supplies clear narrative and analysis of the strategic infighting involving the numerous Cleopatras, Laodices and Stratonices, their female rivals, their male relatives, and enemies. Ogden’s book does much to establish the importance of royal women for the increasingly-studied Hellenistic age.350p, b/w illus (Classical Press of Wales, September 2010) paperback, 9781905125401, $40.00. Special Offer $32.00

Aphrodite’s TortoiseThe Veiled Woman of Ancient Greeceby Lloyd Llewellyn-JonesGreek women routinely wore the veil. That is the unexpected finding of this meticulous study, one with interesting implications for the origins of Western civilization. The Greeks, popularly (and rightly) credited with the invention of civic openness, are revealed as also part of a more Eastern tradition of seclusion. Llewellyn-Jones’ work proceeds from literary and, notably, from iconographic evidence. In sculpture and vase painting it demonstrates the presence of the veil, often covering the head, but also more unobtrusively folded back onto the shoulders. From Greek literary sources, the author shows that full veiling of the head and face was commonplace. He analyses the elaborate Greek vocabulary for veiling and explores what the veil meant to achieve. He shows that the veil was a conscious extension of the house and was often referred to as ‘tegidion,’ literally ‘a little roof.’ Veiling was thus an ingenuous compromise; it al-lowed women to circulate in public while maintaining the ideal of a house-bound existence. Alert to the different types of veil used, the author uses Greek and more modern evidence (mostly from the Arab world) to show how women could exploit and subvert the veil as a means of eloquent, sometimes emo-tional, communication.368p (Classical Press of Wales 2003) hardback, 9780954384531, $40.00. Special Offer $32.00

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Greek History and EpigraphyEssays in Honour of P J Rhodesedited by Lynette Mitchell and Lene RubinsteinThis volume collects essays on topics in Greek history and epigraphy by an international cast of highly respected historians and epigraphers. Contributions include new and authoritative papers on Athenian politics and political institutions, the language and significance of hon-orific decrees, the role of inscriptions in the Athenian democratic state and elsewhere, as well as analyses of the methods for interpreting them. Together this collection repre-sents an appropriate celebration of the work of the distinguished historian, Professor Peter Rhodes.Contents: Introduction (Lynette Mitchell & Lene Rubinstein); The rules of the game: three studies in friendship, equality and politics (Lynette Mitchell); City elites and the administration of the Attalid kingdom after the peace of Apameia evidence, research and methodological thoughts (Boris Dreyer); Andragathia and arête (David Whitehead);The crowning of Amphiaraos (Adele C Scafuro); Nothing to do with democracy: ‘Formulae of Disclosure’ and the Athenian epigraphic habit (James Sickinger); The politics of an epi-graphic habit: the case of Thasos (Robin Osborne); Ateleia grants and their enforcement in the Classical and early Hellenistic periods (Lene Rubinstein); A Note on Agyrrhios’ Grain-Tax Law of 374/3 (Mogens Herman Hansen); Attic public inscriptions of the fifth-century BC in Ionic script (A P Matthaiou); The Gadatas letter (Christopher Tuplin); Unpublished ephebic list in the Benakion museum of Kalamata (Andronike Makres); Athenian ostracism and ostraka: some historical and statistical observations (Valerij Gushchin); Thucydides and the Athenian boule (Council of Five Hundred) (Simon Hornblower); IG ii2 236 and Philip’s common peace of 337 (Ian Worthington); Writing Greek history: an agenda for the next generation (J K Davies).329p (Classical Press of Wales 2009) hardback, 9781905125234, $110.00. Special Offer $66.00

SpartaThe Body Politicedited by Anton Powell and Stephen HodkinsonThis is the 7th volume from the International Sparta Seminar, in the series begun in 1989 by Anton Powell with Stephen Hodkinson. The volume is both thematic and eclectic. Contents: Elements of the Spartan bestiary in the Archaic and Classical periods (Nicolas Richer); Divination, royalty and insecurity in Classical Sparta (Anton Powell); Sparta and the politics of nudity (Ephraim David); Laconian black-figure pottery and Spartan elite consumption (Andrew Scott); The ghost of the Lakedaimonian state (Jean Ducat); Spartans and Scythians, a meeting of mirages: the portrayal of the Lycurgan Politeia in Ephorus’ Histories (Paul Christesen); Gynecocracy: how women policed masculine behavior in Archaic and Classical Sparta (Thomas J. Figueira); Sparta and Nazi Germany in mid-20th-century British liberal and left-wing thought (Stephen Hodkinson).300p, b/w illus (Classical Press of Wales, September 2010, International Sparta Seminar 7) hardback, 9781905125265, $100.00. Special Offer $60.00

