CLASSICS 2019 AND ANCIENT HISTORY CLASSICS AND ANCIENT HISTORY
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Byzantium 3 Culture 21 Persia 5 Philosophy 22 Greece 8 Intersectionality 24 Literature 12 Law 25 Slavery 16 Archaeology 26 Screen 18 Rome 27
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Our list is expanding! We’re developing several important series so check these out and do be in touch if you’re working in these areas and you have a project that you’d like to talk about. • Edinburgh Byzantine Studies edited by Niels Gaul, Ruth Macrides, Alexander Riehle and Yannis Stouraitis, page 3 • Edinburgh Approaches to Ancient Greek Institutional History edited by Mirko Canevaro, Edward Harris and David Lewis, page 8 • Edinburgh Studies in Later Latin Literature edited by Gavin Kelly and Aaron Pelttari, page, 13 • Edinburgh Studies in Ancient Slavery edited by Ulrike Roth, page 16 • Ancient Cultures, New Materialisms edited by Lilah Grace Canevaro and Melissa Mueller, page 21 • Intersectionality in Classical Antiquity edited by Mark Masterson, Fiona McHardy and Nancy Rabinowitz, page 24 Our new books include The Edinburgh Companion to Sidonius Apollinaris edited by Gavin Kelly and Joop Van Waarden (page 12). This is a substantial and significant piece of scholarship combining the utility of a key research tool for studying Sidonius as well as offering completely new research. And we have 2 more volumes in our beautiful Edinburgh Studies in Ancient Persia series (page 6). Archaeology of Empire in Achaemenid Egypt by Henry P. Colburn and Zoroastrian Scholasticism in Late Antiquity by Arash Zeini.
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2 edinburghuniversitypress.com Edinburgh Byzantine SERIES Studies Series Editors: Niels Gaul, Ruth Macrides, Alexander Riehle and Yannis Stouraitis edinburghuniversitypress.com/series/ebs
Edinburgh Byzantine Studies explores new theoretical and cross-cultural approaches to Byzantium. These innovative readings will draw on sociological methods as well as theory- driven and comparative approaches to highlight the connectivity of Byzantine Studies. The books in this series will significantly advance our understanding of this polity on the crossroads of cultures by looking at the historical, textual, linguistic, material, archaeological and visual remains of medieval Byzantium and its neighbours. New in the series Imperial Visions of Late Byzantium Manuel II Palaiologos and Rhetoric in Purple Florin Leonte, Palacký University of Olomouc, Czech Republic • Discusses the texts of the Byzantine emperor and prolific theologian and rhetorician
• Explores Byzantine rhetorical innovations in the late Hb & Ebook Byzantine political and social context £85 | $130 • Provides a fresh understanding of key pieces of November 2019 Byzantine public rhetoric 320 pages 9781474441032
Social Stratification in Late Byzantium Christos Malatras, University of Cologne • Identifies the main traits of Late Byzantine society and the ideas of the Byzantines about their social system, Hb & Ebook social values and the organisation of their society £85 | $130 • Adopts modern sociological and anthropological March 2020 theories to better understand Byzantine society 352 pages • Offers a new explanation of the collapse of Byzantine 9781474460880 8 b&w illustrations, society and the state in the face of external threats 24 b&w line art
Classics & Ancient History 3 BYZANTIUM Byzantine Military Tactics in Syria and Mesopotamia in the 10th Century A Comparative Study Georgios Theotokis, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul The first comprehensive history of Byzantine warfare in the tenth century This book examines the strategies and military tactics of the Byzantines and their enemies in Eastern Anatolia, Syria and in Upper Mesopotamia in the tenth century. This period of conflict is difficult to define: it was too inactive to be called a ‘war’ but too active to be called a ‘cold war’. Nevertheless, it was a ‘war’, even if it lacked the numerous pitched battles or protracted sieges that defined other periods or other operational theatres of war. This study examines the way the Byzantines innovated and adapted their strategies and tactics to those of their enemies in the East, giving a rich picture of tenth-century Byzantine warfare.
