Classical Studies

The Byzantine Achievement (Routledge Revivals)

An Historical Perspective, A.D. 330-1453

By Robert Byron

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...

To Be Published April 27th 2013 by Routledge

Annals Of The Kings Of Assyria

By Budge

Collected for the first time by the eminent scholar E. A. Wallis Budge, this work contains all of the written records of the early Assyrian kings, from the reign of Irishum in about B.C. 2000 to the reign of Ashur-nasir-pal, which ended in B.C. 860. The texts are presented in Assyrian with complete...

Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge

Empedocles

An Interpretation

By Simon Trepanier

Series: Studies in Classics

Offers the first complete reinterpretation of Empedocles – one of the founding figures of Western philosophy – since the publication of the Strasbourg papyrus in 1999 brought new fragments of his lost work to light. ...

Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge

Augustan Egypt

The Creation of a Roman Province

By Livia Capponi

Series: Studies in Classics

With updated documents including papyri, inscriptions and ostraka, this book casts fresh and original light on the administration and economy issues faced with the transition of Egypt from an allied kingdom of Rome to a province of the Roman Empire...

Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge

Gods Of The Egyptians - 2 Vols

By Budge

Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge

Pyramids & Temples

By Petrie

Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge

Tutankhamen

By Budge

Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge

The City in Roman and Byzantine Egypt

By Richard Alston

For those wishing to study the Roman city in Egypt, the archaeological record is poorer than that of many other provinces. Yet the large number of surviving texts allows us to reconstruct the social lives of Egyptians to an extent undreamt of elsewhere. We are not, therefore, limited to a history...

Published February 26th 2013 by Routledge

Xenophon And The History Of His Times

By John Dillery

Xenophon and the History of his Times examines Xenophon's longer historical works, the Hellenica and the Anabasis. Dillery considers how far these texts reflect the Greek intellectual world of the fourth and fifth centuries B.C., rather than focusing on the traditional question of how accurate they...

Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge

Life & Times Of Cleopatra

By Arthur E. P. Brome Weigall

This comprehensive treatment of Cleopatra and the political and social world in which she lived will be an indispensable resource for anyone interested in Cleopatra or in ancient Egypt. Laying bare the "injustice, the adverse partiality, of the attitude assumed by classical authors," the author...

Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge

A Portrait of Roman Britain

By John Wacher

The Romans occupied Britain for almost four hundred years, and their influence is still all around us - in the shape of individual monuments such as Hadrians Wall, the palace at Fishbourne and the spa complex at Bath, as well as in subtler things such as the layout and locations of ancient towns...

Published January 13th 2013 by Routledge

When A Young Man Falls in Love

The Sexual Exploitation of Women in New Comedy

By Vincent J. Rosivach

When A Young Man Falls in Love examines the plays of New Comedy to reveal how the sexual relationships between the male and female protagonists are essentially exploitative. It poses important questions about the dramatic portrayal of women in the Greek and Roman worlds....

Published January 13th 2013 by Routledge

Greek and Latin Literature of the Roman Empire

From Augustus to Justinian

By Albrecht Dihle

Professor Dihle sees the Greek and Latin literature between the 1st century B.C. and the 6th century A.D. as an organic progression. He builds on Schlegel's observation that art, customs and political life in classical antiquity are inextricably entwined and therefore should not be examined...

Published December 30th 2012 by Routledge

From Rome to Byzantium

The Fifth Century AD

By Michael Grant

Byzantium was dismissed by Gibbon, in the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,and his Victorian successors as a decadent, dark, oriental culture, given up to intrigue, forbidden pleasure and refined cruelty. This great empire, founded by Constantine as the seat of power in the East began to...

Published December 6th 2012 by Routledge

Penal Practice and Penal Policy in Ancient Rome

By O.F. Robinson

Using Roman literary and legal sources, this book assesses Roman penal policy through an in-depth examination of six high-profile criminal cases, ranging from the Bacchanalian trials in 186 BC to the trials for treason and magic in the fourth century. Identifying Roman attitudes to crime and...

Published November 30th 2012 by Routledge

Man, State and Deity

Essays in Ancient History

By Victor Ehrenberg

Series: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1974, this book is a collection of nine essays written by Victor Ehrenberg between 1925 and 1967, five of which had not been published before. They deal with a number of aspects of Greek and Roman history, and with the nature of ancient history in the East and West. The first...

Published November 21st 2012 by Routledge

Crime and Punishment in Ancient Rome

By Richard A. Bauman

Published November 19th 2012 by Routledge

Studies in Ancient Society (Routledge Revivals)

By M.I. Finley

Series: Routledge Revivals

Originally published in 1978, this volume comprises articles previously published in the historical journal, Past and Present, ranging over nearly a thousand years of Graeco-Roman history. The essays focus primarily on the Roman Empire, reflecting the increase, in British scholarship of the...

Published November 18th 2012 by Routledge

Aristoxenus of Tarentum and the Birth of Musicology

By Sophie Gibson

Series: Studies in Classics

Published November 13th 2012 by Routledge

God's Wife, God's Servant

The God's Wife of Amun (ca.740–525 BC)

By Mariam F. Ayad

Mariam F. Ayad explores how five women were elevated to a position of supreme religious authority. Drawing on a variety of textual, iconographic, and archaeological evidence, and containing fifty-one black and white and colour illustrations, the volume discusses this often neglected subject,...

Published November 12th 2012 by Routledge

Consensus, Concordia and the Formation of Roman Imperial Ideology

By John Alexander Lobur

Series: Studies in Classics

This book concerns the relationship between ideas and power in the genesis of the Roman empire. The self-justification of the first emperor through the consensus of the citizen body constrained him to adhere to ‘legitimate’ and ‘traditional’ forms of self-presentation. Lobur explores how these...

Published October 9th 2012 by Routledge

Utopia Antiqua

Readings of the Golden Age and Decline at Rome

By Rhiannon Evans

Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies

Utopia Antiqua is a fresh look at narratives of the Golden Age and decline in ancient Roman literature of the late Republic and imperial period. Through the lens of utopian theory, Rhiannon Evans looks at the ways that Roman authors, such as Virgil, Ovid and Tacitus, use and reinvent Greek myths...

