Books in

2016 – 2017

Ancient Studies

2 Johns Hopkins University Press

The Grand Strategy of the Roman EmpireFrom the First Century CE to the Third

revised and updated edition

Edward N. Luttwak

“Lucidly and vigorously written. It is a long time since I have read so important a contribution to Roman history.” — Times Literary Supplement

2016 296 pp.10 line drawings, 15 maps978-1-4214-1945-9 $29.95 pb Also available as an e-book

Rome

Patients and Healers in the High Roman EmpireIdo Israelowich

“An original, innovative, and provocative history of ancient medicine in the High Roman Empire from the patient’s point of view.” — Manfred Horstmanshoff, Leiden University

2015 208 pp., 3 halftones978-1-4214-1628-1 $59.95 hc Also available as an e-book

Rome’s Christian EmpressGalla Placidia Rules at the Twilight of the Empire

Joyce E. Salisbury

The page-turning account of Galla Placidia, a remarkable ruler at the twilight of the Roman Empire.

2015 248 pp. 11 halftones, 1 line drawing, 7 maps978-1-4214-1700-4 $34.95 hc Also available as an e-book

Maternal MegalomaniaJulia Domna and the Imperial Politics of Motherhood

Julie Langford

“Provocative and original . . . Langford’s conclusions are daring and . . . mark out significant new territory in the study of the political culture of the High Empire.” — Bryn Mawr Classical Review

2013 232 pp., 30 b&w illus.978-1-4214-0847-7 $58.00 hc Also available as an e-book

The Day Commodus Killed a RhinoUnderstanding the Roman Games

Jerry Toner

“Toner’s excellent new book provides the historical context for Ridley Scott’s emperor-gladiator.” — History Today

Witness to Ancient History, Gregory S. Aldrete, Series Editor

2014 144 pp. 6 halftones, 2 line drawings978-1-4214-1586-4 $19.95 pb Also available as an e-book

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Rome

The Annals of Quintus Ennius and the Italic TraditionJay Fisher

“A fascinating study of the language of the first hexametric epic in Rome

. . . I enjoyed and learned much in reading this fine monograph.” — Bryn Mawr Classical Review

2014 224 pp.978-1-4214-1129-3 $69.95 hc Also available as an e-book

Roman Literary CultureFrom Plautus to Macrobius

second edition

Elaine Fantham

“An important work, full of learning, which serves si-multaneously to deepen our appreciation of Latin literature in its social context, to provoke further exploration of the ques-tions the author raises, and to continue debate concerning certain of the answers.”

— New England Classical Journal

2013 368 pp., 1 b&w illus.978-1-4214-0836-1 $33.00 pb Also available as an e-book

Chariot Racing in the Roman EmpireFik Meijer

translated by Liz Waters

“Readers will find an excellent overview of our knowledge of ancient Roman chariot racing in this fairly short and readable book.” — Bryn Mawr Classical Review

2010 208 pp. 19 halftones, 3 line drawings, 2 maps978-0-8018-9697-2 $32.00 hc

RomeA Living Portrait of an Ancient City

Stephen L. Dyson

“This exploration of Rome and what happened there seeks not only to examine the physi-cal and structural evolution of the city from earliest times until the early Christian era, but also to explore its social and cultural history.” — Oxbow Book News

2010 488 pp.28 halftones, 16 line drawings978-0-8018-9254-7 $38.00 pb Also available as an e-book

The Latin Inscriptions of RomeA Walking Guide

Tyler Lansford

“If this book is not slipped into many a Rome-bound suitcase, there is no justice in the world. I can think of few more enjoyable companions on a prowl through the city.” — Times Literary Supplement

2009 600 pp., 15 b&w illus., 1 line drawing, 16 maps978-0-8018-9150-2 $32.95 pb Also available as an e-book

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Athens BurningThe Persian Invasion of Greece and the Evacuation of Attica

Robert Garland

The gripping story of how the Athenians survived the Persian invasion of their homeland — one of the central events in ancient Greek history.

