Greek and Latin Literature
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Apuleius and Africa
Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
The Metamorphoses or Golden Ass of Apuleius (ca. 170 CE) is a Latin novel written by a native of Madauros in Roman North Africa, roughly equal to modern Tunisia together with parts of Libya and Algeria. Apuleius’ novel is based on the model of a lost Greek novel; it narrates the adventures of a...
To Be Published June 29th 2013 by Routledge
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The Animal and the Human in Ancient Thought
Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
Ancient Greeks endeavored to define the human being vis-à-vis other animal species by isolating capacities and endowments which they considered to be unique to humans. This approach toward defining the human being still appears with surprising frequency, in modern philosophical treatises, in modern...
To Be Published June 15th 2013 by Routledge
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Roman Literature, Gender and Reception
Domina Illustris
Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
This cutting-edge collection of essays offers provocative studies of ancient history, literature, gender identifications and roles, and subsequent interpretations of the republican and imperial Roman past. The prose and poetry of Cicero and Petronius, Lucretius, Virgil, and Ovid receive fresh...
To Be Published March 19th 2013 by Routledge
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Roman Theories of Translation
Surpassing the Source
Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
For all that Cicero is often seen as the father of translation theory, his and other Roman comments on translation are often divorced from the complicated environments that produced them. The first book-length study in English of its kind, Roman Theories of Translation: Surpassing the Source...
Published November 27th 2012 by Routledge
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Classical Literature
An Introduction
Series: Aspects of Classical Civilization
Classical Literature: An Introduction provides a series of essays on all the major authors of Greek and Latin literature, as well as on a number of writers less often read. An introductory chapter provides information on important general topics, such as poetic metres, patronage and symposia. The...
Published May 9th 2011 by Routledge
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Latin for the Illiterati, Second Edition
A Modern Guide to an Ancient Language
This revised and updated edition includes a brand new foreword by Richard LaFleur and more than fifteen hundred new entries and abbreviations. Organized alphabetically within the categories of verba (common words and expressions), dicta (common phrases and familiar sayings), and abbreviations,...
Published June 22nd 2009 by Routledge
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Greek Tragedy
Series: Routledge Classics
'Two things give Kitto's classic book its enduring freshness: he pioneered the approach to Greek drama through internal artistry and thematic form, and he always wrote in lively and readable English.' - Oliver Taplin, University of Oxford, UK Why did Aeschylus characterize differently from...
Published March 22nd 2011 by Routledge
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Roman Tragedy
The first detailed cultural and theatrical history of a major literary form, this landmark introduction examines Roman tragedy and its place at the centre of Rome’s cultural and political life. Analyzing the work of such names as Ennius, Pacuvius and Accius, as well as Seneca and his post-Neronian...
Published October 6th 2005 by Routledge
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Three Plays by Aristophanes
Staging Women, 2nd Edition
Series: The New Classical Canon
These three plays by the great comic playwright Aristophanes (c. 446-386 BCE), the well-known Lysistrata, and the less familiar Women at the Thesmophoria and Assemblywomen, are the earliest surviving portrayals of contemporary women in the European literary tradition. These plays provide a unique...
Published February 3rd 2010 by Routledge
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Euripides, Women and Sexuality
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
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Virgil's Homeric Lens
Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
Virgil’s Homeric Lens reevaluates the traditional view of the Aeneid’s relationship to Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. Almost since the death of Virgil, there has been an assumption that the Aeneid breaks into two discrete halves: Virgil’s Odyssey, and Virgil’s Iliad. Although modified in various ways...
Published July 26th 2011 by Routledge
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Ambitiosa Mors
Suicide and the Self in Roman Thought and Literature
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
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Aphrodite and Eros
The Development of Erotic Mythology in Early Greek Poetry and Cult
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
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The Septuagint and Homeric Scholarship in Alexandria
A Study in the Narrative of the 'Letter of Aristeas'
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
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Theory for Classics
A Student's Guide
This student's guide is a clear and concise handbook to the key connections between Classical Studies and critical theory in the twentieth century. Louise Hitchcock looks at the way Classics has been engaged across a number of disciplines. Beginning with four...
Published January 9th 2008 by Routledge
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Greek and Roman Military Writers
Selected Readings
Series: Routledge Classical Translations
Brian Campbell has selected and translated a wide range of pieces from the ancient military writers who tell us about the technical aspects of military practice and the management of armies. The pieces cover a fascinating range of topics - battle formations and manoeuvres, different types of troops...
Published September 1st 2004 by Routledge
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Ctesias' 'History of Persia'
Tales of the Orient
Series: Routledge Classical Translations
Towards the end of the fifth century BC Ctesias of Cnidus wrote his 23 book History of Persia. Ctesias is a remarkable figure: he lived and worked in the Persian court and, as a doctor, tended to the world’s most powerful kings and queens. His position gave him special insight into the workings of...
Published August 29th 2012 by Routledge
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The History of Zonaras
From Alexander Severus to the Death of Theodosius the Great
Series: Routledge Classical Translations
While an exile from Constantinople, the twelfth-century Byzantine functionary and canonist John Zonaras culled earlier chronicles and histories to compose an account of events from creation to the reign of Alexius Comnenus. For topics where his sources are lost or appear elsewhere in more...
Published September 6th 2011 by Routledge
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Ancient Greek Literary Letters
Selections in Translation
Series: Routledge Classical Translations
The first referenece to letter writing occurs in the first text of western literature, Homer's Iliad. From the very beginning, Greeks were enthusiastic letter writers, and letter writing became a distinct literary genre. Letters were included in the works of historians but they also formed the...
Published January 18th 2006 by Routledge
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The Lost History of Peter the Patrician
An Account of Rome’s Imperial Past from the Age of Justinian
Series: Routledge Classical Translations
The Lost History of Peter the Patrician provides an annotated translation from the Greek of the fragments of the lost History of Peter the Patrician (ca. 500-565) and of additional fragments sometimes attributed to Peter, though since the 19th century more often referred to as the work of the Roman...
To Be Published November 30th 2013 by Routledge
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Life and Letters in the Ancient Greek World
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 November 13th 2008 by Routledge
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Utopia Antiqua
Readings of the Golden Age and Decline at Rome
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
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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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Essential Latin
This is the ideal introduction, or re-introduction, to the world of ancient Rome for students and armchair enthusiasts alike. With a modern, user-friendly approach, the author presents a comprehensive survey of the language, life, history and customs of a culture that continues to influence our...
Published October 27th 1999 by Routledge
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Metafiction in Classical Literature
The Invention of Self-Conscious Fiction
Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
Metafiction, the practice in fictional texts of displaying an awareness of their fictional status, highlighting it, or even exploring it after the manner of literary criticism, existed in ancient Greek and Roman literature. The significance of metafiction to this field is very great—arguably even...
To Be Published June 29th 2013 by Routledge
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Apuleius and Africa
Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
The Metamorphoses or Golden Ass of Apuleius (ca. 170 CE) is a Latin novel written by a native of Madauros in Roman North Africa, roughly equal to modern Tunisia together with parts of Libya and Algeria. Apuleius’ novel is based on the model of a lost Greek novel; it narrates the adventures of a...
To Be Published June 29th 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