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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 phalanx. A charges and prosecutions of the period, the major theme is the reception of the battle in the mutilation of the Herms and the profanation of the Classical (and to a lesser extent post-Classical) Age, Mysteries, the military conflicts themselves and the with papers on its impact on art, drama, rhetoric, culture and architecture of the time. Originally Athenian and Macedonian political discourse, and published in German, revised and expanded for the funerary speeches. 291p (Institute of Classical Studies English edition. 316p (Acumen Publishing 2014) 2013) 9781905670529 Pb £45.00 9781844655700 Hb £40.00 36 Greece

War, Democracy and Culture in Classical Thucydides, Pericles and the Idea of Athens in Athens the Peloponnesian War Edited by David Pritchard By Martha C. Taylor The essays in this volume In this volume Martha Taylor argues that explore the links between Thucydides subtly critiques Pericles’ vision of Athens’ democratic and Athens as a city divorced from the territory of Attica military revolutions to- and focused, instead, on the sea and the empire. wards the end of the 6th Thucydides shows that Pericles’ reconceputalization century BC, and ask to of the city led the Athenians both to Melos and to what extent democracy Sicily. Toward the end of his work, Thucydides affected Athenian military demonstrates that flexible thinking about the city methods and effectiveness. exacerbated the Athenians’ civil war. Providing a Alongside analysis of thorough critique and analysis of Thucydides’ Athenian military inno- neglected book 8, Taylor shows that Thucydides vations chapters look at the literary and artistic praises political compromise centered around the depiction of war in democratic Athens, assessing the traditional city in Attica. In doing so, he implicitly impact of war on democratic culture and vice versa. censures both Pericles and the Athenian imperial Further essays look at the pervasive nature of war project itself. 311p (Cambridge UP 2009, Pb 2014) in Athenian rhetoric, be it in the funeral oration, 9780521765930 Hb £64.99, 9781107415409 Pb £20.99 the law courts or the assembly. 459p, b/w illus Courage in the Democratic Polis: Ideology and (Cambridge UP 2010, Pb 2014) 9780521190336 Hb Critique in Classical Athens £74.99, 9781107437388 Pb £22.99 By Ryan K. Balot Politics and the Street in Democratic Athens Balot brings together By Alex Gottesman political theory, classical This book is the first in-depth study of the classical history, and ancient Athenian public sphere. It examines how public philosophy in order to re- opinion was created by impromptu theatrics and by concecptualise courage as a gossip, and how it flowed into and out of the civic specifically democratic virtue. institutions. Athenians did not have hookah bars Ranging from Thucydides or coffee shops but they did socialize in symposia and Aristophanes to the and gymnasia and workshops, and above all in the Greek tragedians and Plato, Agora. These represented the Athenian ‘street’, an Balot shows that the ancient informal political space that was seen as qualitatively Athenians constructed a different from the institutional space of the assembly, novel vision of courage that the council and the courts where elite orators held linked this virtue to fundamental democratic ideals sway. The book explores how Athenians of all sorts, such as freedom, equality, and practical rationality, such as politicians, slaves and philosophers, sought with practical implications for the conduct of war, to exploit the resources of the ‘street’ in pursuit of for gender relations, and for the citizens’ self-image their aims. 260p (Cambridge UP 2014) 9781107041684 as democrats. 408p (Oxford UP 2014) 9780199982158 Hb £55.00 Hb £41.99

Pericles of Athens By Vincent Azoulay In this compelling critical biography, Vincent Azoulay provides an expert portrait of Pericles and his turbulent era, shedding light on his powerful family, his patronage of the arts, and his unrivaled influence on Athenian politics and culture. He takes a fresh look at both the classical and modern reception of Pericles, recognizing his achievements as well as his failings while deftly avoiding the adulatory or hypercritical positions staked out by some scholars today. From Thucydides and Plutarch to Voltaire and Hegel, ancient and modern authors have questioned the great statesman’s relationship with democracy and Athenian society. Did Pericles hold supreme power over willing masses or was he just a gifted representative of popular aspirations? Was Periclean Athens a democracy in name only, as Thucydides suggests? This is the enigma that Azoulay investigates in this groundbreaking book. Pericles of Athens offers a balanced look at the complex life and afterlife of the legendary “first citizen of Athens” who presided over the birth of democracy. Originally published in French. 296p, b/w illus (Princeton UP 2014) 9780691154596 Hb £24.95

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Historical Agency and the ‘Great Man’ in Late Classical and Early Hellenistic Corinth, Classical Greece 338-196 BC By Sarah Brown Ferrario By Michael D. Dixon At least as early as the birth of the Athenian Late Classical and Early democracy, questions about the ownership of the Hellenistic Corinth, 338-196 motion of history were being publicly posed and B.C. challenges the perception publicly challenged. The responses to these that the Macedonians’ advent questions, however, gradually shifted over time, in and continued presence in reaction to historical and political developments Corinth amounted to a loss during the fifth and fourth centuries BC. These of significance and autonomy. ideological changes are illuminated by portrayals of Instead, Corinth flourished the roles played by individuals and groups in while the Macedonians significant historical events, as depicted in possessed the city. It was the historiography, funerary monuments, and site of a vast building inscriptions. The emergence in these media of the program, much of which must be construed as the individual as an indispensable agent of history direct result of Macedonian patronage, evidence provides an additional explanation for the reception suggests strongly that those Corinthians who of Alexander ‘the Great’: the Greek world had long supported the Macedonians enjoyed great prosperity since been prepared to understand him as it did. 420p under them. 231p, b/w illus (Routledge 2014) (Cambridge UP 2014) 9781107037342 Hb £65.00 9780415735513 Hb £85.00 Daily Life of the Ancient Greeks The Age of the Successors and the Creation of By Robert Garland the Hellenistic Kingdoms (323-276 BC) Significantly expanded and updated in light of the Edited by Hans Hauben & A. Meeus most recent scholarship, the second edition of Despite its historical importance many aspects of the Garland’s engaging introduction to ancient Greek age of the Successors remain underexplored. Written society brings this world vividly to life — and, in by leading international specialists, the 24 doing so, explores the perspectives and morals of contributions to this book help in remedying that typical ancient Greek citizens across a wide range of situation by addressing new issues or shedding fresh societal levels. Food and drink, literacy, the plight of light on old questions. They not only explore the the elderly, the treatment of slaves, and many more written and material evidence for the epoch, the aspects of daily life in ancient Greece also come into Successors’ armies and military campaigns, their sharp focus. 368p, b/w illus (Hackett, 2nd ed 2014) political ambitions and relationships with Greek 9781624661297 Pb £10.95 cities, but they also address several social, economic, Combat Trauma and the Ancient Greeks religious, numismatic, art-historical and urbanistic Edited by Peter Meineck & David Konstan issues. 733p, col pls (Peeters 2014) 9789042929586 Pb The effects of what we now term ‘combat trauma’ £105.00 are well represented in the literature of the Ancient The Rise of the Seleucid Empire: Seleukos I to Greeks: the madness of Heracles, the rage of Achilles, Seleukos II the suicide of Ajax, the isolation of Philoctetes, and By John D. Grainger the trials of Odysseus, to name a few. In this book, a In this first volume of a series exploring the Seleucid diverse group of scholars, who specialize in different Empire, John D Grainger aspects of ancient Greek culture, explore how the relates the remarkable twists Greeks responded to war and the various of fortune and daring that manifestations of ‘post-traumatic stress’ and ‘combat saw Seleukos, an officer in an stress injury’ in ancient Greek culture. 328p (Palgrave elite guard unit, emerge from 2014) 9781137398857 Hb £57.50 the wars of the diadochi in A Lexicon of Greek Personal Names: Volume control of the largest and V.B: Coastal Asia Minor: Caria to Cilicia richest part of the empire of Edited by J.-S. Balzat, R. W. V. Catling, E. Chiricat the late Alexander the Great. & F. Marchand After his conquests and This is the seventh volume of the Lexicon of Greek eventual murder, we then see Personal Names to be published, a work which offers how his successors continued comprehensive documentation of named individuals his policies, including the in the Greek-speaking world in the period from c. repeated wars with the Ptolemaic rules of Egypt over 700 BC to 600 AD. It is concerned with the southern control of Syria. The volume ends with the deep coast of Asia Minor, incorporating the ancient internal crisis and the wars of the brothers, which regions of Caria, Lycia, Pamphylia, and Cilicia. The left only a single member of the dynasty alive in 223 240p (Pen & Sword 2014) 9781783030538 Hb £19.99 volume documents more than 44,500 individuals BC. who between them bore in excess of 8,400 different names. 536p (Oxford UP 2013) 9780198705826 Hb £125.00 38 Greece

