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Our Ancient Studies list explores a broad range of disciplines, from history and literature to Near Eastern and Asian studies, as well as the intersection of religion, medicine, and science in the ancient world.  

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A Monument to Dynasty and Death
The Story of Rome's Colosseum and the Emperors Who Built It

Nathan T. Elkins

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Brides, Mourners, Bacchae
Women's Rituals in Roman Literature

Vassiliki Panoussi

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The Year of Julius and Caesar
59 BC and the Transformation of the Roman Republic

Stefan G. Chrissanthos

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Pennsylvania Dutch
The Story of an American Language

Mark L. Louden

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Why They Can't Write
Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities

John Warner

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Cyberformalism
Histories of Linguistic Forms in the Digital Archive

Daniel Shore

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Northern Italy in the Roman World
From the Bronze Age to Late Antiquity

Carolynn E. Roncaglia

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Persian Interventions
The Achaemenid Empire, Athens, and Sparta, 450−386 BCE

John O. Hyland

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Creatures Born of Mud and Slime
The Wonder and Complexity of Spontaneous Generation

Daryn Lehoux

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Essential Readings in Medicine and Religion

Gary B. Ferngren and Ekaterina N. Lomperis

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Athens Burning
The Persian Invasion of Greece and the Evacuation of Attica

Robert Garland

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Cults and Conspiracies
A Literary History

Theodore Ziolkowski

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The Birth of Comedy
Texts, Documents, and Art from Athenian Comic Competitions, 486–280

edited by Jeffrey Rusten
translated by Jeffrey Henderson, David Konstan, Ralph Rosen, Jeffrey Rusten, and Niall W. Slater

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Women's Life in Greece and Rome
A Source Book in Translation

Mary R. Lefkowitz and Maureen B. Fant

fourth edition
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Comic Democracies
From Ancient Athens to the American Republic

Angus Fletcher

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The Mediterranean World
From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Napoleon

Monique O'Connell and Eric R Dursteler

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The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire
From the First Century CE to the Third

Edward N. Luttwak

revised and updated edition
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Women and War in Antiquity

edited by Jacqueline Fabre-Serris and Alison Keith

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Rome's Christian Empress
Galla Placidia Rules at the Twilight of the Empire

Joyce E. Salisbury

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Children and Childhood in Classical Athens

Mark Golden

second edition
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