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Ancient History

Oldest Cuisine in the World

Bottéro, Jean
Cooking in Mesopotamia
April 2004

Book and the Transformation of Britain c. 550-1050

Brown, Michelle P.
A Study in Written and Visual Literacy and Orality
February 2012

Courtesans and Fishcakes

Davidson, James N.
The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens
June 2011

Around the Roman Table

Faas, Patrick
Food and Feasting in Ancient Rome
April 2005

Artifact and Artifice

Hall, Jonathan M.
Classical Archaeology and the Ancient Historian
December 2013 New Book

Hannibal

Hoyos, Dexter
Rome's Greatest Enemy
July 2008

Appian Way

Kaster, Robert A.
Ghost Road, Queen of Roads
April 2012 E-book

Dune's Twisted Edge

Levin, Gabriel
Journeys in the Levant
November 2012 New Book E-book

Essays in Ancient and Modern Historiography

Momigliano, Arnaldo
July 2012 New Book E-book

From Mesopotamia to Iraq

Nissen, Hans J.
A Concise History
September 2009 E-book

Alexander the Great

Ogden, Daniel
Myth, Genesis and Sexuality
December 2011

Egyptian Oedipus

Stolzenberg, Daniel
Athanasius Kircher and the Secrets of Antiquity
April 2013 New Book E-book

Ancient Perspectives

Talbert, Richard J. A.
Maps and Their Place in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome
November 2012 New Book

Classical studies

American Egyptologist

Abt, Jeffrey
The Life of James Henry Breasted and the Creation of His Oriental Institute
January 2012 E-book

Unspeakable Girl

Agamben, Giorgio
The Myth and Mystery of Kore
August 2013 New Book

Women and Weasels

Bettini, Maurizio
Mythologies of Birth in Ancient Greece and Rome
October 2013 New Book

Aristotle's Dialogue with Socrates

Burger, Ronna
On the "Nicomachean Ethics"
July 2008 E-book

Essay on the Unity of Stoic Philosophy

Christensen, Johnny
Second Edition
April 2013 New Book

Making Sense of Greek Art

Coltman, Viccy
September 2012 New Book

Soul of the Greeks

Davis, Michael
An Inquiry
April 2011 E-book

Image and Myth

Giuliani, Luca
A History of Pictorial Narration in Greek Art
July 2013 New Book E-book

Where on Earth Is Ithaca?

Goekoop, Cees H.
A Quest for the Homeland of Odysseus
September 2010

Reflections on Aristotle's Politics

Hansen, Mogens Herman
October 2013 New Book

History of Trust in Ancient Greece

Johnstone, Steven
October 2011 E-book

Why Hell Stinks of Sulfur

Kroonenberg, Salomon
Mythology and Geology of the Underworld
June 2013 New Book

How Philosophy Became Socratic

Lampert, Laurence
A Study of Plato's "Protagoras," "Charmides," and "Republic"
July 2010 E-book

Medusa

Leeming, David
In the Mirror of Time
April 2013 New Book

What Did the Romans Know?

Lehoux, Daryn
An Inquiry into Science and Worldmaking
February 2012 E-book

Socrates and the Jews

Leonard, Miriam
Hellenism and Hebraism from Moses Mendelssohn to Sigmund Freud
June 2012 New Book E-book

Gods and Demons, Priests and Scholars

Lincoln, Bruce
Critical Explorations in the History of Religions
April 2012

Classical Greek House

Morgan, Janett
October 2010

Tragedies of Sophocles

Morwood, James
July 2008

Homer in Print

Most, Glenn W.
Catalogue of the Bibliotheca Homerica Langiana at the University of Chicago Library
May 2013 New Book

Digital Facsimile of Terence’s Comedies

Muir, Bernard J.
March 2012

Once Out of Nature

Nightingale, Andrea
Augustine on Time and the Body
May 2011 E-book

Shock of the Ancient

Norman, Larry F.
Literature and History in Early Modern France
April 2011 E-book

Aristotle's Teaching in the

Pangle, Thomas L.
April 2013 New Book E-book

Lucretian Renaissance

Passannante, Gerard
Philology and the Afterlife of Tradition
November 2011 E-book

