This book explains why Roman portrait statues, famed for their individuality, repeatedly employed the same body forms.

A study of the Trojan War as retold in carved images and texts at the dawn of the Roman Empire.

This book argues that Aelian's highly influential compilation, De natura animalium, offers a sophisticated literary critique of Severan Rome.

Vitruvius' De architectura is the only extant classical text on architecture, and its impact on Renaissance masters including Leonardo da Vinci is well-known. But what was the text's purpose in its own time (ca. 20s BCE)? In this book, Marden Fitzpatrick Nichols reveals how Vitruvius pitched the Greek discipline of architecture to his Roman readers, most of whom were undoubtedly laymen. The inaccuracy of Vitruvius' architectural rules, when compared with surviving ancient buildings, has knocked Vitruvius off his pedestal. Nichols argues that the author never intended to provide an accurate...

A new interpretation of Nemrud Dag, a key Hellenistic monument which encompasses both Greek and Persian elements.

A comprehensive study of how and why athletic contests, a characteristic feature of ancient Greek culture, disappeared in late antiquity.

This book proposes a new means of identifying how Greek and Syrian identities were expressed in the Hellenistic and Roman Near East.

Interprets the works of Dionysius of Halicarnassus, an important critic and historian in Rome, in a range of contexts.

A captivating new interpretation of Lucian as a fictional theorist and writer to stand alongside the novelists of the day.

Demonstrates how ancient Roman mural paintings stood at the intersection of contemporary social, ethical, and aesthetic concerns.