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Emperor and Senators in the Reign of Constantius II
Maintaining Imperial Rule Between Rome and Constantinople in the Fourth Century AD
Av Muriel Moser
Häftad, 2022
519 kr
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In this book, Muriel Moser investigates the relationship between the emperors Constantine I and his son Constantius II (AD 312-361) and the senators of Constantinople and Rome. She examines and contextualizes the integration of the social elites of Rome and the Eastern provinces into the imperial …
Bucchero Pottery from Southern Etruria
Av Tom B. Rasmussen, R. Lanny Hunter m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
871 kr
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Bucchero is a very common type of fine pottery that was made by the Etruscans when their civilization was at its height, from the seventh to the fourth century BC. This study concentrates on the products of South Etruria, where the earliest and finest bucchero was made, and where the tradition …
Imperialism in the Ancient World
The Cambridge University Research Seminar in Ancient History
Av P. D. A. Garnsey, C. R. Whittaker
Häftad, 2007
586 kr
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The economics of imperialism, its political background and institutional frameworks, the material benefits it conferred, the ideologies of ruler and ruled - these are some of the more important aspects of imperialism discussed in this volume. In presenting the evidence for ancient imperialims and …
An Historical Commentary on the Hellenica Oxyrhynchia
Av I. A. F. Bruce, R. Lanny Hunter m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
737 kr
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Commentaries on the Hellenica Oxyrhynchia, an anonymous history of events in the Greek world in the late fifth and early fourth centuries BC, have usually dealt almost entirely with problems of the text. In this book, Dr Bruce has written an historical commentary, basing his work on both the London …
Timoleon and the Revival of Greek Sicily
344-317 B.C.
Häftad, 2007
710 kr
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Dispatched to Sicily in 344 BC as an elderly man at the head of a small, motley band of mercenaries, Timoleon had no experience of the island. Yet, in less than eight years Timoleon overthrew tyrants, expelled the Carthaginians, and introduced peace, prosperity and constitutional government to an …
The Language of Sophocles
Communality, Communication and Involvement
Av Felix Budelmann, R. Lanny Hunter m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
879 kr
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This 1999 book is a wide-ranging study of Sophoclean language. From a detailed analysis of sentence-structure in the first chapter, it moves on to discuss in subsequent chapters how language shapes the perception of characters, of myths, of gods and of choruses. All chapters are united by a shared …
Epicurus and Democritean Ethics
An Archaeology of Ataraxia
Av James Warren, R. Lanny Hunter m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
846 kr
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The Epicurean philosophical system has enjoyed much scrutiny, but the question of its philosophical ancestry remains largely neglected. It has often been thought that Epicurus owed only his physical theory of atomism to the fifth-century BC philosopher Democritus, but this 2002 study finds that …
Homer, Hesiod and the Hymns
Diachronic Development in Epic Diction
Häftad, 2007
654 kr
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This book investigates the history of the ancient Greek tradition of oral epic poetry which culminated in the Iliad and Odyssey. These masterpieces did not exhaust the tradition, and poems were composed in the same style for several generations afterwards. One group of such poems is the 'Homeric …
Athletes and Oracles
The Transformation of Olympia and Delphi in the Eighth Century BC
Häftad, 2007
574 kr
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This book is a study of the origins and development of cult practice at Olympia and Delphi. It traces changing patterns of activity through the material record, and challenges many assumptions about the nature and role of the archaeological data. Dr Morgan considers the economics of dedication, …
Scepticism or Platonism?
The Philosophy of the Fourth Academy
Häftad, 2007
653 kr
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In the first half of the first century BC the Academy of Athens broke up in disarray. From the wreckage of the semi-sceptical school there arose the new dogmatic philosophy of Antiochus, synthesized from Stoicism and Platonism, and the hardline Pyrrhonist scepticism of Aenesidemus. With his …
Kerkeosiris
An Egyptian Village in the Ptolemaic Period
Häftad, 2007
838 kr
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A study of a small agricultural village in the Fayum as a social and economic unit towards the end of the second century BC, which was a period of civil unrest and economic disruption in Egypt. The book is based on papyrus documents from the archive of the village scribe. The archive illustrates …
The Metamorphosis of Persephone
Ovid and the Self-conscious Muse
Häftad, 2007
729 kr
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Ovid, a poet unashamedly in love in poetry, including his own, has enjoyed a recent renaissance in popularity. Yet there is still a certain tendency amongst critics to withhold from his writing the close, word-by-word, engagement which is its due. The primary aim of The Metamorphosis of Persephone …
Three Historians of Alexander the Great
Häftad, 2007
720 kr
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Our knowledge of Alexander the Great is derived from the widely varying accounts of five authors who wrote three and more centuries after his death. The value of each account can be determined in detail only by discovering the source from which it drew, section by section, whether from a …
Studies in Roman Property
By the Cambridge University Research Seminar in Ancient History
Häftad, 2007
586 kr
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The actual practice of the Romans with regard to property and investment must be distinguished from the formal rules of the emperors and the moralistic generalizations of the ancient writers. With this in mind the Cambridge Research Seminar in Ancient History spent two years examining various …
Myth and Poetry in Lucretius
Häftad, 2007
973 kr