Rationalizing Myth in Antiquity Housing the Chosen: The Architectural By Greta Hawes Context of Mystery Groups and Religious This volume charts ancient Associations in the Ancient World dissatisfaction with the By Inge Nielsen excesses of myth, and the This book investigates the spatial and architectural various attempts to cut these settings of mystery cults and religious assemblies stories down to size by from the eighth century BC to the fourth century explaining them as AD and shows how architecture can illuminate the misunderstood accounts of contents and societal functions of ancient religions. actual events. Such Chapters treat the old Greek mystery cults of Demeter approaches form an in Eleusis and the Great Gods in Samothrace as well indigenous mode of ancient as those of Dionysos, and the ‘foreign’ deities Isis/ myth criticism, and show Serapis, Cybele/Attis, and Mithras. A concluding Greeks grappling with the sythesis seeks to understand the social and spatial value and utility of their own narrative traditions. context for the activities of cults with a main focus It focuses on six Greek authors (Palaephatus, on the Hellenistic and Roman periods, in particular Heraclitus, Excerpta Vaticana, Conon, Plutarch, and through distinguishing the differences and Pausanias), tracing the development of rationalistic similarities in the use of specific room-types. 442p, interpretation from the fourth century BC to the 136 b/w ills and 62 colour ills (Brepols 2014) Second Sophistic (1st-2nd centuries AD) and beyond. 9782503544373 Pb £115.00 279p (Oxford UP 2014) 9780199672776 Hb £60.00 Art in the Era of Alexander the Great: Myth, Ritual and Metallurgy in Ancient Paradigms of Manhood and Their Cultural Greece and Recent Africa Traditions By Sandra Blakely By Ada Cohen In this volume, Sandra Blakely considers In this book, Ada Cohen focuses on art produced in technological myths and rituals associated with Macedonia during the late Classical and early ancient Greek daimones, who made metal; and Hellenistic period. Although inspired by traditional African rituals in which iron plays a central role. Greek themes and ideals, this body of artwork Noting the rich semantic web of associations that articulated specifically Macedonian aspirations. has connected metallurgy to magic, birth, kingship, Cohen focuses on three key ‘masculine’ themes - autochthony, and territorial possession in both warfare, hunting, and abduction of women - Greek and African cultures, Blakely examines them exploring their visual and conceptual together in order to cast light on the Greek demons, interconnections. She demonstrates their which are only fragmentarily preserved and which preoccupation with the visual celebration of violence have often been equated to general types of smithing and studies the analogies they draw among the gods. 344p (Cambridge UP 2006, Pb 2014) ideological categories of ‘enemy’, ‘animal’, and 9780521855006 Hb £74.99, 9781107652392 Pb £20.99 ‘woman’. 398p, b/w illus, col pls (Cambridge UP 2010, A Local History of Greek Polytheism: Gods, Pb 2014) 9780521769044 Hb £74.99, 9781107614871 Pb People and the Land of Aigina, 800-400 BCE £32.99 By Irene Polinskaya Approaching the Ancient Artifact: This book provides the first comprehensive study Representation, Narrative, and Function of the deities and cults of the important Greek island- Edited by Amalia Avramidou & Denise Demetriou state of Aigina from the Geometric to Classical The essays in this book are periods. It rests on a thorough reconsideration of motivated by their authors’ the archaeological, epigraphic and literary evidence. belief that there is no simple The development of the local cults is reconstructed, direct link between art and along with their interrelationships and how they myths, art and text, or art responded to the social needs of the Aiginetans. 696p and ritual, and that art (Brill 2013) 9789004234048 Hb £190.00 should not be delegated to Orphic Gold Tablets and Greek Religion the role of a by-product of a By Radcliffe G. Edmonds literate culture. Instead, the This collection of studies considers the inscribed contextual and symbolic scraps of gold foil that have been found in graves analyses of artifacts and throughout the ancient Greek world, and of which representations offered in the content and purpose have been a subject of much this volume elucidate how debate. The contributors discuss specific finds, art actively shaped myth, how it changed texts, how comment on the echoes of other texts in the it transformed ritual, and how it altered the course inscriptions, and employ a variety of theoretical of local, regional, and Mediterranean histories. 860p, approaches to shed light on these mysterious objects. b/w illus, col pls (Walter de Gruyter 2014) 9783110308730 396p (Cambridge UP 2011, Pb 2014) 9780521518314 Hb Hb £150.00 £69.99, 9781107434820 Pb £21.99 Greek Art & Archaeology 39

New from Oxbow Books The Epigraphy and History of Boeotia: New Finds, New Prospects Athenian Potters and Painters III Edited by Nikolaos Papazarkadas edited by John Oakley Over the past 20 years, Boeotia has been the focus of Athenian Potters and intensive archaeological investigation that has Painters III presents a rich resulted in some extraordinary epigraphical finds. mass of new material on The most spectacular discoveries are presented for Greek vases, including finds the first time in this volume: dozens of inscribed from excavations at the sherds from the Theban shrine of Heracles; Archaic Kerameikos in Athens and temple accounts; numerous Classical, Hellenistic and Despotiko in the Cyclades. Roman epitaphs; a Plataean casualty list; a dedication Some contributions focus on by the legendary king Croesus. Other essays revisit painters or workshops – older epigraphical finds from Aulis, Chaironeia, Paseas, the Robinson Group, Lebadeia, Thisbe, and Megara, radically reassessing and the structure of the their chronology and political and legal implications. figured pottery industry in 384p, b/w illus (Brill 2014) 9789004230521 Hb £125.00 Athens; others on vase forms – plates, phialai, cups, Cultural Practices and Material Culture in and the change in shapes at the end of the sixth Archaic and Classical Crete century BC. Context, trade, kalos inscriptions, Edited by Oliver Pilz & Gunnar Seelentag reception, the fabrication of inscribed painters’ names Crete offers rich material for investigating questions to create a fictitious biography, and the at the heart of research on social organization in reconstruction of the contents of an Etruscan tomb ancient Greece. The essays in these proceedings use are also explored. The iconography and iconology archeological and historical approaches to analyze of various types of figured scenes on Attic pottery the processes of structural change that took place in also serve as the subject of a wide range of papers. the cities of Crete during the archaic and classical 272p, b/w illus, col pls (Oxbow Books 2014) periods, bringing together for the first time various 9781782976639 Hb £75.00 research methods to develop a coherent perspective. 294p b/w illus (Walter de Gruyter 2014) 9783110331646 Hb £80.00 New in Paperback Delphi and Olympia: The Spatial Politics of Structure, Image, Ornament: Architectural Panhellenism in the Archaic and Classical Sculpture in the Greek World Periods edited by Peter Schulz and Ralf von den Hoff By Michael Scott This volume presents the proceedings of a conference This study of the sacred spaces at Delphi and hosted by the American School of Classical Studies, Olympia seeks to go beyond the Delphic Oracle and Athens and the Deutsches and the Olympic Games and explore the wider Archäologisches Institut, significance of these sanctuaries. He undertakes a Athens in 2004. There are new spatial analysis of each site, considering how additional contributions ancient visitors would have interacted with it, and from Patricia Butz, Robin then discusses the activities that went on there and Osborne, Katherine Schwab, how the sanctuaries developed over time against the Justin St. P. Walsh, Hilda background of pivotal events in Greek history. In Westervelt and Lorenz the final chapters he pursues the implications of this, Winkler-Horacek. The and calls the usefulness of the concept of contents are divided into panhellenism into question. 356p, b/w illus four sections I. Structure (Cambridge UP 2010, Pb 2014) 9780521191265 Hb and Ornament; II. £59.99, 9781107671287 Pb £21.99 Technique and Agency; III. The City of New Halos and its Southeast Gate Myth and Narrative and IV. By H. Reinder Reinders Diffusion and Influence. Highlights include Robin An impressive enceinte, 4.7 km long and fortified Osborne’s discussion of What you can do with a with at least 120 towers, surrounded the lower and chariot but cant do with a satyr on a Greek temple; upper town of Halos. Excavation of a series of houses Ralf von den Hoff’s consideration of the Athenian in the lower town revealed that the city, probably treasury at Delphi; and Katherine Schwab’s founded in 302 BC by Demetrios Poliorketes, was presentation of New evidence for Parthenon east abandoned after an earthquake around 265 BC. The metope 14. The papers not only cover a great variety Southeast Gate, flanked by two towers, gave accessto of issues in architectural sculpture but also present the city from the south. Numerous artefacts show a range of case studies from all over the Greek world. that after the earthquake the gate complex was used 248p b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2009, Pb 2014) as a large farmstead where agricultural produce was 9781782977391 Pb £30.00 processed and stored. 205p, b/w illus (Barkhuis 2014) 9789491431685 Hb £51.00 40 Greek Archaeology & Literature

