Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
Power and Rhetoric in the Ecclesiastical Correspondence of Constantine the Great
1st Edition
By Andrew J. Pottenger
October 28, 2024
This volume closely examines patterns of rhetoric in surviving correspondence by the Roman emperor Constantine on conflicts among Christians that occurred during his reign, primarily the ‘Donatist schism’ and ‘Arian controversy’. Commonly remembered as the ‘first Christian emperor’ of the Roman ...
Production, Trade, and Connectivity in Pre-Roman Italy
1st Edition
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By Jeremy Armstrong, Sheira Cohen
October 28, 2024
This book explores the complex relationship between production, trade, and connectivity in pre-Roman Italy, confronting established ideas about the connections between people, objects, and ideas, and highlighting how social change and community formation are rooted in individual interactions. The ...
Religion and Apuleius' Golden Ass: The Sacred Ass
1st Edition
By Warren S. Smith
October 28, 2024
This volume examines Apuleius’ comic donkey novel, The Golden Ass, within the context of the popular beliefs and Jewish and Christian writings that were part of the intellectual culture of his own day in 2nd century C.E. North Africa, a culture which can also be glimpsed in some early Arabic ...
Studies in Ancient Greek Philosophy: In Honor of Professor Anthony Preus
1st Edition
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By D. M. Spitzer
October 28, 2024
Spanning a wide range of texts, figures, and traditions from the ancient Mediterranean world, this volume gathers far-reaching, interdisciplinary papers on Greek philosophy from an international group of scholars. The book’s 16 chapters address an array of topics and themes, extending from the ...
Taxation, Economy, and Revolt in Ancient Rome, Galilee, and Egypt
1st Edition
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By Thomas R. Blanton IV, Agnes Choi, Jinyu Liu
October 28, 2024
This volume introduces new perspectives on taxation policies in the Roman Empire, the Galilee, and Egypt, with unique insights into the economic effects of imperial pacification on local and regional microlevel economies in the Galilee both before and after the First Jewish Revolt against Rome. ...
The Aeneid and the Modern World: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Vergil’s Epic in the 20th and 21st Centuries
1st Edition
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By J.R. O'Neill, Adam Rigoni
October 28, 2024
This collection of essays from a diverse group of scholars represents a multidisciplinary redeployment of the Aeneid that aims to illuminate its importance to our present moment. It provides a rigorous and multifaceted answer to the question, "Why should we still think about the Aeneid?" The book...
The War Cry in the Graeco-Roman World
1st Edition
By James Gersbach
October 28, 2024
This book aims to reconceptualise the Graeco-Roman military phenomenon of the "war cry"; the term itself is inadequate for defining an ancient military practice that has been misrepresented in modern media and understudied by contemporary scholars. Gersbach introduces the term and paradigm "battle...
Thornton Wilder, Classical Reception, and American Literature
1st Edition
By Stephen J. Rojcewicz, Jr.
October 08, 2024
This book delineates how Thornton Wilder (1897–1975), a learned playwright and novelist, embeds himself within the classical tradition, integrating Greek and Roman motifs with a wide range of sources to produce heart-breaking masterpieces such as Our Town and comedy sensations such as Dolly Levi. ...
Body Behaviour and Identity Construction in Ancient Greek and Roman Literature
1st Edition
By Andreas Serafim
September 27, 2024
This book offers the first systematic, up-to-date, cross-cultural, and detailed study of “semi-volitional bodily behaviour” (sneezing, spitting, coughing, burping, vomiting, defecating, etc.) in the classical world. Examining verse and prose texts, fragments, and scholia from the age of Homer to ...
Visions of the Future in Roman Frontier Kingdoms 100 BCE–100 CE
1st Edition
By Richard Teverson
September 10, 2024
This is the first book-length exploration of the ways art from the edges of the Roman Empire represented the future, examining visual representations of time and the role of artwork in Roman imperial systems. This book focuses on four kingdoms from across the empire: Cottius’s Alpine kingdom in the...
Holders of Extraordinary imperium under Augustus and Tiberius: A Study into the Beginnings of the Principate
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By Paweł Sawiński
August 26, 2024
This volume focuses on special military and diplomatic missions in various provinces of the Empire that Augustus and Tiberius entrusted to selected members of the domus Augusta, granting them special prerogatives (imperia extraordinaria). Sawiński compares and analyses various primary and ...
Ideal Themes in the Greek and Roman Novel
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By Jean Alvares
August 26, 2024
This book explores the areas in which novels such as Chariton’s Callirhoe and Heliodorus’s Aithiopika are ideal beyond the ideal love relationship and considers how concepts of the ideal connect to archetypal and literary patterns as well as reflecting contemporary ideological and cultural elements...