Hammer - A Companion to Greek Democracy and the Roman Republic

This series provides sophisticated and authoritative overviews of periods of ancient history, genres of classical literature, and the most important themes in ancient culture. Each volume comprises approximately twenty-five and forty concise essays written by individual scholars within their area of specialization. The essays are written in a clear, provocative, and lively manner, designed for an international audience of scholars, students, and general readers.

Ancient History

1. A Companion to the Roman Army
2. Edited by Paul Erdkamp

1. A Companion to the Roman Republic
2. Edited by Nathan Rosenstein and Robert Morstein-Marx

1. A Companion to the Roman Empire
2. Edited by David S. Potter

1. A Companion to the Classical Greek World
2. Edited by Konrad H. Kinzl

1. A Companion to the Ancient Near East
2. Edited by Daniel C. Snell

1. A Companion to the Hellenistic World
2. Edited by Andrew Erskine

1. A Companion to Late Antiquity
2. Edited by Philip Rousseau

1. A Companion to Ancient History
2. Edited by Andrew Erskine

1. A Companion to Archaic Greece
2. Edited by Kurt A. Raaflaub and Hans van Wees

1. A Companion to Julius Caesar
2. Edited by Miriam Griffin

1. A Companion to Byzantium
2. Edited by Liz James

1. A Companion to Ancient Egypt
2. Edited by Alan B. Lloyd

1. A Companion to Ancient Macedonia
2. Edited by Joseph Roisman and Ian Worthington

1. A Companion to the Punic Wars
2. Edited by Dexter Hoyos

1. A Companion to Augustine
2. Edited by Mark Vessey

1. A Companion to Marcus Aurelius
2. Edited by Marcel van Ackeren

1. A Companion to Ancient Greek Government
2. Edited by Hans Beck

1. A Companion to the Neronian Age
2. Edited by Emma Buckley and Martin T. Dinter

1. A Companion to Greek Democracy and the Roman Republic
2. Edited by Dean Hammer

1. A Companion to Livy
2. Edited by Bernard Mineo

Literature and Culture

1. A Companion to Classical Receptions
2. Edited by Lorna Hardwick and Christopher Stray

1. A Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography
2. Edited by John Marincola

1. A Companion to Catullus
2. Edited by Marilyn B. Skinner

1. A Companion to Roman Religion
2. Edited by Jrg Rpke

1. A Companion to Greek Religion
2. Edited by Daniel Ogden

1. A Companion to the Classical Tradition
2. Edited by Craig W. Kallendorf

1. A Companion to Roman Rhetoric
2. Edited by William Dominik and Jon Hall

1. A Companion to Greek Rhetoric
2. Edited by Ian Worthington

1. A Companion to Ancient Epic
2. Edited by John Miles Foley

1. A Companion to Greek Tragedy
2. Edited by Justina Gregory

1. A Companion to Latin Literature
2. Edited by Stephen Harrison

1. A Companion to Greek and Roman Political Thought
2. Edited by Ryan K. Balot

1. A Companion to Ovid
2. Edited by Peter E. Knox

1. A Companion to the Ancient Greek Language
2. Edited by Egbert Bakker

1. A Companion to Hellenistic Literature
2. Edited by Martine Cuypers and James J. Clauss

1. A Companion to Vergil's Aeneid and its Tradition
2. Edited by Joseph Farrell and Michael C. J. Putnam

1. A Companion to Horace
2. Edited by Gregson Davis

1. A Companion to Families in the Greek and Roman Worlds
2. Edited by Beryl Rawson

1. A Companion to Greek Mythology
2. Edited by Ken Dowden and Niall Livingstone

1. A Companion to the Latin Language
2. Edited by James Clackson

1. A Companion to Tacitus
2. Edited by Victoria Emma Pagn

1. A Companion to Women in the Ancient World
2. Edited by Sharon L. James and Sheila Dillon

1. A Companion to Sophocles
2. Edited by Kirk Ormand

1. A Companion to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East
2. Edited by Daniel Potts

1. A Companion to Roman Love Elegy
2. Edited by Barbara K. Gold

1. A Companion to Greek Art
2. Edited by Tyler Jo Smith and Dimitris Plantzos

1. A Companion to Persius and Juvenal
2. Edited by Susanna Braund and Josiah Osgood

1. A Companion to the Archaeology of the Roman Republic
2. Edited by Jane DeRose Evans

1. A Companion to Terence
2. Edited by Antony Augoustakis and Ariana Traill

1. A Companion to Roman Architecture
2. Edited by Roger B. Ulrich and Caroline K. Quenemoen

1. A Companion to Sport and Spectacle in Greek and Roman Antiquity
2. Edited by Paul Christesen and Donald G. Kyle

1. A Companion to Plutarch
2. Edited by Mark Beck

1. A Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities
2. Edited by Thomas K. Hubbard

1. A Companion to the Ancient Novel
2. Edited by Edmund P. Cueva and Shannon N. Byrne

1. A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean
2. Edited by Jeremy McInerney

1. A Companion to Ancient Egyptian Art
2. Edited by Melinda Hartwig

1. A Companion to the Archaeology of Religion in the Ancient World
2. Edited by Rubina Raja and Jrg Rpke

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