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Gift and Gain
How Money Transformed Ancient Rome
Av Neil Coffee
Inbunden, 2017
1950 kr
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The economy of ancient Rome, with its money, complex credit arrangements, and long-range shipping, was surprisingly modern. Yet Romans also exchanged goods and services within a robust system of gifts and favors, which sustained the supportive relationships necessary for survival in the absence of …
Mosaics of Knowledge
Representing Information in the Roman World
Inbunden, 2019
1329 kr
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Today's information technology often seems to take on a life of its own, spreading into every part of our lives. In the Roman world things were different. Technologies were limited to small, scattered social groups. By examining five technologies-lists, tables, weights and measures, artistic …
Emotion, Restraint, and Community in Ancient Rome
Inbunden, 2005
965 kr
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Emotion, Restraint, and Community examines the ways in which emotions, and talk about emotions, interacted with the ethics of the Roman upper classes in the late Republic and early Empire. By considering how various Roman forms of fear, dismay, indignation, and revulsion created an economy of …
Readers and Reading Culture in the High Roman Empire
A Study of Elite Communities
Inbunden, 2010
2336 kr
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In Readers and Reading Culture in the High Roman Empire, William Johnson examines the system and culture of reading among the elite in second-century Rome. The investigation proceeds in case-study fashion using the principal surviving witnesses, beginning with the communities of Pliny and Tacitus …
Making Mockery
The Poetics of Ancient Satire
Av Ralph Rosen
Inbunden, 2007
1050 kr
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Making Mockery explores the dynamics of comic mockery and satire in Greek and Roman poetry, and argues that poets working with such material composed in accordance with shared generic principles and literary protocols. It encourages a synoptic, synchronic view of such poetry, from archaic iambus …
Emotion, Restraint and Community in Ancient Rome
Häftad, 2007
748 kr
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Emotion, Restraint, and Community examines the ways in which emotions, and talk about emotions, interacted with the ethics of the Roman upper classes in the late Republic and early Empire. By considering how various Roman forms of fear, dismay, indignation, and revulsion created an economy of …
Making Mockery
The Poetics of Ancient Satire
Av Ralph Rosen
Häftad, 2016
710 kr
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Making Mockery explores the dynamics of comic mockery and satire in Greek and Roman poetry, and argues that poets working with such material composed in accordance with shared generic principles and literary protocols. It encourages a synoptic, synchronic view of such poetry, from archaic iambus …
Building in Words
The Process of Construction in Latin Literature
Inbunden, 2022
1512 kr
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Building in Words explores the relationship between text and architecture in the Roman world from the perspective of architectural process. Ancient Romans frequently encountered buildings under construction - they experienced noisy building work, disruptive transportation of materials, and …
Apollonius of Rhodes and the Spaces of Hellenism
Inbunden, 2011
2283 kr
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Although Apollonius of Rhodes' extraordinary epic poem on the Argonauts' quest for the Golden Fleece has begun to get the attention it deserves, it still is not well known to many readers and scholars. This book explores the poem's relation to the conditions of its writing in third century BCE …
The Captor's Image
Greek Culture in Roman Ecphrasis
Inbunden, 2013
2389 kr
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An influential view of ecphrasis--the literary description of art objects--chiefly treats it as a way for authors to write about their own texts without appearing to do so, and even insist upon the aesthetic dominance of the literary text over the visual image. However, when considering its use in …
Aratus and the Astronomical Tradition
Av Emma Gee
Inbunden, 2013
2062 kr
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Why were the stars so important in Rome? Their literary presence far outweighs their role as a time-reckoning device, which was in any case superseded by the synchronization of the civil and solar years under Julius Caesar. One answer is their usefulness in symbolizing a universe built on …
Readers and Reading Culture in the High Roman Empire
A Study of Elite Communities
Häftad, 2012
1104 kr
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In Readers and Reading Culture in the High Roman Empire, William Johnson examines the system and culture of reading among the elite in second-century Rome. The investigation proceeds in case-study fashion using the principal surviving witnesses, beginning with the communities of Pliny and Tacitus …
