University of Califiornia Press E-Books Collection

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UC Press E-Books Collection

UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004, includes almost 2,000 books from academic presses on a range of topics, including art, science, history, music, religion, and fiction.

Access to the entire collection of electronic books is open to all University of California faculty, staff, and students, while more than 700 of the titles are available to the public. Print versions of many of the electronic books can be purchased directly from the publishers.

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Open access books in the category Classics, include the following 42 titles:

1.	Add to Bookbag	Title: An archaeology of Greece: the present state and future scope of a discipline  Author: Snodgrass, Anthony M Published: University of California Press,  1987 Subjects: Classics | Archaeology | European History Publisher's Description: Classical archaeology probably enjoys a wider appeal than any other branch of classical or archaeological studies. As an intellectual and academic discipline, however, its esteem has not matched its popularity. Here, Anthony Snodgrass argues that classical archaeology has a rare potential in the who . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Asceticism and society in crisis: John of Ephesus and the Lives of the Eastern saints  Author: Harvey, Susan Ashbrook Published: University of California Press,  1990 Subjects: Classics | Classical Religions | Classical History Publisher's Description: John of Ephesus traveled throughout the sixth-century Byzantine world in his role as monk, missionary, writer and church leader. In his major work, The Lives of the Eastern Saints , he recorded 58 portraits of monks and nuns he had known, using the literary conventions of hagiography in a strikingly . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Athenian democracy in transition: Attic letter-cutters of 340 to 290 B.C  Author: Tracy, Stephen V 1941- Published: University of California Press,  1995 Subjects: Classics | Ancient History | Archaeology Publisher's Description: Furthering his masterful new approach to classifying and interpreting epigraphical data presented in Attic Letter-Cutters of 229 to 86 B.C. , Stephen V. Tracy has produced a masterful study of the inscriptions from the time of King Philip of Macedon, Alexander the Great, Demosthenes, and Demetrios. . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Athens from Cleisthenes to Pericles  Author: Fornara, Charles W Published: University of California Press,  1991 Subjects: Classics | Classical History | Classical Politics Publisher's Description: By the mid fifth century B.C., Athens had become the most powerful city-state in Greece: a rich democracy led by Pericles that boldly gained control of an empire. Athens's strength under Pericles was the result of a complex interaction of events from the time of Cleisthenes. Fornara and Samons unrav . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Barbarians and politics at the Court of Arcadius  Author: Cameron, Alan Published: University of California Press,  1993 Subjects: Classics | Religion | Ancient History Publisher's Description: The chaotic events of A.D. 395-400 marked a momentous turning point for the Roman Empire and its relationship to the barbarian peoples under and beyond its command. In this masterly study, Alan Cameron proposes a complete rewriting of received wisdom concerning the social and political history of th . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Add to Bookbag	Title: The best of the Argonauts: the redefinition of the epic hero in book one of Apollonius's Argonautica  Author: Clauss, James Joseph Published: University of California Press,  1993 Subjects: Classics | Literature | Classical Literature and Language | Literary Theory and Criticism Publisher's Description: This revelatory exploration of Book One of the Argonautica rescues Jason from his status as the ineffectual hero of Apollonius' epic poem. James J. Clauss argues that by posing the question, "Who is the best of the Argonauts?" Apollonius redefines the epic hero and creates, in Jason, a man more real . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Catullan provocations: lyric poetry and the drama of position  Author: Fitzgerald, William 1952- Published: University of California Press,  1996 Subjects: Classics | Comparative Literature | Classical Literature and Language | Poetry Publisher's Description: Restoring to Catullus a provocative power that familiarity has tended to dim, this book argues that Catullus challenges us to think about the nature of lyric in new ways. Fitzgerald shows how Catullus's poetry reflects the conditions of its own consumption as it explores the terms and possibilities . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Add to Bookbag	Title: The defense of Attica: the Dema wall and the Boiotian War of 378-375 B.C  Author: Munn, Mark Henderson Published: University of California Press,  1993 Subjects: Classics | Art and Architecture | Ancient History Publisher's Description: The enigmatic three-mile-long Dema wall in the countryside outside ancient Athens has perplexed archaeologists and historians for decades. When was it built and what role did it play in Greek military history? In a tour de force of archaeological and historical argument, Mark H. Munn establishes the . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Add to Bookbag	Title: The development of Attic black-figure  Author: Beazley, J. D. (John Davidson) 1885-1970 Published: University of California Press,  1986 Subjects: Classics | Art and Architecture Publisher's Description: The eight lectures that comprise this edition were first delivered by John Davidson Beazley in 1949. They were published in 1951 and soon became a of classical study of ancient Greek vases. This revised edition includes many additional illustrations. Similar Items
10.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Dioscorus of Aphrodito: his work and his world  Author: MacCoull, Leslie B Published: University of California Press,  1989 Subjects: Classics Publisher's Description: From the hand of Dioscorus of Aphrodito, sixth-century Coptic lawyer and poet, we have the only autograph poems to come down to us on papyrus from the late ancient world. Both the poetry he wrote for special occasions and the documents he produced in his legal career, in Greek and Coptic, reflect th . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Epic traditions in the contemporary world: the poetics of community  Author: Beissinger, Margaret H Published: University of California Press,  1999 Subjects: Literature | Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Comparative Literature Publisher's Description: The epic tradition has been part of many different cultures throughout human history. This noteworthy collection of essays provides a comparative reassessment of epic and its role in the ancient, medieval, and modern worlds, as it explores the variety of contemporary approaches to the epic genre. Em . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Fiction as history: Nero to Julian  Author: Bowersock, G. W. (Glen Warren) 1936- Published: University of California Press,  1997 Subjects: Classics | Literature | European History | Classical Religions | Christianity | Ancient History Publisher's Description: Using pagan fiction produced in Greek and Latin during the early Christian era, G. W. Bowersock investigates the complex relationship between "historical" and "fictional" truths. This relationship preoccupied writers of the second century, a time when apparent fictions about both past and present we . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Form and good in Plato's Eleatic dialogues: the Parmenides, Theaetetus, Sophist, and Statesman  Author: Dorter, Kenneth 1940- Published: University of California Press,  1994 Subjects: Classics | Philosophy | Classical Literature and Language Publisher's Description: In this innovative analysis, Plato's four eleatic dialogues are treated as a continuous argument. In Kenneth Dorter's view, Plato reconsiders the theory of forms propounded in his earlier dialogues and through an examination of the theory's limitations reaffirms and proves it essential. Contradicted . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Guardians of language: the grammarian and society in late antiquity  Author: Kaster, Robert A Published: University of California Press,  1997 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Language and Linguistics | Ancient History Publisher's Description: What did it mean to be a professional teacher in the prestigious "liberal schools" - the schools of grammar and rhetoric - in late antiquity? How can we account for the abiding prestige of these schools, which remained substantially unchanged in their methods and standing despite the political and r . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Hegemony to empire: the development of the Roman Imperium in the East from 148 to 62 B.C  Author: Kallet-Marx, Robert Morstein Published: University of California Press,  1996 Subjects: Classics | History | Ancient History Publisher's Description: In one of the most important contributions to the study of Roman imperialism to appear in recent years, Robert Kallet-Marx argues for a less simplistic, more fluid understanding of the evolution of Roman power in the Balkans, Greece, and Asia Minor. He distinguishes between hegemony - the ability of . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Hellenistic history and culture  Author: Green, Peter 1924- Published: University of California Press,  1993 Subjects: Classics | Classical Philosophy | Ancient History | History Publisher's Description: In a 1988 conference, American and British scholars unexpectedly discovered that their ideas were converging in ways that formed a new picture of the variegated Hellenistic mosaic. That picture emerges in these essays and eloquently displays the breadth of modern interest in the Hellenistic Age.A di . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Horace and the gift economy of patronage  Author: Bowditch, Phebe Lowell 1961- Published: University of California Press,  2001 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Poetry | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: This innovative study explores selected odes and epistles by the late-first-century poet Horace in light of modern anthropological and literary theory. Phebe Lowell Bowditch looks in particular at how the relationship between Horace and his patron Maecenas is reflected in these poems' themes and rhe . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Images and ideologies: self-definition in the Hellenistic world  Author: Bulloch, A. W Published: University of California Press,  1994 Subjects: Classics | Philosophy | Classical Philosophy | Ancient HistoryArt History | Publisher's Description: This volume captures the individuality, the national and personal identity, the cultural exchange, and the self-consciousness that have long been sensed as peculiarly potent in the Hellenistic world. The fields of history, literature, art, philosophy, and religion are each presented using the format . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Imperatores victi: military defeat and aristocratic competition in the middle and late republic  Author: Rosenstein, Nathan Stewart Published: University of California Press,  1990 Subjects: Classics | Classical History | Military History | Ancient History Publisher's Description: Given the intense competition among aristocrats seeking public office in the middle and late Roman Republic, one would expect that their persistent struggles for honor, glory, and power could have seriously undermined the state or damaged the cohesiveness of the ruling class. Rome in fact depended o . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Add to Bookbag	Title: The mask of Socrates: the image of the intellectual in antiquity  Author: Zanker, Paul Published: University of California Press,  1996 Subjects: Classics | Art History | Art and Architecture | Ancient History Publisher's Description: This richly illustrated work provides a new and deeper perspective on the interaction of visual representation and classical culture from the fifth century B.C. to the fourth century A.D. Drawing on a variety of source materials such as Graeco-Roman literature, historiography, and philosophy, in add . . . [more] Similar Items

21.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Money, expense, and naval power in Thucydides' History 1-5.24  Author: Kallet-Marx, Lisa Published: University of California Press,  1993 Subjects: Classics | Economics and Business | Ancient History Publisher's Description: Thucydides has been found guilty of indifference toward financial matters without a consideration of all the evidence. Now Lisa Kallet-Marx examines Thucydides' treatment of financial resources by studying his comments on finance in the context of the whole work and scrutinizes other, chiefly epigra . . . [more] Similar Items
22.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Myth, meaning, and memory on Roman sarcophagi  Author: Koortbojian, Michael Published: University of California Press,  1995 Subjects: Classics | Art | Art History | Art and Architecture Publisher's Description: Michael Koortbojian brings a novel approach to his study of the role of Greek mythology in Roman funerary art. He looks at two myths - Aphrodite and Adonis and Selene and Endymion - not only with respect to their appearance on Roman sarcophagi, but also with regard to the myths' significance in the . . . [more] Similar Items
23.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Nemea: a guide to the site and museum  Author: Miller, Stephen G. (Stephen Gaylord) 1942- Published: University of California Press,  1989 Subjects: Classics | History | Archaeology | Ancient History Publisher's Description: In classical antiquity, beginning in 573 B.C., Nemea hosted international athletic competitions like those at Olympia, Delphi, and Isthmia; the games at the four sites constituted the Panhellenic cycle, and the victors were the most famous athletes of antiquity. Nemea was never a city-state but serv . . . [more] Similar Items
24.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Nuptial arithmetic: Marsilio Ficino's commentary on the fatal number in Book VIII of Plato's Republic  Author: Allen, Michael J. B Published: University of California Press,  1994 Subjects: Classics | Philosophy | Medieval Studies | Renaissance History Publisher's Description: The latest of Michael Allen's distinguished studies of the Renaissance Neoplatonist, Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), presents a difficult, fascinating text. Late in his career, Ficino wrote a commentary on the intractable passage in Book VIII of Plato's Republic that concerns the mysterious geometric o . . . [more] Similar Items
25.	Add to Bookbag	Title: The poet's truth: a study of the poet in Virgil's Georgics  Author: Perkell, Christine Published: University of California Press,  1989 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language Publisher's Description: The controversy over Virgil's optimism or pessimism, which has long absorbed readers of his poetry, might fruitfully yield to a perspective which allows contradictions to stand unresolved, to constitute, in fact, the essence of his poems' meaning. So interpreted, the pervasive contradictions of the . . . [more] Similar Items
