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Libertas as a Political Idea at Rome during the Late Republic and Early Principate
Av CH. Wirszubski, P. E. Easterling m. fl.
Inbunden, 1950
1608 kr
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This study describes the meaning of libertas as a political idea at Rome during the two hundred years or so between the Gracchi and Trajan, a period in which the Republican constitution gradually gave way and was finally superceded by the Principate which, in its own turn, considerably changed …
A Study of Daphnis and Chloe
Av R. L. Hunter, P. E. Easterling m. fl.
Inbunden, 1983
607 kr
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This 1983 book provides a serious modern literary treatment of perhaps the best known of all surviving works of ancient Greek fiction. Dr Hunter demonstrates the sophistication of this pastoral romance, a sophistication which he maintains has often been assumed but never properly discussed. …
Sophocles: Trachiniae
Av Sophocles, P. E. Easterling
Häftad, 1982
500 kr
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Sophocles' Trachiniae is, in the editor's words, 'a subtle and sophisticated play about primitive emotions'. It is also a play which presents problems to a modern audience. Making full use of recent Sphoclean scholarship, Mrs Easterling attempts in her Introduction a detailed literary analysis of …
Greek Religion and Society
Av P. E. Easterling, J. V. Muir
Häftad, 1985
559 kr
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Greek religion is a subject of absorbing interest, essential for the understanding of history and culture, but often puzzling and elusive. This collection of essays ranges over many aspects of Greek civil life, looking at the ways in which religion manifested itself in institutions, art and …
The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 1, Greek Literature, Part 1, Early Greek Poetry
Av P. E. Easterling, P. E. Easterling m. fl.
Häftad, 1989
973 kr
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The period from the eighth to the fifth centuries B.C. was one of extraordinary creativity in the Greek-speaking world. Poetry was a public and popular medium, and its production was closely related to developments in contemporary society. At the time when the city states were acquiring their …
The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 1, Greek Literature, Part 2, Greek Drama
Av P. E. Easterling, P. E. Easterling m. fl.
Häftad, 1989
710 kr
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This series provides individual textbooks on early Greek poetry, on Greek drama, on philosophy, history and oratory, and on the literature of the Hellenistic period and of the Empire. A chapter on books and readers in the Greek world concludes Part IV. Each part has its own appendix of authors and …
The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 1, Greek Literature, Part 3, Philosophy, History and Oratory
Av P. E. Easterling, Bernard M. W. Knox
Häftad, 1989
935 kr
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This volume ranges in time over a very long period and covers the Greeks' most original contributions to intellectual history. It begins and ends with philosophy, but it also includes major sections on historiography and oratory. Although each of these areas had functions which in the modern world …
The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 1, Greek Literature, Part 4, The Hellenistic Period and the Empire
Av P. E. Easterling, B. M. W. Knox
Häftad, 1989
1066 kr
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This series provides individual textbooks on early Greek poetry, on Greek drama, on philosophy, history and oratory, and on the literature of the Hellenistic period and of the Empire. Each part has its own appendix of authors and works, a list of works cited, and an index. This volume studies the …
Listening to the Cicadas
A Study of Plato's Phaedrus
Av G. R. F. Ferrari, P. E. Easterling
Häftad, 1990
603 kr
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This full-length study of Plato's dialogue Phaedrus, now in paperback, is written in the belief that such concerted scrutiny of a single dialogue is an important part of the project of understanding Plato so far as possible 'from the inside' - of gaining a feel for the man's philosophy. The focus …
The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy
Häftad, 1997
729 kr
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As a creative medium, ancient Greek tragedy has had an extraordinarily wide influence: many of the surviving plays are still part of the theatrical repertoire, and texts like Agamemnon, Antigone, and Medea have had a profound effect on Western culture. This Companion is not a conventional …
Banished Voices
Readings in Ovid's Exile Poetry
Av Gareth D. Williams, P. E. Easterling
Inbunden, 1994
1816 kr
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This study examines the literary complexities of the poetry which Ovid wrote in Tomis, his place of exile on the coast of the Black Sea after he was banished from Rome by the emperor Augustus in AD 8 because of the alleged salaciousness of the Ars Amatoria and a mysterious misdemeanour which is …
Euripidean Polemic
The Trojan Women and the Function of Tragedy
Av Neil T. Croally, P. E. Easterling
Inbunden, 1994
1872 kr
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The book offers an interpretation of Euripides' The Trojan Women which issues from the argument that the function of Greek tragedy was to educate. The author demonstrates that the play performs its function by examining Athenian ideology. By making the didactic function of tragedy the basis of …
Demos
The Discovery of Classical Attika
Av Robin Osborne, P. E. Easterling m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
918 kr
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Demos is a study of a classical city-state. It is the first attempt to provide an integrated account which gives due attention to the countryside as well as the urban areas of a polis. Concentrating on classical Athens, for which the literary and archaeological evidence is richest, Dr Osborne …
Powerplay in Tibullus
Reading Elegies Book One
Av Parshia Lee-Stecum, P. E. Easterling m. fl.
