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The Classical Press of Wales, an independent venture founded in 1993, publishes monographs and collective 
volumes on the whole of Classical Antiquity, and also on ancient Egypt. Particular strengths of the Press include 
Archaic Greek poetry and politics, Sparta (where The Classical Press of Wales has a claim to be world leader), 
culture and politics of the Hellenistic period, of the Roman Revolution, of Late Antiquity, as well as themes and 
methods in the modern writing of Ancient History.

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King and Court in Ancient Macedonia

Rivalry, Treason and Conspiracy
by Elizabeth Carney

The Hellenistic courts and monarchies have in recent years become one of the most intensively studied areas of ancient history. 
Among the most influential pioneers in this process has been the American historian Elizabeth Carney. The present book collects 
for the first time in a single volume her most influential articles. Previously published in a range of learned journals, the articles 
are here reedited, each with a substantive afterword by the author bringing the discussion up to date and adding new bibli-
ography. Main themes of this volume include Macedonian monarchy in practice and as an image; the role of conspiracies and 
violence at court; royal women; aspects of court life and institutions.
400p (Classical Press of Wales, August 2015) hardcover, 9781905125982, $110.00. Special Offer $66.00

What Catullus Wrote

Problems in Textual Criticism, Editing 
and the Manuscript Tradition
edited by Dániel Kiss

The poems of Catullus barely managed to 
survive the Middle Ages. All surviving copies 
of the collection derive from an extremely 
corrupt manuscript, and scholars have been 
working since the Renaissance to reconstruct 
the original text. This volume aims to 
contribute to this effort with a substantive 

Introduction and with six original papers. The authors study aspects of the 
manuscript tradition of the poems and their editorial history as well as 
contributing directly to the reconstruction of the text. The volume aims to 
set an example of a collaborative approach to textual criticism, in which 
significant choices are based not on the judgement of a single authoritative 
editor, but on the outcome of debate between scholars who represent a broad 
range of viewpoints.
250p (Classical Press of Wales, June 2015) hardcover, 9781905125999, $95.00. 
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Misery and Forgiveness in Euripides

Meaning and Structure in the Hippolytus
by Boris Nikolsky

The tragedies of Euripides are among the most admired works of Greek 
literature. They are valued especially in our own day for their sceptical 
attitude to authority and divinity, for their psychological complexity and for 
their sympathetic but unsentimental portrayal of assertive women. In this 
striking new monograph, Boris Nikolsky reinterprets a Euripidean tragedy 
which combines these qualities to the highest degree, the Hippolytus. 
Nikolsky questions the current gender and psychoanalytical approaches to 
Hippolytus and challenges the widespread interpretations of the play as 
being concerned with the irresistible force of love and the inevitability of 
punishment for those who underestimate its power. He reads the play in 
terms of its own culture and argues that Euripides’ primary interest lies rather 
in the sphere of morality. Arguing from the dramatic structure of Hippolytus, 
its imagery and the problems of its production, the author proposes a new 
interpretation of the play’s main theme. In consequence, it is exoneration and 
forgiveness that are shown to be the highest and only pure moral values. 
280p (Classical Press of Wales, June 2015) hardcover, 9781910589038, $95.00. 
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Poetry Underpinning Power

Vergil’s Aeneid: The Epic for Emperor Augustus
by Hans-Peter Stahl

Stahl’s new monograph is the most thorough study so far to question modern 
Virgilian criticism on philological grounds. He bases himself on the internal 
logic and rhetoric of the Aeneid, and also considers political, historical, 
archaeological, and philosophical subjects addressed by the poem. He finds 
that the poet has so presented the morality of his central figure, Augustus’ 
supposed ancestor Aeneas, and of those who (eventually) clash with him, 
Turnus and Dido, as to make it certain that Roman readers and hearers of the 
poem were meant to conclude in Aeneas’ favor. Virgil’s intention emerges 
from Stahl’s thorough, ingenious and original argumentation as decisively 
pro-Augustan.
400p (Classical Press of Wales, September 2015) hardcover, 9781910589045, 
$110.00. Special Offer $66.00