26.	Add to Bookbag	Title: The politics of desire: Propertius IV  Author: Janan, Micaela Wakil Published: University of California Press,  2000 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Poetry Publisher's Description: Propertius (ca. 54 b.c.--ca. 2 b.c.) was a Roman poet who composed four compelling books of elegies in the chaotic years surrounding Rome's transition from republic to empire. The first three of these books revolve mostly around a tormented love affair with a woman called Cynthia. The fourth book of . . . [more] Similar Items
27.	Add to Bookbag	Title: The power of Thetis: allusion and interpretation in the Iliad  Author: Slatkin, Laura M Published: University of California Press,  1992 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Classics Publisher's Description: In The Power of Thetis, Laura M. Slatkin reveals the full importance of mythic allusion in Homeric composition and in the experience of Homer's audience. Similar Items
28.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Public disputation, power, and social order in late antiquity  Author: Lim, Richard 1963- Published: University of California Press,  1995 Subjects: Classics | Classical Religions | Religion | Christianity Publisher's Description: Richard Lim explores the importance of verbal disputation in Late Antiquity, offering a rich socio-historical and cultural examination of the philosophical and theological controversies. He shows how public disputation changed with the advent of Christianity from a means of discovering truth and sel . . . [more] Similar Items
29.	Add to Bookbag	Title: The Question of "eclecticism": studies in later Greek philosophy  Author: Dillon, John M Published: University of California Press,  1988 Subjects: Classics | Classical Philosophy | Social and Political Thought Publisher's Description: This collection of essays is addressed to the growing number of philosophers, classicists, and intellectual historians who are interested in the development of Greek thought after Aristotle. In nine original studies, the authors explore the meaning and history of "eclecticism" in the context of anci . . . [more] Similar Items
30.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Reading Sappho: contemporary approaches  Author: Greene, Ellen 1950- Published: University of California Press,  1998 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Literary Theory and Criticism | Poetry Publisher's Description: Reading Sappho considers Sappho's poetry as a powerful, influential voice in the Western cultural tradition. Essays are divided into four sections: "Language and Literary Context," "Homer and Oral Tradition", "Ritual and Social Context", and "Women's Erotics". Contributors focus on literary history, . . . [more] Similar Items
31.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Regionalism and change in the economy of independent Delos, 314-167 B.C  Author: Reger, Gary Published: University of California Press,  1994 Subjects: Classics | History | Archaeology | Economics and Business | Ancient History Publisher's Description: Gary Reger's highly original book applies modern statistical analysis to the detailed inscriptions at the Temple of Apollo on Delos. These inscriptions, discovered during excavations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, provide a wealth of information about the business and economic . . . [more] Similar Items
32.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Religion in Hellenistic Athens  Author: Mikalson, Jon D 1943- Published: University of California Press,  1998 Subjects: Classics | Classical Religions | Religion | Ancient History Publisher's Description: Until now, there has been no comprehensive study of religion in Athens from the end of the classical period to the time of Rome's domination of the city. Jon D. Mikalson provides a chronological approach to religion in Hellenistic Athens, disproving the widely held belief that Hellenistic religion d . . . [more] Similar Items
33.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Representations: images of the world in Ciceronian oratory  Author: Vasaly, Ann Published: University of California Press,  1993 Subjects: Classics | Literature | Politics | History | Literary Theory and Criticism | Classical Literature and Language Publisher's Description: Ann Vasaly introduces representation theory into the study of Ciceronian persuasion and contends that an understanding of milieu - social, political, topographical - is crucial to understanding Ciceronian oratory. As a genre uniquely dependent on an immediate interaction between author and audience, . . . [more] Similar Items
34.	Add to Bookbag	Title: The revolutions of wisdom: studies in the claims and practice of ancient Greek science  Author: Lloyd, G. E. R. (Geoffrey Ernest Richard) 1933- Published: University of California Press,  1989 Subjects: Classics | Classical History Publisher's Description: G.E.R. Lloyd's wide-ranging and historical study of the development of Greek science is a valuable contribution to current debates in the philosophy of language, on the analysis of scientific revolutions, and the rationality of science. Similar Items
