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Clio's Cosmetics
Three Studies in Greco-Roman Literature
Häftad, 2004
578 kr
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Clio is Muse of history, her 'cosmetics' the adornments of rhetoric. Peter Wiseman's influential book, first published in 1979 and now for the first time in paperback, concerns the writing of history during the first century BCE, when Rome was in process of becoming the centre of the Greek, as much …
Aeschylus' Supplices
Play and Trilogy (second edition)
Av A. F. Garvie
Häftad, 2006
630 kr
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This book's first appearance (1969) was a full response to the publication (in 1952) of a papyrus fragment from Oxyrhynchus which indicated a late production date (in the 460s BC) for Aeschylus' Supplices, thus upsetting the previous scholarly consensus that it was an early work - indeed the …
Rome and the Unification of Italy
Häftad, 2005
518 kr
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Scarcely more than a generation before Octavian (later Augustus) set out to encounter Antony and Cleopatra at the battle of Actium, confidently relying on the firm support of 'all Italy', the Italians were in revolt, with the avowed aim of destroying Rome. The impressive unity displayed in 31 BC …
Virgil's Aeneid
A Critical Description
Häftad, 2006
673 kr
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The aim of this important and still valuable book – first published in 1968 but never before available in paperback – is, quite simply, to help all who approach Virgil’s Aeneid seriously, whether in the original Latin or in English translation, to read it with discernment and appreciation. It …
The Authoress of the Odyssey
Häftad, 2004
621 kr
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Samuel Butler, scholar, painter, pioneer photographer, and novelist (including 'Erewhon' and 'The Way of All Flesh'), was one of the less orthodox of Victorian intellectual provocateurs, who confronted powerful orthodoxies such as the Church, the academic establishment, and scientific Darwinism. …