Aristocracy in Antiquity

Redefining Greek and Roman Elites
edited by Nick Fisher and Hans van Wees

The words ‘aristocrats’, ‘aristocracy’ and ‘aristocratic values’ appear in many a 
study of ancient history and culture. Sometimes these terms are used with 
a precise meaning. More often they are casual shorthand for ‘upper class’, 
‘ruling elite’ and ‘high standards’. This book brings together 12 new studies by 
an impressive international cast of specialists. It demonstrates not only that 
true aristocracies were rare in the ancient world, but also that the modern 
use of ‘aristocracy’ in a looser sense is misleading. The word comes with 
connotations derived from medieval and modern history. Antiquity, it is here 
argued, was different; the editors call instead for close study of the varied 
nature of social inequalities and relationships in particular times and places.  
400p (Classical Press of Wales, September 2015) hardcover, 9781910589014, 
$110.00. Special Offer $66.00

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Xenophon and Sparta

New Perspectives
edited by Anton Powell and Nicolas Richer

Xenophon campaigned with Spartan commanders in the field. His Agesilaos 
is a eulogy of a Spartan king whom he knew personally. His Constitution of 
the Lacedaemonians is an intimate document of a different sort, moving from 
sustained assertion of Sparta’s uniqueness as a ruling power to unexpected 
rant against alleged Spartan failings late in the author’s life. Here a team of 
internationally-recognized authorities on Sparta examine Xenophon’s close—
arguably too close—relation with the most powerful Greek state of his day.
270p (Classical Press of Wales, February 2016) hardcover, 9781905125371, 
$95.00. Special Offer $57.00

‘The Eyesore of Aigina’

Anti-Athenian Attitudes across the Greek, 
Hellenistic and Roman Worlds
edited by Anton Powell and Katerina Meidani

Our ideas about ancient Athens are constructed very largely from the writings 
of Athenian authors. Relatively rare are our sources for how others saw 
Athens from the outside. The 12 new studies in this volume trace negative 
thinking about Athens from the late archaic period to Roman times. They 
challenge the easy modern supposition that Athens was generally seen as the 
cultural emblem of Greece.
275p (Classical Press of Wales, February 2016) hardcover, 9781905125593, 
$95.00. Special Offer $57.00

Appian’s Roman History

Empire and Civil War
edited by Kathryn Welch

Appian of Alexandria lived in the early-to-mid second century AD, a time 
when the pax Romana flourished. His Roman History traced, through a series 
of ethnographic histories, the growth of Roman power throughout Italy 
and the Mediterranean World. But Appian also told the story of the civil 
wars which beset Rome from the time of Tiberius Gracchus to the death of 
Sextus Pompeius Magnus. Consigned to the third rank by nineteenth-century 
historiographers, and poorly served by translators, Appian’s Roman History 
profoundly shapes our knowledge of Republican Rome, its empire and 
its internal politics. This collection of 15 new papers from a distinguished 
international team studies both what Appian had to say and how he said it. 
330p (Classical Press of Wales, August 2015) hardcover, 9781910589007, 
$100.00. Special Offer $60.00

Greek and Roman Consolations

Eight Studies of a Tradition 
and its Afterlife
edited by Han Baltussen

This volume presents eight original studies 
on consolatory writings from ancient Greek, 
Roman, early Christian and Arabic societies. 
The authors offer insight into the ancient 
experience of loss and the methods used 
to palliate it. This volume finds elements of 
continuity and of individual variety in modes 

of consolation, and reveals instructive tensions between the commonplace 
and the personal.
232p (Classical Press of Wales, December 2013) hardcover, 9781905125562, 
$95.00. Special Offer $57.00

