Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
The Poetics in its Aristotelian Context
1st Edition
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By Pierre Destrée, Malcolm Heath, Dana L. Munteanu
August 29, 2022
This volume integrates aspects of the Poetics into the broader corpus of Aristotelian philosophy. It both deals with some old problems raised by the treatise, suggesting possible solutions through contextualization, and also identifies new ways in which poetic concepts could relate to Aristotelian ...
Animals in Ancient Greek Religion
1st Edition
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By Julia Kindt
August 01, 2022
This book provides the first systematic study of the role of animals in different areas of the ancient Greek religious experience, including in myth and ritual, the literary and the material evidence, the real and the imaginary. An international team of renowned contributors shows that animals had ...
Greek and Roman Military Manuals: Genre and History
1st Edition
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By James T. Chlup, Conor Whately
August 01, 2022
This volume explores the enigmatic primary source known as the ancient military manual. In particular, the volume explores the extent to which these diverse texts constitute a genre (sometimes unsatisfactorily classified as ‘technical literature’), and the degree to which they reflect the practice ...
Proclus and the Chaldean Oracles: A Study on Proclean Exegesis, with a Translation and Commentary of Proclus’ Treatise On Chaldean Philosophy
1st Edition
By Nicola Spanu
August 01, 2022
This volume examines the discussion of the Chaldean Oracles in the work of Proclus, as well as offering a translation and commentary of Proclus’ Treatise On Chaldean Philosophy. Spanu assesses whether Proclus’ exegesis of the Chaldean Oracles can be used by modern research to better clarify the ...
Emotional Trauma in Greece and Rome: Representations and Reactions
1st Edition
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By Andromache Karanika, Vassiliki Panoussi
June 14, 2022
This volume examines emotional trauma in the ancient world, focusing on literary texts from different genres (epic, theatre, lyric poetry, philosophy, historiography) and archaeological evidence. The material covered spans geographically from Greece and Rome to Judaea, with a chronological range ...
The Representation of Slavery in the Greek Novel: Resistance and Appropriation
1st Edition
By William M. Owens
June 14, 2022
This volume offers the first comprehensive treatment of how the five canonical Greek novels represent slaves and slavery. In each novel, one or both elite protagonists are enslaved, and Owens explores the significance of the genre’s regular social degradation of these members of the elite.Reading ...
Memories of Utopia: The Revision of Histories and Landscapes in Late Antiquity
1st Edition
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By Bronwen Neil, Kosta Simic
June 13, 2022
These essays examine how various communities remembered and commemorated their shared past through the lens of utopia and its corollary, dystopia, providing a framework for the reinterpretation of rapidly changing religious, cultural, and political realities of the turbulent period from 300 to 750 ...
The Making of Identities in Athenian Oratory
1st Edition
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By Jakub Filonik, Brenda Griffith-Williams, Janek Kucharski
June 13, 2022
Focusing on extant speeches from the Athenian Assembly, law, and Council in the fifth–fourth centuries BCE, these essays explore how speakers constructed or deconstructed identities for themselves and their opponents as part of a rhetorical strategy designed to persuade or manipulate the ...
Un-Roman Sex: Gender, Sexuality, and Lovemaking in the Roman Provinces and Frontiers
1st Edition
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By Tatiana Ivleva, Rob Collins
June 13, 2022
Un-Roman Sex explores how gender and sex were perceived and represented outside the Mediterranean core of the Roman Empire. The volume critically explores the gender constructs and sexual behaviours in the provinces and frontiers in light of recent studies of Roman erotic experience and flux gender...
Underworld Gods in Ancient Greek Religion: Death and Reciprocity
1st Edition
By Ellie Mackin Roberts
June 13, 2022
This volume presents a case for how and why people in archaic and classical Greece worshipped Underworld gods.These gods are often portrayed as malevolent and transgressive, giving an impression that ancient worshippers derived little or no benefit from developing ongoing relationships with them. ...
The Discourse of Kingship in Classical Greece
1st Edition
By Carol Atack
December 13, 2021
This book examines how ancient authors explored ideas of kingship as a political role fundamental to the construction of civic unity, the use of kingship stories to explain the past and present unity of the polis and the distinctive function or status attributed to kings in such accounts.It ...
Piracy, Pillage, and Plunder in Antiquity: Appropriation and the Ancient World
1st Edition
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By Richard Evans, Martine De Marre
September 30, 2021
Piracy, Pillage, and Plunder in Antiquity explores appropriation in its broadest terns in the ancient world, from brigands, mercenaries and state-sponsored "piracy", to literary appropriation and the modern plundering of antiquities.The chronological extent of the studies in this volume, written by...