Books in the Oxford Classical Monographs series

Religion and Society in Ancient Thessaly explores the issues of regionalism in ancient Greek religion and the relationship between religion and society, investigating the Thessalian particularities of the evidence and the role of religion in giving Thessalonians a sense of their identity and place in the wider Greek world.

This volume offers a history of the role of exile in the Greek city-state in the period c. 404-146 BC, from the end of the Peloponnesian War to the Roman conquest of the Greek world.

The Greek Gods in Modern Scholarship examines major theories of interpretation of the Greek gods in German and British classical scholarship during the nineteenth and early twentieth century and their significance and influence.

This volume focuses on ideas of kingship and power in the Seleukid empire, specifically the role of usurpers. Redefining the king as only one of several political players, it advances a political history predicated on social power and argues that despite its strong rulers the empire was structurally weak and the position of its kings precarious.

The concept of Roman peace (pax) did not just denote the absence of war but formed part of a much greater discourse on how Rome conceptualized herself. This volume explores its changing meaning from Republic to Principate, arguing that it is fundamental to understanding the shifting balance of power and the creation of the Roman Empire.

New critical editions, with detailed introductions, appendices, and English translations of two important historical sources for late antiquity.

Traditional accounts of ancient pain tend to focus either on philosophical or medical theories of pain or on Christian notions of suffering: this volume moves beyond these approaches to argue that pain in Imperial Greek culture was not a narrow physiological perception but must be understood within its broad personal, social, and emotional context.

The epitome misattributed to Arcadius is one of the two main sources for Herodian's highly influential lost work on ancient Greek grammar and prosody, De Prosodia Catholica. This new critical edition contains an extensive introduction, critical apparatus, apparatus of parallel passages, and the first full commentary on the text.

Scholarship on Roman Republican augury has previously tended towards the view that official divination was organized to tell its users what they wanted to hear. This volume argues instead that its rules did not allow humans simply to create or ignore signs at will: when human and divine will clashed it was the latter which was supposed to prevail.

This new critical edition of the Batrachomyomachia (Battle of the Frogs and Mice) seeks to return the poem to the centre of scholarly attention, presenting a new Greek text alongside an English verse translation, along with a comprehensive introduction and a line-by-line commentary dealing with linguistic, stylistic, and thematic questions.

Surveying a large body of Greek (and occasionally Roman) literature, as well as material remains, this volume offers the first systematic study of a central motif in the praise of humans in antiquity, and explores when, how, why, and to what effect humans are compared to gods in the poetry of archaic and classical Greece.

Offering an incisive analysis of all surviving public speeches of contemporaries and bitter rivals Demosthenes and Aeschines, this volume examines how democratic politicians in classical Athens created versions of the city's past to persuade mass decision-making audiences, cement their own authority, and compete for public endorsement.

A study of the "Cyropaedia", an historical novel by the Greek writer Xenophon, based on the life of the Persian King Cyrus the Great. This book looks at the various genres in the work and combines discussion of Xenophon's predecessors and contemporaries with a commentary on selected passages.

Latin Poetry in the Ancient Greek Novels establishes and explores connections between Greek imperial literature and Latin poetry. The work offers the first book-length study of the role of Latin literature in Greek literary culture, and provides fresh perspectives and new approaches to the literature and culture of this period.