Forthcoming February 2016

BACKLIST TITLES

Tragedy and Archaic 
Greek Thought

edited by Douglas Cairns

The book makes a powerful 
case for the importance of 
Archaic thought not only in 
the evolution of the tragic 
genre, but also for developed 
features of the Classical 
tragedians’ art. 
320p (Classical Press of 
Wales 2013) hardcover, 

9781905125579, $100.00. Special Offer $60.00

Hindsight in Greek 
and Roman History

edited by Anton Powell

The authors argue that hindsight—
especially in modern works—has falsified 
the past, by playing down or eliminating 
the record of ancient unfulfilled 
forecasts, and of trends in events which 
in the long term did not obviously prove 
predominant.
300p (Classical Press of Wales 2013) 
hardcover, 9781905125586, $100.00. 
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Virgil the Partisan

A Study in the Re-Integration of Classics
by Anton Powell

Analysing closely the logic and the literary genres of 
Virgil’s three poems, this book politely confronts the 
modern orthodoxy that Virgil signaled distaste for the 
methods of his ruler, Octavian-Augustus. It refreshes 
the study of Virgil’s poetry by comparing it with the 
detail of Rome’s civil wars after Julius Caesar’s death, 
when Octavian’s survival looked highly unlikely. 
310p (Classical Press of Wales 2012) paperback, 
9781905125548, $40.00.  

 

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Polygamy, Prostitutes and Death

The Hellenistic Dynasties
by Daniel Ogden

This study explores the intricate quarrels and violence 
within the ruling hellenistic families. A main theme 
is the role of ‘amphimetric’ disputes, competition 
between a ruler’s offspring from different women, and 
especially between the women themselves.
350p, b/w illus (Classical Press of Wales 2010) paperback, 
9781905125401, $40.00. Special Offer $24.00

Sparta in Modern Thought

Politics, History and Culture
edited by Stephen Hodkinson   
and Ian Macgregor Morris

This is the first book in over 40 years to examine 
this important subject. Eleven ancient historians 
and experts in the history of ideas discuss Sparta’s 
changing role in Western thought from medieval 
Europe to the 21st century, with a special focus on 
Enlightenment France, Nazi Germany and the USA.
400p (Classical Press of Wales 2012) hardcover, 
9781905125470, $110.00.  

 

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Magnus Pius

Sextus Pompeius and the Transformation 
of the Roman Republic
by Kathryn Welch

Welch argues that, far from being a ‘side-show’ or 
a ‘bit player’, Sextus Pompeius was integral to the 
fight for the res publica.
350p, b/w illus (Classical Press of Wales 2012) 
hardcover, 9781905125449, $100.00.  
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Emperor and Author

The Writings of Julian ‘the Apostate’
edited by Nicholas Baker-Brian and Shaun Tougher

This volume offers the first comprehensive analysis in 
English of all the writings of Julian (r. AD 361-363), the 
last pagan emperor of Rome, noted for his frontal and self-
conscious challenge to Christianity. The book also contains 
treatments of Julian’s laws, inscriptions, coinage, as well as 
his artistic program. New light is shed on Julian’s distinctive 
literary style and imperial agenda.
380p (Classical Press of Wales 2012) hardcover, 
9781905125500, $110.00. Special Offer $66.00

Sociable Man

Essays on Ancient Greek Social Behaviour 
in Honour of Nick Fisher
edited by S.D. Lambert

Sociable Man, which celebrates the work of Nick 
Fisher, Emeritus Professor of Ancient History at Cardiff 
University, contains essays by leading classicists, 
ancient historians and archaeologists on the theme of 
ancient Greek social behavior.
350p (Classical Press of Wales 2011) hardcover, 
9781905125517, $100.00. Special Offer $60.00

Plutarch and History

Eighteen Studies
by Christopher Pelling

Fifteen studies are here published in a single volume, 
revised by the author with up-to-date annotations and 
bibliography. Together with three new studies, they 
form an essential reference-work for serious students 
of classical Greece and Rome.
493p (Classical Press of Wales 2011) 
paperback, 9781905125531, $40.00. Special Offer $32.00 
hardcover (Dec 2002), 9780715631287, $99.00.  
Special Offer $60.00

