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Routledge Monographs in Classi...These essays examine how various communities remembered and commemorated their... These essays examine how various communities remembered and commemorated their shared past through the lens of utopia and its corollary dystopia providing a framework for the reinterpretation of rapidly changing religious cultural and political... more
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Routledge Monographs in Classi...The conflict between the powerful Roman and Iranian empires arising from the e... The conflict between the powerful Roman and Iranian empires arising from the extension of Roman power into today s Middle East is coming into increasingly sharp focus thanks to the amount of evidence now available. This richly illustrated book examines... more
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Routledge Monographs in Classi...Recent work on the ancient economy has tended to concentrate on market exchang... Recent work on the ancient economy has tended to concentrate on market exchange but other forces also caused goods to change hands. Such nonmarket transfers ranged from small private gifts to the wholesale confiscation of cities lands and their... more
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Routledge Monographs in Classi...Combined Arms Warfare in Ancient Greece examines the timelines of military dev... Combined Arms Warfare in Ancient Greece examines the timelines of military developments that led from the hoplite-based armies of the ancient Greeks to the hugely successful and multi-faceted armies of Philip II Alexander the Great and his Successors.... more
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Routledge Monographs in Classi...Rome in the Pyrenees is a unique treatment in English of the archaeological an... Rome in the Pyrenees is a unique treatment in English of the archaeological and historical evidence for an important Roman town in Gaul Lugdunum in the French Pyrenees and for its surrounding people the Convenae. The book opens with the creation of the... more
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Routledge Monographs in Classi...This book investigates the epigraphic habit of the Eastern Mediterranean in an... 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... more
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Routledge Monographs in Classi...What would you see if you attended a trial in a courtroom in the early Roman e... What would you see if you attended a trial in a courtroom in the early Roman empire? What was the behaviour of litigants advocates judges and audience? It was customary for Roman individuals out of general interest to attend the various courts held in... more
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Routledge Monographs in Classi...Future Thinking in Roman Culture is the first volume dedicated to the explorat... 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... more
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Routledge Monographs in Classi...If ancient history is particularly susceptible to a top-down approach due to t... If ancient history is particularly susceptible to a top-down approach due to the nature of our evidence and its traditional exploitation by modern scholars another ancient history-- from below --is actually possible. This volume examines the... more
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Routledge Monographs in Classi...Frankness Greek Culture and the Roman Empire discusses the significance of par... Frankness Greek Culture and the Roman Empire discusses the significance of parrhēsia (free and frank speech) in Greek culture of the Roman empire. The term parrhēsia first emerged in the context of the classical Athenian democracy and was long... more
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Routledge Monographs in Classi...Combined Arms Warfare in Ancient Greece examines the timelines of military dev... Combined Arms Warfare in Ancient Greece examines the timelines of military developments that led from the hoplite-based armies of the ancient Greeks to the hugely successful and multi-faceted armies of Philip II Alexander the Great and his Successors.... more
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Routledge Monographs in Classi...Antonio Gramsci and the Ancient World explores the relationship between the wo... Antonio Gramsci and the Ancient World explores the relationship between the work of the Italian Marxist thinker Antonio Gramsci and the study of classical antiquity. The collection of essays engages with Greek and Roman history literature society and... more
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Routledge Monographs in Classi...Lucian and His Roman Voices examines cultural exchanges political propaganda a... Lucian and His Roman Voices examines cultural exchanges political propaganda and religious conflicts in the Early Roman Empire through the eyes of Lucian his contemporary Roman authors and Christian Apologists. Offering a multi-faceted analysis of the... more
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Routledge Monographs in Classi...Piracy Pillage and Plunder in Antiquity explores appropriation in its broadest... Piracy Pillage and Plunder in Antiquity explores appropriation in its broadest terns in the ancient world from brigands mercenaries and state-sponsored piracy to literary appropriation and the modern plundering of antiquities. The chronological extent... more
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Routledge Monographs in Classi...Providing a detailed consideration of previous theories of native settlement p... Providing a detailed consideration of previous theories of native settlement patterns and the impact of Roman colonization Dacia offers fresh insight into the province Dacia and the nature of Romanization. It analyzes Roman-native interaction from a... more
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Routledge Monographs in Classi...This volume demonstrates the development of Roman military bureaucracy during ... 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. more
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Routledge Monographs in Classi...Recent work on the ancient economy has tended to concentrate on market exchang... Recent work on the ancient economy has tended to concentrate on market exchange but other forces also caused goods to change hands. Such nonmarket transfers ranged from small private gifts to the wholesale confiscation of cities lands and their... more
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Routledge Monographs in Classi...In a society where public speech was integral to the decision-making process a... In a society where public speech was integral to the decision-making process and where all affairs pertaining to the community were the subject of democratic debate the communication between the speaker and his audience in the public forum whether the... more
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Routledge Monographs in Classi...This book examines how ancient authors explored ideas of kingship as a politic... 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... more
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Routledge Monographs in Classi...The historian s task involves unmasking the systems of power that underlie our... The historian s task involves unmasking the systems of power that underlie our sources. A historian must not only analyze the content and context of ancient sources but also the structures of power authority and political contingency that account for... more
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