Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
Crisis and Resilience in Ancient Greek Alliances: Cross-Border Cooperation
1st Edition
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By Elena Franchi, Angela Ganter, Felix K. Maier
August 28, 2026
This is the first book to explore ancient Greek alliances in terms of both crisis and resilience, offering readers a deeper understanding of how such alliances were formed, dissolved and re-established. The chapters in this volume understand disputes between Greek allies not simply as precursors to...
Body Behaviour and Identity Construction in Ancient Greek and Roman Literature
1st Edition
By Andreas Serafim
August 27, 2026
This book offers the first systematic, up-to-date, cross-cultural, and detailed study of “semi-volitional bodily behaviour” (sneezing, spitting, coughing, burping, vomiting, defecating, etc.) in the classical world. Examining verse and prose texts, fragments, and scholia from the age of Homer to ...
Generic Enrichment in Plutarch’s Lives
1st Edition
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By Chrysanthos S. Chrysanthou, Timothy E. Duff
August 27, 2026
This volume addresses the important literary phenomenon of ‘generic enrichment’ in Plutarch’s Parallel Lives. It examines the ways in which features of other genres are deployed and incorporated in Plutarch’s biographies and the effects of this on the texts themselves and readers’ responses to them...
Visions of the Future in Roman Frontier Kingdoms 100 BCE–100 CE
1st Edition
By Richard Teverson
August 27, 2026
This is the first book-length exploration of the ways art from the edges of the Roman Empire represented the future, examining visual representations of time and the role of artwork in Roman imperial systems. This book focuses on four kingdoms from across the empire: Cottius’s Alpine kingdom in the...
Poetics and Religion in Pindar: Ambits of Performance and Cult
1st Edition
By Agis Marinis
May 22, 2026
This book delves into the intricate and, as argued, essential relationship between poetics and religion in Pindar. It explores how performance, cult, and religious attitudes intersect, offering readers a nuanced approach to Pindaric poetry concerning the relationship between mortals and the divine....
Time and Chronology in Creation Narratives
1st Edition
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By Silvie Kilgallon, Fiona Mitchell
May 22, 2026
This book explores the ways in which the origins of time, of the gods, and processes associated with time were conceptualised in antiquity, examining a variety of ancient sources from across the ancient world and addressing issues surrounding the sources themselves. Time is a key framework through ...
Female Agency and Virtue in the Odyssey
1st Edition
By Elizabeth Stockdale
March 31, 2026
This is the first work that examines the actions and conduct of both immortal and mortal female figures in the Odyssey, and how they are valued within the Odyssean world. Engaging with feminist literary criticism and feminist virtue ethics, the book provides readers with an insight into the actions...
The Pharos Lighthouse In Alexandria: Second Sun and Seventh Wonder of Antiquity
1st Edition
By Andrew Michael Chugg
December 26, 2025
This comprehensive and insightful book brings scientific rigor to the problems of reconstructing the Pharos Lighthouse, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and understanding how it functioned as the archetypal lighthouse in antiquity, when it was described as a “second Sun”. Conceived by...
Graeco-Roman Horror and its Modern Reception: Unleashing Classical Dread
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By Isidro Molina Zorrilla, Nuno Simões Rodrigues, Vasileios Balaskas
December 18, 2025
This volume introduces a fresh exploration of Classical literature, examining its engagement with personal or collective tragedy, horrific events, and fear-inflicting episodes. It explores the different ways fear, terror, and horror have been manifested in Graeco-Roman culture and their reception. ...
Maxwell Anderson and the Classical Tradition: The Muses in America
1st Edition
By Robert J. Rabel
April 15, 2025
This book sheds new light on the dramatic works of the American playwright, poet, and lyricist Maxwell Anderson, assessing the pervasive influence of Greek and Roman antiquity on his plays that dominated Broadway in the first half of the twentieth century. Anderson is an important, though often ...
Making Time for Greek and Roman Literature
1st Edition
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By Kate Gilhuly, Jeffrey P. Ulrich
April 14, 2025
The essays in this collection explore various various models of representing temporality in ancient Greek and Roman literature to elucidate how structures of time communicate meaning, as well as the way that the cultural impact of measured time is reflected in ancient texts. This collection serves ...
New Essays on Aristotle’s Organon
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By António Pedro Mesquita, Ricardo Santos
April 14, 2025
This collection of new essays by an international group of scholars closely examines the works of Aristotle’s Organon. The Organon is the general title given to the collection of Aristotle’s logical works: Categories, De Interpretatione, Prior Analytics, Posterior Analytics, Topics, and Sophistical...