History – 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.

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.

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

From £35.99

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.

Aspects of Orality and Greek Literature in the Roman Empire

Edited By: Consuelo Ruiz-Montero

From £38.99

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.

A Reading of Violence in Partition Stories from Bengal

By: Suranjana Choudhury

From £29.99

This book examines representations of Partition violence in narratives from Bengal. It explores how these stories of suffering, trauma, and betrayal offer a critique of historical and political engagements with one of the most traumatic periods in Indian history.

German Representations of the Far North (17th-19th Centuries)

Writing the Arctic

Edited By: Jan Borm, Joanna Kodzik

From £32.99

German travellers, explorers, and scholars produced significant new knowledge about the Arctic from the 17th to the 19th century. This is the first English-language volume dedicated to their work, offering critical readings of travelogues, histories, and fiction.

Zeus, Jupiter, Jesus and the Catholic Church

What Good Is a God?

By: Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy

From £29.99

Why get out of bed in the morning? This book finds an answer in Virgil’s Aeneid: “No day shall erase you from the memory of time.” It connects the Aeneid’s deceitful gods to the Bible’s Devil to reveal an offer of eternal happiness, freely given, not forced.

Love, Friendship, and Expediency in Cicero’s Letters

By: Gabriel Evangelou

From £35.99

Cicero was one of Epicurus’ most fervent critics. This book challenges that conventional view, arguing that despite his anti-Epicurean statements, personal benefit played a vital role in his relationships, even with his family, in accord with the very philosophy he rejected.

The British Myth of Russia

By: Svetlana Koroleva

From £41.99

This book explores the British myth of Russia—a collection of images, stereotypes, and plots formed over centuries by cultural and historical forces. It describes the major stages of the myth's development and analyzes the forms it takes in British fiction.

This book explores the British myth of Russia—a collection of images, stereotypes, and plots formed over centuries by cultural and historical forces. It describes the major stages of the myth’s development and analyzes the forms it takes in British fiction.

Space, Identity and Discourse in Anglophone Studies

Crossing Boundaries

Edited By: Attila Dósa, Ágnes Maguczné Godó, Anett Schäffer, Robin Lee Nagano

From £44.99

This book explores the intersections where cultures, languages, and spaces converge to shape identities. Examining literary works, political narratives, and language use, this collection contributes to scholarly dialogues on identity construction through border crossings.

A Translation and Interpretation of Horace’s Iambi

By: Andy Law

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In his most controversial poetry, Horace is a writer in torment. This new interpretation reveals an artwork forged from the agony of expression—a book he may never have wanted to write. His fate is to be forever persecuted by his own masterpiece.

Evidence and Proof in Ancient Greece

Edited By: Chris Carey, Mike Edwards, Brenda Griffith-Williams

From £34.99

To persuade, you need proof. But what counts as satisfactory proof varies by culture and context. This volume assembles experts to address the theme of proof in ancient Greek literature, from the lawcourts to drama and historiography, with a focus on the Athenian orators.