Classical Language & Literature Products

Edited by Wendy Heller, Eleonora Stoppino

The epic poems, The Iliad and The Odyssey, attributed to Homer, are among the oldest surviving works of literature derived from oral performance. Deeply embedded in these works is the notion that they were intended to be heard: there is something musical about Homer's use of language and a vivid…

Hardback – 2019-07-05 
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Ashgate Interdisciplinary Studies in Opera

By Jennifer Gerrish

Sallust’s Histories and Triumviral Historiography explores the historiographical innovations of the first century Roman historian Sallust, focusing on the fragmentary Histories, an account of the turbulent years after the death of the dictator Sulla. The Histories were written during the violent…

Hardback – 2019-06-10 
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Routledge Studies in Ancient History

By Graham Anderson

Fantasy in Greek and Roman Literature offers an overview of Greek and Roman excursions into fantasy, including imaginary voyages, dream-worlds, talking animals and similar impossibilities. This is a territory seldom explored and extends to rarely read texts such as the Aesop Romance, The Battle of…

Hardback – 2019-06-01 
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Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies

By Louise M. Pryke

Gilgamesh focuses on the eponymous hero of the world’s oldest epic and his legendary adventures. However, it also goes further and examines the significance of the story’s Ancient Near Eastern context, and what it tells us about notions of kingship, animality, and the natures of mortality and…

Hardback – 2019-04-04 
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Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World

By Andrea Catanzaro

Facing censorship and being confined to the fringes of the political debate of his time, Thomas Hobbes turned his attention to translate Homer’s Iliad and the Odyssey from Greek into English. Many have not considered enough the usefulness of these translations. In this book, Andrea Catanzaro…

Hardback – 2019-03-28 
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Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

By Jaakkojuhani Peltonen

The life of Alexander the Great began to be retold from the moment of his death. The Greco-Roman authors used these stories as exemplars in a variety of ways. This book is concerned with the various stories of Alexander and how they were used in antiquity to promote certain policies, religious…

Hardback – 2019-03-01 
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Edited by Shane Butler, Mark Bradley

This set includes all six titles in The Senses in Antiquity series. Buying the set provides a saving of over £20 as opposed to buying the books separately.   Series editors: Mark Bradley, University of Nottingham, UK, and Shane Butler, Johns Hopkins University, USA Like us, ancient Greeks and…

Paperback – 2019-02-01
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The Senses in Antiquity

Edited by Peter Meineck, William Michael Short, Jennifer Devereaux

The Routledge Handbook of Classics and Cognitive Theory is an interdisciplinary volume that examines the application of cognitive theory to the study of the classical world, across several interrelated areas including linguistics, literary theory, social practices, performance, artificial…

Hardback – 2018-12-19
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By Charles Greene Cumston

Originally published in 1926, An Introduction to the History of Medicine is a compilation of reliable and essential contributions to the subject of the history of medicine. The book looks at the evolution of medicine from the practices in Ancient Egypt, to the medicine of the 16th century, and…

Hardback – 2018-12-17
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Routledge Library Editions: History of Medicine

Edited by Mary C English, Lee M Fratantuono

Pushing the Boundaries of Historia collects together 20 chapters, whose coverage extends from the prehistory of Greece through early Christianity in the Roman Empire to the reception of classical texts by contemporary playwrights and poets. The essays range beyond Greece and Rome to the ancient…

Hardback – 2018-11-19
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Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies

By Bruce Louden

Since the nineteenth-century rediscovery of the Gilgamesh epic, we have known that the Bible imports narratives from outside of Israelite culture, refiguring them for its own audience. Only more recently, however, has come the realization that Greek culture is also a prominent source of…

Hardback – 2018-11-15
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Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies

Edited by Diane J. Rayor, William W. Batstone

Latin Lyric and Elegiac Poetry, first published almost 25 years ago, offered students accurate and poetic translations of poems from the sudden flowering of lyric and elegy in Rome at the end of the Republic and in the first decades of the Augustan principate. Now updated in this second edition,…

Paperback – 2018-10-02
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