Classical Language & Literature Products

By Stamatia Dova

Examining attitudes towards failure, loss and inadequacy as they appear in Greek literature from the eighth to the fourth century BCE, this book incorporates two major themes: failure in mythological narratives and in historical accounts. These two areas are further divided into narratives of…

Hardback – 2019-02-01 
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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 – 2018-11-30 
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Routledge Library Editions: History of Medicine

By Bruce Louden

Since the 19th 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 biblical…

Hardback – 2018-11-21 
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Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies

Edited by Mary English, Lee Fratantuono

This collection of essays, written by philologists, historians, epigraphers, palaeographers, archaeologists, and art historians, brings together the best of old and new traditions of classical study, from senior emeritus faculty with established records of scholarly productivity, to the newest…

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

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 – 2018-11-09 
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By Patricia Cox Miller

This title was first published in 2001. These collected essays by Patricia Cox Miller identify new possibilities of meaning in the study of religion in late antiquity. The book addresses the topic of the imaginative mindset of late ancient authors from a variety of Greco-Roman religious traditions.…

Hardback – 2018-09-30 
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Routledge Revivals

By Arthur Gibson, Brook W.R. Pearson

This title was first published in 2000. Text and Tablet balances a blend of logic, post-analytical philosophy, French philosophy and literary criticism to carefully introduce some of these issues to the reader. Just as writers such as Derrida and Kermode have been interested in relating religion…

Hardback – 2018-09-30 
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Routledge Revivals

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 – 2018-09-27 
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By Kevin Taylor

Tragedy is a genre for exploring loss and suffering, and this book traces the vital areas where tragedy has shaped and been a resource for Christian theology. There is a history to the relationship of theology and tragedy; tragic literature has explored areas of theological interest, and is present…

Hardback – 2018-09-13 
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Edited by Juliette Harrisson

Human beings have speculated about whether or not there is life after death, and if so, what form that life might take, for centuries. What did people in the ancient world think the next life would hold, and did they imagine there was a chance for a relationship between the living and the dead? How…

Hardback – 2018-09-03 
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Edited by Bruce M. King, Lillian Doherty

This volume, from an international and interdisciplinary cohort of scholars, offers independent-minded essays about central Greek texts and about the relation of social theory and comparative method to the study of archaic and classical Greek literature. It is in honour of James M. Redfield, whose…

Hardback – 2018-08-02
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Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies

Edited by Philip R. Bosman

This volume deals with the interaction between public intellectuals of the late Hellenistic and Roman era, and the powerful individuals with whom they came into contact. How did they negotiate power and its abuses? How did they manage to retain a critical distance from the people they depended upon…

Hardback – 2018-07-26
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