SpartaComparative Approachesedited by Stephen HodkinsonBoth in antiquity and in modern scholarship, classi-cal Sparta has typically been viewed as an exceptional society, different in many respects from other Greek city-states. This view has recently come under chal-lenge from ‘revisionist’ historians, led by Stephen Hodkinson. This is the first book devoted explicitly to this lively historical controversy. Historians from Britain, Europe and the USA present different sides of the argument, using a variety of comparative ap-proaches. The focus includes kingship and hegemon-ic structures, education and commensality, religious institutions and practice, helotage and ethnography. The volume concludes with a wide-ranging debate between Hodkinson and Mogens Herman Hansen.Contents: Introduction (Stephen Hodkinson); The Spartan dyarchy: a comparative perspective (Ellen Millender); Hegemonial structures compared in late archaic and early classical Elis and Sparta (James Roy); Education and pederasty in Spartan and Cretan society (Stefan Link); Drinking from the same cup: Sparta and late archaic commensality (Adam Rabinowitz); Spartan religion and Greek religion (Michael A. Flower); Using few words wisely? ‘Laconic swearing’ and Spartan duplicity (Andrew J. Bayliss); The colonial ‘subject’ and the ideology of subjection in Lakonike: tast-ing Laconian wine behind Lacanian labels (Dorothy M. Figueira & Thomas J. Figueira); Aristomenes and Drimakos: the Messenian revolt in Pausanias. Periegesis in comparative perspective (Lydia Langerwerf ); Seeing Spartans, seeing barbarians: Visuality in Xenophon’s ethnography (Rosie Harman ); Was Sparta a normal or an exceptional polis? (Mogens Herman Hansen); Was Sparta an exceptional polis? (Stephen Hodkinson).535p (Classical Press of Wales 2009) hardback, 9781905125388, $110.00. Special Offer $66.00

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Bilder der virtusTafelsilber der Kaiserzeit und die grossen Vorbilder RomsDie Lanx von Strázeby Matthias SteinhartIn 1939, a Roman silver plate with rich figural decoration was found in Slovakia, to which Matthias Steinhart here suggests new significance. On the basis of literary parallels, the author shows that these are

representations of famous events from the early days of Rome:

Brutus, Lucretia, and the battles on lake Regillus and at Veseris and Verginia. Thus, episodes of Roman history are assembled that serve as examples of what right action should be. The choice of images is in

line with central ideas of the Roman stoics. The presentations are discussed against the background of the special role and significance of silver vessels and equipment in Roman culture. German text.124p, 15 col & 7 b/w illus (Franz Steiner Verlag 2009, Collegium Beatus Rhenanus 2) paperback, 9783515096317, $52.00. Special Offer $42.00

Corpus der römischen Rechtsquellen zur Antiken Sklaverei (CRRS)Teil 4: Stellung des Sklaven im Privatrecht, 1: Eheähnliche Verbindungen und verwandtschaftliche Beziehungenedited by Reinhard Willvonseder and Andrea BinsfeldRoman law generally does not acknowledge a slave’s right to marriage and family. The texts compiled in this volume not only underline this fact, but also allow a view of the lived reality, where families definitely existed, and show how Roman lawyers dealt with this obvious discrepancy between written law and everyday life. German text.187p (Franz Steiner Verlag 2010, Forschungen zur antiken Sklaverei – Beihefte 3) hardback, 9783515082075, $58.00. Special Offer $47.00

Griechische PhilosophieVorlesungsmitschrift aus dem Wintersemester 1897/98by Hermann Diels, edited by Johannes SaltzwedelWith his research on early Greek philosophy, Hermann Diels (1848–1922) created the de-finitive works of his era, and his Fragments of the Presocratics (1903, 6th edition, 1951) remains the standard work on the topic. However, the scholar never published a pan-orama of his unmatched knowledge. For the first time, a transcript of the lecture in which Diels represented his vision of Hellenic thought is now available. The script from the 1897/98 winter semester documents the oratory and pedagogy of the great Hellenist and was provided by one of his exceptional students, the Munich-based Egyptologist Friedrich Wilhelm von Bissing (1873–1956). Diels proved himself as a clear-headed thinker discussing the historical course of early proverbial wisdom, the natural and political theory of Plato, and the con-ceptual precision of Aristotle. Central figures such as Anaximander, Heraclitus, Parmenides, and Democritus are concisely drawn and colored. Thus the text offers an absorbing picture of the origins of theoretical consciousness in Europe. German text.99p (Franz Steiner Verlag 2010) paperback, 9783515096096, $39.00. Special Offer $32.00

