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Augustan Egypt
The Creation of a Roman Province
Series: Studies in Classics
With updated documents including papyri, inscriptions and ostraka, this book casts fresh and original light on the administration and economy issues faced with the transition of Egypt from an allied kingdom of Rome to a province of the Roman Empire...
To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge
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The Byzantine Achievement (Routledge Revivals)
An Historical Perspective, A.D. 330-1453
First published in 1929, this highly influential study offers a historical perspective on the Byzantine Empire, from the establishment of Constantinople by Emperor Constantine around 330 AD, through to the fall of Constantinople at the hands of the Ottoman Empire in 1453 AD. Byron’s work...
Published April 4th 2013 by Routledge
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Penal Practice and Penal Policy in Ancient Rome
Using Roman literary and legal sources, this book assesses Roman penal policy through an in-depth examination of six high-profile criminal cases, ranging from the Bacchanalian trials in 186 BC to the trials for treason and magic in the fourth century. Identifying Roman attitudes to crime and...
Published November 30th 2012 by Routledge
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Consensus, Concordia and the Formation of Roman Imperial Ideology
Series: Studies in Classics
This book concerns the relationship between ideas and power in the genesis of the Roman empire. The self-justification of the first emperor through the consensus of the citizen body constrained him to adhere to ‘legitimate’ and ‘traditional’ forms of self-presentation. Lobur explores how these...
Published October 9th 2012 by Routledge
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Utopia Antiqua
Readings of the Golden Age and Decline at Rome
Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
Utopia Antiqua is a fresh look at narratives of the Golden Age and decline in ancient Roman literature of the late Republic and imperial period. Through the lens of utopian theory, Rhiannon Evans looks at the ways that Roman authors, such as Virgil, Ovid and Tacitus, use and reinvent Greek myths...
Published September 30th 2012 by Routledge
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Greek Magic
Ancient, Medieval and Modern
Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
Magic has always been a widespread phenomenon in Greek Society, starting from Homer’s Circe (the first ‘evil witch’ in western history) and extending to the pervasive belief in the ‘evil eye’ in the twenty-first century Greece. Indeed, magic is probably the most ancient and durable among social and...
Published September 29th 2012 by Routledge
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'Bread and Circuses'
Euergetism and Municipal Patronage in Roman Italy
Cities in the ancient world relied on private generosity to provide many basic amenities, as well as expecting leading citizens to pay for 'bread and circuses' - free food and public entertainment. This collection of essays by leading scholars from the UK and USA explores the important phenomenon...
Published July 30th 2012 by Routledge
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Athens: Its Rise and Fall
With Views of the Literature, Philosophy, and Social Life of the Athenian People
Athens: Its Rise and Fall, originally published in 1837, is the most important and readable of the Victorian histories of ancient Greece. It stands alongside Macauley and Carlyle as a great historical work of British Romanticism, and anticipates the thinking of George Grote and John Stuart Mill on...
Published July 30th 2012 by Routledge
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Constructing Identities in Late Antiquity
The essays in Constructing Identities in Late Antiquity concern themselves with the theme of identity, an increasingly popular topic in Classical studies. Through detailed discussions of particular Roman texts and images, the contributors show not only how these texts were used to create and...
Published June 29th 2012 by Routledge
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Trade, Traders and the Ancient City
Trade, exchange and commerce touched the lives of everyone in antiquity, especially those who lived in urban areas. Trade, Traders and the Ancient City addresses the nature of exchange and commerce and the effects it had in cities throughout the ancient world, from the Bronze Age Near East to late...
Published May 28th 2012 by Routledge
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Greek and Roman Dress from A to Z
Series: The Ancient World from A to Z
Who dressed as a woman in an attempt to commit adultery with Julius Caesar’s wife? How did the ancient Greeks make blusher from seaweed? Just how does one wear a toga? If, as many claim, the importance of clothes lies in their detail, then this a book that no sartorially savvy Classicist...
Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
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Life and Letters in the Ancient Greek World
Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
From the first ‘deadly signs’ scratched on a wooden tablet instructing the recipient to kill the one who delivered it, to the letters of St Paul to the early Church, this book examines the range of letter writing in the Ancient Greek world. Containing extensive translated examples from both life...
Published May 7th 2012 by Routledge
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The Roman City and its Periphery
From Rome to Gaul
The first and only monograph available on the subject, The Roman City and its Periphery offers a full and detailed treatment of the little-investigated aspect of Roman urbanism – the phenomenon of suburban development. Presenting archaeological and literary evidence alongside sixty-three plans of...
Published April 22nd 2012 by Routledge
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Initiation in Ancient Greek Rituals and Narratives
New Critical Perspectives
Scholars of classical history and literature have for more than a century accepted `initiation' as a tool for understanding a variety of obscure rituals and myths, ranging from the ancient Greek wedding and adolescent haircutting rituals to initiatory motifs or structures in Greek myth, comedy and...
Published April 4th 2012 by Routledge
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Traffic and Congestion in the Roman Empire
The first book to ever examine ancient Roman traffic, this well-illustrated volume looks in detail at the construction of Roman road, and studies the myriad of road users of the Roman Empire: civilians, wagons and animals, the cursus publicus, commercial use and the army. Through this examination,...
Published March 21st 2012 by Routledge
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Money, Labour and Land
Approaches to the economics of ancient Greece
The cultural wealth of the classical Greek world was matched by its material wealth, and there is abundant textual and archaeological evidence for both. However, radically different theoretical and methodological approaches have been used to interpret this evidence, and conflicts continue to rage...
Published March 19th 2012 by Routledge
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Constantine
History, Historiography and Legend
Constantine examines the reign of Constantine, the first Christian emperor and the founder of Constantinople. From a variety of angles: historical, historiographical and mythical. The volume examines the circumstances of Constantine's reign and the historical problems surrounding them, the varied...
Published March 19th 2012 by Routledge
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Birds in the Ancient World from A to Z
Series: The Ancient World from A to Z
Birds in the Ancient World from A to Z gathers together the ancient information available, listing all the names that ancient Greeks gave their birds and all their descriptions and analyses. W. Geoffrey Arnott identifies as many of them as possible in the light of modern ornithological studies....
Published March 13th 2012 by Routledge
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Empedocles Redivivus
Poetry and Analogy in Lucretius
Series: Studies in Classics
Despite the general scholarly consensus about Lucretius’ debt to Empedocles as the father of the genre of cosmological didactic epic, there is a major disagreement regarding Lucretius’ applause for his Presocratic predecessor’s praeclara reperta (DRN 1.732). In the present study, Garani suggests...
Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge
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Archaic Eretria
A Political and Social History from the Earliest Times to 490 BC
This book presents for the first time a history of Eretria during the Archaic Era, the city's most notable period of political importance and Keith Walker examines all the major elements of the city's success. One of the key factors explored is Eretria's role as a pioneer coloniser in both the...
Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge
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Scholars, Travellers and Trade
The Pioneer Years of the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, 1818-1840
Today, the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden is internationally known for its outstanding archaeological collections. Yet its origins lie in an insignificant assortment of artefacts used for study by Leiden University. How did this transformation come about?Ruurd Halbertsma has delved into...
Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge
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From Good Goddess to Vestal Virgins
Sex and Category in Roman Religion
Ariadne Staples provides an arresting and original analysis of the role of women in Roman society, which challenges traditionally held views and provokes further questions....
Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge
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Rome in the Pyrenees
Lugdunum and the Convenae from the first century B.C. to the seventh century A.D.
Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
Rome in the Pyrenees is a unique treatment in English of the archaeological and historical evidence for an important Roman town in Gaul, Lugdunum in the French Pyrenees, and for its surrounding people the Convenae. The book opens with the creation of the Convenae by Pompey the Great in the first...
Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge
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Roman Religion in Valerius Maximus
Valerius Maximus was an indefatigable collector of historical anecdotes illustrating vice and virtue. Mueller focuses on what Valerius can tell us about Roman attitudes to religion, and argues that Roman religion could be deeply emotional....
Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge
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The Septuagint and Homeric Scholarship in Alexandria
A Study in the Narrative of the 'Letter of Aristeas'
The Letter of Aristeas tells the story of how Ptolemy Philadelphus of Egypt commissioned seventy scholars to translate the Hebrew Bible into Greek. Long accepted as a straightforward historical account of a cultural enterprise in Ptolemaic Alexandria, the Letter nevertheless poses serious...
Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge
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Greek and Roman Networks in the Mediterranean
How useful is the concept of "network" for historical studies and the ancient world in particular? Using theoretical models of social network analysis, this book illuminates aspects of the economic, social, religious, and political history of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. Bringing together...
Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge
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Plutarch and the Historical Tradition
These essays, by experts in the field from five countries, examine Plutarch's interpretative and artistic reshaping of his historical sources in representative lives. Diverse essays treat literary elements such as the parallelism which renders a pair of lives a unit or the themes which unify the...
Published November 10th 2011 by Routledge
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Between Poverty and the Pyre
Moments in the History of Widowhood
Between Poverty and the Pyre examines the history of the experience of widowhood across different cultures. It brings together a collection of essays by historians, anthropologists and philologists. The book shows how difficult it is to define the 'typical' widow, as the experiences of these women...
Published November 10th 2011 by Routledge
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Voluntary Associations in the Graeco-Roman World
Based upon a series of detailed case studies of associations such as early synagogues and churches, philosophical schools and pagan mystery cults, this collection addresses the question of what can legitimately be termed a 'voluntary association'.Employing modern sociological concepts, the essays...
Published November 3rd 2011 by Routledge
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War and Society in the Greek World
Series: Leicester-Nottingham Studies in Ancient Society
The role of warfare is central to our understanding of the ancient Greek world. In this book and the companion work, War and Society in the Roman World, the wider social context of war is explored. This volume examines its impact on Greek society from Homeric times to the age of Alexander and his...
Published November 3rd 2011 by Routledge
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Image and Idea in Fifth Century Greece
Art and Literature After the Persian Wars
Francis presents his theory that the ancient world was a unity in which issues of the day were reflected in the language of pictorial and sculptural representation and in the works of literature....
Published November 3rd 2011 by Routledge
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From Autothanasia to Suicide
Self-killing in Classical Antiquity
Using almost a thousand case studies, both real and fictional, Dr van Hooff provides us with a unique and engaging insight into self-killing in the Graeco-Roman world.The author analyses the methods and motives which lie behind self-killing relating them to ancient popular morality as it appears...
Published November 3rd 2011 by Routledge
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Thinking Men
Masculinity and its Self-Representation in the Classical Tradition
Series: Leicester-Nottingham Studies in Ancient Society
Thinking Men explores artistic and intellectual expression in the classical world as the self representation of man. It starts from the premise that the history of classical antiquity as the ancients tell it is a history of men. However, the focus of this volume is the creation, re-creation and...
Published November 3rd 2011 by Routledge
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Miletos
A History
Drawing on case studies and presenting archaeological evidence throughout, Alan Greaves presents a welcome survey of the origins and development of Miletos. Focusing on the archaic era and exploring a wide range of issues including physical environment, colonizations, the economy, and its role as a...
Published June 22nd 2011 by Routledge
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Roman London
This book draws extensively on the results of the latest work to present a challenging new account of the rise and fall of one of the principal towns of the Roman empire....
Published April 14th 2011 by Routledge
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Riding for Caesar
The Roman Emperor's Horseguard
Professor Speidel's book represents the first history of the Roman horse guard ever written and provides a readable account of the intricate part these men played in the fate of the Roman empire and its emperors....
Published April 14th 2011 by Routledge
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The Severans
The Roman Empire Transformed
The Severans analyses the colourful decline of the Roman Empire during the reign of the Severans, the first non-Italian dynasty. In his learned and exciting style, Michael Grant describes the foreign wars waged against the Alemanni and the Persians, and the remarkable personalities of the imperial...
