Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World

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1. The Historians of Ancient Rome

   An Anthology of the Major Writings, 3rd Edition

   Edited by Ronald Mellor

   Series: Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World

   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...

   Published September 4th 2012 by Routledge
2. Trials from Classical Athens

   2nd Edition

   By Christopher Carey

   Series: Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World

   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...

   Published October 27th 2011 by Routledge
3. Animals in Greek and Roman Thought

   A Sourcebook

   By Stephen Newmyer

   Series: Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World

   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...

   Published November 8th 2010 by Routledge
4. Ancient Greece

   Social and Historical Documents from Archaic Times to the Death of Alexander, 3rd Edition

   By Matthew Dillon, Matthew Dillon, Lynda Garland, Lynda Garland

   Series: Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World

   In this revised edition, Matthew Dillon and Lynda Garland have expanded the chronological range of Ancient Greece to include the Greek world of the fourth century. The sourcebook now ranges from the first lines of Greek literature to the death of Alexander the Great, covering all of the main...

   Published June 16th 2010 by Routledge
5. Readings in Late Antiquity

   A Sourcebook, 2nd Edition

   Edited by Michael Maas

   Series: Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World

   Late Antiquity (ca. 250-650) witnessed the transition from Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages in the Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds. Christianity displaced polytheism over a wide area, offering new definitions of identity and community. The Roman Empire collapsed in Western Europe to be...

   Published December 7th 2009 by Routledge
6. Roman Britain

   A Sourcebook, 3rd Edition

   By Stanley Ireland

   Series: Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World

   Roman Britain: A Sourcebook has established itself as the only comprehensive collection of source material on the subject. It incorporates literary, numismatic and epigraphic evidence for the history of Britain under Roman rule, as well as translations of major literary sources. This new edition...

   Published November 30th 2008 by Routledge
7. Greek and Roman Education

   A Sourcebook

   By Mark Joyal, J.C Yardley, Iain McDougall

   Series: Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World

   Modern western education finds its origins in the practices, systems and schools of the ancient Greeks and Romans. It is in the field of education, in fact, that classical antiquity has exerted one of its clearest influences on the modern world. Yet the story of Greek and Roman education, extending...

   Published August 25th 2008 by Routledge
8. The Republican Roman Army

   A Sourcebook

   By Michael M. Sage

   Series: Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World

   The Republican Roman Army assembles a wide range of source material and introduces the latest scholarship on the evolution of the Roman Army and the Roman experience of war. The author has carefully selected and translated key texts, many of them not previously available in English, and provided...

   Published May 7th 2008 by Routledge
9. Death in Ancient Rome

   A Sourcebook

   By Valerie Hope

   Series: Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World

   Presenting a wide range of relevant, translated texts on death, burial and commemoration in the Roman world, this book is organized thematically and supported by discussion of recent scholarship. The breadth of material included ensures that this sourcebook will shed light on the way...

   Published November 6th 2007 by Routledge
10. The Story of Athens

    The Fragments of the Local Chronicles of Attika

    By Phillip Harding

    Series: Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World

    A leading authority in the field, Phillip Harding presents the very first English translations of the six Athenian writers known as the Atthidographers. In his vivid and detailed history, Harding examines the remaining fragments of these historical writers' work – in chronological order – and how...

    Published October 31st 2007 by Routledge