Ancient history

Sheds light on the motivations that lay behind the adoption of pottery, the challenges that had to be overcome.

Groundbreaking study of the poet Simonides, approaching his work through intertextual readings of the fragments and his ancient reception.

Presents a coherent model for understanding historical examples in Ancient Rome and their rhetorical, moral and historiographical functions.

Argues that immigration politics is a central - but overlooked - matter of contestation in the democratic thought of classical Athens.

The first full treatment of Jewish childhood in the Roman world.

Reinterpretation of the Danube frontier in Late Antiquity, drawing on literary, archaeological, and numismatic sources.

Studies the interrelation of sight, touch, and the imagination in ancient and medieval Greek theories of perception and cognition.

This book reorients the study of sacrifice, examining the locus of ritual action - the altars of Republican Rome and Latium.

Presents the first full-length, systematic study of the reception of Cicero''s speeches in the Roman educational system.

Reveals the importance of Gellius'' Noctes Atticae for the history of reading, thought, and intellectual culture in the Graeco-Roman world.

Systematically explores the changing size and structure of the population of classical Athens and the implications for economic history.

Provides the first global analysis of the relationship between trade and civilisation from the beginning of civilisation until the modern era.

Argues that freed slaves exerted a profound influence on the transformation of Roman values under the Principate.

Reviews the complex relationship between Rome''s rich archaeology, changing cultural and ideological agendas, and its urban development.

Examines the first theory of consciousness in Western philosophy, dispelling the dogma that consciousness studies begins with Descartes.

Examines the clash between political systems and political action as the Roman Republic disintegrated.

History mattered to the political elite in ancient China.

Ground-breaking study revealing the thrill and moral power of the ancient Roman story-world and its ancestral tales of bloody heroism.

Far from being a Judeo-Christian invention, apocalyptic thought had its roots in the ancient Near East and was expressed in its art.

This volume brings together scholars of Mediterranean archaeology, ancient history, and complexity science to advance the study of maritime connectivity.

A wide-ranging study of violence in Latin literature, across the spectrum of texts and genres from Plautus to Prudentius.

Explores the crucial role played by rhetorical education in turning Cicero into a literary and political symbol after his death.

Historically and philosophically informed introduction to the embryological, zoological, and medical views presented in this sophisticated and challenging text.

Examines developments in the heartland of Greece after the reign of Alexander the Great, and rejects the usual pessimistic picture.

Presents the first comprehensive study of the ''Byzantine Google'' and how it reshaped Byzantine court culture in the tenth century.

The first study in English of Vitruvius'' De architectura to take the work seriously as a literary and cultural product.

Explores two thousand years of radically changing opinions on the emperor Augustus, and what they reveal about the historical individual.

Studies all four branches of the Athenian armed forces to show how they helped make democratic Athens a superpower.

Argues that Roman expansion in Italy was accomplished more by means of negotiation among local elites than through military conquest.

Explores the dynamic interactions among Latin poets, artists, and audiences in constructing and critiquing imperial power in Augustan Rome.

This book focuses on the material practice of ancient literacy through a contextual examination of Roman writing equipment.

By taking a look at colonization and subalternity, this book offers a different view on Classical Greece and its modern legacy.

This anthology translates and discusses texts authored by women of ancient Mesopotamia.

Collected essays by Cambridge sociologist Keith Hopkins - one of the most radical, innovative and influential Roman historians of his generation.

The fortlet, a previously overlooked military installation type, reveals how Rome built, secured, and lost its Empire.

Offers a re-appraisal of the sources and philosophical significance of Peripatetic ethics as interpreted and appropriated by Antiochus of Ascalon.

A pioneering, methodologically sophisticated set of studies describing and analysing key aspects of ancient Greek and Chinese civilisations.

Demonstrates how ancient Roman mural paintings stood at the intersection of contemporary social, ethical, and aesthetic concerns.

The first holistic study of Roman literature and literary culture under Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian (AD 96–138).

Explores how classical ideals of generosity influenced the writing and practice of gift giving in medieval Europe.

Explores the social interactions and pathways that enabled Christianity to travel across Asia and to India.

This volume looks at the effects of interaction and the nature of identity construction in a frontier or contact zone through the analysis of material culture, especially in mortuary settings.

The first in-depth exploration of Borges'' classicism and a major contribution to the field of global classics and Borges studies.

Investigates the representation of the Carthaginian enemy and the revisionist history of the Punic Wars in Virgil''s Aeneid.

Explores Cicero, Apuleius, Calcidius, and Augustine as interpreters of Plato''s Timaeus in the context of the Roman philosophical tradition.

Focusing on Greece and Babylonia, this book provides a new, cross-cultural approach to the intellectual history of the Hellenistic world.

Brings the voices of Roman slaves in early comedy to the history of theater and the history of slavery.

This book traces the evolution of the Indo-European verbal system from the early proto-language to the period of the first Greek texts.

Redefines the role assigned education in the history of monasticism, by re-situating monasticism in the history of education.

Re-assesses the phenomenon of Greek ''local history-writing'' and its role in creating political and cultural identity in a changing world.