Classical Studies News & Updates
Articles, News, Promotions and Updates from Routledge and the Taylor & Francis Group.
Recent Articles
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Rome and Provincial Resistance
By Gil Gambash
This book demonstrates and analyzes patterns in the response of the Imperial Roman state to local resistance, focusing on decisions made within military and administrative organizations during the Principate. Through a thorough investigation of the official Roman approach towards local revolt, author Gil Gambash answers significant questions that, until now, have produced conflicting explanations in the literature.
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From the Socratics to the Socratic Schools
Classical Ethics, Metaphysics and Epistemology
"Ugo Zilioli has put together an inspiring, dialogical collection of papers, which explore routes traced by the evidence for the ‘other’ (let’s stop saying ‘minor’) Socratics and their heirs through many of the blank spaces left on our historical map between Plato and the Hellenistic age." – George Boys-Stones, Durham University, UK
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The Classics and Byzantium: Redesigning our cultural genealogy
Anthony Kaldellis, author of Byzantine Readings of Ancient Historians: Texts in Translation, with Introductions and Notes, discusses the construction of historical genealogies.
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Reference Bestsellers
To celebrate National Library Week, Routledge Classical Studies is proud to present our top selling reference titles from the past year.
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New and Classic Texts in Ancient Religions
Whether you're teaching, studying, or just interested in Ancient Religions, we have an extensive range of resources available.
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Caligula: The Abuse of Power, 2nd Edition
By Anthony A. Barrett
Caligula remains the only full length and detailed scholarly analysis in English of this emperor's reign. However, since publication of the original there have been considerable scholarly advances in what we know about this emperor specifically, and also about the general period in which he functioned, while newly discovered inscriptions and major archaeological projects have necessitated a rethinking of many of our earlier conclusions about early imperial history. This new edition constitutes a major revision of the original text. Embodying the latest discoveries and thinking it seeks to make more lucid and comprehensible those aspects of the reign that are particularly daunting to the non-specialist.
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Religious Dissent in the Roman Empire
Violence in Judaea at the Time of Nero
By Vasily Rudich
Religious Dissent in the Roman Empire is an important study for people interested in Roman and Jewish history, religious psychology and religious extremism, cultural interaction and the roots of violence.
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Cicero: The Philosophy of a Roman Sceptic
Cicero’s philosophical works introduced Latin audiences to the ideas of the Stoics, Epicureans and other schools and figures of the post-Aristotelian period, thus influencing the transmission of those ideas through later history. While Cicero’s value as documentary evidence for the Hellenistic schools is unquestioned, Cicero: The Philosophy of a Roman Sceptic explores his writings as works of philosophy that do more than simply synthesize the thought of others, but instead offer a unique viewpoint of their own.
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Elizabeth M. Craik on the ‘Hippocratic Question’
Elizabeth M. Craik, author of The ‘Hippocratic’ Corpus: Content and Context, discusses the 'Hippocratic Question' and medicine in ancient Greece.
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