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Contents Ancient Near East ............................................................................................................................................................... 2 Ancient Philosophy ............................................................................................................................................................ 3 Ancient Religions ............................................................................................................................................................... 4 Classical Language and Literature .................................................................................................................................. 6 Greek History and Culture ................................................................................................................................................ 9 Late Antiquity and Byzantium ...................................................................................................................................... 11 Roman History and Culture ........................................................................................................................................... 13 Classical Studies - Others ............................................................................................................................................... 16 Index ................................................................................................................................................................................... 21
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST 3rd Edition • TEXTBOOK • NEW EDITION
Ancient Near Eastern History and Culture William H. Stiebing Jr. and Susan Helft Organized by the periods, kingdoms, and empires generally used in ancient Near Eastern political history, this text interlaces social and cultural history with a political narrative. Charts, figures, maps and historical documents introduce the reader to the material world of the ancient Near East. The emphasis on historical debates and areas of uncertainty helps students understand how historians use evidence to create interpretations and that several different interpretations of history are possible. Routledge Market: Ancient Near East/Ancient History September 2017: 246x174: 416pp Pb: 978-1-138-68641-0: £75.99 Prev. Ed Pb: 978-0-321-42297-2 * For full contents and more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9781138686410
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Migration, Diaspora and Identity in the Ancient Near East Edited by Andrea Zerbini and Justin Yoo This book brings together recent developments in modern migration theory, a wide range of sources, new and old tools revisited (from GIS to epigraphic studies, from stable isotope analysis to the study of literary sources) and case studies from the ancient Eastern Mediterranean which illustrate how new theories and techniques are helping to give a better understanding of migratory flows and diaspora communities in the ancient Near East. A geographical gap has emerged in studies of historical migration as recent works have focused on migration and mobility in the western part of the Roman Empire and thus fail to bring a significant contribution to the study of diaspora communities in the Eastern Mediterranean. Bridging this gap represents a major scholarly desideratum and, by drawing upon the experiences of previously neglected migrant and diaspora communities in the eastern Mediterranean. Routledge October 2017: 234x156: 296pp Hb: 978-1-472-45066-1: £95.00 * For full contents and more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9781472450661
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Aristotle and Confucius on Rhetoric and Truth
Peace and Reconciliation in the Classical World
The Form and the Way
Edited by E. P. Moloney and Michael Stuart Williams
Haixia Lan Readings of Aristotle’s and Confucius’ teachings reveal that both philosophers’ rhetorical thinking contain vital similarities which can help us understand cultural differences today. Much has been said about Aristotle’s definition of rhetoric as ‘the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion’ but few studies have focused on his depiction of rhetoric as ‘partly like dialectic, and partly like sophistical reasoning’. Yet, this Aristotelian conception of rhetoric sheds light on a similarity with Confucius’ teaching: both Confucius and Aristotle see the human understanding of the truths of things as necessarily having a dimension that is open-ended and discursive. Routledge Market: Classics. Ancient History November 2016: 234x156: 228pp Hb: 978-1-472-48736-0: £95.00 eBook: 978-1-315-40042-6 * For full contents and more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9781472487360
Warfare has long been recognised as central to a proper understanding of the classical world, where, as the philosopher Heraclitus observed, war was ‘both king and father of all’. More recently, however, an approach to the ancient world solely in such terms has been challenged. War was indeed pervasive, and was a prominent theme among poets and historians; but there was also a distinct value placed on peace, which might be understood not only as the absence of war but as an ideal to be imagined, instituted, and even imposed. This volume places peace at the centre of its concerns and explores classical ideas of peace as both an abstract concept the practical methods of conflict resolution. Routledge Market: Ancient and Classical History February 2017: 234x156: 332pp Hb: 978-1-472-46635-8: £95.00 eBook: 978-1-315-59982-3 * For full contents and more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9781472466358
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Essays on Aristotle's Eudemian Ethics
Socrates Mystagogos
Edited by Robert Heinaman Series: Ashgate Keeling Series in Ancient Philosophy
Initiation into inquiry Don Adams
Two major works on ethics have come down to us under Aristotle’s name, the Nicomachean Ethics and the Eudemian Ethics, but, quite unjustifiably, the Eudemian Ethics has been largely neglected by students of ancient philosophy. This important collection of essays from the sixth Keeling colloquium on ancient philosophy tries to rectify this one-sided approach to Aristotle’s ethics by focusing on the positions and arguments of the Eudemian Ethics. Routledge Market: Ancient Philosophy February 2017: 234x156: 340pp Hb: 978-0-754-66346-1: £95.00 * For full contents and more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9780754663461
For Socrates, philosophy is like the process whereby a young man is initiated into cult mysteries by a more experienced man - the mystagogos. In Greek cult religion, the mystagogos prepared the initiate for the esoteric mysteries revealed by the hierophant. Socrates treats traditional wisdom with scepticism, but his scepticism is not radical: custom is not something on which we must turn our backs if we are to pursue the truth. Socrates assumes an epistemology and employs a method by which he induces his companions to begin the critical and self-critical process of philosophical inquiry, not ignoring conventional wisdom, but reinterpreting it as they make progress towards the truth. Routledge November 2016: 234x156: 190pp Hb: 978-1-472-48483-3: £95.00 eBook: 978-1-315-60981-2 * For full contents and more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9781472484833
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Galen: Four Treatises on the Pulses Niki Papavramidou and Ian Johnston Series: Medicine in the Medieval Mediterranean This book presents the first English translation of four of Galen's treatises on the pulses: De differentiis pulsibus (On the varieties of the pulses), De dignoscendis pulsibus (On diagnosis of the pulses), De causis pulsuum (On etiology of the pulses), and De praesagitione ex pulsibus (On prognosis of the pulses). The translations are based on the work of Professor Robert Montraville Green, now revised and provided with full annotation, introduction, and a facing-page Greek text. These four treatises constitute a major contribution to the science of cardiology, the first complete such work in the history of medical literature. Galen was in advance of his time, referring, though not by name, to circulatory diseases, familiar to us as arteriosclerosis, embolism, and infarction. In the literary field, the language he is using is distinctive and eloquent. For the history of medicine, these treatises set the foundations for the later broadly used Byzantine medical practice of sphygmology. Routledge October 2017: 234x156: 500pp Hb: 978-0-754-66061-3: £105.00 * For full contents and more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9780754660613
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Constantine: Religious Faith and Imperial Policy
Hermes
Edited by A. Edward Siecienski
Arlene Allan Series: Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World
This volume brings together some of the English-speaking world’s leading Constantinian scholars for an interdisciplinary study of the life and legacy of the first Christian emperor. Focusing on the questions that have for so long intrigued historians, classicists, and theologians, the papers collected in this volume prove once again that Constantine is not so much a figure from the remote past, but an individual whose legacy continues to shape our present.
Hermes redresses the gap in modern English scholarship on this fascinating and complex god, and present its readers with an introduction to Hermes’ social, religious and political importance through discussions of his myths, iconography, and worship. It also bring together in one place an integrated survey of his reception and interpretation in the post-classical periods.
Routledge Market: Classical Studies / Late Antiquity January 2017: 234x156: 152pp Hb: 978-1-472-45413-3: £95.00 eBook: 978-1-315-26846-0 * For full contents and more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9781472454133
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Omens and Oracles: Divination in Ancient Greece
Imperial Identities in the Roman World
Matthew Dillon
Edited by Wouter Vanacker and Arjan Zuiderhoek
Ancient Greek divination took many forms: observing the flights of birds, inspecting the entrails of sacrificed animals, analysing dreams, and interpreting omens. Professional diviners assisted the concerned with their worries, but individuals also interpreted anything considered ominous, or even oracles. While states and wealthy individuals made their way to oracular centres, others had recourse to interpreting what they encountered in their everyday lives, or what they dreamed of. Literature, inscriptions, papyri and material evidence all indicate that divination was practised by all and formed a crucial part of the lives of both the state and the individual.
This volume, rather than concentrating on politics and imperial administration, studies the manifold ways in which people were ritually engaged in producing, consuming, organising and worshipping that fitted the changing realities of empire, focusing on how individuals and groups tried to do things 'the right way', the Greco-Roman imperial way. Given the deep cultural entrenchment of ritualistic practices, an imperial identity firmly grounded in such practices might well have been instrumental not just to the long-lasting stability of the Roman imperial order but also to the persistency of its ideals well into post-Roman times.
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Excavating Pilgrimage
Ishtar
Archaeological Approaches to Sacred Travel and Movement in the Ancient World
Louise M. Pryke, The University of Sydney, Australia Series: Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World
Edited by Wiebke Friese and Troels Myrup Kristensen Series: Routledge Studies in Pilgrimage, Religious Travel and Tourism
Ishtar is the first book dedicated to providing an accessible analysis of the mythology and image of this complex goddess. The polarity of her nature is reflected in her role as goddess of sexual love and war, and has made her difficult to characterise in modern scholarship. By exploring this complexity, Ishtar offers insight into Mesopotamian culture and thought, and elucidates a goddess who transcended the limits of gender, divinity and nature. It gives an accessible introduction to the Near Eastern pantheon, while also opening up a pathway for comparison with the later Near Eastern and Mediterranean deities who followed her.