Großzügige Praxis der Bürgerrechtsvergabe in Rom?Zwischen Mythos und Wirklichkeitby Altay ÇoşkunWhile modern research stresses the integration capacities of the Romans, the literary sources are more ambivalent. Contemporaries like Philipp V of Macedonia or Aelius Aristides praise the openness of the populus Romanus, but there is also ample evidence for the withholding of political rights to new citizens, mass expulsions of immigrants to Rome, and clear administrative ob-stacles in the acquisition of the civitas Romana. This paper from a lecture held at the Academy in Mainz, Germany, demonstrates that Roman civil rights pol-itics can only properly be understood within the context of Italy’s demographic development and Rome’s imperial politics. German text.41p, 3 b/w illus (Franz Steiner Verlag 2009, Colloquia Academica) paperback, 9783515093507, $15.00. Special Offer $12.00

Heer und Herrschaft im Römischen Reich der Hohen Kaiserzeitby Michael Alexander SpeidelWhat did the creation of a standing and regularly-paid professional army during the Roman Empire mean for politics, social and financial administration, army service, and the daily life of civilians? The 32 studies collected in this volume, some of them previously unpublished, approach these questions from different perspectives and shed light on the imperial army as an instrument in the exertion of power, on the concepts of its deployment, and on its significance for the Imperium Romanum. German text.706p, 32 b/w illus, 4 plans (Franz Steiner Verlag 2009, Mavors. Roman Army Researches 16) hardback, 9783515093644, $205.00. Special Offer $164.00

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Hellenistic DemocraciesFreedom, Independence and Political Procedure in Some East Greek City-Statesby Susanne CarlssonBy analyzing the frequency and contents of Hellenistic decrees enacted by the councils and demos of four East Greek city states, this study shows that the latter were democratically ruled. However, in the second half of the second century BC, polis decrees gradually decreased, ceasing altogether towards the end of the first century BC. A possible reason was the growing power of Rome and the establishment of the Roman province of Asia in 129 BC.372p (Franz Steiner Verlag 2010, Historia – Einzelschriften 206) hardback, 9783515092654, $100.00. Special Offer $80.00

Reinstating the HopliteArms, Armour and Phalanx Fighting in Archaic and Classical Greeceby Adam SchwartzDeparting from a detailed scrutiny of hoplite equipment and its physical characteristics, the author demonstrates that this equipment must in fact have been developed specifically to meet the needs of warriors fighting in pha-lanx formations, which, it is shown, can be traced back into the eighth century BC. In this way, the study is not only a reappraisal

of the role of the phalanx, but also a significant contribution to the study of Archaic Greek history. 337p (Franz Steiner Verlag 2009, Historia – Einzelschriften 207) hardback, 9783515093309, $103.00. Special Offer $83.00

Metics and the Athenian Phialai-InscriptionsA Study in Athenian Epigraphy and Lawby Elizabeth A MeyerIn the late fourth century BC, the Athenians, in the face of the widespread departure of metics due to economic recession and legal harassment, moved to improve metics’ legal situation in order to entice them back to Athens. It is in the context of these legal re-forms, this volume argues, that a celebrated set of 4th-century BC Athenian inscriptions,

known since the 19th century as the Attic Manumissions, belong.200p, 46 b/w illus (Franz Steiner Verlag 2010, Historia – Einzelschriften 208) hardback, 9783515093316, $90.00. Special Offer $72.00

Images and Texts on the “Artemidorus Papyrus”Working Papers on P. Artemid. (St John’s College Oxford, 2008)edited by Kai Brodersen and Jás ElsnerThe Artemidorus Papyrus (P. Artemid.), first published in 2008, is potentially the most significant new discovery in recent years for a range of fields within Classics: the history of drawing in the Greco-Roman world, and, more generally, issues in the history of art, the history of ancient mapping, and the history of geographical writing in Hellenistic Egypt. At a recent conference at St John’s College, Oxford, an international panel of scholars discussed the artifact, the images, the map and the texts on the papyrus.171p (Franz Steiner Verlag 2009, Historia – Einzelschriften 214) hardback, 9783515094269, $80.00. Special Offer $64.00