Published September 30th 2012 by Routledge

Letters of the Great Kings of the Ancient Near East

The Royal Correspondence of the Late Bronze Age

By Trevor Bryce

Offering fascinating insights into the people and politics of the ancient near Eastern kingdoms, Trevor Bryce uses the letters of the five Great Kings of Egypt, Babylon, Hatti, Mitanni and Assyria as the focus of a fresh look at this turbulent and volatile region in the late Bronze Age....

Published September 29th 2012 by Routledge

Collapse and Recovery of the Roman Empire

By Michael Grant

Collapse and Recovery of the Roman Empire presents a study of third century Rome, which is lavishly illustrated and a lucid read, typical of Michael Grant's inimitable style.In Collapse and Recovery of the Roman Empire, Michael Grant asserts that the fact that the Roman empire of the third century...

Published September 29th 2012 by Routledge

The Late Roman World and Its Historian

Interpreting Ammianus Marcellinus

By Jan Willem Drijvers, David Hunt

Ammianus Marcellinus, Greek by birth but writing in Latin c. AD 390, was the last great Roman historian. His writings are an indispensable basis for our knowledge of the late Roman world. This book represents a collection of papers analysing Ammianus's writings from a variety of perspective,...

Published September 29th 2012 by Routledge

The Family in Late Antiquity

The Rise of Christianity and the Endurance of Tradition

By Geoffrey Nathan

The Family in Late Antiquity offers a challenging, well-argued and coherent study of the family in the late Roman world and the influence of the emerging Christian religion on its structure and value.Before the Roman Empire's political disintegration in the west, enormous political, religious and...

Published September 29th 2012 by Routledge

History of Greek Literature

From Homer to the Hellenistic Period

By Albrecht Dihle

The most up-to-date history of Greek literature from its Homeric origins to the age of Augustus. Greek literary production throughout this period of some eight centuries is embedded in its historical and social context, and Professor Dihle sees this literature as a historical phenomenon, a...

Published September 29th 2012 by Routledge

Philo's Alexandria

By Dorothy I. Sly

First-century Alexandria vied with Rome to be the greatest city of the Roman empire. More than half a million people lived in its cosmopolitan four square miles. It was a major centre for international trade and shipping. Little remains of Alexandria's golden age. Few papyrus records of the city...

Published September 29th 2012 by Routledge

Julian's Gods

Religion and Philosophy in the Thought and Action of Julian the Apostate

By Rowland B. E. Smith

Julian's brief reign (360-363 AD) had a profound impact on his contemporaries, as he worked fervently for a pagan restoration in the Roman Empire, which was rapidly becoming Christian. Julian's Gods focuses on the cultural mentality of `the last pagan Emperor' by examining a wide variety of his own...

Published September 29th 2012 by Routledge

A History of Greece

From the Time of Solon to 403 BC

By George Grote

Edited by M.O.B. Caspari, J.M. Mitchell

Grote's History of Greece is one of the classic works of historical interpretation and scholarship. George Grote - banker, MP and a founder of London University - was the first historian to give a high value to the Greek creation of democracy, and this aspect of his work is closely relevant to...

Published September 29th 2012 by Routledge

The Shadow of Sparta

Edited by Stephen Hodkinson, Dr Anton Powell, Anton Powell

In the past twenty years the study of Sparta has come of age. Images prevalent earlier in the 20th century, of Spartans as hearty good fellows or scarlet-cloaked automata, have been superseded by more complex scholarly reactions. As interest has grown in the self-images projected by this most...

Published September 29th 2012 by Routledge

Greek Magic

Ancient, Medieval and Modern

Edited by John Petropoulos

Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies

Magic has always been a widespread phenomenon in Greek Society, starting from Homer’s Circe (the first ‘evil witch’ in western history) and extending to the pervasive belief in the ‘evil eye’ in the twenty-first century Greece. Indeed, magic is probably the most ancient and durable among social and...

Published September 29th 2012 by Routledge

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

'Bread and Circuses'

Euergetism and Municipal Patronage in Roman Italy

Edited by Tim Cornell, Kathryn Lomas

Cities in the ancient world relied on private generosity to provide many basic amenities, as well as expecting leading citizens to pay for 'bread and circuses' - free food and public entertainment. This collection of essays by leading scholars from the UK and USA explores the important phenomenon...

Published July 30th 2012 by Routledge

Athens: Its Rise and Fall

With Views of the Literature, Philosophy, and Social Life of the Athenian People

By Edward Bulwer Lytton

Edited by Oswyn Murray

Athens: Its Rise and Fall, originally published in 1837, is the most important and readable of the Victorian histories of ancient Greece. It stands alongside Macauley and Carlyle as a great historical work of British Romanticism, and anticipates the thinking of George Grote and John Stuart Mill on...

Published July 30th 2012 by Routledge

Ancient Graffiti in Context

Edited by Jennifer Baird, Claire Taylor

Series: Routledge Studies in Ancient History

Graffiti are ubiquitous within the ancient world, but remain underexploited as a form of archaeological or historical evidence. They include a great variety of texts and images written or drawn inside and outside buildings, in public and private places, on monuments in the city, on objects used in...

Published July 26th 2012 by Routledge

The Marshals of Alexander's Empire

By Waldemar Heckel

This book presents for the first time in English a detailed study of the closest friends and most trusted commanders of Alexander the Great - their career-progress, their rivalry with one another, and their influence on Alexander. The Marshals of Alexander's Empire is a blend of biography and...

Published July 25th 2012 by Routledge

Land and Economy in Ancient Palestine

By Jack Pastor

Land and Economy in Ancient Palestine is a study of the economic crises throughout the Second Temple Period. It establishes that the single factor of the economy which united all aspects of life in ancient society was land.Through study of a wide variety of sources, including the New Testament and...

Published July 25th 2012 by Routledge

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

Divine Heiress

The Virgin Mary and the Making of Christian Constantinople

By Vasiliki Limberis

Divine Heiress explores the vital role of the Virgin Mary in the cultural and religious life of Constantinople in late antiquity. It shows how she was transformed from a humble Jewish maiden into a divine figure and supernatural protector of Constantinople.Vasiliki Limberis examines the cult of...

