Classical Studies

With over 150 maps, illustrations and photographs, and a chronological table and glossary of key terms, The Ancient Greeks offers students a comprehensive introduction to the history and culture of the ancient Greek world for the period c.800-323 BC.

Now in it's 3rd edition, The Historians of Ancient Rome is the most comprehensive collection of ancient sources for Roman history available in a single English volume. The ideal resource for students and lecturers of undergraduate courses, as well as the general reader with an interest in Roman history

Click here to browse our new Classical Studies Catalog, including new and key titles for 2013. Remember that many of our titles are available as complimentary exam copies for instructors, just look for the blue button to order.

Praise for the first edition: "Graf and Johnston have put togetheran exciting study, one that will illuminate the shadowy darkness, not just for the initiate, but also for the uninitiated venturing for the first time into the world of the Bacchic gold tablets." - Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Fascinating texts written on small gold tablets that were deposited in graves provide a unique source of information about what some Greeks and Romans believed regarding the fate that awaited them after death, and how they could influence it. Providing the first book-length edition and discussion of these enigmatic texts in English, and their first English translation, this book is essential to the study of ancient Greek religion.

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This second edition of Ancient Medicines has been updated with key discoveries made since the publication of Nutton's first comprehensive survey of the medicine of the ancient world. Important texts discovered in recent finds of papyri and manuscripts alongside new research on Rufus and Galen, make this book required reading.

Praise for the 1st Edition (2004)

'This book is an essential tool for anyone interested in the history of Western medicine.' - Biblical Theology Bulletin
 

Click here to view the Routledge Worlds catalog, featuring The Sumerian World and The Etruscan World.

The Routledge Worlds are magisterial surveys of key historical epochs, edited and written by world-renowned experts. Giving unprecedented breadth and depth of coverage, they are the works against which all future books on their subjects will be judged and are essential reading for anyone with a serious interest in the subject.