Routledge Studies in Ancient History
Stranger-Kingship in Antiquity
1st Edition
Edited
By Julius Guthrie, Henry Anderson, Emma Nicholson
July 18, 2025
This volume introduces the notion of “stranger-kingship” to the field of ancient history and evaluates its use as a new way of thinking about kingship as a political, social, and cultural phenomenon. The chapters highlight the clear and widespread value of the “stranger-king” as a new approach for ...
Emotion and Historiography in Polybius’ Histories
1st Edition
By Regina M. Loehr
April 14, 2025
This volume explores emotion and its importance in Polybius’ conception of history, his writing of historiography, and the benefits of this understanding to readers of history. How and why did ancient historians include emotions in their texts? This book argues that in the Histories of Polybius – ...
Sister-Queens in the High Hellenistic Period: Kleopatra Thea and Kleopatra III
1st Edition
By Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, Alex McAuley
October 28, 2024
Sister-Queens in the High Hellenistic Period is a cutting-edge exploration of ancient queenship and the significance of family politics in the dysfunctional dynasties of the late Hellenistic world. This volume, the first full-length study of Kleopatra III and Kleopatra Thea and their careers as ...
Rewriting Ancient Jewish History: The History of the Jews in Roman Times and the New Historical Method
1st Edition
By Amram Tropper
December 12, 2019
Half a century ago, the primary contours of the history of the Jews in Roman times were not subject to much debate. This standard account collapsed, however, when a handful of insights undermined the traditional historical method, the method long enlisted by historians for eliciting facts from ...
Rome and Judaea: International Law Relations, 162-100 BCE
1st Edition
By Linda Zollschan
December 12, 2019
Rome and Judaea explores the nature of Judaea’s first diplomatic mission to Rome during the Maccabean revolt: did it result in a sanctioned treaty or was it founded instead on amity? This book breaks new ground in this debate by bringing to light the "Roman-Jewish Friendship tablet," a newly ...
Imagining Ancient Cities in Film: From Babylon to Cinecitta
1st Edition
Edited
By Marta Garcia Morcillo, Pauline Hanesworth, Óscar Marchena
December 10, 2019
In film imagery, urban spaces show up not only as spatial settings of a story, but also as projected ideas and forms that aim to recreate and capture the spirit of cultures, societies and epochs. Some cinematic cities have even managed to transcend fiction to become part of modern collective memory...
The Tombs of Pompeii: Organization, Space, and Society
1st Edition
By Virginia Campbell
December 10, 2019
This book offers a comprehensive overview of the tombs of Pompeii and its immediate environs, examining the funerary culture of the population, delving into the importance of social class and self-representation, and developing a broad understanding of Pompeii’s funerary epigraphy and business. The...
Truth and History in the Ancient World: Pluralising the Past
1st Edition
Edited
By Lisa Hau, Ian Ruffell
December 10, 2019
This collection of essays investigates histories in the ancient world and the extent to which the producers and consumers of those histories believed them to be true. Ancient Greek historiographers repeatedly stressed the importance of truth to history; yet they also purported to believe in myth, ...
The Plight of Rome in the Fifth Century AD
1st Edition
By Mark Merrony
December 05, 2019
The Plight of Rome in the Fifth Century AD argues that the fall of the western Roman Empire was rooted in a significant drop in war booty, agricultural productivity, and mineral resources. Merrony proposes that a dependency on the three economic components was established with the Principate, when ...
The Popes and the Church of Rome in Late Antiquity
1st Edition
By John Moorhead
June 16, 2017
In the past few decades there has been an explosion of interest in the period of late antiquity. Rather than being viewed within a paradigm of the fall of the Roman Empire, these centuries have come to be seen as a time of immense creativity and significance in western history. Popes and the Church...
Banishment in the Later Roman Empire, 284-476 CE
1st Edition
By Daniel Washburn
May 31, 2017
This book offers a reconstruction and interpretation of banishment in the final era of a unified Roman Empire, 284-476 CE. Author Daniel Washburn argues that exile was both a penalty and a symbol. It applied to those who committed a misstep or crossed the wrong person; it also stood as a marker of ...
Immigrant Women in Athens: Gender, Ethnicity, and Citizenship in the Classical City
1st Edition
By Rebecca Futo Kennedy
November 10, 2016
Many of the women whose names are known to history from Classical Athens were metics or immigrants, linked in the literature with assumptions of being ‘sexually exploitable.’ Despite recent scholarship on women in Athens beyond notions of the ‘citizen wife’ and the ‘common prostitute,’ the ...