Published July 25th 2012 by Routledge

Saving the City

Philosopher-Kings and Other Classical Paradigms

By Malcolm Schofield

Series: Issues in Ancient Philosophy

Saving the City provides a detailed analysis of the attempts of ancient writers and thinkers, from Homer to Cicero, to construct and recommend political ideals of statesmanship and ruling, of the political community and of how it should be founded in justice. Malcolm Schofield debates to what...

Published July 25th 2012 by Routledge

Constructing Identities in Late Antiquity

Edited by Richard Miles

The essays in Constructing Identities in Late Antiquity concern themselves with the theme of identity, an increasingly popular topic in Classical studies. Through detailed discussions of particular Roman texts and images, the contributors show not only how these texts were used to create and...

Published June 29th 2012 by Routledge

Childhood, Class and Kin in the Roman World

Edited by Suzanne Dixon

It can be difficult to hear the voices of Roman children, women and slaves, given that most surviving texts of the period are by elite adult men. This volume redresses the balance. An international collection of expert contributors go beyond the usual canon of literary texts, and assess a vast...

Published June 29th 2012 by Routledge

Simonides on the Persian Wars

A Study of the Elegiac Verses of the "New Simonides"

By Lawrence M. Kowerski

Series: Studies in Classics

This book considers what evidence the "new Simonides" fragments offer for Simonides' elegiac compositions on the Persian Wars. The current orthodoxy is that they represent three separate elegies on individual battles, one on Artemisium, one on Salamis, and one on Plataea. Kowerski evaluates what...

Published June 27th 2012 by Routledge

Frontiers of the Roman Empire

By Hugh Elton

With its succinct analysis of the overriding issues and detailed case-studies based on the latest archaeological research, this social and economic study of Roman Imperial frontiers is essential reading.Too often the frontier has been represented as a simple linear boundary. The reality, argues Dr...

Published June 14th 2012 by Routledge

Pilgrims and Pilgrimage in Ancient Greece

By Matthew Dillon

This volume explores the religious motivations for pilgrimage and reveals the main preoccupations of worshippers in Ancient Greece.Dillon examines the main sanctuaries of Delphi, Epidauros and Olympia, as well as the less well-known oracle of Didyma in Asia Minor and the festivals at the Isthmus of...

Published May 28th 2012 by Routledge

Trade, Traders and the Ancient City

Edited by Helen Parkins, Christopher Smith

Trade, exchange and commerce touched the lives of everyone in antiquity, especially those who lived in urban areas. Trade, Traders and the Ancient City addresses the nature of exchange and commerce and the effects it had in cities throughout the ancient world, from the Bronze Age Near East to late...

Published May 28th 2012 by Routledge

Luxor And Its Temples

By A.M. Blackman

Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge

Greek and Roman Dress from A to Z

By Liza Cleland, Glenys Davies, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

Series: Ancient World from A to Z

Who dressed as a woman in an attempt to commit adultery with Julius Caesar’s wife? How did the ancient Greeks make blusher from seaweed? Just how does one wear a toga? If, as many claim, the importance of clothes lies in their detail, then this a book that no sartorially savvy Classicist...

Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge

Life and Letters in the Ancient Greek World

By John Muir

Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies

From the first ‘deadly signs’ scratched on a wooden tablet instructing the recipient to kill the one who delivered it, to the letters of St Paul to the early Church, this book examines the range of letter writing in the Ancient Greek world. Containing extensive translated examples from both life...

Published May 7th 2012 by Routledge

The Roman City and its Periphery

From Rome to Gaul

By Penelope Goodman

The first and only monograph available on the subject, The Roman City and its Periphery offers a full and detailed treatment of the little-investigated aspect of Roman urbanism – the phenomenon of suburban development. Presenting archaeological and literary evidence alongside sixty-three plans of...

Published April 22nd 2012 by Routledge

Initiation in Ancient Greek Rituals and Narratives

New Critical Perspectives

Edited by David Dodd, Christopher A. Faraone

Scholars of classical history and literature have for more than a century accepted `initiation' as a tool for understanding a variety of obscure rituals and myths, ranging from the ancient Greek wedding and adolescent haircutting rituals to initiatory motifs or structures in Greek myth, comedy and...

Published April 4th 2012 by Routledge

Traffic and Congestion in the Roman Empire

By Cornelis van Tilburg

The first book to ever examine ancient Roman traffic, this well-illustrated volume looks in detail at the construction of Roman road, and studies the myriad of road users of the Roman Empire: civilians, wagons and animals, the cursus publicus, commercial use and the army. Through this examination,...

Published March 21st 2012 by Routledge

The Jewellery Of Roman Britain

Celtic and Classical Traditions

By Dr Catherine Johns, Catherine Johns

This work provides a survey of the jewellery of Roman Britain. Fully illustrated and accessible to both the specialist and amateur enthusiast, it surveys the full range of personal ornament worn in Britain during the Roman period, the 1st to 4th centuries AD. It emphasizes the presence of two...

Published March 19th 2012 by Routledge

Money, Labour and Land

Approaches to the economics of ancient Greece

Edited by Paul Cartledge, Edward E. Cohen, Lin Foxhall

The cultural wealth of the classical Greek world was matched by its material wealth, and there is abundant textual and archaeological evidence for both. However, radically different theoretical and methodological approaches have been used to interpret this evidence, and conflicts continue to rage...

Published March 19th 2012 by Routledge

Constantine

History, Historiography and Legend

Edited by Samuel N. C. Lieu, Dominic Montserrat

Constantine examines the reign of Constantine, the first Christian emperor and the founder of Constantinople. From a variety of angles: historical, historiographical and mythical. The volume examines the circumstances of Constantine's reign and the historical problems surrounding them, the varied...

Published March 19th 2012 by Routledge

Birds in the Ancient World from A to Z

By W. Geoffrey Arnott

Series: Ancient World from A to Z

Birds in the Ancient World from A to Z gathers together the ancient information available, listing all the names that ancient Greeks gave their birds and all their descriptions and analyses. W. Geoffrey Arnott identifies as many of them as possible in the light of modern ornithological studies....

