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In this major new account of the fall of the Roman Empire, prizewinning author Adrian Goldsworthy examines the painful centuries of the superpower’s decline. Bringing history to life through the stories of the men, women, heroes, and villains involved, the author uncovers surprising lessons about the rise and fall of great nations.

This accessible and informative history brings the classical Islamic world alive, illuminating its importance to the cultural history of Europe and America as the inheritor and interpreter of Graeco-Roman traditions.

Averroes (1126-1198), a Muslim philosopher, physician, and jurist, is most famous for his commentaries on the surviving works of Aristotle. This translation of Averroes’ Long Commentary on Aristotle’s De Anima brings to English-language readers a central work of medieval philosophy.

This stimulating history of early Christianity, the first full account for over forty years, revisits the extraordinary birth of a world religion, and gives a new slant on a familiar story.

This extraordinary new translation of the Aeneid stands alone among modern Vergil translations for its accuracy and poetic appeal. Sarah Ruden, a lyric poet in her own right, is the first woman to translate Vergil’s great epic, and she renders the poem in the same number of lines as the original work—a very rare feat that maintains technical...

This lavishly illustrated book explores medieval Castilian culture and the Arabic, Hebrew, and Christian strands that are inextricably woven into its fabric. The authors paint a vivid portrait of the culture through its arts, architecture, poetry and prose, all enriched by dynamic interaction with disparate cultures and peoples.

An acclaimed scholar presents a fundamentally new conception of the relationship between Christianity and the Paganism of Greece and Rome.

Two highly respected religious scholars, one a Christian and the other a Jew, explore the origins of the belief in resurrection. They clarify what is surprising to many—that the Jews believed in resurrection long before the emergence of Christianity—and they discuss deep and meaningful connections between their two faiths.

In these fascinating pages, one of the greatest Renaissance architects ­leads readers through the churches and antiquities of Rome in the year 1554. Now published together in an English-language volume for the first time, Palladio’s guidebooks unveil the timeless charm of the city’s ancient and medieval wonders.

Featuring more than a hundred stunning statues, reliefs, vases, bronzes, coins, and gems, this handsome volume highlights the integral role of heroes in ancient Greek art and culture.

Canonical scriptures were created over many centuries by disparate authors working in a variety of genres. Even so, they are unified by an overarching concern for the divine covenants and what they mean for God’s people, shows Scott Hahn in this deeply researched volume.

In this eagerly anticipated fourth volume in the Marginal Jew Series, John P. Meier corrects misconceptions about Mosaic Law in Jesus’ time and addresses the teachings of Jesus on major legal topics like divorce, oaths, the Sabbath, purity rules, and the various love commandments in the Gospels.

In this detailed investigation of the final chapters of the Gospel of Mark, Joel Marcus situates Mark’s description of Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection within the historical, political, and religious contexts of the day, emphasizing in particular the Jewish revolt against the Romans in 66-73 C.E.

For thirty years Ben Kiernan has been deeply involved in the study of genocide and crimes against humanity. He has played a key role in unearthing confidential documentation of the atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge. His writings have transformed our understanding not only of twentieth-century Cambodia but also of the historical phenomenon of genocide. This new ...

Seizing the Hungarian throne at fifteen, the effervescent Matthias Corvinus reigned long (1459-1490) and extraordinarily well. This book is the first in English to tell the gripping story of the Raven King and of the fate of his fabled 2000-volume library. Dispersed across Europe after his death, the king’s exquisite volumes have been pursued with fervor for ce...

This volume demonstrates the intricate literary structure and high poetic quality of the book of Nahum and represents a significant break-through in the study of Hebrew prosody with important implications for understanding the formation of the canon of the Hebrew Bible.

This book completes Michael V. Fox’s comprehensive study of the book of Proverbs. The author translates and explains in accessible language the meaning and literary qualities of the sayings and poems comprising the final chapters, with special attention to other wisdom books, particularly from Egypt.

In the pages of this slim, powerful book Rob Riemen argues with passion that “nobility of spirit” is the quintessence of a civilized world. It is, as Thomas Mann believed, the sole corrective for human history. Without nobility of spirit, culture vanishes. Yet in the early twenty-first century, a time when human dignity and freedom are imperiled, the conc...

In the early 1990s, Classics professor Mary Lefkowitz discovered that one of her faculty colleagues at Wellesley College was teaching his students that Greek culture had been stolen from Africa and that Jews were responsible for the slave trade. This book tells the disturbing story of what happened when she spoke out.

This sweeping, global history explores how the Virgin Mary, scarcely mentioned in the Gospels, rose to become our most prominent female figure. The book is groundbreaking in scope, encompassing sixteen centuries and a wealth of historical sources and visual materials from Christian cultures around the world.

This beautifully illustrated book examines the emergence of Christian art in the third century A.D. Drawing on insights from recent discoveries, leading experts explore topics from Jewish art in the Greco-Roman period and the influence of Constantine, to the development of church decoration and illuminated Bibles. New color photographs of frescoes, marble sculpture, silver...

The kings of Aksum formally became Christian during the second quarter of the 4th century, making Ethiopia the second country in the world (after Armenia) officially to adopt the new faith. This landmark book is the first to integrate historical, archaeological, and art-historical evidence to provide a comprehensive account of Ethiopian Christian civilization and its...

A lavish and unprecedented survey of Viet Nam’s body of artwork––including burial jars, jeweled gold pieces, and ritual drums––from the first millennium B.C. to the 18th century.

This intriguing book presents discussions by eminent art historians on current topics and dilemmas in the field.

An examination of small artifacts exquisitely carved from walrus ivory from the coast of the Bering Strait, western Alaska, and the islands in between and recently discovered on Russian excavations or held in private collections.

This volume––which documents 26 excavated stone-built tombs of the ancient Egyptian Twelfth Dynasty––features remains of reliefs and inscriptions that decorated the walls and demonstrates the astonishing variety of Middle Kingdom funeral architecture. 

An elegant book that explores the aesthetics and history of the traditional tea ceremony in Japan from the 9th century to the present day.

What was going on in Europe (a relatively minor peninsula in world terms) that enabled it by 1000 A.D. to become a driving global force? This sensational interdisciplinary work by a leading archaeologist reorients our understanding of Old Europe’s success, uncovering a set of complex factors that have gone unrecognized until now.