Hb £80.00 | $130.00 October 2018 360 pages 9781474431033 Also available in Ebook
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4 edinburghuniversitypress.com Edinburgh Studies in SERIES Ancient Persia Series Editor: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones Edinburghuniversitypress.com/series/esap
Edinburgh Studies in Ancient Persia is an exciting monograph series dealing with key aspects of the ancient Persian world from the Achaemenids to the Sasanians, exploring its history, reception, art, archaeology, religion, literary tradition (including oral transmissions) and philology. Books in the series provide an important synergy of the latest scholarly ideas about this formative ancient world civilization.
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Classics & Ancient History 5 PERSIA Archaeology of Empire in Achaemenid Egypt Henry P. Colburn, University of Southern California A study of the material culture of Egypt during the period of Achaemenid Persian rule, c. 526-404 BCE Previous studies have characterised Achaemenid rule of Egypt either as ephemeral and weak or oppressive and harsh. These characterisations, however, are based on the perceived lack of evidence for this period, filtered through ancient and modern preconceptions about the Persians. Henry Colburn challenges these views by assembling and analyzing the archaeological remains from this period, including temples, tombs, irrigation works, statues, stelae, sealings, drinking vessels and coins. By looking at the decisions made about material culture - by Egyptians, Persians and others - it becomes possible to see both how the Persians integrated Egypt into their empire and the full range of experiences people had as a result.
HB £85.00 | $130.00 November 2019 352 pages 9781474452366 65 b&w illustrations, 3 b&w tables, 2 b&w line drawings Also available in Ebook
Zoroastrian Scholasticism in Late Antiquity The Pahlavi version of the Yasna Haptaŋhāiti Arash Zeini, Freie Universität Berlin Examines Zoroastrian exegesis by investigating a late antique translation of an ancient Iranian text In late antiquity, Zoroastrian exegetes set out to translate their ancient canonical texts into Middle Persian, the vernacular of their time. Although undated, these translations, commonly known as the Zand, are often associated with the Sasanian era (224–651 ce). Despite the many challenges the Zand offers to us today, it is indispensable for investigations of late antique exegesis of the Avesta, a collection of religious and ritual texts commonly regarded as the Zoroastrians’ scripture.
HB £95.00 | $145.00 March 2020 344 pages 9781474442886 11 b&w illustrations, 17 b&w tables, 1 b&w line art Also available in Ebook
6 edinburghuniversitypress.com PERSIA Sasanian Persia Between Rome and the Steppes of Eurasia Edited by Eberhard W. Sauer, University of Edinburgh • Details Persia’s growing military and economic power in the late antique world • Covers the latest discoveries on foundations, PB, HB & Ebook £24.99 | $39.95 fortifications and irrigation systems May 2019 • Includes case studies on Sasanian frontier walls and 336 pages urban culture in the Sasanian Empire 9781474452304 84 b&w illustrations, 5 b&w tables
ReOrienting the Sasanians East Iran in Late Antiquity Khodadad Rezakhani, Princeton University • Provides a narrative history of Central Asia after the Greek dynasties and before Islam • Contextualises Persian history in relation to the PB, HB & Ebook history of Central Asia £19.99 | $29.95 • Extends the concept of late antiquity further east than August 2018 is usually done 256 pages 9781474437783 30 b&w illustrations
Plutarch and the Persica Eran Almagor, Independent Scholar • Builds a picture of the character and structure of the lost Persica works by Ctesias of Cnidus, Deinon of Colophon, Heracleides of Cyme • Shows how Plutarch used the Persica works in his Lives with a specific focus on Artaxerxes HB & Ebook £85 | $130 • Considers the depiction of famous figures such as July 2018 Alexander the Great and Themistocles in Plutarch’s 352 pages works 9780748645558 1 map
Semiramis’ Legacy The History of Persia According to Diodorus of Sicily Jan P. Stronk, University of Amsterdam • Contains the first comprehensive account of Ancient Persian History and its context as seen by Diodorus - a well-informed Greek • Presents a complete review of the historical sources PB, HB & Ebook used by Diodorus, not merely for the Persian history £29.99 | $44.95 but for the entire Biblioteca Historica February 2018 • Offers a historic and cultural background to the 624 pages account of Diodorus 9781474432559
Classics & Ancient History 7 SERIES seriesNew Approaches title to AncientSeries Editor: Greek Institutionalwww History Series Editors: Mirko Canevaro, Edward Harris and David Lewis edinburghuniversitypress.com/series/nagih
This series will showcase new trends in the study of Greek political, legal, social and economic institutions and institutional history. It will create a fruitful dialogue between Greek institutional historians and the political and social sciences – and in particular the New Institutionalisms.