Witness to Ancient History, Gregory S. Aldrete, Series Editor

2017 184 pp., 8 halftones, 6 maps978-1-4214-2196-4 $19.95 pb Also available as an e-book

Children and Childhood in Classical Athenssecond edition

Mark Golden

“A superb book, an important substantive and methodological contribution to the social history of ancient Athens and a model for comparable studies.” — American Historical Review

2015 272 pp., 17 halftones978-1-4214-1686-1 $24.95 pb Also available as an e-book

The Battle of ArginusaeVictory at Sea and Its Tragic Aftermath in the Final Years of the Peloponnesian War

Debra Hamel

“A captivating account of the battle of Arginusae. A gripping read.” — Lawrence A. Tritle, author of A New History of the Peloponnesian War

Witness to Ancient History, Gregory S. Aldrete, Series Editor

2015 152 pp.4 halftones, 4 line drawings, 4 maps978-1-4214-1681-6 $19.95 pb Also available as an e-book

Approaches to Greek Mythsecond edition

edited by Lowell Edmunds

“Well organized, edited, and arranged, this text is of unquestioned value to all teachers of mythology, to the advanced student of the classics, and to the research scholar, a welcome resource volume.”— Classical World

2014 480 pp. 2 line drawings, 3 maps, 10 plates978-1-4214-1419-5 $29.95 pb Also available as an e-book

Voices at WorkWomen, Performance, and Labor in Ancient Greece

Andromache Karanika

“Drawing from a wealth of ancient and comparative sources, and harnessing a range of theoretical approaches, Karanika offers a landmark study of female labour and Greek poetics.” — Times Higher Education

2014 320 pp., 6 b&w photos978-1-4214-1255-9 $59.95 hc Also available as an e-book

Greece

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Reconstructing Ancient Linen Body ArmorUnraveling the Linothorax Mystery

Gregory S. Aldrete, Scott Bartell, and Alicia Aldrete

“Essential for anyone inter-ested in ancient warfare and/or experimental archaeology, from academic to layman . . . a defining and valuable con-tribution to our understanding of the ancient world.” — Bryn Mawr Classical Review

2013 304 pp., 21 b&w illus., 16 line drawings, 8 color plates978-1-4214-0819-4 $32.95 hc Also available as an e-book

The Poetics of ConsentCollective Decision Making and the Iliad

David F. Elmer

“The book is exemplary in approaching large poetic and cultural issues through details of language and patterns of formulaic usage.” — American Journal of Philology

2012 336 pp.978-1-4214-0826-2 $58.00 hc Also available as an e-book

Reading HerodotusA Guided Tour through the Wild Boars, Dancing Suitors, and Crazy Tyrants of The History

Debra Hamel

“Provides an accessible introduction both to Herodotus and to an exciting period of Greek history, which culminates in the Persian Wars.” — Timothy E. Duff, University of Reading

2012 360 pp. 5 halftones, 9 line drawings978-1-4214-0656-5 $32.95 pb Also available as an e-book

The Lives of the Greek Poetssecond edition

Mary R. Lefkowitz

“A major book which aims at demolishing the underpinnings of much that has passed for Greek literary criticism . . . its proper application to classical studies will have a very positive effect.” — American Journal of Philology

2012 240 pp.978-1-4214-0464-6 $28.00 pb

The Birth of ComedyTexts, Documents, and Art from Athenian Comic Competitions, 486 –280

edited by Jeffrey Rusten

translated by Jeffrey Henderson, David Konstan, Ralph Rosen, Jeffrey Rusten, and Niall W. Slater

“A singularly ambitious and very welcome work.” — Times Literary Supplement

2011 816 pp. 42 halftones, 1 line drawing978-1-4214-2118-6 $49.95 pb Also available as an e-book

Greece

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The Other Four Plays of SophoclesAjax, Women of Trachis, Electra, and Philoctetes

Sophocles

translated by David R. Slavitt

Famed translator David Slavitt lends his distinctly contemporary voice to four lesser-known plays of Sophocles.

