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1. Consensus, Concordia and the Formation of Roman Imperial Ideology

   By John Alexander Lobur

   Series: Studies in Classics

   This book concerns the relationship between ideas and power in the genesis of the Roman empire. The self-justification of the first emperor through the consensus of the citizen body constrained him to adhere to ‘legitimate’ and ‘traditional’ forms of self-presentation. Lobur explores how these...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. Empedocles Redivivus

   Poetry and Analogy in Lucretius

   By Myrto Garani

   Series: Studies in Classics

   Despite the general scholarly consensus about Lucretius’ debt to Empedocles as the father of the genre of cosmological didactic epic, there is a major disagreement regarding Lucretius’ applause for his Presocratic predecessor’s praeclara reperta (DRN 1.732). In the present study, Garani suggests...

   Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge
3. Augustan Egypt

   The Creation of a Roman Province

   By Livia Capponi

   Series: Studies in Classics

   With updated documents including papyri, inscriptions and ostraka, this book casts fresh and original light on the administration and economy issues faced with the transition of Egypt from an allied kingdom of Rome to a province of the Roman Empire...

   Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge
4. Ambitiosa Mors

   Suicide and the Self in Roman Thought and Literature

   By T. D. Hill

   Series: Studies in Classics

   Although the distinctive - and sometimes bizarre - means by which Roman aristocrats often chose to end their lives has attracted some scholarly attention in the past, most writers on the subject have been content to view this a s an irrational and inexplicable aspect of Roman culture. In this book,...

   Published January 5th 2011 by Routledge
5. Aphrodite and Eros

   The Development of Erotic Mythology in Early Greek Poetry and Cult

   By Barbara Breitenberger

   Series: Studies in Classics

   An interdisciplinary analysis of the Archaic period--using literary, iconographical, and cultic evidence--shows the distinct concept behind the two deities of love. Aphrodite's character, sphere of influence, and function feature in her traditional myths and are well reflected in cult....

   Published December 14th 2010 by Routledge
6. Hyperboreans

   Myth and History in Celtic-Hellenic Contacts

   By Timothy P. Bridgman

   Series: Studies in Classics

   Published September 29th 2010 by Routledge
7. Philodemus on Rhetoric Books 1 and 2

   Translation and Exegetical Essays

   By Clive Chandler

   Series: Studies in Classics

   Published November 29th 2005 by Routledge
8. Simonides on the Persian Wars

   A Study of the Elegiac Verses of the "New Simonides"

   By Lawrence M. Kowerski

   Series: Studies in Classics

   This book considers what evidence the "new Simonides" fragments offer for Simonides' elegiac compositions on the Persian Wars. The current orthodoxy is that they represent three separate elegies on individual battles, one on Artemisium, one on Salamis, and one on Plataea. Kowerski evaluates what...

   Published August 15th 2005 by Routledge
9. Sex and the Second-Best City

   Sex and Society in the Laws of Plato

   By Kenneth Royce Moore

   Series: Studies in Classics

   Sex and the Second-Best City deals with the topics of sex and society in the Laws of Plato with recourse to historical context and modern critical theory. It examines reconstructions of ancient "sexuality" with a view to increased clarification. The text of the Laws is considered, along with many...

   Published July 18th 2005 by Routledge
10. Nothing Ordinary Here

    Statius as Creator of Distinction in the Silvae

    By Noelle K. Zeiner

    Series: Studies in Classics

    Through a combined methodology of philology, social theory and archaeology this book offers a reinterpretation of Statius's Silvae....

    Published June 12th 2005 by Routledge