Books in the series will go beyond a traditional approach to offer theoretical and methodological reflection on the importance of institutions and on how we should study them. They will appeal to Greek historians and to political and social scientists alike.
Your book should… • Be 80-90,000 words long and may include maps and illustrations • Be written at a level suitable for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and academics working within Classics and Ancient History Departments and in Politics and the Social Sciences fostering dialogue between the disciplines • Integrate social, political and economic history through a common focus on institutions • Go beyond traditional institutional approaches by investigating Greek institutions as organic systems of rules, practices and ideas/discourses
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8 edinburghuniversitypress.com The Edinburgh SERIES History of the Greeks Series Editor: Thomas W. Gallant edinburghuniversitypress.com/series/higr
The Edinburgh History of the Greeks is a 10-volume series covering the history of Greece and the Greeks over the last 3,500 years, from antiquity to the present. Each volume combines political history with social and cultural history to tell the story of the Greek people in an exciting, novel and innovative way.
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The Edinburgh The Edinburgh History History of the Greeks, of the Greeks, 1453 to 1768 1768 to 1913 The Ottoman Empire The Long Nineteenth Century Molly Greene Thomas W. Gallant PB, HB & Ebook PB, HB & Ebook £29.99 | $49.95 £29.99 | $49.95 January 2015 July 2015 384 pages 248 pages 9780748636068 9780748693993 65 b&w illustrations, 8 b&w illustrations 20 b&w tables, 9 Maps
The Edinburgh History of the Greeks, c. 500 to 1050 The Early Middle Ages Florin Curta
PB, HB & Ebook £29.99 | $49.95 March 2014 376 pages 9780748694327 10 Maps
Catalogue 9 SERIES Edinburgh Leventis Studies Series Editor: Douglas Cairns edinburghuniversitypress.com/series/eule
This series, supported by the AG Leventis Foundation, is a forum for original research in all aspects of ancient Greek history and culture. Each volume is co-edited by Edinburgh University’s biennially appointed AG Leventis Visiting Professor of Ancient Greek.
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10 edinburghuniversitypress.com GREECE Ancient Greek History and Contemporary Social Science Edited by Mirko Canevaro, Andrew Erskine, both at University of Edinburgh, Benjamin Gray, Birkbeck, University of London and Josiah Ober, Stanford University Defines the cutting-edge of scholarship on ancient Greek history employing methods from social science There is a long history of successful engagement between social science and classical studies. Social science has been a source of new and productive approaches to understanding ancient Greece, while classical Greek history and culture has been a touchstone for social theorists since the 19th century. This new collection of essays surveys the current state of the new field of ‘social science Greek history’ and demonstrates the potential of this interdisciplinary field. Substantial bodies of work that have contributed in fundamental ways to our understanding of classical Greece and its cultural legacy were produced in 20th century, by employing methods from anthropology, sociology, and psychology. More recently, the use of quantitative methods and formal theory, drawn from contemporary political science, economics, and sociology, has led to a new understanding of ancient Greek economic and political development. Meanwhile, normative considerations, drawn from contemporary political philosophy, have led to a richer understanding of Greek political thought and Greek institutional innovations – notably including democracy and the rule of law. • Introduces a new field within classical studies • Demonstrates the value of robustly interdisciplinary scholarship • Shows the practical value of social science for ancient history • Highlights the importance of Greek case studies for social science • Contributors include Sara Forsdyke, David Lewis, Robert Fleck and Andrew Hanssen
HB £95.00 | $150.00 June 2018 608 pages 9781474421775 17 b&w & 26 colour illustrations, 4 b&w tables Also available in Ebook
