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2014–2015
GREECE
Children and Childhood
in Classical Athens
second edition
Voices at Work
Women, Performance, and Labor
in Ancient Greece
Andromache Karanika
Mark Golden
A thoroughly revised and updated edition of
Golden’s groundbreaking study of childhood in
“Karanika offers a landmark study of female
labour and Greek poetics. The book. . . offers
important new insights into Greek poetry.”
ancient Greece.
Ancient Society and History
2015
256 pp., 17 halftones
978-1-4214-1686-1
$24.95 paperback
The Battle of Arginusae
—Times Higher Education
2014
320 pp., 6 b&w photos
978-1-4214-1255-9
$59.95 hardcover
Victory at Sea and Its Tragic Aftermath
in the Final Years of the Peloponnesian War
Homeric Speech and the Origins
of Rhetoric
Debra Hamel
Rachel Ahern Knudsen
“A captivating account of the battle of Arginusae
and its fateful consequences for the Athenians
Based on a close analysis of persuasive
speeches in the Iliad, Knudsen argues that
in their great struggle with Sparta. The Battle
Homeric poetry displays a systematic and
of Arginusae is a gripping read.”—Lawrence
technical concept of rhetoric and that many
A. Tritle, author of A New History of the
Iliadic speakers in fact employ the rhetorical
Peloponnesian War
techniques put forward by Aristotle.
Witness to Ancient History,
Gregory S. Aldrete, Series Editor
2015
160 pp., 4 halftones, 4 line drawings, 4 maps
978-1-4214-1681-6
$29.95 paperback
Approaches to Greek Myth
second edition
edited by Lowell Edmunds
“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 scholar, a welcome
resource volume.”—Classical World
2014
480 pp., 2 line drawings, 3 maps, 10 plates
978-1-4214-1419-5
$29.95 paperback
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2014
248 pp., 3 line drawings
978-1-4214-1226-9
$49.95 hardcover
Pythagorean Women
Their History and Writings
Sarah B. Pomeroy
“A delight to read. . . This look at the female
followers of Pythagoras in ancient times is a very
valuable addition to the literature.”—Sun News
Miami
2013
200 pp., 9 halftones, 3 line drawings
978-1-4214-0956-6
$49.95 hardcover
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.”
—Bryn Mawr Classical Review
2013
304 pp.
21 b&w illus., 16 line drawings, 8 color plates
978-1-4214-0819-4
$29.95 hardcover
The Birth of Comedy
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 unique resource for the serious study of
comedy, this book is vast in scope and of
incalculable value for those who do not read
Greek.”—Choice
2011
816 pp., 42 halftones, 1 line drawing
978-0-8018-9448-0
$110.00 hardcover
The Poetics of Consent
Greek Mythology
Collective Decision Making and the Iliad
An Introduction
David F. Elmer
Fritz Graf
“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
$55.00 hardcover
translated by Thomas Marier
“The best general introduction to Greek
mythology in English.”—Bryn Mawr Classical
Review
1996
264 pp., 12 b&w illus.
978-0-8018-5395-1
$25.00 paperback
Reading Herodotus
A Guided Tour through the Wild Boars,
Dancing Suitors, and Crazy Tyrants of The
History
Debra Hamel
Hamel takes us on a delightful, audacious romp
through The History of the Persian Wars.
2012
360 pp., 5 halftones, 9 line drawings
978-1-4214-0656-5
$29.95 paperback
The Lives of the Greek Poets
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
$25.00 paperback
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ROME
Patients and Healers in the High
Roman Empire
Ido Israelowich
“An original, innovative, and provocative history
Maternal Megalomania
Julia Domna and the Imperial Politics
of Motherhood
Julie Langford
of ancient medicine in the High Roman Empire
Langford uses the example of Julia Domna (the
from the patient’s point of view.”—Manfred
wife of Severus, Roman emperor from 193 –211
Horstmanshoff, Leiden University
AD) and the construction of her maternal image
2015
208 pp., 3 halftones
978-1-4214-1628-1
$59.95 hardcover
as a case study for examining the relationship
between the imperial administration and various
populations in the Roman Empire
Rome’s Christian Empress
Galla Placidia Rules at the Twilight
of the Empire
2013
232 pp., 30 b&w illus.