Applied ClassicsComparisons, Constructs, Controversiesedited by Angelos Chaniotis, Annika Kuhn and Christina KuhnThis volume assembles 15 essays, which reflect on the diverse and changing ways in which themes and phenomena of classical antiquity were, have been, or should be, integrated into areas beyond Classics: in the study of political phenomena such as modern democ-racy and European integration; in the critical assessment of a historical period such as the

Ancien Régime in France; in the shaping of a civil society in Germany at the time of the Enlightenment and in the formative phase of the United States; in the process of state formation in modern Greece and 19th-century Germany; in times of war and crisis; in educa-tion, science, or popular culture.259p (Franz Steiner Verlag 2009, Heidelberger Althistorische Beiträge und Epigraphische Studien (HABES) 46) paperback, 9783515094306, $74.00. Special Offer $60.00

AntiphílesisStudies on Classical, Byzantine and Modern Greek Literature and Culture in Honour of Professor John-Theophanes A Papademetriouedited by Eleni Karamalengou and Eugenia D MakrygianniThese 66 essays offer various perspectives on Greek civilization, from classical literature to Byzantine literature, papyrology, Modern Greek literature, comparative literature and linguistics. Most of the essays are written in English, but there are also essays in German, Modern Greek and French.656p, 5 b/w illus (Franz Steiner Verlag 2009) hardback, 9783515084888, $135.00. Special Offer $108.00

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Strabons Geographikaedited by Stefan RadtA complete edition in 10 volumes of the only preserved detailed regional study of the ancient world, containing a text created as a result of a new collation of major manuscripts that takes into account the full body of secondary literature on Strabo. The Greek text is complemented by a critical apparatus and source apparatus, as well as a German translation (vols. 1–4), a commentary (vols. 5–8), a transcription of the medieval Strabon epitome and chrestomathy (vol. 9), and an index volume.

Band 1: Prolegomena. Buch I–IV: Text und Übersetzung563p (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2002, Strabons Geographika 1) hardback, 9783525259504, $209.00. Special Offer $168.00

Band 2: Buch V–VIII: Text und Übersetzung560p (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2003, Strabons Geographika 2) hardback, 9783525259511, $215.00. Special Offer $172.00

Band 3: Buch IX–XIII: Text und Übersetzung681p (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2004, Strabons Geographika 3) hardback, 9783525259528, $281.00. Special Offer $225.00

Griechische SchriftstellerHomer, Platon, Xenophon – Schriftsteller, aus deren Quellen wir heute noch schöpfenby Rainer NickelIn easily readable portrait sketches, famous and influential person-alities of ancient Greece who are still of importance today are pre-sented. When we read that Demosthenes was arrested and convicted for alleged embezzlement of funds from the treasure of Macedon, we might recognize many a modern counterpart. Or Sophocles: he shows in his tragedies that there could have been a solution to any dramatic conflict if the involved parties had just been aware of them. These snapshots demonstrate how certain Ancient Greek writers still have a presence in our daily lives, and how their advice can still be useful. German text.216p (Philipp von Zabern, September 2010) paperback, 9783805342421, $30.00. Special Offer $24.00

Band 4: Buch XIV–XVII: Text und Übersetzung574p (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2005, Strabons Geographika 4) hardback, 9783525259535, $249.00. Special Offer $200.00

Band 5: Abgekürzt zitierte Literatur, Buch I–IV: Kommentar495p (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2006, Strabons Geographika 5) hardback, 9783525259542, $264.00. Special Offer $212.00

Band 6: Buch V–VIII: Kommentar525p (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2007, Strabons Geographika 6) hardback, 9783525259559, $278.00. Special Offer $223.00

Band 7: Buch IX–XIII: Kommentar584p (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2008, Strabons Geographika 7) hardback, 9783525259566, $287.00. Special Offer $230.00

Band 8: Buch XIV–XVII: Kommentar556p (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2009, Strabons Geographika 8) hardback, 9783525259573, $288.00. Special Offer $231.00

Band 9: Epitome und Chrestomathie390p (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, October 2010, Strabons Geographika 9) hardback, 9783525259580, $288.00. Special Offer $231.00

