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CLASSICAL STUDIES, HISTORY& ARCHAEOLOGY NEW BOOKS CATALOGUE 2017-18 TM Instant digital access to more than 6,000 eBooks across the social sciences and humanities, including titles from The Arden Shakespeare, Continuum, Bristol Classical Press, and Berg. Subjects covered include: Anthropology • Biblical Studies • Classical Studies & Archaeology • Education • Film & Media • History • Law • Linguistics • Literary Studies • Philosophy • Religious Studies • Theology CONTENT HIGHLIGHTS FEATURES • 125 Collections, expanded annually by subject discipline • Advanced and full text search across all content. • Archive Collections in key subject areas such as ancient • Filter results by subject, series, or collection history, Christology, continental philosophy, and more • Pagination matches print exactly • Special Collections such as International Critical • Personalization features: save searches, export citations Commentary, Ancient Commentators on Aristotle, and and favorite, download, or print documents Education Around the World series • Footnotes, endnotes, and bibliographic references are hyperlinked To register your interest for a free institutional trial, or for further information email: Americas: [email protected] UK, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia: [email protected] Australia and New Zealand: [email protected] www.bloomsburycollections.com Collections_advert.indd 1 28/07/2017 15:41 Contents Classical Studies History Ancient History ......................................................2 Historiography, Theory & Methods ............................. 12 Greek Literature ....................................................3 British & Irish History ............................................. 13 Latin Literature .....................................................4 European History .................................................. 18 Classical Reception .................................................4 African History .................................................... 26 Archaeology ..........................................................6 Asian History ....................................................... 27 Ancient Philosophy ..................................................7 World & Comparative History ................................... 30 Latin & Greek for Schools .........................................8 Imperial & Colonial History ...................................... 33 School Text Editions ................................................9 History of War ..................................................... 35 Holocaust & Genocide Studies .................................. 38 Major Reference Works 40 Index ................................................................ 47 Representatives, Agents & Distributors ........................ 51 Editorial Contacts ................................................. 52 EBooks Proposals EBook availability is indicated under each book entry: If you have a book proposal, please contact one of the editors listed on page 52 or submit your proposal using forms available at Individual eBook: available for your e-reader www.bloomsbury.com/academic/forauthors Library eBook: available for institution-wide access Inspection / Exam Copies See the website for details of vendors, or to purchase individual eBooks direct. 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Whilst we endeavour to ensure that prices, publication dates and other For more information, please refer to www.bloomsbury.com/openaccess. details in this catalogue are correct on going to press, they are subject to change without further notice. Imprint is Bloomsbury Academic unless indicated otherwise. Bloomsbury Academic is a division of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. Registered in England No. 01984336. www.bloomsbury.com • USA, Canada, Latin America • 888-330-8477 • [email protected] 1 Greek Sanctuaries and Temple Periclean Athens P. J. Rhodes, University of Durham, UK Architecture Adapted by adaptor An Introduction In the second and third quarters of the fifth century BC, when Athens became both politically and Mary Emerson, Independent Scholar, UK Adapted by adaptor culturally dominant in the Greek world, Pericles Assuming no prior knowledge, this book introduces became the leading figure in the city’s public life. students to a selection of sites and temples, This was also the period when Athenian tragedy exploring them in detail and explaining all technical became the principal Greek poetic form, when a terms along the way. The book covers many of series of temples and other buildings, on Athens’ the most popular sites, including Delphi, Olympia and the Athenian acropolis and elsewhere, attracted architects, builders and sculptors ANCIENT HISTORY ANCIENT Acropolis. In this second edition there are new chapters on Western to Athens, and when Athenian red-figure pottery reached new heights Greece, covering the site of Paestum in Magna Graecia (South Italy), of skill in the scenes painted on it. This concise and accessible and the unique temple of Olympian Zeus in Acragas, Sicily. There introduction guides students through the key aspects of this most- is also an expanded discussion of the most important temples and studied period of ancient Greek history, focusing on the major greater emphasis on architectural sculpture as part of the meaning developments, political and cultural, that took place under Pericles. of the whole building. Along with an updated bibliography and a glossary, an abundance of plans, photos and drawings helps clarify UK February 2018 • US February 2018 • 144 pages • 21 bw illus the text. PB 9781350014954 • £14.99 / $23.95 Individual eBook 9781350014961 • £14.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781350014978 UK December 2017 • US December 2017 • 288 pages • 115 bw illus Series: Classical World • Bloomsbury Academic PB 9781472575289 • £16.99 / $22.95 Individual eBook 9781472575296 • £16.99 / $17.99 Library eBook 9781472575302 Bloomsbury Academic The Religious Worlds of the Laity in Late Antique Gaul Augustan Rome Lisa Kaaren Bailey, University of Auckland, New Zealand Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, University of Adapted by adaptor Cambridge, UK "…an exemplary study..." Bryn Mawr Classical Adapted by adaptor Review This thought-provoking and concise volume sets political changes during the era of Augustus in the This is the first volume to explore the role of the context of their impact on Roman values, on the laity in the key region of Gaul, through history, imaginative world of poetry, on the visual world archaeology and theology. The acts and experiences of clergy and of art, and on the fabric of the city of Rome. laity are compared: the former themselves constructed the category Written by a world expert, this is a vital book for of 'the laity', and shaped lay religious experience by this need to students at school and university level. The second edition features create categories; the laity experienced and interpreted their a new introductory section on literary figures under Augustus, a religion differently according to gender, location, piety and social final chapter on the reception of Augustus in later periods, updated status, and their decisions shaped the nature of the Church and of references to recent scholarship, new figures and an expanded list of their faith. further reading. UK October 2017 • US October 2017 • 256 pages UK February 2018 • US February 2018 • 208 pages • 58 bw illus PB 9781350052239 • £28.99 / $39.95 PB 9781472534262 • £14.99 / $20.95 Previously published in HB 9781472519030 Individual eBook 9781472528995 • £14.99 / $15.99 Individual eBook 9781472519047 • £28.99 / $30.99 Library eBook 9781472532978 Library eBook 9781472519061 Series: Classical World • Bloomsbury