This volume sheds new light on the significance and meaning of material culture for the study of pilgrimage in the ancient world, focusing in particular on Classical and Hellenistic Greece, the Roman Empire, and Late Antiquity. It thus discusses how archaeological evidence can be used to advance our understanding of ancient pilgrimage and ritual experience? The volume brings together a group of scholars that explore some of the rich archaeological evidence for sacred travel and movement, such as the material footprint of different activities undertaken by pilgrims, the spatial organization of sanctuaries, and wider catchment of pilgrimage sites. Routledge Market: History / Archaeology / Religious Studies February 2017: 234x156: 292pp Hb: 978-1-472-45390-7: £95.00 * For full contents and more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9781472453907
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The Archaeology of Lucanian Cult Places Fourth Century BC to the Early Imperial Age
The Dynamics of Rhetorical Delivery in Late Antiquity
Ilaria Battiloro
Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas
The fourth and third centuries BCE witnessed the flourishing of Lucanian communities in southern Italy but by the end of the third century BCE most Lucanian inhabited centres declined and were finally abandoned as new Roman towns were founded. Until recently scholars have assumed that Lucanian sanctuaries and cult places declined simultaneously with the inhabited centres but new archaeological research reveals that a number of cult places continued to be used despite the abandonment of the surrounding centres and other sanctuaries, after a set-back following the Hannibalic war, flourished again. With a detailed analysis of the archaeological record this volume challenges the simplistic interpretation of the transformation of Lucanian sanctuaries as either the adoption of Roman cultural models, or as ’cultural resistance’ to the hegemonic culture. Archaeological investigations in the last few decades reveal that the picture of Lucanian sanctuaries during the Late Republican age.
This study argues that we can interpret narrations of rhetorical performances as a reflection of the process of transformation and adaptation in Late Antiquity, a changing and dynamic period in which institutions and culture became increasingly Christianized. Our knowledge of the adaptation of secular rhetoric to early and late antique Christian discourse has advanced in recent decades but studies of the relevance of rhetorical deliveries in a Christian context are still lacking. How did Christian preachers and bishops respond to their audiences’ desire for flamboyant and bombastic oratory? What was the place of rhetorical deliveries in the making of religious orthodoxy in the fourth and fifth centuries CE? This volume pays particular attention to deficient rhetorical deliveries, the ’rhetoric of incompetence’, arguing that the accounts of flaws and mistakes in oratorical displays and rhetorical performances reveal how late antique literature echoed the concerns of the time.
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Mass Violence and Genocide in the Roman World Tristan Taylor Focusing on the Roman world from the early second century CE through to the fourth century CE, this volume examines episodes of mass-violence associated with war and imperial expansion, and also episodes of violence associated with religious struggles, particularly in late antiquity. How episodes of mass-violence are represented and justified, if at all, is as important to this study as what events actually happened. It is therefore as much a history of the representation of mass-violence, as its occurrence. The book raises four key questions: first, are there any episodes of mass-violence represented that could fit under modern definitions of ’genocide’? If there are such events, is there anything that distinguishes them from other contemporary episodes of mass-violence in how they are represented and justified? Are there any changes over time? Finally, how do these observations compare to modern understandings and theories of genocide? Routledge October 2017: 234x156: 288pp Hb: 978-1-472-42223-1: £105.00 * For full contents and more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9781472422231
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Picenum A landscape of ritual and myth Eleanor Betts The Central Adriatic region of Picenum is a relatively unknown area of Roman and pre-Roman Italy, but it has a rich material culture comparable with that of the Etruscans and spanning the first millennium BCE (ca. 900-268 BCE). This book explores the sacred landscape of the region and interprets the evidence for Picene religion for the first time. The book explores the relationship between the material evidence (votive deposits of figurines and pottery, monumentalised inscriptions), the topographical landscape and the people who used them. It considers how the Picenes may have experienced their environment and given it meaning, with a particular emphasis on sacred sites which have a mountain peak, water feature or cave as their cult focus. The volume will be innovative in bringing together (predominantly Italian) scholarship on varied aspects of Iron Age and early Roman religion, interpreted via a phenomenological approach. Routledge June 2017: 234x156: 256pp Hb: 978-1-472-42957-5: £105.00 * For full contents and more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9781472429575
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Aeschylus and War
Character Evidence in the Courts of Classical Athens
Comparative Perspectives on Seven Against Thebes
Rhetoric, Relevance and the Rule of Law
Edited by Isabelle Torrance Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies This volume brings together a group of interdisciplinary experts who demonstrate that Aeschylus’ Seven Against Thebes is a text of continuing relevance and value for exploring ancient, contemporary and comparative issues of war, trauma, and religion. The volume features contributions from an international cast of experts, as well as a conversation with a retired U.S. Army Lt. Col., giving her perspectives on the blending of reality and fiction in Aeschylus’ war tragedies and on the potential of Greek tragedy to speak to contemporary veterans. This book is a fascinating resource for anyone interested in Aeschylus, Greek tragedy and its reception, and war literature. Routledge Market: Classical Studies February 2017: 234x156: 224pp Hb: 978-1-138-67700-5: £85.00 * For full contents and more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9781138677005
Vasileios Adamidis There has been much debate in scholarship over the factors determining the outcome of legal hearings in Athens and specifically the extent to which judicial panels were influenced by non-legal considerations in addition to, or even instead of, questions of law. Ancient rhetorical theory devoted much attention to character and it is this aspect of Athenian law which forms the focus of this book. Close analysis of the dispute-resolution passages in ancient Greek literature reveals striking similarities with the rhetoric of litigants in the Athenian courts and thus helps to shed light on the function of the courts and the fundamental nature of Athenian law. Routledge Market: Classical Studies November 2016: 234x156: 236pp Hb: 978-1-472-48369-0: £105.00 eBook: 978-1-315-57130-0 * For full contents and more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9781472483690
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Ausonius
Cultural Genealogy
Moselle, Epigrams, and Other Poems Deborah Warren Series: Routledge Later Latin Poetry Ausonius provides translations of the key works of Ausonius, an important later Latin poet whose poems detail the social and cultural life of Gaul and its environment. His often difficult and playful Latin is presented in English by the award winning poet Deborah Warren, enabling a new generation of students to use and understand the poems. With notes and commentary throughout, this volume will be important not only as an example of later Latin poetry but also as a window onto the Later Roman Empire and the beginnings of early Christian writing. Routledge Market: Classical Studies May 2017: 216x138: 112pp Hb: 978-1-138-85778-0: £85.00 eBook: 978-1-315-71847-7 * For full contents and more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9781138857780
An Essay on Early Modern Myth Raphael Falco Cultural Genealogy explores the popularization in the Renaissance of the still pervasive myth that later cultures are the hereditary descendants of ancient or older cultures. Through examples ranging from Petrarch to Columbus, Maffeo Vegio to the Hapsburgs, Falco shows how the new techne of systematic genealogy facilitated the process of "remythicizing" the ancient authorities, utterly transforming Greek and Roman values and reforging them into the mold of contemporary needs.
Routledge Market: Literature November 2016: 234x156: 222pp Hb: 978-1-472-48476-5: £95.00 eBook: 978-1-315-57526-1 * For full contents and more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9781472484765
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Childhood in History
Interpreters and Interpretation in Philostratus
Perceptions of Children in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds Edited by Reidar Aasgaard, Cornelia B. Horn and Oana Maria Cojocaru
Graeme Miles Series: Image, Text and Culture in Classical Antiquity
Throughout history one of the largest groups within any population has been children yet, until recently, children have been marginalised in historical research. Dealing with conceptions of children and childhood in pre-modern Europe this volume includes contributions by expert scholars from a variety of disciplines including history, literature, philosophy and religion. The volume provides an overview of the history of these conceptions within the region, with each scholar presenting and discussing case studies from their respective periods and fields of expertise. Primarily historically oriented the volume is also attentive to the reception history of the material.
The Roman-era reception of the classical past set important precedents for later understanding of classical art and literature. Philostratus is at once a one-man summation of contemporary tastes and a re-inventor of the traditions in which he was steeped. This volume examines the ways in which the Corpus Philostrateum represents and interrogates the nature of interpretation. Taking ‘interpretation’ broadly as the production of meaning from objects that are considered to bear some less than obvious significance, it examines the very different interpreter figures presented, including Apollonius of Tyana as interpreter of dreams and art-works, and the dead Protesilaus as interpreter of heroes.
