For this article we've brought together a selection of our books about these Ancient sites, including Alison Cooley and M.G.L Cooley's forthcoming title Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Sourcebook (2nd Edtion)
We're also pleased to announce that Estelle Lazer, author of Resurrecting Pompeii will be giving a lecture as part of the British Museum's exhibition - follow this link to learn more.
The Revival provides the user with a detailed summary of the relationship between Byzantine art and modern art, as well as taking a detailed look at the iconoclast controversy. The book also considers how the Byzantine movement initiated the end of Hellenistic naturalism and prompted interpretational art to take its place across Europe.
In the remainder of the book, the Constantinopolitan Renascence is covered. A section of the book looks at how this event, combined with the increasing humanization of religious emotion, culminated in some key figures emerging – including Duccio and Giotto, as well as the equally important contemporaries, Mistra and Mount Athos. Throughout the third chapter of the book, there is a detailed look at the work of these influential artists. The book is concluded by finally resolving the mystery of El Greco.
An important piece of work for History of Arts and Classical Studies students and scholars, this book provides rare and extensive research on this critical period in art history across Europe, in Constantinople, Greece, Crete, Italy, and Spain.
With 94 black and white plates, the book provides the user with high quality images alongside critical evaluation and enlightening discussion on Byzantine art as a movement that has impacted artists throughout the ages.
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]]>This book has two aims.The first is to bring some of the women he mentions and addresses to the foreground, and to investigate their social and cultural environment to gain a better understanding not only of their lives, but also of Roman society more generally. The second aim is to use the information in these letters to acquire a better understanding of what behavior was admired in Roman women of the time, and to investigate how the concept of the model Roman woman is constructed in Pliny and elsewhere in Roman literary sources.
]]>In this landmark publication of Roman Imperial, early Christian, and Byzantine history, Charles Odahl combines vivid narrative and historical analysis to relate the rise of Constantine amid the crises of the late Roman world, his dramatic conversion to and public patronage of Christianity, and his church building programs in Rome, Jerusalem and Constantinople which transformed the pagan state of Roman antiquity into the Christian empire medieval Byzantium.
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The author’s comprehensive knowledge of the literary sources and his extensive research into the material remains of the period mean that this volume provides a more rounded and accurate portrait of Constantine than previously available.
This revised second edition includes:
•An expanded and revised final chapter
•A new Genealogy and an expanded Chronology
•New illustrations
•Revised and updated Notes and Bibliography
Concentrating on not only the child's own experience, but also examining the perceptions of children and childhood by Athenian society, this study covers the juvenile life course from birth and infancy through early and later childhood, and treats these life stages according to the topics of nurture, play, education, work, cult and ritual, and death.
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It is November already! Crazy. The year has really flown by and before long we will be into 2012. We are sure everyone is looking forward to a nice end-of-year rest and a chance to let your hair down. Before it is quite time to break out the New Year's champagne, however, we would like to bring you the brand new 2012 Reference Catalog, hot off the press and available for download today. Look out for all our social media links, divided by subject area, dotted throughout the Catalog. If you use Facebook or Twitter, there could be something for you!
2011 has been a busy year for Routledge Reference. The Routledge Revivals series, which reissues a wide range of out-of-print titles, has grown to include over 350 titles, all of which are available in hardback and as eBooks. And you can now purchase Revivals as subject-specific bundles within Sociology, Philosophy, Literature, Economics and Politics. Is there a bundle that could benefit your library?
We are expecting the next few months to be equally busy. In December we publish our long-awaited Education set, which boasts contributions from some of the greatest educationalists, teaching professionals and policy makers of the twentieth century. You can get the full low down on the 244-volume Education collection by taking a peek at its new dedicated Online Catalog.
And December will also see the publication of the last of our 2012 Europa Regional Surveys of the World. Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia 2012 and The USA and Canada 2012 will be published on the 8th and 15th December respectively. Again, to make life easier, we have put together a snazzy Online Catalog for this collection. In fact, Online Catalogs have been one of our big projects this year, to avoid sending you too many printed pieces (and saving trees in the process!). In the relevant sections of the Reference Catalog you will find screenshots explaining how you can access all our new Online Catalog. Enjoy!
To download the 2012 Reference Catalog in full, just follow this link. Alternatively, if you would like to receive a print copy of the Catalog, please email us at reference@routledge.com with your name and address and we will happily send you one!
]]>It is almost November already! Crazy. The year has really flown by and before long we will be into 2012. We are sure everyone is looking forward to a nice end-of-year rest and a chance to let your hair down. Before it is quite time to break out the New Year's champagne, however, we would like to bring you the brand new 2012 Reference Catalogue, hot off the press and available for download today. Look out for all our social media links, divided by subject area, dotted throughout the Catalogue. If you use Facebook or Twitter, there could be something for you!
2011 has been a busy year for Routledge Reference. The Routledge Revivals series, which reissues a wide range of out-of-print titles, has grown to include over 350 titles, all of which are available in hardback and as eBooks. And you can now purchase Revivals as subject-specific bundles within Sociology, Philosophy, Literature, Economics and Politics. Is there a bundle that could benefit your library?
We are expecting the next few months to be equally busy. In December we publish our long-awaited Education set, which boasts contributions from some of the greatest educationalists, teaching professionals and policy makers of the twentieth century. You can get the full low down on the 244-volume Education collection by taking a peek at its new dedicated Online Catalogue.
