Classical studies

There are two classics lists at Cambridge University Press. One is published by the Education Group and includes The Cambridge Latin Course, and other books for young students of Latin and Classical civilization in schools. The tertiary list publishes in all the branches of Classics: language and literature, ancient history, ancient philosophy, and classical art.

The Greeks and the New

Novelty in Ancient Greek Imagination and Experience

Armand D'Angour

Casts new light on ancient Greeks' attitudes to novelty in order to change scholarly understanding of their history and culture.

$33.99 (Z)

Constructing Communities in the Late Roman Countryside

Cam Grey

The first comprehensive treatment of the 'small politics' of rural communities in the Late Roman world.

$99.00 (C)

Arsacids and Sasanians

Political Ideology in Post-Hellenistic and Late Antique Persia

M. Rahim Shayegan

Investigates Arsacid and early Sasanian political ideologies through their interplay with Roman policy in the East.

$110.00 (C)

The City in the Roman West, c.250 BC–c.AD 250

Ray Laurence, Simon Esmonde Cleary, Gareth Sears

Up-to-date and well-illustrated overview of the development of cities in the Western Roman provinces.

$99.00 (C)

Ancient Forgiveness

Classical, Judaic, and Christian

Charles L. Griswold, David Konstan

In this book, eminent scholars of classical antiquity and ancient and medieval Judaism and Christianity explore the nature and place of forgiveness in the pre-modern Western world. They examine the concept in the contexts of classical Greece and Rome; the Hebrew Bible, the Talmud, and Moses Maimonides; and the New Testament, the Church Fathers, and Thomas Aquinas.

$90.00 (C)

Radical Platonism in Byzantium

Illumination and Utopia in Gemistos Plethon

Niketas Siniossoglou

A groundbreaking approach to late Byzantine intellectual history and the philosophy of visionary reformer Gemistos Plethon.

$120.00 (C)

Nature and Divinity in Plato's <I>Timaeus</I>

Nature and Divinity in Plato's Timaeus

Sarah Broadie

Brings Plato's ideas to life, proposing new interpretations of major elements including the cosmic 'beginning' and the Atlantis story.

$95.00 (C)

The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine

2nd Edition
Noel Lenski

The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine offers students a comprehensive one-volume survey of this pivotal emperor and his times. Richly illustrated and designed as a readable survey accessible to all audiences, it also achieves a level of scholarly sophistication and a freshness of interpretation that will be welcomed by the experts.