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The Origins of the Platonic SystemPlatonisms of the Early Empire and their Philosophical Contextsedited by M Bonazzi and J OpsomerFrom the 1st century BC onwards, followers of Plato began to systematize Plato’s thought. These attempts went in various directions and were subjected to all kinds of philosophical influences, especially Aristotelian, Stoic, and Pythagorean. The result was a broad variety of Platonisms without orthodoxy. That would only change with Plotinus. This volume, being the fruit of the collaboration among leading schol-

ars in the field, addresses a number of aspects of this period of system building with substantial contributions on Antiochus and Alcinous and their relation to Stoicism; on Pythagoreanising tendencies in Platonism; on Eudorus and the tradition of commentaries on Aristotle’s Categories; on the creationism of the Jewish Platonist Philo of Alexandria; on Ammonius, the Egyptian teacher of Plutarch; on Plutarch’s discussion of Socrates’ guardian spirit. The contributions are in English, French, Italian and German.227p (Peeters Publishers 2009, Collection d’Études Classiques 23) paperback, 9789042921825, $71.00. Special Offer $57.00

Unbinding Medeaedited by Heike Bartel and Anne SimonMedea - simply to mention her name conjures up echoes and cross-connections from Antiquity to the present. The vengeful wife, the murderess of her own chil-dren, the frail, suicidal heroine, the archetypal Bad Mother, the smitten maiden, the barbarian, the sorceress, the abused vic-tim, the case study for a pathol-ogy. For more than two thou-sand years, she has arrested the eye in paintings, reverberated in opera, called to us from the stage. She demands the most interdisciplinary of study, from ancient art to contem-porary law and medicine; she is no more to be bound by any single field of study than by any single take on her character.200p (Maney Publishing, November 2010, Legenda Main Series) hardback, 9781906540531, $89.50. Special Offer $72.00

Faces of HellenismStudies in the History of the Eastern Mediterranean (4th Century bc–5th Century ad)edited by P Van Nuffelen Collecting papers on historiography, papyrology, history, and material cul-ture, this volume charts the changing faces of Hellenistic civilization from the fourth century BC to Late Antiquity. The Macedonian colonization and the Roman conquest had an important impact on the society, politics, and culture of the Eastern

Mediterranean. The papers address issues such as bilingualism and the role of invented traditions in Roman Egypt. They emphasize local differences within the Roman Empire, for example the difficult access inhabitants of Egypt had to Roman citizenship. Other contributions asses the perspec-tive of the sources and how they reveal different facets of Hellenistic soci-ety. Drawing on approaches developed in the Section of Ancient History of the University of Leuven, the contributions pay homage to three retir-ing professors, L. Mooren, G. Schepens, and H. Hauben, who each in their different way have explored the changing faces of Hellenism for the past thirty years.342p (Peeters Publishers 2009, Studia Hellenistica 48) paperback, 9789042922730, $90.00. Special Offer $72.00

Imperial Authority and DissentThe Roman Empire in AD 235–238by K HaegemansWhen Severus Alexander came to a brutal end in the spring of AD 235, his successor Maximinus certainly did not meet with the approval of all his subjects. Nil novi sub sole... After all, which Roman emperor was universally loved and admired? Yet few emperors received as bad a press as Maximinus and no other legitimate

emperor was as bluntly dismissed by the senate. In AD 238, a revolt that had been slumbering since Maximinus’ accession flared up. African landowners chose the old proconsul of Africa Proconsularis, M. Antonius Gordianus, to lead their cause. The senate in Rome was quick to support the counter-emperor and played an important role in the ensuing events. Many reasons for the uprising and the senate’s response can be found: tax pressure, confiscations and the corruption of state officials, ideological reasons, power politics, personal ambitions, personal networks … These are not isolated tendencies, however. Society was gradually changing, with an increasing instability of imperial power, frontier wars, a growing military power, and growing social mobility causing tensions between various social groups, and the imbalance between state income and expenditure, especially as a result of the growing cost of the army. All these factors contributed to the unstable situation of AD 238.276p (Peeters Publishers 2010, Studia Hellenistica 47) paperback, 9789042921511, $102.00. Special Offer $82.00


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Exploring Greek Manuscripts in the Gennadius Libraryedited by Maria Politi and Eleni PappaThe production of manuscript books continued to be a thriving industry in Greece until the end of the 18th century, over 300 years after the introduc-tion of Greek printed texts. From theological and ecclesiastical materials to biographical accounts, the range of subject matter carefully transcribed by the scribes was wide, and the study of these books offers fascinating insights into the development of Greek identity and the rich variety of written culture. This book contains twelve essays on the particularly rich and representative Greek manuscript book collection of the Gennadius Library. The authors are all lead-ing manuscript scholars, and the papers are illustrated in color with some of the most interesting and beautiful examples held in the Library’s care.224p, 7o col pls (American School of Classical Studies at Athens, December 2010, Gennadius Library Monographs 6) hardback, 9780876614075, $75.00. Special Offer $60.00

