ISBN-13 978-1-905125-03-6, hardback, 300 pp., 2005, GB £45.00 

The esteem in which satyr drama was held in antiquity still arouses curiosity and controversy. [More details]

ISBN-13 978-0-7156-2831-4, hardback, xi+260 pp., 2000, GB £45.00

The plays of Seneca the Younger, minister and philosopher under Nero, are today increasingly studied, appreciated and performed. [More details]

Sex and Gender in Ancient Egypt. "Don your wig for a joyful hour"
edited by Carolyn Graves-Brown

ISBN: 978-1-905125-24-1, 245 pp, 2008, GB £50.00

Eleven new essays deploying Egyptology's traditional strengths, philological and iconographic, with reflections on material culture and on the discipline of Egyptology itself. [More details]

ISBN-13 978-0-7156-3127-0, hardback, xvii+285 pp., 2002 GB £45.00

The son of Pompey the Great cast a long shadow. Acclaimed by the Roman populace in his lifetime, his traditional virtues and military successes put to shame his civil-war rival Octavian. [More details]

In Search of the Sorcerer's Apprentice. The traditional tales of Lucian's Lover of Lies
by Daniel Ogden

ISBN-13: 978-1-905125-16-6 ISBN-10: 1-905125-16-X, hardback, 230pp, 2007, GB£45.00

In Search of the Sorcerer's Apprentice is the first book in English to be devoted to Lucian's Philopseudes or Lover of Lies (c. 170s AD). It comprises an extensive discussion, with full translation, of this engaging and satirical Greek text with its ten tales of magic and ghosts. One of these is the famous story of The Sorcerer's Apprentice, and this conveys the flavour of the rest. In other tales a plague of snakes is blasted with a miraculous scorching breath, a woman is drawn to her admirer by an animated cupid doll, and a haunted house is cleansed of its monstrous ghost. [More details]

Sparta and War
edited by Stephen Hodkinson and Anton Powell

ISBN-13: 978-1-905125-11-1, hardback. 300pp, 2006, GB £50.00

Nine new essays from a distinguished international cast treat Sparta's most famous area of activity. The results are challenging. [More details]

ISBN-13 978-0-7156-3183-6, hardback, xx+354 pp., 2002 GB £50.00

The study of the Spartans is now pursued more widely and intensively than ever. Indeed, no longer is Sparta the 'second city' of ancient Greece. [More details]

ISBN 978-1-905125-31-9, paperback, xxvi+427 pp., 2009, GB £25.00

The history of Sparta is increasingly seen as important, not only for its own sake, but also for understanding Athenian literature and the political history of numerous Greek states. [More details]

Available from January 2009

Spartan Education
by Jean Ducat

SBN-13: 978-1-905125-07-4, hardback. 350pp, 2006, GB £50.00

JEAN DUCAT is the leading French authority on classical Sparta. Here is what is likely to be seen as his magnum opus. Ducat systematically collects, translates and evaluates the sources - famous and obscure alike - for Spartan education. He deploys his familiar combination of good judgement and uncompromising recognition of the limits to our knowledge, while drawing at times on aspects of French structuralism. [More details]

ISBN-13 978-0-9543845-7-9, hardback, xv+389 pp., 2004 GB £50.00

This is the latest volume from the International Sparta Seminar, in the series founded by Anton Powell and Stephen Hodkinson. Figueira is here the editor of sixteen papers; among the authors are most of the world's leading authorities on the history of Sparta. [More details]

ISBN-13 978-0-9543-845-1-7, hardback, xxxi+416 pp., b/w pls., 2003 GB £45.00

How did sport and festival affect the ancient Greek city? How did the values of athletics pervade Greek culture? [More details]

Texts and Culture in Late Antiquity. Inheritance, authority, and change
edited by J H D Scourfield

ISBN-13: 978-1-905125-17-3 ISBN-10: 1-905125-17-8, hardback, 350pp, 2007, GB£60.00

Late Antiquity has increasingly been viewed as a period of transformation and dynamic change in its literature as in society and politics. In this volume, thirteen scholars focus on the intellectual and literary culture of the time, investigating complex relationships between late-Antique authors and the texts which they had inherited through the classical ('pagan') and Christian traditions. [More details]

Through A Glass Darkly: Magic, Dreams and Prophecy in Ancient Eygpt
by Kasia Szpakowska

ISBN-13: 978-1-905125-08-1 , hardback, 250p, 2006, GB £45.00

Magic, dreams, and prophecy played important roles in ancient Egypt, as recent scholarship has increasingly made clear. In this volume eminent international Egyptologists come together to explore such divination across a wide period. [More details]

ISBN 978-1-905125-32-6, paperback, v+248 pp., 2009, GB £20.00

Stahl's book is widely recognised as one of the defining studies of Thucydides from the 20th century. [More details]

Available from January 2009

ISBN 978-1-905125-33-3, paperback, xxxiii+ 234 pp., 2009, GB £20.00

The Aeneid may be considered a test case for diverging modern methods of criticism. [More details]

Available from January 2009

Virgil the Partisan. A study in the re-integration of Classics
by Anton Powell

ISBN: 978-1-905125-21-0, hardback, 310 pp, 2008, GB £45.00

A purpose of all three of Virgil's works was lavish apologia for the failings of Octavian-Augustus. A carefully-argued dismantling of current near-orthodoxy, which portrays Virgil as subtly protesting against his ruler's behaviour. [More details]

ISBN 978-1-905125-34-0, paperback, x+389 pp., 2009, GB £20.00

The study of Greek warfare should involve much more than reconstructing the experience of combat or revisiting the great wars of the classical period. [More details]

Available from January 2009

What's in a Name?: The Significance of Proper Names in Classical Latin Literature
edited by Joan Booth and Robert Maltby

ISBN-13: 978-1-905125-09-8 , hardback. 250pp, 2006, GB £45.00

Latin poets and prose writers of the classical period and later used - and withheld - names subtly and to important effect. Here, in eleven new essays, an eminent international cast explore themes which include `speaking' names, often involving bilingual Latin/Greek play; the ways in which persons and objects are named in contexts of invective or endearment; the significant suppression or changing of names; the religious and historical significances of names; the uses of names in literary catalogues; names as devices to structure a group of shorter poems. [More details]

ISBN 978-1-905125-35-7, paperback, vii+187 pp., 2009, GB £20.00

This collection of eleven original essays examines the earliest traces of religious thought in the Minoan and Mycenaean cultures, and explores the resemblances between the religious ideas of the Greeks and of non-Greek areas of Asia. [More details]

Available from January 2009

ISBN-13 978-0-7156-3130-0, hardback, xv+260 pp., b/w pls., figs., 2001 GB £50.00

The clothing and ornament of Greek women signalled much about the status and the morality assigned to them. [More details]

Words and Ideas. The roots of Plato's philosophy
by Fritz-Gregor Herrmann

ISBN: 978-1-905125-20-3, hardback, 368 pp, 2007, GB £50.00

Tracing the origins, and thus the meaning, of Plato's philosophical language as it drew on poetic and prose genres of his literary predecessors over four centuries. [More details]

ISBN-13 978-0-7156-3044-0, hardback, xiv+ 274 pp., 27 b/w pls., figs., 2000, GB £45.00

The Greeks, in Dr Johnston's phrase, 'shock the mind by ascribing effects to non-entity'. The culture of ancient Greece was thronged with personifications. [More details]