Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
Classicising Crisis: The Modern Age of Revolutions and the Greco-Roman Repertoire
1st Edition
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By Barbara Goff, Michael Simpson
May 31, 2023
Geopolitical shifts and economic shocks, from the Early Modern period to the 21st century, are frequently represented in terms of classical antecedents. In this book, an international team of contributors - working across the disciplines of Classics, History, Politics, and English - addresses a ...
Frankness, Greek Culture, and the Roman Empire
1st Edition
By Dana Fields
May 31, 2023
Frankness, Greek Culture, and the Roman Empire discusses the significance of parrhēsia (free and frank speech) in Greek culture of the Roman empire. The term parrhēsia first emerged in the context of the classical Athenian democracy and was long considered a key democratic and egalitarian value. ...
Robert E. Sherwood and the Classical Tradition: The Muses in America
1st Edition
By Robert J. Rabel
May 31, 2023
This volume explores the reception of the classical past in the works of twentieth-century American dramatist Robert E. Sherwood and his use of the ancient world to critique key events and trends in American history. It explores his comedies and the influence of both Greek Old and New Comedy, as ...
Xenophon’s Socratic Works
1st Edition
By David M. Johnson
May 31, 2023
Xenophon’s Socratic Works demonstrates that Xenophon, a student of Socrates, military man, and man of letters, is an indispensable source for our understanding of the life and philosophy of Socrates. David M. Johnson restores Xenophon’s most ambitious Socratic work, the Memorabilia (Socratic ...
Animals in Ancient Greek Religion
1st Edition
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By Julia Kindt
August 01, 2022
This book provides the first systematic study of the role of animals in different areas of the ancient Greek religious experience, including in myth and ritual, the literary and the material evidence, the real and the imaginary. An international team of renowned contributors shows that animals had ...
Greek and Roman Military Manuals: Genre and History
1st Edition
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By James T. Chlup, Conor Whately
August 01, 2022
This volume explores the enigmatic primary source known as the ancient military manual. In particular, the volume explores the extent to which these diverse texts constitute a genre (sometimes unsatisfactorily classified as ‘technical literature’), and the degree to which they reflect the practice ...
Proclus and the Chaldean Oracles: A Study on Proclean Exegesis, with a Translation and Commentary of Proclus’ Treatise On Chaldean Philosophy
1st Edition
By Nicola Spanu
August 01, 2022
This volume examines the discussion of the Chaldean Oracles in the work of Proclus, as well as offering a translation and commentary of Proclus’ Treatise On Chaldean Philosophy. Spanu assesses whether Proclus’ exegesis of the Chaldean Oracles can be used by modern research to better clarify the ...
Monsters in Greek Literature: Aberrant Bodies in Ancient Greek Cosmogony, Ethnography, and Biology
1st Edition
By Fiona Mitchell
May 31, 2021
Monsters in Greek literature are often thought of as creatures which exist in mythological narratives, however, as this book shows, they appear in a much broader range of ancient sources and are used in creation narratives, ethnographic texts, and biology to explore the limits of the human ...
Athens: The City as University
1st Edition
By Niall Livingstone
December 12, 2019
The citizens of ancient Athens were directly responsible for the development and power of its democracy; but how did they learn about politics and what their roles were within it? In this volume Livingstone argues that learning about political praxis (how to be a citizen) was an integral part of ...
Late Classical and Early Hellenistic Corinth: 338-196 BC
1st Edition
By Michael D. Dixon
December 12, 2019
Late Classical and Early Hellenistic Corinth, 338-196 B.C. challenges the perception that the Macedonians' advent and continued presence in Corinth amounted to a loss of significance and autonomy. Immediately after Chaironeia, Philip II and his son Alexander III established close relations with ...
Resemblance and Reality in Greek Thought: Essays in Honor of Peter M. Smith
1st Edition
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By Arum Park
December 12, 2019
Resemblance and Reality in Greek Thought follows the construction of reality from Homer into the Hellenistic era and beyond. Not only in didactic poetry or philosophical works but in practically all genres from the time of Homer onwards, Greek literature has shown an awareness of the relationship ...
TransAntiquity: Cross-Dressing and Transgender Dynamics in the Ancient World
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By Domitilla Campanile, Filippo Carlà-Uhink, Margherita Facella
December 12, 2019
TransAntiquity explores transgender practices, in particular cross-dressing, and their literary and figurative representations in antiquity. It offers a ground-breaking study of cross-dressing, both the social practice and its conceptualization, and its interaction with normative prescriptions on ...