Routledge Library Editions: The Ancient World
About the Book Series
Routledge Library Editions: The Ancient World is a collection of 35 previously out-of-print titles that examine many aspects of life in various ancient civilizations. Books look at the histories of the Greek and Roman worlds, the politics and philosophy of Athens, religion in ancient Greece, and other aspects of these early European societies: education, art and literature. Contacts between empires and barbarians are discussed, as well as economics and trade across the Mediterranean, Northern Europe and the Near East. One volume analyses ancient rituals in India; others look at patronage and religion across the world.
Greek and Roman Gold and Silver Plate
1st Edition
By D.E. Strong
December 01, 2025
Greek and Roman Gold and Silver Plate (1966) examines the history of ancient plate in the period from the Bronze Age to the fifth century A.D. It describes in detail the development of gold and silver plate throughout this long period, and looks at the civilizations where this complicated craft ...
Greek and Roman Jewellery
1st Edition
By R.A. Higgins
December 01, 2025
Greek and Roman Jewellery (1961) covers jewellery from the Classical lands from the early Bronze Age to the late Roman period, almost 3,000 years of continuous development and innovation in the craft. A full account of the technical methods of making jewellery is followed by a description, period ...
Greeks, Romans and Barbarians: Spheres of Interaction
1st Edition
By Barry Cunliffe
December 01, 2025
Greeks, Romans and Barbarians (1988) explores a number of themes that bind the regional cultural developments of mainland Europe and the Mediterranean Basin. Rejecting the separation into two distinct disciplines for the study of the Mediterranean world and the barbarian communities of northern ...
Life and Thought in the Greek and Roman World
1st Edition
By M. Cary, T.J. Haarhof
December 01, 2025
Life and Thought in the Greek and Roman World (1961) aims to provide a brief but comprehensive outline sketch of Greek and Roman civilization. It describes the geographic, political and social background of that civilization, and sets forth its main achievements in the fields of language and ...
Minoans, Philistines and Greeks: B.C. 1400–900
1st Edition
By Andrew Robert Burn
December 01, 2025
Minoans, Philistines, and Greeks (1930) presents a historical narrative of the fortunes of the Aegean people, including invaders of and fugitives from the Aegean area, from the end of the fifteenth to the end of the tenth century B.C. It traces the gradual decline and fall of the Aegean culture, ...
Patronage in Ancient Society
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
December 01, 2025
Patronage in Ancient Society (1989) examines a subject central to the society of the ancient Mediterranean, bringing together the interests of ancient historians and sociologists, using ancient societies, and particularly Roman society, as the focus for their studies. In its comparative approach ...
Religion in Ancient History: Studies in Ideas, Men and Events
1st Edition
By S.G.F. Brandon
December 01, 2025
Religion in Ancient History (1969) includes 25 essays on comparative religion, covering the origin of religion, and studies of the religions of the peoples of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Israel, Greece and Iran. It also includes essays on key ideas such as creation, death, time, the soul, and the ...
Roman Britain
1st Edition
By C.M. Franzero
December 01, 2025
Roman Britain (1935) is Franzero’s personal but no less well-researched study of the history of Roman Britain, from conquest to withdrawal, and the archaeology that remains to this day – some of it a great deal more impressive than many would suppose....
Science in the Early Roman Empire: Pliny the Elder, His Sources and Influence
1st Edition
Edited
By Roger French, Frank Greenaway
December 01, 2025
The studies collected in Science in the Early Roman Empire (1986) represent key research done on the Elder Pliny – an important and difficult figure whose Natural History forms a valuable compendium at a fixed historical point in time of ancient science. Its subsequent influence was enormous, ...
Seers, Shrines and Sirens: The Greek Religious Revolution in the Sixth Century B.C.
1st Edition
By John Pollard
December 01, 2025
Seers, Shrines and Sirens (1965) surveys the history of Greek religion during the great formative and revolutionary era of the sixth century BC. It treats, among other subjects, the rise to prominence of the Delphic oracle, the growth of religious festivals and mysteries, the worship of Dionysus, ...
The Ancient City of Athens: Its Topography and Monuments
1st Edition
By Ida Thallon Hill
December 01, 2025
The Ancient City of Athens (1953) contains both definite reports of the actual discoveries in the excavations which revolutionised previous topographical views of Athens, and articles and discussions to which these new discoveries gave rise. It is a comprehensive examination of the main topography ...
The Ancient Explorers
1st Edition
By M. Cary, E.M. Warmington
December 01, 2025
The Ancient Explorers (1929) examines the motives of ancient exploration by the different civilizations of the time, the primary of these being the Greeks and the Romans, and looks at the means of travel at their disposal. The book uses both historical records and modern archaeological discoveries ...