Ancient Society and Culture
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Animals in the Ancient World from A to Z
Series: Ancient World from A to Z
Even a reader who has but the most casual acquintance with Classical Antiquity is aware of the animals which inhabit its art, architecture, and literature. Animals in the Ancient World from A to Z offers a fascinating dictionary and work of reference, of interest to classicists as well as ...
To Be Published July 30th 2013 by Routledge
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Birds in the Ancient World from A to Z
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 August 14th 2007 by Routledge
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Food in the Ancient World from A to Z
Series: Ancient World from A to Z
Sensual yet pre-eminently functional, food is of intrinsic interest to us all. This exciting new work by a leading authority explores food and related concepts in the Greek and Roman worlds. In entries ranging from a few lines to a couple of pages, Andrew Dalby describes individual foodstuffs (such...
Published May 7th 2003 by Routledge
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Greek and Roman Dress from A to Z
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 October 31st 2007 by Routledge
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Sex in the Ancient World from A to Z
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 October 6th 2004 by Routledge
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Sport in the Ancient World from A to Z
Series: Ancient World from A to Z
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 24th 2003 by Routledge
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Cornelia
Mother of the Gracchi
Series: Women of the Ancient World
Examining the remarkable life of Cornelia, famed as the epitome of virtue, fidelity and intelligence, Suzanne Dixon presents an in-depth study of the woman who perhaps represented the ideal of the Roman matrona more than any other. Studying her life during a period of political turmoil, Dixon...
Published May 20th 2007 by Routledge
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Julia Domna
Syrian Empress
Series: Women of the Ancient World
This book covers Julia’s life, and charts her travels throughout the Empire from Aswan to York during a period of profound upheaval, and seeks the truth about this woman who inspired such extreme and contrasting views, exposing the instability of our sources about her, and characterizing a...
Published May 9th 2007 by Routledge
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Terentia, Tullia and Publilia
The Women of Cicero's Family
Series: Women of the Ancient World
Studying references and writings in over 900 personal letters, an unparalleled source, this book presents a rounded and intriguing account of the three women who, until now, have only survived as secondary figures to Cicero. In a field where little is really known about Cicero’s family, Susan...
Published April 11th 2007 by Routledge
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Julia Augusti
Series: Women of the Ancient World
This scholarly biography details the life of an extraordinary woman in an extraordinary society. Julia Augusti studies the life of the only daughter of Augustus, the first Roman emperor, and the father who sacrificed his daughter and her children in order to establish a dynasty. Studying the...
Published June 20th 2006 by Routledge
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Olympias
Mother of Alexander the Great
Series: Women of the Ancient World
The definitive guide to the life of the first woman to play a major role in Greek political history, this is the first modern biography of Olympias. Presenting a critical assessment of a fascinating and wholly misunderstood figure, Elizabeth Carney penetrates myth, fiction and sexual politics and...
Published June 7th 2006 by Routledge
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Consumerism in the Ancient Mediterranean
Imports and Identity Construction
Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
Study of long-distance trade in Greek pottery traces its intellectual roots back to twentieth-century investigations of Greek colonization. Scholarship until 1980 tended to treat colonial interactions as a straightforward and one-way transmission of Greek culture to indigenous groups. In this model...
To Be Published September 14th 2013 by Routledge
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Plutarch and Athens
Whilst students of Greek history enjoy Plutarch’s biographies of Athenian statesmen, they often feel overwhelmed by the detail and are puzzled by questions of reliability, sources and purpose. Plutarch and Athens responds to the needs of both teachers and students by giving a clear up-to-date...
To Be Published December 30th 2013 by Routledge
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Athens
A University City
Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
In the late fifth century BC, Athens' prosperity was a magnet for ambitious teachers, and increasingly for students also. They came to experience and acquire the Athenian culture, the mark of "civilised" humanity. At Athens they could sample many teachers: experts in history, poetry, cosmology,...
To Be Published November 30th 2013 by Routledge
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Banishment in the Later Roman Empire, 284-476 CE
Series: Routledge Studies in Ancient History
This book offers a reconstruction and interpretation of banishment in the final era of a unified Roman Empire, 284-476 CE. Author Daniel Washburn argues that exile was both a penalty and a symbol. It applied to those who committed a misstep or crossed the wrong person; it also stood as a marker of...