Forthcoming from Oxbow Books The Bridge of the Untiring Sea: The Corinthian Isthmus from Prehistory to Late Antiquity Autopsy in Athens: Recent Archaeological Edited by Elizabeth Gebhard & Timothy. E. Research on Athens and Attica Gregory Edited by Margaret M. Miles The 17 essays in this book celebrate 55 years of The 15 papers presented research on the Isthmus and provide a here contribute new comprehensive overview of the state of our findings that result from knowledge. Topics include an early Mycenaean intensive, first-hand habitation site at Kyras Vrysi; the settlement at examinations of the Kalamianos; the Archaic Temple of Poseidon; archaeological and domestic architecture of the Rachi settlement; dining epigraphical evidence. vessels from the Sanctuary of Poseidon; the Temple They illustrate how Deposit at Isthmia and the dating of Archaic and much may be gained by early Classical Greek coins; terracotta figurines from re-examining material the Sanctuary of Poseidon; the Chigi Painter; arms from older excavations, from the age of Philip and Alexander at Broneer’s and from the West Foundation on the road to Corinth; new methodological shift from sculptures from the Isthmian Palaimonion; an documenting information to closer analysis and inscribed herm from the Gymnasium-Bath complex larger historical reflection. They offer a variety of of Corinth; Roman baths at Isthmia and sanctuary perspectives on a range of issues: the ambience of baths in Greece; Roman buildings east of the Temple the ancient city for passersby, filled with roadside of Poseidon; patterns of settlement and land use on shrines; techniques of architectural construction and the Roman Isthmus; epigraphy, liturgy, and Imperial sculpting; religious expression in Athens include policy on the Justinianic Isthmus; and circular lamps cults of Asklepios and Serapis; the precise procedures in the Late Antique Peloponnese. 400p b/w illus for Greek sacrifice; how the borders of Attica were (American School of Classical Studies at Athens 2014) defined over time, and details of its road-system. In 9780876615485 Pb £45.00 ***NYP*** presenting this volume the contributors are Space, Place and Landscape in Ancient Greek continuing in a long tradition of autopsy – in the Literature and Culture sense of ‘personal observation’ – in Athens, that Edited by Kate Gilhuly & Nancy Worman began even in the Hellenistic period and has This book brings together a continued through the writings of centuries of collection of original essays travellers and academics to the present day. 224p, b/ that engage with cultural w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2015) 9781782978565 Hb geography and landscape £60.00 studies to produce new ways ***Only £45.00 until publication*** of understanding place, space, and landscape in Greek The Chora of Metaponto 5: A Greek Farmhouse literature from the fifth and at Ponte Fabrizio fourth centuries BCE. The essays treat a variety of By Elisa Lanza Catti & Keith Swift textual spaces, from the A study of the fourth-century BC farmhouse known intimate to the expansive: the as Fattoria Fabrizio, located in the heart of the bedroom, ritual space, the law surveyed chora of Metaponto in the Venella valley. courts, theatrical space, the poetics of the city, and Thorough interpretations of the farmhouse the landscape of war. 296p (Cambridge UP 2014) structure in its wider historical and socioeconomic 9781107042124 Hb £60.00 contexts are accompanied by comprehensive analyses of the archaeological finds. Among them is Greek Music, Drama, Sport, and Fauna: The detailed evidence for the family cult, a rare Collected Classical Papers of E. K. Borthwick archaeological contribution to the study of Greek Edited by Calum Maciver religion in Magna Grecia. The entire range of local The volume opens with Professor Borthwick’s Greek ceramics has been studied, along with a limited inaugural lecture on Homer, ‘Odyssean Elements in number of imports. Together they reveal networks the Iliad’ (Edinburgh, 1983). The editor, Dr. Calum within the chora and trade beyond it, involving Maciver, has then arranged Borthwick’s 63 scholarly indigenous peoples of southern Italy, mainland articles, published between 1959 and 2003, Greeks, and the wider Mediterranean world. Along thematically under six headings: Ancient Music, The with the studies of traditional archaeological finds, Pyrrhic Dance, Drama, Zoologica, Ancient Sport, archaeobotanical analyses have illuminated the rural Miscellanea. 447p (Francis Cairns 2015) 9780905205571 economy of the farmhouse and the environment of Hb £70.00 ***NYP*** the adjacent chora. 502p, col illus (University of Texas Press 2014) 9780292758643 Hb £54.00 Greek Literature 41

Pregnant Male as Myth and Metaphor in Speech Presentation in Homeric Epic Classical Greek Literature By Deborah Beck By David D. Leitao In this original study Deborah Beck analyses the This book traces the image of the pregnant male in full range of methods of speech representation in Greek literature as it evolved over the course of the the Iliad and Odyssey, placing a new weight on non- classical period. The image - as deployed in myth direct speech. She examines the complex and and in metaphor - originated as a representation of overlapping functions of each form of speech paternity and, by extension, ‘authorship’ of ideas, representation, building up a picture of a remarkably works of art, legislation, and the like. Only later, unified and consistent use of these techniques across with its reception in philosophy in the early fourth the Iliad and Odyssey and at different narrative levels. century, did it also become a way to figure and 256p (University of Texas Press 2012, Pb 2014) negotiate the boundary between the sexes. 328p 9780292738805 Hb £37.00, 9780292756793 Pb £15.99 (Cambridge UP 2012, Pb 2014) 9781107017283 Hb The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women and Archaic £69.99, 9781107423497 Pb £19.99 Greece A Companion to Hellenistic Literature By Kirk Ormand By James J. Clauss & Martine Cuypers This book examines the extant 30 essays explore the social and intellectual contexts fragments of the archaic Greek of the production of literature in the Hellenistic poem known in antiquity as period and examine the relationship between Hesiod’s Catalogue of Women. Hellenistic and earlier literature. The volume covers Kirk Ormand shows that the the work of well-respected poets alongside lesser- poem should be read known historical, philosophical and scientific prose intertextually with other authors. Critical essays on the Jewish, Near Eastern, hexameter poetry from the Egyptian and Roman literature of the period explore eighth to sixth century BCE, the impact of Hellenism on neighbouring cultures especially Homer, Hesiod, and and vice versa. In addition serious attention is given the Cyclic epics. Through throughout the book to Hellenistic texts which in literary interaction with these poems, the Catalogue surveys of Greek literature are rarely discussed reflects political and social tensions in the archaic within their historical context. 550p (Wiley-Blackwell period regarding the production of elite status. In 2010, Pb 2014) 9781405136792 Hb £140.00, particular, Ormand argues that the Catalogue reacts 9781118782903 Pb £29.99 against the ‘middling ideology’ that came to the fore during the archaic period in Greece, championing Philostratus: Heroicus; Gymnasticus; traditional aristocratic modes of status. 265p Discourses 1 and 2 (Cambridge UP 2014) 9781107035195 Hb £55.00 Edited by Jeffrey Rusten & Jason Konig Sappho: Songs, Poems, Fragments In the writings of Philostratus (ca. 170-ca. 250 CE), By Diane Rayor & Andre Lardinois the renaissance of Greek literature in the second Of the little that survives from the approximately century CE reached its height. In this volume, nine papyrus scrolls of Sappho’s poetry collected in Heroicus, a dialogue about the Homeric heroes, and antiquity, all is translated here including five stanzas Gymnasticus, a treatise on sport, together with two of a poem that came to light in 2014. In the brief Discourses, complete the Loeb edition of his introduction and notes Andre Lardinois presents writings. Parallel Greek text and English translation. plausible reconstructions of Sappho’s life and work, 532p (Harvard UP 2014) 9780674996748 Hb £16.95 the importance of the recent discoveries in Voices at Work: Women, Performance, and understanding the performance of her songs, and Labor in Ancient Greece the story of how these fragments survived. 128p By Andromache Karanika (Cambridge UP 2014) 9781107023598 Hb £40.00 Andromache Karanika has examined Greek poetry Lycurgan Athens and the Making of Classical for depictions of women working and has discovered Tragedy evidence of their lamentations and work songs. Voices By Johanna Hanink at Work explores the complex relationships between Through a series of interdisciplinary studies this ancient Greek poetry, the female poetic voice, and book argues that the Athenians themselves invented the practices and rituals surrounding women’s the notion of ‘classical’ tragedy just a few generations labour in the ancient world. Karanika starts with after the city’s defeat in the Peloponnesian War. By the assumption that there are certain forms of poetic means of rhetoric, architecture, inscriptions, statues, expression and performance in the ancient world archives and even legislation, the ‘classical’ which are distinctively female. She considers these tragedians (Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides) to be markers of a female “voice” in ancient Greek and their plays came to be presented as both the poetry and presents a number of case studies: products and vital embodiments of an idealised Calypso and Circe sing while they weave; in Odyssey Athenian past. 250p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2014) 6 a washing scene captures female performances. 9781107062023 Hb £60.00 320p, b/w illus (Johns Hopkins UP 2014) 9781421412559 Hb £38.50 42 Greek Literature and Rome

