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31. The Septuagint and Homeric Scholarship in Alexandria

    A Study in the Narrative of the 'Letter of Aristeas'

    By Sylvie Honigman

    The Letter of Aristeas tells the story of how Ptolemy Philadelphus of Egypt commissioned seventy scholars to translate the Hebrew Bible into Greek. Long accepted as a straightforward historical account of a cultural enterprise in Ptolemaic Alexandria, the Letter nevertheless poses serious...

    Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge
32. 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
33. 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
34. 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
35. Alexander the Great

    A Reader, 2nd Edition

    Edited by Ian Worthington

    This exciting new edition is an indispensable guide for undergraduates to the study of Alexander the Great, showing the problems of the ancient source material, and making it clear that there is no single approach to be taken.The twelve thematic chapters contain a broad selection of the most...

    Published November 17th 2011 by Routledge
36. 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
37. Image and Idea in Fifth Century Greece

    Art and Literature After the Persian Wars

    By E. D. Francis

    Francis presents his theory that the ancient world was a unity in which issues of the day were reflected in the language of pictorial and sculptural representation and in the works of literature....

    Published November 3rd 2011 by Routledge
38. War and Society in the Greek World

    Edited by Dr John Rich, John Rich, Graham Shipley

    Series: Leicester-Nottingham Studies in Ancient Society

    The role of warfare is central to our understanding of the ancient Greek world. In this book and the companion work, War and Society in the Roman World, the wider social context of war is explored. This volume examines its impact on Greek society from Homeric times to the age of Alexander and his...

    Published November 3rd 2011 by Routledge
39. 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
40. 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