In this major new account of the fall of the Roman Empire, prizewinning author Adrian Goldsworthy examines the painful centuries of the superpower’s decline. Bringing history to life through the stories of the men, women, heroes, and villains involved, the author uncovers surprising lessons about the rise and fall of great nations.

Alexander the Great is remembered as an unparalleled conqueror, but this provocative biography contends that the achievements of his colorful father, Philip II of Macedonia, were just as great. A brilliant military and political strategist, a canny diplomat, and a king par excellence, Philip entirely changed the course of Greek history.

This fascinating exploration of sensuality and sexual desire in the Greek, Roman, and early Christian worlds arrives at a striking new understanding not only of sexual attitudes and practices in classical and post-classical times, but also of their influence on modern concepts of sexuality.

This engaging book is the first to gather together the hundreds of colorful legends told in cultures across the globe about Alexander the Great, conqueror of the ancient world. Richard Stoneman shows how the mythical exploits of Alexander have resonated for Christians, Jews, and Muslims, and in eastern and western cultures, for more than 2000 years.

This major new biography by a distinguished British historian offers a remarkably comprehensive portrait of a leader whose actions changed the course of Western history and resonate some two thousand years later.

For the ancient Romans, the manner of a person’s death provided telling information about his or her character, revealing perhaps the true patriot, the genuine philosopher, the great artist, or the faithful Christian. This engaging book investigates the significance of a wide variety of deaths recorded in Roman history and literature—from murders and executions to quiet deathbed moment...

For thirty years Ben Kiernan has been deeply involved in the study of genocide and crimes against humanity. He has played a key role in unearthing confidential documentation of the atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge. His writings have transformed our understanding not only of twentieth-century Cambodia but also of the historical phenomenon of genocide. This new ...

In the early 1990s, Classics professor Mary Lefkowitz discovered that one of her faculty colleagues at Wellesley College was teaching his students that Greek culture had been stolen from Africa and that Jews were responsible for the slave trade. This book tells the disturbing story of what happened when she spoke out.

Livia—wife of the first Roman emperor, Caesar Augustus, and mother of the second, Tiberius—wielded extraordinary power at the center of Roman politics. In this biography of Livia, the first in English, Anthony Barrett sets aside the portrait of a cunning and sinister schemer to reveal Livia as a complex figure whose enduring political influence helped shape Roman government long after ...

Preeminent classicist Mary Lefkowitz brings fresh insights to the mythology of ancient Greece, demonstrating that these stories are not only entertaining but also offer crucial lessons about human experience. They spoke to ancient audiences—and can speak to us—about the meaning of divinity, the nature of justice, and the limitations of human knowledge.

This book is the most comprehensive ever written on the art of woodworking in the ancient Roman world. Fully illustrated with 200 line drawings and photographs, the book discusses all aspects of Roman woodcraft and its practice and offers an extensive glossary of woodworking terms.

This fascinating book explores Constantine’s remarkable building program in Rome, focusing on such monuments as the Arch of Constantine, the Basilica Constantiniana, and the Tomb of St. Peter. The author highlights with new clarity the crucial role the emperor played in Rome’s transition from its pagan, imperial past to its future as a Christian capital.

Was the Roman emperor Caligula really the depraved despot of popular legend?  In this book—the first major reassessment of Caligula’s life and career in over fifty years—Anthony A. Barrett draws on archaeological, numismatic, and literary evidence to evaluate this infamous figure in the context of the system that gave him absolute power.

Theodosius I was the last Roman emperor to rule over both East and West. After the military disaster of Adrianople he had to rebuild the state by adopting a new policy of cooperation with the barbarians. He also suppressed paganism and established a unified Catholic Church by law. His reign was a turning point in the history of the late Roman Empire. The authors describe the military, political, a...

This delightful book tells the story of ancient libraries from their very beginnings, when “books” were clay tablets and writing was a new phenomenon. Renowned classicist Lionel Casson takes us on a lively tour from the royal libraries of the ancient Near East, through the private and public libraries of Greece and Rome, down to the first Christian monastic libraries. Casson explains w...

This classic book brings to life imperial Rome as it was during the second century A.D., the time of Trajan and Hadrian, Marcus Aurelius, and Commodus.  In a new Introduction, the eminent classicist Mary Beard appraises the book’s enduring—and sometimes surprising—influence and its value for general readers and students. She also provides an up-to-date bibliographic essay.

In the first book on Claudius written in English in over fifty years, Barbara Levick provides a major reassessment of the man and his reign. Drawing on recent research, Levick offers a provocative reconsideration of Claudius’s political objectives and activities within the constitutional, political, social, and economic development of Rome. A history of political and domestic intrigue as wel...

The remarkably detailed papyrus record of Theophanes’ fourth-century travels between Egyptian Hermopolis and Antioch in Syria is here translated and put into the context of social life. Classicist and historian John Matthews offers an array of revelations on travel, diet, social relations, and other fascinating topics in the time just before Emperor Constantine’s rise to power.

In this dynamic biography—the first on Agrippina the Younger in English—Anthony Barrett paints a startling new picture of the powerful first-century Roman woman who was the sister of the emperor Caligula, wife of the emperor Claudius, and mother of the emperor Nero. Barrett draws on the latest archeological, numismatic, and historical evidence to argue that Agrippina was not simply a s...

Neaira grew up in a Corinthian brothel in the fourth century B.C., became a high-priced courtesan and a sex slave, then settled into a thirty-year relationship with Stephanos of Athens. But next she found herself in court, charged with transgressing Athens’ marriage laws. This book reconstructs the amazing facts of Neaira’s life and trial, illuminating the social, legal, and cultural w...

"Brian Caven offers the first book-length, comprehensive biography of Dionysius I in English. . . . Caven’s . . . clear narrative will be accessible to readers unfamiliar with the period. . . . An indispensable resource for ancient historians."--Joseph J. Walsh, Classical World

In this readable and thought-provoking history of bisexuality in the classical age, Eva Cantarella draws on the full range of sources—from legal texts, inscriptions, and medical documents to poetry and philosophical literature—to reconstruct and compare the bisexual cultures of Athens and Rome.

What set the successful armies of Sparta, Macedon, and Rome apart from those they defeated? In this major new history of battle from the age of Homer through the decline of the Roman empire, J. E. Lendon surveys a millennium of warfare to discover how militaries change—and don’t change—and how an army’s greatness depends on its use of the past.

