Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
Translating Classical Plays: Collected Papers
1st Edition
By J. Michael Walton
December 12, 2019
Translating Classical Plays is a selection of edited papers by J. Michael Walton published and delivered between 1997 and 2014. Of the four sections, each with a new introduction, the first two cover the history of translating classical drama into English and specific issues relating to translation...
An Ancient Theory of Religion: Euhemerism from Antiquity to the Present
1st Edition
By Nickolas Roubekas
December 10, 2019
An Ancient Theory of Religion examines a theory of religion put forward by Euhemerus of Messene (late 4th—early 3rd century BCE) in his lost work Sacred Inscription, and shows not only how and why euhemerism came about but also how it was— and still is—used. By studying the utilization of the ...
Apuleius and Africa
1st Edition
Edited
By Benjamin Todd Lee, Ellen Finkelpearl, Luca Graverini
December 10, 2019
The Metamorphoses or Golden Ass of Apuleius (ca. 170 CE) is a Latin novel written by a native of Madauros in Roman North Africa, roughly equal to modern Tunisia together with parts of Libya and Algeria. Apuleius’ novel is based on the model of a lost Greek novel; it narrates the adventures of a ...
Attic Oratory and Performance
1st Edition
By Andreas Serafim
December 10, 2019
In a society where public speech was integral to the decision-making process, and where all affairs pertaining to the community were the subject of democratic debate, the communication between the speaker and his audience in the public forum, whether the law-court or the Assembly, cannot be ...
Consumerism in the Ancient World: Imports and Identity Construction
1st Edition
By Justin St. P. Walsh
December 10, 2019
Greek pottery was exported around the ancient world in vast quantities over a period of several centuries. This book focuses on the Greek pottery consumed by people in the western Mediterranean and trans-Alpine Europe from 800-300 BCE, attempting to understand the distribution of vases, and ...
Lucian and His Roman Voices: Cultural Exchanges and Conflicts in the Late Roman Empire
1st Edition
By Eleni Bozia
December 10, 2019
Lucian and His Roman Voices examines cultural exchanges, political propaganda, and religious conflicts in the Early Roman Empire through the eyes of Lucian, his contemporary Roman authors, and Christian Apologists. Offering a multi-faceted analysis of the Lucianic corpus, this book explores how ...
Menander in Contexts
1st Edition
Edited
By Alan H. Sommerstein
December 10, 2019
The comedies of the Athenian dramatist Menander (c. 342-291 BC) and his contemporaries were the ultimate source of a Western tradition of light drama that has continued to the present day. Yet for over a millennium, Menander’s own plays were thought to have been completely lost. Thanks to a long ...
Rome and Provincial Resistance
1st Edition
By Gil Gambash
December 10, 2019
This book demonstrates and analyzes patterns in the response of the Imperial Roman state to local resistance, focusing on decisions made within military and administrative organizations during the Principate. Through a thorough investigation of the official Roman approach towards local revolt, ...
The Animal and the Human in Ancient and Modern Thought: The 'Man Alone of Animals' Concept
1st Edition
By Stephen Newmyer
December 10, 2019
Ancient Greeks endeavored to define the human being vis-à-vis other animal species by isolating capacities and endowments which they considered to be unique to humans. This approach toward defining the human being still appears with surprising frequency, in modern philosophical treatises, in modern...
The Origins of Ancient Greek Science: Blood—A Philosophical Study
1st Edition
By Michael Boylan
December 10, 2019
This book examines the origins of ancient Greek science using the vehicles of blood, blood vessels, and the heart. Careful attention to biomedical writers in the ancient world, as well as to the philosophical and literary work of writers prior to the Hippocratic authors, produce an interesting ...
Theology and Existentialism in Aeschylus: Written in the Cosmos
1st Edition
By Richard Rader
December 10, 2019
Theology and Existentialism in Aeschylus revivifies the complex question of fate and freedom in the tragedies of the famous Greek playwright. Starting with Sartre’s insights about radical existential freedom, this book shows that Aeschylus is concerned with the ethical ramifications of ...
Athens Transformed, 404–262 BC: From Popular Sovereignty to the Dominion of Wealth
1st Edition
By Phillip Harding
January 08, 2018
During the heady, democratic days of the fifth and fourth centuries, the poorer members of Athenian society, the lower two classes of zeugitai and thetes, enjoyed an unprecedented dominance in both domestic and foreign politics. At home, the participatory nature of the constitution required their ...