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14 produkter
The History of Time
A Very Short Introduction
Häftad, 2005
111 kr
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Why do we measure time in the way that we do? Why is a week seven days long? At what point did minutes and seconds come into being? Why are some calendars lunar and some solar?The organisation of time into hours, days, months and years seems immutable and universal, but is actually far more …
History of Time
A Very Short Introduction
E-bok, 2005
92 kr
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Why do we measure time in the way that we do? Why is a week seven days long? At what point did minutes and seconds come into being? Why are some calendars lunar and some solar? The organisation of time into hours, days, months and years seems immutable and universal, but is actually far more …
Worlds of Aulus Gellius
Av Amiel Vardi, Leofranc Holford-Strevens
E-bok, 2004
2804 kr
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This is the first collection of essays in any language on Aulus Gellius; its contributors, both established and younger scholars, include Gellian experts looking out with specialists in other fields looking in; they combine traditional and new approaches. Subjects range from the bilingual culture …
History of Time
A Very Short Introduction
E-bok, 2005
89 kr
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Why do we measure time in the way that we do? Why is a week seven days long? At what point did minutes and seconds come into being? Why are some calendars lunar and some solar? The organisation of time into hours, days, months and years seems immutable and universal, but is actually far more …
The Oxford Companion to the Year
Av Bonnie Blackburn, Leofranc Holford-Strevens
Inbunden, 1999
1637 kr
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The Oxford Companion to the Year explores the fascinating history of calendars in general and our own in particular. The calendar used in the West today is just one of a multitude of systems for parcelling up time and naming its divisions. Each of its days has over the centuries acquired its own …
A History of European Versification
Av M. L. Gasparov, G. S. Smith m. fl.
Inbunden, 1996
5452 kr
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When we read a poem composed in iambic blank pentameter, it reminds us of Shakespeare. When we read a poem composed in long lines without rhyme or rhythm, we think of Whitman.In this ground-breaking study of the history of European versification, M. L. Gasparov shows how such chains of association …
Aulus Gellius
An Antonine Scholar and his Achievement
Inbunden, 2003
5551 kr
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Aulus Gellius originated the modern use of 'classical' and 'humanities'. His Attic Nights, so named because they began as the intellectual pastime of winter evenings spent in a villa outside Athens, are a mine of information on many aspects of antiquity and a repository of much early Latin …
The Worlds of Aulus Gellius
Av Leofranc Holford-Strevens, Amiel Vardi
Inbunden, 2004
4918 kr
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This is the first collection of essays in any language on Aulus Gellius; its contributors, both established and younger scholars, include Gellian experts looking out with specialists in other fields looking in; they combine traditional and new approaches. Subjects range from the bilingual culture …
Aulus Gellius
An Antonine Scholar and his Achievement
Häftad, 2005
2222 kr
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Aulus Gellius originated the modern use of 'classical' and 'humanities'. His Attic Nights, so named because they began as the intellectual pastime of winter evenings spent in a villa outside Athens, are a mine of information on many aspects of antiquity and a repository of much early Latin …
Gelliana
A Textual Companion to the Noctes Atticae of Aulus Gellius
Inbunden, 2019
2104 kr
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Written by Leofranc Holford-Strevens to accompany his Oxford Classical Texts edition of Aulus Gellius' Noctes Atticae, this volume presents more expansive discussions and explanations of choices of readings at various places in the text than would be possible within the narrow confines of the …
Aulus Gellius: Attic Nights, Preface and Books 1-10 (Auli Gelli Noctes Atticae: Praefatio et Libri I-X)
Inbunden, 2019
1226 kr
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This new critical edition of Aulus Gellius' Noctes Atticae by Leofranc Holford-Strevens is intended to replace the previous Oxford Classical Text by Peter K. Marshall, published in 1968 but soon superseded by Marshall's own later discoveries as well as by other scholarship. Based on a thorough …
Aulus Gellius: Attic Nights, Books 11-20 (Auli Gelli Noctes Atticae: Libri XI-XX)
Inbunden, 2019
1976 kr
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This new critical edition of Aulus Gellius' Noctes Atticae by Leofranc Holford-Strevens is intended to replace the previous Oxford Classical Text by Peter K. Marshall, published in 1968 but soon superseded by Marshall's own later discoveries as well as by other scholarship. Based on a thorough …
Book on Music
Av Florentius de Faxolis, Bonnie J. Blackburn m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
315 kr
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Between 1485 and 1492 Cardinal Ascanio Sforza was the recipient of a music treatise composed for him by “Florentius Musicus” (Florentius de Faxolis), who had served him in Naples and Rome. Now in Milan, the richly illuminated small parchment codex bears witness to the musical interests of the …
Aulus Gellius
Inbunden, 1989
842 kr
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Aulus Gellius originated the modern use of "classical" and "humanities." His Attic Nights contains information on many aspects of antiquity, and preserve much early Latin literature that would otherwise be lost; they also offer personal reminiscences and vignettes of life in the second century AD. …
