The Classical World

34 The Classical World The Barbarians of Ancient Europe: Realities Environmental Problems of the Greeks and and Interactions Romans: Ecology in the Ancient Mediterranean By Larissa Bonfante By J. Donald Hughes The Barbarians of Ancient Europe deals with the reality In this dramatically revised and expanded second of the indigenous peoples of Europe, in contrast to edition of the work originally entitled Pan’s Travail, many publications that explore these peoples in the Hughes offers a detailed look at the impact of Greeks context of the Greek idea of ‘barbarians’ as the and Romans and their technologies on the ecology ‘other’. Archaeological discoveries show how they of the Mediterranean basin. Evidence of deforestation dressed, what they ate and drank, where they lived, in ancient Greece, the remains of Roman aqueducts and how they honored their dead kings with and mines, and paintings on centuries-old pottery barbaric splendor and human sacrifices, allowing that depict agricultural activities document ancient us to change, correct, or confirm the picture given actions that resulted in detrimental consequences to in Greek and Roman literature. 396p, b/w illus the environment. Hughes compares the ancient (Cambridge UP 2011, Pb 2014) 9780521194044 Hb world’s environmental problems to other persistent £64.99, 9781107692404 Pb £24.99 social problems and discusses attitudes toward The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior nature expressed in Greek and Latin literature. 320p, Women across the Ancient World b/w illus (Johns Hopkins UP, 2nd ed 2014) 9781421412115 Pb £18.00 By Adrienne Mayor This is the first comprehensive account of warrior Food and Drink in Antiquity: A Sourcebook women in myth and history across the ancient edited by John F. Donahue world, combining classical myth and art, nomad This sourcebook offers 340 extracts in English traditions, and archaeology. Mayor tells how translation which build up a thematic picture of archaeological discoveries of battle-scarred female food and foodways in the Classical world, from skeletons buried with their weapons prove that the eighth century BC to the later Roman Empire. women warriors were not merely figments of the Chapters focus on food and drink in ancient Greek imagination. Provocatively arguing that a literature; food staples and food production; food timeless search for a balance between the sexes explains the allure of the Amazons, Mayor reminds drink and religion; the social context; the military; us that there were as many Amazon love stories as and medicine. 299p b/w illus (Bloomsbury 2014) there were war stories. 512p, col pls (Princeton UP 9781441196804 Hb £70.00, 9781441133458 Pb 2014) 9780691147208 Hb £19.95 £22.99 Sport in the Greek and Roman Worlds: Volume 1 The Art of Building in the Classical World: Edited by Thomas F. Scanlon Vision, Craftsmanship and Linear Perspective A collection of important previously publised articles in Greek and Roman Architecture on ancient sport. Topics include: Greek sport in its By John R. Senseney epic, heroic, and Bronze Age origins; the ancient Building on recent scholarship that examines and Olympics in its relation to religion, politics, and reconstructs the design process of classical diversity of competitors; Greek events in track and architecture, John R. Senseney focuses on technical field and equestrian events. A companion second drawing in the building trade as a model for the volume complements this one with studies on the expression of visual order, showing that the social and economic aspects of Greek sport, the role techniques of ancient Greek drawing actively of Greek sport in the Roman era, and forms, determined concepts about the world. He argues that functions and venues of Roman spectacles. 352p, b/ the uniquely Greek innovations of graphic w illus (Oxford UP 2014) 9780199215324 Pb £35.00 construction determined principles that shaped the Sport in the Greek and Roman Worlds: Volume 2 massing, special qualities and refinements of Edited by Thomas F. Scanlon buildings and the manner in which order itself was Topics covered in volume 2 include: the economics, envisioned. 245p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2011, 2014) status, gender, and training of ancient athletes; the 9781107002357 Hb £64.99, 9781107651258 Pb £19.99 place of Greek athletes in the Roman era; the Graffiti in Antiquity evolution of Roman games from Etruscan customs By Peter Keegan and of the Roman arena from earlier traditions; the Graffiti in Antiquity explores how and why the monetary prices of gladiators; the role of animal inhabitants of Greece and Rome formulated written games in Rome; and the Roman team sport of chariot and visual messages about themselves and the world racing. A companion first volume complements this around them as graffiti. The sources - drawn from one with studies on Greek sport in its epic, heroic, 800 BCE to 600 CE - are examined both within their and Bronze Age origins; the ancient Olympics in its individual historical, cultural and archaeological relation to religion, politics, and diversity of contexts and thematically, allowing for an competitors; Greek events in track and field and exploration of social identity in the urban society of equestrian events. 