Books in the Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies series

Providing a detailed consideration of previous theories of native settlement patterns and the impact of Roman colonization, this book offers insight into the province Dacia and the nature of Romanization. It analyzes Roman-native interaction from a landscape perspective, focusing on the core territory of both Iron Age and Roman Dacia.

Presents a historical and archaeological survey of the important Roman and medieval site of St Bertrand de Comminges, or Lugdunum Convenarum, which was a great meeting place of routes in antiquity and stretches along the Pyrenees in the Gascony region between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic.

This volume is the first systematic study of Senecäs interaction with earlier literature of a variety of genres and traditions. It examines this interaction and engagement in his prose works, offering interpretative readings that are at once groundbreaking and stimulating to further study.

Covering the span of the history of the empire, from the 4th to the 15th centuries AD, this book presents a survey of the history and roles of eunuchs, and about castrato singers of the eighteenth century of Enlightenment Europe, and self-castrating religious devotees, such as the Galli of ancient Rome, early Christians, and the Skoptsy of Russia.

Explores the ways in which fictional narratives were used to explore tensions between the individual and the dominant culture attendant on the rise of Christianity, and the displacement of Greeks from the hegemonic position in the Roman empire. This book focuses on marginalized and suppressed identities, subtleties and the sub-rational.

What would you see if you attended a trial in a courtroom in the early Roman empire? What was the behavior of litigants, advocates, judges and audience? This book considers many aspects of Roman courts in the first two centuries AD, both civil and criminal, and illuminates the interaction of Romans of almost every social group.

This detailed history of RomeOCOs relationship with its Persian neighbour from Peter Edwell takes an innovative regional approach and covers the period from the first century BC to the third century AD."e;

Addressing the close connections between ancient divination and knowledge, this volume offers an interlinked and detailed set of case studies which examine the epistemic value and significance of divination in ancient Greek and Roman cultures.

From the first 'deadly signs' scratched on a wooden tablet instructing the recipient to kill the one who delivered it, to the letters of St Paul to the early Church, this book examines the range of letter writing in the Ancient Greek world. It is suitable for those interested in the Ancient Greek World.

Presents an illustrated introduction to the numerous magical beliefs, practices and figures like the medieval and modern witch and warlock. This book is suitable for students of classical studies and anthropology.