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Classical Press of Wales

Founded in 1993, originally to promote scholarly works connected with the University of Wales, the Classical Press of Wales is now an established privately-owned publisher, welcoming monographs and collections from the outer world. The publisher is Dr Anton Powell. The Bryn Mawr Classical Review has described this series as "beautifully produced" with "nicely chosen images" (October 2011). Further information can be found on the Classical Press of Wales website

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Cicero on the Attack: Invective and Subversion in the Orations and Beyond
edited by Joan Booth
Eight new essays, from a distinguished international cast, examine the techniques of Cicero's verbal aggression. Analysis includes political and forensic context but also Cicero's own formal theory of rhetoric and his debts to other genres, literary and dramatic. 220 (Classical Press of Wales 2007)
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What's in a Name?: The Significance of Proper Names in Classical Latin Literature
by Joan Booth and Robert Maltby
Latin poets and prose writers of the classical period and later used - and withheld - names subtly and to important effect. Here, in eleven new essays, an eminent international cast explore themes which include `speaking' names, often involving bilingual Latin/Greek play; the ways in which persons and objects are named in contexts of invective or endearment; the significant suppression or changing of names; the religious and historical ...
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Herakles and Hercules: Exploring a Graeco-Roman Divinity
edited by Louis Rawlings and Hugh Bowden
Herakles and Hercules: two names for a figure of pervasive appeal in Antiquity. He was a hero of myth and a god with cult associations. He was ancestor of Macedonian kings, patron of Carthaginian generals and of Roman emperors, and a role model for Stoic philosophers. As a performer of the famous labours, wanderer, liberator, madman and murderer of kin, Herakles-Hercules has retained his fascination down to the present. The eleven new studies in ...
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Body Language in the Greek and Roman Worlds
edited by D L Cairns
A distinguished international cast of scholars discusses models of gesture and non-verbal communication as they apply to Greek and Roman culture, literature and art. Topics include dress and costume in the Homeric poems; the importance of looking, eye-contact, and face-to-face orientation in Greek society; the construction of facial expression in Greek and Roman epic; the significance of gesture and body language in the visual meaning of ancient ...
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Dionysalexandros: Essays on Aeschylus and His Fellow Tragedians in Honour of Alexander F Garvie
edited by Douglas Cairns and Vayos Liapis
In 17 original essays, a distinguished international cast considers the text, interpretation and cultural context of Greek tragedy. There are detailed studies of single plays, of major themes in each of the three tragedians, of modern approaches to tragic text and interpretation, and of the genre's social, political and religious background. Some of tragedy's most distinguished interpreters here present their latest work, and pay tribute to the ...
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Law, Rhetoric and Comedy in Classical Athens
Cairns, Douglas
In 2001 a conference on Athenian Law and Life was held at Glasgow University to mark the retirment of Professor Douglas M MacDowell. These seventeen papers, from that conference, reflect MacDowell's interests in the development of Athenian law, Attic oratory and Greek comedy. Placing Athenian law and rhetoric in their social and historical context throughout, contributors examine: oral law in archaic Greece, Athenian contracts and law of ...
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Praise and Blame in Roman Republican Rhetoric
edited by Christopher Smith and Ralph Covino
Cicero, and others in the Roman Republic, were masters of both invective and panegyric, two hugely important genres in ancient oratory, which influenced the later theory and practice of rhetoric. The papers in this volume address strategies of vituperation and eulogy within the Republic, and examine the mechanisms and effects of praise and blame. 330p (Classical Press of Wales 2010)
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Velleius Paterculus: Making History
edited by Eleanor Cowan
Velleius Paterculus' short work is the earliest surviving attempt on the part of a post-Augustan historian to survey the history of the res publica from its origins to his own times. In a period from which no other contemporary historical narrative survives in more than meagre fragments, Velleius' work is uniquely important. It is a critical counter to the later accounts of Tacitus, Suetonius and Cassius Dio, not simply because it offers a ...
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Spartan Education: Youth and society in the Classical Period
by Jean Ducat
Jean Ducat is the leading French authority on Classical Sparta. Here is what is likely to be seen as his magnum opus. Ducat systematically collects, translates and evaluates the sources - famous and obscure alike - for Spartan education. He deploys his familiar combination of good judgment and uncompromising recognition of the limits to our knowledge, while drawing at times on aspects of French structuralism. This book is likely to become the ...
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Spartan Society
Figueira, Thomas J
In 2002 the Fourth International Sparta Seminar was held at Glasgow University; sixteen of the papers from that seminar are published here in this well-presented and authoritative study. Their emphasis is on the institutions of Sparta, the role of cult in other areas of life, the women of Sparta, Spartan politics and the construction of the Spartan image or `mirage'. Specific subjects include the motif of snatching in Spartan culture, suicide, ...
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