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Helping Friends and Harming Enemies
A Study in Sophocles and Greek Ethics
Häftad, 2024
341 kr
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Sophocles is often considered the least philosophical of the three great Greek tragedians. However, Ruby Blondell offers a vital examination of the ethical content of the plays by focusing on the pervasive Greek popular moral code of 'helping friends and harming enemies'. Five of the extant plays …
The Poet's Voice
Essays on Poetics and Greek Literature
Häftad, 2024
448 kr
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How are poetry and the figure of the poet represented, discussed, contested within the poetry of ancient Greece? From what position does a poet speak? With what authority? With what debts to the past? With what involvement in the present? Through a series of interrelated essays on Homer, lyric …
Reading Greek Tragedy
Häftad, 2023
467 kr
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This book is an advanced critical introduction to Greek tragedy. It is written specifically for the reader who does not know Greek and who may be unfamiliar with the context of the Athenian drama festival but who nevertheless wants to appreciate the plays in all their complexity. Simon Goldhill …
Reading Greek Tragedy
Inbunden, 2023
1685 kr
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This book is an advanced critical introduction to Greek tragedy. It is written specifically for the reader who does not know Greek and who may be unfamiliar with the context of the Athenian drama festival but who nevertheless wants to appreciate the plays in all their complexity. Simon Goldhill …
Politics of Immorality in Ancient Rome
Inbunden, 2025
1610 kr
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The question this book addresses is not how immoral the ancient Romans were, but why the literature they produced is so preoccupied with immorality. The modern image of immoral Rome derives from ancient accounts which are largely critical rather than celebratory. Far from being empty commonplaces, …
Politics of Immorality in Ancient Rome
Häftad, 2025
448 kr
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The question this book addresses is not how immoral the ancient Romans were, but why the literature they produced is so preoccupied with immorality. The modern image of immoral Rome derives from ancient accounts which are largely critical rather than celebratory. Far from being empty commonplaces, …
Helping Friends and Harming Enemies
A Study in Sophocles and Greek Ethics
Inbunden, 2024
1400 kr
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Sophocles is often considered the least philosophical of the three great Greek tragedians. However, Ruby Blondell offers a vital examination of the ethical content of the plays by focusing on the pervasive Greek popular moral code of 'helping friends and harming enemies'. Five of the extant plays …
Myth and Territory in the Spartan Mediterranean
Av Irad Malkin
Häftad, 2024
392 kr
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Greek attitudes to settlement and territory were often articulated through myths and cults. This book emphasizes less the poetic, timeless qualities of the myths than their historical function in the archaic and Classical periods, covering the spectrum from explicit charter myths legitimating …
Myth and Territory in the Spartan Mediterranean
Av Irad Malkin
Inbunden, 2024
1610 kr
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Greek attitudes to settlement and territory were often articulated through myths and cults. This book emphasizes less the poetic, timeless qualities of the myths than their historical function in the archaic and Classical periods, covering the spectrum from explicit charter myths legitimating …
Interaction in Poetic Imagery
With Special Reference to Early Greek Poetry
Av M. S. Silk
Inbunden, 2025
1610 kr
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This path-breaking book has made an unusual and original contribution to literary theory by means of a study of the literature of ancient Greece. It investigates an aspect of poetic imagery in the practical context of Greek lyric and drama up to and including Aeschylus and Pindar. Several hundred …
Interaction in Poetic Imagery
With Special Reference to Early Greek Poetry
Av M. S. Silk
Häftad, 2025
448 kr
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This path-breaking book has made an unusual and original contribution to literary theory by means of a study of the literature of ancient Greece. It investigates an aspect of poetic imagery in the practical context of Greek lyric and drama up to and including Aeschylus and Pindar. Several hundred …
The Poet's Voice
Essays on Poetics and Greek Literature
Inbunden, 2024
1610 kr
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How are poetry and the figure of the poet represented, discussed, contested within the poetry of ancient Greece? From what position does a poet speak? With what authority? With what debts to the past? With what involvement in the present? Through a series of interrelated essays on Homer, lyric …
Authority and Tradition in Ancient Historiography
Häftad, 2025
448 kr
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How did Greek and Roman historians claim the authority to narrate the deeds embraced by their histories? In this acclaimed and influential book, John Marincola examines all aspects of their self-presentation, surveying the entire field from Herodotus (fifth century BCE) to Ammianus Marcellinus …
Authority and Tradition in Ancient Historiography
Inbunden, 2025
1610 kr
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How did Greek and Roman historians claim the authority to narrate the deeds embraced by their histories? In this acclaimed and influential book, John Marincola examines all aspects of their self-presentation, surveying the entire field from Herodotus (fifth century BCE) to Ammianus Marcellinus …
The Romanization of Britain
An Essay in Archaeological Interpretation
Inbunden, 2025
1526 kr
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The Romanization of Britain was greeted, on first publication, as an innovative study of cultural change and interaction, offering a bold new perspective on Roman Britain based on archaeological evidence. It set out to explore the social dynamics of cultural change from a local perspective by …
The Romanization of Britain
An Essay in Archaeological Interpretation
Häftad, 2025
409 kr
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The Romanization of Britain was greeted, on first publication, as an innovative study of cultural change and interaction, offering a bold new perspective on Roman Britain based on archaeological evidence. It set out to explore the social dynamics of cultural change from a local perspective by …
The Origins of Democratic Thinking
The Invention of Politics in Classical Athens
Inbunden, 2026
1526 kr
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The Athenians invented democracy - and as they grappled with the implications, they also invented democratic political theory. By reconstruing Protagoras the sophist, Thucydides the historian, and Democritus the cosmologist in the context of political developments and contemporary scientific, …
The Origins of Democratic Thinking
The Invention of Politics in Classical Athens
Häftad, 2026
448 kr
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The Athenians invented democracy - and as they grappled with the implications, they also invented democratic political theory. By reconstruing Protagoras the sophist, Thucydides the historian, and Democritus the cosmologist in the context of political developments and contemporary scientific, …