Satyric Play: The Evolution of Greek Comedy The Roman Historical Tradition: Regal and and Satyr Drama Republican Rome By Carl Shaw Edited by James H. Richardson & Federico In Satyric Play, Carl Shaw notes the complex, shifting Santangelo relationship between comedy and satyr drama, from The study of Regal and Republican Rome presents a sixth-century BCE proto-drama to classical difficult and yet exciting challenge. The extant productions staged at the Athenian City Dionysia evidence, which for the most part is literary, is late, and bookish Alexandrian plays of the third century sparse, and difficult, and the value of it has long BCE, and argues that comedy and satyr plays been a subject of intense and sometimes heated influenced each other in nearly all stages of their scholarly discussion. This volume provides students development. Ancient critics and poets allude to with an introduction to a range of important comic-satyric associations in surprising ways, vases problems in the study of ancient Rome during the indicate a common connection to komos (revelry) Regal and Republican periods in one accessible song, and the plays themselves often share titles, collection, bringing together a diverse range of plots, modes of humor, and even on occasion influential papers. 384p (Oxford UP 2014) choruses of satyrs. Shaw’s insight into this evidence 9780199657841 Hb £90.00, 9780199657858 Pb £40.00 reveals the relationship between satyr drama and The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Greek comedy to be much more intimately connected Republic than we had known and, in fact, much closer than Edited by Harriet Flower that between satyr drama and tragedy. 216p, b/w illus Fifteen contributions are included, divided into (Oxford UP 2014) 9780199950942 Hb £47.99 sections on: Political and military history; Roman The Cambridge Companion to Greek Comedy society; Rome’s Empire; Roman Culture; The Edited by Martin Revermann influence of the Roman Republic. Some familiar This sophisticated but accessible introduction names in Roman studies discuss in clear terms a explores Greek comedy as a whole, integrating range of subjects within these broad themes such literary questions (such as characterisation, dramatic as: the Roman army and navy, the Roman household, technique or diction) with contextual ones (for women, religion, Rome’s relations with Greece and example audience response, festival context, interface Carthage, literature, art and spectacle. The second with ritual or political frames). In addition, it also edition includes a new introduction, three new discusses relevant historical issues (political, socio- chapters on population, slavery, and the rise of economic and legal) as well as the artistic and empire, and updated bibliographies and maps. 513p, archaeological evidence. 480p, 24 b/w illus (Cambridge b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2nd ed 2014) 9781107032248 UP 2014) 9780521760287 Hb £60.00, 9780521760287 Hb £60.00, 9781107669420 Pb £24.99 Pb £23.99 Triumph in Defeat: Military Loss and the Performing Greek Comedy Roman Republic By Alan Hughes By Jessica H. Clark Alan Hughes presents a new complete account of Jessica H. Clark shows what production methods in Greek comedy. The book responses to defeat can tell us summarises contemporary research and disputes, on about the Roman definition such topics as acting techniques, theatre buildings, of victory. First opening with masks and costumes, music and the chorus. Comedy a general discussion of defeat is presented as the pan-Hellenic, visual art of theatre, and commemoration at Rome not as Athenian literature. 328p, b/w illus (Cambridge and then following the UP 2011, Pb 2014) 9781107009301 Hb £69.99, Second Punic War from its 9781107437364 Pb £20.99 commencement to its afterlife Nonsense and Meaning in Ancient Greek in Roman historical memory Comedy through the second century By Stephen E. Kidd BCE, culminating in the career of Gaius Marius, Clark examines both the successful production of This book examines the concept of ‘nonsense’ in victory narratives within the Senate and the gradual ancient Greek thought and uses it to explore the breakdown of those narratives. The result sheds comedies of the fifth and fourth centuries BCE. If light on the wars of the Republic, the Romans who ‘nonsense’ (phluaria, leros) is a type of language felt wrote about these wars, and the ways in which both to be unworthy of interpretation, it can help to define the events and their telling informed the political certain aspects of comedy that have proved difficult landscape of the Roman state. 272p (Oxford UP 2014) to grasp. By examining the ways in which comedy 9780199336548 Hb £48.00 does not mean, the genre’s relationship to serious meaning (whether it be political, aesthetic, or moral) can be viewed in a clearer light. 213p (Cambridge UP 2014) 9781107050150 Hb £55.00 Rome 43

The Consul at Rome Faustina I and II: Imperial Women of the By Francisco Pina Polo Golden Age Polo analyses the functioning of the consulate in By Barbara Levick the period 367-50 BC. In the first section of this study The elder Faustina (c. 97 - 140 he focuses on the time between the passing of the AD) was the wife of Antonius Licinio-Sextian laws, which established the Pius and the aunt of Marcus subsequent form of the consulate, and Sulla’s Aurelius, and her more dictatorship, and in the second half he looks at the prominent daughter, turbulent years 80-50. A picture of the tasks carried Faustina II (130 - 175), the wife out by the consuls during their year in office, and of Marcus Aurelius and the of this changed over time, is carefully built up. 390p mother of Commodus. (Cambridge UP 2011, Pb 2014) 9780521190831 Hb Barbara Levick’s study £74.99, 9781107671744 Pb £21.99 highlights the importance of Alesia 52 BC: The Final Struggle for Gaul these women to the internal By Nic Fields politics of the Empire during this period, examining A well-illustrated account of the Roman conquest especially Faustina II’s deep involvement in palace of Gaul, and the great revolt which their rule politics, her enhancement of her mother’s position, provoked in 53 BC. Nic Fields provides a useful and her possible role in the revolt of Avidius Cassius summary of Caesar’s Gallic Wars, before surveying (175). 256p, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2014) 9780195379419 the opposing commanders, Caesar and Hb £41.99 Vercingetorix, their armies and strategic plans. He The Roman Empire at Bay, AD 180-395 then sets out the course of the revolt including the By David S. Potter Gaulish victory at Gergovia, culminating at the siege A one volume history of the critical years 180-395 of Alesia which is covered in detail, with numerous AD, which saw the transformation of the Roman plans, photographs and reconstructions. 96p, b/w Empire from a unitary state centred on Rome, into a and col illus (Osprey 2014) 9781782009221 Pb £14.99 new polity with two capitals and a new religion- Jewish War under Trajan and Hadrian Christianity. The new edition takes account of By William Horbury important new scholarship in questions of Roman Two major Jewish risings against Rome took place identity, on economy and society as well as work in the years following the destruction of Jerusalem - on the age of Constantine, which has advanced the first during Trajan’s Parthian war, and the significantly in the last decade, while recent second, led by Bar Kokhba, under Hadrian’s archaeological and art historical work is more fully principate. William Horbury offers a new history of drawn into the narrative. At its core, the central these risings, presenting a detailed review of the question that drives The Roman Empire at Bay relevant sources and the historiography of the two remains, what did it mean to be a Roman and how revolts to reconstruct a new narrative account of did that meaning change as the empire changed? their course. 501p (Cambridge UP 2014) 9780521622967 762p, 17 b/w pls, maps (Routledge 2nd ed 2014) Hb £75.00 9780415840552 Pb £27.99

