Forthcoming Classical Studies Books
Aphrodite
Aphrodite explores the many myths and meanings of the Greek goddess of love, sex and beauty. One of the most widely worshipped and popular deities...
March 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-77523-6 (Routledge)
Three Plays by Aristophanes
Staging Women
These three plays by the great comic playwright Aristophanes (c. 446-386 BCE), the well-known Lysistrata, and the less familiar Women at the Thesmophoria and Assemblywomen,...
April 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-87131-0 (Routledge)
Augustus and the Family at the Birth of the Roman Empire
In this lively and detailed study, Beth Severy examines the relationship between the emergence of the Roman Empire and the status and role of this...April 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-58891-1 (Routledge)
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Ptolemy of Egypt
Ptolemy was the creator of the longest lasting of the Hellenistic kingdoms. He created a state whose cultural importance was unparalleled until the coming of...April 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-58898-0 (Routledge)
Pliny on Art and Society
The Elder Pliny's Chapters On The History Of Art
Pliny sketches a theory of advancing moral decline and extravagance, in the course of which he gives a detailed account of six centuries of classical...April 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-58901-7 (Routledge)
From Feasting To Fasting
The Evolution of a Sin
April 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-58904-8 (Routledge)
Ancient Greece
Social and Historical Documents from Archaic Times to the Death of Alexander
In this revised edition, Matthew Dillon and Lynda Garland have expanded the chronological range of Ancient Greece to include the Greek world of the fourth...
May 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-47330-9 (Routledge)
The Carthaginians
The Carthaginians reveals the complex culture, society and achievements of a famous, yet misunderstood ancient people. Beginning as Phoenician settlers in North Africa, the Carthaginians...
May 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-43645-8 (Routledge)
Aspects of Roman History 82BC–AD14
A Source-based Approach
Aspects of Roman History 82BC–AD14 examines the political and military history of Rome and its empire in the Ciceronian and Augustan ages. It is an...
May 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-49694-0 (Routledge)
Herakles
Collating research over the past thirty years, Emma Stafford examines the various aspects of Herakles' myth, representations in literature and art, monographs and articles, and...
August 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-30068-1 (Routledge)
Handbook for Classical Research
One of the glories of the Greco-Roman classics is the opportunity that they give us to consider a great culture in its entirety; but our...
August 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-42523-0 (Routledge)
Classical Literature
An Introduction
Classical Literature: An Introduction provides a series of essays on the essential aspects of Greek and Latin literature. In conjunction with contextualizing introductions, the material is...
September 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46813-8 (Routledge)
Ancient Cities
The Archaeology of Urban Life in the Ancient Near East and Egypt, Greece and Rome
Ancient Cities brings to life the physical world of ancient city dwellers by concentrating on evidence recovered by archaeological excavations from the Mediterranean basin and...
September 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-49864-7 (Routledge)
The Ancient Greeks
History and Culture from Archaic Times to the Death of Alexander
The Ancient Greeks: History and Culture from Archaic Times to the Death of Alexander offers students a comprehensive introduction to the history and culture of the...
October 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-47143-5 (Routledge)
Ancient City of Rome
This sourcebook uniquely gathers a wide range of texts that illustrate the physical structures of the city, the rhythms of its daily life and the...
December 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-18246-1 (Routledge)
Animals in Greek and Roman Thought
An Anthology of Readings
How did the Greeks and Romans treat animals?
The campaign for animal rights has grown enormously during the liberal latter half of the 20th century. However, ethical debate over...
December 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-77335-5 (Routledge)
Ancient Botany
The first book to ever be published on this subject, Gavin Hardy’s study of botany in the ancient world is a tremendous contribution to the...
January 2011 | Paperback: 978-0-415-31120-5 (Routledge)
Socrates (Rp)
January 2011 | Paperback: 978-0-415-35072-3 (Routledge)
Rome On Film
A Reader
This reader is a comprehensive anthology of critical articles in the development of the study of films about ancient Rome. Including an accessible introduction and elucidating editorial comments...January 2011 | Paperback: 978-0-415-43001-2 (Routledge)
Diana
Diana, an important goddess of ancient Italy, has sometimes been misunderstood as a mere borrowing from Greece, an Italic version of Artemis, but in fact...
January 2011 | Paperback: 978-0-415-30501-3 (Routledge)
Latest Classical Studies Articles
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Editorial Note
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Herodotus, Dionysus, and the Greek death taboo. The Homeric Hymn to Demeter and the construction of the “chthonic” in Greek literary tradition
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Proëmial Prolepsis in Plato's Politeia
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Two further reminiscences of Callimachus Aetia frr. 67-75 in Eclogue 2?
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In Usum Editorum: On some Readings and Conjectures in Vergil
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