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Writing and Society in Ancient Cyprus
From its first adoption of writing at the beginning of the Late Bronze Age, ancient Cyprus was home to distinctive scripts and writing habits, often setting it apart from other …
Latin Translation in the Renaissance
Latin translations of Greek works have received much less attention than vernacular translations of classical works. This book examines the work of three Latin translators of the …
Virgil's Ascanius
Ascanius is the most prominent child hero in Virgil's Aeneid. He accompanies his father from Troy to Italy and is present from the first book of the epic to the last; he is …
The Undeciphered Signs of Linear B
Decades after Michael Ventris deciphered Linear B and showed that its language was Greek, nearly one-sixth of its syllabic signs' sound-values are still unknown. This book offers a …
Counting the People in Hellenistic Egypt: Volume 1, Population Registers (P. Count)
This volume publishes fifty-four Ptolemaic papyri from the Fayum and Middle Egypt, with English translations and extensive commentaries. The texts, dating from c. 250–150 BC and …
Language and Linguistic Contact in Ancient Sicily
Within the field of ancient bilingualism, Sicily represents a unique terrain for analysis as a result of its incredibly rich linguistic history, in which 'colonial' languages …
Slaves to Rome
This study in the language of Roman imperialism provides a provocative new perspective on the Roman imperial project. It highlights the prominence of the language of mastery and …
Achilles in Greek Tragedy
This study examines how one of the most popular and glamorous figures of Greek mythology was imagined on the tragic stage of fifth-century Athens. Dr Michelakis argues that …
Studies in The Language of Homer
Examines the Odyssey as well as the Iliad.
Plato and Theodoret
In late antiquity Plato's philosophy became a battlefield between the competing discourses and rival intellectual paradigms represented by Hellenism and Christianity. Focusing on …
Land and Taxes in Ptolemaic Egypt
This book provides the first edition with an extensive introduction and full commentary of a unique land survey written on papyrus in Greek which derives from that area of southern …
Ammianus Marcellinus
Ammianus Marcellinus is usually regarded as our most important source for the history of the second half of the fourth century AD, while his literary qualities are neglected. This …