History / Ancient

Art in the Roman Empire

by Michael Grant

Michael Grant has specially selected some of the most significant examples of painting, portraits, architecture, mosaic, jewellery and silverware, to give a unique insight into the functions and manifestations...

Initiation in Ancient Greek Rituals and Narratives: New Critical Perspectives

by David Dodd & Christopher A. Faraone

Scholars of classical history and literature have for more than a century accepted `initiation' as a tool for understanding a variety of obscure rituals and myths, ranging from the ancient Greek wedding and...

Animals Rights and Reason in Plutarch and Modern Ethics

by Stephen Newmyer

This groundbreaking volume explores Plutarch's unique survival in the argument that animals are rational and sentient, and that we, as humans, must take notice of their interests.

Exploring Plutarch's three...

The Athenian Woman: An Iconographic Handbook

by Sian Lewis

Here Sian Lewis considers the full range of female existence in classical Greece - childhood and old age, unfree and foreign status, and the ageless woman characteristic of Athenian red-figure painting.

Ceramics...

Greek Rational Medicine: Philosophy and Medicine from Alcmaeon to the Alexandrians

by James Longrigg

The ancient Greek medical thinkers were profoundly influenced by Ionian natural philosophy. This philosophy caused them to adopt a radically new attitude towards disease and healing. James Longrigg shows how...

Food in the Ancient World from A to Z

by Andrew Dalby

Sensual yet pre-eminently functional, food is of intrinsic interest to us all. This exciting new work by a leading authority explores food and related concepts in the Greek and Roman worlds.

In entries ranging...

Hadrian: The Restless Emperor

by Anthony R Birley & Anthony R. Birley

Hadrian's reign (AD 117-138) was a watershed in the history of the Roman Empire. Hadrian abandoned his predecessor Trajan's eastern conquests - Mesopotamia and Armenia - trimmed down the lands beyond the lower...

Imperium Romanum: Politics and Administration

by Andrew Lintott

The Roman Empire at its height encompassed the majority of the world known to the Romans. This important synthesis of recent findings and scholarship demonstrates how the Romans acquired, kept and controlled...

Images of Women in Antiquity

by Averil Cameron & Amélie Kuhrt

The agenda and significance of women in antiquity has gained considerable attention in recent years. In this book diverse roles for and attitudes to women in ancient societies are explored: women as witches,...

John Lydus and the Roman Past: Antiquarianism and Politics in the Age of Justinian

by Michael Maas

John Lydus and the Roman Past offers a new interpretation of the emergence of Byzantine society as viewed through the eyes of John Lydus, a sixth-century scholar and civil servant. Maas show that control of...

Public and Performance in the Greek Theatre

by Peter D. Arnott

Peter Arnott discusses Greek drama not as an antiquarian study but as a living art form. He removes the plays from the library and places them firmly in the theatre that gave them being. Invoking the practical...

Political Dissidence Under Nero: The Price of Dissimulation

by Vasily Rudich

Vasily Rudich examines dissidence under Nero from both historical and psychological perspectives and inquires into the balance of the universal and historically conditioned components of political behaviour....

The Sacred and the Feminine in Ancient Greece

by Sue Blundell, Margaret Williamson & Margaret Williamson**Nfa***

In classical Greece women were almost entirely excluded from public life. Yet the feminine was accorded a central place in religious thought and ritual.This volume explores the often paradoxical centrality of...

Women and Slaves in Greco-Roman Culture: Differential Equations

by Sandra R. Joshel & Sheila Murnaghan

Women and Slaves in Classical Culture examines how ancient societies were organized around slave-holding and the subordination of women to reveal how women and slaves interacted with one another in both the...

Roman Philosophers

by Mark Morford

The philosophers of the Roman world were asking questions whose answers had practical effects on people's lives in antiquity, and which still influence our thinking to this day. In spite of being neglected in...

The Routledge Handbook of the Peoples and Places of Ancient Western Asia: The Near East from the Early Bronze Age to the fall of the Persian Empire

by Trevor Bryce

This 500,000 word reference work provides the most comprehensive general treatment available of the peoples and places of the regions commonly referred to as the ancient Near and Middle East - extending from...

Materiality and Consumption in the Bronze Age Mediterranean

by Louise Steel

The importance of cultural contacts in the East Mediterranean has long been recognized and is the focus of ongoing international research. Fieldwork in the Aegean, Egypt, Cyprus, and the Levant continues to...

International Heritage and Historic Building Conservation: Saving the World's Past

by Zeynep Aygen

The majority of books in English on historic building conservation and heritage preservation training are often restricted to Western architecture and its origins. Consequently, the history of building conservation,...

In Search of Ancient Ireland: The Origins of the Irish from Neolithic Times to the Coming of the English

by Carmel McCaffrey & Leo Eaton

The history, archaeology, and legends of ancient Ireland from 9000 B.C., when nomadic hunter-gatherers appeared in Ireland at the end of the last Ice Age, to 1167 A.D., when a Norman invasion brought the country...

Studying Roman Law

by Paul du Plessis

Studying Roman Law is an introductory guide aimed at sixth-formers, students and those with a general interest wishing to obtain a basic overview of Roman private law during the first three centuries of the...