Published March 13th 2012 by Routledge

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

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

Archaic Eretria

A Political and Social History from the Earliest Times to 490 BC

By Keith G. Walker

This book presents for the first time a history of Eretria during the Archaic Era, the city's most notable period of political importance and Keith Walker examines all the major elements of the city's success. One of the key factors explored is Eretria's role as a pioneer coloniser in both the...

Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge

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

Scholars, Travellers and Trade

The Pioneer Years of the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, 1818-1840

By R. B. Halbertsma

Today, the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden is internationally known for its outstanding archaeological collections. Yet its origins lie in an insignificant assortment of artefacts used for study by Leiden University. How did this transformation come about?Ruurd Halbertsma has delved into...

Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge

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

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

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

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

The Knossos Labyrinth

A New View of the `Palace of Minos' at Knossos

By Rodney Castleden

Knossos, like the Acropolis or Stonehenge, is a symbol for an entire culture. The Knossos Labyrinth was first built in the reign of a Middle Kingdom Egyptian pharaoh, and was from the start the focus of a glittering and exotic culture. Homer left elusive clues about the Knossian court and when the...

Published November 10th 2011 by Routledge

A Dictionary of Ancient Near Eastern Architecture

By Gwendolyn Leick

This Dictionary gives a comprehensive survey of the whole range of ancient Near Eastern architecture from the Neolithic round huts in Palestine to the giant temples of Ptolemaic Egypt. Gwendolyn Leick examines the development of the principal styles of ancient architecture within their geographical...

Published November 10th 2011 by Routledge

The Archaeology of the Arabian Gulf

By Michael Rice

The archaeological remains in the Gulf area are astounding, and still relatively unexplored. Michael Rice has produced the first up-to-date book, which encompasses all the recent work in the area. He shows that the Gulf has been a major channel of commerce for millenia, and that its ancient culture...

Published November 10th 2011 by Routledge

Between Poverty and the Pyre

Moments in the History of Widowhood

Edited by Jan Bremmer, Lourens Van Den Bosch

Between Poverty and the Pyre examines the history of the experience of widowhood across different cultures. It brings together a collection of essays by historians, anthropologists and philologists. The book shows how difficult it is to define the 'typical' widow, as the experiences of these women...

Published November 10th 2011 by Routledge

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

Time, Tradition and Society in Greek Archaeology

Bridging the 'Great Divide'

Edited by Nigel Spencer

Time, Tradition and Society in Greek Archaeology is an innovative volume which examines the relevance of archaeological theory to classical archaeology. It offers a wideranging overview of classical archaeology, from the Bronze Age to the Classical period and from mainland Greece to Cyprus. Within...

Published November 10th 2011 by Routledge

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

Voluntary Associations in the Graeco-Roman World

Edited by John S. Kloppenborg, Stephen G. Wilson

Based upon a series of detailed case studies of associations such as early synagogues and churches, philosophical schools and pagan mystery cults, this collection addresses the question of what can legitimately be termed a 'voluntary association'.Employing modern sociological concepts, the essays...

Published November 3rd 2011 by Routledge

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

From Autothanasia to Suicide

Self-killing in Classical Antiquity

By Anton J. L. van Hooff

Using almost a thousand case studies, both real and fictional, Dr van Hooff provides us with a unique and engaging insight into self-killing in the Graeco-Roman world.The author analyses the methods and motives which lie behind self-killing relating them to ancient popular morality as it appears...

Published November 3rd 2011 by Routledge

Thinking Men

Masculinity and its Self-Representation in the Classical Tradition

Edited by Lin Foxhall, John Salmon

Series: Leicester-Nottingham Studies in Ancient Society

Thinking Men explores artistic and intellectual expression in the classical world as the self representation of man. It starts from the premise that the history of classical antiquity as the ancients tell it is a history of men. However, the focus of this volume is the creation, re-creation and...

Published November 3rd 2011 by Routledge

Cicero and the Catilinarian Conspiracy

By Charles Odahl

Series: Routledge Studies in Ancient History

This story of Cicero and the Catilinarian Conspiracy is set within and offers a case study of the political, military, economic and social crises besetting the late Roman Republic in the era of the "Roman Revolution." The book chronicles the efforts of the defeated radical politician Lucius Sergius...

Published August 14th 2011 by Routledge

Changing Bodies, Changing Meanings

Studies on the Human Body in Antiquity

Edited by Dominic Montserrat

Published July 10th 2011 by Routledge

Human Landscapes in Classical Antiquity

Environment and Culture

Edited by John Salmon, Graham Shipley

Series: Leicester-Nottingham Studies in Ancient Society

Human Landscapes in Classical Antiquity shows how today's environmental and ecological concerns can help illuminate our study of the ancient world. The contributors consider how the Greeks and Romans perceived their natural world, and how their perceptions affected society....

Published July 10th 2011 by Routledge

Miletos

A History

By Alan M. Greaves

Drawing on case studies and presenting archaeological evidence throughout, Alan Greaves presents a welcome survey of the origins and development of Miletos. Focusing on the archaic era and exploring a wide range of issues including physical environment, colonizations, the economy, and its role as a...

Published June 22nd 2011 by Routledge

Roman London

By Dominic Perring

This book draws extensively on the results of the latest work to present a challenging new account of the rise and fall of one of the principal towns of the Roman empire....

Published April 14th 2011 by Routledge

Riding for Caesar

The Roman Emperor's Horseguard

By Micheal P. Speidel

Professor Speidel's book represents the first history of the Roman horse guard ever written and provides a readable account of the intricate part these men played in the fate of the Roman empire and its emperors....

Published April 14th 2011 by Routledge

Perikles and his Circle

By Anthony Podlecki

Perikles, the creator of the reputation of Classical Athens was an enigmatic figure. This book traces Perikles' development from a somewhat hesitant, though left-leaning politician, to a mature statesman fully committed to expanding Athens' maritime empire and using the material benefits of that...

Published March 30th 2011 by Routledge

The Severans

The Roman Empire Transformed

By Michael Grant

The Severans analyses the colourful decline of the Roman Empire during the reign of the Severans, the first non-Italian dynasty. In his learned and exciting style, Michael Grant describes the foreign wars waged against the Alemanni and the Persians, and the remarkable personalities of the imperial...

