Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
Religious Dissent in the Roman Empire: Violence in Judaea at the Time of Nero
1st Edition
By Vasily Rudich
January 08, 2018
Religious Dissent in the Roman Empire is the third installment in Vasily Rudich’s trilogy on the psychology of discontent in the Roman Empire at the time of Nero. Unlike his earlier books, it deals not with political dissidence, but with religious dissent, especially in its violent form. Against ...
Displaying the Ideals of Antiquity: The Petrified Gaze
1st Edition
By Johannes Siapkas, Lena Sjögren
February 07, 2017
Displaying the Ideals of Antiquity investigates the study and display of ancient sculpture from archaeological, art historical, and museum studies perspectives. Ancient sculptures not only give us knowledge about ancient Greek and Roman pasts, but they also mediate ideals that inform modern ...
Plato's Dialectic on Woman: Equal, Therefore Inferior
1st Edition
By Elena Blair
February 07, 2017
With the birth of the feminist movement classicists, philosophers, educational experts, and psychologists, all challenged by the question of whether or not Plato was a feminist, began to examine Plato’s dialogues in search of his conception of woman. The possibility arose of a new focus affecting ...
Roman Literature, Gender and Reception: Domina Illustris
1st Edition
Edited
By Donald Lateiner, Barbara K. Gold, Judith Perkins
February 07, 2017
This cutting-edge collection of essays offers provocative studies of ancient history, literature, gender identifications and roles, and subsequent interpretations of the republican and imperial Roman past. The prose and poetry of Cicero and Petronius, Lucretius, Virgil, and Ovid receive fresh ...
Roman Theories of Translation: Surpassing the Source
1st Edition
By Siobhán McElduff
February 07, 2017
For all that Cicero is often seen as the father of translation theory, his and other Roman comments on translation are often divorced from the complicated environments that produced them. The first book-length study in English of its kind, Roman Theories of Translation: Surpassing the Source ...
The Roman Garden: Space, Sense, and Society
1st Edition
By Katharine T. von Stackelberg
February 07, 2017
This innovative book is the first comprehensive study of ancient Roman gardens to combine literary and archaeological evidence with contemporary space theory. It applies a variety of interdisciplinary methods including access analysis, literary and gender theory to offer a critical framework for ...
Childhood in Ancient Athens: Iconography and Social History
1st Edition
By Lesley A. Beaumont
March 25, 2015
Childhood in Ancient Athens offers an in-depth study of children during the heyday of the Athenian city state, thereby illuminating a significant social group largely ignored by most ancient and modern authors alike. It concentrates not only on the child's own experience, but also examines the ...
Virgil's Homeric Lens
1st Edition
By Edan Dekel
May 30, 2014
Virgil’s Homeric Lens reevaluates the traditional view of the Aeneid’s relationship to Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. Almost since the death of Virgil, there has been an assumption that the Aeneid breaks into two discrete halves: Virgil’s Odyssey, and Virgil’s Iliad. Although modified in various ways ...
Greek Magic: Ancient, Medieval and Modern
1st Edition
Edited
By John Petropoulos
January 16, 2014
Magic has always been a widespread phenomenon in Greek Society, starting from Homer’s Circe (the first ‘evil witch’ in western history) and extending to the pervasive belief in the ‘evil eye’ in the twenty-first century Greece. Indeed, magic is probably the most ancient and durable among social and...
Utopia Antiqua: Readings of the Golden Age and Decline at Rome
1st Edition
By Rhiannon Evans
December 14, 2012
Utopia Antiqua is a fresh look at narratives of the Golden Age and decline in ancient Roman literature of the late Republic and imperial period. Through the lens of utopian theory, Rhiannon Evans looks at the ways that Roman authors, such as Virgil, Ovid and Tacitus, use and reinvent Greek myths ...
Life and Letters in the Ancient Greek World
1st Edition
By John Muir
May 08, 2012
From the first ‘deadly signs’ scratched on a wooden tablet instructing the recipient to kill the one who delivered it, to the letters of St Paul to the early Church, this book examines the range of letter writing in the Ancient Greek world. Containing extensive translated examples from both life ...
Rome in the Pyrenees: Lugdunum and the Convenae from the first century B.C. to the seventh century A.D.
1st Edition
By Simon Esmonde-Cleary
February 10, 2012
Rome in the Pyrenees is a unique treatment in English of the archaeological and historical evidence for an important Roman town in Gaul, Lugdunum in the French Pyrenees, and for its surrounding people the Convenae. The book opens with the creation of the Convenae by Pompey the Great in the first ...