Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
Nostalgias for Homer in Greek Literature of the Roman Empire
1st Edition
By Vincent Tomasso
April 14, 2025
This volume investigates how versions of Trojan War narratives written in Greek in the first through fifth centuries C.E. created nostalgias for audiences. In ancient education, the Iliad and the Odyssey were used as models through which students learned Greek language and literature. This, ...
The Geographical Guide of Ptolemy of Alexandria: An Analysis
1st Edition
By Duane W. Roller
April 14, 2025
This volume offers a detailed study of Ptolemy of Alexandria’s Geographical Guide, whose eight books contain a wealth of geographical information unavailable elsewhere and represent the culmination of the Greco-Roman discipline of geography. Written near the middle of the second century ad, the ...
Aristotle in Japan: Reception, Interpretation and Application
1st Edition
Edited
By Tomohiko Kondo, Koji Tachibana
March 20, 2025
This is the first volume to explore the modern reception and contemporary relevance of Aristotle and his philosophy in Japan, making it a valuable contribution to both global Aristotelian studies and studies of Japanese philosophical traditions. The study of Aristotle’s philosophy in Japan is ...
Didactic Literature in the Roman World
1st Edition
Edited
By T. H. M. Gellar-Goad, Christopher B. Polt
March 13, 2025
This book collects new work on Latin didactic poetry and prose in the late Republic and early Empire, and it evaluates the varied, shifting roles that literature of teaching and learning played during this period. Instruction was of special interest in the culture and literature of the late Roman ...
Revelation and Material Religion in the Roman East: Essays in Honor of Steven J. Friesen
1st Edition
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By Nathan Leach, Daniel Charles Smith, Tony Keddie
March 13, 2025
This collection of essays from a diverse group of internationally recognized scholars builds on the work of Steven J. Friesen to analyze the material and ideological dimensions of John’s Apocalypse and the religious landscape of the Roman East. Readers will gain new perspectives on the ...
The Greeks in Iberia and their Mediterranean Context
1st Edition
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By Jens A. Krasilnikoff, Benedict Lowe
March 13, 2025
This volume explores the effects of Greek presence in the Iberian Peninsula, and how this Iberian Greek experience evolved in resonance with its neighbouring region, the Mediterranean West. Contributions cover the Phocaean settlement at Emporion and its relationship with the indigenous hinterland, ...
Encounters with Greek Art: Image, Text, and the Invention of Identities in Rome and Roman Italy, 146 BCE-117 CE
1st Edition
By Carolyn MacDonald
March 06, 2025
Encounters with Greek Art sheds new light on the invention of ancient identities by focusing on encounters between viewers and artworks swept to Italy on the tides of Roman imperialism between 146 BCE and 117 CE. Bringing globalization theory to bear on a wide range of texts and images, MacDonald ...
A Cognitive Analysis of the Main Apolline Divinatory Practices: Decoding Divination
1st Edition
By Giulia Frigerio
December 18, 2024
This volume takes an innovative interdisciplinary approach to investigating divination procedures at sanctuaries of Apollo in Classical and Hellenistic Greece, merging neuroscience, psychology, and behavioural studies with archaeology. Through a deep analysis of primary sources and the historical ...
Atheism at the Agora: A History of Unbelief in Ancient Greek Polytheism
1st Edition
By James C Ford
December 18, 2024
This fresh, comprehensive study of ancient Greek atheism aims to dismantle the current consensus that atheism was ‘unthinkable’ in ancient Greece, demonstrating instead that atheism was not only thinkable but inextricably embedded in the Greek religious environment. Through careful analysis of a ...
Personal Experience and Materiality in Greek Religion
1st Edition
By K.A. Rask
December 18, 2024
Employing frameworks of lived religion and materiality, this book provides the first full-length study of personal religious experience in the Greek Archaic and Classical periods. Rask analyzes archeological, epigraphic, and textual evidence to highlight the role of individuals as vital actors and ...
Processions and the Construction of Communities in Antiquity: History and Comparative Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Elena Muñiz-Grijalvo, Alberto del Campo Tejedor
November 29, 2024
This volume elucidates how processions, from antiquity to the present, contribute to creating consensus with regards to both political power and communitarian experiences. Many classical sources often only tangentially allude to processions, focusing instead on other ritual moments, such as ...
Aristotle and the Animals: The Logos of Life Itself
1st Edition
By Claudia Zatta
October 28, 2024
With a novel approach to Aristotle’s zoology, this study looks at animals as creatures of nature (physis) and reveals a scientific discourse that, in response to his predecessors, exiles logos as reason and pursues the logos intrinsic to animals’ bodies, empowering them to sense the world and live....