Published February 13th 2011 by Routledge

Rome's Eastern Trade

International Commerce and Imperial Policy 31 BC - AD 305

By Gary K. Young

Utilising new archaeological research, the author questions the traditionally held view that the imperial government had a strong political interest in eastern trade. Instead, he argues that their primary motivation was the tax income....

Published February 9th 2011 by Routledge

Euripides, Women and Sexuality

Edited by Anton Powell

Euripides' interest in the psychology and social position of women is well known. Of the great Greek playwrights, he most directly reflects contemporary philosophical and social debates, and his work is of great value as a source for social history.The important new studies in this volume explore...

Published February 9th 2011 by Routledge

The Romanization of Central Spain

Complexity, Diversity and Change in a Provincial Hinterland

By Leonard A. Curchin

Curchin explores how, why and to what extent the peoples of Central Spain were integrated into the Roman Empire during the period from the second century BC to the second century AD.He approaches the question from a variety of angles, including the social, economic, religious and material...

Published February 6th 2011 by Routledge

The Roads of Roman Italy

Mobility and Cultural Change

By Ray Laurence

The Roads of Roman Italy offers a complete re-evaluation of both the evidence and the interpretation of Roman land transport. The book utilises archaeological, epigraphic and literary evidence for Roman communications, drawing on recent approaches to the human landscape developed by geographers....

Published February 6th 2011 by Routledge

Restless Youth in Ancient Rome

By Emiel Eyben

Restless Youth in Ancient Rome presents an inclusive portrayal of the perceptions the Romans had of youth and of the role of this age group in a wide variety of domains - philosphy, literature, education, the law, the army, politics, leisure, amorous pursuits and family life. Emiel Eyben considers...

Published February 6th 2011 by Routledge

Roman Villas

A Study in Social Structure

By J.T. Smith

Roman Villas explores the social structures of the Roman world by analysing the plans of buildings of all sizes from slightly Romanized farms to palaces. The ways in which the rooms are grouped together; how they intercommunicate; and the ways in which individual rooms and the house are approached,...

Published February 6th 2011 by Routledge

The First Jewish Revolt

Archaeology, History and Ideology

By Andrea M. Berlin, J. Andrew Overman

The First Jewish Revolt against Rome is arguably the most decisive event in the history of Judaism and Christianity. The destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 70 CE by the Roman General Titus forced a transformation in structure and form for both of these fraternal religions. Yet despite its...

Published February 1st 2011 by Routledge

Ruling Roman Britain

Kings, Queens, Governors and Emperors from Julius Caesar to Agricola

By David Braund

In this book, David Braund offers a significantly different perspective upon the history of Roman Britain. He concentrates upon the literary evidence, which has been studied to a lesser extent than archaeology in recent years. Close attention to the Greek and Roman sources enables the construction...

Published February 1st 2011 by Routledge

The Development of the Polis in Archaic Greece

Edited by Lynette G. Mitchell, P.J. Rhodes

The Greek polis has been arousing interest as a subject for study for a long time, but recent approaches have shown that it is a subject on which there are still important questions to be asked and worthwhile things to be said.This book contains a selection of essays which embody the results of the...

Published February 1st 2011 by Routledge

Rome and the Western Greeks, 350 BC - AD 200

Conquest and Acculturation in Southern Italy

By Kathryn Lomas

The history of the Greek cities of Italy during the period of Roman conquest and under Roman rule form a fascinating case study of the processes of Roman expansion and assimilation and of Greek reactions to the presence of Rome. This book reassesses the role of Magna Graecia in Roman Italy and...

Published February 1st 2011 by Routledge

Women of Babylon

Gender and Representation in Mesopotamia

By Zainab Bahrani

Representations of sexual difference (whether visual or textual) have become an area of much theoretical concern and investigation in recent feminist scholarship. Yet although a wide range of relevant evidence survives from the ancient Near East, it has been exceptional for those studying women in...

Published January 30th 2011 by Routledge

The Experience of Ancient Egypt

By Rosalie David

Series: Experience of Archaeology

The Experience of Ancient Egypt provides a comprehensive portrait of what we know about ancient Egypt today, examining in detail issues of religion, of beliefs and practices surrounding death, of everyday life and of literature.In an engaging style, the author traces Egyptology from its classical...

Published January 30th 2011 by Routledge

Roman Edessa

Politics and Culture on the Eastern Fringes of the Roman Empire, 114 - 242 C.E.

By Steven K. Ross

Roman Edessa offers a comprehensive and erudite analysis of the ancient city of Edessa (modern day Urfa, Turkey), which constituted a remarkable amalgam of the East and the West. Among the areas explored are: the cultural life and antecedents of Edessa Edessene religion the extent of the...

Published January 30th 2011 by Routledge

When Men Were Men

Masculinity, Power and Identity in Classical Antiquity

Edited by Lin Foxhall, John Salmon

Series: Leicester-Nottingham Studies in Ancient Society

When Men Were Men questions the deep-set assumption that men's history speaks and has always spoken for all of us, by exploring the history of classical antiquity as an explicitly masculine story.With a preface by Sarah Pomeroy, this study employs different methodologies and focuses on a broad...

Published January 30th 2011 by Routledge

Experiencing Old Age in Ancient Rome

By Karen Cokayne

Old age today is a contentious topic. It can be seen as a demographic timebomb or as a resource of wisdom and experience to be valued and exploited. There is frequent debate over how we value the elderly, and whether ageing is an affliction to be treated or a natural process to be embraced. Karen...

Published January 30th 2011 by Routledge

The Cavalry of the Roman Republic

By Jeremiah B. McCall

In this original and revealing work, Jeremiah B. McCall challenges the generally accepted view of the Roman cavalry and explores the fundamental connections between war and society in republican Rome, c.300-100 BC. McCall describes the citizen cavalry's equipment, tactics, and motivation in battle,...

Published January 30th 2011 by Routledge

Fathers and Sons in Athens

Ideology and Society in the Era of the Peloponnesian War

By Barry Strauss

As history's first democracy, classical Athens invited political discourse. The Athenians, however could not completely separate the politicals from the private sphere; indeed father-son conflict, from patricide to murdering one's son, was a major public as well as a private theme. In a fascinating...

