Classical Studies

Apollo's New Light

Martin M. Winkler

Covering a wide range of European and American directors, genres, and classical authors, this study provides an innovative perspective on the two disciplines of classics and cinema and demonstrates our most influential medium’s unlimited range when it adapts ancient texts.

Pita Kelekna

This book documents the origins of horse domestication on the Pontic-Caspian steppes some 6,000 years ago and the consequent migration of equestrian tribes across Eurasia to the borders of sedentary states.

From Oligarchy to Empire

Christopher S. Mackay

In this book, Christopher Mackay recounts the last century of the Roman Republic in a readable, narrative treatment.

The Elgin Drawings at the British Museum

Luciana Gallo

This book analyses the rich and remarkable collection of archaeological drawings, now housed in The British Museum, drawn in Greece by a team of architects and artists in the service of Lord Elgin during his ambassadorial expedition to the Levant (1799–1803).

Studies in the Ancient View of Literature and its Uses

Richard Hunter

Through a series of innovative critical readings Richard Hunter builds a picture of how the ancients discussed the meaning of literary works and their importance in society.

The Transformations of Greek Identity and the Reception of the Classical Tradition

Anthony Kaldellis

This is the first systematic study of what it meant to be ‘Greek’ in late antiquity and Byzantium, an identity that could alternatively become national, religious, philosophical, or cultural.

Poetics, Pragmatics and Fiction

Claude Calame, Translated by Janet Lloyd

Using myths such as those of Persephone, Bellerophon, Helen and Teiresias, Claude Calame presents an overview of Greek mythology as a category inseparable from the literature in which so much of it is found.

Roman Warfare

Jonathan P. Roth

In non-technical, lively language, Jonathan Roth examines the evolution of Roman war over its thousand-year history. He highlights the changing arms and equipment of the soldiers, unit organization and command structure, and the wars and battles of each era.

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Greek Art and the Orient

Ann C. Gunter

In this study, Ann Gunter interrogates the categories of “Greek” and “Oriental” as problematic and shifts emphasis to modes of contact and cultural transfers within a broader regional setting.

Constructing Virtue and Creating Identity in the Roman World

Jaqueline Carlon

Combining detailed prosopography with close literary analysis, Jacqueline Carlon examines the identities of the women whom Pliny includes and how they and the men with whom they are associated contribute both to this presentation of exemplary Romans and particularly to his own self-promotion.