Classical Studies

The Animal and the Human in Ancient Thought

By Stephen Newmyer

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

Ancient Medicine

2nd Edition

By Vivian Nutton

Series: Sciences of Antiquity Series

The first edition of Ancient Medicine was the most complete examination of the medicine of the ancient world for a hundred years. The new edition includes the key discoveries made since the first edition, especially from important texts discovered in recent finds of papyri and manuscripts, making...

Published October 31st 2012 by Routledge

Plato's Dialectic on Woman

Equal, Therefore Inferior

By Elena Blair

Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies

With the birth of the feminist movement classicists, philosophers, educational experts, and psychologists, all challenged by the question of whether or not Plato was a feminist, began to examine Plato’s dialogues in search of his conception of woman. The possibility arose of a new focus affecting...

Published May 20th 2012 by Routledge

Ancient Philosophy

A Contemporary Introduction

By Christopher Shields

Series: Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy

In this re-titled and substantially revised update of his Classical Philosophy (2003), Christopher Shields expands his coverage to include the Hellenistic era, and now offers an introduction to more than 1,000 years of ancient philosophy. From Thales and other Pre-Socratics through Socrates,...

Published November 22nd 2011 by Routledge

Encyclopedia of Ancient Natural Scientists

The Greek Tradition and its Many Heirs

Edited by Paul T. Keyser, Georgia L. Irby-Massie

The Encyclopedia of Ancient Natural Scientists is the first comprehensive English language work to provide a survey of all ancient natural science, from its beginnings through the end of Late Antiquity. A team of over 100 of the world’s experts in the field have compiled this Encyclopedia,...

Published September 6th 2011 by Routledge

Animals in Greek and Roman Thought

A Sourcebook

By Stephen Newmyer

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

Time in Antiquity

By Robert Hannah

Series: Sciences of Antiquity Series

Time in Antiquity explores the different perceptions of time from Classical antiquity, principally through the technology designed to measure, mark or tell time. The material discussed ranges from the sixth century BC in archaic Greece to the 3rd century AD in the Roman Empire, and offers...

Published November 24th 2008 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 November 25th 2007 by Routledge

Ancient Ethics

By Susan Sauvé Meyer

This is the first comprehensive guide and only substantial undergraduate level introduction to ancient Greek and Roman ethics.It covers the ethical theories and positions of all the major philosophers (including Socrates, Plato and Aristotle) and schools (Stoics and Epicureans) from the...

Published October 31st 2007 by Routledge

Animals, Gods and Humans

Changing Attitudes to Animals in Greek, Roman and Early Christian Thought

By Ingvild Saelid Gilhus

Consulting a wide range of key texts and source material, Animals, Gods and Humans covers 800 years and provides a detailed analysis of early Christian attitudes to, and the position of, animals in Greek and Roman life and thought. Both the pagan and Christian conceptions of animals...

Published February 15th 2006 by Routledge

Epictetus’ Handbook and the Tablet of Cebes

Guides to Stoic Living

By Keith Seddon

This new translation presents two works, one by Epictetus and the other by Cebes, two ancient Greek philosophers of the Imperial period, in new translations of clear, straightforward English. In this book, readers will learn how to sustain emotional harmony and a ‘good flow of...

Published November 7th 2005 by Routledge

Philosophy in Late Antiquity

By Andrew Smith

Philosophy in Late Antiquity provides an essential new introduction to the key ideas of the Neoplatonists, which affected approaches to Plato as late as the nineteenth century. Andrew Smith shows how they influenced Christian thought and his approach not only allows us to appreciate these...

Published June 23rd 2004 by Routledge