Published February 13th 2011 by Routledge
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Euripides, Women and Sexuality
Euripides' interest in the psychology and social position of women is well known. Of the great Greek playwrights, he most directly reflects contemporary philosophical and social debates, and his work is of great value as a source for social history.The important new studies in this volume explore...
Published February 9th 2011 by Routledge
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Rome's Eastern Trade
International Commerce and Imperial Policy 31 BC - AD 305
Utilising new archaeological research, the author questions the traditionally held view that the imperial government had a strong political interest in eastern trade. Instead, he argues that their primary motivation was the tax income....
Published February 9th 2011 by Routledge
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Restless Youth in Ancient Rome
Restless Youth in Ancient Rome presents an inclusive portrayal of the perceptions the Romans had of youth and of the role of this age group in a wide variety of domains - philosphy, literature, education, the law, the army, politics, leisure, amorous pursuits and family life. Emiel Eyben considers...
Published February 6th 2011 by Routledge
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The Romanization of Central Spain
Complexity, Diversity and Change in a Provincial Hinterland
Curchin explores how, why and to what extent the peoples of Central Spain were integrated into the Roman Empire during the period from the second century BC to the second century AD.He approaches the question from a variety of angles, including the social, economic, religious and material...
Published February 6th 2011 by Routledge
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The Roads of Roman Italy
Mobility and Cultural Change
The Roads of Roman Italy offers a complete re-evaluation of both the evidence and the interpretation of Roman land transport. The book utilises archaeological, epigraphic and literary evidence for Roman communications, drawing on recent approaches to the human landscape developed by geographers....
Published February 6th 2011 by Routledge
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Roman Villas
A Study in Social Structure
Roman Villas explores the social structures of the Roman world by analysing the plans of buildings of all sizes from slightly Romanized farms to palaces. The ways in which the rooms are grouped together; how they intercommunicate; and the ways in which individual rooms and the house are approached,...
Published February 6th 2011 by Routledge
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The Development of the Polis in Archaic Greece
The Greek polis has been arousing interest as a subject for study for a long time, but recent approaches have shown that it is a subject on which there are still important questions to be asked and worthwhile things to be said.This book contains a selection of essays which embody the results of the...
Published February 1st 2011 by Routledge
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Ruling Roman Britain
Kings, Queens, Governors and Emperors from Julius Caesar to Agricola
In this book, David Braund offers a significantly different perspective upon the history of Roman Britain. He concentrates upon the literary evidence, which has been studied to a lesser extent than archaeology in recent years. Close attention to the Greek and Roman sources enables the construction...
Published February 1st 2011 by Routledge
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Rome and the Western Greeks, 350 BC - AD 200
Conquest and Acculturation in Southern Italy
The history of the Greek cities of Italy during the period of Roman conquest and under Roman rule form a fascinating case study of the processes of Roman expansion and assimilation and of Greek reactions to the presence of Rome. This book reassesses the role of Magna Graecia in Roman Italy and...
Published February 1st 2011 by Routledge
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Fathers and Sons in Athens
Ideology and Society in the Era of the Peloponnesian War
As history's first democracy, classical Athens invited political discourse. The Athenians, however could not completely separate the politicals from the private sphere; indeed father-son conflict, from patricide to murdering one's son, was a major public as well as a private theme. In a fascinating...
Published January 30th 2011 by Routledge
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Experiencing Old Age in Ancient Rome
Old age today is a contentious topic. It can be seen as a demographic timebomb or as a resource of wisdom and experience to be valued and exploited. There is frequent debate over how we value the elderly, and whether ageing is an affliction to be treated or a natural process to be embraced. Karen...
Published January 30th 2011 by Routledge
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Roman Edessa
Politics and Culture on the Eastern Fringes of the Roman Empire, 114 - 242 C.E.
Roman Edessa offers a comprehensive and erudite analysis of the ancient city of Edessa (modern day Urfa, Turkey), which constituted a remarkable amalgam of the East and the West. Among the areas explored are: the cultural life and antecedents of Edessa Edessene religion the extent of the...