Velleius Paterculus

Making History
edited by Eleanor Cowan

This collection of papers, by a distinguished cast of 
scholars, represents a wide-ranging re-examination of 
Velleius’ work, of its place within, and contribution to, 
Roman historiography and the intellectual history of 
the early Principate.
308p (Classical Press of Wales 2010) hardcover, 
9781905125456, $100.00. Special Offer $60.00

Praise and Blame 

in Roman Republican Rhetoric

edited by Christopher Smith and Ralph Covino

The papers in this volume address strategies of vitu-
peration and eulogy within the Republic, and examine 
the mechanisms and effects of praise and blame. 
330p (Classical Press of Wales 2010) hardcover, 
9781905125463, $100.00. Special Offer $60.00

Plutarch’s Lives

Parallelism and Purpose
edited by Noreen Humble

This volume presents fresh ideas on a neglected topic 
crucial to Plutarch’s literary creation. Its contributors 
bring out many ways in which Plutarch invoked 
aspects of parallelism. They show how pervasive and 
how central the whole notion was to his thinking.
300p (Classical Press of Wales 2010) hardcover, 
9781905125418, $100.00. Special Offer $60.00

Creating a Hellenistic World

edited by Andrew Erskine 
and Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

The essays presented here offer an exciting interdisciplinary approach to the study of the emerging 
Hellenistic world, its newness but also its oldness, both real and imagined.
380p, b/w illus (Classical Press of Wales 2010) hardcover, 9781905125432, $110.00.   
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Competition in the Ancient World

edited by Nick Fisher and Hans van Wees

The varied papers in this book form a case for viewing 
competition for superiority as a major force in ancient 
history, including the earliest human societies and the 
Assyrian and Aztec empires.
320p (Classical Press of Wales 2010) hardcover, 
9781905125487, $100.00. Special Offer $60.00

Roman Perspectives

by John Matthews

Studies in Political and Cultural History, from the first to the fifth century.
350p (Classical Press of Wales 2009) hardcover, 9781905125395, $100.00. 
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Sparta’s German Children

by Helen Roche

Helen Roche is the first to examine this sensitive 
topic systematically and in depth. She collects and 
analyses official and published German evocations 
of Sparta but also, and remarkably, reconstructs 
the experiences of German children taught to be 
‘little Spartans’ in the Prussian Cadet Corps and 
National Socialist elite schools.
320p (Classical Press of Wales 2013) hardcover, 
9781905125555, $100.00.  

 

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Aphrodite’s Tortoise

The Veiled Woman of Ancient Greece
by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

Greek women routinely wore the veil. That is the 
unexpected finding of this study, one with interesting 
implications for the origins of Western civilization. 
368p (Classical Press of Wales 2010) 
paperback, 9781905125425, $40.00. Special Offer $32.00
hardcover (2003), 9780954384531, $110.00.    
Special Offer $66.00

Greek History and Epigraphy

Essays in Honour of P.J. Rhodes
edited by Lynette Mitchell and Lene Rubinstein

This important volume collects essays on topics in 
Greek history and epigraphy by an international cast of 
highly respected historians and epigraphers.
350p (Classical Press of Wales 2009) hardcover, 
9781905125234, $100.00. Special Offer $60.00

Property and Wealth in Classical Sparta

by Stephen Hodgkinson 

This volume is the first major monograph-length 
discussion of a subject on which the author is 
recognised as the leading international authority.
498p, b/w illus (Classical Press of Wales 2009)  
paperback, 9781905125302, $40.00.  