2013 272 pp.978-1-4214-1137-8 $22.95 pb Also available as an e-book

Translations from Antiquity

Cut These Words into My StoneAncient Greek Epitaphs

translated by Michael Wolfe

foreword by Richard P. Martin

“As you turn the pages of this modest-seeming book you begin to succumb to magic.” — The Anglo-Hellenic Review

2012 208 pp.978-1-4214-0804-0 $27.95 pb Also available as an e-book

The Orphic Hymnstranslation, introduction, and notes by Apostolos N. Athanassakis and Benjamin M. Wolkow

The only English translation of the mysterious and cosmic Greek poetry known as the Orphic Hymns.

2013 280 pp.978-1-4214-0882-8 $29.95 pb Also available as an e-book

The IliadHomer

translated by Edward McCroriewith an introduction and notes by Erwin F. Cook

Edward McCrorie offers a new verse translation of the Iliad, capturing the meaning and music of Homer’s original Greek.

Johns Hopkins New Translations from Antiquity

2012 552 pp., 1 line drawing978-1-4214-0642-8 $28.00 pb Also available as an e-book

The OdysseyHomer

translated by Edward McCrorie with an introduction and notes by Richard P. Martin

“[As] close to the original as is possible without reading the original Greek. It is refreshing, accurate, and direct.” — Bloomsbury Review

Johns Hopkins New Translations from Antiquity

2004 472 pp.978-0-8018-8267-8 $24.00 pb Also available as an e-book

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The Ancient World

Women’s Life in Greece and RomeA Source Book in Translation

fourth edition

Mary R. Lefkowitz and Maureen B. Fant

The essential collection of source materials on the lives of women in the ancient world.

2016 496 pp., 40 b&w illus.978-1-4214-2113-1 $32.00 pb

Women and War in Antiquityedited by Jacqueline Fabre-Serris and Alison Keith

Women in ancient Greece and Rome played a much more active role in battle than previously assumed.

2015 360 pp., 13 halftones978-1-4214-1762-2 $55.00 hc Also available as an e-book

The Mediterranean WorldFrom the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Napoleon

Monique O’Connell and Eric R Dursteler

“A magisterial book.” — Scott K. Taylor, University of Kentucky

2016 352 pp., 25 color illus., 68 halftones, 8 maps978-1-4214-1901-5 $34.95 pb Also available as an e-book

Cults and ConspiraciesA Literary History

Theodore Ziolkowski

“Ziolkowski has read everything, taking even a 3,000-page German novel in his stride, and summarizes and analyses his material fascinatingly for lesser mortals.” — Times Literary Supplement

2016 248 pp.978-1-4214-2243-5 $24.95 pb Also available as an e-book

Comic DemocraciesFrom Ancient Athens to the American Republic

Angus Fletcher

The forgotten history of comedy’s contribution to world democracy.

2016 224 pp.978-1-4214-1934-3 $49.95 hc Also available as an e-book

Therapoetics after ActiumNarrative, Medicine, and Authority in Augustan Epic

Julia Nelson Hawkins

A sophisticated account of the relationship between poetry and medical knowledge in the ancient world.

2015 352 pp., 2 halftones978-1-4214-1730-1 $59.95 hc Also available as an e-book

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Forthcoming SeriesSOCIAL STRUCTURES OF THE GRECO-ROMAN WORLD

James Ker and Emily Mackil, Series Editors

Think Like a RomanStudies in Cognitive History

Andrew Riggsby

Pindar’s Material ImaginaryThings, Territories, Politics

Leslie Kurke and Richard Neer

Judicial Review and Athenian DemocracyEdwin Carawan

Empire of EloquenceRoman Rhetoric from the Death of Cicero to Late Antiquity

Christopher S. van den Berg