Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
Maxwell Anderson and the Classical Tradition: The Muses in America
1st Edition
By Robert J. Rabel
April 15, 2025
This book sheds new light on the dramatic works of the American playwright, poet, and lyricist Maxwell Anderson, assessing the pervasive influence of Greek and Roman antiquity on his plays that dominated Broadway in the first half of the twentieth century. Anderson is an important, though often ...
Making Time for Greek and Roman Literature
1st Edition
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By Kate Gilhuly, Jeffrey P. Ulrich
April 14, 2025
The essays in this collection explore various various models of representing temporality in ancient Greek and Roman literature to elucidate how structures of time communicate meaning, as well as the way that the cultural impact of measured time is reflected in ancient texts. This collection serves ...
New Essays on Aristotle’s Organon
1st Edition
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By António Pedro Mesquita, Ricardo Santos
April 14, 2025
This collection of new essays by an international group of scholars closely examines the works of Aristotle’s Organon. The Organon is the general title given to the collection of Aristotle’s logical works: Categories, De Interpretatione, Prior Analytics, Posterior Analytics, Topics, and Sophistical...
Nostalgias for Homer in Greek Literature of the Roman Empire
1st Edition
By Vincent Tomasso
April 14, 2025
This volume investigates how versions of Trojan War narratives written in Greek in the first through fifth centuries C.E. created nostalgias for audiences. In ancient education, the Iliad and the Odyssey were used as models through which students learned Greek language and literature. This, ...
The Geographical Guide of Ptolemy of Alexandria: An Analysis
1st Edition
By Duane W. Roller
April 14, 2025
This volume offers a detailed study of Ptolemy of Alexandria’s Geographical Guide, whose eight books contain a wealth of geographical information unavailable elsewhere and represent the culmination of the Greco-Roman discipline of geography. Written near the middle of the second century ad, the ...
Aristotle in Japan: Reception, Interpretation and Application
1st Edition
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By Tomohiko Kondo, Koji Tachibana
March 20, 2025
This is the first volume to explore the modern reception and contemporary relevance of Aristotle and his philosophy in Japan, making it a valuable contribution to both global Aristotelian studies and studies of Japanese philosophical traditions. The study of Aristotle’s philosophy in Japan is ...
Didactic Literature in the Roman World
1st Edition
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By T. H. M. Gellar-Goad, Christopher B. Polt
March 13, 2025
This book collects new work on Latin didactic poetry and prose in the late Republic and early Empire, and it evaluates the varied, shifting roles that literature of teaching and learning played during this period. Instruction was of special interest in the culture and literature of the late Roman ...
Revelation and Material Religion in the Roman East: Essays in Honor of Steven J. Friesen
1st Edition
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By Nathan Leach, Daniel Charles Smith, Tony Keddie
March 13, 2025
This collection of essays from a diverse group of internationally recognized scholars builds on the work of Steven J. Friesen to analyze the material and ideological dimensions of John’s Apocalypse and the religious landscape of the Roman East. Readers will gain new perspectives on the ...
The Greeks in Iberia and their Mediterranean Context
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By Jens A. Krasilnikoff, Benedict Lowe
March 13, 2025
This volume explores the effects of Greek presence in the Iberian Peninsula, and how this Iberian Greek experience evolved in resonance with its neighbouring region, the Mediterranean West. Contributions cover the Phocaean settlement at Emporion and its relationship with the indigenous hinterland, ...
A Cognitive Analysis of the Main Apolline Divinatory Practices: Decoding Divination
1st Edition
By Giulia Frigerio
December 18, 2024
This volume takes an innovative interdisciplinary approach to investigating divination procedures at sanctuaries of Apollo in Classical and Hellenistic Greece, merging neuroscience, psychology, and behavioural studies with archaeology. Through a deep analysis of primary sources and the historical ...
Atheism at the Agora: A History of Unbelief in Ancient Greek Polytheism
1st Edition
By James C Ford
December 18, 2024
This fresh, comprehensive study of ancient Greek atheism aims to dismantle the current consensus that atheism was ‘unthinkable’ in ancient Greece, demonstrating instead that atheism was not only thinkable but inextricably embedded in the Greek religious environment. Through careful analysis of a ...
Personal Experience and Materiality in Greek Religion
1st Edition
By K.A. Rask
December 18, 2024
Employing frameworks of lived religion and materiality, this book provides the first full-length study of personal religious experience in the Greek Archaic and Classical periods. Rask analyzes archeological, epigraphic, and textual evidence to highlight the role of individuals as vital actors and ...