Classics, Medieval & Renaissance 2012 - University of Toronto ...

CLASSICS
Apuleius and Antonine Rome
Historical Essays
NEW
Keith Bradley
Apuleius and Antonine Rome features outstanding
scholarship by Keith Bradley on the Latin author
Apuleius of Madauros and on the second-century
Roman world in which Apuleius lived. Bradley discusses
Apuleius’ work in the context of social relations
(especially the family and household), religiosity in
all its diversity and complexity, and cultural
interactions between the imperial centre and the
provincial periphery.
These essays examine the Apology, the speech
Apuleius made when he defended himself on the
criminal charge of having enticed a wealthy widow
to marry him through magical means; the fragments
of his speeches known as the Florida; and the remarkable
serio-comic novel Metamorphoses (better
known as The Golden Ass). Altogether, Apuleius
and Antonine Rome effectively illustrates how sociocultural
history can be recovered from works of
literature.
Keith Bradley is the Eli J. and Helen Shaheen
Professor of Classics and Concurrent Professor of
History at the University of Notre Dame.
(Phoenix Supplementary Volumes L)
Approx. 408 pp / 10 illustrations / 6 x 9 / April 2012
Cloth 978-1-4426-4420-5 $75.00 (£50.99)
Bringing in the Sheaves
Economy and Metaphor in the Roman World
Brent D. Shaw
The annual harvesting of cereal crops was one of
the most important economic tasks in the Roman
Empire. Not only was it urgent and critical for the
survival of state and society, it mobilized huge numbers
of men and women every year from across the
whole face of the Mediterranean. In Bringing in the
Sheaves, Brent D. Shaw investigates the ways in
which human labour interacted with the instruments
of harvesting, what part the workers and their tools
had in the whole economy, and how the work itself
was organized.
Both collective and individual aspects of the story
are investigated, centred on the life-story of a single
reaper whose work in the wheat fields of North Africa
is documented in his funerary epitaph. The narrative
then proceeds to an analysis of the ways in which
this cyclical human behaviour formed and influenced
modes of thinking about matters beyond the harvest.
The work features an edition of the reaper inscription,
and a commentary on it. It is also lavishly illustrated
to demonstrate the important iconic and pictorial
dimensions of the story.
Brent D. Shaw is Andrew Fleming West Professor
of Classics at Princeton University.
(Robson Classical Lectures Series)
Approx. 480 pp / 93 illustrations / 6 x 9 / October 2012
Cloth 978-1-4426-4479-3 $90.00 (£62.99)
BRENT D. SHAW
BRINGING IN
THE SHEAVES
Economy and
Metaphor in the
Roman World
NEW
Perceptions of the Second Sophistic and Its Times –
Regards sur la Seconde Sophistique et son époque
Edited by Thomas Schmidt and Pascale Fleury
The Second Sophistic (50 to 250 BCE) was an
intellectual movement throughout the ancient Greek
and Roman world. Although it can be characterized
as a literary and cultural phenomenon of which
rhetoric is an essential component, other themes and
values such as peideia, mimesis, the glorification of
the past, the importance of Athens, and Greek
identity pervade the literature and art of this era.
These essays explore the Second Sophistic and
describe how the intellectual elites of this period
perceived and defined themselves, how they were
judged by later authors, and how we understand
them today.
Thomas Schmidt is professeur ordinaire de philologie
classique, Institut des Sciences de l’Antiquité et
du Monde byzantin, Université de Fribourg (Suisse).
Pascale Fleury is professeure agrégée, Département
des littératures, Université Laval.
‘With each article shedding new light on different
aspects of the movement, this collection is a major
contribution to research and scholarship.’
Alain Billault, Professor, University of Paris–Sorbonne
(Phoenix Supplementary Volumes XLIX)
304 pp / 2 tables / 6 x 9 / 2011
Cloth 978-1-4426-4216-4 $75.00 (£52.99)
utppublishing.com 37