P. Bodmer I RectoA Land List from the Panopolite Nome in Upper Egypt (after AD 21 3/4)by Tomasz DerdaIn its collection, Bibliotheca Bodmeriana possesses a papyrus, whose verso contains Books V and VI of the Iliad (published by Victor Martin, Papyrus Bodmer I. Homère, Iliade chants 5 et 6, Cologny - Genève 1954). The docu-ment published in the present volume was written on the recto of the papyrus, which was subsequently used to make copies of the Iliad. The preserved frag-ments of P. Bodmer 1 recto do not allow us to establish precisely the character of the document or to answer the question of whether this character was iden-tical in all sections. An overview of the contents clearly indicates that the docu-ment was not a land register sensu stricto, although it contains some elements typical of documents of this kind.200p, 50 b/w illus (Journal of Juristic Papyrology, September 2010, Journal of Juristic Papyrology Supplement 14) hardback, 9788392591931, $85.00. Special Offer $68.00

Oxyrhynchus Papyri 73edited with translation and notes by D Obbink and N GonisThis volume publishes a selection of texts prepared to highlight recent work on the Oxyrhynchus Collection. Part I includes papyri of the Old and New Testaments. Part II offers Comedy Old and New: Aristophanes, a sizeable chunk of Menander’s Epitrepontes and Georgos. Part III presents previously unknown Greek literature, including a new papyrus of Empedocles, a work by Thrasyllus (Tiberius’ court astrologer and philosopher in residence) on the classification of Plato’s dialogues, as well as Dictys of Crete’s account of the Trojan War in unpretentious prose, complete with its ‘author’s’ own subscription. These add two new papyri of the Greek original to the two already known. They show more clearly the relation of the Greek original to the Latin version, casting doubt on the status of the letter as a straightforward translation. Part IV showcases texts of previously known Greek literature of the Roman period uncommon among the papyri, while Part V presents texts at the subliterary level. On the documentary side, Part VI includes: themes of extortion in petitions; a military muster, in Latin; a letter on recovery from illness in high-flown Greek; a certified copy of a petition to a prefect, which besides its impressive format has interesting though enigmatic implications for the use of Roman Law.215p, 12 b/w pls (Egypt Exploration Society 2009, Graeco-Roman Memoirs 94) hardback, 9780856981821, $130.00. Special Offer $104.00

Papyri from the New York University Collection II (P.NYU II)edited by Bruce E Nielsen and Klaas A WorpThis volume contains 53 literary and documentary texts, that, with the excep-tion of two related fragments from the collections of Princeton University and the Istituto Papirologico ‘G. Vitelli’ in Florence, are all preserved in the papy-rus collection at New York University. For this publication, the four separate shipments originating in the well-known magazine of Papyrology and Epigraf (Bonn) are fully re-published and, if necessary, updated. The documentary texts represent all periods of the history of Greco-Roman Egypt between 330 BCE and 800 CE (i.e. the Ptolemaic, Roman, Byzantine and early Arab periods.) The different places of origin paint an equally colorful spectrum: the majority of texts date from the Arsinoites, the Oxyrhynchites, or the Hermopolites, but a rather uncommon province, Aphroditopolites, is also represented. For many texts, the precise origin is simply unknown. While an overview of the published New York University papyri dominates the text, the usual indices close out the text, at the end of which images of the individual objects are provided.176p (Harrassowitz Verlag, September 2010, Philippika 31) paperback, 9783447060936, $72.00. Special Offer $58.00

2. Thessalonikerby Christina KreineckerThe Papyrological Commentary on 2 Thessalonians investigates the use of ancient documentary papyri to illuminate the text, language, society, thought and contemporary background of 2 Thessalonians. German text.240p (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2010, Papyrologische Kommentare zum Neuen Testament 3) hardback, 9783525510063, $73.00. Special Offer $59.00

