Forthcoming publications
This page gives an overview of forthcoming publications by members of the Department of Classics:
Sophocles: Selected Fragmentary Plays II
Edited with introduction, translation and commentary by Alan H. Sommerstein and Thomas H. Talboy
Oxford: Aris & Phillips
Following on from the six-play volume published in 2006, this edition presents seven more of Sophocles’ 90 or so fragmentary tragedies – The Epigoni or Eriphyle, in which a city is destroyed and a mother murdered; Oenomaus, a tale of love, sabotage and patricide; three plays – Palamedes, The Arrival of Nauplius, and Nauplius and the Beacon – about how the cleverest man in the Greek army at Troy was framed on a bogus charge of treason, and the terrible revenge taken by his father; The Shepherds, set on the first day of fighting in the Trojan War; and Triptolemus, the play with which Sophocles won his first victory, telling how the goddess Demeter taught the world to cultivate grain and gave to Athens the great mystery-cult of Eleusis.
Pollution and Propriety: Dirt, Disease and Hygiene in Rome from Antiquity to Modernity
Mark Bradley (ed.)
Cambridge University Press
This volume examines the significance of pollution and cleanliness in the art, literature, philosophy, and material culture of the city of Rome from antiquity through to the twentieth century. Dirt, disease and pollution and the ways they are represented and policed have long been recognised by historians and anthropologists to occupy a central position in the formulation of cultural identity, and Rome holds a special status in the West as a city intimately associated with issues of purity, decay, ruin and renewal. In recent years, scholarship in a variety of disciplines has begun to scrutinise the less palatable features of the archaeology, history and society of Rome, but there remains no comprehensive study of the history of pollution within the city. Pollution and Propriety brings together scholars from a range of disciplines in order to examine the historical continuity of dirt, disease and hygiene in one environment, and to explore the development and transformation of these ideas alongside major chapters in the city’s history.