Books in
Ancient Studies
2016 – 2017
Rome
The Grand Strategy
of the Roman Empire
Patients and Healers in
the High Roman Empire
From the First Century CE
to the Third
Ido Israelowich
revised and updated edition
Edward N. Luttwak
“Lucidly and vigorously
written. It is a long time since
I have read so important
a contribution to Roman
history.” — Times Literary
Supplement
2016 296 pp.
10 line drawings, 15 maps
978-1-4214-1945-9 $29.95 pb
Also available as an e-book
“An original, innovative, and
provocative history of ancient
medicine in the High Roman
Empire from the patient’s
point of view.” — Manfred
Horstmanshoff, Leiden
University
2015 208 pp., 3 halftones
978-1-4214-1628-1 $59.95 hc
Also available as an e-book
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Rome’s Christian Empress The Day Commodus
Killed a Rhino
Galla Placidia Rules
Maternal Megalomania
at the Twilight of the Empire
Understanding the Roman Games
Julia Domna and the Imperial
Politics of Motherhood
Joyce E. Salisbury
Jerry Toner
Julie Langford
The page-turning account of
Galla Placidia, a remarkable
ruler at the twilight of the
Roman Empire.
2015 248 pp.
11 halftones, 1 line drawing, 7 maps
978-1-4214-1700-4 $34.95 hc
Also available as an e-book
“Provocative and original
. . . Langford’s conclusions
are daring and . . . mark out
significant new territory in the
study of the political culture
Witness to Ancient History,
of the High Empire.” — Bryn
Gregory S. Aldrete, Series Editor
Mawr Classical Review
2014 144 pp.
2013 232 pp., 30 b&w illus.
6 halftones, 2 line drawings
978-1-4214-0847-7 $58.00 hc
978-1-4214-1586-4 $19.95 pb
Also available as an e-book
Also available as an e-book
“Toner’s excellent new book
provides the historical context
for Ridley Scott’s emperorgladiator.” — History Today
Rome
Roman Literary Culture
Rome
The Annals of Quintus
Ennius and the Italic
Tradition
second edition
Fik Meijer
A Living Portrait
of an Ancient City
Jay Fisher
Elaine Fantham
translated by Liz Waters
Stephen L. Dyson
“A fascinating study of
the language of the first
hexametric epic in Rome
. . . I enjoyed and learned
much in reading this fine
monograph.” — Bryn Mawr
Classical Review
2014 224 pp.
978-1-4214-1129-3 $69.95 hc
Also available as an e-book
From Plautus to Macrobius
Chariot Racing
in the Roman Empire
“An important work, full of
“Readers will find an excellent
learning, which serves sioverview of our knowledge
multaneously to deepen our
of ancient Roman chariot
appreciation of Latin literature
racing in this fairly short and
in its social context, to provoke readable book.” — Bryn Mawr
further exploration of the ques- Classical Review
tions the author raises, and to
2010 208 pp.
continue debate concerning
19 halftones, 3 line drawings, 2 maps
certain of the answers.” 978-0-8018-9697-2 $32.00 hc
— New England Classical Journal
2013 368 pp., 1 b&w illus.
978-1-4214-0836-1 $33.00 pb
Also available as an e-book
The Latin Inscriptions
of Rome
A Walking Guide
Tyler Lansford
“This exploration of Rome and “If this book is not slipped
what happened there seeks
into many a Rome-bound
not only to examine the physisuitcase, there is no justice in
cal and structural evolution of
the world. I can think of few
the city from earliest times
more enjoyable companions
until the early Christian era,
on a prowl through the
but also to explore its social
city.” — Times Literary
and cultural history.” — Oxbow Supplement
Book News
2009 600 pp., 15 b&w illus.,
2010 488 pp.