Augustus: From Revolutionary to Emperor By Adrian Goldsworthy Written in the same highly accessible style, Adrian Goldsworthy here follows up his earlier biography of Julius Caesar with a full study of the life of the man who was to portray himself as his successor, Augustus. The approach is a straightforward chronological narrative, but as Goldsworthy makes clear, his subject is an enormously complex one, difficult to pin down, and capable of playing many roles during his long and highly successful life. Ambition is the main factor which shapes Augustus’ actions in this account, ruthless or pragmatic as each situation demanded, and building his power through control of the military and the promotion of his supporters to key positions, to establish what was, at the outset at least a military dictatorship. Overall however Goldsworthy sees no grand design at work, with experimentation and improvisation key to the development of the principate. 598p, col pls (Weidenfeld & Nicholson 2014) 9780297864257 Hb £25.00

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Legions in Crisis: Transformation of the Roman Roman Palmyra: Identity, Community, and Soldier AD 192–284 State Formation by Paul Elliott By Andrew M. Smith ll While the army gained rapidly in size, stature and Through a detailed analysis political savvy during the reign of Septimius of Palmyrene identity and Severus, it also accelerated a material transformation. community formation, Armour, shields, helmets, swords and javelins all Andrew M. Smith II presents began to be replaced with new styles. Legions in Crisis a social and political history looks closely at the new styles of arms and armour, of Roman Palmyra, the oasis comparing their construction, use and effectiveness city situated deep in the to the more familiar types of Roman kit used by Syrian Desert midway soldiers fighting the earlier Dacian and Marcomannic between Damascus and the Wars. 175p col pls (Fonthill Media 2014) 9781781553343 Euphrates river. He focuses Hb £18.99 on two aspects of Palmyrene civilization during the first three centuries of the Republicanism, Rhetoric and Roman Political Common Era: the emergence and subsequent Thought development of Palmyra as a commercial and By Daniel J. Kapust political center in the desert frontier between Rome This study develops readings of Rome’s three most and Parthia (and later Persia), and the “making” of important Latin historians - Sallust, Livy and Palmyrenes. In addition to examining Palmyra as a Tacitus - centering on their treatments of liberty, frontier community, the book moves beyond Syria rhetoric, and social and political conflict. Sallust is to explore the development and maintenance of interpreted as an antagonistic republican, for whom Palmyrene identity in diaspora settings in Italy, elite conflict serves as an outlet and channel for the north Africa, and Europe. 336p, b/w illus (Oxford UP antagonisms of political life. Livy is interpreted as a 2014) 9780199861101 Hb £55.00 consensualist republican, for whom character and its observation helps to maintain the body politic. Rome’s World: The Peutinger Map Tacitus is interpreted as being centrally concerned Reconsidered with the development of prudence and as a subtle By Richard J. A. Talbert critic of imperial rule. 204p (Cambridge UP 2014) The Peutinger Map is the only map of the Roman 9781107425279 Pb £17.99 world to come down to us from antiquity. The ancient world’s traditional span, from the Atlantic Roman Rule in Greek and Latin Writing: to India, is dramatically remoulded; lands and routes Double Vision take pride of place, whereas seas are compressed. Edited by Jesper Majbom Madsen & Roger Rees Talbert posits that the map’s true purpose was not Roman Rule in Greek and Latin Writing explores to assist travellers along Rome’s highways, but the ways in which Greek and Latin writers from rather to celebrate the restoration of peace and order the late 1st to the 3rd century CE experienced and by Diocletian’s Tetrarchy. Such creative cartography portrayed Roman cultural institutions and power. influenced the development of medieval mapmaking. The central theme is the relationship between 376p, 357 b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2010, Pb 2014) cultures as reflected in Greek and Latin authors’ 9780521764803 Hb £59.99, 9781107685758 Pb £24.99 responses to Roman power; in practice the collection revisits the orthodoxy of two separate intellectual Oxford Handbook of Social Relations in the groups, differentiated as much by cultural and Roman World political agenda as by language. 311p (Brill 2014) By Michael Peachin 9789004277380 Hb £120.00 In recent years the study of the Roman world has at last begun to draw upon approaches developed in The Roman Empire and the Indian Ocean: other fields, such as sociology. This large and diverse Rome’s Dealings with the Ancient Kingdoms collection of essays reflects such new trends and of India, Africa and Arabia presents a comprehensive and thoughtful overview By Raoul McLaughlin of Roman society and life. As Michael Peachin points This book examines Roman commerce with Indian out in his introduction, the contributors have kingdoms from the Indus region to the Tamil lands. sought to consider not just the issue of social It investigates contacts between the Roman Empire relations, but also the question of what it means to and powerful African kingdoms, including the be Roman. The first section considers broader Nilotic regime that ruled Meroe and the rising concepts such as education and communication, Axumite Realm. Further chapters explore Roman communal spaces and friendship and honour. There dealings with the Arab kingdoms of south Arabia, follows a focus on social groupings in society, and including the Saba-Himyarites and the Hadramaut discussions of those persons who found themselves Regime, which sent caravans along the incense trail outside it. 768p (Oxford UP 2011, Pb 2014) to the ancient rock-carved city of Petra. 272p, 18 illus 9780195188004 Hb £95.00, 9780199376001 Pb £32.99 (Pen & Sword 2014) 9781783463817 Hb £25.00 Rome 45

Roles for Men And Women in Roman From Good Goddesses to Vestal Virgins Epigraphic Culture and Beyond By Ariadne Staples By Peter Keegan The women of the upper classes in ancient Rome This volume mines the corpus of private Latin could attain great independence and exercise their inscriptions from Roman Italy for evidence of the authority in a number of ways, yet they never identity, social condition and cultural activity of men acquired basic constitutional rights; any political and women participating in the process of epigraphic power they attained was derived from association commemoration and dedication. In particular, it with a powerful man. Staples argues that the central hopes to demonstrate that women participated as roles played by women in important religious cults significantly as men in the process in a variety of - those of Bona Dea, Ceres, Flora, Venus and Vesta - ways and contexts usually regarded as prominently placed women in sexually defined categories which or exclusively male, and in certain circumstances left affected their roles in other aspects of culture such behind the trace or residue of a uniquely female as political activity. 207p (Routledge 1997, Pb 2014) perspective on their world 181p, b/w illus (BAR 2626, 9780415132336 Hb £85.00, 9780415518949 Pb £30.00 Archaeopress 2014) 9781407312613 Pb £32.00 Cult Places and Cult Personnel in the Roman Arguments with Silence: Writing the History Empire of Roman Women By Duncan Fishwick By Amy Richlin The twenty-one studies assembled in this volume In Arguments with Silence, focus on the apparatus and practitioners of religions Richlin presents a linked in the western Roman empire, the enclaves, temples, selection of her essays on altars and monuments that served the cults of a wide Roman women’s history, range of divinities through the medium of priests originally published between and worshippers. Discussion focuses on the analysis 1981 and 2001 as the field of or reconstruction of the centres at which devotees “women in antiquity” took gathered and draws on the full range of available shape, and here substantially evidence. 400p, b/w illus (Ashgate 2014) 9781472414731 rewritten and updated. The Hb £95.00 new introduction to the Art and Rhetoric in Roman Culture volume lays out the historical Edited by Jas Elsner & Michel Meyer methodologies these essays developed, places this Ancient rhetorical theory is obsessed with examples process in its own historical setting, and reviews and discussions drawn from visual material. This work on Roman women since 2001, along with book mines this rich seam of theoretical analysis from persistent silences. 408p, b/w illus (University of within Roman culture to present an internalist model Michigan Press 2014) 9780472119257 Hb £68.95 for some aspects of how the Romans understood, From Jupiter to Christ: The History of Religion made and appreciated their art. The understanding in the Roman Imperial Period of public monuments like the Arch of Titus or By Jörg Rupke Trajan’s Column or of imperial statuary, domestic Instead of offering an encyclopaedic presentation of wall painting, funerary altars and sarcophagi, as well religious beliefs, symbols, and practices throughout as of intimate items like children’s dolls, is greatly the period, the volume thematically presents the enriched by being placed in relevant rhetorical media that manifested and diffused religion contexts created by the Roman world. 528p, 129 b/w (institutions, texts, and law), and analyses illus (Cambridge UP 2014) 9781107000711 Hb £75.00 representative cases. It asks how religion changed Homer in Stone: The Tabulae Iliacae in their in processes of diffusion and immigration, how fast Roman Context (or how slow) practices and institutions were By David Petrain appropriated and modified, and reveals how these The Tabulae Iliacae are a group of carved stone changes made Roman religion ‘exportable’, creating plaques created in the context of early Imperial Rome those forms of intellectualisation and enscripturation that use miniature images and text to retell stories which made religion an autonomous area, different from Greek myth and history - chief among them from other social fields. Religion is shown to be Homer’s Iliad and the fall of Troy. In this book, transformed from a medium serving the individual Professor Petrain moves beyond the narrow focus necessities - dealing with human contingencies like on the literary and iconographic sources of the sickness, insecurity, and death - and a medium Tabulae that has characterized earlier scholarship. serving the public formation of political identity, into Drawing on ancient and modern theories of an encompassing system of ways of life, group narrative, he explores instead how the tablets transfer identities, and political legitimation. 336p (Oxford UP the Troy saga across both medium and culture as 2014) 9780198703723 Hb £65.00 they create a system of visual storytelling that relies on the values and viewing habits of Roman viewers. 273p, b/w illus, col pls (Cambridge UP 2014) 9781107029811 Hb £65.00 46 Roman Art and Archaeology