416p, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2014) the ancient world. 348p (Acumen 2014) 9781844656073 9780198703785 Pb £40.00 Hb £40.00 The Classical World 35 Power, Politics and the Cults of Isis Forthcoming from Oxbow Edited by Louise Bricault & Miguel John Versluys In the Hellenistic and Roman world intimate Greece, Macedon and Persia relations existed between those holding power and Edited by Timothy Howe, Erin Garvin & Graham the cults of Isis. This book is the first to chart these Wrightson various appropriations over time within a This book contains a comparative perspective. Ten case studies show that collection of papers related “the Egyptian gods” were no exotic outsiders to the to the history and Hellenistic and Roman Mediterranean, but historiography of constituted a well institutionalised and frequently Warfare, Politics and used religious option. Ranging from the early Power in the Ancient Ptolemies and Seleucids to late Antiquity, the case Mediterranean world. The studies illustrate how much symbolic meaning was contributions, written by made with the cults of Isis by kings, emperors, cities 19 recognized experts and elites. Three articles introduce the theme of Isis from a variety of and the longue durée theoretically, simultaneously methodological and exploring a new approach towards concepts like evidentiary perspectives, ruler cult and Religionspolitik. 364p (Brill 2014) show how ancient peoples considered war and 9789004277182 Hb £130.00 conflict at the heart of social, political and economic Initiation into the Mysteries of the Ancient activity. Though focusing on a single theme – war – World the papers are firmly based in the context of the wider By Jan N. Bremmer social and literary issues of Ancient Mediterranean This book explores Greek and Roman mystery cults scholarship and as such, consider war and conflict with special emphasis on the actual staging of as part of a complex matrix of culture in which initiation. The topics covered include not only the historical actors articulate their relationships with famous Eleusinian Mysteries but also smaller and society and historical authors articulate their lesser-known Greek and Roman Mysteries, such as relationships with history. The result is a rich those of the Great Gods on Samothrace and of the understanding of Ancient World history and Kabeiroi at Thebes, the Orphic-Bacchic Mysteries and history-writing. The volume is presented in honour the new Mysteries of Isis and Mithras. The final of Waldemar Heckel, a foremost scholar of Alexander chapter considers the possible influence of the the Great and Ancient Warfare. 168p (Oxbow Books Mysteries upon emerging Christianity. 274p (Walter 2015) 9781782979234 Hb £40.00 de Gruyter 2014) 9783110299298 Hb £65.00 ***Only £30.00 until publication*** The Ancient Novel and the Frontiers of Genre Fear and Loathing in Ancient Athens: Religion Edited by Marília F. Futre Pinheiro, Gareth and Politics during the Peloponnesian War Schmeling & Edmund P. Cueva Going beyond a narrow characterisation of the novel By Alexander Rubel the papers assembled in this volume include Alexander Rubel argues powerfully and persuasively extended prose narratives of all kind and thereby that talk of a “Greek enlightenment” in fifth-century widen and enrich the scope of the canon. The essays Athens has been overstated, explore a wide variety of texts, crossed genres, and and that, with the exception hybrid forms, which transgress the boundaries of of a few zealous but the so-called ancient novel, providing an excellent marginalised philosophers, insight into different kinds of narrative prose in Athenian society was antiquity. 245p (Barkhuis 2014) 9789491431661 Hb characterised by religious £64.00 traditions based on the fundamental beliefs that gods Marathon - 2,500 Years exist, that they influence edited by Christopher Carey and Michael events, and that one would be Edwards wise to keep in with them. By Papers taken from a conference held to mark the viewing the events of fifth- 2500th anniversary of the momentous battle. Topics century Athens through the include the battle in modern scholarship, in lens of ordinary Athenians’ religious fears we get a Herodotus and pre-Herodotean sources, Marathon different perspective on, for example, the impiety and Athenian religion, and the hoplite

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