1 line drawing, 16 maps
28 halftones, 16 line drawings
978-0-8018-9150-2 $32.95 pb
978-0-8018-9254-7 $38.00 pb
Also available as an e-book
Also available as an e-book
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Greece
Athens Burning
Children and Childhood
in Classical Athens
The Persian Invasion of Greece
and the Evacuation of Attica
second edition
Robert Garland
Mark Golden
The gripping story of how
the Athenians survived the
Persian invasion of their
homeland — one of the
central events in ancient
Greek history.
“A superb book, an
important substantive
and methodological
contribution to the social
history of ancient Athens
and a model for comparable
Witness to Ancient History, studies.” — American
Historical Review
Gregory S. Aldrete, Series Editor
2017 184 pp., 8 halftones, 6 maps
978-1-4214-2196-4 $19.95 pb
Also available as an e-book
2015 272 pp., 17 halftones
978-1-4214-1686-1 $24.95 pb
Also available as an e-book
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The Battle of Arginusae
Victory at Sea and Its Tragic
Aftermath in the Final Years
of the Peloponnesian War
Debra Hamel
Approaches
to Greek Myth
second edition
Women, Performance, and Labor
in Ancient Greece
edited by Lowell Edmunds
Andromache Karanika
“Well organized, edited, and
arranged, this text is of
unquestioned value to all
teachers of mythology, to
the advanced student of the
classics, and to the research
Witness to Ancient History, scholar, a welcome resource
Gregory S. Aldrete, Series Editor volume.”— Classical World
“A captivating account of the
battle of Arginusae. A gripping
read.” — Lawrence A. Tritle,
author of A New History of the
Peloponnesian War
2015 152 pp.
4 halftones, 4 line drawings, 4 maps
978-1-4214-1681-6 $19.95 pb
Also available as an e-book
Voices at Work
2014 480 pp.
2 line drawings, 3 maps, 10 plates
978-1-4214-1419-5 $29.95 pb
Also available as an e-book
“Drawing from a wealth of
ancient and comparative
sources, and harnessing
a range of theoretical
approaches, Karanika
offers a landmark study of
female labour and Greek
poetics.” — Times Higher
Education
2014 320 pp., 6 b&w photos
978-1-4214-1255-9 $59.95 hc
Also available as an e-book
Greece
Reconstructing Ancient
Linen Body Armor
Unraveling the Linothorax
Mystery
Gregory S. Aldrete, Scott
Bartell, and Alicia Aldrete
“Essential for anyone interested in ancient warfare and/
or experimental archaeology,
from academic to layman . . .
a defining and valuable contribution to our understanding
of the ancient world.” — Bryn
Mawr Classical Review
2013 304 pp., 21 b&w illus.,
16 line drawings, 8 color plates
978-1-4214-0819-4 $32.95 hc
Also available as an e-book
The Poetics of Consent
Reading Herodotus
Collective Decision Making
and the Iliad
A Guided Tour through the Wild
Boars, Dancing Suitors, and
Crazy Tyrants of The History
David F. Elmer
“The book is exemplary in
approaching large poetic and
cultural issues through details
of language and patterns of
formulaic usage.” — American
Journal of Philology
2012 336 pp.
978-1-4214-0826-2 $58.00 hc
Also available as an e-book
Debra Hamel
“Provides an accessible
introduction both to
Herodotus and to an exciting
period of Greek history, which
culminates in the Persian
Wars.” — Timothy E. Duff,
University of Reading
2012 360 pp.
5 halftones, 9 line drawings
978-1-4214-0656-5 $32.95 pb
Also available as an e-book
The Lives
of the Greek Poets
New in Paperback
The Birth of Comedy
second edition
Mary R. Lefkowitz
“A major book which
aims at demolishing the
underpinnings of much that
has passed for Greek literary
criticism . . . its proper
application to classical studies
will have a very positive
effect.” — American Journal
of Philology
2012 240 pp.