Roman in the Provinces: Art on the Periphery A Companion to Roman Architecture of Empire Edited by Roger Ulrich & Caroline K. Quenemoen Edited by Lisa R. Brody & Gail Hoffman Written by classical This beautifully illustrated archaeologists and volume presents new ways architectural historians who of thinking about the aim to understand Roman concept of “being Roman” architecture as an integrated - with a particular emphasis cultural practice, this on the way people in the Companion covers formal provinces and on the analysis, the design and periphery of the empire construction process, the reacted to the state of being ancient and modern a Roman subject. reception of Roman Accompanying an architecture and the exhibition at the Yale dynamic interplay among University Art Gallery and aestheics, social structure, politics, and geography the McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, it is in the production and use of Roman architecture. structured as a series of essays rather than a 589p, b/w illus (Wiley-Blackwell 2014) 9781405199643 catalogue, including general theoretical discussion, Hb £120.00 and more detailed case studies of religious identity The Roman Water Pump: Unique Evidence for and local cult, the army in the provinces, provincial the Roman Mastery of Mechanical Engineering coinage, art, and Roman identity in post-Roman By Richard Stein Britain. 300p, b/w illus, 75 col pls (McMullen Museum, Roman water pumps were used to raise water from Boston College 2014) 9781892850225 Pb £35.00 wells and as portable pumps to fight fires. Eighteen Il monumento dei Lucilii Sulla via Salaria wooden pumps are known, of which remains of By Paolo Montanari thirteen survive. This work is based on examination The study of the Monument of the Lucilii aims to of the remains, the records of all eighteen and ancient piece together the historical events of an important texts. It describes their finding, location, use, and tumulus from the Age of Augustus, built dating; and their construction, dimensions, approximately 470m outside the ancient site of the operation, and performance. It explains their generic gate of Porta Salaria of the Aurelian Walls of the design, the features of each part, the driving city of Rome. It was commissioned by an eminent mechanism, and the processes of production. 378p, member of the ordo equester (equestrian order), M. b/w illus (Editions Monique Mergoil 2014) 9782355180408 Lucilius Paetus, perhaps following the death of his Pb £75.00 sister: Lucilia Polla. Italian text. 181p b/w illus (BAR 2636, Archaeopress 2014) 9781407312736 Pb £34.00

Mosaics of Faith: Floors of Pagans, Jews, Samaritans, Christians, and Muslims in the Holy Land By Rina Talgam This monumental work provides a comprehensive analytical history of the Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Umayyad, and Early Abbasid mosaics in the Holy Land, spanning the second century B.C.E. to the eighth century C.E. Previous general studies of the Holy Land mosaics have focused on specific collections, resulting in useful corpora, but are nevertheless devoid of full analyses of their cultural and religious significance. In Mosaics of Faith, Rina Talgam sets out to fill this gap by demonstrating how mosaic art constructs cultural, religious, and ethnic identities in a multicultural society in eras that shaped the visual expressions of three monotheistic religions. An examination of the mosaics in a pivotal region of the eastern Mediterranean sharpens and refines our understanding of societies, their ideologies, institutions, and liturgies. More than any other corpora of ancient mosaics, those from the Holy Land have generated greater awareness of the intricate visual dialogues between paganism, Judaism, Samaritanism, Christianity, and Islam. Talgam examines the mosaics’ formal qualities in conjunction with the religious and cultural contexts within which they were produced and with which they had a profound, multidimensional dialogue. 579p, col and b/w illus (Penn State UP 2014) 9780271060842 Hb £123.95

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New from Oxbow Books Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Sourcebook By Alison Cooley Glass of the Roman World The original edition of Pompeii: A Sourcebook was Edited by Justine Bayley, Ian Freestone & Caroline a crucial resource for students of the site, and is now Jackson updated to include material from Herculaneum,. Focusing upon inscriptions and ancient texts, it Glass of the Roman World translates and sets into context a representative illustrates the arrival of sample of the huge range of source material new cultural systems, uncovered in these towns. From the labels on wine mechanisms of trade and jars to scribbled insults, and from advertisements an expanded economic for gladiatorial contests to love poetry, the individual base in the early 1st chapters explore the early history of Pompeii and millennium AD which, in Herculaneum, their destruction, leisure pursuits, combination, allowed the politics, commerce, religion, the family and society. further development of 352p, b/w illus (Routledge 2nd ed 2014) 9780415666800 the existing glass Pb £23.99 industry. Glass became something which en- The House of Sallust in Pompeii (VI 2, 4) compassed more than simply a novel and highly by Andrew Laidlaw and Marco Salvatore Stella decorative material. Glass production grew and its Throughout the 19th and most of the 20th centuries, consumption increased until it was assimilated into studies in Pompeiian buildings emphasised the all levels of society, used for display and luxury items various changes in architecture and decoration but equally for utilitarian containers, windows and which are visible above the level of AD 79. In the even tools. These 18 papers by renowned last 30 years, however, an increasing number of international scholars include studies of glass from scholars have begun to examine earlier levels of Europe and the Near East. The authors write on a occupation that underlie these structures. Based on variety of topics where their work is at the forefront the nature of the foundations examined in the of new approaches to the subject. They both extend various soundings, on the materials found in them, and consolidate aspects of our understanding of how and on a detailed analysis of the structure and glass was produced, traded and used throughout decoration of the House of Sallust as it stands today, the Empire and the wider world drawing on it is now possible to determine more precisely its chronology, typology, patterns of distribution, and history and development. This book provides the other methodologies, including the incorporation first complete history of the house. 283p b/w illus, of new scientific methods. Though focusing on a fold out plan (Journal of Roman Archaeology 2014) Hb single material the papers are firmly based in its £85.00 archaeological context in the wider economy of the The Inner Lives of Ancient Houses: An Roman world, and consider glass as part of a Archaeology of Dura-Europos complex material culture controlled by the expansion and contraction of the Empire. The By J.A. Baird volume is presented in honour of Jenny Price, a Dura-Europos, on the foremost scholar of Roman glass. , b/w and col ilus Syrian Euphrates, is one (Oxbow Books 2014) 9781782977742 Hb £40.00 of the best preserved and most extensively excavated sites of the Roman world. Romanizacion y produccion de ceramicas finas The houses were excavated en las areas perifericas de la provincial Baetica by a team from Yale and the French Academy of By Pablo Ruiz Montes Inscriptions and Letters in This study investigates a centre of ceramic the 1920s and 30s, and production closely linked to the municipium Isturgi though a wealth of Triumphale (Los Villares de Andujar, Jaen, Spain) archaeological and textual which flourished during the first and second material was recovered, most of that relating to centuries AD. It combines a wide range of housing was never published. Through a methodological approaches (anthropology, combination of archival information held at the Yale ethnoarcheology, archaeometry, etc.). The work is University Art Gallery and fieldwork with the arranged around two main themes: the first explores Mission Franco-Syrienne d’Europos-Doura, this the factors that led to the location of the settlement study re-evaluates the houses of the site, integrating i.e. physical factors in the form of material resources architecture, artefacts, and textual evidence, and and geographical factors in the form of markets and examining ancient daily life and cultural interaction, trade networks. The second provides a detailed as well as considering houses which were modified appraisal of manufacturing techniques and for use by the Roman military. 432p, b/w illus (Oxford typology. Spanish text. 177p b/w illus (BAR, UP 2014) 9780199687657 Hb £85.00 Archaeopress 2014) 9781407312798 Pb £31.00 48 Roman Archaeology and Roman Britain