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Mass and Elite in the Greek and Roman Worlds
Studies on Greek Law, Oratory and Comedy
From Sparta to Late Antiquity
Edited by Konstantinos Kapparis, Ilias Arnaoutoglou, Dimos Spatharas and Authored by Douglas M. MacDowell
Edited by Richard Evans The discussion in this volume offers an analysis of the defining roles of mass and elite elements in Greek and Roman society, and in their socio-political, economic, military and religious contexts. This interaction, whether it was in terms of conflict or in cooperation between the mass – the general body of (usually) citizens - and elite figures or groups within the various communities of ancient Greece, the Roman Republic and Empire, and during Late Antiquity, is given particular attention. The almost constant exchange between these two entities made them vital forces in every state’s determination of public policy, social and political progress and, ultimately, success or failure. Routledge Market: Classical History March 2017: 234x156: 214pp Hb: 978-1-472-46207-7: £95.00 * For full contents and more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9781472462077
Douglas M. MacDowell (1931 – 2010) was a scholar of international renown and the articles included here cover a significant area of classical scholarship, discussing Athenian law, law-making and legal procedure, Old Comedy, comedy and law, politics and lexicography. All of these articles, published between 1959 and 2010, bear the characteristic marks of his scholarship: precision, balanced judgment, brevity and deep learning. The volume includes a biography of MacDowell by Christopher Carey based on the testimony of his closest colleagues and personal friends, which was presented to the British Academy. Routledge Market: Ancient History July 2017: 234x156: 464pp Hb: 978-1-472-45817-9: £95.00 * For full contents and more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9781472458179
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Performing Homer: The Voyage of Ulysses from Epic to Opera
Tertullian and the Unborn Child
Eleonora Stoppino and Wendy Heller Series: Ashgate Interdisciplinary Studies in Opera
Julian Barr Series: Medicine and the Body in Antiquity
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 quality to his images that transcends the written page to create a theatrical experience for the listener. Indeed, it is precisely the theatrical quality of the poems that would inspire later interpreters to cast the Odyssey and the Iliad in a host of other media-novels, plays, poems, paintings, and even that most elaborate of all art forms, opera, exemplified by no less a work than Monteverdi's Il ritorno di Ulisse. In Performing Homer: The Voyage of Ulysses from Epic to Opera scholars in Classics, Drama, Italian Literature, Art History, and Musicology explore the journey of Homer's Odyssey from ancient to modern times.
Tertullian of Carthage was the earliest Christian writer to argue vigorously against abortion. This book is the first comprehensive analysis of his attitude towards the foetus and embryo. It is argued that Tertullian's comments on the unborn should be read as rhetoric ancillary to his primary arguments, none of which related directly to abortion. He elaborated upon previous Christian traditions and selectively borrowed from embryological theory to prove specific theological points. Tertullian was also more influenced by Roman custom than he would perhaps have admitted, since the contrast between pagan and Christian attitudes on abortion was more rhetorical than real.
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Christian and Pagan Attitudes in Historical Perspective
Routledge Market: Late Antiquity March 2017: 234x156: 240pp Hb: 978-1-472-46740-9: £85.00 * For full contents and more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9781472467409
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Security in Roman Times
The Culture of Animals in Antiquity
Italy, Rome and the Emperors
A Sourcebook with Commentaries
Cecilia Ricci
Sian Lewis and Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
Using literary, epigraphic, numismatic and iconographic sources this book investigates the safety devices that were in place for the protection of the emperor and the city of Rome in the imperial age. In the aftermath of the civil wars Augustus continued to provide for his physical safety in the same way as in the old Republic while, at the same time, overturning the taboo of armed men in the city. During the Augustan age, the division of the city into 14 regions and 265 vici was designed to establish control over the urban space. Augustus’ successors consolidated his policy but the specific roles of the various military or paramilitary forces remain a matter for debate. Drawing on the testimony of ancient authors such as Tacitus and Suetonius and on material evidence the volume examines both the circumstances in which these forces intervened and the strategies that they adopted.
The Culture of Animals and Antiquity provides students and researchers with well-chosen and clearly-presented ancient sources in translation, some well-known and others undoubtedly unfamiliar, but all central to the part played by animals in the cultures of the ancient Mediterranean. It covers a broad span of time, from the sacred animals of dynastic Egypt to the imagery of the lamb in early Christianity. This volume is divided into two parts: sources relating to 80 animal species, each entry a short introduction outlining key themes, and chapters treating the evidence thematically, adding interpretive flesh to the texts and drawing together themes from the individual entries.
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The Routledge Companion to Strabo
Understanding Latin Literature
Edited by Daniela Dueck This volume examines Strabo of Amasia’s Geography, a near encyclopaedic survey of the world as it was known in the early empire which offers a wealth of information on ethnography, topography, history, mythology, botany, zoology and more. These essays provide an insight to the author and his work, and also to his literary and historical context. This Companion is a comprehensive study of Strabo, providing discussions of new aspects of his work and contributing to ongoing research in this growing field. It is an invaluable resource not just for students of Strabo, but also for anyone working on ancient geography and the world of the early Roman Empire. Routledge Market: Classical Studies April 2017: 246x174: 416pp Hb: 978-1-138-90433-0: £150.00 eBook: 978-1-315-69641-6 * For full contents and more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9781138904330
Susanna Morton Braund Series: Understanding the Ancient World Understanding Latin Literature is a highly accessible, user-friendly work that provides a fresh and illuminating introduction to the most important aspects of Latin prose and poetry. This second edition is heavily revised to reflect recent developments in scholarship, especially in the area of the later reception and reverberations of Latin literature. Chapters are dedicated to Latin writers such as Virgil and Livy and explore how literature related to Roman identity and society.
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The Routledge Research Companion to Shakespeare and Classical Literature Edited by Sean Keilen, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA and Nick Moschovakis Wide-ranging and ambitiously conceived, this Research Companion investigates Shakespeare’s relationship to the classic in two broad senses. The essays analyze Shakespeare’s specific debts to classical works and weigh his classicism’s likeness and unlikeness to that of others in his time; and also evaluate the effects of that classical influence to assess the extent to which it is connected with whatever qualities rate Shakespeare, himself, a classic (arguably the classic) of modern world literature and drama. Routledge Market: Literature March 2017: 246x174: 328pp Hb: 978-1-472-41740-4: £150.00 * For full contents and more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9781472417404
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Theatrocracy Greek Drama, Cognition and the Imperative for Theatre Peter Meineck This book examines classical Greek theatre, asking how ancient drama operated in performance and became such an influential social, cultural and political force. Meineck approaches Greek theatre from the perspective of the cognitive sciences as an embodied live enacted event, and analyses how different performative elements acted upon audiences to create absorbing narrative action, emotional intensity, intellectual reflection and empathy. This was the key to the transformative artistic and social power that enabled Greek drama to advance alternate viewpoints. He also explores what the model of Greek drama can reveal about theatre’s value in cultural, social and political discourse today. Routledge Market: Classical Studies/Theatre Studies August 2017: 234x156: 248pp Hb: 978-1-138-20552-9: £105.00 * For full contents and more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9781138205529
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Attic Oratory and Performance
Greek Medical Literature and its Readers
Andreas Serafim Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies In a society where public speech was integral to the decision-making process, and where all affairs pertaining to the community were the subject of democratic debate, the communication between the speaker and his audience in the public forum, whether the law-court or the Assembly, cannot be separated from the notion of performance. Attic Oratory and Performance seeks to make modern Performance Studies productive for, and so make a significant contribution to, the understanding of Greek oratory. Routledge Market: Classics January 2017: 234x156: 144pp Hb: 978-1-138-82835-3: £105.00 eBook: 978-1-315-73845-1 * For full contents and more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9781138828353
From Hippocrates to Islam and Byzantium Edited by Petros Bouras-Vallianatos, University of Cyprus and Sophia Xenophontos Series: Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London This volume makes a seminal contribution to the role of the audience in the contextualisation of Greek medical texts. It examines for the first time the audience of Greek texts in different periods and reassesses medical treatises that have been neglected in current literature. It raises new research questions on the readership of Greek medical literature and how this regulated and controlled the reception of these writings in contemporary and later societies, demonstrating that many issues concerning the reception of texts remain unexplored. The larger goal is to excite further interest in the thinkers and texts included here and also in the varied ways in which their works were revived, thus cultivating an appreciation of medical writing as a form of literature. Routledge Market: Classics. Ancient History April 2017: 234x156: 232pp Hb: 978-1-472-48791-9: £95.00 * For full contents and more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9781472487919
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Elis
Killing Hercules
Internal Politics and External Policy in Ancient Greece Graeme Bourke Series: Cities of the Ancient World
Deianira and the Politics of Domestic Violence, from Sophocles to the War on Terror Richard Rowland
Elis examines the city from its earliest history, through the Archaic period and the Classical period where it thrived, to its decline in the Hellenistic, Roman and later periods. Through examining this prominent city-state, its role in contemporary politics and the place of Olympia in its territory, Graeme Bourke allows the reader to explore broader issues, such as the relationship between the Spartans and their various allies, often collectively referred to as ‘the Peloponnesian League’. The volume, provides a valuable resource for students and academics studying the city of Elis, the Peloponnese and the relationships within it, and pre-Hellenistic Greece as a whole. Routledge Market: Classical Studies April 2017: 234x156: 256pp Hb: 978-0-415-74957-2: £90.00 eBook: 978-1-315-22563-0 * For full contents and more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9780415749572
Each chapter of this book offers a detailed account of the ways in which different cultures – the ancient Greek democracy, imperial Rome, early Christianity, the emergent vernacular cultures of late medieval and early modern Europe, the Enlightenment – have re-evaluated the story of Hercules and his wife and killer Deianira, in the light of their own attempts to come to terms with the phenomena of military and domestic violence. The study combines the close examination of texts, translations and visual images, but it is also about performance: it begins with Sophocles interrogating the cult of Hercules’ heroism in his Trachiniae, and ends with Martin Crimp’s reworking of that play in 2004. Routledge Market: Performing Arts / Classical Reception December 2016: 234x156: 328pp Hb: 978-1-472-43402-9: £95.00 eBook: 978-1-315-59108-7 * For full contents and more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9781472434029
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Greek Art in Context
Locating Daimones in the Ancient Greek World
Archaeological and Art Historical Perspectives Edited by Diana Rodriguez Perez
Edited by Emmanuela Bakola, University of Warwick and Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe Series: Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London
This volume’s aim is to introduce the reader to the broad and multifaceted notion of context in relation to Greek art and, more specifically, to its relevance for the study of Greek sculpture and pottery from the Archaic to the Late Classical periods. What do we mean by ‘context’? In which ways and under what circumstances does context become relevant for the interpretation of Greek material culture? Which contexts should we look at —viewing context, political, social and religious discourse, artistic tradition…? What happens when there is no context? This book introduces these questions in a series of case studies and offers answers to them.
