Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World
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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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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 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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Trials from Classical Athens
2nd Edition
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
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Animals in Greek and Roman Thought
A Sourcebook
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
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Ancient Greece
Social and Historical Documents from Archaic Times to the Death of Alexander, 3rd Edition
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
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Readings in Late Antiquity
A Sourcebook, 2nd Edition
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
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Roman Britain
A Sourcebook, 3rd Edition
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
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Greek and Roman Education
A Sourcebook
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
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The Republican Roman Army
A Sourcebook
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
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Death in Ancient Rome
A Sourcebook
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
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The Story of Athens
The Fragments of the Local Chronicles of Attika
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
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Ancient Rome
A Sourcebook
Series: Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World
A companion volume to the highly successful and widely used Ancient Greece, this Sourcebook is a valuable resource for students at all levels studying ancient Rome. Lynda Garland and Matthew Dillon present an extensive range of material, from the early Republic to the assassination of...
Published November 30th 2005 by Routledge
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Sexuality in Greek and Roman Literature and Society
A Sourcebook
Series: Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World
This volume contains numerous original translations of ancient poetry, inscriptions and documents, all of which illuminate the multifaceted nature of sexuality in antiquity.The detailed introduction provides full social and historical context for the sources, and guides students on how to use the...
Published December 16th 2004 by Routledge
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Athenian Political Oratory
Sixteen Key Speeches
Series: Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World
Focusing on the works of three of the greatest orators in history–Demosthenes, Lysias, and Hypereides-this collection of speeches is an indispensable source for anyone interested in classical civilization and literature, political science and rhetoric...
Published June 27th 2004 by Routledge
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Women and the Law in the Roman Empire
A Sourcebook on Marriage, Divorce and Widowhood
Series: Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World
It is widely recognized that Roman law is an important source of information about women in the Roman world, and can present a more rounded and accurate picture than literary sources. This sourcebook fully exploits the rich legal material of the imperial period - from Augustus (31 BCE - 14 CE) to...
Published June 19th 2002 by Routledge
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Greek Science of the Hellenistic Era
A Sourcebook
Series: Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World
We all want to understand the world around us, and the ancient Greeks were the first to try and do so in a way we can properly call scientific. Their thought and writings laid the essential foundations for the revivals of science in medieval Baghdad and renaissance Europe. Now their work is...
Published December 19th 2001 by Routledge
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Roman Social History
Series: Classical Foundations
This lively and original guidebook is the first to show students new to the subject exactly what Roman social history involves, and how they can study it for themselves.After presenting a short history of the development and current position of the discipline, the author discusses the kinds of...
Published October 24th 2001 by Routledge
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The Government of the Roman Empire
A Sourcebook, 2nd Edition
Series: Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World
This book reveals how an empire that stretched from Glasgow to Aswan in Egypt could be ruled from a single city and still survive more than a thousand years. The Government of the Roman Empire is the only sourcebook to concentrate on the administration of the empire, using the evidence of...
Published September 6th 2000 by Routledge
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Pagans and Christians in Late Antiquity
A Sourcebook
Series: Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World
In this book A.D. Lee charts the rise to dominance of Christianity in the Roman empire. Using translated texts he explains the fortunes of both Pagans and Christians from the upheavals of the 3rd Century to the increasingly tumultuous times of the 5th and 6th centuries.The book also examines...
Published August 16th 2000 by Routledge
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Ancient Greek Laws
A Sourcebook
Series: Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World
In this comprehensive and accessible sourcebook, Ilias Arnaoutoglou presents a collection of ancient Greek laws, which are situated in their legal and historical contexts and are elucidated with relevant selections from Greek literature and epigraphical testimonies. A wide area of legislative...
Published April 8th 1998 by Routledge
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Greek and Roman Technology: A Sourcebook
Annotated Translations of Greek and Latin Texts and Documents
Series: Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World
In this volume the authors translate and annotate key passages from ancient authors to provide a history and an analysis of the origins and development of technology. Among the topics covered are:* energy* basic mechanical devices* agriculture* food processing and diet* mining and metallurgy*...
Published November 26th 1997 by Routledge
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Warfare in Ancient Greece
A Sourcebook
Series: Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World
Warfare in Ancient Greece assembles a wide range of source material and introduces the latest scholarship on the Greek experience of war. The author has carefully selected key texts, many of them not previously available in English, and provided them with comprehensive commentaries.For the Greek...
Published July 3rd 1996 by Routledge
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Roman Italy, 338 BC - AD 200
A Sourcebook
Series: Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World
This work gives students of all levels access to a comprehensive collection of primary sources on the early history of Italy, from the early expansion of Roman power to the first emmergence of Italy as a unified and cultural political unit. The sources, presented in translation, cover the Roman...
Published January 28th 1996 by Routledge
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The Roman Army, 31 BC - AD 337
A Sourcebook
Series: Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World
The Roman army is remarkable for its detailed organisation and professional structure. It not only extended and protected Rome's territorial empire which was the basis of Western civilisation, but also maintained the politcal power of the emperors. The army was an integral part of the society and...
Published April 20th 1994 by Routledge
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The Roman Household
A Sourcebook
Series: Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World
With the help of a wide variety of source material, particularly legal documents and inscriptions, some of it made available for the first time in English, this book illustrates the activities associated with the household, demonstrating the different and frequently conflicting roles and moral...
Published March 13th 1991 by Routledge
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Athenian Politics c800-500 BC
A Sourcebook
Series: Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World
A critical approach to the sources of information on ancient Athenian politics presenting contemporary sources, later historical and biographical writings, archaeological evidence, inscriptions on stone, and papyri from Egypt....
Published October 11th 1990 by Routledge
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Greek and Roman Slavery
Series: Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World
Greek and Roman Slavery brings together fresh English translations of 243 texts and inscriptions on slavery from fifth and fourth century Greece and Rome. The material is arranged thematically, offering the reader a comprehensive review of the idea and practice of slavery in ancient civilization....
Published March 31st 1980 by Routledge