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		Epic Facework. Self-presentation and social interaction in Homer by Ruth Scodel ISBN: 978-1-905125-22-7, hardback, 190 pp, 2008, GB £45.00 Homeric characters negotiated with impressive delicacy, often seeking to protect the `face' of the other. Homer's audience was expected to appreciate psychology and self-control of a high order. [More details]
		Ethnicity and Culture in Late Antiquity edited by Stephen Mitchell and Geoffrey Greatrex ISBN-13 978-0-7156-3143-3, hardback, xvii+343 pp., maps, illustns, 2000, GB £50.00 The period AD 300-600 saw huge changes. The Graeco-Roman city-state was first transformed then eclipsed. [More details]
		Eunuchs in Antiquity and Beyond edited by Shaun Tougher ISBN-13 978-0-7156-3129-4, hardback, xiii+269 pp., 2002, GB £45.00 Eunuchism was a subject which both intrigued and embarrassed the ancient world. [More details]
		Foreigners at Rome. Citizens and strangers by David Noy ISBN-13 978-0-7156-2952-9, hardback, xiii+360 pp., 2000, GB £45.00 'The Tiber has been joined by the Orontes'. So wrote the Roman satirist Juvenal in a complaint about immigration to the Empire's capital. [More details]
		Greek and Roman Colonisation. Origins, ideologies and interactions edited by G. J. Bradley ISBN-13: 978-1-905125-06-7 ISBN-10: 1-905125-06-2, hardback, 190 pp., 2005, £45.00 The term 'colonisation' encompasses much diversity, from the settlement of the western Mediterranean and the Black sea by Greeks in the archaic period to the foundation of Roman colonies in mainland Italy during the Republic. Contributors build on recent research in Greek and Roman history to show how ideologies of colonisation develop and come to dominate the historical record. [More details]
		The Hellenistic World. New perspectives edited by Daniel Ogden ISBN-13 978-0-7156-3180-5, hardback, xxv+318 pp., b/w pls., figs., maps, 2002, GB £50.00 The history of the hellenistic world has long been more popular than has widely been realized. This volume seeks to contribute to that popularity. [More details]
		Herakles and Hercules edited by Louis Rawlings and Hugh Bowden ISBN-13 978-1-905125-05-0, hardback, 270 pp., 2005, GB £45.00 Herakles and Hercules: two names for a figure of pervasive appeal in Antiquity. [More details]
		Julius Caesar as Artful Reporter edited by Kathryn Welch and Anton Powell ISBN 978-1-905125-28-9, paperback, xii+225 pp, 2009, GB £20.00 The writings of Julius Caesar have beguiled by their apparent simplicity. Generations of readers have been encouraged to see them as a limpid record of positive achievement. The contributors to this volume demonstrate that the appearance of simplicity is achieved by devious and accomplished art. [More details] Available from January 2009
		Latin Epic and Didactic Poetry edited by Monica Gale ISBN-13 978-0-9543845-6-2, hardback, xxiv+264 pp., 2004 GB £45.00 How is it possible for a poet writing in a tradition so venerable and so constrained by convention as Roman epic to find his own individual voice?' [More details]
		Law, Rhetoric and Comedy in Classical Athens. Essays in honour of Douglas M. MacDowell edited by D.L. Cairns and R.A. Knox ISBN-13 978-0-9543845-5-5, hardback, xxiii+296 pp., 2004, GB £45.00 An international cast of distinguished scholars here offers seventeen new contributions on the detail and development of Athenian law; the life, work, and political background of the Attic orators; and the intersection of Attic Comedy with Athenian law, politics, and society. [More details]
		The Limits of Ancient Biography edited by Brian McGing and Judith Mossman ISBN-13: 978-1-905125-12-8 ISBN-10: 1-905125-12-7, hardback, 450pp, 2007, GB£55.00 The genre of biography in the ancient world is interestingly diverse and permeable and deserves intensive study, bearing as it does on ideas of characterization and the individual. This volume considers both the form and the content of biography across the ancient world, and is particularly interested in the frontiers with other related genres, such as history. The papers range from the Old Testament to the Arab world, from the New Testament to the Lives of Saints, from the classic Greek and Roman biographers to less well known practitioners of the art. [More details]
		New Essays on Plato: Language and Thought in Fourth-Century Greek Philosophy edited by Fritz-Gregor Herrmann ISBN-13: 978-1-905125-10-4, hardback, pp240, 2006, GB £45.00 New Essays on Plato assembles nine original papers on the language and thought of the Athenian philosopher.[More details]
		Organised Crime in Antiquity edited by Keith Hopwood ISBN 978-1-905125-29-6, paperback, xv+278 pp., 2009, GB £20.00 'What are states but large bandit-bands, and what are bandit bands but small states?' So asked St Augustine, reflecting on the late Roman world. [More details] Available from January 2009