Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
Encounters with Greek Art: Image, Text, and the Invention of Identities in Rome and Roman Italy, 146 BCE-117 CE
1st Edition
By Carolyn MacDonald
March 06, 2025
Encounters with Greek Art sheds new light on the invention of ancient identities by focusing on encounters between viewers and artworks swept to Italy on the tides of Roman imperialism between 146 BCE and 117 CE. Bringing globalization theory to bear on a wide range of texts and images, MacDonald ...
A Cognitive Analysis of the Main Apolline Divinatory Practices: Decoding Divination
1st Edition
By Giulia Frigerio
December 18, 2024
This volume takes an innovative interdisciplinary approach to investigating divination procedures at sanctuaries of Apollo in Classical and Hellenistic Greece, merging neuroscience, psychology, and behavioural studies with archaeology. Through a deep analysis of primary sources and the historical ...
Atheism at the Agora: A History of Unbelief in Ancient Greek Polytheism
1st Edition
By James C Ford
December 18, 2024
This fresh, comprehensive study of ancient Greek atheism aims to dismantle the current consensus that atheism was ‘unthinkable’ in ancient Greece, demonstrating instead that atheism was not only thinkable but inextricably embedded in the Greek religious environment. Through careful analysis of a ...
Personal Experience and Materiality in Greek Religion
1st Edition
By K.A. Rask
December 18, 2024
Employing frameworks of lived religion and materiality, this book provides the first full-length study of personal religious experience in the Greek Archaic and Classical periods. Rask analyzes archeological, epigraphic, and textual evidence to highlight the role of individuals as vital actors and ...
Generic Enrichment in Plutarch’s Lives
1st Edition
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By Chrysanthos S. Chrysanthou, Timothy E. Duff
November 29, 2024
This volume addresses the important literary phenomenon of ‘generic enrichment’ in Plutarch’s Parallel Lives. It examines the ways in which features of other genres are deployed and incorporated in Plutarch’s biographies and the effects of this on the texts themselves and readers’ responses to them...
Processions and the Construction of Communities in Antiquity: History and Comparative Perspectives
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By Elena Muñiz-Grijalvo, Alberto del Campo Tejedor
November 29, 2024
This volume elucidates how processions, from antiquity to the present, contribute to creating consensus with regards to both political power and communitarian experiences. Many classical sources often only tangentially allude to processions, focusing instead on other ritual moments, such as ...
Aristotle and the Animals: The Logos of Life Itself
1st Edition
By Claudia Zatta
October 28, 2024
With a novel approach to Aristotle’s zoology, this study looks at animals as creatures of nature (physis) and reveals a scientific discourse that, in response to his predecessors, exiles logos as reason and pursues the logos intrinsic to animals’ bodies, empowering them to sense the world and live....
Future Thinking in Roman Culture: New Approaches to History, Memory, and Cognition
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By Maggie L. Popkin, Diana Y. Ng
October 28, 2024
Future Thinking in Roman Culture is the first volume dedicated to the exploration of prospective memory and future thinking in the Roman world, integrating cutting edge research in cognitive sciences and theory with approaches to historiography, epigraphy, and material culture. This volume opens a...
Politics in the Monuments of Pompey the Great and Julius Caesar
1st Edition
By Eleonora Zampieri
October 28, 2024
This book explores the diachronic development of the ideological content of Pompey and Caesar’s monuments in Rome, emphasising the importance of the late Republican period as a precursor to imperial propaganda through architecture. In the final years of the Roman Republic, individuals such as ...
Power and Rhetoric in the Ecclesiastical Correspondence of Constantine the Great
1st Edition
By Andrew J. Pottenger
October 28, 2024
This volume closely examines patterns of rhetoric in surviving correspondence by the Roman emperor Constantine on conflicts among Christians that occurred during his reign, primarily the ‘Donatist schism’ and ‘Arian controversy’. Commonly remembered as the ‘first Christian emperor’ of the Roman ...
Production, Trade, and Connectivity in Pre-Roman Italy
1st Edition
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By Jeremy Armstrong, Sheira Cohen
October 28, 2024
This book explores the complex relationship between production, trade, and connectivity in pre-Roman Italy, confronting established ideas about the connections between people, objects, and ideas, and highlighting how social change and community formation are rooted in individual interactions. The ...
Religion and Apuleius' Golden Ass: The Sacred Ass
1st Edition
By Warren S. Smith
October 28, 2024
This volume examines Apuleius’ comic donkey novel, The Golden Ass, within the context of the popular beliefs and Jewish and Christian writings that were part of the intellectual culture of his own day in 2nd century C.E. North Africa, a culture which can also be glimpsed in some early Arabic ...