 

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Sparta

New Perspectives
edited by Stephen Hodkinson and Anton Powell

Traditional approaches to Sparta are now being 
supplemented by contributions from archaeology and 
the social sciences.
427p (Classical Press of Wales 2009) paperback, 
9781905125319, $40.00. Special Offer $24.00

Vergil’s Aeneid

Augustan Epic and Political Context
edited by Hans-Peter Stahl

A collection of 14 papers in which contributors use 
diverging critical methods on a selection of extracts 
from Vergil’s epic, with the examination of political 
references in the work being prominent, as well as the 
question of the Aeneid’s central meaning. 
324p (Classical Press of Wales 2009) paperback, 
9781905125333, $40.00. Special Offer $24.00

War and Violence in Ancient Greece

edited by Hans van Wees 

The study of Greek warfare should involve much 
more than reconstructing the experience of combat 
or revisiting the great wars of the classical period. 
Ranging from the heroes of Homer to the kings and 
cities of the Hellenistic age, the contributors set war in 
the context of other forms of Greek violence.
389p (Classical Press of Wales 2009) paperback, 
9781905125340, $40.00. Special Offer $24.00

Organised Crime in Antiquity

edited by Keith Hopwood

‘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. Here, nine original 
studies explore the activities and the images of 
ancient criminal groups, comparing them closely and 
provocatively with the Greek and Roman government 
which the criminals challenged.
278p (Classical Press of Wales 2009) paperback, 
9781905125296, $40.00. Special Offer $24.00

Julius Caesar as Artful Reporter

The War Commentaries as Political Instruments
edited by Kathryn Welch and Anton Powell 

Nine contributions demonstrate that the appearance 
of simplicity in Julius Caesar’s writings is achieved 
through subtle skill in the selection of style, language 
and content, which promotes Caesar and downplays 
Roman enemies.
225p (Classical Press of Wales 2009) paperback, 
9781905125289, $40.00. Special Offer $24.00

Thucydides

Man’s Place in History
by Hans-Peter Stahl 

Stahl’s classic book on Thucydides is one of the most 
profound and widely respected modern studies of the 
Athenian historian. Thucydides is shown as interested 
in tracking how optimistic plans lead to irremediable 
suffering in the field of foreign policy. Revised and 
enlarged edition.
248p (Classical Press of Wales 2009) paperback, 
9781905125326, $40.00. Special Offer $24.00

What is a God?

Studies in the Nature of Greek Divinity
edited by Alan B. Lloyd

The eleven original essays here focus both on extremes 
of the Greek world and on its classical ‘center.’
187p (Classical Press of Wales 2009) paperback, 
9781905125357, $40.00. Special Offer $24.00

Sparta

Comparative Approaches
edited by Stephen Hodkinson

The focus includes kingship and hegemonic structures, 
education and commensality, religious institutions and 
practice, helotage and ethnography. 
502p (Classical Press of Wales 2009) hardcover, 
9781905125388, $110.00. Special Offer $66.00

George Buchanan

Poet and Dramatist
edited by Philip Ford and Roger P.H. Green 

Here fifteen scholars analyze Buchanan’s writings, his 
creative use of ancient texts, and his impact on the 
culture of Scotland and of Europe – not least in the 
spheres of tragedy and music.
380p, b/w illus (Classical Press of Wales 2009) hardcover, 
9781905125364, $110.00. Special Offer $66.00

Epic Facework

Self-presentation and Social Interaction  
in Homer
by Ruth Scodel

This sensitive study reveals that at the beginnings 
of (surviving) Greek literature, Homer’s audience is 
expected to appreciate psychology and self-control of 
a very high order.
200p (Classical Press of Wales 2008) hardcover, 
9781905125227, $90.00. Special Offer $54.00

The Lost Memoirs of Augustus

and the Development of Roman 
Autobiography
edited by Christopher Smith and Anton Powell

A cast of internationally respected scholars reconstruct 
aspects of the work, its importance for historians, and 
its relation to Roman literary genre.
230p (Classical Press of Wales 2008) hardcover, 
9781905125258, $95.00. Special Offer $57.00

