Highlights
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The Historians of Ancient Rome
An Anthology of the Major Writings, 3rd Edition
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
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The Ancient Near East
History, Society and Economy
The Ancient Near East reveals three millennia of history (3500-500 BC) in a single work. Using the latest research from the most recent archaeological finds, and thanks to his personal odyssey of over twenty-five years, Liverani has succeeded in retracing the history of the peoples of the...
To Be Published October 30th 2013 by Routledge
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Pompeii and Herculaneum
A Sourcebook, 2nd Edition
Series: Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World
The original edition of Pompeii: A Sourcebook was a crucial resource for students of the site. Now updated to include material from Herculaneum, the neighbouring town also buried in the eruption of Vesuvius, Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Sourcebook allows readers to form a richer and more diverse...
To Be Published June 30th 2013 by Routledge
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The Roman Republic 264–44 BC
Series: The Routledge History of the Ancient World
This is the gripping story of the rise and fall of the Roman Republic: meteoric imperial expansion enriched and corrupted the ruling aristocracy, which was then unable either to rule the vast empire effectively or to resist the challenge of popular power within Rome itself. Political tensions,...
To Be Published August 14th 2013 by Routledge
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The Roman Empire at Bay, AD 180–395
2nd Edition
Series: The Routledge History of the Ancient World
The Roman Empire at Bay is the only one volume history of the critical years 180-395 AD, which saw the transformation of the Roman Empire from a unitary state centred on Rome, into a new polity with two capitals and a new religion—Christianity. The book integrates social and intellectual history...
To Be Published September 30th 2013 by Routledge
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The Etruscan World
Series: Routledge Worlds
The Etruscans can be shown to have made significant, in some cases perhaps the first, technical advances in the central and northern Mediterranean, with such developments as the tie-beam truss in large wooden structures, surveying and engineering drainage and water tunnels, the development of the...
To Be Published May 26th 2013 by Routledge
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The Sumerian World
Series: Routledge Worlds
The Sumerian World explores the archaeology, history and art of southern Mesopotamia and its relationships with its neighbours from c.3,000 - 2,000BC. Including material hitherto unpublished from recent excavations, the articles are organised thematically using evidence from archaeology, texts and...
Published November 28th 2012 by Routledge
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Ancient Medicine
2nd Edition
Series: Sciences of Antiquity Series
The first edition of Ancient Medicine was the most complete examination of the medicine of the ancient world for a hundred years. The new edition includes the key discoveries made since the first edition, especially from important texts discovered in recent finds of papyri and manuscripts, making...
Published October 31st 2012 by Routledge
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Aspects of Roman History AD 14–117
2nd Edition
Series: Aspects of Classical Civilization
This new edition of Aspects of Roman History AD 14 -117 provides a guide to the history of the early Roman Empire. Taking us from its foundation under Augustus to the height of its power under Trajan, the book considers the key historical events that shaped Roman history. Blending social and...
To Be Published November 29th 2013 by Routledge
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The Ancient Greeks
History and Culture from Archaic Times to the Death of Alexander
The Ancient Greeks: History and Culture from Archaic Times to the Death of Alexander offers students a comprehensive introduction to the history and culture of the ancient Greek world for the period c.800-323 BC. It provides critical background to the key historical developments of the time: the...
Published July 25th 2012 by Routledge
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Women in the Ancient Near East
A Sourcebook
Series: Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World
Women in the Ancient Near East provides a collection of primary sources from a broad range of Near Eastern civilizations, from the earliest historical and literary texts (c. 2700 BC) to the latest Hellenistic historians who comment on Near Eastern history (e.g., Berossus, c.205 BC). The book is a...
To Be Published July 29th 2013 by Routledge
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Ritual Texts for the Afterlife
Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets, 2nd Edition
Fascinating texts written on small gold tablets that were deposited in graves provide a unique source of information about what some Greeks and Romans believed regarding the fate that awaited them after death, and how they could influence it. These texts, dating from the late fifth century...
To Be Published March 28th 2013 by Routledge
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Augustus
2nd Edition
Series: Roman Imperial Biographies
The first Emperor of Rome holds a perennial interest for anyone who with an interest in the Romans and their Empire. Augustus was a truly remarkable man who brought peace after many years of civil wars and laid the foundations of an Empire that lasted for nearly five centuries. Even today the Roman...
To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge
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The Women of Pliny's Letters
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
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The Lost History of Peter the Patrician
An Account of Rome’s Imperial Past from the Age of Justinian
Series: Routledge Classical Translations
The Lost History of Peter the Patrician provides an annotated translation from the Greek of the fragments of the lost History of Peter the Patrician (ca. 500-565) and of additional fragments sometimes attributed to Peter, though since the 19th century more often referred to as the work of the Roman...
To Be Published November 30th 2013 by Routledge
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Miletos
Archaeology and History, 2nd Edition
Miletos, on the coast of Asia Minor, was one of the most important Greek cities – a key economic power as well as a centre of philosophy and learning. Yet with historical sources scarce, and the mass of archaeological work done in over a century of excavations not published in English, studying the...
To Be Published November 30th 2013 by Routledge