Inbunden, 1998
1797 kr
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This study, first published in 1998, explores the subtle, many-faceted interplay of power in Tibullus' first book of elegies. A series of power relationships are created by the text (lover and beloved, poet and patron) and the processes through which power of various sorts can be exercised are …
Pappus of Alexandria and the Mathematics of Late Antiquity
Av Serafina Cuomo, P. E. Easterling
Inbunden, 2000
1644 kr
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This book is at once an analytical study of one of the most important mathematical texts of antiquity, the Mathematical Collection of the fourth-century AD mathematician Pappus of Alexandria, and also an examination of the work's wider cultural setting. An important first chapter looks at the …
Homer's People
Epic Poetry and Social Formation
Av Johannes Haubold, P. E. Easterling m. fl.
Inbunden, 2000
1891 kr
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This book examines the role and character of Homer's people, laoi, in Homeric story-telling, arguing that Homeric poetry is crucially concerned with the people as a basis for communal life. Both The Iliad and The Odyssey are read as sustained meditations on the processes involved in protecting and …
Epicurus and Democritean Ethics
An Archaeology of Ataraxia
Av James Warren, P. E. Easterling
Inbunden, 2002
1742 kr
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The Epicurean philosophical system has enjoyed much scrutiny, but the question of its philosophical ancestry remains largely neglected. It has often been thought that Epicurus owed only his physical theory of atomism to the fifth-century BC philosopher Democritus, but this 2002 study finds that …
Achilles in Greek Tragedy
Av Pantelis Michelakis, P. E. Easterling
Inbunden, 2002
2003 kr
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This study examines how one of the most popular and glamorous figures of Greek mythology was imagined on the tragic stage of fifth-century Athens. Dr Michelakis argues that dramatists persistently appropriated Achilles to address concerns of their time, from heroism and education to individualism …
The Invention of Art History in Ancient Greece
Religion, Society and Artistic Rationalisation
Av Jeremy Tanner, P. E. Easterling m. fl.
Inbunden, 2006
1693 kr
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The ancient Greeks developed their own very specific ethos of art appreciation, advocating a rational involvement with art. This book explores why the ancient Greeks started to write art history and how the writing of art history transformed the social functions of art in the Greek world. It looks …
Studies in Greek Literature: Volume 1, Greek Tragedy
Inbunden, 2026
1862 kr
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Pat Easterling's articles are fundamental to her status as one of the most influential Hellenists of her generation. Characterised by unostentatious astuteness and an arresting capacity for observation, they put forward tersely considered arguments that have the weight of much longer discussions. …
Studies in Greek Literature: Volume 2, Early Greek Literature, Reception, Ancient and Modern Scholarship
Inbunden, 2026
1790 kr
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Pat Easterling's articles are fundamental to her status as one of the most influential Hellenists of her generation. Characterised by unostentatious astuteness and an arresting capacity for observation, they put forward tersely considered arguments that have the weight of much longer discussions. …
Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy
E-bok, 1997
713 kr
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As a creative medium, ancient Greek tragedy has had an extraordinarily wide influence: many of the surviving plays are still part of the theatrical repertoire, and texts like Agamemnon, Antigone, and Medea have had a profound effect on Western culture. This Companion is not a conventional …
Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy
E-bok, 1997
713 kr
Lägg i varukorg
As a creative medium, ancient Greek tragedy has had an extraordinarily wide influence: many of the surviving plays are still part of the theatrical repertoire, and texts like Agamemnon, Antigone, and Medea have had a profound effect on Western culture. This Companion is not a conventional …
