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41. Thinking Men

    Masculinity and its Self-Representation in the Classical Tradition

    Edited by Lin Foxhall, John Salmon

    Series: Leicester-Nottingham Studies in Ancient Society

    Thinking Men explores artistic and intellectual expression in the classical world as the self representation of man. It starts from the premise that the history of classical antiquity as the ancients tell it is a history of men. However, the focus of this volume is the creation, re-creation and...

    Published November 3rd 2011 by Routledge
42. Image and Idea in Fifth Century Greece

    Art and Literature After the Persian Wars

    By E. D. Francis

    Francis presents his theory that the ancient world was a unity in which issues of the day were reflected in the language of pictorial and sculptural representation and in the works of literature....

    Published November 3rd 2011 by Routledge
43. From Autothanasia to Suicide

    Self-killing in Classical Antiquity

    By Anton J. L. van Hooff

    Using almost a thousand case studies, both real and fictional, Dr van Hooff provides us with a unique and engaging insight into self-killing in the Graeco-Roman world.The author analyses the methods and motives which lie behind self-killing relating them to ancient popular morality as it appears...

    Published November 3rd 2011 by Routledge
44. War and Society in the Greek World

    Edited by Dr John Rich, John Rich, Graham Shipley

    Series: Leicester-Nottingham Studies in Ancient Society

    The role of warfare is central to our understanding of the ancient Greek world. In this book and the companion work, War and Society in the Roman World, the wider social context of war is explored. This volume examines its impact on Greek society from Homeric times to the age of Alexander and his...

    Published November 3rd 2011 by Routledge
45. Trials from Classical Athens

    2nd Edition

    By Christopher Carey

    Series: Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World

    The ancient Athenian legal system is both excitingly familiar and disturbingly alien to the modern reader. It functions within a democracy which shares many of our core values but operates in a disconcertingly different way. Trials from Classical Athens assembles a number of surviving speeches...

    Published October 27th 2011 by Routledge
46. The Radical Pedagogies of Socrates and Freire

    Ancient Rhetoric/Radical Praxis

    By Stephen Brown

    Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication

    Situating contemporary critical praxis at the intersection of the social, the political, and the rhetorical, this book is a provocative inquiry into the teaching philosophies of Plato’s Socrates and Paulo Freire that has profound implications for contemporary education. Brown not only sheds new...

    Published October 23rd 2011 by Routledge
47. 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 the Aegean coast of Turkey in the west to the Indus river in the east. It contains...

    Published October 2nd 2011 by Routledge
48. The Archaic

    The Past in the Present

    Edited by Paul Bishop

    The Archaic takes as its major reference points C.G. Jung's classic essay, 'Archaic Man' (1930), and Ernesto Grassi's paper on 'Archaic Theories of History' (1990). Moving beyond the confines of a Jungian framework to include other methodological approaches, this book explores the concept of the...

    Published September 27th 2011 by Routledge
49. Studies in Ancient Society (Routledge Revivals)

    By M.I. Finley

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    Originally published in 1978, this volume comprises articles previously published in the historical journal, Past and Present, ranging over nearly a thousand years of Graeco-Roman history. The essays focus primarily on the Roman Empire, reflecting the increase, in British scholarship of the...

    Published September 25th 2011 by Routledge
50. Edmund Burke

    By Frank O'Gorman

    First published in 1973, this title offers a concise and readable account of Burke's political philosophy. As well as examining the foundation for Burke's thought, the book also provides much needed connections between the fields of history and political theory. Critical comment and analysis of...

    Published September 14th 2011 by Routledge