Daimones and daimonia throng ancient Greek literature, but evade definition; in some traditions they seem to be gods, in others, dead humans, and in others still, intermediate spirits between man and god. This book explores spatial and locative notions of daimones through essays on a range of Greek texts and objects from the archaic to Byzantine periods, encompassing epigraphy, poetry, philosophy, tragedy and comedy, magical papyri, and early Christian scriptural exegesis and doctrinal treatises. These essays explore the dominant terms and images that ‘locate’ daimones in the cosmos and natural world, and the range of spaces in which they were operated and between which they moved.
Routledge Market: Classical Studies / Art History June 2017: 234x156: 304pp Hb: 978-1-472-45745-5: £105.00 eBook: 978-1-315-19566-7 * For full contents and more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9781472457455
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Music Therapy in Ancient Greece
Thebes
Antonietta Provenza Series: Medicine and the Body in Antiquity
A History Nicholas Rockwell Series: Cities of the Ancient World
The evidence of the ancient Greeks’ interest in music therapy is scattered through Greek literature from its earliest beginnings. Music was considered to be a magic remedy yet the idea of a connection between musical structures (harmonia, rhythms) and the human constitution had already begun to emerge in the Archaic age and was well established by the second half of the fifth century BCE. Plato is the first source of the notion of musical ethos, according to which music can affect human beings because of its affinities with the soul.
Thebes offers a scholarly survey of the history and archaeology of the city. Discussions of major developments in politics, war, society and culture form the basis of a chronological examination of one of Greece’s most powerful and dynamic cities. By taking a broad view, the book’s account speaks to larger trends in the ancient Mediterranean world while also demonstrating how Thebes was unique in its ancient context. It provides an up-to-date examination of all available information: topographic, demographic, numismatic, epigraphic, archaeological and textual discussions provide the most complete, current picture of ancient Thebes and illustrate the value of an interdisciplinary
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The Minoan Body A Somatic Approach to Social, Economic and Political Change in Bronze Age Crete
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Anna Simandiraki-Grimshaw The human body has been under-researched in the field of Minoan archaeology and understandings about the Cretan Bronze Age have often relied on data not directly related to the human body, such as pottery and architecture. While methodologically important, these data offer an incomplete picture of Minoan societies. Furthermore, current modernist research categories (such as osteoarchaeological, microglyptic and linguistic studies) create artificial divisions which impede a more holistic approach to the human condition in Minoan Crete. What is currently lacking is a contribution which recasts the human body as a central archaeological informant, in its various manifestations such as human remains, frescoes and figurines. This book redresses this imbalance by combining analysis of biological and represented bodies from Minoan Crete. As such, this book is neither an exhaustive account of people in Bronze Age Crete nor a treatise on the themes it explores. Routledge July 2017: 234x156: 304pp Hb: 978-1-472-41440-3: £105.00 * For full contents and more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9781472414403
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The Peripatetics Aristotle's Heirs 322 BCE - 200 CE Han Baltussen, University of Adelaide, Australia Series: Ancient Philosophies The Peripatetics explores the development of Peripatetic thought from Theophrastus and Strato to the work of the commentator Alexander of Aphrodisias. The book examines whether the internal dynamics of this philosophical school allowed for a unity of Peripatetic thought, or a fundamental tension between philosophical creativity and the notions of core teachings and canonisation. The book discusses the major philosophical preoccupations of the Peripatetics, interactions with Hellenistic schools of thought, and the shift in focus among Greek philosophers in a changing political landscape. It is the first book of its kind to provide a survey of this important philosophical tradition. Routledge Market: Classical Studies December 2016: 234x156: 190pp Hb: 978-1-844-65575-5: £85.00 Pb: 978-1-844-65576-2: £24.99 eBook: 978-1-315-71909-2 * For full contents and more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9781844655762
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A Tenth-Century Byzantine Military Manual
Children and Everyday Life in the Roman and Late Antique World
The Sylloge Tacticorum Georgios Chatzelis and Jonathan Harris Series: Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies
Edited by Christian Laes and Ville Vuolanto
This is the first complete translation into English, or any modern language, of the mid-Byzantine text known as the Sylloge Tacticorum. The Sylloge Tacticorum belongs to the literary genre of military manuals or Taktika which stretches back to antiquity. It was one of a number produced during the tenth century, probably being written after the Taktika attributed to Emperor Leo VI (886-912) but before the Praecepta Militaria of Nikephoros II Phokas (963-969). Although the Sylloge is attributed to Leo VI and bears a very specific dating in its title (6412 AM or 903/4 CE), modern scholarship does not accept this attribution and there is a debate as to whether the text dates in the first half or in the middle of the century. The annotation and the introduction help explain the text for the modern reader, and set it in its historical context. The treatise consists of 102 extant chapters which can be divided into three broad themes.
By combining different theoretical approaches and source materials, the contributors explore the environments in which children in antiquity lived, their experience of everyday life, and what the limits were for their agency. The volume brings together scholars of archaeology and material culture, classicists, ancient historians, theologians, and scholars of early Christianity and Judaism, all of whom have long been involved in the study of the social and cultural history of children. While the main focus of the volume is on Late Antiquity its coverage begins with the early Roman Empire, and extends to the early ninth century CE.
Routledge September 2017: 234x156: 210pp Hb: 978-1-472-47028-7: £105.00 * For full contents and more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9781472470287
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Borderline Virginities
Dialogues and Debates from Late Antiquity to Late Byzantium
Sacred and Secular Virgins in Late Antiquity Sissel Undheim
Edited by Averil Cameron and Niels Gaul
The starting point of this study is the Latin Church Fathers’ apologetic comparisons between Christian sacred virgins and the Vestal virgins of pagan Roman cult. The Church Fathers’ efforts to demarcate an exclusively Christian virginity in contrast to the ’false virgins’ of their adversaries display a tension that, it is argued here, played a larger role in the construction of a specifically Christian sacred virginity than previous studies have acknowledged. Late fourth century Christian theologians’ persistent appraisal of sacred virgins paved the way for a wide variety of virgins that often challenged the stereotype of the ’unmarried female virgin’.
This is the first book to deal with the writing of literary and philosophical dialogues in Greek from the Roman empire to the end of Byzantium and beyond. Arranged in chronological order, 16 case studies combining theoretical approaches and in-depth analysis introduce a wide array of such dialogues, including consideration of the neighbouring Syriac, Georgian and Armenian, as well as Latin traditions. The authors and genres studied include Plutarch, John Chrysostom, Maximus Confessor, the Adversus Iudaeos and apocryphal revelation dialogues, Anselm of Havelberg, Soterichos Panteugenos, Niketas ‘of Maroneia’, Theodore Prodromos, Nikephoros Gregoras, Manuel II Palaiologos and George Scholarios.
