New Paperback Titles

NINE NEW PAPERBACK TITLES

Available January 2009

	Battle in Antiquity edited by Alan B. Lloyd ISBN 978-1-905125-27-2, paperback, 2009, GB £20.00 How do fighting men act and feel in battle? How do they deal with the trauma of conflict? What determines the outcome of battle? [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]
	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]
	Property and Wealth in Classical Sparta by Stephen Hodkinson ISBN 978-1-905125-30-2, paperback, xiii+498 pp., maps, figs., 2009, GB £25.00 The standard image of Sparta is of an egalitarian, military society which disdained material possessions. Yet property and wealth played a critical role in her history. [More details]
	Sparta. New perspectives edited by Stephen Hodkinson and Anton Powell 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]
	Thucydides. Man's place in history by Hans-Peter Stahl 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]
	Vergil's Aeneid. Augustan epic and political context edited by Hans-Peter Stahl 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]
	War and Violence in Ancient Greece edited by Hans van Wees 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]
	What is a God? Studies in the Nature of Greek Divinity edited by Alan B. Lloyd 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]