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Rome's Age of Revolution
Augustus, Empire and the Making of Christianity
Häftad, 2026
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198 kr
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How did Christianity grow into an international faith that shaped the world as we know it? Remarkable A joy to read JOSEPHINE QUINN, author of How the World Made the West Dazzling Will change how you see Rome, and Christianity, for ever CATHERINE NIXEY, author of Heresy 'One of the most important …
Dionysiaca
Av Nonnus, Tim Whitmarsh
Inbunden, 2026
1767 kr
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Nonnus of Panopolis's Dionysiaca is the longest and most ambitious epic poem to survive from Greco-Roman antiquity. Written by an Egyptian Christian in the fifth century CE, this stunning mythological adventure explores the birth, upbringing, exploits, and ultimate apotheosis of the god Dionysus, …
Dionysiaca
Av Nonnus, Tim Whitmarsh
Häftad, 2026
886 kr
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Nonnus of Panopolis's Dionysiaca is the longest and most ambitious epic poem to survive from Greco-Roman antiquity. Written by an Egyptian Christian in the fifth century CE, this stunning mythological adventure explores the birth, upbringing, exploits, and ultimate apotheosis of the god Dionysus, …
Rome's Age of Revolution
Augustus, Empire, and the Making of Christianity
Inbunden, 2026
353 kr
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A stimulating and expert analysis of the unique conditions that allowed Christianity to take shape and flourish across the Roman Empire during its first three centuries, from one of our leading historians of the ancient world The Western world has been shaped by its Christian heritage—years are …
Greek Literature and the Roman Empire
The Politics of Imitation
Häftad, 2004
1788 kr
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Greek Literature and the Roman Empire uses up-to-date literary and cultural theory to make a major and original contribution to the appreciation of Greek literature written under the Roman Empire during the second century CE (the so-called 'Second Sophistic'). This literature should not be …
Beyond the Second Sophistic
Adventures in Greek Postclassicism
Inbunden, 2013
706 kr
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The "Second Sophistic" traditionally refers to a period at the height of the Roman Empire's power that witnessed a flourishing of Greek rhetoric and oratory, and since the 19th century it has often been viewed as a defense of Hellenic civilization against the domination of Rome. This book proposes …
Rome's Age of Revolution
Augustus, Empire and the Making of Christianity
Inbunden, 2026
271 kr
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How did Christianity grow into an international faith that shaped the world as we know it?‘Remarkable … A joy to read’ JOSEPHINE QUINN, author of How the World Made the West‘Dazzling … Will change how you see Rome, and Christianity, for ever’ CATHERINE NIXEY, author of Heresy'One of the most …
Dirty Love
The Genealogy of the Ancient Greek Novel
E-bok, 2018
675 kr
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Some of the world''s earliest large-form fictional narratives--what would today be called novels-are found in ancient Greece. Dating back to the first century CE, these narratives contain many of the elements common to the novelistic genre, for instance, the joining, separation, and reunion of two …
Reading Heliodorus' Aethiopica
E-bok, 2022
1581 kr
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Heliodorus'' Aethiopica ( Ethiopian Story ) is the latest, longest, and greatest of the ancient Greek romances. It was hugely admired in Byzantium, and caused a sensation when it was rediscovered and translated into French in the 16th century: its impact on later European literature (including …
Reading Heliodorus' Aethiopica
E-bok, 2022
1581 kr
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Heliodorus'' Aethiopica ( Ethiopian Story ) is the latest, longest, and greatest of the ancient Greek romances. It was hugely admired in Byzantium, and caused a sensation when it was rediscovered and translated into French in the 16th century: its impact on later European literature (including …
Thinking with Classical Matter
Av Miriam Leonard, Tim Whitmarsh m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
1671 kr
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What is classical culture for? Thinking with Classical Matter brings together leading experts from across the humanities, and as a whole celebrates the career of Simon Goldhill, in order to consider the place of the Ancient Greco-Roman world in the formation and formulation of different orders of …
Achilles Tatius: Leucippe and Clitophon
Av Achilles Tatius, Tim Whitmarsh
Inbunden, 2002
2547 kr
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Achilles Tatius' Leucippe and Clitophon (composed in the second century AD) is the most bizarre and risque of the four 'Greek novels' of idealized love between boy and girl that survive from the period of the Roman empire. Stretching the capacity of the genre to the limits, Achilles Tatius' …
Reading Heliodorus' Aethiopica
Inbunden, 2022
1771 kr
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Heliodorus' Aethiopica (Ethiopian Story) is the latest, longest, and greatest of the ancient Greek romances. It was hugely admired in Byzantium, and caused a sensation when it was rediscovered and translated into French in the 16th century: its impact on later European literature (including …
Greek Literature and the Roman Empire
The Politics of Imitation
Inbunden, 2002
4708 kr