Published January 30th 2011 by Routledge
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When Men Were Men
Masculinity, Power and Identity in Classical Antiquity
Series: Leicester-Nottingham Studies in Ancient Society
When Men Were Men questions the deep-set assumption that men's history speaks and has always spoken for all of us, by exploring the history of classical antiquity as an explicitly masculine story.With a preface by Sarah Pomeroy, this study employs different methodologies and focuses on a broad...
Published January 30th 2011 by Routledge
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The Cavalry of the Roman Republic
In this original and revealing work, Jeremiah B. McCall challenges the generally accepted view of the Roman cavalry and explores the fundamental connections between war and society in republican Rome, c.300-100 BC. McCall describes the citizen cavalry's equipment, tactics, and motivation in battle,...
Published January 30th 2011 by Routledge
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Antigonus II Gonatas
A Political Biography
Antigonus Gonatas assumed the title of King of Macedonia in 283 BC; he became the undisputed ruler of Macedonia in 276 BC and reigned for more than forty years. Blunt, honest and tenacious, Antigonus won not only Macedonia, but also its people. Pragmatic and occasionally ruthless, he was a...
Published January 26th 2011 by Routledge
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Conspiracies in the Egyptian Palace
Unis to Pepy I
This original study examines the claims for sensational intrigues in the 6th century Egyptian palace, culminating in the possible assassination of King Teti by his own bodyguards. New evidence from the author's recent excavations is set against the written claims of the ancient historian Manetho....
Published January 26th 2011 by Routledge
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Strabo of Amasia
A Greek Man of Letters in Augustan Rome
Strabo of Amasia offers an intellectual biography of Strabo, a Greek man of letters, set against the political and cultural background of Augustan Rome. It offers the first full-scale interpretation of the man and his life in English. It emphasises the place and importance of Strabo's Geography and...
Published January 26th 2011 by Routledge
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Hellenistic Economies
The economies of classical and Mediterranean antiquity are currently a battleground. Some scholars see them as lively and progressive, even proto-capitalist: others see them as static, embedded in social action and status relationships.Focusing on the central period of the Mediterranean 330-30 BC,...
Published January 26th 2011 by Routledge
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Travel and Geography in the Roman Empire
The remains of Roman roads are a powerful reminder of the travel and communications system that was needed to rule a vast and diverse empire. Yet few people have questioned just how the Romans - both military and civilians - travelled, or examined their geographical understanding in an era which...
Published January 26th 2011 by Routledge
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State, Society and Popular Leaders in Mid-Republican Rome 241-167 B.C.
State, Society, and Popular Leaders profiles the incorporation of the lower classes into the governing system of ancient Rome. In 287, the Hortensian law made the decisions of the plebs binding on the whole people. This event is often referred to as the great plebeian victory, a landmark in Roman...
Published January 26th 2011 by Routledge
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Economies Beyond Agriculture in the Classical World
Series: Leicester-Nottingham Studies in Ancient Society
This book presents a challenge to the long held view that the predominantly agricultural economies of ancient Greece and Rome were underdeveloped. It shows that the exploitation of natural resources, manufacturing and the building trade all made significant contributions to classical economies. It...
Published January 5th 2011 by Routledge
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Goddess and the Warrior
The Naked Goddess and Mistress of the Animals in Early Greek Religion
A stimulating, provocative and lavishly illustrated analysis of the role of the naked goddess and the mistress of the animals within Greek religion. This book explores the power of naked females in the art of the Levant and Greece....
Published January 5th 2011 by Routledge
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Roman Urbanism
Beyond The Consumer City
The contributors to this volume provide an accessible and jargon-free insight into the notion of the Roman city; what shaped it, and how it both structured and reflected Roman society. Roman Urbanism challenges the established economic model for the Roman city and instead offers original and...
Published January 5th 2011 by Routledge
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Death and Disease in the Ancient City
This innovative volume draws on recent research in archaeology, ancient history and the history of medicine to discuss how people in the ancient world understood and dealt with illness and death in the urban environment....
