Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
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 ...
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 27, 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 ...