Routledge Focus on Classical Studies
Philosophers, Jews, and Christians in the Roman Empire: Authority, Text, and Tradition
1st Edition
By Leslie Kelly
February 28, 2025
This book explores how philosophical and religious communities in the Roman Empire of the first and second centuries CE engaged with, and were shaped by, their relationship to texts and tradition in their quest for true religious knowledge or ultimate truth. This era was a dynamic transition period...
Socrates and his Demise: An Examination of the Historical Figure
1st Edition
By Otto H. Linderborg
February 05, 2025
This book explores the circumstances surrounding Socrates’ death, critically analysing conflicting sources to establish a framework for understanding his intellectual activities in the cultural, political, and religious context of 5th-century BC Athens. What were the circumstances surrounding the ...
Epic Echoes in The Wind in the Willows
1st Edition
By Georgia L. Irby
October 28, 2024
This book explores Grahame’s engagements with classical antiquity in The Wind in the Willows, including ancient epic, parody (Batrachomyomachia), and pastoral imagery. Irby demonstrates how subtle echoes – such as the structure into 12 books, arming scenes, epic catalogues, anabases and katabases...
Egypt, Greece, and Rome: A History of Space and Places
1st Edition
By Corinna Rossi
August 26, 2024
Historical events literally took place in specific contexts; 'where things are' shapes 'how things are'. In this book, Corinna Rossi examines how three different ways of interacting with the surrounding world were shaped by their physical context in ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome. Following a ...
Democracies and Republics Between Past and Future: From the Athenian Agora to e-Democracy, from the Roman Republic to Negative Power
1st Edition
By Carlo Pelloso
September 25, 2023
Democracies and Republics Between Past and Future focuses on the concepts of direct rule by the people in early and classical Athens and the tribunician negative power in early republican Rome – and through this lens explores current political issues in our society. This volume guides readers ...
Global Classics
1st Edition
By Jacques A. Bromberg
September 25, 2023
What makes Classics "global", and what does it mean to study the ancient world "globally"? How can the study of antiquity contribute to our understanding of pressing global issues? Global Classics addresses these questions by pursuing a transdisciplinary dialogue between Classics and Global Studies...
Gallus Reborn: A Study of the Diffusion and Reception of Works Ascribed to Gaius Cornelius Gallus
1st Edition
By Paul White
December 18, 2020
Gallus Reborn is the first comprehensive study of the publication history and reception of the works that have been attributed to Gaius Cornelius Gallus, first canonical Roman elegist, friend of Virgil, and ‘missing link’ in Roman literary history.Gallus was a widely read and frequently imitated ...
Prophets, Prophecy, and Oracles in the Roman Empire: Jewish, Christian, and Greco-Roman Cultures
1st Edition
By Leslie Kelly
August 14, 2020
This book surveys the uses and function of prophecy, prophets, and oracles among Jews, Christians, and pagans in the first three centuries of the Roman Empire and explores how prophecy and prophetic texts functioned as a common language that enabled religious discourse to develop between these ...
Theophrastus' Characters: A New Introduction
1st Edition
By Sonia Pertsinidis
June 30, 2020
This book presents an introduction to the Characters, a collection of thirty amusing descriptions of character types who lived in Athens in the fourth century BCE. The author of the work, Theophrastus, was Aristotle's colleague, his immediate successor and head of his philosophical school for ...