Published January 5th 2011 by Routledge
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Byzantine Empresses
Women and Power in Byzantium AD 527-1204
Byzantine Empresses provides a series of biographical portraits of the most significant Byzantine women who ruled or shared the throne between 527 and 1204. It presents and analyses the available historical data in order to outline what these empresses did, what the sources thought they did, and...
Published January 5th 2011 by Routledge
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Actors and Audience in the Roman Courtroom
Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
What would you see if you attended a trial in a courtroom in the early Roman empire? What was the behaviour of litigants, advocates, judges and audience? It was customary for Roman individuals out of general interest to attend the various courts held in public places in the city centre and as such...
Published August 17th 2010 by Routledge
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Passions and Moral Progress in Greco-Roman Thought
Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
This book contains a collection of 13 essays from leading scholars on the relationship between passionate emotions and moral advancement in Greek and Roman thought. Recognising that emotions played a key role in whether individuals lived happily, ancient philosophers...
Published August 17th 2010 by Routledge
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The Eunuch in Byzantine History and Society
Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
The existence of eunuchs was one of the defining features of the Byzantine Empire. Covering the whole span of the history of the empire, from the fourth to the fifteenth centuries AD, Shaun Tougher presents a comprehensive survey of the history and roles of eunuchs, making use of...
Published August 17th 2010 by Routledge
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Roman Imperial Identities in the Early Christian Era
Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
Through the close study of texts, Roman Imperial Identities in the Early Christian Era examines the overlapping emphases and themes of two cosmopolitan and multiethnic cultural identities emerging in the early centuries CE – a trans-empire alliance of the Elite and the "Christians." Exploring the...
Published August 17th 2010 by Routledge
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Being a Roman Citizen
The status of citizen was increasingly the right of the majority in the Roman empire and brought important privileges and exemption from certain forms of punishment. However, not all Roman citizens were equal; for example bastards, freed persons, women, the physically and mentally handicapped,...
Published August 12th 2010 by Routledge
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Augustus and the Family at the Birth of the Roman Empire
In this lively and detailed study, Beth Severy examines the relationship between the emergence of the Roman Empire and the status and role of this family in Roman society. The family is placed within the social and historical context of the transition from republic to empire, from Augustus' rise to...
Published June 28th 2010 by Routledge
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Dacia
Landscape, Colonization and Romanization
Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
Providing a detailed consideration of previous theories of native settlement patterns and the impact of Roman colonization, Dacia offers fresh insight into the province Dacia and the nature of Romanization. It analyzes Roman-native interaction from a landscape perspective focusing on the core...
Published May 31st 2010 by Routledge
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Ptolemy of Egypt
Ptolemy was the creator of the longest lasting of the Hellenistic kingdoms. He created a state whose cultural importance was unparalleled until the coming of Rome. He encouraged the erection of the Pharos Lighthouse, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, as well as creating a library which...
Published April 11th 2010 by Routledge
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Pliny on Art and Society
The Elder Pliny's Chapters On The History Of Art
Pliny sketches a theory of advancing moral decline and extravagance, in the course of which he gives a detailed account of six centuries of classical art and a fascinating sketch of the world of the rich Roman collector. Isager's is the first full treatment of this subject for over a hundred years....
Published April 11th 2010 by Routledge
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The Second Sophistic
A Cultural Phenomenon in the Roman Empire
Sophism was the single most important movement in second century literature: prose of that period came to be written as entertainment rather than confined to historical subjects. Graham Anderson shows how the Greek sophists' skills in public speaking enabled them to perform effectively across a...
Published December 16th 2009 by Routledge
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Health in Antiquity
How healthy were people in ancient Greece and Rome, and how did they think about maintaining and restoring their health? For students of classics, history or the history of medicine, answers to these and many previously untouched questions are dealt with by renowned ancient historians, classical...
Published December 10th 2009 by Routledge
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The Roman Remains of Northern and Eastern France
A Guidebook
This book provides a thorough, area by area companion to the region's wealth of monuments, excavations and artefacts, from Paris and Boulogne-sur-Mer to Strasbourg and Lyon. Over ninety sites are treated in detail, including major attractions such as the parc archéologique in Lyon and the...