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Greek Literature and the Roman Empire uses up-to-date literary and cultural theory to make a major and original contribution to the appreciation of Greek literature written under the Roman Empire during the second century CE (the so-called 'Second Sophistic'). This literature should not be …
Dirty Love
The Genealogy of the Ancient Greek Novel
Inbunden, 2018
1104 kr
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Where does the Greek novel come from? This book argues that whereas much of Greek literature was committed to a form of cultural purism, presenting itself as part of a continuous tradition reaching back to founding fathers within the tradition, the novel revelled in cultural hybridity. The earliest …
Dirty Love
The Genealogy of the Ancient Greek Novel
E-bok, 2018
675 kr
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Some of the world''s earliest large-form fictional narratives--what would today be called novels-are found in ancient Greece. Dating back to the first century CE, these narratives contain many of the elements common to the novelistic genre, for instance, the joining, separation, and reunion of two …
Beyond the Second Sophistic
Adventures in Greek Postclassicism
Häftad, 2020
350 kr
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The “Second Sophistic” traditionally refers to a period at the height of the Roman Empire’s power that witnessed a flourishing of Greek rhetoric and oratory, and since the 19th century it has often been viewed as a defense of Hellenic civilization against the domination of Rome. This book proposes …
Dionysiaca
E-bok, 2026
654 kr
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Nonnus of Panopoliss Dionysiaca is the longest and most ambitious epic poem to survive from Greco-Roman antiquity. Written by an Egyptian Christian in the fifth century CE, this stunning mythological adventure explores the birth, upbringing, exploits, and ultimate apotheosis of the god Dionysus, …
Beyond the Second Sophistic
Adventures in Greek Postclassicism
E-bok, 2013
598 kr
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The "Second Sophistic" traditionally refers to a period at the height of the Roman Empire’s power that witnessed a flourishing of Greek rhetoric and oratory, and since the 19th century it has often been viewed as a defense of Hellenic civilization against the domination of Rome. This book proposes …
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 …
The Cambridge Companion to the Greek and Roman Novel
Häftad, 2008
729 kr
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The Greek and Roman novels of Petronius, Apuleius, Longus, Heliodorus and others have been cherished for millennia, but never more so than now. The Cambridge Companion to the Greek and Roman Novel contains nineteen original essays by an international cast of experts in the field. The emphasis is …
Local Knowledge and Microidentities in the Imperial Greek World
Inbunden, 2010
1677 kr
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This 2010 volume explores the proposition that the absorption of the Greek world into the Roman empire created a new emphasis upon local identities, much as globalisation in the modern world has done. Localism became the focal point for complex debates: in some cases, it was complementary with …
Galen and the World of Knowledge
Av Christopher Gill, Tim Whitmarsh m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
1677 kr
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Galen is the most important medical writer in Graeco-Roman antiquity, and also extremely valuable for understanding Graeco-Roman thought and society in the second century AD. This volume of essays locates him firmly in the intellectual life of his period, and thus aims to make better sense of the …
Narrative and Identity in the Ancient Greek Novel
Returning Romance
Inbunden, 2011
1022 kr
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The Greek romance was for the Roman period what epic was for the Archaic period or drama for the Classical: the central literary vehicle for articulating ideas about the relationship between self and community. This book offers a reading of the romance both as a distinctive narrative form (using a …
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 …
The Cambridge Companion to the Greek and Roman Novel
Inbunden, 2008
1704 kr
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The Greek and Roman novels of Petronius, Apuleius, Longus, Heliodorus and others have been cherished for millennia, but never more so than now. The Cambridge Companion to the Greek and Roman Novel contains nineteen original essays by an international cast of experts in the field. The emphasis is …
Battling the Gods
Atheism in the Ancient World
Häftad, 2017
149 kr
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How new is atheism?Long before the Enlightenment sowed seeds of disbelief in a deeply Christian Europe, atheism was a matter of serious public debate in the Greek world. But history is written by those who prevail, so the lively free-thinking voices of antiquity were mostly suppressed. Tim …
Battling the Gods
Atheism in the Ancient World
E-bok, 2016
130 kr
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How new is atheism?In Battling the Gods, Tim Whitmarsh journeys into the ancient Mediterranean to recover the stories of those who first refused the divinities.Long before the Enlightenment sowed the seeds of disbelief in a deeply Christian Europe, atheism was a matter of serious public debate in …
Ancient Greek Literature
Häftad, 2004
330 kr
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In this book, Tim Whitmarsh offers an innovative new introduction to ancient Greek literature. The volume integrates cutting-edge cultural theory with the latest research in classical scholarship, providing a comprehensive, sophisticated and accessible account of literature from Homer to late …