978-1-4214-0847-7
$55.00 hardcover
Roman Literary Culture
Joyce E. Salisbury
From Plautus to Macrobius
The page-turning account of Galla Placidia, a
second edition
remarkable ruler at the twilight of the Roman
Empire.
2015
256 pp., 11 halftones, 1 line drawing, 7 maps
978-1-4214-1700-4
$34.95 hardcover
Elaine Fantham
“An important work, full of learning, which serves
simultaneously to deepen our appreciation of
Latin literature in its social context, to provoke
further exploration of the questions the author
The Day Commodus Killed a Rhino
Understanding the Roman Games
Jerry Toner
raises, and to continue debate concerning
certain of the answers.”—New England Classical
Journal
Ancient Society and History
“This engaging, non-judgmental description
of the Roman games seamlessly integrates
sophisticated insights with clear examples and
2013
368 pp., 1 b&w illus
978-1-4214-0836-1
$30.00 paperback
evidence. Readers will be amazed at the scale,
sights, and wonders of the spectacles.”—Donald
G. Kyle, University of Texas–Arlington
Witness to Ancient History,
Gregory S. Aldrete, Series Editor
2014
144 pp., 6 halftones, 2 line drawings
978-1-4214-1586-4
$19.95 paperback
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Rome
The Empire of the Self
The Latin Inscriptions of Rome
Self-Command and Political Speech in
Seneca and Petronius
A Walking Guide
Christopher Star
Tyler Lansford
“If this book is not slipped into many a Rome-
“This book makes a major contribution to
the modern bibliography of selfhood and
bound suitcase, there is no justice in the world.
I can think of few more enjoyable companions
self-formation in the early empire, and it will
on a prowl through the city.”—Times Literary
doubtless generate further debate in so vibrant
Supplement
an area of study.”—Classical Journal
2009
600 pp., 15 b&w illus., 1 line drawing, 16 maps
978-0-8018-9150-2
$29.95 paperback
2012
312 pp.
978-1-4214-0674-9
$65.00 hardcover
Chariot Racing in the Roman Empire
Fik Meijer
Rome and the Barbarians, 100 B.C.–
A.D. 400
Thomas S. Burns
translated by Liz Waters
“Anyone who has struggled to convey to a class
“Readers will find an excellent overview of our
knowledge of ancient Roman chariot racing in
this fairly short and readable book.”—Bryn Mawr
Classical Review
the manifold ways in which the establishment
of a legionary fortress revolutionized the life of a
region will envy Burns’ pedagogical fluency.”
—Bryn Mawr Classical Review
2010
208 pp., 19 halftones, 3 line drawings, 2 maps
978-0-8018-9697-2
$29.95 hardcover
Ancient Society and History
2009
480 pp., 12 halftones, 6 maps
978-0-8018-9270-7
$31.00 paperback
Rome
A Living Portrait of an Ancient City
Stephen L. Dyson
“This exploration of Rome and what happened
there seeks not only to examine the physical
The Annals of Quintus Ennius and the
Italic Tradition
Jay Fisher
A fresh look at the multicultural influences on
and structural evolution of the city from earliest
Quintus Ennius and his epic poem, the Annals.
times until the early Christian era, but also to
2014
224 pp.
978-1-4214-1129-3
explore its social and cultural history.”—Oxbow
$69.95 hardcover
Book News
Ancient Society and History
2010
488 pp., 28 halftones, 16 line drawings
978-0-8018-9254-7
$35.00 paperback
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TR ANSL ATIONS FROM ANTI QUIT Y
The Other Four Plays of Sophocles
The Orphic Hymns
Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, and
Philoctetes
translation, introduction, and notes by
Apostolos N. Athanassakis
and Benjamin M. Wolkow
Sophocles
translated by David R. Slavitt
Famed translator David Slavitt lends his distinctly
contemporary voice to four lesser-known plays
and cosmic Greek poetry known as the Orphic
Hymns.