Published in the year the modern Olympic Games returned to Athens, this lavishly illustrated book presents a comprehensive survey of sports in ancient Greece. It vividly describes ancient sporting events and games, considers the role of women and amateurs in ancient athletics, and explores the impact of these games on art, literature, and politics.

In this book leading scholars explore Xenophon’s classic history of the Anabasis, or Long March, one of the most famous military adventures of the ancient world. The contributors uncover a rich source of social and cultural history and a vivid depiction of the mentality and religion of the fearless Greek mercenary army.









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Mount Athos, a spectacularly beautiful rocky peninsula on the coast of Greece, has been a monastic preserve since the ninth century. This richly illustrated book tells the entire story of Athos, the Holy Mountain, from the first anchorite monks who lived in caves and huts through centuries of political and religious controversy to the thriving monastic communities of today. 

In this compact yet comprehensive history of ancient Greece, Thomas R. Martin brings alive Greek civilization from its Stone Age roots to the fourth century B.C.  Focusing on the development of the Greek city-state and the society, culture, and architecture of Athens in its Golden Age, Martin integrates political, military, social, and cultural history in a book that will appeal to students a...

In this sweeping overview of life in the ancient Near East, Snell surveys the history of the region from the invention of writing five thousand years ago to Alexander the Great’s conquest in 332 B.C. The book provides a detailed picture of the demography, social groups, family, women, labor, land and animal management, crafts, trade, money, and government of the countries of ancient Western ...

Movies set in the ancient world have captivated moviemakers and moviegoers throughout the history of cinema. This abundantly illustrated book encompasses feature films and made-for-television movies from the silent era through such recent hits as Gladiator. Jon Solomon catalogues, describes, and evaluates films set in ancient lands, films of Old and New Testament stories, tragedies and come...

This magisterial book provides an analysis of the course of Western intellectual history between A.D. 400 and 1400. The book is arranged in two parts: the first surveys the comparative modes of thought and varying success of Byzantine, Latin-Christian, and Muslim cultures, and the second takes the reader from the twelfth-century revival of learning to the high Middle Ages and beyond, the period in...

This wide-ranging book is the first to survey the practice of arming slaves as soldiers throughout history. The book encompasses classical Greece, early Islamic cultures of the Near East, West, and East Africa, the British and French Caribbean, the United States, and Latin America, and shows why entrusting slaves with weapons, though surprising, often made sense.

In this engrossing book, two world-renowned scholars compare and contrast the cosmology, science, and medicine of China and Greece between 400 B.C. and A.D. 200. In the process they cast new light not only on these two rich civilizations but also on the evolving character of science.

In this fascinating work, H. W. F. Saggs presents a wide-ranging survey of the greatest achievements of the ancient civilizations of the Near and Middle East—from the Phoenician alphabet to mathematics, astronomy, medicine, religion, and international law—and shows how their influence is still felt today.

A leading authority on classical games here provides a comprehensive study of the practice of combat sports in the ancient civilizations of Greece, Rome, and the Near East. Describing and analyzing the sports of boxing, wrestling, stick-fighting, and pankration, Michael B. Poliakoff discusses such topics as the function of competition and violent games in ancient society; on the social background ...

Drawing on evidence ranging from pictorial mosaics to women’s poetry and histories, this lavish book examines for the first time the lives, occupations, beliefs, and social roles of Byzantine women. Focusing on a different woman—from the elite to the ordinary—in each chapter, it offers a fresh perspective on Byzantine culture and women’s history.

When Egypt became a province of the Roman Empire in 30 B.C., its vast and mysterious frontier had an important impact on the commerce, politics, and culture of the empire. Robert B. Jackson takes us on a journey to this frontier region, and his book—part history and part gazetteer—describes the ancient sites while conveying vividly what life was like at the time.

In this rich and engaging book, Leonard Barkan tells the full cultural story of the emergence into daylight of the artworks of antiquity that had lain beneath Roman ground for more than a thousand years. As discovery and rebirth became literal daily narratives in the fifteenth century, Barkan shows, Renaissance conceptions of art, art history, aesthetics, and historiography were transformed.

In this beautiful book, an eminent authority on Homeric texts takes us on a tour of the main localities in the Iliad and Odyssey. Drawing on photographs of the terrain as well as the texts themselves, J.V. Luce argues that Homer’s descriptions of the ancient landscape, far from being poetic fantasies, are accurate in every essential detail.

This sweeping, global history explores how the Virgin Mary, scarcely mentioned in the Gospels, rose to become our most prominent female figure. The book is groundbreaking in scope, encompassing sixteen centuries and a wealth of historical sources and visual materials from Christian cultures around the world.

Two highly respected religious scholars, one a Christian and the other a Jew, explore the origins of the belief in resurrection. They clarify what is surprising to many—that the Jews believed in resurrection long before the emergence of Christianity—and they discuss deep and meaningful connections between their two faiths.

This provocative volume explores the origins of the Jewish doctrine of the resurrection of the dead. Contrary to the widely accepted modern view, the ancient rabbis were keenly committed to the belief that at the end of time, God would restore the deserving dead to life, argues eminent theologian Jon D. Levenson.

In this comprehensive history of the synagogue from the Hellenistic period through late antiquity, Lee Levine traces the development of a dynamic and revolutionary institution. Examining synagogues in Israel and the Diaspora, he describes their physical features, role in the community, leadership, liturgy, and art as well as their success in integrating social and religious behavior from surroundi...

In 1958, an estranged Episcopalian priest forged an ancient gospel that told of Jesus and his apostles using magic and homosexual rites. Until now, the forgery has fooled many of the best Biblical scholars. Peter Jeffery unravels the mystery of the “Secret Gospel,” proves that the document is a hoax, and reveals the motives behind the forgery.

 

 

In this provocative book, Dennis MacDonald argues that the origins of passages in the book of Acts are to be found not in early Christian legends but in the epics of Homer. Focusing on four passages, he finds strong parallels in the Iliad and shows how Luke transformed the Homeric tales for his own use.

In this groundbreaking book, Dennis R. MacDonald presents an entirely new view of the New Testament gospel of Mark. The author of the earliest gospel was neither writing history nor recording tradition, MacDonald argues. Rather, he was composing a prose anti-epic, borrowing extensively from the Odyssey and the Iliad and presenting Jesus as a suffering hero modeled after...

