Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
Female Agency and Virtue in the Odyssey
1st Edition
By Elizabeth Stockdale
March 31, 2026
This is the first work that examines the actions and conduct of both immortal and mortal female figures in the Odyssey, and how they are valued within the Odyssean world. Engaging with feminist literary criticism and feminist virtue ethics, the book provides readers with an insight into the actions...
The Pharos Lighthouse In Alexandria: Second Sun and Seventh Wonder of Antiquity
1st Edition
By Andrew Michael Chugg
December 26, 2025
This comprehensive and insightful book brings scientific rigor to the problems of reconstructing the Pharos Lighthouse, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and understanding how it functioned as the archetypal lighthouse in antiquity, when it was described as a “second Sun”. Conceived by...
Graeco-Roman Horror and its Modern Reception: Unleashing Classical Dread
1st Edition
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By Isidro Molina Zorrilla, Nuno Simões Rodrigues, Vasileios Balaskas
December 18, 2025
This volume introduces a fresh exploration of Classical literature, examining its engagement with personal or collective tragedy, horrific events, and fear-inflicting episodes. It explores the different ways fear, terror, and horror have been manifested in Graeco-Roman culture and their reception. ...
Maxwell Anderson and the Classical Tradition: The Muses in America
1st Edition
By Robert J. Rabel
April 15, 2025
This book sheds new light on the dramatic works of the American playwright, poet, and lyricist Maxwell Anderson, assessing the pervasive influence of Greek and Roman antiquity on his plays that dominated Broadway in the first half of the twentieth century. Anderson is an important, though often ...
Making Time for Greek and Roman Literature
1st Edition
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By Kate Gilhuly, Jeffrey P. Ulrich
April 14, 2025
The essays in this collection explore various various models of representing temporality in ancient Greek and Roman literature to elucidate how structures of time communicate meaning, as well as the way that the cultural impact of measured time is reflected in ancient texts. This collection serves ...
New Essays on Aristotle’s Organon
1st Edition
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By António Pedro Mesquita, Ricardo Santos
April 14, 2025
This collection of new essays by an international group of scholars closely examines the works of Aristotle’s Organon. The Organon is the general title given to the collection of Aristotle’s logical works: Categories, De Interpretatione, Prior Analytics, Posterior Analytics, Topics, and Sophistical...
Nostalgias for Homer in Greek Literature of the Roman Empire
1st Edition
By Vincent Tomasso
April 14, 2025
This volume investigates how versions of Trojan War narratives written in Greek in the first through fifth centuries C.E. created nostalgias for audiences. In ancient education, the Iliad and the Odyssey were used as models through which students learned Greek language and literature. This, ...
The Geographical Guide of Ptolemy of Alexandria: An Analysis
1st Edition
By Duane W. Roller
April 14, 2025
This volume offers a detailed study of Ptolemy of Alexandria’s Geographical Guide, whose eight books contain a wealth of geographical information unavailable elsewhere and represent the culmination of the Greco-Roman discipline of geography. Written near the middle of the second century ad, the ...
Aristotle in Japan: Reception, Interpretation and Application
1st Edition
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By Tomohiko Kondo, Koji Tachibana
March 20, 2025
This is the first volume to explore the modern reception and contemporary relevance of Aristotle and his philosophy in Japan, making it a valuable contribution to both global Aristotelian studies and studies of Japanese philosophical traditions. The study of Aristotle’s philosophy in Japan is ...
Didactic Literature in the Roman World
1st Edition
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By T. H. M. Gellar-Goad, Christopher B. Polt
March 13, 2025
This book collects new work on Latin didactic poetry and prose in the late Republic and early Empire, and it evaluates the varied, shifting roles that literature of teaching and learning played during this period. Instruction was of special interest in the culture and literature of the late Roman ...
Revelation and Material Religion in the Roman East: Essays in Honor of Steven J. Friesen
1st Edition
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By Nathan Leach, Daniel Charles Smith, Tony Keddie
March 13, 2025
This collection of essays from a diverse group of internationally recognized scholars builds on the work of Steven J. Friesen to analyze the material and ideological dimensions of John’s Apocalypse and the religious landscape of the Roman East. Readers will gain new perspectives on the ...
The Greeks in Iberia and their Mediterranean Context
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By Jens A. Krasilnikoff, Benedict Lowe
March 13, 2025
This volume explores the effects of Greek presence in the Iberian Peninsula, and how this Iberian Greek experience evolved in resonance with its neighbouring region, the Mediterranean West. Contributions cover the Phocaean settlement at Emporion and its relationship with the indigenous hinterland, ...