Classical Language & Literature Products

By A. E. Taylor

Published in 1987: The following essays form, as their title-page shows, only the first half of a collection which the writer hopes to complete in the course of a few months. Even when completed the whole work is designed to be merely preparatory to another on the interpretation of the Platonic…

Paperback – 2020-04-03 
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By Christine Plastow

This study identifies specific features in the legal procedure and social perception of homicide in Athens in the time of the orators, and examines how these features affected and were represented and utilised in forensic rhetoric. The socially transgressive nature of the crime in Athens resulted…

Hardback – 2020-02-20 
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Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies

By Edith Hall, Henry Stead

A　People’s History of Classics　explores the influence of the classical past on the lives of working-class people, whose voices have been almost completely excluded from previous histories of classical scholarship and pedagogy, in Britain and Ireland from the late 17th　to the earlier 20th　century.…

Paperback – 2020-02-01 
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By R. Thomson Clark

First published in 1909, in an era of receding interest in Classical authors, this volume aimed to encourage a renewed interest in the Classics through shared emotion, humanity and the everyday. Attributing the disinterest to a lack of familiarity and a public difficulty for empathising with…

Paperback – 2020-01-01 
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By G.F. Abbott

First published in 1925, this thoughtful volume constitutes an excellent English introduction to one of the great ancient historians. Originating from its author’s re-reading of Thucydides during World War I, it sought to place Thucydides not as the production of a remote world, but instead of one…

Paperback – 2020-01-01 
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Edited by Esther Eidinow, Lisa Maurizio

This volume offers new insights into ancient figurations of temporality by focusing on the relationship between gender and time across a range of genres. Each essay in this collection places gender at the center of its exploration of time, and the volume includes time in treatises, genealogical…

Hardback – 2019-12-20 
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Edited by Jakub Filonik, Brenda Griffith-Williams, Janek Kucharski

Focusing on extant speeches from the Athenian Assembly, lawcourts, and Council in the 5th–4th centuries BC, these essays explore how speakers constructed or deconstructed identities for themselves and their opponents as part of a rhetorical strategy designed to persuade or manipulate the audience.…

Hardback – 2019-12-20 
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Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies

Edited by Andromache Karanika, Vassiliki Panoussi

This volume examines emotional trauma in the ancient world, with material spanning literary texts from different genres (from epic and theatre to historiography) and archaeological sources, and geographically from Greece and Rome to Judaea with a chronological range from about 8th c. BCE to 1st c.…

Hardback – 2019-12-19 
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Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies

By Roma Chatterji

This book explores graphic narratives and comics in India and demonstrates how these forms serve as sites on which myths are enacted and recast. It uses the case studies of a comics version of the Mahabharata war, a folk artist’s rendition of a comic book story, and a commercial project to…

Paperback – 2019-12-19 
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Edited by Thomas Figueira, Carmen Soares

Herodotus is the epochal authority who inaugurated the European and Western consciousness of collective identity, whether in an awareness of other societies and of the nature of cultural variation itself or in the fashioning of Greek self-awareness - and necessarily that of later civilizations…

Hardback – 2019-12-17 
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By William M. Owens

This volume offers the first comprehensive treatment of how five of the canonical Greek novels represent slaves and slavery. In each novel, one or both elite protagonists are enslaved, and Owens explores the significance of the genre’s regular social degradation of these members of the elite.…

Hardback – 2019-12-17 
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Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies

By Graham Anderson

This anthology explores the multitude of evidence for recognisable fairy tales drawn from sources in the much older cultures of the ancient world, appearing much earlier than the 17th century where awareness of most fairy tales tends to begin. It presents versions of Cinderella, The Emperor’s New…

Paperback – 2019-12-06 
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