This engrossing book encompasses the extraordinary history of the papacy, from its beginnings nearly two thousand years ago to the present day. In this new edition, the final chapter has been expanded to cover the last years of John Paul II and the election of Benedict XVI.

 

In this engrossing book, the author of the classic work The Pursuit of the Millennium investigates the origins of apocalyptic faith—the belief in a perfect future, when the forces of good are victorious over the forces of evil. Norman Cohn takes us back two thousand years to the world views of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and India, the innovations of Iranian and Jewish prophets and sa...

This important book offers the first comprehensive history of religious dualism, the doctrine that cosmos and man are constant battlegrounds for the forces of good and evil and their supernatural protagonists. Yuri Stoyanov traces crucial stages in the evolution of dualism from its early expression in late Egyptian religion and the revelations of Zoroaster to the revival of the “Great Heresy...

The near-sacrifice and miraculous restoration of a beloved son is a central but largely overlooked theme in both Judaism and Christianity, celebrated in biblical texts on Isaac, Ishmael, Jacob, Joseph, and Jesus. In this highly original book, Jon D. Levenson explores how this notion of child sacrifice constitutes an overlooked bond between the two religions. 

In this eloquent introduction to early Christian thought, eminent religious historian Robert Louis Wilken examines the tradition that such figures as St. Augustine, Gregory of Nyssa, and others set in place. These early thinkers constructed a new intellectual and spiritual world, Wilken shows, and they can still be heard as living voices in the modern world.

This book, which includes a new preface by the author, offers an engrossing portrayal of the early years of the Christian movement from the perspective of the Romans.

A central figure in the reconception of early Christian history over the last three decades, Wayne A. Meeks has written extensively on the New Testament and the world from which it emerged. This collection of Meeks’ most influential writings documents recent changes in our thinking about the early Christian movement while also posing provocative questions regarding the history of this period...

In this classic work, Wayne A. Meeks analyzes the earliest extant documents of Christianity—the letters of Paul—to describe the tensions and the texture of life of the first urban Christians. In a new introduction, he describes the evolution of the field of New Testament scholarship over the past twenty years, including new developments in fields such as archaeology and social history.

This wise and eloquent book describes the formative years of Christianity when Christian beliefs and practices shaped their unique moral order. Wayne Meeks illuminates the process of socialization that produced the early forms of Christian morality, showing what is distinctive about the Christian viewpoint and what is similar to the moral components of Greco-Roman or Jewish thought.

This fascinating and lively book provides the first comprehensive discussion of the production, circulation, and use of books in early Christianity. It explores the extent of literacy in early Christian communities; the relation in the early church between oral tradition and written materials; the physical form of early Christian books; how books were produced, transcribed, published, duplicated, ...

How did Jesus of Nazareth become the Christ of the Christian tradition? And why did the early Christian communities develop different theological images of Jesus? In this exciting new book, Paula Fredriksen answers this question by placing the various canonical images of Jesus within their historical context—the Hellenistic and Judaic cultures from which the Christian communities grew. Caref...

In this remarkable book, one of the world’s leading theologians offers insights into the history and significance of Christian creeds. Jaroslav Pelikan addresses essential questions about the Christian tradition: the origins of creeds; their function; their political role; how they relate to Christian institutions, worship, and service; and how they help to explain the major divisions of the...

A recreation of the spiritual life of ancient Mesopotamia demonstrating that the roots of Western civilization lie in the ancient Near East.

Why during the lifetime of Augustus (63 b.c. to a.d. 14) did Roman civilization spread so quickly, influencing art and architecture, religion, law, local speech, and city design throughout the ancient world? In his latest book Ramsay MacMullen argues that this acculturation was due to eager imitation by conquered peoples ably served by Romans’ effective techniques of mass production and stan...

In this original book, an eminent historian explores how early Christian doctrine was determined by majority vote in church councils during the third to sixth centuries. Ramsey MacMullen brings the reader directly into council chambers, where rank and file bishops engage in debate, then vote to establish a single Christian orthodoxy.

In this book, MacMullen investigates the transition from paganism to Christianity between the fourth and eighth centuries. He reassesses the triumph of Christianity, contending that it was neither tidy nor quick, and he shows that the two religious systems were both vital during an interactive period that lasted far longer than historians have previously believed.

This is the first book to focus on the beliefs and practices common to all non-Christian religions of the Empire. After examining the successes of the more dynamic cults and the effects on paganism of the conversion of the Constantine, MacMullen concludes that the conversion of the Empire to Christianity was not as inevitable and complete as it has seemed up until now.

How did the early Christian church manage to win its dominant place in the Roman world? In his newest book, an eminent historian of ancient Rome examines this question from a secular—rather than an ecclesiastical—viewpoint.

Prominent historian Ramsay MacMullen here offers a new perspective on the decline and fall of Rome. MacMullen argues that a key factor in Rome’s fall was the steady loss of focus and control over government as its aims were thwarted for private gain by high-ranking bureaucrats and military leaders. Written in an informal and lively style, his book—the culmination of years of research a...

An acclaimed scholar presents a fundamentally new conception of the relationship between Christianity and the Paganism of Greece and Rome.

This volume demonstrates the intricate literary structure and high poetic quality of the book of Nahum and represents a significant break-through in the study of Hebrew prosody with important implications for understanding the formation of the canon of the Hebrew Bible.

In this eagerly anticipated fourth volume in the Marginal Jew Series, John P. Meier corrects misconceptions about Mosaic Law in Jesus’ time and addresses the teachings of Jesus on major legal topics like divorce, oaths, the Sabbath, purity rules, and the various love commandments in the Gospels.

In this definitive book on the real, historical Jesus, one of our foremost biblical scholars meticulously sifts the evidence of 2,000 years to portray neither a rural magician nor a figure of obvious power, but a marginal Jew.

This book is the second volume in John Meier's masterful trilogy on the life of Jesus. In it he continues his quest for the answer to the greatest  puzzle of modern religious scholarship: Who was  Jesus?  Meier brings to life the story of a man, Jesus,  who by his life and teaching gradually made himself  ma...

No man is an island, not even Jesus, as John Meier writes in Companions and Competitors, the third installment of his four-part series, A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus. Here, Meier explains his conviction that "No human being is adequately understood if he or she is considered in isolation from other human beings." His findings, particul...

