Books in the Society for Classical Studies American Classical Studies series

Eleusis and Athens offers text and commentary on two account-inventories for a major panhellenic sanctuary (Demeter) during the final decade of the fifth century BC. In addition to the publication of inscriptions, the accompanying commentary provides an array of information regarding the daily operations of a religious sanctuary.

Emperors and Usurpers provides an historical commentary for the final books of Cassius Dio's Roman history, with a focus on Dio's role as author and historian, his historical method, and his attitude to the Severan regime. The study elucidates Dio's account of the controversial reigns of Caracalla, Macrinus, and Elagabalus.

Provides a fresh look at both the literary and material representations of Agrippina. This study exposes both the contrivances of the commissioned artists whose idealized portraits served to buttress the image of the regime and the contrasting designs of the historians whose rhetorical stereotypes and negative depictions aimed to undermine it.

This is an accessible collection of essays devoted to the study of ancient history. Among the articles included are "The Generation Gap," a major survey exploring myths of the uprising of one generation against another; and an investigation entitled "The Declaration of War against Cleopatra".

This title illustrates the importance of semi-learned mythographic handbooks in the social, literary, and artistic world of Rome. One of the most intriguing features of these works is the fact that they all cite classical sources for the stories they tell, sources which are often forged.

The Augustan Succession is an historical commentary on Books 55-56 of Dio's Roman History. These books recount the last half of the reign of the Emperor Augustus, above all his orchestration of the first imperial succession. Addressed to both students and scholars, the new commentary is the first since the eighteenth century to offer full and fresh treatment of this segment of Dio's work.

This volume contains testimonia and fragments of Cicero's speeches that circulated in antiquity but which have since been lost. This edition includes the fragmenta incertae sedis and an appendix on falsely identified oratorical fragments.

Traditional Elegy explores several issues related to the traditional compositional techniques that lay behind archaic Greek elegy. Through investigation of elegy's metrical partitioning, its repeated phraseological patterns, and the symbiosis of those patterns with metrical anomalies, it becomes clear that oral-formulaic processes were indeed at the heart of such poetry.

This volume provides a study of the works of Sextus Empiricus, their recovery, transmission, and intellectual influence through Late Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance, as well as the reception they have received.