Published January 30th 2011 by Routledge

Hellenistic Economies

Edited by Zofia H. Archibald, John Davies, Vincent Gabrielsen, Graham Oliver

The economies of classical and Mediterranean antiquity are currently a battleground. Some scholars see them as lively and progressive, even proto-capitalist: others see them as static, embedded in social action and status relationships.Focusing on the central period of the Mediterranean 330-30 BC,...

Published January 26th 2011 by Routledge

State, Society and Popular Leaders in Mid-Republican Rome 241-167 B.C.

By Rachel Feig Vishnia

State, Society, and Popular Leaders profiles the incorporation of the lower classes into the governing system of ancient Rome. In 287, the Hortensian law made the decisions of the plebs binding on the whole people. This event is often referred to as the great plebeian victory, a landmark in Roman...

Published January 26th 2011 by Routledge

Strabo of Amasia

A Greek Man of Letters in Augustan Rome

By Daniela Dueck

Strabo of Amasia offers an intellectual biography of Strabo, a Greek man of letters, set against the political and cultural background of Augustan Rome. It offers the first full-scale interpretation of the man and his life in English. It emphasises the place and importance of Strabo's Geography and...

Published January 26th 2011 by Routledge

Travel and Geography in the Roman Empire

Edited by Colin Adams, Ray Laurence

The remains of Roman roads are a powerful reminder of the travel and communications system that was needed to rule a vast and diverse empire. Yet few people have questioned just how the Romans - both military and civilians - travelled, or examined their geographical understanding in an era which...

Published January 26th 2011 by Routledge

Conspiracies in the Egyptian Palace

Unis to Pepy I

By Naguib Kanawati

This original study examines the claims for sensational intrigues in the 6th century Egyptian palace, culminating in the possible assassination of King Teti by his own bodyguards. New evidence from the author's recent excavations is set against the written claims of the ancient historian Manetho....

Published January 26th 2011 by Routledge

Antigonus II Gonatas

A Political Biography

By Janice J. Gabbert

Antigonus Gonatas assumed the title of King of Macedonia in 283 BC; he became the undisputed ruler of Macedonia in 276 BC and reigned for more than forty years. Blunt, honest and tenacious, Antigonus won not only Macedonia, but also its people. Pragmatic and occasionally ruthless, he was a...

Published January 26th 2011 by Routledge

Roman Urbanism

Beyond The Consumer City

Edited by Helen Parkins

The contributors to this volume provide an accessible and jargon-free insight into the notion of the Roman city; what shaped it, and how it both structured and reflected Roman society. Roman Urbanism challenges the established economic model for the Roman city and instead offers original and...

Published January 5th 2011 by Routledge

Goddess and the Warrior

The Naked Goddess and Mistress of the Animals in Early Greek Religion

By Nanno Marinatos

A stimulating, provocative and lavishly illustrated analysis of the role of the naked goddess and the mistress of the animals within Greek religion. This book explores the power of naked females in the art of the Levant and Greece....

Published January 5th 2011 by Routledge

Ambitiosa Mors

Suicide and the Self in Roman Thought and Literature

By T. D. Hill

Series: Studies in Classics

Although the distinctive - and sometimes bizarre - means by which Roman aristocrats often chose to end their lives has attracted some scholarly attention in the past, most writers on the subject have been content to view this a s an irrational and inexplicable aspect of Roman culture. In this book,...

Published January 5th 2011 by Routledge

Byzantine Empresses

Women and Power in Byzantium AD 527-1204

By Lynda Garland

Byzantine Empresses provides a series of biographical portraits of the most significant Byzantine women who ruled or shared the throne between 527 and 1204. It presents and analyses the available historical data in order to outline what these empresses did, what the sources thought they did, and...

Published January 5th 2011 by Routledge

Death and Disease in the Ancient City

Edited by Valerie Hope, Eireann Marshall

This innovative volume draws on recent research in archaeology, ancient history and the history of medicine to discuss how people in the ancient world understood and dealt with illness and death in the urban environment....

Published January 5th 2011 by Routledge

Economies Beyond Agriculture in the Classical World

Edited by David J. Mattingly, John Salmon

Series: Leicester-Nottingham Studies in Ancient Society

This book presents a challenge to the long held view that the predominantly agricultural economies of ancient Greece and Rome were underdeveloped. It shows that the exploitation of natural resources, manufacturing and the building trade all made significant contributions to classical economies. It...

Published January 5th 2011 by Routledge

Aphrodite and Eros

The Development of Erotic Mythology in Early Greek Poetry and Cult

By Barbara Breitenberger

Series: Studies in Classics

An interdisciplinary analysis of the Archaic period--using literary, iconographical, and cultic evidence--shows the distinct concept behind the two deities of love. Aphrodite's character, sphere of influence, and function feature in her traditional myths and are well reflected in cult....

Published December 14th 2010 by Routledge

Between Rome and Persia

The Middle Euphrates, Mesopotamia and Palmyra Under Roman Control

By Peter Edwell

Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies

The conflict between the powerful Roman and Iranian empires arising from the extension of Roman power into today’s Middle East is coming into increasingly sharp focus, thanks to the amount of evidence now available. This richly illustrated book examines this evidence to reveal how Rome established...

Published November 29th 2010 by Routledge

Hyperboreans

Myth and History in Celtic-Hellenic Contacts

By Timothy P. Bridgman

Series: Studies in Classics

Published September 29th 2010 by Routledge

Actors and Audience in the Roman Courtroom

By Leanne Bablitz

Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies

What would you see if you attended a trial in a courtroom in the early Roman empire? What was the behaviour of litigants, advocates, judges and audience? It was customary for Roman individuals out of general interest to attend the various courts held in public places in the city centre and as such...

Published August 17th 2010 by Routledge

Passions and Moral Progress in Greco-Roman Thought

Edited by John T. Fitzgerald

Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies

This book contains a collection of 13 essays from leading scholars on the relationship between passionate emotions and moral advancement in Greek and Roman thought. Recognising that emotions played a key role in whether individuals lived happily, ancient philosophers...

