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Serie: Routledge monographs in classical studies
gebondenNederlands304 blz.9781032594194
This volume examines the dynamism and complexity of religious expressions in rural settings across Late Antique Iberia, refuting the idea that rural spaces, and in turn rural religious practices, were static and unchanging, anchored in tradition and resistant to any process of religious change. Meer
paperbackNederlands142 blz.9781032456577
This volume investigates how versions of Trojan War narratives written in Greek in the first through fifth centuries C.E. created nostalgia for audiences, particularly in the case of the third-century C. Meer
gebondenEngels288 blz.9781032892269
This book offers a comprehensive and systematic – rather than historical – approach to ancient Greek oracular texts, showing their conceptual and formal unity and patternisation, as well as their meaningful diversity. Meer
gebondenEngels216 blz.9781032256993
This book explores the portrayal of the discipline of Classics and its practitioners as it emerges from fiction written in the United Kingdom and United States from the 19th century to the present day. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780367864675
12-12-2019
The citizens of ancient Athens were directly responsible for the development and power of its democracy; but how did they learn about politics and what their roles were within it? Meer
PaperbackEngels9780367646950
29-1-2024
This volume explores the role that republican political participation played in forging elite Roman masculinity. It situates familiarly "manly" traits like militarism, aggressive sexuality, and the pursuit of power within a political system based on power sharing and cooperation. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780367631727
28-10-2024
This book explores the complex relationship between production, trade, and connectivity in Pre-Roman Italy, confronting established ideas about the relationships between people, objects, and ideas, and highlighting how social change and community formation is rooted in individual interactions. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780367745547
27-5-2024
This volume demonstrates the development of Roman military bureaucracy during the Middle Republic, expanding on recent research to examine these administrative systems that made possible Rome’s expansion in this period. Meer
GebondenEngels9780367638047
30-9-2021
This volume considers representations of space and movement in sources ranging from Roman comedy to late antique verse, exploring how poetry in the Roman world is fundamentally shaped by its relationship to travel within the geography of Rome’s far-reaching empire. Meer
GebondenEngels9780367687809
31-12-2021
Future Thinking in Roman Culture is the first volume dedicated to the exploration of prospective memory and future thinking in the Roman world, integrating cutting edge research in cognitive sciences and theory with approaches to historiography, epigraphy, and material culture. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780367535407
25-9-2023
This book investigates the epigraphic habit of the Eastern Mediterranean in antiquity, from the inception of alphabetic writing to the seventh c. CE, aiming to identify whether there was one universal epigraphic culture in this area or a number of discrete epigraphic cultures. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780367664749
30-9-2020
Since the nineteenth-century rediscovery of the Gilgamesh epic, we have known that the Bible imports narratives from outside of Israelite culture, refiguring them for its own audience. Meer
GebondenEngels9780367637934
26-4-2022
Offers the latest research on this topic. Meer
GebondenEngels9780367077204
3-5-2019
The Bible, Homer, and the Search for Meaning in Ancient Myths explores and compares the most influential sets of divine myths in Western culture: the Homeric pantheon and Yahweh, the God of the Old Testament. Meer
GebondenEngels9780367135355
29-11-2024
This volume addresses the important literary phenomenon of ‘generic enrichment’ in Plutarch’s Parallel Lives, examining the ways in which features of other genres are deployed and incorporated in Plutarch’s biographies and the effects of this on the texts themselves and readers’ responses to them. Meer
GebondenEngels9780367110635
12-8-2020
This collection presents 19 interconnected studies on the language, history, exegesis, and cultural setting of Greek epic and dramatic poetic texts ("Text") and their afterlives ("Intertext") in Antiquity. Meer
GebondenEngels9780367135409
17-1-2020
This study identifies specific features in the legal procedure and social perception of homicide in Athens in the time of the orators and examines how these features affected and were represented and utilised in forensic rhetoric. Meer
GebondenEngels9780367366117
18-3-2020
This volume integrates aspects of the Poetics into the broader corpus of Aristotelian philosophy. It both deals with some old problems raised by the treatise, suggesting possible solutions through contextualization, and also identifies new ways in which poetic concepts could relate to Aristotelian philosophy. Meer
GebondenEngels9780367481667
26-8-2024
This book explores the ways in which the origins of time, of the gods, and processes associated with time were conceptualised in antiquity, examining a variety of ancient sources from across the ancient world and addressing issues surrounding the sources themselves. Meer
GebondenEngels9780367205300
28-10-2019
This book examines how ancient authors explored ideas of kingship as a political role fundamental to the construction of civic unity, the use of kingship stories to explain the past and present unity of the polis and the distinctive function or status attributed to kings in such accounts. Meer