This pathbreaking book explores in plentiful detail the symbolic meanings of the serpent from 40,000 BCE to the present, and from diverse regions in the world. In doing so it emphasizes the utter creativity of the biblical authors’ use of symbols and argues that we must, today, reexamine our own archetypal conceptions with comparable creativity.

Canonical scriptures were created over many centuries by disparate authors working in a variety of genres. Even so, they are unified by an overarching concern for the divine covenants and what they mean for God’s people, shows Scott Hahn in this deeply researched volume.

This original and captivating book offers important insights into the development of angelology, the origins of Christology, and popular western spirituality. In doing so, it provokes stimulating theological reflection on key existential questions.

In this detailed investigation of the final chapters of the Gospel of Mark, Joel Marcus situates Mark’s description of Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection within the historical, political, and religious contexts of the day, emphasizing in particular the Jewish revolt against the Romans in 66-73 C.E.

This book completes Michael V. Fox’s comprehensive study of the book of Proverbs. The author translates and explains in accessible language the meaning and literary qualities of the sayings and poems comprising the final chapters, with special attention to other wisdom books, particularly from Egypt.

In this volume, New Testament scholar Joseph A. Fitzmyer provides a fresh translation of the Pauline epistle along with extensive commentary and notes, a complete outline, a bibliography for further research, and useful indexes.

With original insights and deeply researched commentary on this New Testament book, John Reumann offers both classical approaches and new methods of understanding social and rhetorical issues in Paul’s letters to the Philippians.

In Ephraim Stern's sequel to Archaeology of the Land of the Bible, Volume I , by Amihai Mazar, this world-renowned archaeologist who has directed excavations in the Holy Land for many years offers a dramatic look at how archaeological research contributes to our understanding of the connections between history and the stories recounted in the Bible. Stern writes about various artifacts unea...

Jonathan A. Goldstein turns to the religious literature of these ancient peoples to discover how they reconciled their beliefs with the realities of history. In a magnificent blend of several academic disciples (literary criticism, political theory, biblical and classical history), he compares and contrasts the responses of different eras and nations – from the Israelites, Babylonians, and E...

The Empty Men describes the process by which adventure stories—replete with foolish love, warfare, assassinations, ritual slaughter, and grim masculine codes—were transformed into sermons and history lessons. Mobley also offers reflections on the Iron Age theology of these narratives, with their emphasis on poetic justice, and on the mythic dimensions of landscape in these stori...

Some of the Bible's most memorable characters are the women in the book of Judges. From Deborah and Jael to Delilah and Samson's mother, these women led the Israelites in battle, used their wits to defeat the enemy, their wiles to seduce mighty men, and their wisdom to prevail on God. In Warrior, Dancer, Seductress, Queen author Susan Ackerman offers a keen analysis of the main types of wom...

In this groundbreaking new book, distinguished biblical scholar James L. Crenshaw investigates both the pragmatic hows and the philosophical whys of education in ancient Israel and its surroundings. Asking questions as basic as "Who were the teachers and students and from what segment of Israelite society did they come?" and "How did instructors interest young people in the things they had to say?...

A leading expert on the Dead Sea Scrolls explains why they are among the most important archaeological finds in history, and explores how they have revolutionized our understanding of Jesus.

Dead Sea Scrolls expert Lawrence H. Schiffman shifts attention away from the sensationalism surrounding who has control of the scrolls by focusing on how these texts shed light on the history of Judaism and early Christianity.

This definitive introduction to the gnostic scriptures provides a crucial look at the theology, religious atmosphere, and literary traditions of ancient Christianity and Hellenistic Judaism.

Six years in the making, this state-of-the-art dictionary offers the most up-to-date and comprehensive treatment of biblical subjects and scholarship. An essential reference for every serious reader of the Bible.

B & W illustrations and line-art throughout.

Six years in the making, this state-of-the-art dictionary offers the most up-to-date and comprehensive treatment of biblical subjects and scholarship. An essential reference for every serious reader of the Bible.

B & W illustrations and line-art throughout.

Six years in the making, this state-of-the-art dictionary offers the most up-to-date and comprehensive treatment of biblical subjects and scholarship. An essential reference for every serious reader of the Bible.

B & W illustrations and line-art throughout.

Six years in the making, this state-of-the-art dictionary offers the most up-to-date and comprehensive treatment of biblical subjects and scholarship. An essential reference for every serious reader of the Bible.

B & W illustrations and line-art throughout.

Six years in the making, this state-of-the-art dictionary offers the most up-to-date and comprehensive treatment of biblical subjects and scholarship. An essential reference for every serious reader of the Bible.

B & W illustrations and line-art throughout.

Six years in the making, this state-of-the-art dictionary offers the most up-to-date and comprehensive treatment of biblical subjects and scholarship. An essential reference for every serious reader of the Bible.

B & W illustrations and line-art throughout.

The truth behind the Gospel accounts of the  Nativity, updated to include the latest research--a  classic by a renowned scholar, hailed as  "masterly" and "definitive" in the  original edition.

Universally acknowledged as the dean of New Testament scholarship, Father Brown is a master of his discipline at the pinnacle of his career. Who else could cover the entire scope of the New Testament with such ease and clarity? This gifted communicator conveys the heartfelt concern of a beloved teacher for his students, as he walks the reader through the basic content and issues of the New Testame...

This major new translation of Plato’s greatest dialogue has been eagerly awaited by those who know R. E. Allen’s accurate and readable renditions of Plato’s Dialogues. Allen provides useful notes in this volume as well as an introduction in which he considers the profound influence of The Republic on America’s Founding Fathers and on the development of constitutional...

This initial volume in a series of new translations of Plato’s works includes a general introduction and interpretive comments for the dialogues translated: the Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Gorgias, and Menexenus. 

Allen's superb new translation of Plato's Symposium brings this classic text to life for modern readers. Allen supplements his faithful and readable translation with a commentary that not only enriches our understanding of Plato's philosophy and the world of Greek antiquity but also provides insights into present-day philosophical concerns.

R.E. Allen's superb new translations of four Socratic dialogues—Ion, Hippias Minor, Laches, and Protagoras—bring these classic texts to life for modern readers. Allen introduces and comments on the dialogues in an accessible way, inviting the reader to reexamine the issues Plato continually raises in his works: Is virtue an art? Are wisdom and courage logically equivalent...

