Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World
Greco-Roman Waters: A Sourcebook
1st Edition
By Georgia L. Irby
May 29, 2025
The first of its kind, this book presents a wide range of passages exploring many aspects of the Greco-Roman watery world: physics, philosophy, weather, medicine, marine biology, religion and mythology, infrastructure, sailing, mercantile activities, and waterways that have been politicized. ...
Sexuality in Greek and Roman Society and Literature: A Sourcebook
2nd Edition
By Marguerite Johnson
August 29, 2022
This second edition includes an updated review of sexuality in Greece and Rome, an expanded bibliography and numerous new passages with original translations. This book provides readers with detailed information, notes, and original translated passages on the fascinating and multi-faceted theme of...
Ancient Women Writers of Greece and Rome
1st Edition
By Bartolo Natoli, Angela Pitts, Judith Hallett
June 01, 2022
Winner of CAMWS' 2023 Bolchazy Pedagogy Award. Ancient Women Writers of Greece and Rome features the extant writings of major female authors from the Greco-Roman world, brought together for the first time in a single volume, in both their original languages and translated into English with ...
Italy Before Rome: A Sourcebook
1st Edition
By Katherine McDonald
October 18, 2021
This book brings together sources translated from a wide variety of ancient languages to showcase the rich history of pre-Roman Italy, including its cultures, politics, trade, languages, writing systems, religious rituals, magical practices, and conflicts. This book allows readers to access ...
Greek and Roman Technology: A Sourcebook of Translated Greek and Roman Texts
2nd Edition
By Andrew N. Sherwood, Milorad Nikolic, John W. Humphrey, John P. Oleson
November 11, 2019
In this new edition of Greek and Roman Technology, the authors translate and annotate key passages from ancient texts to provide a history and analysis of the origins and development of technology in the classical world. Sherwood and Nikolic, with Humphrey and Oleson, provide a comprehensive and ...
Pagans and Christians in Late Antiquity: A Sourcebook
2nd Edition
By A. D. Lee
September 04, 2015
In Pagans and Christians in Late Antiquity, A.D. Lee documents the transformation of the religious landscape of the Roman world from one of enormous diversity of religious practices and creeds in the 3rd century to a situation where, by the 6th century, Christianity had become the dominant ...
Ancient Rome: Social and Historical Documents from the Early Republic to the Death of Augustus
2nd Edition
By Matthew Dillon, Lynda Garland
June 30, 2015
In this second edition, Ancient Rome presents an extensive range of material, from the early Republic to the death of Augustus, with two new chapters on the Second Triumvirate and The Age of Augustus. Dillon and Garland have also included more extensive late Republican and Augustan sources on ...
Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Sourcebook
2nd Edition
By Alison E. Cooley, M. G. L. Cooley
November 21, 2013
The original edition of Pompeii: A Sourcebook was a crucial resource for students of the site. Now updated to include material from Herculaneum, the neighbouring town also buried in the eruption of Vesuvius, Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Sourcebook allows readers to form a richer and more diverse ...
Women in the Ancient Near East: A Sourcebook
1st Edition
Edited
By Mark Chavalas
November 08, 2013
Women in the Ancient Near East provides a collection of primary sources that further our understanding of women from Mesopotamian and Near Eastern civilizations, from the earliest historical and literary texts in the third millennium BC to the end of Mesopotamian political autonomy in the sixth ...
The Historians of Ancient Rome: An Anthology of the Major Writings
3rd Edition
By Ronald Mellor
August 07, 2012
The Historians of Ancient Rome is the most comprehensive collection of ancient sources for Roman history available in a single English volume. After a general introduction on Roman historical writing, extensive passages from more than a dozen Greek and Roman historians and biographers trace ...
Trials from Classical Athens
2nd Edition
By Christopher Carey
December 07, 2011
The ancient Athenian legal system is both excitingly familiar and disturbingly alien to the modern reader. It functions within a democracy which shares many of our core values but operates in a disconcertingly different way. Trials from Classical Athens assembles a number of surviving speeches ...
Animals in Greek and Roman Thought: A Sourcebook
1st Edition
By Stephen T. Newmyer
December 21, 2010
Although reasoned discourse on human-animal relations is often considered a late twentieth-century phenomenon, ethical debate over animals and how humans should treat them can be traced back to the philosophers and literati of the classical world. From Stoic assertions that humans owe nothing to ...