Also in the series Greek Laughter and Tears Defining Greek Antiquity and After Narrative Edited by Margaret Alexiou and Edited by Douglas Cairns Douglas Cairns and Ruth Scodel
HB & Ebook Hb & Ebook £95 | $150 £95 | $150 June 2017 March 2014 504 pages 392 pages 9781474403795 9780748680108 30 b&w illustrations, 1 b&w illustration, 1 b&w table 10 b&w drawings
Classics & Ancient History 11 LITERATURE The Edinburgh Companion to Sidonius Apollinaris Edited by Gavin Kelly, University of Edinburgh and Joop Van Waarden, Radboud University Nijmegen A multidisciplinary survey of Sidonius Apollinaris and his work Sidonius Apollinaris, c. 430 – c. 485, poet and letter-writer, aristocrat, administrator and bishop, is one of the most distinct voices to survive from Late Antiquity and an eyewitness of the end of Roman power in the west. For the first time, The Edinburgh Companion to Sidonius Apollinaris gives a full account of all aspects concerning his life and works, including past and current scholarship as well as new research developments. This substantial and significant piece of scholarship is divided into six thematic sections covering his social, political, linguistic, literary and prosopographical context as well as extensive manuscript and reception research. Based on entirely new scholarly work this interdisciplinary book combines the utility of a key research tool for studying Sidonius as well as a significant offering of wholly new research.
• First-ever comprehensive • Includes recommendations research tool for Sidonius for further reading as well Apollinaris as a full bibliography, • Offers an assessment of the including all the scholarly research on Sidonius and literature on Sidonius his age • Includes links to the regularly updated Sidonius website www.sidonapol.org
HB £195 | $250 May 2020 768 pages 9781474461696 4 b&w illustrations Also available in Ebook
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12 edinburghuniversitypress.com Edinburgh Studies SERIES in Later Latin Literature Series Editors: Gavin Kelly and Aaron Pelttari edinburghuniversitypress.com/series/eslll
Edinburgh Studies in Later Latin Literature offers a forum for new scholarship on important and sometimes neglected works. The later Roman and post-Roman world, between the second and seventh century, saw the creation of major texts and critical developments in writing. Texts of all kinds are treated here with careful attention to their various historical contexts.
Volumes include scholarly monographs and editions with commentaries. Modern critical and theoretical methods together provide new interpretations of the surviving Latin literature; these approaches include textual history, transmission, philology in the broad sense, and reception studies. This series provides access to our best understanding of what survives in the written record and makes modern interpretations of later Latin literature more widely available.
Editorial Advisory Board: Therese Fuhrer, University of Munich Lucy Grig, University of Edinburgh Isabella Gualandri, University of Milan Philip Hardie, University of Cambridge Calum Maciver, University of Edinburgh Justin Stover, University of Edinburgh
If you have a proposal suitable for this series we’d love to hear from you. Contact Senior Commissioning Editor Carol Macdonald to discuss your project: [email protected]
Classics & Ancient History 13 LITERATURE Revenge and Gender in Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Literature Edited by Lesel Dawson, University of Bristol and Fiona McHardy, University of Roehampton Explores the representation of revenge from Classical to early modern literature This collection explores a range of literary and historical texts from ancient Greece and Rome, medieval Iceland and medieval and early modern England to provide an understanding of wider historical continuities and discontinuities in representations of gender and revenge. It brings together approaches from literary criticism, gender theory, feminism, drama, philosophy and ethics to allow greater discussion between these subjects and across historical periods and to provide a more complex and nuanced understanding of the ways in which ideas about gender and revenge interrelate.
