Ancient Literary Criticism: The Principal Texts in New Translations: (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: Ancient literary criticism has always been a particularly inaccessible subject for the non-specialist student. This edition provides for the first time the principal texts in translation, giving the reader a full view of ancient literary criticism and its d... Details...

Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius in a New English Translation, with Notes and Introduction: (Cambridge University Press) Publisher's Comments: The Hermetica are a body of mystical texts written in late antiquity, but believed during the Renaissance (when they became well known) to be much older. Their supposed author, a mythical figure named Hermes Trismegistus, was thought to be a contemporary of... Details...

Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds: A Sourcebook: (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: In a culture where the supernatural possessed an immediacy now strange to us, magic was of great importance both in the literary and mythic tradition and in ritual practice. Recently, ancient magic has hit a high in popularity, both as an area of scholarly ... Details...

Oxford Readings in Greek Religion: (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: The study of ancient Greek religion has been excitingly renewed in the last thirty years. Key areas of interest have been: the relationship between religion and politics; new and unexpected perspectives opened up by archaeological finds; the symbiosis betwe... Details...

Rome and the Greek East to the Death of Augustine (Translated Documents of Greece & Rome #04): (Cambridge University Press) Publisher's Comments: A fascinating collection of inscriptions, papyri, and other documents in translation which illustrates the history of Roman presence in the Greek east from the last decades of the third century to the death of Augustus in A. D. 14. Much of this documentary ... Details...

The Classical Roman Reader: New Encounters with Ancient Rome: (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: Western civilization is in many ways an outgrowth of the Roman Empire. The Classical Roman Reader, which contains a collection of some of the finest and most important writing of the Roman period, brings the modern reader into direct contact with the litera... Details...

Velleius Paterculus: The Caesarian and Augustan Narrative (2.41-93): (Cambridge University Press) Publisher's Comments: The first volume of Professor Woodman’s edition of, and commentary on, Velleius Paterculus was published in the Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries series in 1977. This is the second volume to appear, covering Velleius’ narrative of Julius Caesar... Details...

Women and Society in Greek and Roman Egypt A Sourcebook: (Cambridge University Press) Publisher's Comments: This book makes available to students and other non specialists a varied collection of over three hundred translated texts and more than fifty illustrations relating to women's lives in Greek and Roman Egypt. These are accompanied by an introductory chapter... Details...