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13 produkter
Athletics and Literature in the Roman Empire
Häftad, 2008
935 kr
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From the first to third century AD Greek athletics flourished as never before. This book offers exciting readings of those developments. Drawing on a wide range of evidence, it sheds light on practices of athletic competition and athletic education in the Roman Empire. In addition it examines some …
Ordering Knowledge in the Roman Empire
Av Jason König, Tim Whitmarsh
Häftad, 2011
754 kr
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The Romans commanded the largest and most complex empire the world had ever seen, or would see until modern times. The challenges, however, were not just political, economic and military: Rome was also the hub of a vast information network, drawing in worldwide expertise and refashioning it for its …
Athletics and Literature in the Roman Empire
Inbunden, 2005
2217 kr
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From the first to third century AD Greek athletics flourished as never before. This book offers exciting readings of those developments. Drawing on a wide range of evidence, it sheds light on practices of athletic competition and athletic education in the Roman Empire. In addition it examines some …
Ordering Knowledge in the Roman Empire
Av Jason König, Tim Whitmarsh
Inbunden, 2007
1677 kr
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The Romans commanded the largest and most complex empire the world had ever seen, or would see until modern times. The challenges, however, were not just political, economic and military: Rome was also the hub of a vast information network, drawing in worldwide expertise and refashioning it for its …
Saints and Symposiasts
The Literature of Food and the Symposium in Greco-Roman and Early Christian Culture
Inbunden, 2012
1385 kr
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Greek traditions of writing about food and the symposium had a long and rich afterlife in the first to fifth centuries CE, in both Greco-Roman and early Christian culture. This book provides an account of the history of the table-talk tradition, derived from Plato's Symposium and other classical …
Late Hellenistic Greek Literature in Dialogue
Av Jason König, Nicolas Wiater
Häftad, 2023
682 kr
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Late Hellenistic Greek literature, both prose and poetry, stands out for its richness and diversity. Recent work has tended to take an author-by-author approach that underestimates the interconnectedness of the literary culture of the period. The chapters assembled here set out to change that by …
Encyclopaedism from Antiquity to the Renaissance
Av Jason König, Greg Woolf
Häftad, 2024
888 kr
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There is a rich body of encyclopaedic writing which survives from the two millennia before the Enlightenment. This book sheds new light on that material. It traces the development of traditions of knowledge ordering which stretched back to Pliny and Varro and others in the classical world. It works …
Ancient Libraries
Av Jason König, Katerina Oikonomopoulou m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
2166 kr
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The circulation of books was the motor of classical civilization. However, books were both expensive and rare, and so libraries - private and public, royal and civic - played key roles in articulating intellectual life. This collection, written by an international team of scholars, presents a …
Encyclopaedism from Antiquity to the Renaissance
Av Jason König, Greg Woolf
Inbunden, 2013
2314 kr
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There is a rich body of encyclopaedic writing which survives from the two millennia before the Enlightenment. This book sheds new light on that material. It traces the development of traditions of knowledge ordering which stretched back to Pliny and Varro and others in the classical world. It works …
Authority and Expertise in Ancient Scientific Culture
Av Jason König, Greg Woolf
Häftad, 2021
787 kr
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How did ancient scientific and knowledge-ordering writers make their work authoritative? This book answers that question for a wide range of ancient disciplines, from mathematics, medicine, architecture and agriculture, through to law, historiography and philosophy - focusing mainly, but not …
Saints and Symposiasts
The Literature of Food and the Symposium in Greco-Roman and Early Christian Culture
Häftad, 2020
549 kr
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Greek traditions of writing about food and the symposium had a long and rich afterlife in the first to fifth centuries CE, in both Greco-Roman and early Christian culture. This book provides an account of the history of the table-talk tradition, derived from Plato's Symposium and other classical …
Late Hellenistic Greek Literature in Dialogue
Av Jason König, Nicolas Wiater
Inbunden, 2022
1872 kr
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Late Hellenistic Greek literature, both prose and poetry, stands out for its richness and diversity. Recent work has tended to take an author-by-author approach that underestimates the interconnectedness of the literary culture of the period. The chapters assembled here set out to change that by …
Ancient Libraries
Av Jason König, Katerina Oikonomopoulou m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
731 kr
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The circulation of books was the motor of classical civilization. However, books were both expensive and rare, and so libraries - private and public, royal and civic - played key roles in articulating intellectual life. This collection, written by an international team of scholars, presents a …