PB £24.99 | $39.95 November 2019 352 pages 9781474454643 4 b&w illustrations, 3 b&w tables Also available in HB and Ebook
Translation and Literature Volume 28 Part 1 Editor: Stuart Gillespie, University of Glasgow Translation and Literature is an interdisciplinary scholarly TRANSLATION journal focusing on English Literature in its foreign relations. Subjects of recent articles have included English translations of AND Martial, Spenser’s use of Ovid, Eighteenth-Century Satire and Roman dialogue, Basil Bunting’s translations, Finnigans Wake LITERATURE in Italian, and the translation of haiku. Contributors come from many disciplines: Spring 2019 • English Literature • Modern Languages • Literary Theory • Classical Studies • Translation Studies
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Print ISSN: 0968-1361 Online ISSN: 1750-0214 3 issues per year
14 edinburghuniversitypress.com LITERATURE The City in Arabic Literature Classical and Modern Perspectives Edited by Nizar F. Hermes, University of Virginia and Gretchen Head, Yale-NUS College in Singapore • Shows how the city has been explored in works of literature by classical and modern ‘Arab’ authors from PB, HB & Ebook different theosophical and ideological backgrounds £24.99 | $29.95 November 2019 • Views the entirety of the tradition as an evolving 360 pages continuum, making the collection relevant to scholars 9781474455824 of both classical and modern Arabic literature 7 b&w illustrations, 7 b&w drawings
Ovidian Transversions ‘Iphis and Ianthe’, 1300–1650 Edited by Valerie Traub, University of Michigan, Patricia Badir, University of British Columbia and Peggy McCracken, University of Michigan • The only scholarly monograph to focus on Ovid’s HB & Ebook ‘Iphis and Ianthe’ £80 | $120 March 2019 • Intervenes in the history of Ovidian reception and literary 344 pages history, particularly in terms of gender and sexuality 9781474448901 • Broadens readings of ‘Iphis and Ianthe’ beyond 29 b&w illustrations concerns of gender and sexuality Conversions
Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic Selfhood, Stoicism and Civil War Patrick Gray, Durham University HB & Ebook £80.00 | $120 • Explains Shakespeare’s interpretation of the underlying November 2018 causes of the Roman Republican civil wars 320 pages • Shows how Shakespeare uses Roman history as a 9781474427456 testing-ground to arbitrate between competing claims Edinburgh about human nature Critical Studies in Shakespeare and • Articulates Shakespeare’s position on selfhood Philosophy
The Concept of Conversation From Cicero’s Sermo to the Grand Siècle’s Conversation David Randall, National Association of Scholars • First book-length history of early modern conversation in English • Synthesizes early modern intellectual history within PB, HB & Ebook the frameworks of rhetoric and conversation 24.99 | $39.95 • Places the history of women’s speech at the heart of August 2019 the history of early modern rhetoric 272 pages 9781474430111
Classics & Ancient History 15 SERIES Edinburgh Studies in Ancient Slavery Series Editor: Ulrike Roth edinburghuniversitypress.com/series/esas
The study of ancient slavery is an essential element of the study of the ancient world. This series publishes the latest research on ancient slavery, including Greek, Roman and Near Eastern slavery, as well as early Christian and Jewish slavery, from c. 1000 BC to AD 500.
Written by experts in the field, from the rising star to the well-established scholar, the books will offer cutting-edge research on key themes in ancient slavery studies, which will enhance as well as challenge the current understanding of ancient slavery. You will find the latest research from a range of disciplines including history, archaeology and philology.
Key Features: • Covers a broad range including Greek, Roman, Near Eastern as well as early Christian and Jewish slavery • Fills a striking gap in the academic publishing landscape • Will be of interest to those studying slavery in other historical periods • Promotes interdisciplinary and comparative approaches
If you have a proposal suitable for this series we’d love to hear from you. Contact Senior Commissioning Editor Carol Macdonald to discuss your project: [email protected]
16 edinburghuniversitypress.com SLAVERY Conquered Populations in Early Islam Non-Arabs, Slaves and the Sons of Slave Mothers Elizabeth Urban, West Chester University of Pennsylvania Explores the ways in which new Muslims of slave origins were integrated into early Islamic society This book traces the journey of new Muslims as they joined the early Islamic community and articulated their identities within it. It focuses on Muslims of slave origins, who belonged to the society in which they lived but whose slave background rendered them somehow alien. How did these Muslims at the crossroads of insider and outsider find their place in early Islamic society? How did Islamic society itself change to accommodate these new members? By analysing how these liminal Muslims resolved the tension between belonging and otherness, Conquered Populations in Early Islam reveals the shifting boundaries of the early Islamic community and celebrates the dynamism of Islamic history.
