Classical World Religious Architecture in Latium and Etruria c. 900-500 BC NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS By Charlotte R. Potts Ancient Fortifications Religious Architecture in Edited by Silke Muth, Peter Schneider, Mike Schnelle Latium and Etruria c. 900- & Peter De Staebler 500 BC presents the first comprehensive treatment Since the early years of of cult buildings in western the 21st century, research central Italy from the Iron on ancient fortifications Age to the Archaic Period. has experienced an The first part of the study international boom, examines the processes by reflected in this bilingual which religious buildings (English and German) changed from huts and book. The book is divided shrines to monumental into two parts: the first part temples, and explores apparent differences between includes 12 chapters on these processes in Latium and Etruria. The second methods of interpretation, part analyses the broader architectural, religious, documentation, and field and topographical contexts of the first Etrusco- project organisation; the systematic description Italic temples alongside possible rationales for their and presentation of fortifications; the‘building introduction. experience’; masonry forms and techniques; defensive, symbolic, and urbanistic functions 208p b/w illus (Oxford UP 2015) 9780198722076 Hb and aspects; on fortifications in written sources, £75.00 the visual arts, and as a historical source; and on Oscan in Southern Italy and Sicily regional and rural fortifications, and regionally Evaluating Language Contact in a Fragmentary confined phenomena. Part two is a catalogue that Corpus offers exemplary presentations of fortifications. By Katherine McDonald 352p, (Oxbow Books 2016) 9781785701399 Hb £55.00 Using frameworks from Weben und Gewebe in der Antike/ epigraphy, archaeology and the sociolinguistics of Texts and Textiles in the Ancient language contact, this book World explores the relationship Materialität – Repräsentation – Episteme – between Greek and Oscan, Metapoetik / Materiality – Representation – two of the most widely spoken Episteme – Metapoetics languages in the south of the By Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer pre-Roman Italian peninsula. This volume presents 11 Dr McDonald demonstrates papers arranged under that genre and domain are the four headings of critical to understanding the title which focus on where and when Greek was the process of textile used within Oscan-speaking communities, and how manufacture, the weaving ancient bilinguals exploited the social meaning of process itself, and the their languages in their writing. materiality of fabric. 302p, (Cambridge UP 2015) 9781107103832 Hb £64.99 Contributions address the problematic issues The Oxford History of Historical Writing of cognitive archaeology, Volume 1: Beginnings to AD 600 consumer research, Edited by Grant Hardy & Andrew Feldherr literary theory and themes exploring both Volume I of this major new global survey of philosophical history and the history of reception historical writing offers essays by leading scholars of ideas and practice. Text mainly in German. on the development and history of the major 192p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2015) traditions of historical writing, including the 9781785700620 Hb £35.00 ancient Near East, Classical Greece and Rome, and East and South Asia from their origins until c. AD 600. It provides both an authoritative survey of the field and an unrivalled opportunity to make cross- cultural comparisons. 672p, (Oxford UP 2011, Pb 2015) 9780198737803 Pb £35.00 34 Forthcoming from Oxbow Books A Companion to Food in the Ancient Classical World World Focus on Fortifications Edited by John Wilkins & Robin Nadeau Edited by Rune Frederiksen, Silke Muth, Peter Schneider A Companion to Food in the Ancient World presents & Mike Schnelle a comprehensive overview of the cultural aspects With a collection of 57 relating to the production, preparation and articles in English, French consumption of food and drink in antiquity. Topics and German, presenting covered include the latest findings related to food the most recent research on in ancient literature; food and its relationship to ancient fortifications, this diet, nutrition, philosophy, gender, class and power; book is the most substantial archaeological and anthropological food studies; publication to have issued the production, transport and preparation of food; on the topic for many years. food cultures beyond the Greek and Roman worlds; The papers were presented the role of food in ancient religious practices; and at a conference in Athens in considerations of “great food cultures”. December 2012, and they all 457p (Wiley-Blackwell 2015) 9781405179409 Hb £120.00 present material and discuss topics