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The Republican Roman Army

A Sourcebook

By Michael M. Sage

The Republican Roman Army assembles a wide range of source material and introduces the latest scholarship on the evolution of the Roman Army and the...

Published May 2nd 2008 by Routledge.

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Dress and the Roman Woman

Self-Presentation and Society

By Kelly Olson

In ancient Rome, the subtlest details in dress helped to distinguish between levels of social and moral hierarchy. Clothes were a key part of the...

Published April 28th 2008 by Routledge.

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Perseus

By Daniel Ogden

The son of Zeus, Perseus belongs in the first rank of Greek heroes. Indeed to some he was a greater hero even than Heracles. With...

Published February 8th 2008 by Routledge.

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Between Rome and Persia

The Middle Euphrates, Mesopotamia and Palmyra Under Roman Control

By Peter Edwell

The conflict between the powerful Roman and Iranian empires arising from the extension of Roman power into today’s Middle East is coming into increasingly sharp...

Published December 18th 2007 by Routledge.

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Empedocles Redivivus

Poetry and Analogy in Lucretius

By Myrto Garani

Despite the general scholarly consensus about Lucretius’ debt to Empedocles as the father of the genre of cosmological didactic epic, there is a major disagreement...

Published December 7th 2007 by Routledge.

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The Roman Eastern Frontier and the Persian Wars AD 363-628

By Geoffrey Greatrex, Samuel N. C. Lieu

Late Antiquity was an eventful period on the eastern frontier of the Roman empire. From the failure of the Emperor Julian's invasion of Persia in...

Published December 1st 2007 by Routledge.

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Passions and Moral Progress in Greco-Roman Thought

Edited by John T. Fitzgerald

This book contains a collection of 13 essays from leading scholars on the relationship between passionate emotions and moral advancement in Greek and Roman thought.

Recognising that emotions played...

Published November 26th 2007 by Routledge.

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Death in Ancient Rome

A Sourcebook

By Valerie Hope

Presenting a wide range of relevant, translated texts on death, burial and commemoration in the Roman world, this book is organized thematically and supported by discussion of...

Published November 7th 2007 by Routledge.

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Utopia Antiqua

Readings of the Golden Age and Decline at Rome

By Rhiannon Evans

Utopia Antiqua is a fresh look at narratives of the Golden Age and decline in ancient Roman literature of the late Republic and imperial period.

Through...

Published October 24th 2007 by Routledge.

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Roman Social History

A sourcebook

Edited by Tim Parkin, Arthur Pomeroy

This Sourcebook contains a comprehensive collection of sources on the topic of the social history of the Roman world during the late Republic and the...

Published October 23rd 2007 by Routledge.

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