Publications
Publications
The Life of Antony, by Athanasius of Alexandria, is widely considered one of the most important and influential of all early Christian writings. Its protagonist, as heroicized by Athanasius, is the legendary first desert monk of Egypt who trounces fearsome demons, performs astounding miracles, and defends the church's integrity by confounding pagan philosophers and adherents of the Arian heresy. This three-volume set presents the first large-scale commentary, in any language, on this monumental Christian classic.Ìý
In 1939, on the first day of excavation on a hill in western Messenia, Carl W. Blegen uncovered a Mycenaean palace that he called The Palace of Nestor.ÌýIts archives contained clay tablets inscribed in the so-called Linear B script. This publication in two parts fulfills Blegen’s commitmentÌýto the publication of the tablets. After a preliminary detailed introduction, Linear B tablets 1–1589Ìýare here presented accompanied by color photographs, transcriptions, and definitive epigraphical and palaeographical notes.Ìý
In his first book, Zach Herz argues that Roman law should be understood not as a set of socially powerful texts in the way that we imagine law-codes today, but instead as an archive of political imagination. Roman scholars, litigants, and judges used the structures of legal writing to imagine the Roman state as something like a bureaucracy, and later European readers took this imaginary as reality. Roman law records a vision of Roman government that was never exactly true, but that proved extraordinarily powerful.
This 2022Ìýpublication by Jackie Elliott discusses the earliest Roman poetry we can trace, which dates to the late third and second centuries B.C.E. With the exception of Roman comedy, all poetry written at Rome during this period is today fragmentary and available to us only via quotations or references in later ancient authors.ÌýEarly Latin PoetryÌýdescribes the surviving record of third and second-century Roman epic, 'serious' drama, and satire, and addresses the methodological problems of engaging with these remains.
This volume, edited byÌýKirk Ambrose, Griffin Murray andÌýMargrete Syrstad AndÃ¥s, examinesÌýtheÌýoldest and best-known of the Norwegian stave churches from a global perspective, considering how its art and architecture engaged international developments from across Europe, the Mediterranean, and Central Asia.. Despite its rich sculptural program, complex building history, fine medieval furnishings, and UNESCO World Heritage Site status, Urnes has attracted scant scholarly attention beyond Scandinavia.
This volume, edited byÌýAndrew Cain andÌýGregory Hays, collects studies by twenty-seven scholars in honor of the distinguished Latinist Danuta Shanzer, who is well-known for her contributions toÌýlate antique and medieval Latin.
This commentary of Euripides'ÌýIon by John Gibert is published in the prestigious "Green and Yellow" series ().ÌýIon is one of Euripides' most appealing and inventive plays.ÌýThe introduction sets out the main issues in interpretation and discusses the play's contexts in myth, religion, law, politics, and society. By attending to language, style, meter, and dramatic technique, this edition with its detailed commentary makes Ion accessible to students, scholars, and readers of Greek at all levels.