Battle in Antiquity

edited by Alan B. Lloyd

The experience of warfare shaped soldiers and their 
families in the ancient world. Drawing partly on 
modern studies of battle ‘syndromes,’ this collection of 
essays examines this important phenomenon.
277p (Classical Press of Wales 2009) paperback, 
9781905125272, $40.00. Special Offer $24.00

The Limits of Ancient Biography

edited by Brian McGing and Judith Mossman

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. 
450p (Classical Press of Wales 2007) hardcover, 9781905125128, $110.00. Special Offer $66.00

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Sparta

The Body Politic
edited by Anton Powell and Stephen Hodkinson

This is the 7th volume from the International Sparta 
Seminar, in the series begun in 1989.
300p, b/w illus (Classical Press of Wales 2008) hardcover, 
9781905125265, $100.00. Special Offer $60.00

Panhellenism and the Barbarian 

in Archaic and Classical Greece
by Lynette Mitchell

The author argues that in archaic and classical Greece, 
Panhellenism defined the community of the Hellenes 
and gave it political substance.
262p (Classical Press of Wales 2007) hardcover, 
9781905125142, $95.00. Special Offer $57.00

In Search of the Sorcerer’s Apprentice

The Traditional Tales of Lucian’s Lover of Lies
by Daniel Ogden

The author builds a sophisticated analysis for each of 
the tales and places them sensitively in their historical, 
cultural, and literary contexts.
312p (Classical Press of Wales 2007) hardcover, 
9781905125166, $100.00. Special Offer $60.00

Words and Ideas

The Roots of Plato’s Philosophy
by Fritz-Gregor Herrmann

Offers a study of Plato’s philosophical language, 
retracing to their origins the history and development 
of the key terms of the Theory of Forms.
368p (Classical Press of Wales 2007) hardcover, 
9781905125203, $100.00. Special Offer $60.00

Texts and Culture in Late Antiquity

Inheritance, Authority, and Change
edited by J.H.D. Scourfield

In this volume, thirteen scholars investigate complex 
relationships between Late Antique authors and the 
texts they inherited through the classical (‘pagan’) and 
Christian traditions.
350p (Classical Press of Wales 2007) hardcover, 
9781905125173, $100.00. Special Offer $60.00

Persian Responses

Political and Cultural Interaction  
with(in) the Achaemenid Empire
edited by Christopher Tuplin

Political and cultural interaction is illustrated in 
fourteen chapters that move from issues in Greek histo-
riography to the early modern reception of Persepolis.
350p (Classical Press of Wales 2007) hardcover, 
9781905125180, $110.00. Special Offer $66.00

Cicero on the Attack

Invective and Subversion in the Orations and 
Beyond
edited by Joan Booth

Eight essays examine the techniques of Cicero’s verbal 
aggression. 
220p, 200 illus (Classical Press of Wales 2007) hardcover, 
9781905125197, $90.00. Special Offer $54.00

Dionysalexandros

Essays on Aeschylus and his Fellow Tragedians 
in Honour of Alexander F. Garvie
edited by Douglas Cairns and Vayos Liapis

312p (Classical Press of Wales 2006) hardcover, 
9781905125135, $100.00. Special Offer $60.00

Greek and Roman Colonization

Origins, Ideologies and Interactions
edited by Guy Bradley and John-Paul Wilson

Historiographical, comparative and post-colonial 
approaches question ancient constructs. 
224p (Classical Press of Wales 2006) hardcover, 
9781905125067, $90.00. Special Offer $54.00

Spartan Education

Youth and Society in the Classical Period
by Jean Ducat

Ducat systematically collects, translates and evaluates 
the sources for Spartan education. 
350p (Classical Press of Wales 2006) hardcover, 
9781905125074, $110.00. Special Offer $66.00

Catullus

A Textual Reappraisal
by John M. Trappes-Lomax

The poems of Catullus have notoriously been subjected 
to numerous accidental corruptions. This work 
represents a radical reappraisal of his text. 
316p (Classical Press of Wales 2007) hardcover, 
9781905125159, $100.00. Special Offer $60.00

What’s in a Name?

