Classical Studies

For Socrates, philosophy is not like Christian conversion from error to truth, but rather it is like the pagan process whereby a young man is initiated into cult mysteries by a more experienced man – the mystagogos. In Greek cult religion, the mystagogos prepared the initiate for the esoteric myster..

Identity theories have emphasised that the construction of an identity follows abstract and universal processes but is also deeply grounded in specific cultural and material environments. This volume explores how groups in Late Antiquity rooted their identity in places that were imbued with meanings..

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Offers a new interpretation of the man and his life and emphasises the place and importance of Strabo's Geography and of geography itself within these intellectual circles...

This study explores how and why people have made and modified images and other cultural material from pre-history into the 21st century. By juxtaposing objects and places usually considered in isolation, provocative questions are raised about our understandings of cross-cultural differences and the ..

This study explores how and why people have made and modified images and other cultural material from pre-history into the 21st century. By juxtaposing objects and places usually considered in isolation, provocative questions are raised about our understandings of cross-cultural differences and the ..

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...

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...

Douglas M. MacDowell (1931 – 2010) was a scholar of international renown and the articles included here cover a significant area of classical scholarship, discussing Athenian law, law-making and legal procedure, Old Comedy, comedy and law, politics and lexicography. All of these articles, published ..

In this completely rewritten and updated second edition of his classic biography, the leading authority on the classical world introduces a fresh generation of student, scholars and readers to a pivotal figure of Rome...

Syria has been neglected as a Roman province by comparison with regions such as Italy, Egypt and Greece. It was, however, an economic powerhouses of the empire from its annexation until after the empire’s dissolution; it was a major contributor to the military strength of the empire, notably in the ..

Ronald Mellor conveys the full intellectual, literary and political force of Tacitus. He shows the critical significance of Tacitus' central concerns - freedom and tyranny, integrity and corruption - for the modern political agenda...