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Classical Studies Features 2004 new titles and key backlist Cover image www.cambridge.org 2004 Contents New Series Art and Architecture 1 Cambridge Studies in Greek and Latin Literature 5 The Cambridge History of Classical the Dialogues of Plato Literature 9 Series Editor: MARY MARGARET MCCABE Landmarks of World Literature 10 King’s College London Roman Literature and its Contexts 11 Plato’s dialogues are rich mixtures of subtle Reading Greek 11 argument, sublime theorising and superb literature. Reading Latin 12 All too often scholars have been tempted to read Cambridge Classical Texts and them piecemeal – analysing the arguments, Commentaries 12 espousing or rejecting the theories or praising Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics 13 Plato’s literary expertise. But Plato offers us the Greek Culture in the Roman World 14 dialogues to read whole, one by one. This series Ancient History and Archaeology 15 will provide careful, complete and original studies Key Themes in Ancient History 15 in individual dialogues of Plato. Each will tackle its The Cambridge Ancient History 21 dialogue as a unified whole, to demonstrate that an understanding of why any dialogue is composed in Ancient Philosophy and Science 22 ➤ See page 23 the complex way it is will give a far better view of Of Related Interest 27 Plato’s philosophy than any fragmentary approach Classics for Schools 32 to the dialogue would provide. Cambridge Translations from Greek Drama 32 Author and Title Index 34 For details of re-issued Ancient History and Classical Studies titles please consult: www.cambridge.org/history/repeat History repeats itself: New paperback issues of classic history titles from Cambridge. Cambridge University Press is the printing and publishing house of the University of Cambridge, and is the oldest press in the world. 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Dunbabin McMaster University, Ontario FORTHCOMING and Roman visual arts, this edition includes a new chapter on Roman Dining was an important social occasion The Language of architecture, as well as new illustrations, in the classical world. Scenes of drinking Images in Roman Art and updated bibliography and glossary. and dining decorate the wall paintings Art as a Semantic System in the ‘Well-planned, written in a lively and mosaic pavements of many Roman Roman World manner … observations are un- houses. They are also painted in tombs Tonio Hölscher hackneyed and many of the terse and carved in relief on sarcophagi and Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany summations truly brilliant … an on innumerable smaller grave Translated by Anthony Snodgrass intelligent, challenging, informative monuments. Drawing frequently upon University of Cambridge introduction to the classical arts.’ ancient literature inscriptions as well as and Anne-Marie Künzl-Snodgrass George M. A. Hanfmann, Professor of archaeological evidence, this book Archaeology, Harvard University University of Cambridge examines the visual and material 2004 247 x 174 mm 204pp Introduction by Jas’ Elsner evidence for dining through Roman University of Oxford 30 line diagrams 94 half-tones 22 colour plates 3 maps antiquity. Topics covered include the This book develops a new theory for the 0 521 83280 2 Hardback c. £40.00 relationship between Greek and Roman understanding of Roman pictorial art. By Publication June 2004 dining habits; the social significance of treating Roman art as a semantic reclining when dining in public; the system it establishes a connection FORTHCOMING associations between dining scenes and between artistic forms and the death; the changing fashions of dining ideological messages contained within. The Aesthetics of at the end of antiquity; and the use of The history of Roman art traditionally Emulation in the banquet scenes in the art of early followed the model of a sequence of Visual Arts of Ancient Christianity. Richly illustrated, The stylistic phases affecting the works of Rome Roman Banquet offers the fullest and their era in the manner of a uniform Ellen Perry varied picture of the role of the banquet Zeitgeist. By contrast, the author shows College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts in Roman life. different stylistic forms being used for 2004 247 x 174 mm 312pp This book examines Roman strategies different themes and messages. The 19 line diagrams 101 half-tones reception of Greek models, a key for the appropriation of the Greek visual 16 colour plates phenomenon of Roman art, thus appear culture and argues that the scholarship 0 521 82252 1 Hardback £50.00 in a new light. The formulations of on this topic, dominated by copy specific messages are established from criticism (Kopienkritik), has not The Votive Statues of appreciated Roman values in the visual Greek art types of different eras serving the Athenian Acropolis to express Roman ideological values: arts. Ellen Perry analyzes the Roman aesthetics that lie at the core of the Katherine Keesling classical forms for the grandeur of the Georgetown University, Washington DC state, Hellenistic forms for the struggling visual conservatism – and innovation – During the period between Solon’s effort of warfare. In this way a in the art of that civilization. These reforms and the end of the conceptual and comprehensible pictorial attitudes help to explain the Peloponnesian War, worshippers language arose, uniting the multicultural preponderance of copies, exact or free, dedicated hundreds of statues to population of the Roman state. after the sculpture of great Greek Athena on the Acropolis, Athens’s 2004 216 x 138 mm 184pp 52 half-tones masters in Roman art. A knowledge of 0 521 66200 1 Hardback c. £42.50 Roman values, Perry demonstrates, primary sanctuary. Some of these 0 521 66569 8 Paperback c. £14.99 explains the entire range of visual statues were Archaic marble korai, Publication June 2004 appropriation in Roman art, which works of the greatest significance for includes not only the phenomenon of the study of Greek art; all are FORTHCOMING copying, but also such manifestations as documents of Athenian history. This allusion, parody, and most importantly book brings together all of the evidence The Art of Greece and aemulatio, successful rivalry with one’s for statue dedications on the Acropolis Rome models. in the sixth and fifth centuries BC, Second edition 2004 228 x 152 mm 275pp including inscribed statue bases that Susan Woodford 2 line diagrams 46 half-tones preserve information about the 0 521 83165 2 Hardback c. £50.00 dedicators and the evidence for lost In The Art of Greece and Rome Susan Publication November 2004 bronze sculptures. Placing the korai and Woodford illuminates the great other statues from the Acropolis within achievements of classical art and the original votive contexts, Katherine architecture and conveys a sense of the Keesling questions the standard excitement that fired the creative artists interpretation of the korai as generic, of the ancient world. The Greek were anonymous votaries, while shedding quick to challenge time-honored styles new light upon the origins and and, stimulated by the problems that significance of Greek portraiture. sometimes emerged from their daring 2003 247 x 174 mm 290pp innovations, they invented solutions that 8 line diagrams 56 half-tones have been considered classics ever 0 521 81523 1 Hardback £55.00 since. The Romans recognized the Greek Visit our website at www.cambridge.org 2 Art and Architecture FORTHCOMING The Parthenon Frieze Monumental Tombs of Picturing Death in Jenifer Neils Ancient Alexandria Case Western Reserve University, Ohio The Theater of the Dead Classical Athens ‘… a valuable book that will appeal to Marjorie Susan Venit The Evidence of the White specialists and non-specialists alike … University of Maryland, College Park Lekythoi The Parthenon Frieze will certainly find Alexandria’s monumental tombs provide John Oakley a place in many libraries, both College of William and Mary, Virginia institutional and personal, and it a visual testament to the city’s art and to social history. This is the first in-depth study of the establishes high standards for other 2002 253 x 203 mm 284pp pictures found on Attic white lekythois.