Routledge Studies in Ancient History
Carthaginians and Sicily: Empire by Inertia
1st Edition
By Andrzej Dudziński
December 22, 2025
This volume analyses the Carthaginian policy towards Sicily, from the earliest recorded contacts in the 6th century to the expulsion of Punic influences by the Romans in the 3rd century. It aims at reconstructing Carthaginian policy and strategies towards the island by looking beyond the opinions ...
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 ...
Rome, Parthia, and the Politics of Peace: The Origins of War in the Ancient Middle East
1st Edition
By Jason M. Schlude
June 13, 2022
This volume offers an informed survey of the problematic relationship between the ancient empires of Rome and Parthia from c. 96/95 BCE to 224 CE. Schlude explores the rhythms of this relationship and invites its readers to reconsider the past and our relationship with it.Some have looked to this ...
A History of the Pyrrhic War
1st Edition
By Patrick Alan Kent
June 30, 2021
A History of the Pyrrhic War explores the multi-polar nature of a conflict that involved the Romans, peoples of Italy, western Greeks, and Carthaginians during Pyrrhus’ western campaign in the early third century BCE.The war occurred nearly a century before the first historical writings in Rome, ...
Sallust's Histories and Triumviral Historiography: Confronting the End of History
1st Edition
By Jennifer Gerrish
June 30, 2021
Sallust’s Histories and Triumviral Historiography explores the historiographical innovations of the first century Roman historian Sallust, focusing on the fragmentary Histories, an account of the turbulent years after the death of the dictator Sulla. The Histories were written during the violent ...
Geopolitics in Late Antiquity: The Fate of Superpowers from China to Rome
1st Edition
By Hyun Jin Kim
December 18, 2020
Geopolitics in Late Antiquity explores the geopolitical revolution which shook the foundations of the ancient world, the dawning of the millennium of Inner Asian dominance and virtual monopoly of world power (with interludes) that began with the rise of the Huns and then continued under the ...
Image and Reality of Roman Imperial Power in the Third Century AD: The Impact of War
1st Edition
By Lukas de Blois
September 30, 2020
Image and Reality of Roman Imperial Power in the Third Century AD focuses on the wide range of available sources of Roman imperial power in the period AD 193-284, ranging from literary and economic texts, to coins and other artefacts. This volume examines the impact of war on the foundations of the...
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...