Published August 17th 2010 by Routledge

Roman Imperial Identities in the Early Christian Era

By Judith Perkins

Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies

Through the close study of texts, Roman Imperial Identities in the Early Christian Era examines the overlapping emphases and themes of two cosmopolitan and multiethnic cultural identities emerging in the early centuries CE – a trans-empire alliance of the Elite and the "Christians." Exploring the...

Published August 17th 2010 by Routledge

The Eunuch in Byzantine History and Society

By Shaun Tougher

Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies

The existence of eunuchs was one of the defining features of the Byzantine Empire. Covering the whole span of the history of the empire, from the fourth to the fifteenth centuries AD, Shaun Tougher presents a comprehensive survey of the history and roles of eunuchs, making use of...

Published August 17th 2010 by Routledge

Being a Roman Citizen

By Jane F. Gardner

The status of citizen was increasingly the right of the majority in the Roman empire and brought important privileges and exemption from certain forms of punishment. However, not all Roman citizens were equal; for example bastards, freed persons, women, the physically and mentally handicapped,...

Published August 12th 2010 by Routledge

Augustus and the Family at the Birth of the Roman Empire

By Beth Severy

In this lively and detailed study, Beth Severy examines the relationship between the emergence of the Roman Empire and the status and role of this family in Roman society. The family is placed within the social and historical context of the transition from republic to empire, from Augustus' rise to...

Published June 28th 2010 by Routledge

Dacia

Landscape, Colonization and Romanization

By Ioana Oltean

Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies

Providing a detailed consideration of previous theories of native settlement patterns and the impact of Roman colonization, Dacia offers fresh insight into the province Dacia and the nature of Romanization. It analyzes Roman-native interaction from a landscape perspective focusing on the core...

Published May 31st 2010 by Routledge

From Feasting To Fasting

The Evolution of a Sin

By Veronika Grimm

Published April 11th 2010 by Routledge

Pliny on Art and Society

The Elder Pliny's Chapters On The History Of Art

By Jacob Isager

Pliny sketches a theory of advancing moral decline and extravagance, in the course of which he gives a detailed account of six centuries of classical art and a fascinating sketch of the world of the rich Roman collector. Isager's is the first full treatment of this subject for over a hundred years....

Published April 11th 2010 by Routledge

Ptolemy of Egypt

By Walter M. Ellis

Ptolemy was the creator of the longest lasting of the Hellenistic kingdoms. He created a state whose cultural importance was unparalleled until the coming of Rome. He encouraged the erection of the Pharos Lighthouse, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, as well as creating a library which...

Published April 11th 2010 by Routledge

The Second Sophistic

A Cultural Phenomenon in the Roman Empire

By Graham Anderson

Sophism was the single most important movement in second century literature: prose of that period came to be written as entertainment rather than confined to historical subjects. Graham Anderson shows how the Greek sophists' skills in public speaking enabled them to perform effectively across a...

Published December 16th 2009 by Routledge

Health in Antiquity

Edited by Helen King

How healthy were people in ancient Greece and Rome, and how did they think about maintaining and restoring their health? For students of classics, history or the history of medicine, answers to these and many previously untouched questions are dealt with by renowned ancient historians, classical...

Published December 10th 2009 by Routledge

Domitian

Tragic Tyrant

By Pat Southern

This is the first ever study to assess Emperor Domitian from a psychological point of view and covers his entire career from the early years and the civil war AD through the imperial rule to the dark years and the psychology of suspicion. Pat Southern strips away hyperbole and sensationalism from...

Published October 5th 2009 by Routledge

The Roman Remains of Northern and Eastern France

A Guidebook

By James Bromwich

This book provides a thorough, area by area companion to the region's wealth of monuments, excavations and artefacts, from Paris and Boulogne-sur-Mer to Strasbourg and Lyon. Over ninety sites are treated in detail, including major attractions such as the parc archéologique in Lyon and the...

Published October 5th 2009 by Routledge

The Roman House in Britain

By Dominic Perring

This authoritative and original work sets the results of recent archaeological research in the context of classical scholarship, as it explores three main aspects of Romano-British buildings: * general characteristics of form and structure* the ways in which they were built and decorated* the range...

Published September 2nd 2009 by Routledge

Sex in the Ancient World from A to Z

Edited by John Younger

Series: Ancient World from A to Z

In this fascinating and revealing A-to-Z, John G. Younger examines the sexual practices, expressions and attitudes of the Greeks and Romans, from Catullus and Caligula, to orgies and obscenity, and from abstinence and incest, to pederasty and prostitution.The book opens with an overview of current...

Published June 10th 2009 by Routledge

The Disease of Virgins

Green Sickness, Chlorosis and the Problems of Puberty

By Helen King

From an acclaimed author in the field, this is a compelling study of the origins and history of the disease commonly seen as afflicting young unmarried girls. Understanding of the condition turned puberty and virginity into medical conditions, and Helen King stresses the continuity of this disease...

Published May 15th 2009 by Routledge

Tragic Seneca

An Essay in the Theatrical Tradition

Edited by A. J. Boyle

Published May 15th 2009 by Routledge

Reading Epic

An Introduction to the Ancient Narratives

By Peter Toohey

Readers new to ancient epic are hampered in two ways: they do not know the ancient languages, and they are unfamiliar with the ancient world. This survey addresses the needs of these readers by offering guidance through the major classical writers of epic: it begins with Homer and concludes with an...

Published May 15th 2009 by Routledge

King Arthur in Antiquity

By Graham Anderson

This original and compelling study argues against the traditional identification of Arthur as a king in Celtic Britain. Instead, Graham Anderson explores the evidence for two much older figures, known to classical writers as kings of Arcadia and Lydia, over a millenium before. He shows how these...

Published May 15th 2009 by Routledge

Ancient Greek Cults

A Guide

By Jennifer Larson

Using archaeological, epigraphic, and literary sources; and incorporating current scholarly theories, this volume will serve as an excellent companion to any introduction to Greek mythology, showing a side of the Greek gods to which most students are rarely exposed. Detailed enough to be used as a...

Published October 9th 2008 by Routledge

Mesopotamia Before History

By Petr Charvát

Mesopotamia was one of the earliest regions to produce writing, literature and the fine arts, as well as being one of the first areas to construct states. This comprehensive and detailed survey of the region's prehistory and protohistory shows how these fascinating developments were possible.Petr...

