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31. 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
32. 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
33. Roman Religion in Valerius Maximus

    By Hans-Friedrich Mueller

    Valerius Maximus was an indefatigable collector of historical anecdotes illustrating vice and virtue. Mueller focuses on what Valerius can tell us about Roman attitudes to religion, and argues that Roman religion could be deeply emotional....

    Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge
34. From Good Goddess to Vestal Virgins

    Sex and Category in Roman Religion

    By Ariadne Staples

    Ariadne Staples provides an arresting and original analysis of the role of women in Roman society, which challenges traditionally held views and provokes further questions....

    Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge
35. The Byzantine Achievement (Routledge Revivals)

    An Historical Perspective, A.D. 330-1453

    By Robert Byron

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    First published in 1929, this highly influential study offers a historical perspective on the Byzantine Empire, from the establishment of Constantinople by Emperor Constantine around 330 AD, through to the fall of Constantinople at the hands of the Ottoman Empire in 1453 AD. Byron’s work...

    Published January 19th 2012 by Routledge
36. Human Rights in Ancient Rome

    By Richard Bauman

    The concept of human rights has a long history. Its practical origins, as distinct from its theoretical antecedents, are said to be comparatively recent, going back no further than the American and French Bills of Rights of the eighteenth century. Even those landmarks are seen as little more...

    Published December 31st 2011 by Routledge
37. Greek and Roman Networks in the Mediterranean

    Edited by Irad Malkin, Christy Constantakopoulou, Katerina Panagopoulou

    How useful is the concept of "network" for historical studies and the ancient world in particular? Using theoretical models of social network analysis, this book illuminates aspects of the economic, social, religious, and political history of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. Bringing together...

    Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge
38. Herakles

    By Emma Stafford

    Series: Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World

    There is more material available on Herakles than any other Greek god or hero. His story has many more episodes than those of other heroes, concerning his life and death as well as his battles with myriad monsters and other opponents. In literature, he appears in our earliest Greek epic...

    Published November 27th 2011 by Routledge
39. The Roman World 44 BC–AD 180

    2nd Edition

    By Martin Goodman

    Series: The Routledge History of the Ancient World

    The Roman World 44 BC – AD 180 deals with the transformation of the Mediterranean regions, northern Europe and the Near East by the military autocrats who ruled Rome during this period. The book traces the impact of imperial politics on life in the city of Rome itself and in the rest of the empire,...

    Published November 9th 2011 by Routledge
40. The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity

    AD 395-700, 2nd Edition

    By Averil Cameron

    Series: The Routledge History of the Ancient World

    This thoroughly revised and expanded edition of The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity, now covering the period 395-700 AD, provides both a detailed introduction to late antiquity and a direct challenge to conventional views of the end of the Roman empire. Leading scholar Averil Cameron focuses...

    Published September 12th 2011 by Routledge