Published October 5th 2009 by Routledge
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Domitian
Tragic Tyrant
This is the first ever study to assess Emperor Domitian from a psychological point of view and covers his entire career from the early years and the civil war AD through the imperial rule to the dark years and the psychology of suspicion. Pat Southern strips away hyperbole and sensationalism from...
Published October 5th 2009 by Routledge
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The Roman House in Britain
This authoritative and original work sets the results of recent archaeological research in the context of classical scholarship, as it explores three main aspects of Romano-British buildings: * general characteristics of form and structure* the ways in which they were built and decorated* the range...
Published September 2nd 2009 by Routledge
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Sex in the Ancient World from A to Z
Series: The Ancient World from A to Z
In this fascinating and revealing A-to-Z, John G. Younger examines the sexual practices, expressions and attitudes of the Greeks and Romans, from Catullus and Caligula, to orgies and obscenity, and from abstinence and incest, to pederasty and prostitution.The book opens with an overview of current...
Published June 10th 2009 by Routledge
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King Arthur in Antiquity
This original and compelling study argues against the traditional identification of Arthur as a king in Celtic Britain. Instead, Graham Anderson explores the evidence for two much older figures, known to classical writers as kings of Arcadia and Lydia, over a millenium before. He shows how these...
Published May 15th 2009 by Routledge
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Reading Epic
An Introduction to the Ancient Narratives
Readers new to ancient epic are hampered in two ways: they do not know the ancient languages, and they are unfamiliar with the ancient world. This survey addresses the needs of these readers by offering guidance through the major classical writers of epic: it begins with Homer and concludes with an...
Published May 15th 2009 by Routledge
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The Disease of Virgins
Green Sickness, Chlorosis and the Problems of Puberty
From an acclaimed author in the field, this is a compelling study of the origins and history of the disease commonly seen as afflicting young unmarried girls. Understanding of the condition turned puberty and virginity into medical conditions, and Helen King stresses the continuity of this disease...
Published May 15th 2009 by Routledge
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Ancient Greek Cults
A Guide
Using archaeological, epigraphic, and literary sources; and incorporating current scholarly theories, this volume will serve as an excellent companion to any introduction to Greek mythology, showing a side of the Greek gods to which most students are rarely exposed. Detailed enough to be used as a...
Published October 9th 2008 by Routledge
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Athens, Attica and the Megarid
An Archaeological Guide
This exciting new guide is the ideal companion to Greece if you are a traveller with historical and archaeological interests, as it combines practical information with impeccable scholarly research.Written by an expert on Greece's landscape and archaeology, the guide is unique in exploring a wide...
Published September 12th 2008 by Routledge
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Early Urbanism on the Syrian Euphrates
Studying archaeological evidence from sites covering over 200 kilometres of the banks of the Euphrates River, Lisa Cooper's excellent monograph explores the growth and development of human settlement in the Euphrates River Valley of Northern Syria during the Early and Middle Bronze Ages from circa...
Published September 12th 2008 by Routledge
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Mesopotamia Before History
Mesopotamia was one of the earliest regions to produce writing, literature and the fine arts, as well as being one of the first areas to construct states. This comprehensive and detailed survey of the region's prehistory and protohistory shows how these fascinating developments were possible.Petr...
Published September 12th 2008 by Routledge
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Greek Mercenaries
From the Late Archaic Period to Alexander
This book provides a detailed picture of the life of these Greek mercenaries, analyzing who they were and from what section of society they came. It explores their motivations, their relationships and connections, both with each other and those with whom they served, and shows how mercenaries were...
Published September 10th 2008 by Routledge
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Bandits in the Roman Empire
Myth and Reality
This wide-ranging and informative survey of 'outsider' groups in the Roman Empire will contribute greatly to our understanding of Roman social history. Examining men such as as Viriatus, Tacfarinus, Maternus and Bulla Felix, who were called latrones after clashing with the imperial authorities,...