under seven headings that represent the Ancient Botany most central themes in the study of fortification By Laurence Totelin & Gavin Hardy in antiquity: the origins of fortification, physical A new overview of ancient botany and the Classical surroundings and building technique, function texts which form its scientific foundations. The and semantics, historical context, authors adopt a thematic approach rather than a the fortification of regions and chronological one, considering important issues regionally confined phenomena, Only such as the definition of a plant, nomenclature, the fortifications of Athens and £55.00 until classifications, physiology, the link between plants new field research. publication and their environment, and the numerous usages 624p, (Oxbow Books 2016) of plants in the ancient world. The book also takes 9781785701313 Hb £70.00 care to place ancient botany in its historical, social Spinning Fates and the Song and economic context. of the Loom 238p, (Routledge 2015) 9780415311205 Pb £29.99 The Use of Textiles, Clothing and Cloth Production Ancient Geography as Metaphor, Symbol and Narrative Device in The Discovery of the World in Classical Greece Greek and Latin Literature and Rome Edited by Marie Louise Nosch, Mary Harlow & By Duane W. Roller Giovanni Fanfani Duane Roller offers a comprehensive account of Spanning mainly Greek ancient pioneers in the field of geography, and the and Latin poetic genres, yet frontiers that defined their world. From the Bronze encompassing comparative Age to Late Antiquity, Roller maps the development evidence from other Indo- of geographical scholarship from its incipient European languages and beginnings in the literature of Hesiod, Homer, literatures, these 18 chapters Herodotus and the tragedians through to the draw a various yet consistent learned compendia of Posidonius and Strabo – and picture of the literary the scientific discoveries of Pythagoras, Eratosthenes exploitation of the imagery, and Euclid that made it all possible. concepts and symbolism of 288p, (I.B. Tauris 2015) 9781784530761 Hb £62.00 ancient textiles and clothing. Topics include refreshing Women & War in Antiquity readings of tragic instances of deadly peploi and Edited by Jacqueline Fabre-Serris and Alison Keith fatal fabrics, situating them within a Near Eastern Sixteen scholars re-examine classical sources to tradition of curse as garment, explore female agency uncover the complex but hitherto unexplored in the narrative of their production, and argue for relationship between women and war in ancient broader symbolic implications of textile-making Greece and Rome. They reveal that women played within the sphere of natural wealth. The concepts a much more active role in battle than previously and technological principles of ancient weaving assumed, embodying martial virtues in both emerge as cognitive patterns that, real and mythological combat. They consider a by means of analogy rather than vast panorama of scenes in which women are metaphor, are reflected in early Only portrayed as spectators, critics, victims, causes, and Greek mathematic and logical £28.50 until beneficiaries of war. thinking, and in archaic poetics. publication 341p (Johns Hopkins UP 2015) 9781421417622 Hb £35.50 (Oxbow Books 2016) 9781785701603 Hb £38.00 Classical World 35 Revealing & Concealing in Antiquity Philosophy and the Ancient Novel Textual & Archaeological Approaches to Edited by Silvia Montiglio & Marília F. Futre Pinheiro Secrecy The papers assembled in this volume explore a Edited by Sine Grove Saxkjaer & Eva Mortensen relatively new area in scholarship on the ancient This volume explores the concept of secrecy novel: the relationship between ostensibly non- and its implications in Antiquity, Late Antiquity philosophical genres and philosophy. The papers and the Renaissance in eleven cross-disciplinary in this collection cover a variety of genres, ranging contributions using both textual and archaeological from the Greek and Roman novels to utopian sources. By exploring the revealing and concealing narratives and fictional biographies, and seek by of knowledge across different social contexts, diverse methods to detect philosophical resonances time frames and geographical locations, the book in these texts. provides insight into the concept of secrecy and 179p, (Barkhuis 2015) 9789491431890 Hb £57.20 its potential for illuminating the agendas behind identity construction, political propaganda, literary Kinesis works, religious practices and shared history. The Ancient Depiction of Gesture Motion 202p (Aarhus UP 2015) 9788771243895 Hb £25.00 and Emotion Edited by Judith P. Hallett, Edith Foster & Christina Clark Holy Men and Charlatans in This collection explores the depiction of emotions, the Ancient Novel gestures, and nonverbal