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Sappho’s GiftThe Poet and Her Communityby Franco Ferrari, translated by Benjamin Acosta-Hughes and Lucia Prauscello Now available in English for the first time, Franco Ferrari’s important volume offers ex-traordinary new insight into the life and works of Sappho, one of the ancient world’s most bril-liant poets. One of the very few women writ-ers whose works have survived from antiquity, Sappho occupies a unique spot in literature in part because of her gender but more importantly

because of the light she sheds on her time and place - Archaic Greece. Ferrari’s study begins with the fragmentary evidence about the poems provided by pa-pyri, and moves on to consider Sappho’s iconography, the types of poems and their occasions, and her audience, meaning both her immediate circle of com-panions as well as competing groups and people in the larger community.228p, 5 illus (Michigan Classical Press 2010) hardback, 9780979971334, $62.00. Special Offer $50.00

Thucydidean Narrative and Discourseby Mabel L Lang, edited by Jeffrey S Rusten, Richard Hamilton and Eleanor DickeyMabel Lang’s long career as a scholar and teacher has given her a unique perspective on one of the most important authors in western literature. This volume brings together several of her most thoughtful papers on figures and is-sues including the 400, Cleon, and Alcibiades, and joins them with new material on narrative technique. The assembled papers are an impor-

tant complement to Professor Lang’s path-breaking study of Herodotean nar-rative. Together with introductory essays by the volume’s editors, these papers will enable students of historiography in general to obtain a better understand-ing of how Thucydides engaged his audience. Although they were written over many years, the papers share a consistency of insight that makes them continu-ally relevant to all who endeavor to understand the literary art of Thucydides.170p (Michigan Classical Press, December 2010) hardback, 9780979971341, $65.00. Special Offer $52.00

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The Roman Empire of Ammianusby John MatthewsMatthews’ Ammianus is a man very much in touch with his times, engaged in many of the exciting events that he describes, and a commentator motivated by a passionate devotion to justice. The empire that he depicts in The Roman Empire of Ammianus is undergoing a profoundly important intellectual tran-sition as Christians and non-Christians dealt with each other in new ways, and a profoundly important political transition as Rome’s ability to control its frontiers was severely challenged. This new edition of the volume offers a new introduction by the author and corrections to the original text.608p, 13 illus (Michigan Classical Press 2008) hardback, 9780979971327, $60.00. Reduced to $30.00

The Well-Read MusePresent and Past in Callimachus and the Hellenistic Poetsby Peter BingIn this carefully argued and stimulating study, the author investigates the era in which the written work – the book – superseded the assumption of oral composition and performance. As this study demonstrates, Hellenistic poets saw themselves as now being part of a new world, remote from the great genres and achievements of the earlier literary tradition. That sense of distance from the past gave authors freedom to experiment. At the same time, it incited them to view their poetic heritage as something deserving intense scholarly study. The author examines one fundamental result of this attitude, the Hellenistic tendency toward learned allusion, and what this meant to a period pursuing a different literary approach.163p (Michigan Classical Press 2008) hardback, 9780979971303, $35.00. Reduced to $20.00

Generic Composition in Greek and Roman Poetryby Francis CairnsOriginal in conception and powerful in scope, Generic Composition in Greek and Roman Poetry remains one of the most important books on early Greek, Hellenistic and Roman poetry in a generation. First published in the philological climate of the early 1970s, the book examines uses of topoi and categories of genres, and offers detailed and insightful inter-pretations of many individual poems in both languages. It also highlights five specific ge-neric sophistications, among them inversion and inclusion. The new edition includes a new Postscript by the author, and important corrections to the text, notes, and indices.336p (Michigan Classical Press 2007) hardback, 9780979971310, $40.00. Reduced to $20.00

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The Unity of Plato’s SophistBetween the Sophist and the Philosopherby Noburu NotomiThis detailed study examines the ‘connection between the large and difficult philosophical issues discussed in the Sophist (appearance, image, falsehood and ‘what is not’)’ as well as the problems of defining what a sophist actually is. 346p (Cambridge University Press 1999, Cambridge Classical Studies) hardback, 9780521632591, $75.00. Reduced to $14.98

Ancient Literary Criticismedited by Andrew LairdThe volume makes widely available some im-portant scholarship on the canonical texts of ancient rhetoric and poetics. While there are numerous studies of general trends in classical criticism, this collection offers direct discus-sions of primary sources. The volume contains a chronology, suggestions for further reading, a new translation of Bernays’ 1857 essay on katha-rsis, and an important introductory chapter.512p (Oxford University Press 2006, Oxford Readings in Classical Studies) hardback, 9780199258659, $350.00. Reduced to $79.98

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Justinian and the Making of the Syrian Orthodox Churchby Volker L MenzeThis study shows that the sixth-century separa-tion of the Syrian Orthodox Christians from Western Christianity took place because of di-vergent political and ecclesiastical interests of bishops and emperors. Roman emperors proved to be unable to hold the papacy in the West, the later Greek Orthodox and the Syrian Christians in the East, together in one belief. The result was religious violence, discrimination and persecu-tion of the Syrian Christians, which forced them to establish an independent church.