And December will also see the publication of the last of our 2012 Europa Regional Surveys of the World. Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia 2012 and The USA and Canada 2012 will be published on the 8th and 15th December respectively. Again, to make life easier, we have put together a snazzy Online Catalogue for this collection. In fact, Online Catalogues have been one of our big projects this year, to avoid sending you too many printed pieces (and saving trees in the process!). In the relevant sections of the Reference Catalogue you will find screenshots explaining how you can access all our new Online Catalogues. Enjoy!
To download the 2012 Reference Catalogue in full, just follow this link. Alternatively, if you would like to receive a print copy of the Catalogue, please email us at reference@routledge.com with your name and address and we will happily send you one!
]]>Available now for the first time as e-books, these maps can be viewed on your computer or tablet in high resolution detail. View our online catalogue to find out more.
Using the world renowned geographic data from the Ancient World Mapping Centre, Routledge Wall Maps for the Ancient World offer sweeping views of the ancient world that allow students to understand important concepts such as trade, movement, spatial and cultural relations and to consider how the ancient terrain would have affected them. The maps provide a powerful tool for comprehending how the ancient world worked, and also to help re-evaluate out-dated theories in light of precise geographic information.
Maps in the series include:
Visit or e-book store to purchase. Libraries and Institutions should order from the T&F Bookstore.
]]>By examining the ways in which Virgil bases his own epic project on the dynamic interaction between the two Homeric poems themselves, Edan Dekel proposes a system in which the Aeneid uses the Odyssey both as a conceptual model for writing an intertextual epic and as a powerful refracting lens for the specific interpretation of the Iliad and its consequences.
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]]>Offering a wide range of materials and study tools for both you and your students, the Ancient Cities companion site includes:
Visit the companion site today to preview these and other resources.
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I read this book while teaching a class on Cicero and Catiline for the first time. As I went through the book, I kept putting in little slips of paper to mark fascinating points or clever observations that I wanted to incorporate the next time I taught the class. When I got halfway through the book and looked at the number of markers I had put in, I realized that, if I do teach the class again, I will just tell all of the students to buy this book and read it before they read anything else.
Odahl says in the introduction that his goal is to "offer a readable, up-to-date, and definitive account of an important episode in Roman History" (x), and he more than fulfills it. This book is highly useful either as something to be given to a student encountering the Catilinarian Conspiracy for the first time or as a refresher for someone who knows more about it. Odahl's format of basic information in the book itself, with detailed information saved for the long notes at the back of the book works well; a student learning about the Conspiracy won't get bogged down in details and scholarly quibbling, but someone who knows more about the topic can easily find detailed discussions of complicated points. He also manages to strike a difficult balance in his use of Latin quotes: he does not use so many that the page becomes too dense for someone who may not be able to read Latin, but still uses enough to illustrate the fine nuances of what people said.
The book starts out with a clear discussion of the sources of our information and their strengths and weaknesses. From there, it moves on to a discussion of the background of the era, then a discussion of Catiline, Cicero, the conspiracy itself, Cicero's victory, and the aftermath. The treatment of Cicero's speeches is especially strong; Odahl gives clear summaries, pointing out the background of what he is saying and what makes Cicero's words so inflammatory. He keeps the action moving forward at all times, bringing suspense and life into familiar details. His treatment of the conspiracy is logical and orderly.
The book has a distinctly non-neutral tone to it. Reading it, one gets a sense of the author, his fondness for history, and his often sarcastic and amused take on the events that happened. This doe snot interfere with the information presented (and it may even be necessary when writing about Cicero), but it is a distinct difference from the more neutral view that is often common.
To move into minor quibbles, the pictures and maps are sometimes odd choices; although most of them are standard statues and busts, with the Maccari fresco, there are landscape pictures of Catiline's bathhouse (Ill. 7), the hills where his army assembled for battle (Ill. 8), and, oddly enough, an "Aerial of Rome over the Colosseum to the Forum." (Ill. 4). Although the pictures of the countryside are interesting and give the reader an idea of what the area looked like, they are not as clear as the high contrast statues. It would have strengthened the book if these pictures had been replaced by more discussion of the aftermath; by the end of the book, one does not want it to end.
Odahl's book is strong and useful as an introduction to the Catilinarian Conspiracy, but the strong notes and clear text make it a good reference for those who are more familiar with the era as well.
In this new edition, you'll find:
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]]>We can now offer many of our books for examination online. If you would like to inspect our books via this innovative, student-friendly format, simply select this option in the complimentary exam copy request form, give your full course details and, upon authorization, you will be able to view the book from any PC with Internet access. Furthermore, you will be able to annotate and highlight parts of the book, and share the online edition with your colleagues.
If the book is recommended to your students according to the terms, you may choose to be sent a gratis print copy or to have permanent access to the online edition. With our new online examination service you can review our texts more quickly and easily, meaning you have more time to make the appropriate decision for your students’ needs.
The Taylor & Francis eBookstore features a vast collection of titles that you can download in the current popular formats. For libraries, our institutional eBook deals offer flexibility, with a range of subject collections, the option to 'pick and mix' packages, and the ability to subscribe or purchase outright.
The subject of graffiti is not one that comes to mind when one thinks about ancient Greece or Rome. Ancient Graffiti in Context addresses this neglected area of study.
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