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This volume explores various models of representing temporality in ancient Greek and Roman literature to elucidate how structures of time communicate meaning, as well as the way that the cultural impact of measured time is reflected in ancient texts.

This book investigates the epigraphic habit of the Eastern Mediterranean in antiquity from the inception of alphabetic writing to the seventh century CE, aiming to identify whether there was one universal epigraphic culture in this area, or a number of discrete epigraphic cultures.

If Ancient history is particularly susceptible to a top-down approach, due to the nature of our evidence and its traditional exploitation by modern scholars, another ancient history - 'from below'- is actually possible. This volume examines the possibilities and challenges involved in writing it.

This volume integrates aspects of the Poetics into the broader corpus of Aristotelian philosophy. It both deals with some old problems raised by the treatise, suggesting possible solutions through contextualization, and also identifies new ways in which poetic concepts could relate to Aristotelian philosophy.

Spanning a wide range of texts, figures, and traditions from the ancient Mediterranean, this volume gathers far-reaching, interdisciplinary papers on various aspects of Greek philosophy from an international group of scholars. Suitable for students and scholars working on ancient Greek philosophy and ancient philosophy more broadly.

This volume examines military manuals from early Archaic Greece to the Byzantine period, covering topics including readership, siege warfare, mercenaries, defeat, textual history, and religion. Covering most major manual writers, it examines the extent to which such texts reflect the practice of warfare and constitute a genre.

Animals in Ancient Greek Religion will be of interest to students and scholars of Greek religion, Greek myth, and ancient religion more broadly, as well as for anyone interested in human/animal relations in the ancient world.

This book aims to reconceptualise the Graeco-Roman military phenomenon of the 'war cry', replacing it with the more sophisticated term 'battle expression', which instilled group cohesion among participants and intimidated the enemy. Suitable for students and scholars of Classical Studies, particularly ancient warfare and military history.

This volume examines Apuleius' The Golden Ass within the context of the popular beliefs and Jewish and Christian writings that were part of the intellectual culture of 2nd century C.E. North Africa. Suitable for those studying Apuleius, Roman literature, and Christian and Jewish literature and beliefs of this period.

This volume examines patterns of rhetoric in Constantine the Great's surviving correspondence on conflicts among Christians, exploring how and why Constantine applied his power to internal church divisions. Suitable for students and scholars of early Christianity and the history of the later Roman Empire.

This book explores the development of the ideological content of Pompey and Caesar's monuments in Rome, emphasising the importance of this period as a precursor to imperial propaganda through architecture. Suitable for those studying politics and society of the late Roman Republic, and Roman architecture and patronage.

These essays examine how various communities remembered and commemorated their shared past through the lens of utopia and its corollary, dystopia, providing a framework for the reinterpretation of rapidly changing religious, cultural and political realities of the turbulent period from 300 to 750 CE.

A fascinating look at extant speeches from the Athenian Assembly, lawcourts, and Council in the 5th-4th centuries BC. Of interest to anyone working on the speeches themselves, identity in ancient Greece, or ancient oratory and rhetoric more broadly.

This volume offers the first comprehensive treatment of how five the canonical Greek novels represent slaves and slavery. In each novel, one or both elite protagonists are enslaved, and Owens explores the significance of the genre's regular social degradation of these members of the elite.

Through a combination of archaeological, epigraphic, and literary evidence, this book offers a comprehensive overview of wealth and poverty in diverse contexts across the Graeco-Roman world. Suitable for students and scholars of ancient history, classical literature, and archaeology, as well as social scientists and social historians.

This volume introduces new perspectives on taxation policies in the Roman Empire, particularly its effects in the Galilee before and after the First Jewish Revolt. Suitable for students and scholars in Classical, Biblical, and Jewish studies, as well as economic history and Mediterranean archaeology.

This book explores the complex relationship between production, trade, and connectivity in Pre-Roman Italy, confronting established ideas about the relationships between people, objects, and ideas, and highlighting how social change and community formation is rooted in individual interactions.

This volume explores ancient Greek and Roman representations of the past, and modern approaches to the reception and transmission of aspects of ancient culture. Suitable for academics and scholars interested in memory, historiography, and ancient representations of the past.

With a novel approach to Aristotle's zoology, this study looks at animals as creatures of nature (physis) and reveals a scientific discourse that, in response to his predecessors, exiles logos as reason and pursues the logos intrinsic to animals' bodies empowering them to sense the world and live.

Future Thinking in Roman Culture is the first volume dedicated to the exploration of prospective memory and future thinking in the Roman world, integrating cutting edge research in cognitive sciences and theory with approaches to historiography, epigraphy, and material culture.

Beyond the institution of marriage, its norms, and rules, what was life like for married couples in Greco-Roman antiquity? This volume explores a huge range of sources over seven centuries to uncover possible answers to this question.

The Province of Achaea in the 2nd Century CE explores the conception and utilization of the Greek past in the Roman province of Achaea in the 2nd century CE, and the reception of the artistic, cultural, and intellectual outputs of this century in later periods.

This collection of essays from a diverse group of scholars represents a multidisciplinary redeployment of the Aeneid which aims to illuminate its importance to our present moment. It provides a rigorous and multifaceted answer to the question, "why should we still think about the Aeneid ?"

This book delineates how Thornton Wilder (1897-1975), a learned playwright and novelist, embeds himself within the classical tradition, integrating Greek and Roman motifs with a wide range of sources to produce heart-breaking masterpieces such as Our Town and comedy sensations such as Dolly Levi.