Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
Combined Arms Warfare in Ancient Greece: From Homer to Alexander the Great and his Successors
1st Edition
By Graham Wrightson
June 30, 2021
Combined Arms Warfare in Ancient Greece examines the timelines of military developments that led from the hoplite-based armies of the ancient Greeks to the hugely successful and multi-faceted armies of Philip II, Alexander the Great, and his Successors. It concentrates on the introduction and ...
Fantasy in Greek and Roman Literature
1st Edition
By Graham Anderson
June 30, 2021
Fantasy in Greek and Roman Literature offers an overview of Greek and Roman excursions into fantasy, including imaginary voyages, dream-worlds, talking animals and similar impossibilities. This is a territory seldom explored and extends to rarely read texts such as the Aesop Romance, The Battle of ...
Power Couples in Antiquity: Transversal Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Anne Bielman Sánchez
June 30, 2021
Everyone can name a couple made up of famous, rich, or powerful partners, who cultivate a joint media image which is stronger than either of their individual identities. Since the 1980s they have been known as "power couples". Yet while the term is recent, the concept is not. More than 2,000 ...
Romans at War: Soldiers, Citizens, and Society in the Roman Republic
1st Edition
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By Jeremy Armstrong, Michael P. Fronda
June 30, 2021
This volume addresses the fundamental importance of the army, warfare, and military service to the development of both the Roman Republic and wider Italic society in the second half of the first millennium BC. It brings together emerging and established scholars in the area of Roman military ...
The Extramercantile Economies of Greek and Roman Cities: New Perspectives on the Economic History of Classical Antiquity
1st Edition
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By David B. Hollander, Thomas R. Blanton IV, John T. Fitzgerald
June 30, 2021
Recent work on the ancient economy has tended to concentrate on market exchange, but other forces also caused goods to change hands. Such nonmarket transfers ranged from small private gifts to the wholesale confiscation of cities, lands, and their peoples. The papers presented in this volume ...
Monsters in Greek Literature: Aberrant Bodies in Ancient Greek Cosmogony, Ethnography, and Biology
1st Edition
By Fiona Mitchell
May 31, 2021
Monsters in Greek literature are often thought of as creatures which exist in mythological narratives, however, as this book shows, they appear in a much broader range of ancient sources and are used in creation narratives, ethnographic texts, and biology to explore the limits of the human ...
Pushing the Boundaries of Historia
1st Edition
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By Mary English, Lee Fratantuono
December 18, 2020
Pushing the Boundaries of Historia collects together 20 chapters, whose coverage extends from the prehistory of Greece through early Christianity in the Roman Empire to the reception of classical texts by contemporary playwrights and poets. The essays range beyond Greece and Rome to the ancient ...
The Bible, Homer, and the Search for Meaning in Ancient Myths: Why We Would Be Better Off With Homer’s Gods
1st Edition
By John Heath
December 18, 2020
The Bible, Homer, and the Search for Meaning in Ancient Myths explores and compares the most influential sets of divine myths in Western culture: the Homeric pantheon and Yahweh, the God of the Old Testament. Heath argues that not only does the God of the Old Testament bear a striking resemblance ...
Thinking the Greeks: A Volume in Honor of James M. Redfield
1st Edition
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By Bruce M. King, Lillian Doherty
December 18, 2020
This volume, from an international and interdisciplinary cohort of scholars, offers independent-minded essays about central Greek texts and about the relation of social theory and comparative method to the study of archaic and classical Greek literature. It is in honour of James M. Redfield, whose ...
Greek Myth and the Bible
1st Edition
By Bruce Louden
September 30, 2020
Since the nineteenth-century rediscovery of the Gilgamesh epic, we have known that the Bible imports narratives from outside of Israelite culture, refiguring them for its own audience. Only more recently, however, has come the realization that Greek culture is also a prominent source of ...
Juvenal's Global Awareness: Circulation, Connectivity, and Empire
1st Edition
By Osman Umurhan
August 14, 2020
In Juvenal’s Global Awareness Osman Umurhan applies theories of globalization to an investigation of Juvenal’s articulation and understanding of empire, imperialism and identity. Umurhan explains how the increased interconnectivity between different localities, ethnic and political, shapes Juvenal’...
Rethinking ‘Authority’ in Late Antiquity: Authorship, Law, and Transmission in Jewish and Christian Tradition
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By A.J. Berkovitz, Mark Letteney
August 14, 2020
The historian’s task involves unmasking the systems of power that underlie our sources. A historian must not only analyze the content and context of ancient sources, but also the structures of power, authority, and political contingency that account for their transmission, preservation, and ...