Classical Studies

By Charles Odahl

This story of Cicero and the Catilinarian Conspiracy is set within and offers a case study of the political, military, economic and social crises besetting the late Roman Republic in the era of the "Roman Revolution." The book chronicles the efforts of the defeated radical politician Lucius Sergius…

Hardback – 2010-02-17
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Routledge Studies in Ancient History

Edited by Michael Maas

Late Antiquity (ca. 250-650) witnessed the transition from Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages in the Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds. Christianity displaced polytheism over a wide area, offering new definitions of identity and community. The Roman Empire collapsed in Western Europe to be…

Paperback – 2009-12-07
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Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World

By Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, James Robson

Towards the end of the fifth century BC Ctesias of Cnidus wrote his 23 book History of Persia. Ctesias is a remarkable figure: he lived and worked in the Persian court and, as a doctor, tended to the world’s most powerful kings and queens. His position gave him special insight into the workings of…

Hardback – 2009-11-29
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Routledge Classical Translations

By Jon R. Stone

This revised and updated edition includes a brand new foreword by Richard LaFleur and more than fifteen hundred new entries and abbreviations. Organized alphabetically within the categories of verba (common words and expressions), dicta (common phrases and familiar sayings), and abbreviations,…

Paperback – 2009-06-22
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By Robin Sowerby

The Greeks has provided a concise yet wide-ranging introduction to the culture of ancient Greece since its first publication. In this expanded second edition the best-selling volume offers a lucid survey that: covers all the key elements of ancient Greek civilization from the age of Homer to the…

Paperback – 2009-05-17
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Peoples of the Ancient World

By Antony Kamm

The second edition of The Romans: An Introduction is a concise, readable, and comprehensive survey of the civilization of ancient Rome. It covers more than 1200 years of political and military history, including many of the famous, and infamous, personalities who featured in them. Further, it…

Paperback – 2009-01-20
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Peoples of the Ancient World

By G. Lowes Dickinson

First published in 1930, this book presents an imagined account of conversation between Plato and ‘A Modern Young Man’. In the first part, political and social institutions are considered and property, forms of government, socialism, the control of population, war and education, are discussed. The…

Hardback – 2015-07-23
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Routledge Revivals: Collected Works of G. Lowes Dickinson

By Matthew Dillon, Lynda Garland

In this second edition, Ancient Rome presents an extensive range of material, from the early Republic to the death of Augustus, with two new chapters on the Second Triumvirate and The Age of Augustus. Dillon and Garland have also included more extensive late Republican and Augustan sources on…

Paperback – 2015-06-29
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Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World

By Lauren K. Taaffe

Aristophanes and Women, first published in 1993, investigates the workings of the great Athenian comedian’s ‘women plays’ in an attempt to discern why they were in fact probably quite funny to their original audiences. It is argued that modern students, scholars, and dramatists need to consider…

Hardback – 2015-06-09
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Routledge Revivals