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Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies
Av Phiroze Vasunia, Barbara Graziosi m. fl.
E-bok, 2009
2361 kr
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The Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies is a unique collection of some seventy articles which together explore the ways in which ancient Greece has been, is, and might be studied. It is intended to inform its readers, but also, importantly, to inspire them, and to enable them to pursue their own …
Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies
Av Phiroze Vasunia, Barbara Graziosi m. fl.
E-bok, 2009
2361 kr
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The Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies is a unique collection of some seventy articles which together explore the ways in which ancient Greece has been, is, and might be studied. It is intended to inform its readers, but also, importantly, to inspire them, and to enable them to pursue their own …
Classics and Colonial India
E-bok, 2013
1645 kr
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This extraordinary book provides a detailed account of the relationship between classical antiquity and the British colonial presence in India. It examines some of the great figures of the colonial period such as Gandhi, Nehru, Macaulay, Jowett, and William Jones, and covers a range of different …
The Classics and Colonial India
Inbunden, 2013
2547 kr
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This extraordinary book provides a detailed account of the relationship between classical antiquity and the British colonial presence in India. It examines some of the great figures of the colonial period such as Gandhi, Nehru, Macaulay, Jowett, and William Jones, and covers a range of different …
Classics and National Cultures
Av Susan A. Stephens, Phiroze Vasunia
Inbunden, 2010
3653 kr
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Numerous nations have in one way or another engaged with the cultures of classical Greece and Rome. What impact does the classical past have on ideas of the nation, nationhood, nationality, and what effect does the national space have on classical culture? How has classical culture been imagined in …
The Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies
Av George Boys-Stones, Barbara Graziosi m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
3006 kr
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The Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies is a unique collection of some seventy articles which together explore the ways in which ancient Greece has been, is, and might be studied. It is intended to inform its readers, but also, importantly, to inspire them, and to enable them to pursue their own …
Gift of the Nile
Hellenizing Egypt from Aeschylus to Alexander
Inbunden, 2001
628 kr
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The Egyptians mesmerized the ancient Greeks for scores of years. The Greek literature and art of the classical period are especially thick with representations of Egypt and Egyptians. Yet despite numerous firsthand contacts with Egypt, Greek writers constructed their own Egypt, one that differed in …
Science
Antiquity and its Legacy
Av Philippa Lang, Phiroze Vasunia
Häftad, 2019
374 kr
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Ancient science is a subject that commands extensive general interest. This is the first non-technical survey of the interface between ancient and modern science. It is aimed at crossover student sales in classics, the history of ideas and the history and philosophy of science. Modern science and …
Race
Antiquity and Its Legacy
Av Denise Eileen McCoskey, Phiroze Vasunia
Häftad, 2019
261 kr
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How do different cultures think about race? In the modern era, racial distinctiveness has been assessed primarily in terms of a person's physical appearance. But it was not always so. As Denise McCoskey shows, the ancient Greeks and Romans did not use skin colour as the basis for categorising …
Sport
Antiquity and Its Legacy
Av Peter J. Miller, Phiroze Vasunia
Inbunden, 2023
668 kr
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Modern sport cannot be understood without ancient sport. Sport saturates contemporary society and the global reach of sport and its intense popularity characterizes the modern world. But, at the same time, sport is one of the most ancient human pursuits. In the globalized sport of today, the type …
Sport
Antiquity and Its Legacy
Av Peter J. Miller, Phiroze Vasunia
Häftad, 2023
313 kr
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Modern sport cannot be understood without ancient sport. Sport saturates contemporary society and the global reach of sport and its intense popularity characterizes the modern world. But, at the same time, sport is one of the most ancient human pursuits. In the globalized sport of today, the type …
Politics of Form in Greek Literature
Inbunden, 2021
1551 kr
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The Politics of Form in Greek Literature explores the relationship between form and political life specifically in Greek textual culture. In the last generation or so, classicists (and their counterparts in other disciplines) have begun to pay greater attention to the socio-historical contexts of …
Politics of Form in Greek Literature
E-bok, 2021
538 kr
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The Politics of Form in Greek Literature explores the relationship between form and political life specifically in Greek textual culture. In the last generation or so, classicists (and their counterparts in other disciplines) have begun to pay greater attention to the socio-historical contexts of …
Politics of Form in Greek Literature
E-bok, 2021
538 kr
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The Politics of Form in Greek Literature explores the relationship between form and political life specifically in Greek textual culture. In the last generation or so, classicists (and their counterparts in other disciplines) have begun to pay greater attention to the socio-historical contexts of …
Politics of Form in Greek Literature
Häftad, 2023
495 kr
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The Politics of Form in Greek Literature explores the relationship between form and political life specifically in Greek textual culture. In the last generation or so, classicists (and their counterparts in other disciplines) have begun to pay greater attention to the socio-historical contexts of …