The Roman Remains of Brittany, Normandy The Beau Street Hoard and the Loire Valley: A Guidebook By Eleanor Ghey By James Bromwich In 2007 during an archaeological excavation in This book, the third in a well- advance of a hotel development situated 150 metres regarded series, offers a from the Roman Baths in Bath, a Roman silver coin comprehensive guide to the hoard was unearthed. This hoard was an exceptional Roman sites of Brittany, find, not only because of its size – 17,500 coins in Normandy and the Loire total – but also because of a number of unusual Valley, as well as to those characteristics. Unlike other similar Roman hoards, museums in the region which the coins were discovered in a series of eight money house Roman remains. The bags – almost eight mini hoards in one – that are detailed gazetteer provides full likely to have been deposited gradually over time. and lively descriptions of the This small and beautifully illustrated book tells the sites, and archaeological work story of this remarkable find, focussing on the which has taken place, along discovery, scientific investigation, interpretation of with plentiful plans, maps and photographs. An the hoard, and the parallels and context in the Roman opening section sets the scene with historical world. 48p col illus (British Museum Press 2014) context, whilst more extended features examine salt 9780714118260 Pb £4.99 production and cooking, and the defences of western The Mildenhall Treasure: Late Roman Silver Gaul. 329p, b/w and col illus (Lucina Books 2014) Plate from Suffolk, East Anglia 9781780356624 Pb £14.99 By Richard Hobbs Architecture and Material Culture from the Discovered in Suffolk in 1942, the Mildenhall Earthquake House at Kourion, Cyprus: A Late Treasure is one of the most important collections of Roman Non-Elite House Destroyed in the 4th Late Roman silver tableware from the Roman Century AD Empire. • Features some of the finest pieces of Roman By Benjamin Costello IV craftsmanship known from throughout the Roman In the late 4th century AD, the site of Kourion, Empire • Offers new perspectives on the Treasure Cyprus was destroyed by an earthquake. This work and its significance within the wider Roman world presents the results of a comprehensive study of the • Essential reading for archaeologists, historians and architecture, stratigraphy, and material culture those with an interest in Roman Britain. 297p, b/w assemblage recovered from the “Earthquake House,” illus (British Museum Press 2015) 9780861592005 Pb a multi-roomed domestic structure destroyed during £40.00 ***NYP*** this seismic event. The architectural analysis revealed Dea Senuna: Treasure, Cult and Ritual at a number of modifications to the structure that Ashwell, Hertfordshire increased its overall size and subdivided its internal By Ralph Jackson & Gilbert Burleigh spaces, although their timing and reasons remain The hoard of Roman-British temple treasure unknown at present. Study of the artifact discovered at Ashwell in 2002, provides fascinating assemblage provided significant insights into the new insights into the ritual of Roman religion. • processes surrounding the use, re-use, and discard First full publication of the Ashwell treasure since of artifacts. 156p, col and b/w illus (BAR 2635, its high profile discovery in 2002 • Features a detailed, Archaeopress 2014) 9781407312729 Pb £34.00 highly illustrated discussion of the beautiful gold The Roman Aqaba Project: Final Report, and silver votive plaques as well as the figurine of Volume 1: The Regional Environment and the the previously unknown goddess Senuna • Will be Regional Survey essential reading for anyone with an interest in By S. Thomas Parker & Andrew M. Smith ll Roman religion, especially in Roman Britain, as well The city of Aila emerged in the late 1st century BC as historians and archaeologists 285p, b/w illus (British within the Nabataean kingdom, a client state of the Museum Press 2015) 9780861591947 Pb £40.00 Roman Empire. The Roman Aqaba Project aimed to ***NYP*** reconstruct Aila’s economy diachronically. This first Whetstones from Roman Silchester (Calleva of three projected volumes of the project’s final report Atrebatum), North Hampshire: Character, focuses on the regional environment and the manufacture, provenance and use regional survey. Analysis of the environment By J. R. L. Allen employs a wide range of evidence to analyze the The five-hundred year occupation of Insula IX at physiography, geology, soils, seismic history, climate, Silchester has yielded a sequence of 87 whetstones, and natural resources. The report also includes mostly tabular but some bar- or rod-shaped. These results of an intensive archaeological survey of Wadi are described, illustrated and characterized with the Araba, the shallow valley extending north from help of thin-section microscopic petrography. 132p Aqaba to the Dead Sea, recording 334 archaeological b/w illus (BAR BS 597, Archaeopress 2014) sites. 400p, 114 colour and b/w ills (ASOR 2014) 9781407312804 Pb £37.00 9780897570428 Hb £65.00 Roman Britain 49

Outside the Town: Roman industry, burial and Life in a Roman Legionary Fortress religion at Augustine House, Rhodaus Town, By Tim Copeland Canterbury Based largely on excavations By Richard Helm at Caerleon, but also Outside the Town describes discoveries made drawing on other examples between 2006 and 2009 during excavations from Chester and York, Tim immediately south-east of Canterbury’s Roman town Copeland provides an wall. The investigations revealed a late Roman shrine introductory guide to the along with finds indicative of ritual offerings and Roman legionary fortress, associated feasting. Apparently in use over a twenty exploring its layout street by year period from c AD 340, the shrine was positioned street and revealing the over a late Iron Age inhumation burial which may functions of the buildings have originally been marked by a mound, and is and their organisation. one amongst a group of such late Iron Age and early Opening chapters provide Roman funerary monuments which exist in the background on the army and the construction of vicinity. 158p, fully colour illustrated (Canterbury Roman forts, before the buildings of the fort are used Archaeological Trust 2014) 9781870545297 Pb £20.00 to create a picture of the daily lives of the legionaries, Further discoveries about the surveying and their military routine, and equipment, the workshops, baths and public areas. The way that planning of Roman roads in northern Britain space was used to reinforce the hierarchy of the By John Poulter Roman army is also discussed and the principia, The research reported in this monograph follows praetorium, and tribunes’ quarters described. 96p col on directly from the findings that were reported in illus (Amberley 2014) 9781445643588 Pb £14.99 BAR 492, in which the author recognised that the courses of both Roman Dere Street and Hadrian’s A Late Roman Town House and its Environs: Wall had been underpinned by frameworks of long- The Excavations of C.D. Drew and K.C. distance alignments. Here John Poulter seeks to Collingwood Selby in Collition Park, examine why, how, and when such long-distance Dorchester, Dorset 1937–8 alignments may have been laid out. Consideration By Emma Durham & Michael Fulford is then given to the processes by which some of these This report publishes the 1937–8 excavations in alignments seem subsequently to have been adopted Colliton Park, Dorchester, Dorset, which revealed to help set out the courses of Roman roads. These one of the best preserved late Roman town houses processes are shown, at times, to have been far from so far discovered in Roman Britain. In addition to straightforward, and this appears to offer an the town house and its mosaics, the report publishes explanation for many of the minor divergences that the surrounding buildings in the north-west quarter Roman roads, as built, take from such alignments of the town, also mostly of late Roman date, and in practice. The courses of four well-known Roman associated occupation along with an extensive roads in Northern England are then examined in collection of artefacts, including outstanding finds detail to diagnose the processes by which they are of coins, glass, iron and Kimmeridge shale. 436p, likely to have been planned and laid out. 104p, b/w 214p (Roman Society Publications 2014) 9780907764397 illus (BAR, Archaeopress 2014) 9781407312811 Pb £24.00 Pb £36.00 ***NYP***

Hadrian’s Wall: A History of Archaeological Thought By David J. Breeze Interpretations of the function and history of Hadrian’s Wall have been offered for 1,800 years. In this book, David Breeze considers these interpretations in order to understand how our present beliefs have been acquired, and to understand why we interpret Hadrian’s Wall in the way that we do. He undertakes this by examining eleven topics which illuminate our understanding of this great Roman frontier. These include the role of Hadrian in building the Wall, the way in which the relationships between the various elements of the frontier were elucidated, the importance of understanding the sequence of building the Wall and recording all its component parts, the date of the rebuilding of the Turf Wall, how the Wall was manned, the function of the Wall, and the moving end date for the frontier. (Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society 2014) 9781873124673 Pb £18.00