The Significance of Proper Names 
in Classical Latin Literature
edited by Joan Booth and Robert Maltby

Themes include ‘speaking’ names, names in contexts 
of invective or endearment, the suppression of names, 
and names in literary catalogues.
250p (Classical Press of Wales 2006) hardcover, 
9781905125098, $95.00. Special Offer $57.00

New Essays on Plato

Language and Thought in Fourth-Century 
Greek Philosophy
edited by Fritz-Gregor Herrmann

The collection encompasses issues from the Apology to 
the Laws and includes discussions of topics in political 
theory, physics, metaphysics, and literary criticism.
228p (Classical Press of Wales 2006) hardcover, 
9781905125104, $95.00. Special Offer $57.00

Sparta and War

edited by Stephen Hodkinson and Anton Powell

This is the sixth volume from the International Sparta 
Seminar.
300p (Classical Press of Wales 2006) hardcover, 
9781905125111, $100.00. Special Offer $60.00

Body Language in the Greek 

and Roman Worlds

edited by Douglas Cairns

The volume seeks to apply a sense of history as well as 
of theory in interpreting non-verbal communication. 
300p (Classical Press of Wales 2005) hardcover, 
9781905125012, $100.00. Special Offer $60.00

Satyr Drama

Tragedy at Play
edited by George W.M. Harrison

Conclusions are adduced from the fragments, 
particularly those of Aeschylus, and there is special 
study of Euripides’ Cyclops.
312p (Classical Press of Wales 2005) hardcover, 
9781905125036, $100.00. Special Offer $60.00

Patterns in the Economy 

of Roman Asia Minor

edited by Stephen Mitchell    

 

and Constantina Katsari

The papers in this book work from literary texts, 
inscriptions, coinage, and archaeology and study the 
direct impact of Roman rule, the organization of large 
agricultural estates, and more.
350p (Classical Press of Wales 2005) hardcover, 
9781905125029, $100.00. Special Offer $60.00

Roman Crossings

Theory and Practice in the Roman Republic
edited by Kathryn Welch and T.W. Hillard

Eleven essays trace the development of political 
culture in the Roman Republic.  
352p (Classical Press of Wales 2005) hardcover, 
9781905125005, $100.00. Special Offer $60.00

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Approaches to Homer

Ancient and Modern
edited by Robert J. Rabel

Ten essays approach Homer with insights gained from 
psychology and anthropology, narratology, oral theory, 
and cognitive research. 
240p (Classical Press of Wales 2005) hardcover, 
9781905125043, $95.00. Special Offer $57.00

The Philosopher and Society 

in Late Antiquity

Essays in Honour of Peter Brown
edited by Andrew Smith

This collection of studies by leading writers on Late 
Antiquity treats both the principles of metaphysics and 
the practical engagement of philosophers. 
250p (Classical Press of Wales 2005) hardcover, 
9780954384586, $95.00. Special Offer $57.00

Dialectic in Action

An Examination of Plato’s Crito
by Michael C. Stokes

256p (Classical Press of Wales 2005) hardcover, 
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Herakles and Hercules

Exploring a Graeco-Roman Divinity
edited by Louis Rawlings and Hugh Bowden

The studies examine Herakles’ role in ancient myth and 
philosophy, drama and art, as well as in politics and 
propaganda, warfare and religion.
270p (Classical Press of Wales 2005) hardcover, 
9781905125050, $95.00. Special Offer $57.00

Law, Rhetoric and Comedy 

in Classical Athens

Essays in Honour of Douglas M. MacDowell
edited by D.L. Cairns and R.A. Knox

296p (Classical Press of Wales 2004) hardcover, 
9780954384555, $100.00. Special Offer $60.00

Spartan Society

edited by Thomas J. Figueira

This is the fifth volume from the International Sparta 
Seminar.
389p (Classical Press of Wales 2004) hardcover, 
9780954384579, $110.00. Special Offer $66.00