35.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Senecan drama and stoic cosmology  Author: Rosenmeyer, Thomas G Published: University of California Press,  1989 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Classical Philosophy | Theatre Publisher's Description: Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Nero's tutor and advisor, wrote philosophical essays, some of them in the form of letters, and dramas on Greek mythological topics, which since the early Renaissance have exercised a powerful influence on the European theater. Because in his essays Seneca, in his own eclectic . . . [more] Similar Items
36.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Spectacle and society in Livy's history  Author: Feldherr, Andrew 1963- Published: University of California Press,  1998 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Classical History | Comparative Literature | Literature Publisher's Description: Public spectacle - from the morning rituals of the Roman noble to triumphs and the shows of the Arena - formed a crucial component of the language of power in ancient Rome. The historian Livy (c. 60 B.C.E.-17 C.E.), who provides our fullest description of Rome's early history, presents his account o . . . [more] Similar Items
37.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Symeon the holy fool: Leontius's Life and the late antique city  Author: Krueger, Derek Published: University of California Press,  1996 Subjects: Religion | Literature | Christianity | Classics | Classical Religions Publisher's Description: This first English translation of Leontius of Neapolis's Life of Symeon the Fool brings to life one of the most colorful of early Christian saints. In this study of a major hagiographer at work, Krueger fleshes out a broad picture of the religious, intellectual, and social environment in which the L . . . [more] Similar Items
38.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Theocritus's urban mimes: mobility, gender, and patronage  Author: Burton, Joan B 1951- Published: University of California Press,  1995 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: Drawing on current literary, cultural, and historical approaches, Joan Burton presents sophisticated new readings of Theocritus's urban mimes, which are among the most frequently cited evidence of Hellenistic cultural life, religion, magic, and aesthetics. Unlike Theocritus's bucolic poems, which fo . . . [more] Similar Items
39.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Thucydides and the ancient simplicity: the limits of political realism  Author: Crane, Gregory 1957- Published: University of California Press,  1998 Subjects: Classics | Politics | Political Theory | History | Intellectual History Publisher's Description: Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War is the earliest surviving realist text in the European tradition. As an account of the Peloponnesian War, it is famous both as an analysis of power politics and as a classic of political realism. From the opening speeches, Thucydides' Athenians emerge as . . . [more] Similar Items
40.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Traditional oral epic: the Odyssey, Beowulf, and the Serbo-Croatian return song  Author: Foley, John Miles Published: University of California Press,  1991 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | European Literature | Folklore and Mythology | Religion | Language and Linguistics | Classics | Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: John Miles Foley offers an innovative and straightforward approach to the structural analysis of oral and oral-derived traditional texts. Professor Foley argues that to give the vast and complex body of oral "literature" its due, we must first come to terms with the endemic heterogeneity of traditio . . . [more] Similar Items

41.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Tragedy and enlightenment: Athenian political thought, and the dilemmas of modernity  Author: Rocco, Christopher 1958- Published: University of California Press,  1997 Subjects: Classics | Classical Philosophy | Classical History | Classical Literature and Language | Social and Political Thought | Social Theory Publisher's Description: Weaving together ancient Greek texts and postmodernist theory, Christopher Rocco addresses the debate between modernity and postmodernity that dominates contemporary theory. Interpreting Greek drama within a critical framework informed by contemporary theorists Foucault, Habermas, Horkheimer and Ado . . . [more] Similar Items
42.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Virgil's epic technique  Author: Heinze, Richard 1867-1929 Published: University of California Press,  1994 Subjects: Classics | Literature in Translation Publisher's Description: Heinze's study, originally published in German in 1903, remains a classic of Virgil scholarship. This translation makes the book available in English for the first time. Similar Items