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Byzantine Athens, 10th - 12th Centuries
Procopius of Caesarea: Literary and Historical Approaches
Charalambos Bouras Byzantine Athens 10th-12th Centuries investigates Athens in the middle Byzantine period using the surviving architectural remains as well as the scarce literary sources. This book defines the built-up areas, streets and fortifications of medieval Athens and explores the evidence for the architectural plans of Byzantine houses. Above all, it studies the nearly 40 churches functioning in that period and suggests plans for others which have been destroyed. This volume constitutes an invaluable and unique compendium of current knowledge on Byzantine Athens. Routledge Market: Byzantine History January 2017: 246x174: 336pp Hb: 978-1-472-47990-7: £95.00 * For full contents and more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9781472479907
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Edited by Christopher Lillington-Martin and Elodie Turquois This book promotes new methodologies in the study of the sixth-century historian Procopius of Caesarea (the major historian of Justinian’s reign) by presenting a series of essays and it aims to encourage dialogue and collaboration between international scholars who work on Procopius and Late Antiquity from literary, historical and combined perspectives. The approaches employed by the contributors successfully shed new light on his works by comparing them with a variety of relevant textual sources. In particular, this volume pays close attention to the text and examines what it achieves as a literary, and says as a historical, product. Routledge Market: Byzantine History April 2017: 234x156: 280pp Hb: 978-1-472-46604-4: £95.00 * For full contents and more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9781472466044
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The Cult of St Anne in Byzantium Eirini Panou Series: Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies This is the first undertaking in Byzantine scholarship to focus on St Anna, the mother of the Virgin Mary. St Anna is a completely underexposed figure in Byzantine studies, and the examination of the formation, establishment, and promotion of her veneration offers a fresh insights to the way saints were manipulated in Byzantium. By studying various aspects of Byzantine culture such as topography, visual evidence and material culture, social history, theology and a variety of texts such as homilies, hagiography and histories, this work highlights the importance of examining and using different types of material for the study of the cult of Byzantine saints. Routledge Market: Byzantine History October 2017: 234x156: 250pp Hb: 978-1-409-47022-9: ÂŁ95.00 * For full contents and more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9781409470229
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ROMAN HISTORY AND CULTURE TEXTBOOK
2nd Edition • NEW EDITION
Ancient Macedonia
Herod
Carol King
King of the Jews and Friend of the Romans
This book provides a broad history of Macedonia from early times to the final submission of Macedonia to the Romans in the second century BC. It explores the history and culture of Macedonia viewed through the prism of kingship and nation-building as well as the region’s relation to neighbouring states. It offers the only up-to-date textbook available to support students of Macedonian history, as well as anyone with an interest in Philip II, Alexander The Great, and their legacy.
Peter Richardson and Amy Marie Fisher Series: Routledge Ancient Biographies
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Herod examines the life of this controversial figure, the most highly visible of the Roman client kings under Augustus, whose rule shaped the world in which Christianity arose. In this expanded second edition, additions include discussion of the archaeological evidence of Herod’s activity, his building program, numismatic evidence, and consideration of the roles and activities of other client kings, making this a valuable tool for those interested in the wider Roman world of the late first century BCE. With new maps, architectural drawings, and numerous photographs, Herod remains the definitive study of the life and activities of the king known traditionally as Herod the Great. Routledge Market: Ancient History / Biography July 2017: 234x156: 396pp Hb: 978-1-138-80392-3: £105.00 * For full contents and more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9781138803923
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Diet and Nutrition in the Roman World
Masculinity and Dress in Roman Antiquity
Edited by Paul Erdkamp and Claire Holleran Food culture in the classical world has received much attention but while this volume considers the political and social aspects of food where they are directly related to nutrition and diet, its primary focus is on the nature and quality of food consumed in the Roman world. The volume looks at the variety of sources available for historians and archaeologists covering textual and visual sources, as well as archaeobotanical, zooarchaeological and bone evidence. Routledge Market: Ancient and Classical History June 2017: 234x156: 352pp Hb: 978-1-472-44656-5: £95.00 * For full contents and more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9781472446565
Kelly Olson, University of Western Ontario, Canada Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies In Masculinity and Dress in Roman Antiquity Olson argues that clothing functioned as part of the process of communication by which elite male influence, masculinity, and sexuality were made known and acknowledged, and furthermore that these concepts interconnected in socially significant ways. This volume also sets out the details of masculine dress from literary and artistic evidence and the connection of clothing to rank, status, and ritual. This is the first monograph in English to draw together the myriad evidence for male dress in the Roman world, and examine it as evidence for men’s self-presentation, status and social convention. Routledge Market: Classical Studies May 2017: 234x156: 248pp Hb: 978-1-138-93293-7: £105.00 eBook: 978-1-315-67888-7 * For full contents and more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9781138932937
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Farmers and Agriculture in the Roman Economy
Mediterranean Timescapes
David Hollander
A Geography of Age in the Roman Empire
Roman farmers depended on markets to supply them with a wide range of goods and services from metal tools to medical expertise but their role in the ancient economy is poorly understood. Though historians no longer assume Roman farmers strived for self-sufficiency, the nature, extent, and implications of their market interactions remain unclear. This monograph uses literary, archaeological, and comparative evidence to examine how farmers - from smallholders to the owners of large estates -bought and sold goods and services, lent and borrowed money, and cooperated or competed with one another. A clearer picture of the relationship between farmers and markets allows us to gauge their collective impact on (and exposure to) macroeconomic phenomena such as inflation and changes in the supply and circulation of money.
Ray Laurence and Francesco Trifilo
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This book, built around the study of the representation of age and identity in 23,000 Latin funerary epitaphs from the Western Mediterranean in the Roman era, will set out how the use of age in epitaphs and, thus, also time, varied across this region. The discrepancy between the use of time to represent identity in death allows us to begin to understand the differences between the cultures of Italy and those of North Africa, Spain and southern Gaul. Routledge Market: Classical Studies July 2017: 234x156 Hb: 978-1-138-28875-1: £105.00 eBook: 978-1-315-26770-8 * For full contents and more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9781138288751
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Movement, Sensory Spaces and Religious Experience in Roman Antiquity
Rome and Persia at War and Peace
Edited by Rebecca Littlechilds, University of Cyprus and Jeffrey Veitch Series: Studies in Roman Space and Urbanism
Peter Edwell
This is the first volume to bring together the fields of ancient religions, sensory studies and movement studies, with the objective of introducing sensory studies as a methodological approach to religion. The volume’s main theme is human movement through physical space as it pertains to religious experience in the ancient world. Each chapter discusses a more specific treatment of this theme, such as pilgrimage towards a sacred place or some physicalised aspect of ancient religious ritual. Routledge Market: Classics. Ancient History April 2017: 246x174: 240pp Hb: 978-0-415-79105-2: £95.00 * For full contents and more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9780415791052
Competition and Contact in the Near East, 193 to 363 AD During the third and fourth centuries AD military conflict between the Roman and Persian Empires was at a level and depth not seen during the Parthian period. At the same time contact between the two empires increased markedly, and contributed in part to increased conflict. This book focuses on war, religion, trade and diplomacy as the means through which the two powers competed and by which they sought to gain, maintain and develop control of territories and peoples long the source of dispute between the two powers. It will also analyse the roles of regional powers such as the Armenians, Palmyrenes and Arabs in conflict and contact between the two ’super powers’. Using the broadest possible array of sources this book gives special attention to the archaeological evidence as it has tended to be overshadowed in modern studies by the literary and epigraphic sources. Routledge November 2017: 234x156: 272pp Hb: 978-1-472-41817-3: £95.00 * For full contents and more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9781472418173
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Official Power and Local Elites in the Roman Provinces
The Emperor and the Army in the Later Roman Empire, AD 235–395
Edited by Rada Varga and Viorica Rusu-Bolindeț
Mark Hebblewhite
Presenting a new overview of the ruling classes of the Roman Empire, this volume explores aspects of the relations between the official state structures of Rome and local provincial elites. The perspectives from which issues are approached are as multiple as the realities of the Roman world: from historical and epigraphic studies to research of philological and linguistic interpretations, and from architectural analyses to direct interpretations of the material culture. While some local potentates took pride in their relationship with Rome and use of Latin, exhibiting their allegiances publically as well as privately, others preferred to keep this display solely for public manifestation.
The army were the undisputed kingmakers in the tumultuous imperial politics of the later Roman Empire. The Emperor and the Army in the Later Roman Empire, AD 235-395 is the first study solely dedicated to understanding how the Roman emperor tried to maintain the loyalty he needed from his army to survive. It examines the military role the emperor played as imperator and reveals the ‘political propaganda’ he employed to persuade the army to back him. It also details the myriad of financial and honorific inducements the emperor offered to keep the support of an unpredictable yet politically crucial institution.
