Who needs advice? - Edinburgh University Press Blog Margaret Mullet investigates advice literature from Byzantine texts to modern self-help culture.

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Margaret Mullett investigates advice literature from Byzantine texts to modern self-help culture.

Excited to be heading to Manchester for the CA conference this weekend! Drop me an email (in bio) or message if you want to arrange a chat 👋 #CA2026

Greatest honour of my career so far. As founding editor I'm proud to announce @edinburghup.bsky.social Studies in Late Roman History. The world's first book series exclusively dedicated to the core domain of Late Antiquity. Like to discuss proposals or manuscripts? Reach out!

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See you in July! With @rachelbridgewater.bsky.social too 👋

Magic, Charisma and Violence in Late Antiquity Magic, Charisma and Violence in Late Antiquity

🪄Magic, Charisma and Violence in Late Antiquity collects 21 essays by David Frankfurter, exploring new ways to look at magical objects in terms of material agency and charisma. All the info: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-magic-c...

Barbarians as the Religious Other in the Late Roman World Barbarians as the Religious Other in the Late Roman World

🪓Barbarians as the Religious Other in the Late Roman World by Maijastina Kahlos explores how the construction of the barbarian and barbarian religion showed what it meant to be Roman in late antiquity. Find out more: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-barbari...

Two hardback books with similar cover styles. On the left is Barbarians as the Religious Other in the Late Roman World by Maijastina Kahlos, and on the right is Magic, Charisma and Violence in Late Antiquity by David Frankfurter.

February zipped by so I've only just got my paws on the office copies of these two new beauties from our series Edinburgh Studies in Religion in Antiquity 📚

Barbarians as the Religious Other in the Late Roman World: Q&A with the author - Edinburgh University Press Blog A Q&A with Maijastina Kahlos on barbarians, religion, and shifting Roman identity in Late Antiquity.

📚 On the blog!

Q&A with the author of Barbarians as the Religious Other in the Late Roman World.

They discuss how Roman identity was redefined during two major transformations!

🤓 Delve in to find out more:

Who were Roman freedwomen? Reconstructing their lives through inscriptions - Edinburgh University Press Blog Explore the lives of Roman freedwomen through inscriptions, family networks and daily experiences, revealing the overlooked stories of women once enslaved in ancient Rome.

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📜 Tatjana Sandon explores the lives of Roman freedwomen through inscriptions, family networks and daily experiences, revealing the overlooked stories of women once enslaved in #AncientRome.

Have a read:

"This book should be consulted by anyone who desires to know what slavery at Athens was in the period of history we can best document, how it functioned, and how it shaped the economy"

If that's you, read the Open Access book free in the link below!

Full review👉 bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.01...

Lovely review of Myth and History in Ancient Persia from BMCR 👉 bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.01...

🎄officially offline for the rest of 2025🎄 huge thanks as always to my lovely colleagues, series editors, authors and reviewers and everyone else who've made this a great year. See you in 2026 🥳

This is great advice! 👇

A table with Edinburgh University Press branding, with many different books displayed on it.

All set up at the 2025 Leventis Conference! 👋Stop by for book chat and some great discounts on @edinburghup.bsky.social books. Lovely to be at a conference hosted by our pals at @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social 😊

Looking forward to this! I'll be there with some lovely @edinburghup.bsky.social books to show off on Friday and Saturday, do come say hi during the breaks 😁

👀 psst! 

Our #StAndrewsDaySale is coming soon!

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Honour in Aristotle's Ethics Honour in Aristotle's Ethics

Our upcoming Honour in Aristotle’s Ethics is a re-evaluation of Aristotelian honour, linking ancient ethics, psychology and political theory - and it's free to read in Open Access!

#OpenAccessWeek 📚

Find out more: 

Rediscovering Greek Institutions Rediscovering Greek Institutions

Join us in celebrating #OpenAccessWeek with new titles in Classical Studies 🏛️

Coming soon we’ve got Rediscovering Greek Institutions, a timely, interdisciplinary look at ancient Greek politics that engages with political science.

