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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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The Battle of Arginusae
Victory at Sea and Its Tragic Aftermath in the Final Years of the Peloponnesian War

Debra Hamel

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Patients and Healers in the High Roman Empire

Ido Israelowich

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Ex Oriente Lex
Near Eastern Influences on Ancient Greek and Roman Law

Raymond Westbrook
edited by Deborah Lyons and Kurt Raaflaub

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The Day Commodus Killed a Rhino
Understanding the Roman Games

Jerry Toner

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Approaches to Greek Myth

edited by Lowell Edmunds

second edition
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The Annals of Quintus Ennius and the Italic Tradition

Jay Fisher

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Voices at Work
Women, Performance, and Labor in Ancient Greece

Andromache Karanika

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Homeric Speech and the Origins of Rhetoric

Rachel Ahern Knudsen

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Medicine and Religion
A Historical Introduction

Gary B. Ferngren

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Environmental Problems of the Greeks and Romans
Ecology in the Ancient Mediterranean

J. Donald Hughes

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Disciples of the Desert
Monks, Laity, and Spiritual Authority in Sixth-Century Gaza

Jennifer L. Hevelone-Harper

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Origins of Mathematical Words
A Comprehensive Dictionary of Latin, Greek, and Arabic Roots

Anthony Lo Bello

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The Other Four Plays of Sophocles
Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, and Philoctetes

Sophocles
translated by David R. Slavitt

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Pythagorean Women
Their History and Writings

Sarah B. Pomeroy

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Lure of the Arcane
The Literature of Cult and Conspiracy

Theodore Ziolkowski

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The Orphic Hymns

translation, introduction, and notes by Apostolos N. Athanassakis and Benjamin M. Wolkow

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Maternal Megalomania
Julia Domna and the Imperial Politics of Motherhood

Julie Langford

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Roman Literary Culture
From Plautus to Macrobius

Elaine Fantham

second edition
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Reconstructing Ancient Linen Body Armor
Unraveling the Linothorax Mystery

Gregory S. Aldrete, Scott Bartell, and Alicia Aldrete

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The Poetics of Consent
Collective Decision Making and the Iliad

David F. Elmer

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