Books in the Studies in Classics series

Through a combined methodology of philosophy, social theory and archaeology this book offers a reinterpretation of Statius's Silvae.

With documents including papyri, inscriptions and ostraka, this book casts light on the administration and economy issues faced with the transition of Egypt, from an allied kingdom of Rome to a province of the Roman Empire. It is suitable for students and scholars of ancient history.

Constitutes the translation into English of Longo Auricchio's text of the two books of Philodemus' "On Rhetoric". This book is an attempt to reconstruct the procedure which Philodemus adopted in tackling the topic.

This book examines the arrangement and interpretation of the recently published papyrus fragments named the 'new Simonides', and questions the current assumptions on which most modern scholarship is based.

Consists of a thorough study of Lucretius' poetic and philosophical debt to Empedocles, focusing on their respective uses of analogy and examining how both poets turn these poetic techniques to use in their epistemological approaches to nature.

As the oldest literary Latin preserved in any quantity, the language of Livius shows many features of linguistic interest and raises intriguing questions of phonolgy, morphology and syntax.

Including recent literary analysis and material currently at the forefront of Classics, Sex and the Second-Best City deals with the topic of sex and society in the Laws of Plato with recourse to historical context and modern critical theory.

This volume studies the theories Aristoxenus applied to the development of music theory in antiquity. He rejected Pythagorean methods of harmonics and instead applied a scientific methodology appropriated from Aristotle.

Often ignored in studies of Classical Greek religion, private cults were widespread in the Hellenistic world. This study examines three case studies that represent the diversity and complexity that characterize ancient Greek religion in the Classical period.

This book offers an examination of Cicero's speech, the Pro Balbo. The first detailed study of the speech, this study analyses the work according to the ancient rhetorical categories.