Ancient Mediterranean World

Discover exciting new books in ancient history and classics, broadly defined.

Updated May 3, 2025
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Polis : A New History of the Ancient Greek City-State from the Early Iron Age to the End of Antiquity
Ma, John.
Ebook
A definitive new history of the origins, evolution, and scope of the ancient Greek city-state The Greek polis, or city-state, was a resilient and adaptable political institution founded on the principles of citizenship, freedom, and equality. Emerging around 650 BCE and...
The Muse of History : The Ancient Greeks from the Enlightenment to the Present
Murray, Oswyn.
Ebook
A Times Literary Supplement Best Book of the Year How the modern world understood the ancient Greeks and why they matter today. "This majestic book by Oswyn Murray has been long and eagerly awaited...and its quality and scope exceed expectations." -...
Enuma Elish : The Babylonian Epic of Creation
Haubold, Johannes
Ebook
Hannibal and Scipio : Parallel Lives
Hornblower, Simon.
Ebook
The Second Punic War between Carthage and Rome began in 218 BCE and ended in 202 with the dramatic defeat at the Battle of Zama of Carthage's commander Hannibal by his adversary, the Roman Scipio. The two men were born about a decade apart but died in the same year, 183, following brilliant but...
Strabo's Geography : A Translation for the Modern World
Strabo.
Ebook
A lively new translation of Strabo's complete Geography--an encyclopedic guide to the ancient world of the first century CE--connecting it with the world of the twenty-first century Strabo's Geography is an encyclopedic description of the ancient world as it...
How to Get over a Breakup : An Ancient Guide to Moving On
Ovid.
Ebook
A modern translation of the ancient Roman poet Ovid's Remedies for Love--a witty and irreverent work about how to fall out of love Breakups are the worst. On one scale devised by psychiatrists, only a spouse's death was ranked as more stressful than a marital split. Is...
Epitome of Pompeius Trogus
Justinus, Marcus Junianus
Paper Book
A condensed Roman history of non-Roman civilizations. To Justin (Marcus Junian(i)us Justinus), otherwise unknown, is attributed our abbreviated version of the lost Philippic History by (Gnaeus?) Pompeius Trogus, a massive account, in forty-four books, of the non-Roman world and its...
Slaves of God: Augustine and Other Romans on Religion and Politics
Toni Alimi
Ebook
A provocative look at the central role of slavery in Augustine's religious, ethical, and political thought Augustine believed that slavery is permissible, but to understand why, we must situate him in his late antique Roman intellectual context. Slaves of God provides a...
Religious Life in Late Classical and Hellenistic Rhodes
Juliane Zachhuber
Ebook
How to Be Queer : An Ancient Guide to Sexuality
Nooter, Sarah.
Ebook
An irresistible anthology of ancient Greek writings that explore queer desire and love Eros, limb-loosening, whirls me about again, that bittersweet, implacable creature. --Sappho The idea of sexual fluidity may seem new, but it is...
The Arsacids of Rome : Misunderstanding in Roman-Parthian Relations
Nabel, Jake.
Ebook
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. At the beginning of the common era, the...
The Routledge Handbook of Classics, Colonialism, and Postcolonial Theory
Blouin, Katherine.
Ebook
This handbook explores the ways in which histories of colonialism and postcolonial thought and theory cast light on our understanding of the ancient Mediterranean world and the discipline of Classics, utilizing a wide body of case studies and providing avenues for future research and discussion.<...
Greek Culture in Hellenistic Egypt : Persistence and Evolutions
Del Corso, Lucio.
Ebook
This book investigates some aspects of the cultural consequences of the settlement of Greeks in Egypt during the Hellenistic period, through a discussion of papyrological material, archaeological evidence, and literary sources. It is divided into three sections. The first, Space and Images,...
Fragmentary speeches
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Paper Book
Incomplete but invaluable excerpts from otherwise lost orations. Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman advocate, orator, politician, poet, and philosopher, about whom we know more than we do of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise, dictatorship, and death...
Taxes and Authority in the Late Antique Countryside : The Reach of the State and the Pagarchs of Byzantine Egypt (284-642 CE)
Stern, Matthias.
Ebook
How did the late Roman Empire operate in rural areas, where most of its subjects lived? The papyri from Egypt provide glimpses of state activity at the local level, how the countryside responded to it, and thus how "empire" looked on the ground. Since a major motivator for state activity at the...

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