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Prophets and Profits
The Imagination of Rome's Foundation Myths
Ancient Divination and its Reception
Jeanne Pansard-Besson Series: Image, Text and Culture in Classical Antiquity
Edited by Richard Evans Whether humans sought knowledge by applying to an oracle or whether they used soothsayers who interpreted specific signs there was a fundamental desire to know the will of the gods. This volume examines the ways in which divination linked mortals with the gods, and places the practice within the ancient socio-political and religious environment. Divination and communication with the gods in a post-pagan world has also produced fascinating receptions and this topic has hitherto been little discussed by scholars. This volume provides the opportunity to address questions related to the reception of Greco-Roman divination, oracles and prophecy, in all media, including literature and film. Routledge Market: Classical History and Reception August 2017: 234x156 Hb: 978-1-138-29015-0: £105.00 eBook: 978-1-315-26652-7 * For full contents and more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9781138290150
Looking at the different ways in which Rome's founding myths were visualised all through the Roman Empire, this volume presents a cultural and visual history of ancient Rome. From public spaces such as the Roman Forum with displays of colossal sculptures and marble reliefs to the most intimate or domestic settings (such as wall-paintings in a bedroom or a tomb) the book explores how people, whether Roman citizens or not, rich or poor, negotiated their personal and political identities with reference to the stories of Rome’s mythic origins. Routledge Market: Ancient and Classical History April 2017: 246x174: 256pp Hb: 978-1-472-46860-4: £95.00 * For full contents and more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9781472468604
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The Roman Republic 264–44 BC Edward Bispham, University of Oxford, UK Series: The Routledge History of the Ancient World This is the gripping story of the rise and fall of the Roman Republic: meteoric imperial expansion enriched and corrupted the ruling aristocracy, which was then unable either to rule the vast empire effectively or to resist the challenge of popular power within Rome itself. Political tensions, enormous wealth and imperial ambition fuelled a vicious circle of competition, in which the number of players decreased as the stakes rose, until two military dynasts, Caesar and Pompeius, went to war for control of the commonwealth. The volume seeks to show what changes flowed from Roman rule, and how Rome itself was transformed: although the Republic failed, late republican society was a vibrant and fertile intellectual and cultural community in a phase of rapid transition. Routledge Market: Classical Studies / Ancient History July 2017: 234x156 Hb: 978-0-415-23753-6: £85.00 Pb: 978-0-415-23754-3: £25.99 * For full contents and more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9780415237543
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Ancient Monuments and Modern Identities
Cádiz
A Critical History of Archaeology in 19th and 20th Century Greece
Benedict Lowe, University of St Andrews, UK Series: Cities of the Ancient World
Edited by Sofia Voutsaki and Paul Cartledge Ancient Monuments and Modern Identities sets out to examine the role of archaeology in the creation of ethnic, national and social identities in 19th and 20th century Greece. The essays included in this volume examine the development of interpretative and methodological principles guiding the recovery, protection and interpretation of material remains and their presentation to the public. The role of archaeology is examined alongside prevailing perceptions of the past and is thereby situated in its political and ideological context. The book is organized chronologically and follows the changing attitudes to the past during the formation, expansion and consolidation of the modern Greek State.
Cádiz presents a synthesis of the history of the city from its foundation by the Phoencians until the death of Franco in 1975, building upon recent developments in archaeological fieldwork and historical research. Two themes run through the book: the relationship of Cádiz to Andalucía, and its role as a nexus point between the Iberian Peninsula and the wider world, both the Mediterranean and Atlantic. Cádiz is the first full, scholarly treatment of the history of this fascinating city, from its origins th as Gadir through to the 20 century. Routledge Market: Archaeology / Classical Studies / History December 2017: 234x156: 232pp Hb: 978-1-138-78101-6: £105.00 * For full contents and more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9781138781016
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Athenian Law and Society
Cultural Perceptions of Violence in the Hellenistic World
Konstantinos A. Kapparis The study of law is the study of the society which created it. Societies create laws in order to safeguard values which are important to them, and this is why the study of the laws of a society sheds light upon the ideals and values which generated them. In democratic Athens the law was both a product of democracy and a force for safeguarding democratic practices. In recent years books have been written on Athenian law, and on Athenian society, but never a monograph fully investigating the links between the two in all important aspects of public and private life. Routledge Market: Ancient and Classical History April 2017: 234x156: 280pp Hb: 978-1-472-44918-4: £95.00 * For full contents and more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9781472449184
Edited by Michael Champion and Lara O'Sullivan Violence had long been central to the experience of Hellenistic Greek cities and to their civic discourses. This volume asks how these discourses were shaped and how they functioned within the particular cultural constructs of the Hellenistic world. It was a period in which warfare became more professionalised, and wars increasingly ubiquitous. The period also saw major changes in political structures that led to political and cultural experimentation and transformation in which the political and cultural heritage of the classical city-state encountered the new political principles and cosmopolitan cultures of Hellenism. Routledge Market: Classics/Ancient History April 2017: 234x156: 328pp Hb: 978-1-472-48641-7: £105.00 eBook: 978-1-315-20832-9 * For full contents and more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9781472486417
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Bodies of Evidence
Drinking Pure Wine
Ancient Anatomical Votives Past, Present and Future
Images and the Symposium
Edited by Jane Draycott and Emma-Jayne Graham Series: Medicine and the Body in Antiquity
Maria Luisa Catoni Series: Image, Text and Culture in Classical Antiquity
Dedicating objects to the divine was a central component of both Greek and Roman religion. Some of the most conspicuous offerings were shaped like parts of the internal or external human body: so-called ‘anatomical votives’. This volume scrutinizes this distinctive dedicatory phenomenon, bringing together for the first time a range of methodologically diverse approaches which challenge traditional assumptions.
The classical Greek symposion provided a unique social opportunity for aristocratic, male elites to gather together in small groups, to drink, sing, recite poetry and discuss a range of topics within a relaxed atmosphere. Focusing on the functions that images and songs played within the context of the Late Archaic symposion, this book examines both those who were actively included in the event, and those who were irrevocably excluded from it. The analysis leads to numerous innovative interpretations, relating not only to the institution of the symposion itself and its relationship with Archaic Athenian society, but also to wider issues relating to definitions of democracy, aristocracy, equality and inequality in a time of profound social and political change. Divided into five chapters, the book begins by exploring the setting and course of the symposion, reconstructing its usual circumstances, the backgrounds of its participants, its principal rules and its various entertainments.
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Galen's Critical Days (De diebus decretoriis) in the Græco-Arabic Tradition
Senses of the Empire
Volume 2: Greek Edition of the Peri krisimon hemeron
Edited by Eleanor Betts
Glen M. Cooper Series: Medicine in the Medieval Mediterranean This volume, together with its predecessor (Vol.1: Hunayn ibn Ishaq's Arabic Translation), presents the first editions of the Critical Days since 1825, and the first translation into a modern language. Furthermore, they contextualize the treatise within the Greek and Arabic traditions. Galen's Critical Days was a founding text of astrological medicine. In febrile illnesses, the critical days are the days on which an especially severe pattern of symptoms, a crisis, was likely to occur. The crisis was thought to expel the disease-producing substances from the body. If its precise timing were known, the physician could prepare the patient so that the crisis would be most beneficial. After identifying the critical days based on empirical data and showing how to use them in therapy, Galen explains the critical days by the moon's influence.
Multisensory Approaches to Roman Culture Through a series of multisensory case studies centred on people, places, buildings and artefacts, and on specific aspects of human behaviour, this volume develops ground-breaking methods and approaches for sensory studies in Roman archaeology and ancient history. A multisensory approach is taken throughout, with each chapter exploring at least two of the senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch. The contributors’ individual approaches vary, reflecting the possibilities and the wide application of sensory studies to the ancient world. Routledge Market: Classical History and Archaeology February 2017: 234x156: 272pp Hb: 978-1-472-44629-9: £95.00 eBook: 978-1-315-60835-8 * For full contents and more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9781472446299
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Inscribing Faith
Shoes, Slippers and Sandals: Feet and Footwear in Classical Antiquity
Between Reading and Seeing in Late Antiquity Sean V. Leatherbury Series: Image, Text and Culture in Classical Antiquity
Edited by Sadie Pickup, University of Cyprus and Sally Waite
Challenging the idea that late antique inscriptions in religious contexts were only vehicles for the communication of information or simple prayers for divine help, this book considers these texts as verbal and visual documents that were both read and viewed by the audiences who wrote and interacted with them. The author draws on Christian mosaic inscriptions in order to rewrite the ways in which scholars have examined these texts thus far, comparing the Christian examples (the largest corpus that survives from the period) with late pagan, Jewish and early Islamic inscriptions that perform similar functions. Routledge April 2017: 246x174: 272pp Hb: 978-1-472-45918-3: £95.00 * For full contents and more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9781472459183
Ancient dress and adornment have received significant consideration in recent scholarship, yet detailed study of footwear is still limited. Much as other clothing, sandals, slippers and boots are functional, sometimes indicative of status, but equally decorative. When represented, footwear often forms an important metaphor in both literary and visual narrative. This volume brings together the research of a number of scholars working on feet and footwear across several disciplines; it provides new perspectives on the meaning attributed to footwear in both material and written contexts, not only for its wearers, but also implied through its use, in the varied situations it appears. Routledge Market: Classics. Ancient History July 2017: 234x156: 272pp Hb: 978-1-472-48876-3: £105.00 * For full contents and more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9781472488763
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Rethinking the Pompeian House Doors, Closure Systems and the Organisation of Space
Space, Movement and Visibility in the Pompeian House
M. Taylor Lauritsen Series: Studies in Roman Space and Urbanism
Michael A. Anderson Series: Studies in Roman Space and Urbanism
Since large-scale excavations began in the mid-19th century, scholarly studies of houses in Pompeii have emphasised the ’public’ nature of their design. Most Pompeian dwellings are viewed as spaces with high levels of transparency and permeability to which non-residents were afforded a certain degree of unregulated access. This theoretical paradigm has developed, however, without consideration for doors, partitions, and other closure systems that controlled visual and physical contact between various parts of the residence. By repopulating the houses of Pompeii with these boundaries, this book challenges the concept of the ’public house’, demonstrating that access to, and movement within, dwellings was in fact highly regulated by the inhabitants. This represents a fundamentally new perspective on the relationship between house and society in the Roman world.
