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Showing posts with label Ashgate. Show all posts

11 August 2010

Bodard, Gabriel; Mahony, Simon (eds.) (2010) Digital research in the study of classical antiquity. Surrey: Ashgate. xx, 210 p. ISBN 9780754677734 (hbk). Price: £55.
Webb, Ruth (2009) Ekphrasis, imagination and persuasion in ancient rhetorical theory and practice. Surrey: Ashgate. xiii, 238 p. ISBN 9780754661252 (hbk). Price: £55.

16 December 2009

Trapp, Michael (ed.) (2007) Socrates in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. (The Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London: Publications; 10.) Aldershot etc.: Ashgate. XXI, 235 p. ISBN 978-0-7546-4123-0. Price: £55.00.
Trapp, Michael (ed.) (2007) Socrates from antiquity to the Enlightenment. (The Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London: Publications; 9.) Aldershot etc.: Ashgate. XXVIII, 310 p. ISBN 978-0-7546-4124-7. Price: £60.00.
Wheeler, Everett L. (ed.) (2007) The armies of classical Greece. Aldershot etc: Ashgate. (International library of essays on military history.) LXIV, 528 p. ISBN 978-0-7546-2684-8. Price: £120.

See a review by Mart LÄTTE in SHT 8.R.5 (2007), available online at http://www.ut.ee/klassik/sht/2007/8.R.5.html
France, John (ed.) (2006) Medieval Warfare 1000–1300. Aldershot etc: Ashgate. (International library of essays on military history.) 668 p. ISBN 978-0-7546-2515-5. Price: £170.

See a review by Mart LÄTTE in SHT 9.R.4 (2008), available online at http://www.ut.ee/klassik/sht/2008/9.R.4.html
Stafford, Emma; Herrin, Judith (eds.) (2005) Personification in the Greek world: from antiquity to Byzantium. Aldershot etc: Ashgate. (Publications for the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London; 7.) XXII, 376 p. ISBN 0-7546-5031-6. Price: £55.
Sharples, Robert W. (ed.) (2005) Philosophy and the sciences in antiquity. Aldershot etc: Ashgate. VIII, 168 p. ISBN 0-7546-5171-1. Price: £45.
Johnson, Scott Fitzgerald (ed.) (2006) Greek literature in late antiquity: dynamism, didacticism, classicism. Aldershot etc: Ashgate. XII, 215 p. ISBN-10 0-7546-5683-7, ISBN-13 978-07546-5683-8. Price: £50.

See a review by Neeme NÄRIPÄ in SHT 9.R.3 (2008), available online at http://www.ut.ee/klassik/sht/2008/9.R.3.html
Bagnall, Roger S. (2006) Hellenistic and Roman Egypt: sources and approaches. Aldershot etc: Ashgate. (Variorum collected studies.) XII, 336 p. ISBN-10 0-7546-5906-2, ISBN-13 978-0-7546-5906-8. Price: £60.

This is a collection of 24 articles by Roger S. Bagnall, all previously published in the period of 1976-2005. It is divided into four sections: 1) Questions of method (3 papers: "Archaeological work on Hellenistic and Roman Egypt, 1995-2000", "Restoring the text of documents", "Evidence and models for the economy of Roman Egypt"); 2) Hellenistic Egypt (8 papers: "The date of the foundation of Alexandria", "Papyrology and Ptolemaic history: 1956-1980", "Decolonizing Ptolemaic Egypt", "Archagathos son of Agathocles, Epistates of Libya", "The origins of Ptolemaic Cleruchs", "Alexandria: library of dreams", "Dioskourides: three rolls", "An unrecognized date by the rebellion of 131 B.C."); 3) Roman Egypt (7 papers: "Publius Petronius, Augustan prefect of Egypt", "The beginnings of the Roman census in Egypt", "The people of the Roman Fayum", "Egypt and the Lex Minicia", "A trick a day to keep the tax man at bay? The prostitute tax in Roman Egypt", "Managing estates in Roman Egypt: a review article", "Army and police in Roman Upper Egypt"); 4) Late Antiquity (6 papers: "Public administration and the documentation of Roman Panapolis", "The date of the Hermopolite land registers: a review article", "Les lettres privées des femmes: un choix de langue en Égypte byzantine", "Monks and property: rhetoric, law, and patronage in the Apophthegmata Patrum and the papyri", "Women's petitions in late antique Egypt", "Greek papyri and Coptic studies, 1990-1995"). The volume ends with an Addenda section including notes on some of the papers, a brief index of subjects and an index of texts.