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Historians of Greece and Rome
Häftad, 1997
498 kr
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Our understanding of Greek and Roman civilization is in considerable measure a product of the intelligence and literary skills of its historians. Writing at different times and from different vantage points, the surviving historians illustrate the influences to which the genre was subjected in the …
Roman Satire
Häftad, 1995
464 kr
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This study appraises the work of all the Roman satirists, from the 2nd century BC, to the end of the reign of Hadrian in AD 138. The satirists' work is shown to reflect the constantly changing society in which they lived, and its topics range from the morally earnest to the bawdy. Certain themes …
Tacitus
Häftad, 1998
414 kr
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The first edition of this study of the greatest and most original of Roman historians appeared in 1981 and was enthusiastically received by reviewers as the most ambitious book on Tacitus to appear since Sir Ronald Syme's great work thirty years ago. This is the second paperback edition, …
Suetonius
Häftad, 1998
369 kr
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Seutonius, a Roman historian, was the author of "The Lives of the Caesars". This biography sets the historian's career and his method of dealing with his subject matter in the context of Roman society in the early Empire, and draws a picture of the coherence of Suetonius's life, appointments, …
History of Sparta
Av W.G. Forrest
Häftad, 1998
314 kr
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This introductory history of Sparta gives readers an accessible overview of the intense and brilliant history of the great Greek city state.It covers the gradual expansion of Sparta's authority in the Peloponnese, her leadership of the Greeks against the Persians, the rivalry with Athens, her short …
Themes in Roman Satire
Av N. Rudd
Häftad, 1998
416 kr
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This text sets out to illuminate all the central themes of Roman satire. It offers a synchronic assessment of different aspects of the work of Lucilius, Horace, Persius and Juvenal: their aims; their styles; and their views on freedom of speech, class patronage, Greeks and sex. In addition it …
Three Archaic Poets
Archilochus, Alcaeus, Sappho
Häftad, 1998
416 kr
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This study of early Greek lyric provides portraits of Archilochus, Alcaeus and Sappho and their poetry. It looks at their social setting, and their purposes within it.
Athenian Democracy in the Age of Demosthenes
Häftad, 1998
533 kr
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This history of Athenian democracy covers the period 403-322 BC, and focuses in particular on the crucial last thirty years which coincided with the political career of Demosthenes and ended with his suicide in 322. It examines Athenian democracy both as a political system and as an ideology. In …
Catullus to Ovid
Reading Latin Love Elegy
Av Guy Lee, Joan Booth m. fl.
Häftad, 1999
399 kr
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This text offers an introduction, Latin text, translation and literary commentary on seventeen poems by Catullus, Propertius, Tibullus and Ovid. It is intended for students who are approaching the genre of Latin love elegy for the first time - both those who have a knowledge of Latin and those who …
Aeneid
Häftad, 2009
497 kr
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"The Aeneid of Virgil" is one of the greatest works of Classical antiquity. This study by the Virgilian scholar R. Deryck Williams, first published in 1987 and long unavailable, sets the "Aeneid" in its historical literary background and shows how Virgil related his own world of the newly …
Iliad
Häftad, 2009
497 kr
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No Western text boasts a life as long as the "Iliad", and few can match its energy and glory. This introduction to Homer's poem sees it as rooted in a particular culture with narrative and thematic conventions that are only partly explained by assumptions about the properties of oral poetry. …
Art of Living
The Stoics on the Nature and Function of Philosophy
Av John Sellars
Häftad, 2009
432 kr
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It is a commonplace to say that in antiquity philosophy was conceived as a way of life or an art of living, but precisely what such claims amount to has remained unclear. If ancient philosophers did think that philosophy should transform an individual's way of life, then what conception of …
Eye of the Beholder
Deformity and Disability in the Graeco-Roman World
Häftad, 2010
401 kr
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This engrossing book was the first ever investigation into the plight of the disabled and deformed in Graeco-Roman society, drawing on a wealth of material, including literary texts, medical tracts, vase paintings, sculpture, mythology and ethnography. It is now issued in paperback for the first …
Theodosian Code
Studies in the Imperial Law of Late Antiquity
Av Ian Wood, Jill Harries
Häftad, 2010
474 kr
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The Theodosian Code, put together under the Eastern Roman Emperor Theodosius II, is a compliation of the laws dating from 312 to 438 AD, when the code was published. It brought order to a vast unmanageable body of law and formed part of the basis for the sixth-century Institutes of Justinian, …
