Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World
Women and the Law in the Roman Empire: A Sourcebook on Marriage, Divorce and Widowhood
1st Edition
By Judith Evans Grubbs
June 20, 2002
It is widely recognized that Roman law is an important source of information about women in the Roman world, and can present a more rounded and accurate picture than literary sources. This sourcebook fully exploits the rich legal material of the imperial period - from Augustus (31 BCE - 14 CE) to ...
Greek Science of the Hellenistic Era: A Sourcebook
1st Edition
By Georgia L. Irby-Massie, Paul T. Keyser
December 20, 2001
We all want to understand the world around us, and the ancient Greeks were the first to try and do so in a way we can properly call scientific. Their thought and writings laid the essential foundations for the revivals of science in medieval Baghdad and renaissance Europe. Now their work is ...
The Government of the Roman Empire: A Sourcebook
2nd Edition
By Dr Barbara Levick, Barbara Levick
September 07, 2000
This book reveals how an empire that stretched from Glasgow to Aswan in Egypt could be ruled from a single city and still survive more than a thousand years. The Government of the Roman Empire is the only sourcebook to concentrate on the administration of the empire, using the evidence of ...
Ancient Greek Laws: A Sourcebook
1st Edition
By Ilias Arnaoutoglou
April 09, 1998
In this comprehensive and accessible sourcebook, Ilias Arnaoutoglou presents a collection of ancient Greek laws, which are situated in their legal and historical contexts and are elucidated with relevant selections from Greek literature and epigraphical testimonies. A wide area of legislative ...
Warfare in Ancient Greece: A Sourcebook
1st Edition
By Michael Sage
July 04, 1996
Warfare in Ancient Greece assembles a wide range of source material and introduces the latest scholarship on the Greek experience of war. The author has carefully selected key texts, many of them not previously available in English, and provided them with comprehensive commentaries.For the Greek ...
The Roman Army, 31 BC - AD 337: A Sourcebook
1st Edition
By Brian Campbell
April 21, 1994
The Roman army is remarkable for its detailed organisation and professional structure. It not only extended and protected Rome's territorial empire which was the basis of Western civilisation, but also maintained the politcal power of the emperors. The army was an integral part of the society and ...
The Roman Household: A Sourcebook
1st Edition
By Jane F. Gardner, Thomas Wiedemann
March 14, 1991
With the help of a wide variety of source material, particularly legal documents and inscriptions, some of it made available for the first time in English, this book illustrates the activities associated with the household, demonstrating the different and frequently conflicting roles and moral ...
Athenian Politics c800-500 BC: A Sourcebook
1st Edition
By G. R. Stanton
October 12, 1990
This book is designed to sharpen historical skills by a critical approach to the sources of information on ancient Athenian politics. It presents contemporary sources, later historical and biographical writings, archaeological evidence, inscriptions on stone, and papyri from Egypt. The reader has ...
Greek and Roman Slavery
1st Edition
By Thomas Wiedemann
April 01, 1980
Greek and Roman Slavery brings together fresh English translations of 243 texts and inscriptions on slavery from fifth and fourth century Greece and Rome. The material is arranged thematically, offering the reader a comprehensive review of the idea and practice of slavery in ancient civilization. ...