Classics – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

The Children of Herodotus

Greek and Roman Historiography and Related Genres

Edited By: Jakub Pigoń

£39.99

This collection of essays by international scholars responds to a growing interest in ancient historiography. The volume focuses on historians' methods of approaching the non-Greek world and the political dimension of Roman imperial historiography.

This collection of essays by international scholars responds to a growing interest in ancient historiography. The volume focuses on historians’ methods of approaching the non-Greek world and the political dimension of Roman imperial historiography.

Zero to Hero, Hero to Zero

In Search of the Classical Hero

Edited By: Lydia Langerwerf, Cressida Ryan

£39.99

What makes a hero? This book challenges standard expectations, exploring the phenomenon of heroism from a range of viewpoints and asking why heroic qualities so often turn sour. Covering Euripides to Monty Python, it examines the changing notion of the hero.

Islands in the Sky

The Four-Dimensional Journey of Odysseus through Space and Time

By: Rose Hammond

£49.99

This study uses mythology and shamanism to recast the Odyssey's sea voyage in cosmic terms. The hero’s journey becomes a celestial one, where the 'wine-dark sea' is the night sky, revealing Homer as both philosopher and student of the cosmos.

This study uses mythology and shamanism to recast the Odyssey’s sea voyage in cosmic terms. The hero’s journey becomes a celestial one, where the ‘wine-dark sea’ is the night sky, revealing Homer as both philosopher and student of the cosmos.

Incorporeal Heroes

The Origins of Homeric Images

By: Leo S. Klejn

£39.99

The heroes of the Iliad were not historical figures or artistic creations. They originated as local cult heroes, like saints, with no connection to the Trojan War. This book reveals the sequence in which figures like Achilles were stitched into the epic.

Aspects of Ecphrastic Technique in Ovid’s Metamorphoses

By: Liz Norton

£44.99

This study examines Ovid’s use of ecphrasis in the Metamorphoses, exploring his determination to outdo his predecessors. It argues that Ovid's preoccupation with artists makes the epic itself an extended commentary on his own artistry.

This study examines Ovid’s use of ecphrasis in the Metamorphoses, exploring his determination to outdo his predecessors. It argues that Ovid’s preoccupation with artists makes the epic itself an extended commentary on his own artistry.

Virgo to Virago

Medea in the Silver Age

By: Kirsty Corrigan

£49.99

Virgo to Virago offers a study of the formidable Medea in the Silver Age. Examining her portrayal in Ovid, Seneca, and Valerius Flaccus, it explores whether this mighty female character has any claim to sympathy or admiration in these texts.

Poetic Language and Religion in Greece and Rome

Edited By: J. Virgilio García, Angel Ruiz

£49.99

This collection of essays combines Indo-European and Classical Studies to explore poetic language and religion in Greece and Rome. It tracks the remnants of Indo-European tradition and delves into ritual poetry, hymns, oracles, and magic.

The Philosophizing Muse

The Influence of Greek Philosophy on Roman Poetry

Edited By: David Konstan, Myrto Garani

£49.99

Despite the Romans’ reputation, Latin poetry was deeply permeated by Greek philosophy. This volume of original essays is the first to fully investigate this influence, analysing how poets from the 3rd century BC to the 1st century AD absorbed and transformed their sources.

Characterisation in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses

Nine Studies

Edited By: Stephen Harrison

£41.99

In the first volume on characterisation in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses, distinguished international scholars explore the novel’s significant human and divine figures. This book is a substantial contribution to the interpretation of the most important Latin novel to survive complete.

Ancient Epic

Literary and Linguistic Essays

Edited By: Concepción Cabrillana, Cecilia Criado, Mercedes Díaz de Cerio Díez

£47.99

This book adopts a broad approach to the Epic, from archaic Greece to imperial Rome, with comparisons to Vedic, Sanskrit, and Medieval poetry. It explores the hero, the bard, and myth, and traces the influence of Homer on authors like Virgil, Ovid, and Seneca.

Performative Plautus

Sophistics, Metatheater and Translation

By: Rodrigo Tadeu Gonçalves

£41.99

Containing a foreword and preface by Barbara Cassin and Florence Dupont, this book provides a theoretical and philosophical framework for the analysis of Plautus within a performative and philosophical perspective on language and theatrical performance.

Ancient Women in Modern Media

Edited By: K. S. Burns, W. S. S. Duffy

£41.99

The heroines of ancient myth remain potent today, challenging popular beliefs about the roles of women. This collection of essays examines their legacy from page to stage to screen to understand how they have evolved to retain and increase their power.

Greek Philosophy and Mystery Cults

Edited By: María José García Blanco, María José Martín-Velasco

£47.99

The authors here centre their attention on such thinkers as Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoic philosophers, who used doctrinal elements from Mystery Cults, adapting them to their own thinking, and, as such, offer a new way of looking at various renowned Greek philosophers.

Arctic Modernities

The Environmental, the Exotic and the Everyday

Edited By: Heidi Hansson, Anka Ryall

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The modern Arctic is more than melting glaciers; it's a mix of indigenous tradition and a mundane everyday. This volume examines how heroic images continue to shape our view of the region: as a utopian future, a symbol of modernity, or a mythic, nostalgic past.

The modern Arctic is more than melting glaciers; it’s a mix of indigenous tradition and a mundane everyday. This volume examines how heroic images continue to shape our view of the region: as a utopian future, a symbol of modernity, or a mythic, nostalgic past.

Isaeus’ On the Estate of Pyrrhus (Oration 3)

Edited By: Rosalia Hatzilambrou

£61.99

This edition of the third speech of the orator Isaeus offers a new Greek text, English translation, and detailed commentary. It demonstrates the skill of the under-appreciated orator and casts light on complex aspects of Athenian family law. Accessible without knowledge of Greek.

Political Religions in the Greco-Roman World

Discourses, Practices and Images

Edited By: Charlotte Dunn, Elias Koulakiotis

From £32.99

This volume explores the political side of ancient religion. Written by experts, its chapters engage the diversity of the Greco-Roman religious experience as it receives and negotiates power relations in the ancient Mediterranean from the 7th Century BCE to the 4th Century CE.

The Tragic Life Story of Medea as Mother, Monster, and Muse

By: Jana Rivers Norton

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This exploration of the Medea myth reveals how unresolved suffering turns to vengeance. Her tragic story became a touchstone for early twentieth-century female authors who used it to explore their own struggles with unrequited love, societal abandonment, and self-discovery.

Classics and Classicists

Selected Essays, 1964-2000

By: John Glucker

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This panoramic collection of articles explores Greek and Roman literature and philosophy, from close textual readings to the modern legacy of ancient works. A vital resource for classical scholars, students of philosophy, and intellectual historians.

Aspects of Orality and Greek Literature in the Roman Empire

Edited By: Consuelo Ruiz-Montero

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This volume explores how Greek texts circulated during the Roman Empire from both a literary and sociocultural point of view. Illuminating the interconnections between literary and social practices, these studies draw attention to under-researched texts and inscriptions.

Instances of Death in Greek Tragedy

By: Sorana-Cristina Man

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The Trojan War begins with one sacrifice, Iphigenia, and ends with another, Polyxena. In Greek tragedy, did these ritual killings restore cosmic balance, or did they only unleash greater chaos?