Classical Studies

First Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Dedicating objects to the divine was a central component of both Greek and Roman religion. Some of the most conspicuous offerings were shaped like parts of the internal or external human body: so-called ‘anatomical votives’. This volume scrutinizes this distinctive dedicatory phenomenon, bringing to..

What does it mean to say that a human being is body and soul, and how does each affect the other? The papers collected here explore late antique philosophers' answers, and use them to raise further questions. Among the topics dealt with are the following. The body needs food: what foods are best for..

In Borderline Virginities Sissel Undheim analyses negotiations over what constituted virginity, and assesses its socio-religious value, in fourth-century Rome. The Church Fathers’ texts on virginity are read in the context of a wide selection of sources from the period, revealing a range of seemingl..

Byzantine Art and Renaissance Europe discusses the cultural and artistic interaction between the Byzantine East and Western Europe, from the sack of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade in 1204 to the flourishing of post-Byzantine artistic workshops on Venetian Crete during the fifteenth and sixteen..

Byzantine Empresses provides a series of biographical portraits of the most significant Byzantine women who ruled or shared the throne between 527 and 1204...

Byzantine Empresses provides a series of biographical portraits of the most significant Byzantine women who ruled or shared the throne between 527 and 1204...

The twelve papers written for this volume reflect the wide scope of Annemarie Weyl Carr’s interests and the equally wide impact of her career. They are linked by Carr’s expansive body of work, which ties together issues of patronage, production and influence across the medieval Mediterranean. The vo..

'This book does provide a thoroughly researched and clearly presented picture of those Celts who strayed into the classical world and of the fronge Celtic communities at the moment when they were overrun and assimilated by Rome.' - THES..

'This book does provide a thoroughly researched and clearly presented picture of those Celts who strayed into the classical world and of the fronge Celtic communities at the moment when they were overrun and assimilated by Rome.' - THES..

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...