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Vergil's Aeneid: Augustan Epic and Political Context
edited with an introduction by Hans-Peter Stahl
A collection of 14 papers in which contributors use diverging critical methods on a selection of extracts from Vergil's epic, with the examination of political references in the work being prominent, as well as the question of the Aeneid's central meaning. Contents include: Vergil announcing the Aeneid. On Geo. 3.1-48 (Egil Kraggerud); The Peopling of the Underworld (Anton Powell); Vergil as a Republican (Eckard ...
Paperback. Price GB £28.00
Dialectic in Action: An Examination of Plato's Crito
by Michael C Stokes
Plato's Crito examines a single moral decision, whether Socrates ought to escape from his death-cell. Stokes's book discusses Socrates' arguments against Crito's offer of escape. It construes Socrates' questions as genuine questions, which clarify and undermine Critos positions. Stokes's approach avoids the "documentary fallacy"; it shows how Plato catered for both the novice and the experienced reader of his published works. This book offers a ...
Hardback. Price GB £45.00
Through A Glass Darkly: Magic, Dreams and Prophecy in Ancient Egypt
by Kasia Szpakowska
Magic, dreams, and prophecy played important roles in ancient Egypt, as recent scholarship has increasingly made clear. In this volume, eminent international Egyptologists come together to explore such divination across a wide period. 274p, b/w illus (Classical Press of Wales 2006)
Hardback. Price GB £45.00
Emperor and Author: The Writings of Julian 'the Apostate'
edited by Nicholas J. Baker-Brian and Shaun Tougher
This volume offers the first comprehensive analysis in English of all the writings of Julian (r. AD 361-363), the last pagan emperor of Rome, noted for his frontal and self-conscious challenge to Christianity. The book also contains treatments of Julian's ...
Hardback. Not yet published - advance orders taken. Price GB £55.00
Eunuchs in Antiquity and Beyond
edited by Shaun Tougher
Eunuchs both `embarrassed and intrigued the ancient world'. These thirteen essays, all but one from a conference held in Cardiff in 1999, reflect the recent revival in interest in these enigmatic `half men' who often played a significant role in the court politics of Persia, Greece, Rome and Byzantium. Subjects include the royal harem in Achaemenud Persia, Greek attitudes towards eunuchs and mutilation, female cults, Roman art, eunuchs and Early ...
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Catullus: A Textual Reappraisal
by J M Trappes-Lomax
The poems of Catullus have notoriously been subjected to numerous accidental corruptions. This work represents a radical reappraisal of his text. It recommends some 600 changes to the Oxford Text of R.A.B. Mynors; many of these proposals are easily accessible elsewhere, but many are either original or else more or less forgotten. It is suggested here that Catullus's text was also subjected to significant deliberate change, much of it probably ...
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Persian Responses: Political and Cultural Interaction with(in) the Achaemenid Empire
edited by Christopher Tuplin
A generation ago the Achaemenid Empire was a minor sideshow within long-established disciplines. For Greek historians the Persians were the defeated national enemy, a catalyst of change in the aftermath of the fall of Athens or the victim of Alexander. For Egyptologists and Assyriologists they belonged to an era that received scant attention compared with the glory days of the New Kingdom or the Neo-Assyrian Empire. For most archaeologists they ...
Hardback. Price GB £60.00
Archaic Greece: New Approaches and New Evidence
edited by Nick Fisher and Hans van Wees
Fourteen essays offering: Reinterpretation of archaeological material (I. Morris); Lakonian artistic production (A. Powell); Lakonian vase-painting (A. Powell); Iconography of Athena (A. Villing); Fresh interpretations of texts from Homer and Hesiod to the new Simonides (K. Raaflaub et al); Greek settlement in the West (R. Osborne); Archaic naval developments (P. de Souza); Archaic trade in the ...
Hardback. Price GB £50.00
Competition in the Ancient World
edited by Nick Fisher and Hans van Wees
Ancient peoples, like modern, spent much of their lives engaged in and thinking about competitions: both organised competitions with rules, audiences and winners, such as Olympic and gladiatorial games, and informal, indefinite, often violent, competition for fundamental goals such as power, wealth and honour. The varied papers in this book form a case for viewing competition for superiority as a major force in ancient history, including the ...
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Julius Caesar as Artful Reporter: The War Commentaries as Political Instruments
edited by Kathryn Welch and Anton Powell
Nine contributions demonstrate that the appearance of simplicity in Julius Caesar's writings is achieved through subtle skill in the selection of style, language and content, which promotes Caesar and downplays Roman enemies. Contents: The publication of De Bello Gallico (T. P. Wiseman); Ratio and Romanitas in the Bellum Gallicum (L. G. H. Hall); The Logos of Caesar's Bellum Gallicum ...
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