Published September 7th 2008 by Routledge
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Sport in the Ancient World from A to Z
Sport in the Ancient World from A to Z covers an extraordinarily wide range of Greek and Roman sporting activities. Arranged in an easy-to-use dictionary format, this volume includes more than 700 entries discussing ancient athletes, festivals, important sites, equipment and concepts. The approach...
Published September 7th 2008 by Routledge
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Early Greek States Beyond the Polis
Clear and direct in style, and with more than eighty photographs, maps and plans, Early Greek States Beyond the Polis is a widely relevant study of Greek history, archaeology and society. Catherine Morgan addresses the different forms of association experienced by early Iron-Age and Archaic...
Published September 7th 2008 by Routledge
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Rome and its Frontiers
The Dynamics of Empire
Do the Romans have anything to teach us about the way that they saw the world, and the way they ran their empire? How did they deal with questions of frontiers and migration, so often in the news today?This collection of ten important essays by C. R. Whittaker, engages with debates and...
Published September 7th 2008 by Routledge
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Roman Berytus
Beirut in Late Antiquity
Examining the numerous primary sources, including inscriptions, religions, histories, literary references, legal codes, and archaeological reports, Linda Jones Hall presents a composite history of late antique Berytus - from its founding as a Roman colony in the time of Augustus, to its development...
Published September 7th 2008 by Routledge
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Early Riders
The Beginnings of Mounted Warfare in Asia and Europe
In this wide-ranging and often controversial book, Robert Drews examines the question of the origins of man's relations with the horse. He questions the belief that on the Eurasian steppes men were riding in battle as early as 4000 BC, and suggests that it was not until around 900 BC that men...
Published September 7th 2008 by Routledge
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The Barbarian's Beverage
A History of Beer in Ancient Europe
Comprehensive and detailed, this is the first ever study of ancient beer and its distilling, consumption and characteristics Examining evidence from Greek and Latin authors from 700 BC to AD 900, the book demonstrates the important technological as well as ideological contributions the Europeans...
Published August 10th 2008 by Routledge
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Boudicca's Heirs
Women in Early Britain
Affording a clearer depiction of women in the Late Iron Age and Roman Britain than currently exists, Dorothy Watts examines archaeological, inscriptional and literary evidence to present a unique assessment of women and their place during the Romanization of Britain. Analyzing information from...
Published August 10th 2008 by Routledge
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Through the Pillars of Herakles
Greco-Roman Exploration of the Atlantic
In this first study of the Greek and Roman exploration for over half a century, Duane W. Roller presents an important examination of the impact of the Greeks and Romans on the world through the Pillars of Herakles and beyond the Mediterranean. Roller chronicles a detailed account of the series of...
Published August 10th 2008 by Routledge
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Ancient Germanic Warriors
Warrior Styles from Trajan's Column to Icelandic Sagas
Presenting a range of evidence for these diverse styles, from Roman art to early medieval bracteate amulets, and from classical texts to Beowulf, the Edda and Icelandic sagas, Professor Speidel here details seventeen different Germanic warriors styles, including berserks, wolf-warriors,...
Published August 7th 2008 by Routledge
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Religion and Society in Roman Palestine
Old Questions, New Approaches
This collection of papers combines important archaeological and textual evidence to examine diverse aspects of religion and society in Roman Palestine. A range of international experts provide an unprecedented look at issues of acculturation, assimilation and the preservation of difference in the...
Published August 7th 2008 by Routledge
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European Paganism
European Paganism provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of ancient pagan religions throughout the European continent.Before there where Christians, the peoples of Europe were pagans. Were they bloodthirsty savages hanging human offerings from trees? Were they happy ecologists, valuing...
Published March 31st 2008 by Routledge
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The Roman Eastern Frontier and the Persian Wars AD 363-628
Late Antiquity was an eventful period on the eastern frontier of the Roman empire. From the failure of the Emperor Julian's invasion of Persia in 363 AD to the overwhelming victory of the Emperor Heraclius in 628, the Romans and Persians were engaged in almost constant conflict.This book, sequel to...
Published November 30th 2007 by Routledge