While Pompeii and its houses have been subjected to important spatial syntax analyses, no study has sought either to develop implementations of these ideas that approach the Pompeian domestic environment at a finer scale of analysis, or that integrate the role of visibility within the Pompeian house in tandem with movement hierarchy. This volume therefore represents a contribution both to spatial syntax studies through the extension of the theories and methodologies at a refined scale and to Pompeian studies and Roman archaeology in general, revealing the pivotal and reflexive role of architectural space in the activities of Pompeian daily life. Through the application of geographical information systems (GIS)-based study of Pompeian domestic space, it is possible to examine movement and visibility in the domestic landscape at a very fine scale of resolution.
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Style and Reasoning in the Hippocratic Corpus
The Early Christian World
James Cross Series: Medicine and the Body in Antiquity
Philip F. Esler Series: Routledge Worlds
This book offers a fresh examination of the experimental nature of persuasion in the ancient Greek Hippocratic medical treatises, which are among the first examples of ’scientific’ explanatory writing composed for oral dissemination in an age in which there are few precedents for prose treatises. Analysis of the persuasive features of Hippocratic prose treatises reveals recognisable signs of ’scientific’ reasoning - such as reference to evidence, proof and logical validity. Often obscured, however, in current discussions of proto-scientific prose are the presence and significance of stylistic features such as formulae in wording and phrasing and the use of rhyme and word play which both contribute to the persuasive effectiveness of such writing and suggest new insights into the nature of early Greek prose authors’ understanding of notions of ’scientific’ reasoning.
This new edition fully reflects developments in our understanding of early Christianity and provides the reader with authoritative, lively and up-to-date access to the early Christian world. 25% of the material is entirely new, with chapters covering Christian culture; Jewish and Christian interaction; ritual; experience of the supernatural via angels, demons, miracles and magic; Manichaeism; Pachomius the Great and Gregory of Nyssa. The remaining essays have all been carefully revised and updated by their authors. This updated volume remains one of the most informative and accessible works in English on the origins, development, character and major figures of early Christianity.
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Taste and the Ancient Senses
The Etruscans and the History of Dentistry
Edited by Kelli C. Rudolph, University of Kent, UK Series: The Senses in Antiquity
The Golden Smile through the Ages
Taste and the Ancient Senses is the first introduction to taste in classical antiquity. With a close consideration of Graeco-Roman literary, historical and material records, each contribution to this volume explores the values and meanings ascribed to tastes, food and eating. Situating taste in the context of contemporary cultural practices and habits, such as hospitality, ceremony and the rituals of religious and civic life, Taste and the Ancient Senses makes it is possible to examine the significance of this sense to the Greeks and Romans. Using a broad range of interpretative approaches, this is an excellent resource for students and scholars interested in Greek and Roman culture. Routledge Market: Classical Studies July 2017: 246x174 Hb: 978-1-844-65868-8: £85.00 Pb: 978-1-844-65869-5: £24.99 * For full contents and more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9781844658695
Marshall Joseph Becker and Jean MacIntosh Turfa Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies The Etruscans and the History of Dentistry offers a study of the construction and use of gold dental appliances in ancient Etruscan culture, and their place within the framework of a general history of dentistry, with special emphasis on appliances, from Mesopotamia and Egypt to modern Europe and the Americas. Included are many of the ancient sources that refer to dentistry - or the lack thereof - in Greece and Rome, as well as the archaeological evidence of ancient dental health. The book challenges many past works in exposing modern scholars’ fallacies about ancient dentistry, while presenting the incontrovertible evidence of the Etruscans’ seemingly modern attitudes to cosmetic dentistry. Routledge Market: Classical Studies/History of Medicine March 2017: 234x156: 448pp Hb: 978-1-138-67791-3: £85.00 * For full contents and more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9781138677913
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The Cults of Sainte Foy and the Cultural Work of Saints
The Foundations of Celestial Reckoning
Kathleen Ashley Series: Routledge Research in Art History Bringing together artifacts, texts and practices within an interpretive framework that stresses the cultural work performed by saints, Kathleen Ashley here presents a comparative study of the cults of the medieval Sainte Foy at a number of sites where she was especially venerated. This book analyzes how each cult site produced the saint it needed, appropriating whatever was required to that end. Ashley's approach is thoroughly interdisciplinary, incorporating visual, religious, medieval, and women's/gender studies as well as literary studies and social history. She uses theoretical framework of "cultural work" to analyze how the cult of Sainte Foy was sponsored and received in specific locales across Europe. The book is comprehensive in terms of historical as well as geographical range, tracing the history of the cult from the early Middle Ages into the present day. Routledge November 2017: 234x156: 350pp Hb: 978-0-754-65733-0: £105.00 * For full contents and more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9780754657330
Three Ancient Chinese Astronomical Systems Christopher Cullen, Needham Research Institute, University of Cambridge, UK Series: Scientific Writings from the Ancient and Medieval World The Foundations of Celestial Reckoning gives the reader direct access to the foundational documents of the tradition of calculation created by astronomers of the early Chinese empire between the late second century BCE and the third century CE. The paradigm they established was to shape East Asian thought and practice in the field of mathematical astronomy for centuries to come. It was in many ways radically different from better known traditions of astronomy in other parts of the ancient world. Routledge Market: Ancient astronomy/History of science November 2016: 234x156: 434pp Hb: 978-1-138-10117-3: £105.00 eBook: 978-1-315-65715-8 * For full contents and more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9781138101173
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The Human Body in Early Iron Age Central Europe
TransAntiquity
Burial Practices and Images of the Hallstatt World
Cross-Dressing and Transgender Dynamics in the Ancient World Edited by Domitilla Campanile, Filippo Carlà-Uhink and Margherita Facella Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
Katharina Rebay-Salisbury The ’archaeology of the body’ has recently emerged as one of the most promising new fields in archaeology, using a fresh approach to look at archaeological data from a different angle and interpreting society in a new way. This volume tracks the changing individual and social identities of early Iron Age people through body-related practices and imagery. It investigates themes such as bodily ideals, sex and gender, age, personhood, hybridity, postures, gestures and object relations as building blocks of identity. Through a better understanding of individual identities, a deeper understanding of social relations and societies as a whole is achieved. Routledge Market: Archaeology December 2016: 234x156: 318pp Hb: 978-1-472-45354-9: £105.00 eBook: 978-1-315-27723-3 * For full contents and more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9781472453549
TransAntiquity explores transgender practices, in particular cross-dressing, and their literary and figurative representations in antiquity. It offers a comprehensive study of cross-dressing, both of the social practice and its conceptualization, and of its interaction with normative prescriptions on gender and sexuality in the ancient Mediterranean world. Special attention is paid to the reactions of the societies of the time, the impact transgender practices had on individuals’ symbolic and social capital, as well as the reactions of institutionalized power and the juridical systems. Routledge Market: Classical Studies/Gender Studies January 2017: 234x156: 260pp Hb: 978-1-138-94120-5: £90.00 eBook: 978-1-315-67384-4 * For full contents and more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9781138941205
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The Legacy of Demetrius of Alexandria 189-232 CE
Transformations in Mapping the Classical World
The Form and Function of Hagiography in Late Antique and Islamic Egypt
Richard J.A. Talbert
Maged S. A. Mikhail Series: Routledge Studies in the Early Christian World This is the first full-length study of Demetrius of Alexandria (189–232 CE), who generated a neglected, yet remarkable hagiographic program that secured him a positive legacy throughout the Middle Ages and the modern era. Drawing upon Patristic, Coptic, and Arabic sources spanning a millennium, the analysis contextualizes the Demetrian corpus at its various stages of composition and presents the totality of his hagiographic corpus in translation.