In this superb translation of the Parmenides, Allen brings one of Plato’s most significant later dialogues to a broad readership. This work is of profound philosophical importance in its own right, and it also contributes to the understanding of Plato’s subsequent dialogues, Aristotle’s criticisms of Plato, his testimony about Plato, and the origins of his own doctrines.

In this bold, powerful interpretation of Plato’s most controversial dialogue, Stanley Rosen challenges earlier readings of the Republic by Leo Strauss and his disciples. While the fundamental principles underlying the just city are theoretically attractive, to enact them in practice leads to conceptual incoherence and political disaster, Rosen argues.

This provocative book offers a new perspective on the development of political thought from Homer to Machiavelli, Tocqueville, and Gertrude Stein. Norma Thompson locates a powerful theme among key texts by these and other thinkers: that the political health of organized political communities requires a balance between masculine and feminine qualities.

In this survey of the ideas, life, and times of Proclus, Siorvanes explores all the interests of this leading philosophical figure of Late Antiquity—including religion, physics, astronomy, mathematics, and poetry. Siorvanes relates the ideas of Proclus to other major thinkers like Plato, Aristotle, and Ptolemy and traces the remarkable impact of Proclus's Neo-Platonism across cultures, relig...

In this deeply personal and provocative meditation, Gooch reflects on enduring themes that arise from the lives and deaths of Jesus and Socrates—death and witness, silence as the limit of language, prayer, obedience, and love. Seeking to understand the fundamental commitments of these two pivotal figures to God and to philosophy, Gooch throws new light on the continuing meanings of their sto...

In this rich collection of philosophical writings, Stanley Rosen addresses topics ranging from eros, poetry, and freedom to the problems of negation and knowledge through sense perception. Throughout these diverse essays, Rosen’s philosophical principles emerge: textual hermeneutics and philosophical analysis cannot be legitimately separated, and philosophical investigation must be oriented ...

Part history of philosophy, part philosophical investigation, this book rewrites central chapters in the history of jurisprudence by uncovering a continuity among four great legal philosophers: Plato, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Hobbes, and John Austin. In their theories of law, the author argues, these thinkers represent successive chapters in a single fascinating story.

 

 

This extraordinary new translation of the Aeneid stands alone among modern Vergil translations for its accuracy and poetic appeal. Sarah Ruden, a lyric poet in her own right, is the first woman to translate Vergil’s great epic, and she renders the poem in the same number of lines as the original work—a very rare feat that maintains technical...

This anthology gathers texts and translations that cover major aspects of the Virgilian tradition from the Roman poet’s own lifetime to the year 1500. Unprecedented in scope, the book illuminates how Virgil exerted influence on writers over the centuries, how his work was understood and put to use, how his life was interpreted, and much more.

Averroes (1126-1198), a Muslim philosopher, physician, and jurist, is most famous for his commentaries on the surviving works of Aristotle. This translation of Averroes’ Long Commentary on Aristotle’s De Anima brings to English-language readers a central work of medieval philosophy.

In Ronald Paulson’s latest book, he turns his attention to the subject of sin vs. evil and the important distinction between the two that today is widely ignored. Roaming through Western literature, Paulson shows how questions of evil and sin—and evil and sinful behavior—are addressed by authors from Ovid to Shakespeare to Vonnegut.

In this masterful new verse translation now available in paperback, Virgil’s Georgics speaks as powerfully to our times as it did to the ancient poet’s. Janet Lembke presents this unsurpassed nature poem in an American idiom that is both elegant and sensitive to the meaning and rhythm of Virgil’s original paean to the earth.

In this controversial book, social anthropologist Mary Douglas argues that many famous antique texts are misunderstood and others have been dismissed because they employ ring composition, a literary style unfamiliar today. She explores ring composition across cultures and examines its function in the Iliad, the Bible’s Book of Numbers, and Tristram Shandy.

In this widely praised book, an eminent classicist examines Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus in the context of fifth-century B.C. Athens.  In attempting to discover what the play meant to Sophocles' contemporaries—and in particular in disentangling Sophocles' ideas from Freud's psychoanalytical interpretations—Bernard Knox casts fresh light on its timeless and universal nature.&...

The eminent Assyriologist Thorkild Jacobsen, author of Treasures of Darkness, here presents translations of ancient Sumerian poems written near the end of the third millennium b.c.e., including a number of compositions that have never before been published in translation. The themes developed in the poems—quite possibly the earliest poems extant—are those that have fascinated hu...

The latest edition of this highly praised anthology of ancient Egyptian literature offers fresh translations of all the texts as well as some twenty-five new entries, including writings from the late literature of the Demotic period at the end of classical Egyptian history. The book also includes an extensive bibliography.

In this close and sensitive reading of the Carmen Saeculare, Michael C. J. Putnam illuminates Horace’s masterpiece as a crucial link in the development of Rome’s outstanding lyric poet. Putnam explores the richness and virtuosity of Horace’s only lyric known to have been first presented orally—by a chorus at the Secular Games of 17 B.C.E.—rather than in ...

An absorbing collection of writings by leading poets and classicists explores how the poet Vergil continues to capture and inspire readers some 2,000 years after he wrote. The volume presents close readings of Vergil’s poems, discussions of his influence, a lively conversation on translation, and a “virtual” roundtable discussion in which Sarah Spence weaves together responses of...

Discovered in an Egyptian papyrus in 1896, the lyrics of Bacchylides are one of the great treasures of Greek poetry. These exquisite choral odes celebrate victories in the Pythian, Isthmian, Nemean, and Olympic games and chronicle the classical gods and heroes, eloquently revealing to us the spirit and world of Golden Age Greece. First published in 1961, the book now includes a new translator's no...

The kings of Aksum formally became Christian during the second quarter of the 4th century, making Ethiopia the second country in the world (after Armenia) officially to adopt the new faith. This landmark book is the first to integrate historical, archaeological, and art-historical evidence to provide a comprehensive account of Ethiopian Christian civilization and its...

This beautifully illustrated book is the definitive guide to the mysteries and treasures of Machu Picchu, the New World’s most splendid archaeological site. Leading scholars discuss Machu Picchu’s place within the Inca empire, the mysteries surrounding its establishment and abandonment, and the discoveries made there since Hiram Bingham’s excavations in the early twentieth centur...

This richly illustrated book of vintage photographs commemorates the discovery and exploration of the tomb of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun (Dynasty 18, ruled ca. 1336–1327 B.C.). 

