Routledge Studies in Ancient History
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 ...
Early Christian Dress: Gender, Virtue, and Authority
1st Edition
By Kristi Upson-Saia
May 30, 2014
Early Christian Dress is the first full-length monograph on the subject of dress in early Christianity. It pays attention to the ways in which dress expressed and shaped Christian identity, the role dress played in Christians’ rivalries with pagan neighbours, and especially to the ways in which ...
Roman Elections in the Age of Cicero: Society, Government, and Voting
1st Edition
By Rachel Feig Vishnia
May 30, 2014
Great debate exists amongst classical historians on the nature of Roman republican government. Some contend that the Roman Republic was governed by a small group of aristocratic families that entrenched their rule by means of long-standing alliances and an intricate network of loyal clients from ...
Time in Roman Religion: One Thousand Years of Religious History
1st Edition
By Gary Forsythe
May 30, 2014
Religion is a major subfield of ancient history and classical studies, and Roman religion in particular is usually studied today by experts in two rather distinct halves: the religion of the Roman Republic, covering the fifth through first centuries B.C.; and the religious diversity of the Roman ...
Ancient Graffiti in Context
1st Edition
Edited
By Jennifer Baird, Claire Taylor
July 27, 2012
Graffiti are ubiquitous within the ancient world, but remain underexploited as a form of archaeological or historical evidence. They include a great variety of texts and images written or drawn inside and outside buildings, in public and private places, on monuments in the city, on objects used in ...
Cicero and the Catilinarian Conspiracy
1st Edition
By Charles Odahl
August 15, 2011
This story of Cicero and the Catilinarian Conspiracy is set within and offers a case study of the political, military, economic and social crises besetting the late Roman Republic in the era of the "Roman Revolution." The book chronicles the efforts of the defeated radical politician Lucius Sergius...