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.
Science in the Early Roman Empire: Pliny the Elder, His Sources and Influence
1st Edition
Edited
By Roger French, Frank Greenaway
June 01, 2024
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
June 01, 2024
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
June 01, 2024
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
June 01, 2024
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 ...
The Greeks and their Gods
1st Edition
By W.K.C. Guthrie
June 01, 2024
The Greeks and their Gods (1950) examines the question of what the Greeks thought to be the proper relationship between human and divine. Religion was such an integral part of Ancient Greek life and thought that without a proper study their world can be scarcely appreciated....
The Ionians and Hellenism: A Study of the Cultural Achievement of the Early Greek Inhabitants of Asia Minor
1st Edition
By C.J. Emlyn-Jones
June 01, 2024
The Ionians and Hellenism (1980) presents an assessment of the art, literature and philosophy of the Asia Minor Greeks – the Ionians – in the eighth to sixth centuries B.C. The Ionians are notable both for what they achieved and for the way in which they influenced the rest of the Greek world, but ...
The Roman Stage: A Short History of Latin Drama in the Time of the Republic
1st Edition
By W. Beare
June 01, 2024
The Roman Stage (1964) gives a connected account of the drama of ancient Rome in its historical setting. Using original source material, whole plays as well as fragments, of tragedies, comedies and farces, it traces the development of theatre in Rome, and notes the historical importance of these ...
The Roman Villa in Britain
1st Edition
Edited
By A.L.F. Rivet
June 01, 2024
The Roman Villa in Britain (1969) is a comprehensive examination of Roman villas in Romano-Britain in a series of essays by six specialists. H.C. Bowen, well-known for his work on early field systems, examines the evidence for the native Celtic agriculture which was practised in pre-Roman Britain ...
Town and Country in Roman Britain
1st Edition
By A.L.F. Rivet
June 01, 2024
Town and Country in Roman Britain (1964) is a study of the effects of Roman rule on the lowland zone of Britain and of the relationship between town and country. The author places the Romano-British towns and villas in their economic and political setting, and discusses their origin and development...
Wine in the Ancient World
1st Edition
By Charles Seltman
June 01, 2024
Wine in the Ancient World (1957) examines wine in all its forms in, primarily, ancient Greece and Rome. It looks at the origins of wine, its production, transportation and consumption, and its changing status through the centuries....