Classical Studies


Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy

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Hardback Feb 2012 ISBN13: 9780199796274ISBN10: 0199796270 One of the best-known interpreters of classical literature today presents a revolutionary take on the work of Sophocles and on how our understanding of tragedy has been shaped by our literary past

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Politics and Anti-Realism in Athenian Old Comedy

The Art of the Impossible
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Hardback Feb 2012 ISBN13: 9780199587216ISBN10: 0199587213 Engagement with comic texts beyond the extant plays of Aristophanes alone.

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Cyrene to Chaeronea

Selected Essays on Ancient Greek History
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Hardback Jan 2012 ISBN13: 9780199593286ISBN10: 0199593280 A generous selection of the writings of one of the most eminent historians of Ancient Greece
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African Athena

New Agendas
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Hardback Jan 2012 ISBN13: 9780199595006ISBN10: 0199595003 Re-opens the debate and controversy provoked by Martin Bernal's Black Athena, while changing the terms of that debate and focusing on the implications of Greek, Roman, African, and Middle Eastern intersections.

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Justin: Epitome of the Philippic History of Pompeius Trogus Volume II: Books 13-15

The Successors to Alexander the Great
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Hardback Jan 2012 ISBN13: 9780199277599ISBN10: 0199277591 Contains a full commentary, translation, and appendices on Justin's Books 13-15.

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Justin: Epitome of the Philippic History of Pompeius Trogus Volume II: Books 13-15

The Successors to Alexander the Great
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Paperback Jan 2012 ISBN13: 9780199277605ISBN10: 0199277605 Contains a full commentary, translation, and appendices on Justin's Books 13-15.

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Two Thousand Years of Solitude

Exile After Ovid
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Hardback Jan 2012 ISBN13: 9780199603848ISBN10: 0199603847 Interdisciplinary study of reception of Ovid's exile and its impact.

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Settlement, Urbanization, and Population

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Hardback Jan 2012 ISBN13: 9780199602353ISBN10: 0199602352 Clear presentation and analysis of new data for ancient economic history.

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On Magic

An Arabic Critical Edition and English Translation of Epistle 52a, Part 1
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Hardback Jan 2012 ISBN13: 9780199638956ISBN10: 0199638950 First critical edition of the original Arabic text with a new English translation
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The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Coinage

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Hardback Jan 2012 ISBN13: 9780195305746ISBN10: 0195305744 Provides up-to-date study of Greco-Roman numismatic scholarship

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