The monuments of ancient Athens and Attica give eloquent testimony to the enduring legacy of Greek civilization. In this definitive book, prominent archaeologist John M. Camp presents an up-to-date survey of these monuments to create a complete archaeological tour of the area. Camp’s lavishly illustrated work will appeal not only to scholars and students of Greek civilization but also to vis...

The stories behind the acquisition of ancient antiquities are often as important as those that tell of their creation. This fascinating book provides a comprehensive account of the history and development of classical archaeology, explaining how and why artifacts have moved from foreign soil to collections around the world.

This practical and knowledgeable guidebook is the first to deal comprehensively with the stone circles of Britain and Ireland and with the cromlechs and megalithic "horseshoes" of Brittany. Filled with fascinating information, useful maps, and arresting photographs, this invaluable resource describes over 400 sites and discusses the archaeology and architectural features of each ring.

William Stukeley, one of the first to recognize the historic importance of Stonehenge, meticulously recorded his fieldwork discoveries in a manuscript that until now has remained unpublished. Here transcribed and annotated, Stukeley’s writings and drawings offer a detailed view of all that was known of the stone circle nearly three hundred years ago.

This extravagantly illustrated book digs deeply into London’s past, examining recent archaeological discoveries that shed new light on our understanding of the great city’s history. Archaeologists over the last quarter-century have uncovered exciting new information on the river walls constructed by the Romans, the Black Death, the houses of the rich and poor, and much more.

For those who are enthralled by Stonehenge and the many other awe-inspiring prehistoric stone circles of Britain, archaeologist Aubrey Burl now offers fascinating insights into their many mysteries. In this book he selects a dozen of the most evocative rings and proposes sometimes surprising answers to questions about the circles—their purpose, construction, age, design, art, legends, and re...

This magnificent book is a fascinating account of the prehistoric stone circles at Avebury, which not only date from an earlier era but are also larger than the more famous sarsen stone circle of Stonehenge. Written by a leading archaeologist, the book considers every aspect of Avebury’s history and construction and discusses the probable purpose of these massive structures, in the process c...

This beautiful book explores the mysteries of the spectacular stone circles of western Europe, offering new insights into their purposes and up-to-date findings on their ancestry, construction, and eventual desertion. Aubrey Burl, a renowned authority on stone circles, presents an entire reassessment of Stonehenge, new information on Scotland’s famous circle of Callanish, the first overview ...

This edition of Book III of Eutropius’s Breviarium ab urbe condita is designed to be a student’s first encounter with authentic, unabridged Latin prose. Written in a simple and direct style, the Breviarium covers the period of Roman history that students find the most interesting—the  Second Punic War fought against Carthage—...

A Latin grammar and reader all in one when the text and workbook are used together, Learn to Read Latin presents basic Latin morphology and syntax with clear explanations and examples, and it offers direct access to great works of Latin literature even at the earliest stages of learning the language. As beginning students learn basic forms and grammar, they also gain familiarity with patterns of Latin word order and other features of style, thus becoming well prepared for later, more difficult texts.

No other beginning Latin book contains as many unaltered versions of ancient texts. Learn to Read Latin includes the writings of such authors as Caesar, Cicero, Sallust, Catullus, Vergil, and Ovid, arranged chronologically and accompanied by introductions to each author and each work. These readings serve as the chief training texts around which the book’s fifteen chapters are constructed. A workbook is also available, providing abundant drills for each chapter of the text. A flexible format allows the workbook exercises to be used in the classroom, for homework assignments, for extra individual drill work, or as a home study tool.

Andrew Keller is associate professor of the classics at Colgate University. Stephanie Russell is a classics teacher at Collegiate School in New York City.

This remarkable volume celebrates nearly 500 works from the Metropolitan Museum’s unparalleled collection of Greek and Roman art.

This volume discusses the extraordinary art created in the second millennium B.C. for royal palaces, temples, and tombs from Mesopotamia, Syria, and Anatolia to Cyprus, Egypt, and the Aegean.

This beautifully illustrated book examines the emergence of Christian art in the third century A.D. Drawing on insights from recent discoveries, leading experts explore topics from Jewish art in the Greco-Roman period and the influence of Constantine, to the development of church decoration and illuminated Bibles. New color photographs of frescoes, marble sculpture, silver...

Long considered lost beyond recall, the architecture of ancient Alexandria is rediscovered in this masterful feat of archaeological detective work. Lavishly illustrated, the book uncovers the true extent of the city's architectural legacy.

This volume––which documents 26 excavated stone-built tombs of the ancient Egyptian Twelfth Dynasty––features remains of reliefs and inscriptions that decorated the walls and demonstrates the astonishing variety of Middle Kingdom funeral architecture. 

This book presents a selection of more than 100 magnificent cameos carved from precious and semiprecious stones and traces their history from ancient times.

Featuring lesson plans, posters, a CD-ROM, a copy of Art of the Classical World in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and more, this invaluable resource kit for K–12 teachers examines the rich cultural legacy of Roman art.

This visually and intellectually exciting book chronicles the history of a series of devotional paintings in the Cave Church. It explores how the monastic community commissioned painting twice in the church in the 13th century, during one of the greatest eras of Coptic art, and how one of the monks painted it again in the 18th century, helping to inaugurate a Coptic ...

This important book is the first to focus on the artistry and significance of the lustrous bronze, copper, silver, and gold statuary crafted by the ancient Egyptians as offerings to their gods and for use in temples and shrines.

Drawing on rich documentary evidence and archaeological data, this book demonstrates that medieval Romanesque and Gothic churches owe much more to the architectural achievements of the Early Middle Ages than has been thought. A distinguished historian of architecture examines the transformation of the Early Christian basilica from 600 to 900 A.D.

In this original book Mark Wilson Jones explores for the first time how the architects of ancient Rome approached design. Drawing on new archaeological discoveries and his own analyses of Roman monuments, the author discusses how the ancient architects dealt with the principles of architecture and the practicalities of construction as they engaged in the creative process.

The Architecture of the Roman Empire has been hailed as a comprehensive and penetrating account of the rise of Roman Imperial architecture, an architecture whose great vaulted spaces and monumental exteriors defined such terms as “palace” and “Pantheon” for all time.

The author of a classic work on the architecture of imperial Rome here broadens his focus to present a fascinating study of urban design in Roman market towns, port cities, veterans' colonies, and major metropolitan centers throughout Europe. MacDonald defines the common elements and themes as well as the enduring qualities of Roman architecture and demonstrates how they worked both as images and ...

