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Deaths of Seneca
Av James Ker
E-bok, 2009
633 kr
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The forced suicide of Seneca, former adviser to Nero, is one of the most tortured--and most revisited--death scenes from classical antiquity. After fruitlessly opening his veins and drinking hemlock, Seneca finally succumbed to death in a stifling steam bath, while his wife Paulina, who had …
Deaths of Seneca
Av James Ker
E-bok, 2009
633 kr
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The forced suicide of Seneca, former adviser to Nero, is one of the most tortured--and most revisited--death scenes from classical antiquity. After fruitlessly opening his veins and drinking hemlock, Seneca finally succumbed to death in a stifling steam bath, while his wife Paulina, who had …
The Deaths of Seneca
Av James Ker
Häftad, 2013
898 kr
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The forced suicide of Seneca, former adviser to Nero, is one of the most tortured--and most revisited--death scenes from classical antiquity. After fruitlessly opening his veins and drinking hemlock, Seneca finally succumbed to death in a stifling steam bath, while his wife Paulina, who had …
Ordered Day
Quotidian Time and Forms of Life in Ancient Rome
Av James Ker
Inbunden, 2023
683 kr
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Traces how the day has served as a key organizing concept in Roman culture—and beyond.Recipient of the Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit from the Society for Classical StudiesHow did ancient Romans keep track of time? What constituted a day in ancient Rome was not the same twenty-four hours we know …
Valuing the Past in the Greco-Roman World
Proceedings from the Penn-Leiden Colloquia on Ancient Values VII
Av Christoph Pieper, James Ker
Inbunden, 2014
3343 kr
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The ‘classical tradition’ is no invention of modernity. Already in ancient Greece and Rome, the privileging of the ancient played a role in social and cultural discourses of every period. A collaboration between scholars in diverse areas of classical studies, this volume addresses literary and …
Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity
Between Dusk and Dawn
Av James Ker
Inbunden, 2020
2286 kr
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In ancient Greece and Rome, nighttime encompassed a distinctive array of cultural values that went far beyond the inversion of daytime. Night was a mythological figure, a locus of specialized knowledge, a socially significant semantic space in various literary genres, and a setting for unique …