***Special offer until March 2015 - only £15.00*** 50 Roman Britain Forthcoming from Oxbow Books AD 410: The History and Archaeology of Late and post-Roman Britain The Archaeology of the Lower City and Edited by Fiona K. Haarer, Rob Collins, Keith J. Adjacent Suburbs Fitzpatrick-Matthews, Sam Moorhead, David By Kate Steane, Margaret Darling, Michael J. Petts & Philippa Jane Walton Jones, Jenny Mann, Alan Vince & Jane Young This volume contains a This volume contains reports selection of 16 papers on excavations undertaken delivered at a series of in the lower walled city at conferences exploring the Lincoln, which lies on theme of AD410 and the sloping ground on the “End of Roman Britains, northern scarp of the tackling the debate from Witham gap, and its adjacent different angles (historical, suburbs between 1972 and archaeological, literary) 1987, and forms a and setting out the current companion volume to LAS state of research. An volumes 2 and 3 which cover introduction by Simon other parts of the historic Esmonde Cleary serves to city. The earliest features set the volume in the context of the study of Roman encountered were discovered both near to the line Britain over the last forty years, since the inception of Ermine Street and towards Broadgate. Remains of the Roman Society’s journal, Britannia, and a of timber storage buildings were found, probably conclusion by Martin Millett highlights some of the associated with the Roman legionary occupation in key issues raised in the volume, and points to the later 1st century AD. The earliest occupation of possible ways forward for future studies. 240p, 54 the hillside after the foundation of the colonia (Roman Society Publications 2014) 9780907764403 Hb towards the end of the century consisted mainly of £36.00 commercial premises, modest residences, and storage Towns in the Dark: Urban Transformations buildings. Larger aristocratic residences came to from Late Roman Britain to Anglo-Saxon dominate the hillside with public facilities fronting England on to the line of the zig-zagging main route. In the By Gavin Speed 4th century, the fortifications were enlarged and two The aim of this book is to draw together still scattered new gates inserted. Occupation of an urban nature data to chart and interpret the changing nature of did not recommence until the late 9th century, with life in towns from the late Roman period through sequences of increasingly intensive occupation from to the mid-Anglo-Saxon period. The research centres the 10th century, and plentiful evidence for industrial on towns that have received sufficient archaeological activity. Markets were established in the 11th intervention so that meaningful patterns can be century and stone began to replace timber for traced. The case studies are arranged into three residential structures from the mid-12th century regional areas: the South-East, South-West, and with clear evidence of the quality of some of the Midlands. Towns in the Dark dispels the simplistic houses. 608p, b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2015) myth of outright urban decline and failure after 9781782978527 Hb £55.00 Rome, and demonstrates that life in towns often did ***Only £20.00 until publication*** continue with variable degrees of continuity and discontinuity. 205p, illustrated throughout in black and white (Archaeopress Archaeology 2014) 9781784910044 Hadrian’s Wall and the End of Empire Pb £34.00 By Rob Collins The Annals of Quintus Ennius and the Italic Synthesising archaeological data, as well as the limited documentary sources, this book presents a Tradition new view of the transition from Roman to early By Jay Fisher medieval along the Hadrian’s Wall frontier zone. Quintus Ennius, often considered the father of Collins surveys the evidence for continued Roman poetry, is best remembered for his epic poem, occupation at the Wall’s forts and reassesses its the Annals, a history of Rome from Aeneas until his character, suggesting that the limitanei continued own lifetime. Jay Fisher argues that Ennius does not to play “an important part in the frontier until the simply translate Homeric models into Latin, but Roman period, and probably beyond”. Whilst the blends Greek poetic models with Italic diction to frontier did not collapse in the wake of the end of produce a poetic hybrid. Fisher’s investigation empire, however, Collins does find evidence of uncovers a poem that blends foreign and familiar increasing fragmentation through the 5th and 6th cultural elements in order to generate layers of centuries, conditioned by the scarcer resources meaning for his Roman audience. 224p (Johns Hopkins availble to the fort commanders. 232p (Routledge 2012, UP 2014) 9781421411293 Hb £45.00 Pb 2014) 9781136291425 Hb £80.00, 9781138792463 Pb £30.00 Roman Literature and Late Antiquity 51

Suetonius: Studies in Roman Lives Galerius and the Will of Diocletian Edited by Tristan Power & Roy Gibson By William Lewis Leadbetter This volume of new essays focuses on various aspects Galerius was appointed Caesar to Diocletian in the of Suetonius’ work, from his lost biographical East and succeeded him in the role of Augustus, in writing on Roman courtesans to his imperial what has been traditionally seen as his tetrarchic portraits of the Caesars. Beginning with an system. In this detailed political study, Bill Leadbetter introduction that assesses the originality of reappraises the careers and intentions of both men, Suetonius as a writer and situates the essays within and crucially questions the idea that the tetrarchy the context of debates and controversies over his represented any kind of new constitutional principle biographical form, the collection addresses issues at all, showing that it was never conceived as such surrounding his style, themes, and early influence in the ancient sources. 282p, b/w illus (Routledge 2009, on literature. 352p (Oxford UP 2014) 9780199697106 Pb 2013) 9780415404884 Hb £80.00, 9780415859714 Hb £70.00 Pb £24.99 What Did the Romans Know? Constantine: Dynasty, Religion and Power in By Daryn Lehoux the Later Roman Empire What did the Romans know By Timothy Barnes about their world? Quite a lot, Barnes, the pre-eminent historian of the Emperor as Daryn Lehoux makes clear Constantine here revisits his seminal Constantine in this fascinating and much- and Eusebius (1981). Responding to and drawing needed contribution to the on 30 years of intervening scholarship, he traces the history and philosophy of emperor’s political and religious policies, arguing ancient science. He explores a forcefully that the picture painted by Eusebius of an wide range of sources from aggressively Christian Emperor is substantially what is unquestionably the accurate in relation to his later years in the East. most prolific period of ancient The recent redating of the works of Palladas to science, from the highly Constantine’s reign provide powerful support for technical works by Galen and this thesis. 266p (Wiley-Blackwell 2008, Pb 2014) Ptolemy to the more philosophically oriented 9781405117272 Hb £88.00, 9781118782750 Pb £22.00 physics and cosmologies of Cicero, Lucretius, Plutarch, and Seneca. Examining the tools and Production and Prosperity in the Theodosian methods that the Romans employed for their Period investigations of nature, as well as their cultural, Edited by I. Jacobs intellectual, political, and religious contexts, Lehoux This volume aims at a re-evaluation of the prosperity demonstrates that the Romans had sophisticated and of the Roman Empire under the Theodosii. novel approaches to nature, approaches that were Archaeological, historical, epigraphic and empirically rigorous, philosophically rich, and numismatic research are combined to investigate the epistemologically complex. 275p (University of Chicago vitality and socio-economic potential of distinct Press 2012, Pb 2014) 9780226471143 Hb £35.00, regions of the empire; to explore the relative 9780226143217 Pb £19.50 importance of cities, villages, fortresses and estates in patterns of purchase and comsumption; to gain Man and Animal in Severan Rome: The insights into the mechanisms and forces underlying Literary Imagination of Claudius Aelianus production, distribution and consumption of both By Steven D. Smith staple goods and luxury products; and, eventually, The Roman sophist Claudius Aelianus, born in to offer explanations for the general condition and Praeneste in the late second century CE, spent his functioning of the empire. 397p, b/w illus (Peeters 2014) career cultivating a Greek literary persona. Aelian 9789042930124 Hb £67.00 was a highly regarded writer during his own lifetime, and his literary compilations would be influential The Vandals for a thousand years and more in the Roman world. By Andrew Merrills & Richard Miles This book argues that the De natura animalium, a This book draws together the latest archaeological, miscellaneous treasury of animal lore and Aelian’s historical and cultural research om the Vandals. The greatest work, is a sophisticated literary critique of authors choose to concentrate on the Vandal period Severan Rome. Aelian’s fascination with animals in North Africa, restricting discussion of the reflects the cultural issues of his day: philosophy, intractable problem of origins to one early chapter. religion, the exoticism of Egypt and India, sex, They survey the administrative structures of the gender, and imperial politics. This study also kingdom, highlighting change and continuity from considers how Aelian’s interests in the De natura the Roman state, as well as providing an outline of animalium are echoed in his other works, the Rustic political history, including relations with other Letters and the Varia Historia. Himself a prominent Mediterranean powers. Other topics include figure of mainstream Roman Hellenism, Aelian ethnicity and identity, the economy, and cultural life, refined his literary aesthetic to produce a reading of including the impact of the Vandal rulers’ Arian nature that is both moral and provocative. 310p beliefs and their famous persecutions. 351p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2014) 9781107033986 Hb £65.00 (Wiley-Blackwell 2014) 9781118785096 Pb £25.00