HB £75.00 | $110.00 January 2020 224 pages 9781474423212 Also available in Ebook Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture
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Classics & Ancient History 17 SERIES Screening Antiquity Series Editors: Monica S Cyrino and Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones edinburghuniversitypress.com/series/sca
Screening Antiquity is a cutting-edge and provocative series of academic monographs and edited volumes focusing on new research on the reception of the ancient world in film and television. Books in the series showcase the work of the best-established as well as up-and-coming specialists in the field and provide an important synergy of the latest international scholarly ideas about the conception of antiquity in popular culture. Screening Antiquity is the only series that focuses exclusively on screened representations of the ancient world.
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18 edinburghuniversitypress.com SCREEN Epic Heroes on Screen Edited by Antony Augoustakis, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and Stacie Raucci, Union College in Schenectady • Offers representations of the ancient hero in the new millennium • Provides original, cutting edge research in the fields of PB, HB & Ebook history, politics, gender, film and fan culture £24.99 | $39.95 November 2019 • Covers topics including society, politics, generational 288 pages issues, gender, fan reception and star texts 9781474454636 19 b&w illustrations
Ancient Greece on British Television Edited by Fiona Hobden, University of Liverpool and Amanda Wrigley, University of Reading • Explores the cultural politics of televisual engagements with the history, literature and archaeology of Ancient Greece PB, HB & Ebook • Investigates institutional production contexts, £24.99 | $39.95 developing technologies, the use of space and location, November 2019 style and aesthetics, costume and staging, globalization 272 pages 9781474454650 and localization and audiences 26 b&w illustrations 3 b&w tables
Screening Divinity Lisa Maurice, Bar-Ilan University, Israel • Examines screen portrayals of the gods of classical mythology and biblical deities • Investigates a single issue over a range of genres in cinema and television from fantasy movies to biopics to Bible stories HB & Ebook £75 | $110 • Considers the gods of Greek and Roman mythology June 2019 alongside the biblical God of the Judeo-Christian 240 pages tradition 9781474425735 18 b&w illustrations
Screening the Golden Ages of the Classical Tradition Edited by Meredith E. Safran, Trinity College, Connecticut • Draws on ancient Greek and Roman literature and culture, from Hesiod to Suetonius • Considers prestige projects, cult classics and classical HB & Ebook influence on genre productions £80 | $120 • Explores how the mythical past is invoked through November 2018 political rhetoric and popular media 352 pages 9781474440844 28 b&w illustrations
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Designs on the Past Available on How Hollywood Created the Ancient World inspection Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, Cardiff University • Lavishly illustrated with film stills and examples of rare and fascinating marketing material • Considers different aspects of film production: PB, HB & Ebook the Hollywood set, costume design, the role of the £24.99 | $39.95 movie star, dialogue, narration and music August 2018 440 pages • Explores the archaeology of stardom examining 9780748675647 the onscreen/offscreen images of Elizabeth Taylor, 205 b&w, 16 colour Charlton Heston and Rita Hayworth illustrations
STARZ Spartacus Reimagining an Icon on Screen Edited by Antony Augoustakis, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and Monica S Cyrino, University of New Mexico • Includes original, innovative research in fields of history, politics, gender, film, fan culture PB, HB & Ebook • Explores the theme of Spartacus on screen from £24.99 | $39.95 multiple angles: history, classics, film studies, February 2018 reception studies, gender studies, fandom studies 268 pages 9781474432566
Cowboy Classics The Roots of the American Western in the Epic Tradition Kirsten Day, Augustana College • Discusses the recent scholarly interest in classical representations in popular culture HB & Ebook • Looks at how both Greco-Roman epic and Western £75 | $110 film in general help to define foundational ideologies May 2016 for their respective cultures 240 pages 9781474402460 21 b&w illustrations
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Ben-Hur Rome Season Two The Original Blockbuster Trial and Triumph Jon Solomon Edited by Monica S Cyrino
PB, HB & Ebook HB & Ebook £29.99 | $44.95 £75 | $110 April 2016 May 2015 928 pages 272 pages 9781474407953 9781474400275 56 colour illustrations 18 b&w illustrations
20 edinburghuniversitypress.com Ancient Cultures, SERIES New Materialisms Series Editors: Lilah Grace Canevaro and Melissa Mueller edinburghuniversitypress.com/series/acnm
From archaeological sites to papyri and manuscripts, we experience the ancient world through its material remains. This materiality may be tangible: from vases to votive offerings and statues to spearheads. It might be the text as object or the object in the text.
