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Department of Classics and Ancient History

Recent Publications

Here you will find some of the most recent books and collections of essays published by current members of staff in Durham, including Greek and Roman literature, history and culture, ancient philosophy, the near east, material culture and reception

Edmund Thomas - The Legacy of Plato's Times: Cosmology, Music, Medicine, and Architecture from Antiquity to the Seventeenth Century

Published by Brill in 2024
The Legacy of Plato's Timaeus

Edith Hall - Aeschylus: Agamemnon

Published by Liverpool University Press in 2024
Aeschylus Agamemnon

Nora Goldschmidt - Fragmentary Modernism: The Classical Fragment in Literary and Visual Cultures, c.1896 - c.1936

Published by Oxford University Press in 2023
Fragmentary Modernism

Nathan Gilbert - Power and Persuasion in Cicero's Philosophy

Published by Cambridge University Press in 2023
Power and Persuasion in Cicero's Philosophy

Michael Loy - Connecting Communities in Archaic Greece

Published by Cambridge University Press in 2023
Connecting Communities in Archaic Greece

Erica Bexley - Seneca's Characters: Fictional Identities and Implied Human Selves

published by Cambridge University Press in 2022
Seneca's Characters

Ioannis Ziogas and Erica Bexley - Roman Law and Latin Literature

Published by Bloomsbury in 2022
Book cover image Roman Law and Latin Literature

Katherine McDonald - Italy Before Rome A Sourcebook

Published by Routledge in 2021
Italy Before Rome cover image

Edmund Richardson - Alexandria: The Quest for the Lost City

Published by Bloomsbury in 2021
A photograph of the lower half of the face of a marble statue

Ioannis Ziogas - Law and Love in Ovid

Published by Oxford University Press in 2021
An image of a silver ring

Roy Gibson - Man of High Empire: The Life of Pliny the Younger

Published in 2020 by Oxford University Press.
book cover with image of Pliny the Younger

Nora Goldschmidt - Afterlives of the Roman Poets Biofiction and the Reception of Latin Poetry

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2019

Lucy C. M. M. Jackson - The Chorus of Drama in the Fourth Century BCE: Presence and Representation

Published by Oxford University Press in 2019

Alberto Rigolio - Christians in Conversation A Guide to Late Antique Dialogues in Greek and Syriac

Published by Oxford University Press in 2019