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Cambridge Classical Studies Series

83 primary works • 83 total works
A series of monographs on all aspects of classical learning: literature, philosophy, history and archaeology. Most of the books arise from work done at Cambridge University.

General Editors: R. L. Hunter, University of Cambridge, R. G. Osborne, University of Cambridge, M. Millett, University of Cambridge, D. N. Sedley, University of Cambridge, G. C.…
Powerplay in Tibullus: Reading Elegies Book One
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    Libertas as a Political Idea at Rome during the Late Republic and Early Principate
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    Theodosius II
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    Theodosius II (AD 408–450) was the longest reignin…

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    Mortal and Divine in Early Greek Epistemology: A Study of Hesiod, Xenophanes and Parmenides
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    Land and Taxes in Ptolemaic Egypt: An Edition, Translation and Commentary for the Edfu Land Survey (P. Haun. IV 70)
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    The Stoic Sage: The Early Stoics on Wisdom, Sagehood and Socrates
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    After Plato and Aristotle, the Stoics, from the th…

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    Playing Hesiod: The 'Myth of the Races' in Classical Antiquity
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    This book offers a new description of the signific…

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    Aristotle on Desire
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    Oscan in the Greek Alphabet
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    Oscan was spoken in Southern Italy in the second h…

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    Southern Gaul and the Mediterranean: Multilingualism and Multiple Identities in the Iron Age and Roman Periods
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    Revisiting Delphi: Religion and Storytelling in Ancient Greece
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    Justice and Reciprocity in Aristotle's Political Philosophy
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    This book illustrates how Aristotle's ethical conc…

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    Language and Linguistic Contact in Ancient Sicily
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    Within the field of ancient bilingualism, Sicily r…

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    Menander, New Comedy and the Visual
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    This book argues that New Comedy has a far richer …

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    The Origin of Roman London
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    In this book Dr Wallace makes a fundamental contri…

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    Oscan in Southern Italy and Sicily: Evaluating Language Contact in a Fragmentary Corpus
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    In pre-Roman Italy and Sicily, dozens of languages…

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    Platonic Drama and its Ancient Reception
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    Reconstructing the way Plato presented himself to …

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    Homer's People: Epic Poetry and Social Formation (Cambridge Classical Studies)
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    5.00     · 1 Ratings · published 2000 · 11 editions
    This is the first study to examine in detail the r…

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    The Unity of Plato's Sophist: Between the Sophist and the Philosopher
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    Dr. Notomi presents a new interpretation of one of…

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    Cambridge Classical Studies Unknown
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    Lucan and the Sublime: Power, Representation and Aesthetic Experience
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    The Sanctuary at Bath in the Roman Empire
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    The Roman sanctuary at Bath has long been used in …

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    Carthage in Virgil's Aeneid: Staging the Enemy under Augustus
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    Cicero on Politics and the Limits of Reason: The Republic and Laws
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    A prolific philosopher who also held Rome's highes…

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    Foundation Myths and Politics in Ancient Ionia
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    This book examines foundation myths told about the…

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    Demos: The Discovery of Classical Attika
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    Demos is a study of a classical city-state. It is …

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    Performing Citizenship in Plato's Laws
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    In the Laws, Plato theorizes citizenship as simult…

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    M. I. Finley: An Ancient Historian and his Impact
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    M. I. Finley (1912–86) was the most famous ancient…

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    Bucchero Pottery from Southern Etruria
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    2.50     · 2 Ratings · published 1979 · 6 editions
    Bucchero is a very common type of fine pottery tha…

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    Votive Body Parts in Greek and Roman Religion
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    This book examines a type of object that was wides…

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    Imagining Reperformance in Ancient Culture: Studies in the Traditions of Drama and Lyric
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    Reviving Roman Religion: Sacred Trees in the Roman World
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    Sacred trees are easy to dismiss as a simplistic, …

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    Authors and Authorities in Ancient Philosophy
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    Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy is often charac…

