UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004, includes almost 2,000 books from academic presses on a range of topics, including art, science, history, music, religion, and fiction.

Access to the entire collection of electronic books is open to all University of California faculty, staff, and students, while more than 700 of the titles are available to the public. Print versions of many of the electronic books can be purchased directly from the publishers.

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1.	Add to Bookbag	Title: An archaeology of Greece: the present state and future scope of a discipline  Author: Snodgrass, Anthony M Published: University of California Press,  1987 Subjects: Classics | Archaeology | European History Publisher's Description: Classical archaeology probably enjoys a wider appeal than any other branch of classical or archaeological studies. As an intellectual and academic discipline, however, its esteem has not matched its popularity. Here, Anthony Snodgrass argues that classical archaeology has a rare potential in the who . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Asceticism and society in crisis: John of Ephesus and the Lives of the Eastern saints  Author: Harvey, Susan Ashbrook Published: University of California Press,  1990 Subjects: Classics | Classical Religions | Classical History Publisher's Description: John of Ephesus traveled throughout the sixth-century Byzantine world in his role as monk, missionary, writer and church leader. In his major work, The Lives of the Eastern Saints , he recorded 58 portraits of monks and nuns he had known, using the literary conventions of hagiography in a strikingly . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Athenian democracy in transition: Attic letter-cutters of 340 to 290 B.C  Author: Tracy, Stephen V 1941- Published: University of California Press,  1995 Subjects: Classics | Ancient History | Archaeology Publisher's Description: Furthering his masterful new approach to classifying and interpreting epigraphical data presented in Attic Letter-Cutters of 229 to 86 B.C. , Stephen V. Tracy has produced a masterful study of the inscriptions from the time of King Philip of Macedon, Alexander the Great, Demosthenes, and Demetrios. . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Athens from Cleisthenes to Pericles  Author: Fornara, Charles W Published: University of California Press,  1991 Subjects: Classics | Classical History | Classical Politics Publisher's Description: By the mid fifth century B.C., Athens had become the most powerful city-state in Greece: a rich democracy led by Pericles that boldly gained control of an empire. Athens's strength under Pericles was the result of a complex interaction of events from the time of Cleisthenes. Fornara and Samons unrav . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Barbarians and politics at the Court of Arcadius  Author: Cameron, Alan Published: University of California Press,  1993 Subjects: Classics | Religion | Ancient History Publisher's Description: The chaotic events of A.D. 395-400 marked a momentous turning point for the Roman Empire and its relationship to the barbarian peoples under and beyond its command. In this masterly study, Alan Cameron proposes a complete rewriting of received wisdom concerning the social and political history of th . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Add to Bookbag	Title: The best of the Argonauts: the redefinition of the epic hero in book one of Apollonius's Argonautica  Author: Clauss, James Joseph Published: University of California Press,  1993 Subjects: Classics | Literature | Classical Literature and Language | Literary Theory and Criticism Publisher's Description: This revelatory exploration of Book One of the Argonautica rescues Jason from his status as the ineffectual hero of Apollonius' epic poem. James J. Clauss argues that by posing the question, 'Who is the best of the Argonauts?' Apollonius redefines the epic hero and creates, in Jason, a man more real . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Catullan provocations: lyric poetry and the drama of position  Author: Fitzgerald, William 1952- Published: University of California Press,  1996 Subjects: Classics | Comparative Literature | Classical Literature and Language | Poetry Publisher's Description: Restoring to Catullus a provocative power that familiarity has tended to dim, this book argues that Catullus challenges us to think about the nature of lyric in new ways. Fitzgerald shows how Catullus's poetry reflects the conditions of its own consumption as it explores the terms and possibilities . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Add to Bookbag	Title: The defense of Attica: the Dema wall and the Boiotian War of 378-375 B.C  Author: Munn, Mark Henderson Published: University of California Press,  1993 Subjects: Classics | Art and Architecture | Ancient History Publisher's Description: The enigmatic three-mile-long Dema wall in the countryside outside ancient Athens has perplexed archaeologists and historians for decades. When was it built and what role did it play in Greek military history? In a tour de force of archaeological and historical argument, Mark H. Munn establishes the . . . [more] Similar Items
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