The New Materialisms have transformed the way we conceive of the material world – but how and to what extent might they be applied to ancient cultures? Books in this series will showcase the potential applications of New Materialism within Classics, giving us a new way to look at ancient texts, ancient objects and ancient world-views.
Editorial Advisory Board Karen Bassi, University of California Santa Brooke Holmes, Princeton University Cruz Mark Payne, University of Chicago Ruth Bielfeldt, University of Munich Verity Platt, Cornell University Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Arizona State Alex Purves, University of California Los University Angeles Diana Coole, Birkbeck, University of London Michael Squire, King’s College London Katharine Earnshaw, University of Exeter Miguel John Versluys, University of Leiden Milette Gaifman, Yale University Nancy Worman, Barnard College, Columbia Jonas Grethlein, University of Heidelberg University Graham Harman, Southern California Institute of Architecture
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Classics & Ancient History 21 PHILOSOPHY Ancient Philosophy Today Editors: Anna Marmodoro and Erasmus Mayr • Provides a forum for the mutual engagement New in 2019 between ancient and contemporary philosophy • Connects interpretative work in ancient philosophy to current discussions in metaphysics, epistemology and ethics Print ISSN: • Assesses the continuing relevance of ancient theories 2516-1156 to current philosophical interests and debates Online ISSN: 2516-1164 2 issues per year
The Deleuze-Lucretius Encounter Ryan J. Johnson, Elon University • Re-orients Deleuze studies by engaging a highly PB, HB & Ebook important yet almost completely ignored area of £24.99 | $39.95 the philosopher’s work - his relationship to ancient February 2018 philosophy 288 pages • Begins and ends with a powerful claim: Lucretian 9781474432306 atomism produced Deleuzianism 1 b&w illustration, • Shows how Lucretius resonates throughout all 3 b&w drawings Deleuze’s writings: from immanent ontology to Plateaus - New Directions in affirmative ethics Deleuze Studies
Lucretius I An Ontology of Motion Thomas Nail, University of Denver • A new materialist, quantum and feminist interpretation of Lucretius • Argues the original and provocative thesis that PB, HB & Ebook Lucretius was not an atomist but rather the first £19.99 | $29.95 philosopher of motion February 2018 • The most profound revision of how we read Lucretius 288 pages since Michel Serres’ The Birth of Physics (1977) 9781474434676 15 b&w illustrations
Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Metaphysics Edited by Abraham Jacob Greenstine, Duquesne University and Ryan J. Johnson, Elon University • 15 original essays and three previously untranslated articles on topics of ancient physics and metaphysics by some of the leading contemporary philosophers and PB, HB & Ebook scholars £24.99 | $39.95 • Provides a space for the burgeoning continental August 2018 materialist, realist and metaphysical readings of ancient 352 pages philosophical problems and texts 9781474437424
22 edinburghuniversitypress.com PHILOSOPHY Distributed Cognition in Classical
Antiquity HB & Ebook Edited by Miranda Anderson, University of Stirling, Douglas £125 | $195 Cairns and Mark Sprevak, both at University of Edinburgh November 2018 • Includes essays on archaeology, art history, rhetoric, 304 pages 9781474429740 literature, philosophy, science, medicine and technology 2 b&w, 4 colour • For students and scholars in classics, cognitive illustrations humanities, philosophy of mind and ancient The Edinburgh philosophy History of Distributed Cognition
Monstrosity and Philosophy Radical Otherness in Greek and Latin Culture Filippo Del Lucchese, Brunel University, London • Reconstructs the concept of monstrosity in classic thought from its earliest beginnings, through pre- Platonic and Attic philosophy to the Hellenistic systems and finally arriving at Neapolitanism HB & Ebook • Covers all the major figures: from Hesiod to £90 | $140 Augustine, through Democritus, Plato, Aristotle, October 2019 Epicurus and Lucretius 472 pages 9781474456203