2013
280 pp.
978-1-4214-0882-8
of Sophocles.
2013
272 pp.
978-1-4214-1137-8
The only English translation of the mysterious
$22.95 paperback
$19.95 paperback
The Iliad
The Theban Plays
Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus,
Antigone
Sophocles
translated, with notes and an introduction,
by Ruth Fainlight and Robert J. Littman
Homer
translated by Edward McCrorie
with an introduction and notes by Erwin F. Cook
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
“I would recommend the translation without
reservations. It is clearly a translation well
suited to success both in the classroom and in
2012
552 pp., 1 line drawing
978-1-4214-0642-8
$25.00 paperback
the theater.”—Robin Mitchell-Boyask, Temple
University
Johns Hopkins New Translations from Antiquity
2009
284 pp., 1 line drawing, 1 map, 1 chart
978-0-8018-9134-2
$18.95 paperback
The Odyssey
Homer
translated by Edward McCrorie
with an introduction and notes by Richard P. Martin
“McCrorie’s new translation can be
Cut These Words into My Stone
Ancient Greek Epitaphs
translated by Michael Wolfe
foreword by Richard P. Martin
The lively ancient epitaphs in this bilingual
collection fit together like small mosaic tiles,
forming a vivid portrait of Greek society.
2012
208 pp.
978-1-4214-0804-0
$24.95 paperback
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recommended without reservation to the
generations of students to whom it is bound to
be assigned and to any reader who’d like to get
as close to the original as is possible. . . . It is
refreshing, accurate, and direct.”—Bloomsbury
Review
Johns Hopkins New Translations from Antiquity
2004
472 pp.
978-0-8018-8267-8
$22.00 paperback
THE ANCIENT WORLD
Ex Oriente Lex
Ordained Women in the Early Church
Near Eastern Influences on Ancient Greek
and Roman Law
A Documentary History
Raymond Westbrook
edited by Deborah Lyons and Kurt Raaflaub
An essential collection of Raymond Westbrook’s
groundbreaking work on the cross-cultural
history of ancient law.
2015
288 pp.
978-1-4214-1467-6
edited and translated by Kevin Madigan
and Carolyn Osiek
“An invaluable resource for all who are interested
in the historical evidence relating to the
ordination of women as deacons and presbyters
in the early centuries up to roughly the sixth
century.”—Review of Biblical Literature
$59.95 hardcover
Environmental Problems
of the Greeks and Romans
Ecology in the Ancient Mediterranean
second edition
2005
240 pp., 14 halftones, 2 maps
978-1-4214-0037-2
$30.00 paperback
Origins of Mathematical Words
A Comprehensive Dictionary of Latin, Greek,
and Arabic Roots
Anthony Lo Bello
J. Donald Hughes
“A significant contribution to understanding the
relationship between classical civilization in
the Mediterranean Basin and its contemporary
natural environment during the period from 800
B.C. to 600 A.D.”—Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Ancient Society and History
“A true labor of love, this book will delight
mathematicians. . . Others can only applaud the
knowledge, curiosity, and delight Lo Bello brings
to his work.”—Library Journal
2013
368 pp.
978-1-4214-1098-2
$49.95 paperback
2014
320 pp., 44 halftones
978-1-4214-1211-5
$27.95 paperback
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Disciples of the Desert
Monks, Laity, and Spiritual Authority
in Sixth-Century Gaza
Jennifer L. Hevelone-Harper
“An important contribution and a welcome
addition to the burgeoning study of Palestinian
monasticism in general and of Gaza in
particular.”—Religious Studies Review
2005
224 pp., 3 halftones
978-1-4214-1386-0
$34.95 paperback
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