Classical history & classical civilisation books

This book argues that in order for people to live well, they must develop a virtue of playfulness. Inspired by Aristotle,...  Read More >>

This volume is a groundbreaking discussion of the role of digital media in research on ancient painting, and a deep...  Read More >>

The scintillating follow-up to Pandora's Jar from bestselling author Natalie Haynes.  Read More >>

This book investigates issues of identity and narrativity in late Byzantine romances in a Mediterranean context,...  Read More >>

As this book intriguingly explores, for those who would make Rome great again and their victims, ideas of Roman...  Read More >>

This volume explores the images of Alexander the Great during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, how they came...  Read More >>

Flattery in Seneca the Younger explores the discourse of flattery in Seneca's philosophical texts, and analyses...  Read More >>

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Covering the period from 2500 BCE to the Byzantine Era, this volume focuses on the social history of furniture found...  Read More >>

An accessible, up-to-date, and innovative account of key features of Homer's poetry (formularity, meter, and dialect)....  Read More >>

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This study examines the five extant large Imperial cameos of the Early Roman Empire as a coherent whole, revealing...  Read More >>

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Drawing together contributions from scholars in a wide range of fields inside Classics and Drama, this volume traces...  Read More >>

This collection of new essays offers the first authoritative analysis of the reception of classical Greek ethics...  Read More >>

La naissance et les pratiques de l’écriture en Gaule suscitent depuis quelques années un regain d’intérêt dont témoignent...  Read More >>

This new translation of Pindar’s songs for victorious athletes marries philological rigour with poetic sensibility...  Read More >>

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A detailed philological and interpretative reading of Ovid's most neglected poem, the Remedia Amoris. In her immersive,...  Read More >>

This volume builds upon numerous recent articles offering a new perspective on Julian.  Read More >>

The Routledge Pocket Guide to Medical Latin is a medical reference tool like no other, providing an easy-to-use,...  Read More >>

The first full-length study of how Italian colonialism in Africa used the history of Roman imperialism on the continent...  Read More >>

The Routledge Pocket Guide to Medical Latin is a medical reference tool like no other, providing an easy-to-use,...  Read More >>

This Element discusses the Early Byzantine Church of St. Polyeuktos. One of the most magnificent, but also most...  Read More >>

This is a fully revised new edition of Michael Ewans’ 1995 English translation of the Oresteia, taking into account...  Read More >>