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1. Roman Theories of Translation

   Surpassing the Source

   By Siobhán McElduff

   Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies

   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...

   Published November 27th 2012 by Routledge
2. Utopia Antiqua

   Readings of the Golden Age and Decline at Rome

   By Rhiannon Evans

   Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies

   Utopia Antiqua is a fresh look at narratives of the Golden Age and decline in ancient Roman literature of the late Republic and imperial period. Through the lens of utopian theory, Rhiannon Evans looks at the ways that Roman authors, such as Virgil, Ovid and Tacitus, use and reinvent Greek myths...

   Published September 30th 2012 by Routledge
3. Greek Magic

   Ancient, Medieval and Modern

   Edited by John Petropoulos

   Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies

   Magic has always been a widespread phenomenon in Greek Society, starting from Homer’s Circe (the first ‘evil witch’ in western history) and extending to the pervasive belief in the ‘evil eye’ in the twenty-first century Greece. Indeed, magic is probably the most ancient and durable among social and...

   Published September 29th 2012 by Routledge
4. Childhood in Ancient Athens

   Iconography and Social History

   By Lesley A. Beaumont

   Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies

   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...

   Published July 26th 2012 by Routledge
5. Plato's Dialectic on Woman

   Equal, Therefore Inferior

   By Elena Blair

   Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies

   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...

   Published May 20th 2012 by Routledge
6. Life and Letters in the Ancient Greek World

   By John Muir

   Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies

   From the first ‘deadly signs’ scratched on a wooden tablet instructing the recipient to kill the one who delivered it, to the letters of St Paul to the early Church, this book examines the range of letter writing in the Ancient Greek world. Containing extensive translated examples from both life...

   Published May 7th 2012 by Routledge
7. Rome in the Pyrenees

   Lugdunum and the Convenae from the first century B.C. to the seventh century A.D.

   By Simon Esmonde-Cleary

   Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies

   Rome in the Pyrenees is a unique treatment in English of the archaeological and historical evidence for an important Roman town in Gaul, Lugdunum in the French Pyrenees, and for its surrounding people the Convenae. The book opens with the creation of the Convenae by Pompey the Great in the first...

   Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge
8. Virgil's Homeric Lens

   By Edan Dekel

   Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies

   Virgil’s Homeric Lens reevaluates the traditional view of the Aeneid’s relationship to Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. Almost since the death of Virgil, there has been an assumption that the Aeneid breaks into two discrete halves: Virgil’s Odyssey, and Virgil’s Iliad. Although modified in various ways...

   Published July 26th 2011 by Routledge
9. Between Rome and Persia

   The Middle Euphrates, Mesopotamia and Palmyra Under Roman Control

   By Peter Edwell

   Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies

   The conflict between the powerful Roman and Iranian empires arising from the extension of Roman power into today’s Middle East is coming into increasingly sharp focus, thanks to the amount of evidence now available. This richly illustrated book examines this evidence to reveal how Rome established...

   Published November 29th 2010 by Routledge
10. The Eunuch in Byzantine History and Society

    By Shaun Tougher

    Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies

    The existence of eunuchs was one of the defining features of the Byzantine Empire. Covering the whole span of the history of the empire, from the fourth to the fifteenth centuries AD, Shaun Tougher presents a comprehensive survey of the history and roles of eunuchs, making use of...

    Published August 17th 2010 by Routledge