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Image to InterpretationAn Intelligent System to Aid Historians in Reading the Vindolanda Textsby Melissa TerrasThe ink and stylus tablets discovered at the Roman fort of Vindolanda are a unique resource for scholars of ancient history. However, the stylus tablets in particular are extremely dif-ficult to read. This book details the development of what appears to be the first system constructed to aid experts in the process of reading an ancient document, exploring the extent to which techniques from Artificial Intelligence can be used to develop a system that could aid historians in reading the stylus texts. Image to Interpretation includes a model of how experts read ancient texts, a corpora of letter forms from the Vindolanda text corpus, and a detailed description of the architecture of the system. 264p (Oxford University Press 2006) hardback, 9780199204557, $110.00. Reduced to $29.98

LamentStudies in the Ancient Mediterranean and Beyondedited by Ann SuterThis collection of essays offers the first ever comparative approach to ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern traditions of lament. Beginning with the Sumerian and Hittite traditions, the volume moves on to examine Bronze Age iconographic representations of lamentation, Homeric lament, depictions of lament in Greek tragedy and parodic comedy, and finally lament in ancient Rome. The list of contributors includes such noted scholars as Richard Martin, Ian Rutherford, and Alison Keith.304p (Oxford University Press 2008) hardback, 9780195336924, $74.00. Reduced to $19.98

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Dumb Beasts and Dead PhilosophersHumanity and the Humane in Ancient Philosophy and Literatureby Catherine OsborneThis volume shows that Plato’s views on reincarnation and Aristotle’s views on the souls of plants and animals reveal a continuous thread of life in which hu-mans are not morally superior to beasts; Greek tragedy turns up thoughts that mirror the claims of rights activists when they speak for the voiceless; the Desert Fathers teach us to admire the natural perceptiveness of animals; the long tra-dition of arguments for vegetarianism in antiquity highlights how mankind’s abuse of other animals is the more offensive the more it is for indulgent ends.288p (Oxford University Press 2007) hardback, 9780199282067, $75.00. Reduced to $19.98

Powerplay in TibullusReading Elegies Book Oneby Parshia Lee-StecumThis criticism, assuming a traditional linear reading of Tibullus’ Book 1, examines the rela-tionships described in his work for imbalance of power and its effects on various areas of daily life, for example, the relationship of poet and patron. This is a refreshing criticism, uncover-ing the unstable basis of Tibullan elegy.340p (Cambridge University Press 1998) hardback, 9780521630832, $75.00. Reduced to $14.98

Patterns of Redemption in Virgil’s Georgicsby Llewelyn MorganLlewelyn Morgan presents a new interpreta-tion of Virgil’s Georgics. He reconsiders the background and underlying message of the poems as an exercise in Octavian propagan-da and a response to the Octavian regime following the civil wars of the time. 296p (Cambridge University Press 1999, Cambridge Classical Studies) hardback, 9780521651660, $75.00. Reduced to $14.98

The New PosidippusA Hellenistic Poetry Bookedited by Kathryn GutzwilerIn addition to a poetic translation of the entire corpus of Posidippus’ poetry, this volume contains essays about Posidippus by experts in the fields of papyrology, Hellenistic and Augustan literature, Ptolemaic history, and Graeco-Roman visual culture.416p (Oxford University Press 2008) paperback, 9780199541669, $60.00. Reduced to $19.98

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Art in the Lives of Ordinary RomansVisual Representation and Non-Elite Viewers in Italy, 100 BC–AD 315by John R ClarkeAn exploration of what visual representation meant for people who had no access to the upper strata of Roman society (such as slaves and the working poor) that reveals the complex layers of visual communication within non-elite culture.418p (University of California Press 2003) hardback, 9780520219762, $65.00. Reduced to $19.98

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Greek Tragedy and the British Theatre 1660–1914by Edith Hall and Fiona MacintoshThis lavishly illustrated book offers the first full, interdisciplinary investigation of the historical evidence for the presence of ancient Greek tragedy in the post-Resto-ration British theater, where it reached a much wider audience - including women - than had access to the original texts. 768p, illus (Oxford University Press 2005) hardback, 9780198150879, $135.00. Reduced to $24.98

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