Richard Talbert’s historical interests have focused primarily in recent years on Greek and Roman spatial perceptions, and on mapping the classical world. The items collected in this volume, both previously published and unpublished, cohere around the theme of mapping and were all originally prompted by Talbert’s commission to equip everyone who studies classical antiquity with the definitive atlas that had not been at their disposal for more than a century. Articles include an account of the Smith/Grove atlas, a project launched in the mid-1850s and which embodied a radical rethinking of how the classical world should be mapped. Routledge Market: Ancient and Classical History April 2017: 246x189: 256pp Hb: 978-1-472-45782-0: £95.00 * For full contents and more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9781472457820
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Touch and the Ancient Senses
Violence and Community
Edited by Alex Purves, UCLA, USA Series: The Senses in Antiquity
Law, Space and Identity in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean World
Like us, ancient Greeks and Romans came to know and understand their world through their senses. Yet it has long been recognized that the world the ancients perceived, and the senses through which they channeled this information could operate differently from the patterns and processes of perception in the modern world. This series explores the relationship between perception, knowledge and understanding in the literature, philosophy, history, language and culture of ancient Greece and Rome.
While various aspects of violence have been long studied on their own, there has been little effort to study violence as a unified field and to explore its role in community formation. This volume examines the historiography of the study of violence in antiquity and highlights a number of important paradoxes of violence. It explores the nexus between wealth, power and the passions by focusing on three major aspects that link violence and community: the attempts of communities to regulate violence through law, the constitutive role of violence in communal identities, and the ways in which communities dealt with violence in regards to private and public space, and territories.
Edited by Ioannis K. Xydopoulos, Kostas Vlassopoulos and Eleni Tounta
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Women Going Public Ideals and Conflicts in the Representation of Julio-Claudian Women Lien Foubert The Julio-Claudian period (c. 27 BC to 68 AD) was a time of great tension, witnessing profound challenges to Roman political and social life. One manifestation of this was the increasingly important role played by women in the power struggles that gripped the Empire during the reign of Augustus and his four successors. This study discusses the portrayal of women from imperial families, who developed high public profiles to help to guarantee their family's continuity and create a public image of the princeps and his reign. In particular it focuses upon the tension generated by their actions, which often went beyond accepted Roman notions of acceptable female behaviour and challenged the established division between the public and private spheres. Routledge Market: Ancient and Classical History April 2017: 234x156: 180pp Hb: 978-1-409-43743-7: £95.00 * For full contents and more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9781409437437
4 Volume Set
Women in the Classical World CC 4V Edited by Sheila Dillon, Duke University, USA and Sharon L. James, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA Series: Critical Concepts in Classical Studies The study of women in Graeco-Roman antiquity has a long history but many recent developments—for example, the rise of feminist theory and theoretical and interpretive work in material culture—have transformed approaches to the study of women’s lived experiences in antiquity. The articles collected here are interdisciplinary, bringing into conversation the full range of evidence for women in the classical world: historical, literary, legal, medical, inscriptional, mythic, artistic (sculpture, frescoes, paintings, terracottas), and archaeological, including evidence from burials, finds from houses, and the remains of food processing and textile production. It is an essential reference source. Routledge Market: Classics, Women's Studies, History January 2017: 234x156: 1580pp Hb: 978-1-138-89052-7: £800.00 * For full contents and more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9781138890527
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Women's Ritual Competence in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean Edited by Matthew Dillon, University of New England, Australia, Esther Eidinow and Lisa Maurizio Contributions in this volume demonstrate how, across the ancient Mediterranean and over hundreds of years, women’s rituals intersected with the political, economic, cultural or religious spheres of their communities in a way that has only recently started to gain sustained academic attention. The volume aims to tease out a number of different approaches and contexts, and to expand existing studies of women in the ancient world, as well as scholarship on religious and social history. Routledge Market: Ancient History October 2016: 234x156: 248pp Hb: 978-1-472-47890-0: £95.00 eBook: 978-1-315-54650-6 * For full contents and more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9781472478900
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INDEX BY TITLE
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Aeschylus and War .............................................................. 6 Ancient Macedonia ........................................................... 13 Ancient Monuments and Modern Identities ........... 16 Ancient Near Eastern History and Culture ................. 2 Archaeology of Lucanian Cult Places, The ................ 5 Aristotle and Confucius on Rhetoric and Truth ........................................................................................... 3 Athenian Law and Society ............................................. 16 Attic Oratory and Performance ...................................... 9 Ausonius ................................................................................... 6
Hermes ...................................................................................... 4 Herod ....................................................................................... 13 Human Body in Early Iron Age Central Europe, The ............................................................................................ 19
B Bodies of Evidence ............................................................. 16 Borderline Virginities ......................................................... 11 Byzantine Athens, 10th - 12th Centuries .................. 11
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I Imagination of Rome's Foundation Myths, The ............................................................................................ 14 Imperial Identities in the Roman World ...................... 4 Inscribing Faith ................................................................... 17 Interpreters and Interpretation in Philostratus ............................................................................. 6 Ishtar .......................................................................................... 4
K Killing Hercules ....................................................................... 9
Character Evidence in the Courts of Classical Athens ....................................................................................... 6 Childhood in History ........................................................... 6 Children and Everyday Life in the Roman and Late Antique World ..................................................................... 11 Constantine: Religious Faith and Imperial Policy .......................................................................................... 4 Cult of St Anne in Byzantium, The ............................... 12 Cults of Sainte Foy and the Cultural Work of Saints, The ............................................................................................ 18 Cultural Genealogy .............................................................. 6 Cultural Perceptions of Violence in the Hellenistic World ....................................................................................... 16 Culture of Animals in Antiquity, The ............................. 7 Cádiz ........................................................................................ 16
D Dialogues and Debates from Late Antiquity to Late Byzantium ............................................................................. 11 Diet and Nutrition in the Roman World ................... 13 Drinking Pure Wine ........................................................... 16 Dynamics of Rhetorical Delivery in Late Antiquity, The .............................................................................................. 5
E Early Christian World, The .............................................. 18 Elis ............................................................................................... 9 Emperor and the Army in the Later Roman Empire, AD 235–395, The ................................................................ 14 Essays on Aristotle's Eudemian Ethics .......................... 3 Etruscans and the History of Dentistry, The ............ 18 Excavating Pilgrimage ....................................................... 4
L Legacy of Demetrius of Alexandria 189-232 CE, The ............................................................................................ 19 Locating Daimones in the Ancient Greek World ......................................................................................... 9
T Taste and the Ancient Senses ....................................... 18 Tenth-Century Byzantine Military Manual, A ................................................................................................. 11 Tertullian and the Unborn Child .................................... 7 Theatrocracy .......................................................................... 8 Thebes ..................................................................................... 10 Touch and the Ancient Senses ..................................... 19 TransAntiquity ..................................................................... 19 Transformations in Mapping the Classical World ....................................................................................... 19
U Understanding Latin Literature ...................................... 8
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M Masculinity and Dress in Roman Antiquity ............ 13 Mass and Elite in the Greek and Roman Worlds ....................................................................................... 7 Mass Violence and Genocide in the Roman World ......................................................................................... 5 Mediterranean Timescapes ........................................... 13 Migration, Diaspora and Identity in the Ancient Near East ............................................................................................. 2 Minoan Body, The .............................................................. 10 Movement, Sensory Spaces and Religious Experience in Roman Antiquity ........................................................... 14 Music Therapy in Ancient Greece ................................ 10
Violence and Community .............................................. 19
W Women Going Public ....................................................... 20 Women in the Classical World CC 4V ........................ 20 Women's Ritual Competence in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean .................................................................... 20
O Official Power and Local Elites in the Roman Provinces ................................................................................ 14 Omens and Oracles: Divination in Ancient Greece ........................................................................................ 4
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Farmers and Agriculture in the Roman Economy ................................................................................ 13 Foundations of Celestial Reckoning, The ................. 18
Peace and Reconciliation in the Classical World ......................................................................................... 3 Performing Homer: The Voyage of Ulysses from Epic to Opera .................................................................................... 7 Peripatetics, The .................................................................. 10 Picenum .................................................................................... 5 Procopius of Caesarea: Literary and Historical Approaches .......................................................................... 11 Prophets and Profits .......................................................... 14
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Galen's Critical Days (De diebus decretoriis) in the Græco-Arabic Tradition .................................................. 17 Galen: Four Treatises on the Pulses ............................... 3 Greek Art in Context ............................................................. 9 Greek Medical Literature and its Readers ................... 9
Rethinking the Pompeian House ................................ 17 Roman Republic 264–44 BC, The ................................ 15 Rome and Persia at War and Peace ........................... 14 Routledge Companion to Strabo, The ......................... 8 Routledge Research Companion to Shakespeare and Classical Literature, The ..................................................... 8
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Security in Roman Times ................................................... 7 Senses of the Empire ......................................................... 17 Shoes, Slippers and Sandals: Feet and Footwear in Classical Antiquity ............................................................. 17 Socrates Mystagogos .......................................................... 3 Space, Movement and Visibility in the Pompeian House ...................................................................................... 17 Studies on Greek Law, Oratory and Comedy ............ 7 Style and Reasoning in the Hippocratic Corpus ..................................................................................... 18
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