Studies in Classics
Rhetoric in Cicero's Pro Balbo
1st Edition
By Kimberly A. Barber
July 18, 2016
This book offers an examination of Cicero's speech, the Pro Balbo, which was delivered during a momentous period of Roman history, in defence of a highly influential political advisor of Caesar who was charged under the lex Papia for an illegal grant of citizenship....
Singular Dedications: Founders and Innovators of Private Cults in Classical Greece
1st Edition
By Andrea Purvis
June 08, 2015
Often ignored in studies of Classical Greek religion, private cults were widespread in the Hellenistic world. Although worshippers in Classical Greece were normally involved in group and civic worship, there is evidence that they could also act outside of these constraints, expressing their piety ...
Philodemus on Rhetoric Books 1 and 2: Translation and Exegetical Essays
1st Edition
By Clive Chandler
February 27, 2015
The Epicureans were notorious in antiquity for denigrating most forms of civic participation and for rejecting those cultural activities (such as poetry, music, and rhetoric) which are broadly labelled paideia. In this, as in all else, they ostensibly took their cue from Epicurus and the other ...
Sex and the Second-Best City: Sex and Society in the Laws of Plato
1st Edition
By Kenneth Royce Moore
December 22, 2014
Sex and the Second-Best City deals with the topics of sex and society in the Laws of Plato with recourse to historical context and modern critical theory. It examines reconstructions of ancient "sexuality" with a view to increased clarification. The text of the Laws is considered, along with many ...
A Linguistic Commentary on Livius Andronicus
1st Edition
By Ivy Livingston
September 11, 2014
As the oldest literary Latin preserved in any quantity, the language of Livius shows many features of linguistic interest and raises intriguing questions of phonolgy, morphology and syntax....
Augustan Egypt: The Creation of a Roman Province
1st Edition
By Livia Capponi
August 12, 2014
With updated documents including papyri, inscriptions and ostraka, this book casts fresh and original light on the administration and economy issues faced with the transition of Egypt from an allied kingdom of Rome to a province of the Roman Empire...
Empedocles: An Interpretation
1st Edition
By Simon Trepanier
May 01, 2013
Offers the first complete reinterpretation of Empedocles – one of the founding figures of Western philosophy – since the publication of the Strasbourg papyrus in 1999 brought new fragments of his lost work to light. ...
Aristoxenus of Tarentum and the Birth of Musicology
1st Edition
By Sophie Gibson
November 14, 2012
Aristoxenus made an enormous contribution to the development of music theory in antiquity. Despite his Pythagorean upbringing, he rejected Pythagorean methods of harmonics which focused on the mathematical significance of musical structures and instead applied a scientific methodology appropriated ...
Consensus, Concordia and the Formation of Roman Imperial Ideology
1st Edition
By John Alexander Lobur
October 10, 2012
This book concerns the relationship between ideas and power in the genesis of the Roman empire. The self-justification of the first emperor through the consensus of the citizen body constrained him to adhere to ‘legitimate’ and ‘traditional’ forms of self-presentation. Lobur explores how these...
Simonides on the Persian Wars: A Study of the Elegiac Verses of the "New Simonides"
1st Edition
By Lawrence M. Kowerski
June 28, 2012
This book considers what evidence the "new Simonides" fragments offer for Simonides' elegiac compositions on the Persian Wars. The current orthodoxy is that they represent three separate elegies on individual battles, one on Artemisium, one on Salamis, and one on Plataea. Kowerski evaluates what ...
Empedocles Redivivus: Poetry and Analogy in Lucretius
1st Edition
By Myrto Garani
February 23, 2012
Despite the general scholarly consensus about Lucretius’ debt to Empedocles as the father of the genre of cosmological didactic epic, there is a major disagreement regarding Lucretius’ applause for his Presocratic predecessor’s praeclara reperta (DRN 1.732). In the present study, Garani suggests ...
Ambitiosa Mors: Suicide and the Self in Roman Thought and Literature
1st Edition
By T. D. Hill
January 06, 2011
Although the distinctive - and sometimes bizarre - means by which Roman aristocrats often chose to end their lives has attracted some scholarly attention in the past, most writers on the subject have been content to view this a s an irrational and inexplicable aspect of Roman culture. In this book,...