Latin Epic and Didactic Poetry

edited by Monica Gale

This volume considers some of the strategies which 
writers from Lucretius onwards have employed in nego-
tiating their relationship with their literary forebears.
262p (Classical Press of Wales 2004) hardcover, 
9780954384562, $95.00. Special Offer $57.00

Aristomenes of Messene

Legends of Sparta’s Nemesis
by Daniel Ogden

This book, the first monograph to be devoted to 
Aristomenes, redirects attention to his adventures, 
which at times resemble those of King Arthur, Robin 
Hood and even Sinbad the Sailor.
244p (Classical Press of Wales 2004) hardcover, 
9780954384548, $95.00. Special Offer $57.00

Sparta

Beyond the Mirage
edited by Anton Powell and Stephen Hodkinson

The authors of the fourteen papers demonstrate many 
of the fertile modern approaches to the history, the 
archaeology and the still-influential image of the city 
on the Eurotas.
354p (Classical Press of Wales 2002) hardcover, 
9780715631836, $110.00. Special Offer $66.00

Women’s Dress in the 

Ancient Greek World

edited by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

In this collection, ancient visual evidence from vase-
painting and sculpture is used extensively alongside 
Greek literature to reconstruct how women of the 
Greek world were perceived, and also, in important 
ways, how they lived.
260p, b/w pls (Classical Press of Wales 2001)  
hardcover, 9780715631300, $69.95.  

 

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Sextus Pompeius

edited by Anton Powell and Kathryn Welch

The image of Sextus Pompeius as a ‘second rank’ figure 
has been propagated by scholars into recent times. 
But a very different story can now be constructed, 
from the testimony of historians and poets in antiquity 
and from the eloquent and long-neglected coinage of 
Sextus Pompeius himself.
285p (Classical Press of Wales 2002) hardcover, 
9780715631270, $95.00. Special Offer $57.00

Eunuchs in Antiquity and Beyond

edited by Shaun Tougher

Thirteen studies explore how eunuchs were perceived, 
and also reconstruct the realities of eunuchs’ lives in 
Greek, Roman, Byzantine and Eastern culture.
269p (Classical Press of Wales 2002) hardcover, 
9780715631294, $100.00. Special Offer $60.00

Archaic Greece

New Approaches and New Evidence
edited by Nick Fisher and Hans van Wees

464p (Classical Press of Wales 1998) hardcover, 
9780715628096, $70.00. Special Offer $42.00

Plutarch and His Intellectual World

edited by Judith Mossman

453p (Classical Press of Wales 1997) hardcover, 
9780715627785, $95.00. Special Offer $57.00

Cremna in Pisidia

An Ancient City in Peace and War
by Stephen Mitchell

244p (Classical Press of Wales 1995) hardcover, 
9780715626962, $95.00. Special Offer $57.00

Reason and Necessity

Essays on Plato’s Timaeus
edited by M.R. Wright

191p (Classical Press of Wales 2000) hardcover, 
9780715630570, $90.00. Special Offer $54.00

Foreigners at Rome

Citizens and Strangers
by David Noy

The author uses inscriptions and literature to explore 
the experiences of newcomers to the capital. 
360p (Classical Press of Wales 2000) hardcover, 
9780715629529, $110.00. Special Offer $66.00

Ethnicity and Culture in Late Antiquity

edited by Stephen Mitchell and Geoffrey Greatrex

343p, b/w illus (Classical Press of Wales 2000) hardcover, 
9780715630433, $100.00. Special Offer $60.00

Seneca in Performance

edited by George W.M. Harrison

260p (Classical Press of Wales 2000) hardcover, 
9780715629314, $95.00. Special Offer $57.00

Worshipping Virtues

Personification and the Divine in Ancient Greece
by Emma Stafford

274p, 27 b/w pls (Classical Press of Wales 2000) hardcover, 
9780715630440, $95.00. Special Offer $57.00

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