Published September 12th 2008 by Routledge

Athens, Attica and the Megarid

An Archaeological Guide

By Hans Rupprecht Goette

This exciting new guide is the ideal companion to Greece if you are a traveller with historical and archaeological interests, as it combines practical information with impeccable scholarly research.Written by an expert on Greece's landscape and archaeology, the guide is unique in exploring a wide...

Published September 12th 2008 by Routledge

Britannia

The Creation of a Roman Province

By John Creighton

This book completely re-evaluates the evidence for, and the interpretation of, the rule of the kings of Late Iron Age Britain: Cunobelin and Verica. Within a few generations of their reigns, after one died and the other had fled, Rome’s ceremonial centres had been transformed into the magnificence...

Published September 12th 2008 by Routledge

Early Urbanism on the Syrian Euphrates

By Lisa Cooper

Studying archaeological evidence from sites covering over 200 kilometres of the banks of the Euphrates River, Lisa Cooper's excellent monograph explores the growth and development of human settlement in the Euphrates River Valley of Northern Syria during the Early and Middle Bronze Ages from circa...

Published September 12th 2008 by Routledge

Greek Mercenaries

From the Late Archaic Period to Alexander

By Matthew Trundle

This book provides a detailed picture of the life of these Greek mercenaries, analyzing who they were and from what section of society they came. It explores their motivations, their relationships and connections, both with each other and those with whom they served, and shows how mercenaries were...

Published September 10th 2008 by Routledge

Sport in the Ancient World from A to Z

By Mark Golden

Sport in the Ancient World from A to Z covers an extraordinarily wide range of Greek and Roman sporting activities. Arranged in an easy-to-use dictionary format, this volume includes more than 700 entries discussing ancient athletes, festivals, important sites, equipment and concepts. The approach...

Published September 7th 2008 by Routledge

Early Greek States Beyond the Polis

By Catherine Morgan

Clear and direct in style, and with more than eighty photographs, maps and plans, Early Greek States Beyond the Polis is a widely relevant study of Greek history, archaeology and society. Catherine Morgan addresses the different forms of association experienced by early Iron-Age and Archaic...

Published September 7th 2008 by Routledge

Bandits in the Roman Empire

Myth and Reality

By Thomas Grunewald

This wide-ranging and informative survey of 'outsider' groups in the Roman Empire will contribute greatly to our understanding of Roman social history. Examining men such as as Viriatus, Tacfarinus, Maternus and Bulla Felix, who were called latrones after clashing with the imperial authorities,...

Published September 7th 2008 by Routledge

Roman Berytus

Beirut in Late Antiquity

By Linda Jones Hall

Examining the numerous primary sources, including inscriptions, religions, histories, literary references, legal codes, and archaeological reports, Linda Jones Hall presents a composite history of late antique Berytus - from its founding as a Roman colony in the time of Augustus, to its development...

Published September 7th 2008 by Routledge

Rome and its Frontiers

The Dynamics of Empire

By C R Whittaker

Do the Romans have anything to teach us about the way that they saw the world, and the way they ran their empire? How did they deal with questions of frontiers and migration, so often in the news today?This collection of ten important essays by C. R. Whittaker, engages with debates and...

Published September 7th 2008 by Routledge

Early Riders

The Beginnings of Mounted Warfare in Asia and Europe

By Robert Drews

In this wide-ranging and often controversial book, Robert Drews examines the question of the origins of man's relations with the horse. He questions the belief that on the Eurasian steppes men were riding in battle as early as 4000 BC, and suggests that it was not until around 900 BC that men...

Published September 7th 2008 by Routledge

The Barbarian's Beverage

A History of Beer in Ancient Europe

By Max Nelson

Comprehensive and detailed, this is the first ever study of ancient beer and its distilling, consumption and characteristics Examining evidence from Greek and Latin authors from 700 BC to AD 900, the book demonstrates the important technological as well as ideological contributions the Europeans...

Published August 10th 2008 by Routledge

Through the Pillars of Herakles

Greco-Roman Exploration of the Atlantic

By Duane W. Roller

In this first study of the Greek and Roman exploration for over half a century, Duane W. Roller presents an important examination of the impact of the Greeks and Romans on the world through the Pillars of Herakles and beyond the Mediterranean. Roller chronicles a detailed account of the series of...

Published August 10th 2008 by Routledge

Boudicca's Heirs

Women in Early Britain

By Dorothy Watts

Affording a clearer depiction of women in the Late Iron Age and Roman Britain than currently exists, Dorothy Watts examines archaeological, inscriptional and literary evidence to present a unique assessment of women and their place during the Romanization of Britain. Analyzing information from...

Published August 10th 2008 by Routledge

Religion and Society in Roman Palestine

Old Questions, New Approaches

Edited by Douglas R. Edwards

This collection of papers combines important archaeological and textual evidence to examine diverse aspects of religion and society in Roman Palestine. A range of international experts provide an unprecedented look at issues of acculturation, assimilation and the preservation of difference in the...

Published August 7th 2008 by Routledge

Ancient Germanic Warriors

Warrior Styles from Trajan's Column to Icelandic Sagas

By Michael P. Speidel

Presenting a range of evidence for these diverse styles, from Roman art to early medieval bracteate amulets, and from classical texts to Beowulf, the Edda and Icelandic sagas, Professor Speidel here details seventeen different Germanic warriors styles, including berserks, wolf-warriors,...

Published August 7th 2008 by Routledge

European Paganism

By Ken Dowden

European Paganism provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of ancient pagan religions throughout the European continent.Before there where Christians, the peoples of Europe were pagans. Were they bloodthirsty savages hanging human offerings from trees? Were they happy ecologists, valuing...

Published March 31st 2008 by Routledge

The Roman Eastern Frontier and the Persian Wars AD 363-628

By Geoffrey Greatrex, Samuel N. C. Lieu

Late Antiquity was an eventful period on the eastern frontier of the Roman empire. From the failure of the Emperor Julian's invasion of Persia in 363 AD to the overwhelming victory of the Emperor Heraclius in 628, the Romans and Persians were engaged in almost constant conflict.This book, sequel to...

Published November 30th 2007 by Routledge