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Classical World PUBLICATIONS AND DISTRIBUTED TITLES Archaeology | Art | History | Literature Welcome to the Classical World catalogue from As always we are able to feature a great range of titles from our distribution clients alongside our own Oxbow Books and Aris & Phillips imprints. Covering classical literature, history, archaeology and art we are sure you will find something here of interest. We are delighted to showcase the new look Aris & Phillips series design in this catalogue. Turn to page 7 to find out which titles are now available with beautiful new jackets and keep an eye on our website as we rebrand the complete backlist. Contents Dictionary of Classical Mythology ....................................................... p. 3 Classical Language & Literature ........................................................ p. 4 Aris & Phillips ..................................................................................... p. 7 Classical Archaeology ........................................................................ p. 10 Classical History & Society ............................................................... p. 20 Ordering Information ......................................................................... p.23 This catalogue includes titles from: Facebook “f” Logo CMYK / .eps Facebook “f” Logo CMYK / .eps Join the conversation: Find us on Facebook Follow us @oxbowbooks 2 www.oxbowbooks.com | (0)1865 241 249 NEW EDITION DICTIONARY OF CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY By Jenny March [Praise for the first edition] “The Dictionary of Classical Mythology is exemplary, indeed the best I have consulted … clearly and engagingly written … it not only gives reliable answers but also encourages reading on.” Simon Goldhill, Times Literary Supplement “a prodigious, authoritative gazetteer, each entry both typographically and stylistically readable.” Nicholas Lezard, Guardian Book of the Week “Greek myths pervade our own art and literature almost as much as they influenced that of classical times, and this will be an invaluable guide.” The Good Book Guide • Comprehensive coverage of Greek and Roman mythology encompassing all major myths and characters, and minor figures • Concise and readable text, engagingly written • Extensive translations from ancient authors that give life to the narratives • 172 beautiful line-drawings, new to this edition • Index of recurring mythical motifs, new to this edition, plus the more important genealogies Jenny March’s acclaimed Dictionary of Classical Mythology, first published in 1998 but long out of print, has been extensively revised and expanded including a completely new set of beautiful line-drawing illustrations for this Oxbow edition. It is a comprehensive A – Z guide to Greek and Roman mythology. All major myths, legends and fables are here, including gods and goddesses, heroes and villains, dangerous women, legendary creatures and monsters. Characters such as Achilles and Odysseus have extensive entries, as do epic journeys and heroic quests, like that of Jason and the Argonauts to win the Golden Fleece, all alongside a plethora of information on the creation of the cosmos, the many metamorphoses of gods and humans, and the Trojan War, plus more minor figures – nymphs, seers, kings, rivers, to name but a few. In this superbly authoritative work the myths are brilliantly retold, along with any major variants, and with extensive translations from ancient authors that give life to the narratives and a sense of the vibrant cultures that shaped the development of classical myth. The 172 illustrations give visual immediacy to the words, by showing how ancient artists perceived their gods and heroes. The impact of myths on ancient art is also explored, as is their influence in the 482 Triton Triton 483 post-classical arts, emphasising the ongoing inspiration afforded by the ancient myths. Also included are two maps of the ancient world, a list of the ancient sources and their chronology, the more Fig. 165. Triptolemus, holding stalks of grain, sits on a wheeled, winged throne. Demeter (left) and Persephone, holding torches, attend his departure to spread knowledge of agriculture among mortals. important genealogies, and an index of recurrent mythical Sophocles wrote a Triptolemus (c. 468 BC, and perhaps shown blowing on his conch-shell horn. With this horn one of the plays with which he won his first victory). he had once, on his father’s instructions, calmed the This is now lost, but we know that it mentioned the stormy seas and ordered the waters to retreat at the Fig. 166. The young Theseus in the palace of his father, Poseidon (holding a trident), at the bottom of the sea. The merman dragon-chariot, and that Demeter described the end of the Great Flood. So proud was he of his musical Triton prepares to carry him back to the surface, while Nereids bid him farewell. many places to which Triptolemus would travel in his skill on this instrument, that when he heard the Trojan motifs. agricultural mission. He is