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Commentary on Thucydides, Book 3

By Rachel Bruzzone
Subjects: Foreign Language, Ancient Greek, Classical Studies, Greek, History, European History
Series: Michigan Classical Commentaries

A literary commentary on the History of the Peloponnesian War that brings Thucydides’ ideas to a wider audience

A Companion to Apollonius of Rhodes

Edited by Ruth Scodel
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Reference

A complementary text to the Greek poet of Argonautica

A Commentary on Cicero, De Natura Deorum II

By Andrew R. Dyck
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Roman, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: Michigan Classical Commentaries

First English commentary on Cicero’s examination of the gods in over fifty years

Ugly Productions

An Aesthetics of Greek Drama

By A. C. Duncan
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Theater and Performance, History, Historical Methods and Theory

Charts the historical development and deployment of ugliness in Greek drama

Ancient Bovillae

History, Art, and Archaeology of a Lost City in the Roman Hinterland

Edited by Peter Hatlie
Subjects: Archaeology, Roman, Classical Studies, Roman, History, European History

The first comprehensive study in English of the ancient Roman city and its decline

Ancient Maritime Loan Contracts

By Peter Candy
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Roman, Economics, History of Economic Thought
Series: Law and Society in the Ancient World

How contracts reveal the link between commerce and law in maritime societies

The Shadow of an Ass

Philosophical Choice and Aesthetic Experience in Apuleius' Metamorphoses

By Jeffrey P. Ulrich
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Roman, Philosophy

An examination of philosophical choice and aesthetic reception in the reading of Apuleius’ novel Metamorphoses

A Commentary on Plautus' Curculio

By T. H. M. Gellar-Goad
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, Reference, Theater and Performance
Series: Michigan Classical Commentaries

The first commentary on Plautus’ Curculio in over forty years

Beyond the River, Under the Eye of Rome

By Timothy C Hart
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, History, European History

Explores how Roman perceptions of Danubian peoples influenced some of the most politically and socially significant events of Roman antiquity

Classical Myth

An Introduction

2nd Edition

By Barry B. Powell
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek

An overview of the history, theory, and stories of myths

Specters of Cavafy

By Maria Boletsi
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: Greek / Modern Intersections

Haunting the future through poetry

Garden of Egypt

Irrigation, Society, and the State in the Premodern Fayyum

By Brendan Haug
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, Greek, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies
Series: New Texts from Ancient Cultures

Examining how relationships with water flow through Egyptian history

Constructing Communities in Vergil's Aeneid

Cultural Memory, Identity, and Ideology

By Tedd A. Wimperis
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory

A new take on the Aeneid, drawing previously unexplored connections between Vergil’s fictional world and its political context

The Reputation of the Roman Merchant

By Jane Sancinito
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman
Series: Law and Society in the Ancient World

Defying a reputation for deceit and greed, Roman merchants strategized to present their good traits and successes

Between Sahara and Sea

Africa in the Roman Empire

By David J. Mattingly
Subjects: Archaeology, Roman, African Studies, History, Medieval and Early Modern History, Classical Studies, Roman
Series: Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures

David Mattingly’s long-awaited book on North Africa and the Romans