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The employment of mythological language and imagery by an Epicurean poet - an adherent of a system not only materialist, but overtly hostile to myth and poetry - is highly paradoxical. This apparent contradiction has often been ascribed to a conflict in the poet between reason and intellect, or to …
Banished Voices
Readings in Ovid's Exile Poetry
Häftad, 2007
860 kr
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This study examines the literary complexities of the poetry which Ovid wrote in Tomis, his place of exile on the coast of the Black Sea after he was banished from Rome by the emperor Augustus in AD 8 because of the alleged salaciousness of the Ars Amatoria and a mysterious misdemeanour which is …
Method and Politics in Plato's Statesman
Av M. S. Lane
Häftad, 2007
748 kr
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Among Plato's works, the Statesman is usually seen as transitional between the Republic and the Laws. This book argues that the dialogue deserves a special place of its own. Whereas Plato is usually thought of as defending unchanging knowledge, Dr Lane demonstrates how, by placing change at the …
Pappus of Alexandria and the Mathematics of Late Antiquity
Häftad, 2007
732 kr
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This book is at once an analytical study of one of the most important mathematical texts of antiquity, the Mathematical Collection of the fourth-century AD mathematician Pappus of Alexandria, and also an examination of the work's wider cultural setting. An important first chapter looks at the …
The Unity of Plato's Sophist
Between the Sophist and the Philosopher
Häftad, 2007
667 kr
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Plato's later dialogue, the Sophist, is deemed one of the greatest works in the history of philosophy, but scholars have been shy of confronting the central problem of the dialogue. For Plato, defining the sophist is the basic philosophical problem: any inquirer must face the 'sophist within us' in …
Beyond Anger
A Study of Juvenal's Third Book of Satires
Häftad, 2007
767 kr
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Beyond Anger is a detailed literary analysis of the three poems which make up Juvenal's third book of Satires (i.e. Satires 7, 8 and 9). Dr Braund pays particular attention to the satiric techniques Juvenal employs in this book, arguing that in Book III Juvenal uses a new, ironic persona, which …
The Subversive Oratory of Andokides
Politics, Ideology and Decision-Making in Democratic Athens
Av Anna Missiou
Häftad, 2007
586 kr
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Oratory was a vital element in the Athenian democracy. In this study Anna Missiou analyses the ideological content of the speeches of the crypto-oligarch Andokides (active c. 420-390 BC). Drawing on modern communication studies, she proposes a contextual and historical approach to oratory rather …
Economic Rationalism and Rural Society in Third-Century AD Egypt
The Heroninos Archive and the Appianus Estate
Häftad, 2007
720 kr
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This book reconstructs the life and workings of the Appianus estate in the Fayum district of Egypt under Roman rule in the third century AD. Basing his study on the extensive documentary evidence of the Heroninos archive, consisting of hundreds of letters and accounts on papyrus, Dr Rathbone …
Persius and the Programmatic Satire
A Study in Form and Imagery
Häftad, 2007
823 kr
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A critical study of Persius' poetic aims, aversions and techniques, based mainly on an extended analysis of Satires I. John Bramble shows how Persius' discontent with conventional literary language led him to compress the existing satiric idiom and create a powerful individual style. The author …
Inventing Homer
The Early Reception of Epic
Häftad, 2007
935 kr
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How was the poet Homer imagined by ancient Greeks? This book examines stories circulating between the sixth and fourth centuries BC about his birth, place of origin and name; the circumstances of his life - such as the story of his blindness - his relation to other poets, and his heirs. The aim is …
The Authenticity of Prometheus Bound
Häftad, 2007
989 kr
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Prometheus Bound was accepted without question in antiquity as the work of Aeschylus, and most modern authorities endorse this ascription. But since the nineteenth century several leading scholars have come to doubt Aeschylean authorship. Dr Griffith here provides a thorough and wide-ranging study …
Studies in The Language of Homer
Av G. P. Shipp
Häftad, 2007
1010 kr
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Professor Shipp's purpose in the first edition of this book (published in 1953) was 'to examine in as much detail as possible the development of the language of the Iliad in some of its typical features, with careful attention to the spoken dialects involved and to the influence of metre'. In the …
Achilles in Greek Tragedy
Häftad, 2007
823 kr
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This study examines how one of the most popular and glamorous figures of Greek mythology was imagined on the tragic stage of fifth-century Athens. Dr Michelakis argues that dramatists persistently appropriated Achilles to address concerns of their time, from heroism and education to individualism …
Literate Education in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds
Häftad, 2007
871 kr
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This book offers an assessment of the content, structures and significance of education in Greek and Roman society. Drawing on a wide range of evidence, including the first systematic comparison of literary sources with the papyri from Graeco-Roman Egypt, Teresa Morgan shows how education developed …
Euripidean Polemic
The Trojan Women and the Function of Tragedy
Häftad, 2007
1029 kr
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The book offers an interpretation of Euripides' The Trojan Women which issues from the argument that the function of Greek tragedy was to educate. The author demonstrates that the play performs its function by examining Athenian ideology. By making the didactic function of tragedy the basis of …
A Study of Daphnis and Chloe
Av R. L. Hunter
Häftad, 2007
586 kr
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This 1983 book provides a serious modern literary treatment of perhaps the best known of all surviving works of ancient Greek fiction. Dr Hunter demonstrates the sophistication of this pastoral romance, a sophistication which he maintains has often been assumed but never properly discussed. …