In this beautifully illustrated book—the first in almost a century devoted solely to Roman sculpture—Diana E. E. Kleiner discusses all the major public and private monuments in Rome, as well as many less well-known monuments in the capital and elsewhere in the empire. Throughout, Kleiner treats Roman sculpture in its cultural, political, and social contexts and, wherever possible, as a...

Myths and legends, with their fantastical settings and parade of exotic creatures and beautiful immortals, have inspired some of the most popular works in the National Gallery Collection. The latest addition to the best-selling Pocket Guides series leads the modern viewer through this important aspect of Western art.

Diseases and injuries were major concerns for ancient Egyptians. This book, featuring some sixty-four objects from the Metropolitan Museum, discusses how both practical and magical medicine informed Egyptian art and for the first time reproduces and translates treatments described in the spectacular Edwin Smith Papyrus.

What do creatures that combine human and animal elements—centaurs, satyrs, sphinxes, sirens, Gorgons and others—tell us about the Greek imagination? This landmark book is the first to investigate representations of composite beings in early Greek art, including over 100 diverse examples ranging from sculptures and reliefs to jewelry, sealstones, and vases.

This lavishly illustrated book is the first English-language study to feature and discuss imagery and artifacts relating to childhood in ancient Greece. Eminent scholars in a variety of fields shed light on many aspects of children’s lives, from their status in Greek culture to their activities, games, schooling, and religious development.

This new edition of A. W. Lawrence's classic work, now with up-to-date revisions by R. A. Tomlinson and a stunning array of color illustrations, explores the development of Greek architecture from its earliest beginnings to the first century B.C. Lawrence considers the evolution of the magnificent temples of the Hellenic Age, as well as Greek domestic architecture, town planning, theaters, and for...

This comprehensive catalogue is the visual and textual record of the landmark exhibition.

A sequel to the landmark catalogue The Glory of Byzantium, this spectacular book—the first to focus exclusively on the last golden age of the Byzantine empire—presents magnificent secular and religious works in all media.

This handsome book highlights an important period in art history: a time marked by the appearance of the city states of the Sumerians, the citadel of Troy, the royal tombs at Ur, and the monumental cities at Mohenjo-daro and Harappa. Presenting more than 500 works of art, many never reproduced before, the volume examines the cultural achievements of these first urban societies.

This book explores and documents the 15th-century BC tomb of three foreign wives of Tuthmosis III, discovered and robbed by villagers near Luxor in 1916. Incorporating the findings of field work conducted at the site by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the book discusses the lives of the foreign wives and the objects verified to have come from their tomb.

This book features specially commissioned photographs of the Metropolitan Museum’s renowned collection of ancient Greek and Roman sculpture, recently installed in dramatic new galleries. An informative essay introduces the collection and complements the exquisite photographs.

This CD-ROM presents 424 terracottas from the Cesnola Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and includes catalogue entries, commentaries, a glossary, chronology, and maps. Inexpensive, portable, and user-friendly, it provides an invaluable tool for students and archaeologists.

Offering fascinating views of the public and personal lives of women of the Byzantine Empire, this beautiful book features nearly two hundred works of art from the fourth through fifteenth centuries. The artworks—ranging from luxury items such as silver vessels and jewelry to utilitarian objects like toiletries, weaving tools, coins, seals, icons, and amulets illustrate how Byzantine women w...

The most popular of the Roman poets, Catullus is known for the accessibility of his witty and erotic love poems. In this book Charles Martin, himself a poet, offers a deeper reading of Catullus, revealing the art and intelligence behind the seemingly spontaneous verse.

Plutarch’s Lives have shaped perceptions of the accomplishments of the ancient Greeks and Romans for nearly two thousand years. This book is an engaging and stimulating introduction to Plutarch’s own life and work. Robert Lamberton offers a fresh and sophisticated reading of Plutarch’s major writings, sketches the cultural context in which he worked (Greece under Ro...

Ovid may be the most accessible of the poets of ancient Rome. In every age, he has captured the imagination of readers, both with his style and with his subject matter, which encompasses the human psyche. This book, introducing Ovid to the general reader and the student, considers his modernity, his wit, his narrative techniques, his views on the relations between the sexes, his enduring popularit...

Translated into seventeen languages since its first publication in 1936, E. H. Gombrich’s bestselling history of the world is at last available in English. Gombrich tells the story of mankind from the Stone Age to the atomic bomb, focusing not on small detail but on the sweep of human experience, the extent of human achievement, and the depth of its frailty.

Inspired by the process of creating a library for his fifteenth-century home near the Loire, in France, Alberto Manguel, the acclaimed writer on books and reading, has taken up the subject of libraries. “Libraries,” he says, “have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as I can remember I’ve been seduced by their labyrinthi...

This reader-friendly quotation book is unique in its focus on modern and American quotations.  It is also the first to use state-of-the-art research methods to capture famous quotations and to trace sources of quotations to their true origins.  It contains more than 12,000 entries not only from literary and historical sources but also from popular culture, sports, computers, po...

It is impossible not to be drawn in to the provocative, and even contentious, discussion that Harvey Mansfield sets before us. He offers the first comprehensive study of manliness, a quality both bad and good, mostly male, and often irrational. Is manliness necessary? Is it obsolete? Is there a way for us to give it honest and honorable employment?

This welcome book offers down-to-earth advice for busy teachers on how best to use instructional technology. Organized around such specific goals and tasks as communication with students, distribution of course materials, or collaborative learning, the guide shows when and how technology can help teachers at all instructional levels to meet everyday challenges. A CD-ROM accompanies the book.

In this inspiring book two distinguished educators describe the intellectual, moral, and emotional qualities of successful teachers, along the way encouraging those who teach to understand the components of their noble art.

This engaging and helpful book is both a thoughtful celebration of the learning process and a practical guide to becoming a better student. Written by the acclaimed authors of the Elements of Teaching, it discusses the qualities a student needs to get the most out of education and aspects of the environment—teachers, curriculum, and the transition from school to college—that con...

This musical treatise, highly influential when it was published in 1581 or 1582, has now been translated into English for the first time. Written by Vincenzo Galilei, a guiding light of the Florentine Camerata and the father of the astronomer Galileo, the treatise sheds new light on his importance as a musician and experimental scientist.