Music
Antiquity and Its Legacy
Av Eleonora Rocconi, Phiroze Vasunia
Inbunden, 2023
1025 kr
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This book explores the pivotal role played by ancient mousike¯ – in all its facets – in the development of musical practices and ideas throughout history. Since antiquity, music has consistently played a significant role in social and cultural life, and although the terms in which it is expressed …
Music
Antiquity and Its Legacy
Av Eleonora Rocconi, Phiroze Vasunia
Häftad, 2023
313 kr
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This book explores the pivotal role played by ancient mousike—in all its facets—in the development of musical practices and ideas throughout history. Since antiquity, music has consistently played a significant role in social and cultural life, and although the terms in which it is expressed and …
Psychiatry
Antiquity and Its Legacy
Av Jessica Wright, Phiroze Vasunia
Häftad, 2025
295 kr
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Is psychiatry a distinctively modern approach to mental difference and distress, or is it a continuation of ancient Greek ideas – in the realm not only of medicine (consider ‘melancholia’), but also of philosophy (source of the idea of ‘therapeutics of the soul’) and tragic drama (inspiration for, …
Psychiatry
Antiquity and Its Legacy
Av Jessica Wright, Phiroze Vasunia
Inbunden, 2025
952 kr
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Is psychiatry a distinctively modern approach to mental difference and distress, or is it a continuation of ancient Greek ideas – in the realm not only of medicine (consider ‘melancholia’), but also of philosophy (source of the idea of ‘therapeutics of the soul’) and tragic drama (inspiration for, …
Hellenistic Literature and Culture
Studies in Honor of Susan A. Stephens
Av Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, Jacqueline Arthur-Montagne m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
1697 kr
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In this open access book, leading Greek scholars explore the rich and diverse poetry and prose of the long Hellenistic period. Chapters focus on the poets of Alexandria such as Callimachus, Theocritus, Apollonius, and Posidippus and on prose texts written in Greek in the Roman Empire. This volume …
Hellenistic Literature and Culture
Studies in Honor of Susan A. Stephens
Av Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, Jacqueline Arthur-Montagne m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
479 kr
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In this open access book, leading Greek scholars explore the rich and diverse poetry and prose of the long Hellenistic period. Chapters focus on the poets of Alexandria such as Callimachus, Theocritus, Apollonius, and Posidippus and on prose texts written in Greek in the Roman Empire. This volume …
Religion
Antiquity and Its Legacy
Av Jörg Rüpke, Phiroze Vasunia
Inbunden, 2013
1419 kr
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What is a religion? What triggered the spontaneous development of distinct religions throughout the ancient world? How do religions evoke the ultimate realities they claim to address? Such questions are as evergreen as belief itself. The Hellenistic and Roman worlds were a fertile seedbed of the …
Religion
Antiquity and Its Legacy
Av Jörg Rüpke, Phiroze Vasunia
Häftad, 2013
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289 kr
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What is a religion? What triggered the spontaneous development of distinct religions throughout the ancient world? How do religions evoke the ultimate realities they claim to address? Such questions are as evergreen as belief itself. The Hellenistic and Roman worlds were a fertile seedbed of the …
Luck, Fate and Fortune
Antiquity and Its Legacy
Av Esther Eidinow, Phiroze Vasunia
Inbunden, 2011
1419 kr
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The impulse to try to anticipate the future, and make sense of apparently random events, is irrepressible. Why and how the ancient Greeks tried to foretell the outcome of the present is the subject of Esther Eidinow's lively appraisal, which explores the legacy of ancient Greek notions of luck, …
Luck, Fate and Fortune
Antiquity and Its Legacy
Av Esther Eidinow, Phiroze Vasunia
Häftad, 2011
289 kr
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The impulse to try to anticipate the future, and make sense of apparently random events, is irrepressible. Why and how the ancient Greeks tried to foretell the outcome of the present is the subject of Esther Eidinow's lively appraisal, which explores the legacy of ancient Greek notions of luck, …
Politics
Antiquity and Its Legacy
Av Kostas Vlassopoulos, Phiroze Vasunia
Inbunden, 2009
1419 kr
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Ancient Greece is famous as the civilization which 'gave' the world democracy. Democracy has in modern times become the rallying cry of liberation from supposed totalitarianism and dictatorship. And the desire by the western powers, especially America, to foment (or impose) democracy across the …
Politics
Antiquity and Its Legacy
Av Kostas Vlassopoulos, Phiroze Vasunia
Häftad, 2009
289 kr
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Ancient Greece is famous as the civilization which 'gave' the world democracy. Democracy has in modern times become the rallying cry of liberation from supposed totalitarianism and dictatorship. And the desire by the western powers, especially America, to foment (or impose) democracy across the …
Slavery
Antiquity and Its Legacy
Av Page DuBois, Phiroze Vasunia
Inbunden, 2009
1461 kr
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'Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness' is perhaps the most famous phrase of all in the American Declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson's momentous words are closely related to the French concept of 'liberte, egalite, fraternite'; and both ideas incarnate a notion of freedom as …
Slavery
Antiquity and Its Legacy
Av Page DuBois, Phiroze Vasunia
Häftad, 2009
298 kr
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'Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness' is perhaps the most famous phrase of all in the American Declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson's momentous words are closely related to the French concept of 'liberte, egalite, fraternite'; and both ideas incarnate a notion of freedom as …