Aristotle on the Matter of Form Α Feminist Metaphysics of Generation Adriel M. Trott, Wabash College • Offers a clear and innovative account of Aristotle’s biological works, informed by Continental philosophy and inflected by feminist interests and concerns HB & Ebook • Contextualises Aristotle’s views of gender in ancient £80 | $120 Greek mythology, medicine and early philosophy October 2019 • Showcases how Aristotle’s account is fundamentally 280 pages phenomenological 9781474455220 Cycles
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Classics & Ancient History 23 SERIES Intersectionality in Classical Antiquity Series Editors: Mark Masterson, Fiona McHardy and Nancy Rabinowitz edinburghuniversitypress.com/series/ica
This series focuses on the intersection of gender and sexuality, in the Greco-Roman world, with a range of other factors including race, ethnicity, class, ability, masculinity, femininity, transgender and post-colonial gender studies.
Forthcoming in the series Exploring Gender Diversity in the Ancient World Edited by Jennifer Dyer, Memorial University of Newfoundland and Allison Surtees, University of Winnipeg Explores how gender binary and behaviours of gender were actively challenged in classical antiquity Gender identity and gender expression in ancient cultures are questioned in these 18 essays in light of our new understandings of sex and gender. Using contemporary theory and methodologies this book opens up a new history of gender diversity from the ancient world to our own that encourages us to reconsider those very understandings of sex and gender identity. The essays take an interdisciplinary approach and will appeal to classicists, ancient historians, archaeologies as well as those working in gender studies, transgender studies, LGBTQ+ studies, anthropology and women’s studies.
HB £80.00 | $120.00 March 2020 268 pages 9781474447041 25 b&w illustrations Also available in Ebook
24 edinburghuniversitypress.com LAW Viking Law and Order Places and Rituals of Assembly in the Medieval North Alexandra Sanmark, University of the Highlands and Islands • The first detailed appraisal of Norse assembly sites, investigated from an interdisciplinary perspective PB, HB, Ebook • Sites are analysed through surveys and case studies across £24.99 | $39.95 February 2019 Scandinavia, Scotland and the North Atlantic region 320 pages • Explores the symbolic meaning of these highly ritualised 9781474445757 sites, and how they were constructed to signify control 100 b&w through monuments and natural features illustrations, 24 b&w drawings
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Roman Law Essentials 2nd Edition Craig Anderson, Robert Gordon University • A study and revision guide for Scots law students of Roman law • Compares Roman law with other early legal systems to show why Roman law was special and how it was PB, HB & Ebook folded into other medieval legal structures in Europe £15.99 | $24.95 and Britain February 2018 144 pages • Summary sections of Essential Facts and Essential 9781474425087 Cases to help students remember the key elements of Edinburgh Law the subject Essentials
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26 edinburghuniversitypress.com The Edinburgh History SERIES of Ancient Rome Series Editor: J. S. Richardson edinburghuniversitypress.com/series/ehar
The Edinburgh History of Ancient Rome is a chronological history of Rome and the Roman world in eight volumes. From the city’s first settlement to the collapse of the western empire and the emergence of Byzantium some 1,500 years later, each volume encapsulates a sense of the ever- changing identity of Rome, providing overall unity to its dramatic history.
Praise for the series: Each volume in the series provides an intelligent and highly readable account of the respective periods, skilfully pitched to their intended audience. Roman historians will, however, notice the numerous interpretative insights of each author and in this regard each volume is able to stand alone. - Christopher J. Dart, University of Melbourne in Ancient West and East
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