Humanness of Heroes

Putnam, Michael C. J.
Studies in the Conclusion of Virgil’s Aeneid
April 2012

Sex and Terror

Quignard, Pascal
February 2012

Oedipus and the Sphinx

Renger, Almut-Barbara
The Threshold Myth from Sophocles through Freud to Cocteau
October 2013 New Book

Sophocles II

Sophocles,
Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers
April 2013 New Book E-book

Aristotle on Memory

Sorabji, Richard
Second Edition
June 2006

Necessity, Cause and Blame

Sorabji, Richard
Perspectives on Aristotle's Theory
June 2006

Time, Creation and the Continuum

Sorabji, Richard
Theories in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
November 2006

End of Sacrifice

Stroumsa, Guy G.
Religious Transformations in Late Antiquity
April 2009

Ancient Rome at the Cinema

Theodorakopoulos, Elena
Story and Spectacle in Hollywood and Rome
September 2010

Vessels and Variety

Thomasen, Hanne
New Aspects of Ancient Pottery
April 2013 New Book

Myths of Rome

Wiseman, T. P.
November 2004

Plato's Philosophers

Zuckert, Catherine
The Coherence of the Dialogues
June 2009 E-book

Classics in translation

Aeschylus I

Aeschylus,
The Persians, The Seven Against Thebes, The Suppliant Maidens, Prometheus Bound
April 2013 New Book E-book

Aeschylus II

Aeschylus,
The Oresteia
April 2013 New Book E-book

Aristotle's

Aristotle,
Second Edition
March 2013 New Book E-book

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

Aristotle,
June 2011 E-book

Physics of The Healing

Avicenna,
A Parallel English-Arabic Text in Two Volumes
May 2010

Euripides I

Euripides,
Alcestis, Medea, The Children of Heracles, Hippolytus
April 2013 New Book E-book

Euripides II

Euripides,
Andromache, Hecuba, The Suppliant Women, Electra
April 2013 New Book E-book

Euripides III

Euripides,
Heracles, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia among the Taurians, Ion
April 2013 New Book E-book

Euripides IV

Euripides,
Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes
April 2013 New Book E-book

Euripides V

Euripides,
Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus
April 2013 New Book E-book

Orosius

Fear, A.T.
Seven Books of History against the Pagans
October 2010

Plato's Atlantis Story

Gill, Christopher
Text, Translation and Commentary - Fully Revised and Updated Edition
June 2013 New Book

Greek Tragedies 1

Griffith, Mark
Aeschylus: Agamemnon, Prometheus Bound; Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Antigone; Euripides: Hippolytus
April 2013 New Book E-book

Greek Tragedies 2

Griffith, Mark
Aeschylus: The Libation Bearers; Sophocles: Electra; Euripides: Iphigenia among the Taurians, Electra, The Trojan Women
April 2013 New Book E-book

Greek Tragedies 3

Griffith, Mark
Aeschylus: The Eumenides; Sophocles: Philoctetes, Oedipus at Colonus; Euripides: The Bacchae, Alcestis
April 2013 New Book E-book

History

Herodotus,
January 1988 E-book

Works of Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns

Hine, Daryl
January 2005 E-book

Iliad of Homer

Homer,
November 2011 E-book

Theophilus of Edessa’s Chronicle

Hoyland, Robert G.
And the Circulation of Historical Knowledge in Late Antiquity and Early Islam
December 2011

Ambrose of Milan

Liebeschuetz, J. H. W. G.
Political Letters and Speeches
April 2010

Plato's Symposium

Plato,
A Translation by Seth Benardete with Commentaries by Allan Bloom and Seth Benardete
February 2001

Anger, Mercy, Revenge

Seneca, Lucius Annaeus
July 2010 E-book

Natural Questions

Seneca, Lucius Annaeus
May 2010 E-book

On Benefits

Seneca, Lucius Annaeus
April 2011 E-book

Pseudo-Skylax’s Periplous

Shipley, Graham
The Circumnavigation of the Inhabited World - Text, Translation and Commentary
January 2012

Sophocles I

Sophocles,
Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus
April 2013 New Book E-book

Peloponnesian War

Thucydides,
October 1989 E-book

Lexicons and language texts

Medieval Latin

Harrington, K. P.
Second Edition
November 1997

Reading Latin Epitaphs

Parker, John
A Handbook for Beginners - New Illustrated Edition
December 2012 New Book