Published November 12th 2012 by Routledge
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Childhood in Ancient Athens
Iconography and Social History
Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
Childhood in Ancient Athens offers an in-depth study of children during the heyday of the Athenian city state, thereby illuminating a significant social group largely ignored by most ancient and modern authors alike. It concentrates not only on the child's own experience, but also examines the...
Published July 26th 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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Early Christian Dress
Gender, Virtue, and Authority
Series: Routledge Studies in Ancient History
Early Christian Dress is the first full-length monograph on the subject of dress in early Christianity. It pays attention to the ways in which dress expressed and shaped Christian identity, the role dress played in Christians’ rivalries with pagan neighbours, and especially to the ways in which...
Published June 13th 2011 by Routledge
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Ancient Cities
The Archaeology of Urban Life in the Ancient Near East and Egypt, Greece and Rome, 2nd Edition
Ancient Cities surveys the cities of the Ancient Near East, Egypt, and the Greek and Roman worlds from the perspectives of archaeology and architectural history, bringing to life the physical world of ancient city dwellers by concentrating on evidence recovered from archaeological excavations....
Published March 16th 2011 by Routledge
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Ancient Graffiti in Context
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 October 11th 2010 by Routledge
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The Roman Garden
Space, Sense, and Society
Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
This innovative book is the first comprehensive study of ancient Roman gardens to combine literary and archaeological evidence with contemporary space theory. It applies a variety of interdisciplinary methods including access analysis, literary and gender theory to offer a critical framework for...
Published June 18th 2009 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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Roman Imperial Identities in the Early Christian Era
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 2008 by Routledge
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The World of Pompeii
This all embracing survey of Pompeii provides the most comprehensive survey of the region available. With contributions by well-known experts in the field, this book studies not only Pompeii, but also – for the first time – the buried surrounding cities of Campania. The World of Pompeii includes...
Published June 16th 2008 by Routledge
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Dress and the Roman Woman
Self-Presentation and Society
In ancient Rome, the subtlest details in dress helped to distinguish between levels of social and moral hierarchy. Clothes were a key part of the sign systems of Roman civilization – a central aspect of its visual language, for women as well as men. This engaging book collects and examines artistic...
Published April 23rd 2008 by Routledge
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Images of Ancient Greek Pederasty
Boys Were Their Gods
This lavishly illustrated book brings together, for the first time, all of the different ways in which vase-painting portrays or refers to pederasty, from scenes of courtship, foreplay, and sex, to scenes of Zeus with his boy-love Ganymede, to painted inscriptions praising the beauty of boys. ...
Published April 15th 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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Roman Social History
A Sourcebook
Series: Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World
This Sourcebook contains a comprehensive collection of sources on the topic of the social history of the Roman world during the late Republic and the first two centuries AD. Designed to form the basis for courses in Roman social history, this excellent resource covers original translations ...
Published October 22nd 2007 by Routledge
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Penal Practice and Penal Policy in Ancient Rome
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 February 12th 2007 by Routledge
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Roman Pompeii
Space and Society, 2nd Edition
In this fully revised and updated edition of Roman Pompeii, Dr. Laurence looks at the latest archaeological and literary evidence relating to the city of Pompeii from the viewpoint of architect, geographer and social scientist. Enhancing our general understanding of the Roman world, this new...
Published December 17th 2006 by Routledge
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Great Women of Imperial Rome
Mothers and Wives of the Caesars
Drawing from a broad range of documentation this book vividly characterizes eleven royal women who are brought visually to life through photographs of over 300 ancient coins and through the author's own illustrations. Spanning the period from the death of Julius Caesar in 44BC to the third century...
Published November 8th 2006 by Routledge
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Globalizing Roman Culture
Unity, Diversity and Empire
Richard Hingley here asks the questions: What is Romanization? Was Rome the first global culture?Romanization has been represented as a simple progression from barbarism to civilization. Roman forms in architecture, coinage, language and literature came to dominate the world from Britain to Syria....
Published March 13th 2005 by Routledge
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Pompeii
A Sourcebook
Series: Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World
This book presents translations of a wide selection of written records which survived the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, giving a vivid impression of what life was like in the town. From the labels on wine jars to scribbled insults, and from advertisements for gladiatorial contests to love...
Published March 31st 2004 by Routledge