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    Antiochus and Peripatetic Ethics
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    Lycurgan Athens and the Making of Classical Tragedy
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    Through a series of interdisciplinary studies this…

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    Hesiodic Voices: Studies in the Ancient Reception of Hesiod's Works and Days
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    This book selects central texts illustrating the l…

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    The Early Textual History of Lucretius' De rerum natura
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    This is the first detailed analysis of the fate of…

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    Juvenal and the Poetics of Anonymity
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    The satirist Juvenal remains one of antiquity's gr…

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    Sociological Studies in Roman History
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    Keith Hopkins was a sociologist and Professor of A…

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    Heracles and Euripidean Tragedy
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    Euripides' Heracles is an extraordinary play of gr…

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    Studies in Roman Property: By the Cambridge University Research Seminar in Ancient History (Cambridge Classical Studies)
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    The actual practice of the Romans with regard to p…

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    Creative Lives in Classical Antiquity: Poets, Artists and Biography
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    Apuleius' Platonism: The Impersonation of Philosophy
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    Apuleius of Madauros, writing in the latter half o…

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    Absolute Constructions in Early Indo-European
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    In the past, discussions about absolute constructi…

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    The Transformation of Mathematics in the Early Mediterranean World: From Problems to Equations
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    The transformation of mathematics from its ancient…

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    The Embodied Soul in Plato's Later Thought
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    Theologies of Ancient Greek Religion
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    Studied for many years by scholars with Christiani…

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    Statius and Epic Games: Sport, Politics and Poetics in the Thebaid
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    Epic games are more than just an interlude; they r…

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    The Language of Roman Letters: Bilingual Epistolography from Cicero to Fronto
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    Philosophical Life in Cicero's Letters
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    Cicero's letters are saturated with learned philos…

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    Emperor and Senators in the Reign of Constantius II: Maintaining Imperial Rule Between Rome and Constantinople in the Fourth Century AD
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    Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae: Philosophizing Theatre and the Politics of Perception in Late Fifth-Century Athens
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    Introspection and Engagement in Propertius: A Study of Book 3
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    Aristotle on Female Animals: A Study of the Generation of Animals
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    Between Greece and Babylonia: Hellenistic Intellectual History in Cross-Cultural Perspective
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    Melissus and Eleatic Monism
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    Syllabic Writing on Cyprus and its Context
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    Expressions of Time in Ancient Greek
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    How did Ancient Greek express that an event occurr…

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    Virgil's Ascanius: Imagining the Future in the Aeneid
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    Terence and the Language of Roman Comedy
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    Aegean Linear Script(s): Rethinking the Relationship Between Linear A and Linear B
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    Roman Frugality: Modes of Moderation from the Archaic Age to the Early Empire and Beyond
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    Migration, Mobility and Language Contact in and around the Ancient Mediterranean
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    Theatrical Reenactment in Pindar and Aeschylus
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    Population and Economy in Classical Athens
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    Writing and Society in Ancient Cyprus
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    Plato's Timaeus and the Latin Tradition
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    Latin Literature and its Transmission
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    A Linguistic History of Ancient Cyprus
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    Slaves to Rome: Paradigms of Empire in Roman Culture
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    Expressions of Agency in Ancient Greek
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    Solon and Early Greek Poetry: The Politics of Exhortation
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    The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Communication and Involvement
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    Patterns of Redemption in Virgil's Georgics
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    Method and Politics in Plato's Statesman
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    Aristotle on the Sense-Organs
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    Listening to the Cicadas: A Study of Plato's Phaedrus
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    A Study of Daphnis and Chloe
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    Seneca the Elder
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    A feature of Roman rhetorical education under the …

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    Imperialism in the Ancient World: The Cambridge University Research Seminar in Ancient History
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    The economics of imperialism, its political backgr…

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    The Seleucid Army: Organization and Tactics in the Great Campaigns
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    Persius and the Programmatic Satire: A Study in Form and Imagery
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    Studies in The Language of Homer
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