Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
Masculinity and Dress in Roman Antiquity
1st Edition
By Kelly Olson
June 30, 2020
In Masculinity and Dress in Roman Antiquity, Olson argues that clothing functioned as part of the process of communication by which elite male influence, masculinity, and sexuality were made known and acknowledged, and furthermore that these concepts interconnected in socially significant ways. ...
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
Edited
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
1st Edition
Edited
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 ...
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 ...