978-1-4214-0464-6 $28.00 pb
Texts, Documents, and Art from
Athenian Comic Competitions,
486 –280
edited by Jeffrey Rusten
translated by Jeffrey Henderson,
David Konstan, Ralph Rosen,
Jeffrey Rusten, and Niall W. Slater
“A singularly ambitious and
very welcome work.” — Times
Literary Supplement
2011 816 pp.
42 halftones, 1 line drawing
978-1-4214-2118-6 $49.95 pb
Also available as an e-book
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Translations from Antiquity
The Other Four Plays
of Sophocles
Cut These Words
into My Stone
Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra,
and Philoctetes
Ancient Greek Epitaphs
Sophocles
foreword by Richard P. Martin
translated by David R. Slavitt
Famed translator David
Slavitt lends his distinctly
contemporary voice to
four lesser-known plays of
Sophocles.
2013 272 pp.
978-1-4214-1137-8 $22.95 pb
Also available as an e-book
translated by Michael Wolfe
“As you turn the pages of
this modest-seeming book
you begin to succumb to
magic.” — The Anglo-Hellenic
Review
2012 208 pp.
978-1-4214-0804-0 $27.95 pb
Also available as an e-book
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The Orphic Hymns
The Iliad
translation, introduction,
and notes by
Apostolos N. Athanassakis
and Benjamin M. Wolkow
Homer
Homer
translated by Edward McCrorie
with an introduction and notes
by Erwin F. Cook
translated by Edward McCrorie
with an introduction and notes
by Richard P. Martin
The only English translation
of the mysterious and cosmic
Greek poetry known as the
Orphic Hymns.
2013 280 pp.
978-1-4214-0882-8 $29.95 pb
Also available as an e-book
Edward McCrorie offers a
new verse translation of the
Iliad, capturing the meaning
and music of Homer’s original
Greek.
Johns Hopkins New Translations
from Antiquity
2012 552 pp., 1 line drawing
978-1-4214-0642-8 $28.00 pb
Also available as an e-book
The Odyssey
“[As] close to the original as is
possible without reading the
original Greek. It is refreshing,
accurate, and direct.”
— Bloomsbury Review
Johns Hopkins New Translations
from Antiquity
2004 472 pp.
978-0-8018-8267-8 $24.00 pb
Also available as an e-book
The Ancient World
Women’s Life in Greece and Rome
The Mediterranean World
Comic Democracies
A Source Book in Translation
From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Napoleon
From Ancient Athens to the American Republic
fourth edition
Mary R. Lefkowitz and Maureen B. Fant
The essential collection of source materials on the
lives of women in the ancient world.
2016 496 pp., 40 b&w illus.
978-1-4214-2113-1 $32.00 pb
Women and War in Antiquity
edited by Jacqueline Fabre-Serris
and Alison Keith
Women in ancient Greece and Rome played a much
more active role in battle than previously assumed.
2015 360 pp., 13 halftones
978-1-4214-1762-2 $55.00 hc Also available as an e-book
Monique O’Connell and Eric R Dursteler
“A magisterial book.” — Scott K. Taylor, University
of Kentucky
2016 352 pp., 25 color illus., 68 halftones, 8 maps
978-1-4214-1901-5 $34.95 pb Also available as an e-book
New in Paperback
Cults and Conspiracies
A Literary History
Theodore Ziolkowski
“Ziolkowski has read everything, taking even a 3,000page German novel in his stride, and summarizes
and analyses his material fascinatingly for lesser
mortals.” — Times Literary Supplement
2016 248 pp.
978-1-4214-2243-5 $24.95 pb Also available as an e-book
Angus Fletcher
The forgotten history of comedy’s contribution
to world democracy.
2016 224 pp.
978-1-4214-1934-3 $49.95 hc Also available as an e-book
Therapoetics after Actium
Narrative, Medicine, and Authority in Augustan Epic
Julia Nelson Hawkins
A sophisticated account of the relationship between
poetry and medical knowledge in the ancient world.
2015 352 pp., 2 halftones
978-1-4214-1730-1 $59.95 hc Also available as an e-book
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