often depicted in ancient MISENUS boasting that he himself could play as well art, from the sixth century BC onwards, seated in his as any of the gods, the jealous Triton drowned his in the sea before sacrificing to Dionysus. They called In postclassical art, Tritons are often depicted chariot and holding the ears of corn that Demeter has presumptuous rival. on their god, who fought the Triton and defeated him. sporting in the waves with NEREIDS, or in Poseidon’s given him (Fig. 165). Plato names Triptolemus as one of Triton played a part in the legend of the ARGONAUTS, Another Triton was in the habit of plundering Tanagran train, or in the sea-triumphs of Amphitrite, Galatea or the judges of the dead, along with Minos, Rhadamanthys appearing to them at Lake Tritonis in Libya, after they cattle, and even attacking boats, until one day the Aphrodite. A Triton blowing his horn, raising the great and Aeacus. had been carried far inland by a tidal wave and were townspeople left out a bowl of wine for him. Drawn by shell to his bearded lips, has been a popular choice for [Plato, Apology 41a; Apollodorus 1.5.2; Pausanias 1.14.1–3, desperately seeking an outlet to the sea. At first he the smell, he drank the wine and fell asleep on the shore, fountain-figures, as on Bernini’s Triton Fountain in the 1.38.6–7, 7.18.2–3, 8.4.1; Ovid, Metamorphoses 5.642–61; disguised himself as Eurypylus, a local king, and at which a man of Tanagra approached and chopped off Piazza Barberini in Rome, and on Rome’s famous Trevi 9781782976356 | PB | 432p | May 2014 Hyginus, Fabula 147, Poetic Astronomy 2.14. For Sophocles’ presented to one of their company, EUPHEMUS, a clod the Triton’s head with an axe. Fountain (Fig. 167). In Wordsworth’s passionate sonnet lost Triptolemus, see A. H. Sommerstein and T. H. Talboy, of earth as a gift of friendship. He himself received Pausanias saw this headless Triton, and also a smaller The World is Too Much with Us, Triton becomes a symbol Sophocles: Selected Fragmentary Plays Vol. II (Aris & Phillips, from the Greeks a golden tripod, brought from Delphi. one in Rome which, he reports, had hair on its head like of a lost and less materialistic world: 2012), pp. 216–60.] Reverting to his true form, he swam beside the Argo and that of marsh frogs, while the rest of its body was finely led the ship safely back to the Mediterranean. Euphemus scaled like a shark. It had a man’s nose, a wide mouth Great God! I’d rather be Triton dropped the clod of earth into the sea north of Crete, with animal teeth, hands with fingers and fingernails, A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; A minor sea-god, the son of POSEIDON and the Nereid where it became the island of Thera (Santorini). but also gills and a dolphin’s tail. Its eyes, adds Pausanias, So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, £29.95 AMPHITRITE. As we see from his many depictions In early literature there seems to be only one Triton, seemed to be blue. He accurately describes several other Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; in ancient art, Triton was a merman, with a human but later he becomes pluralised into a whole range of unusual beasts, including rhinoceroses (“Ethiopian Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea, head and torso and a coiling, fishy tail (Fig. 166). He fishy beings who make up Poseidon’s retinue. Pausanias, bulls”), and concludes (9.21.6): “So no one should be Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn. is shown wrestling with HERACLES, though no trace for instance, refers to several Tritons, one of whom over-hasty in their judgements, or incredulous when [Hesiod, Theogony 930–3; Pindar, Pythian 4.19–56; Herodotus of this episode survives in literature. He is also often attacked the women of Tanagra while they were bathing considering rare creatures.” 4.179, 188; Apollonius, Argonautica 4.1550–1622, 1731–64; www.oxbowbooks.com | (0)1865 241 249 3 Classical Language & Literature Xenophon Arrian’s Anabasis Greece, Persia, and Beyond An Intellectual and Cultural Story Edited by Bogdan Burliga By Bogdan Burliga This book contains a selection Bogdan Burliga has written a of the papers delivered at a very interesting study on one of conference held at Gdansk the most important historical University: the place where the sources that has come down to first monograph on Xenophon us from Antiquity. The book in Polish was written by Professor displays the author’s masterly Krzysztof Glombiowski. The command of the secondary topics chosen for discussion literature and sheds new light included military history, the on a topic which might have literary aspects of Xenophon’s seemed to be already fully production, and Xenophon’s exploited. popularity in Gdansk school 9788375312317, £35.00, JUN curricula in the 18th century. 2014, 174P AKANTHINA 9788375311037, £15.00, JUN 2011, PB, 191P, MONOGRAPH SERIES AKANTHINA 5, AKANTHINA New Epigrams of Palladas Ratio et res ipsa A Fragmentary Papyrus Codex Classical essays presented by former pupils to James Diggle on By Kevin Wilkinson his retirement By S.