Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
Poetics and Religion in Pindar: Ambits of Performance and Cult
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By Agis Marinis
August 13, 2024
This book delves into the intricate and, as argued, essential relationship between poetics and religion in Pindar. It explores how performance, cult, and religious attitudes intersect, offering readers a nuanced approach to Pindaric poetry concerning the relationship between mortals and the divine....
Exploring the Mid-Republican Origins of Roman Military Administration: With Stylus and Spear
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By Elizabeth H. Pearson
May 27, 2024
This volume demonstrates the development of Roman military bureaucracy during the Middle Republic, expanding on recent research to examine these administrative systems that made possible Rome’s expansion in this period. Bringing together literary works, epigraphy, archaeology, topography and ...
Poverty in Ancient Greece and Rome: Realities and Discourses
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By Filippo Carlà-Uhink, Lucia Cecchet, Carlos Machado
May 27, 2024
This volume presents an innovative picture of the ancient Mediterranean world. Approaching poverty as a multifaceted condition, it examines how different groups were affected by the lack of access to symbolic, cultural and social – as well as economic – capital. Collecting a wide range of studies ...
Antonio Gramsci and the Ancient World
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By Emilio Zucchetti, Anna Maria Cimino
January 29, 2024
Antonio Gramsci and the Ancient World explores the relationship between the work of the Italian Marxist thinker Antonio Gramsci and the study of classical antiquity. The collection of essays engages with Greek and Roman history, literature, society, and culture, offering a range of perspectives ...
Dionysus and Politics: Constructing Authority in the Graeco-Roman World
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By Filip Doroszewski, Dariusz Karłowicz
January 29, 2024
This volume presents an essential but underestimated role that Dionysus played in Greek and Roman political thought. Written by an interdisciplinary team of scholars, the volume covers the period from archaic Greece to the late Roman Empire. The reader can observe how ideas and political themes ...
Making and Unmaking Ancient Memory
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By Martine De Marre, Rajiv Bhola
January 29, 2024
Making and Unmaking Ancient Memory explores the way in which ancient Greeks and Romans represented their past, and in turn how modern literature and scholarship has approached the reception and transmission of some aspects of ancient culture. The contributions, organised into three sections – ...
Married Life in Greco-Roman Antiquity
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By Claude-Emmanuelle Centlivres Challet
January 29, 2024
Beyond the institution of marriage, its norms, and rules, what was life like for married couples in Greco-Roman antiquity? This volume explores a wide range of sources over seven centuries to uncover possible answers to this question. On tombstones, curse or oracular tablets, in contracts, ...
Roman Masculinity and Politics from Republic to Empire
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By Charles Goldberg
January 29, 2024
This volume explores the role that republican political participation played in forging elite Roman masculinity. It situates familiarly "manly" traits like militarism, aggressive sexuality, and the pursuit of power within a political system based on power sharing and cooperation. In deliberations ...
Ancient History from Below: Subaltern Experiences and Actions in Context
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By Cyril Courrier, Julio Cesar Magalhães de Oliveira
September 25, 2023
If ancient history is particularly susceptible to a top-down approach, due to the nature of our evidence and its traditional exploitation by modern scholars, another ancient history—‘from below’—is actually possible. This volume examines the possibilities and challenges involved in writing it. ...
Divination and Knowledge in Greco-Roman Antiquity
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By Crystal Addey
September 25, 2023
Addressing the close connections between ancient divination and knowledge, this volume offers an interlinked and detailed set of case studies which examine the epistemic value and significance of divination in ancient Greek and Roman cultures. Focusing on diverse types of divination, including ...
Epigraphic Culture in the Eastern Mediterranean in Antiquity
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By Krzysztof Nawotka
September 25, 2023
This book investigates the epigraphic habit of the Eastern Mediterranean in antiquity, from the inception of alphabetic writing to the seventh c. CE, aiming to identify whether there was one universal epigraphic culture in this area or a number of discrete epigraphic cultures. Chapters examine ...
Illiterate Geography in Classical Athens and Rome
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By Daniela Dueck
September 25, 2023
This study is devoted to the channels through which geographic knowledge circulated in classical societies outside of textual transmission. It explores understanding of geography among the non-elites, as opposed to scholarly and scientific geography solely in written form which was the province of ...