Keep an eye out for its release next month: 

+ 2 new Open Access books coming very soon (watch this space 👀). I would love to grow our Open Access publishing, so please drop me an email (in bio) or a message if you're looking at options for your next book. 👋

A messy desk with 7 books on it. The top row is Diverse Slaveries: Slaving Strategies and Experiences of Slavery in Classical Athens by Jason Douglas Porter, Theocritus and Things: Material Agency in the Idylls by Lilah Grace Canevaro and Greek Captives and Mediterranean Slavery, 1260–1460 by Alasdair C. Grant, and the bottom row is Junian Latinity in the Roman Empire Volume 1: History, Law, Literature edited by Pedro López Barja, Carla Masi Doria & Ulrike Roth, Slavery and Honour in the Ancient Greek World edited by David Lewis, Mirko Canevaro & Douglas Cairns, The Lost History of Sextus Aurelius Victor by Justin Stover & George Woudhuysen, and Identities and Ideologies in the Medieval East Roman World edited by Yannis Stouraitis.

Quick shout out to some fantastic recent @edinburghup.bsky.social Ancient History & Classical Studies books that are free to read for life, not just for #OpenAccessWeek 🤓

All of these and more are free to read here: edinburghuniversitypress.com/browse/books...

Bonus detail about this cover: the first draft had Darius cropped slightly differently with the horse in front of him taking up waaaay too much space with a very prominent bum 🤭

Kingship and Empire under the Achaemenids, Alexander the Great and the Early Seleucids Kingship and Empire under the Achaemenids, Alexander the Great and the Early Seleucids

More info (tell your friendly local librarian): edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-kingshi...

Cover of a hardback book: Kingship and Empire under the Achaemenids, Alexander the Great and the Seleucids by Stephen Harrison. The cover shows the title and an ancient mosaic of a chariot scene, and the book is on a desk.

New book from Edinburgh Studies in Ancient Persia! What impact did Achaemenid models of kingship have on Alexander the Great and his successors? Stephen Harrison explores different ideologies of empire in the ancient Near-East. Out now from @edinburghup.bsky.social

👋Hello hello, we have a very exciting new series looking for book proposals! Full details in the link below.

Journal of Roman Studies review:

"[This] is an admirably accessible volume... Many of these chapters will be top recommendations on my undergraduate and postgraduate reading lists. Overall, the volume is an impressive piece of work that makes a valuable and fresh contribution to the field."

Publishing trainee - Edinburgh | Opportunities @ Creative Access Closing date for applications: Sunday 24th August at 11.59pm Salary: National Living Wage Duration: 6 months Working hours: Mon-Fri, 35 hours (flexible sta

We are delighted to be working with @creativeaccess.bsky.social to recruit for our publishing trainee. If you want to join our team, we’d love to hear from you!

For more information, check out the following:
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Workshop: How to Edit Your Own Book Turn your current work-in-progress into a manuscript that scholarly publishers will actually want. Join Laura Portwood-Stacer to learn a time-tested method for developing publishable scholarly books, ...

If you are like the many academic book writers I know who were never taught a systematic way to revise a manuscript (and can therefore feel the writing process dragging on longer than you want it to), my next free workshop on August 6th is for you

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Myth and History in Ancient Persia Myth and History in Ancient Persia

🦁more info (including all the details you could share with your library), here: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-myth-an...

Photo of a hardback book, Myth and History in Ancient Persia by Reza Shaghaghi Zarghamee. The cover shows a carved figure holding a lion.

But wait, there's more! New on the @edinburghup.bsky.social bookshelf: Myth and History in Ancient Persia by Reza Shaghaghi Zarghamee, "another radiant entry in Edinburgh Studies in Ancient Persia"

🔗Check out the free ebook on the @edinburghup.bsky.social website: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-slavery...