Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
Divination and Knowledge in Greco-Roman Antiquity
1st Edition
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By Crystal Addey
September 25, 2023
Addressing the close connections between ancient divination and knowledge, this volume offers an interlinked and detailed set of case studies which examine the epistemic value and significance of divination in ancient Greek and Roman cultures. Focusing on diverse types of divination, including ...
Epigraphic Culture in the Eastern Mediterranean in Antiquity
1st Edition
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By Krzysztof Nawotka
September 25, 2023
This book investigates the epigraphic habit of the Eastern Mediterranean in antiquity, from the inception of alphabetic writing to the seventh c. CE, aiming to identify whether there was one universal epigraphic culture in this area or a number of discrete epigraphic cultures. Chapters examine ...
Illiterate Geography in Classical Athens and Rome
1st Edition
By Daniela Dueck
September 25, 2023
This study is devoted to the channels through which geographic knowledge circulated in classical societies outside of textual transmission. It explores understanding of geography among the non-elites, as opposed to scholarly and scientific geography solely in written form which was the province of ...
Religious Discourse in Attic Oratory and Politics
1st Edition
By Andreas Serafim
September 25, 2023
The book offers a critical investigation of a wide range of features of religious discourse in the transmitted forensic, symbouleutic and epideictic orations of the Ten Attic Orators, a body of 151 speeches which represents the mature flourishing of the ancient art of public speaking and persuasion...
Classicising Crisis: The Modern Age of Revolutions and the Greco-Roman Repertoire
1st Edition
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By Barbara Goff, Michael Simpson
May 31, 2023
Geopolitical shifts and economic shocks, from the Early Modern period to the 21st century, are frequently represented in terms of classical antecedents. In this book, an international team of contributors - working across the disciplines of Classics, History, Politics, and English - addresses a ...
Frankness, Greek Culture, and the Roman Empire
1st Edition
By Dana Fields
May 31, 2023
Frankness, Greek Culture, and the Roman Empire discusses the significance of parrhēsia (free and frank speech) in Greek culture of the Roman empire. The term parrhēsia first emerged in the context of the classical Athenian democracy and was long considered a key democratic and egalitarian value. ...
Robert E. Sherwood and the Classical Tradition: The Muses in America
1st Edition
By Robert J. Rabel
May 31, 2023
This volume explores the reception of the classical past in the works of twentieth-century American dramatist Robert E. Sherwood and his use of the ancient world to critique key events and trends in American history. It explores his comedies and the influence of both Greek Old and New Comedy, as ...
Xenophon’s Socratic Works
1st Edition
By David M. Johnson
May 31, 2023
Xenophon’s Socratic Works demonstrates that Xenophon, a student of Socrates, military man, and man of letters, is an indispensable source for our understanding of the life and philosophy of Socrates. David M. Johnson restores Xenophon’s most ambitious Socratic work, the Memorabilia (Socratic ...
Bride of Hades to Bride of Christ: The Virgin and the Otherworldly Bridegroom in Ancient Greece and Early Christian Rome
1st Edition
By Abbe Lind Walker
January 21, 2023
This volume argues that ancient Greek girls and early Christian virgins and their families made use of rhetorically similar traditions of marriage to an otherworldly bridegroom in order to handle the problem of a girl’s denied or disrupted transition into adulthood.In both ancient Greece and early ...
Drama, Oratory and Thucydides in Fifth-Century Athens: Teaching Imperial Lessons
1st Edition
By Sophie Mills
January 21, 2023
This study centres on the rhetoric of the Athenian empire, Thucydides’ account of the Peloponnesian War and the notable discrepancies between his assessment of Athens and that found in tragedy, funeral orations and public art. Mills explores the contradiction between Athenian actions and their ...
Homicide in the Attic Orators: Rhetoric, Ideology, and Context
1st Edition
By Christine Plastow
January 21, 2023
This study identifies specific features in the legal procedure and social perception of homicide in Athens in the time of the orators and examines how these features affected and were represented and utilised in forensic rhetoric.The socially transgressive nature of the crime in Athens resulted in ...
Intertextuality in Seneca’s Philosophical Writings
1st Edition
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By Myrto Garani, Andreas N. Michalopoulos, Sophia Papaioannou
January 21, 2023
This volume is the first systematic study of Seneca’s interaction with earlier literature of a variety of genres and traditions. It examines this interaction and engagement in his prose works, offering interpretative readings that are at once groundbreaking and stimulating to further study.Focusing...