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.
Ancient Cosmologies
1st Edition
Edited
By Carmen Blacker, Michael Loewe
June 01, 2024
In Ancient Cosmologies (1975) nine eminent scholars seek to answer the question, what was the shape of the universe imagined by those ancient peoples to whom all modern knowledge of geography and astronomy was inaccessible? How did the ancient Egyptians, Babylonians, Jews, Indians, Chinese, Arabs, ...
Athens and the Greek Miracle
1st Edition
By C.P. Rodocanachi
June 01, 2024
Athens and the Greek Miracle (1948) is a work of interpretation, poetic in character rather than scientific or historical, that attempts to penetrate some of the primary causes of this unique Athenian culture, to evoke its past spirit in the modern world....
Economic Structures of the Ancient Near East
1st Edition
By Morris Silver
June 01, 2024
Economic Structures of the Ancient Near East (1985) is a political economy of antiquity which applies the universal conclusions of theoretical economics to the interpretation of economic life. The first part of the book shows that the analysis of transaction costs – that is, the resources used up ...
Education in Ancient Rome: From the Elder Cato to the Younger Pliny
1st Edition
By Stanley F. Bonner
June 01, 2024
Education in Ancient Rome (1977) examines the development, structure and role of education from the third century B.C. to the time of Trajan, a period which saw great changes in Roman society. It provides a historical background, showing the effects upon the educational system of Rome’s transition ...
Greek and Latin Literature: A Comparative Study
1st Edition
Edited
By John Higginbotham
June 01, 2024
Greek and Latin Literature (1969) examines the two ancient literatures using a comparative method that recognizes the links between them – most Latin genres owe something to their Greek forebears. How far was Virgil influenced by Homer, Cicero by Demosthenes, Horace by Sappho and Alcaeus? How far ...
Greek and Roman Jewellery
1st Edition
By R.A. Higgins
June 01, 2024
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
June 01, 2024
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
June 01, 2024
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
June 01, 2024
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
June 01, 2024
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
June 01, 2024
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
June 01, 2024
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....