Classical Language & Literature Books

New and Published Books

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. The Women of Pliny's Letters

   By Jo-Ann Shelton

   Series: Women of the Ancient World

   Pliny's letters offer a significant source of information about the lives of Roman women (predominantly, though not exclusively, upper-class women) during the late first and early second centuries CE. In the 368 letters included in his ten published books of epistles, Pliny mentions over 30 women...

   Published November 15th 2012 by Routledge
3. The Hand of Cicero

   By Shane Butler

   Hundreds perished in Rome's Second Proscription, but one victim is remembered above all others. Cicero stands out, however, not only because of his fame, but also because his murder included a unique addition to the customary decapitation. For his corpse was deprived not only of its head, but also...

   Published September 5th 2012 by Routledge
4. 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
5. Ctesias' 'History of Persia'

   Tales of the Orient

   By Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, James Robson

   Series: Routledge Classical Translations

   Towards the end of the fifth century BC Ctesias of Cnidus wrote his 23 book History of Persia. Ctesias is a remarkable figure: he lived and worked in the Persian court and, as a doctor, tended to the world’s most powerful kings and queens. His position gave him special insight into the workings of...

   Published August 29th 2012 by Routledge
6. Dreams and Suicides

   The Greek Novel from Antiquity to the Byzantine Empire

   By Suzanne Macalister

   This study discusses the Greek novel through the ages, from the genre's flowering in late Antiquity to its learned revival in twelfth-century Byzantium. Its unique feature is its full coverage of the Byzantine novels, demonstrating that they both depend upon and react against the ancient novel, and...

   Published July 25th 2012 by Routledge
7. The History and Literature of Christianity

   By Pierre De Labriolle

   Originally published between 1920-70,The History of Civilization was a landmark in early twentieth century publishing. It was published at a formative time within the social sciences, and during a period of decisive historical discovery. The aim of the general editor, C.K. Ogden, was to summarize...

   Published April 30th 2012 by Routledge
8. Empedocles Redivivus

   Poetry and Analogy in Lucretius

   By Myrto Garani

   Series: Studies in Classics

   Despite the general scholarly consensus about Lucretius’ debt to Empedocles as the father of the genre of cosmological didactic epic, there is a major disagreement regarding Lucretius’ applause for his Presocratic predecessor’s praeclara reperta (DRN 1.732). In the present study, Garani suggests...

   Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge
9. Plutarch and the Historical Tradition

   Edited by Philip A. Stadter

   These essays, by experts in the field from five countries, examine Plutarch's interpretative and artistic reshaping of his historical sources in representative lives. Diverse essays treat literary elements such as the parallelism which renders a pair of lives a unit or the themes which unify the...

   Published November 10th 2011 by Routledge
10. The Radical Pedagogies of Socrates and Freire

    Ancient Rhetoric/Radical Praxis

    By Stephen Brown

    Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication

    Situating contemporary critical praxis at the intersection of the social, the political, and the rhetorical, this book is a provocative inquiry into the teaching philosophies of Plato’s Socrates and Paulo Freire that has profound implications for contemporary education. Brown not only sheds new...

    Published October 23rd 2011 by Routledge