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Reading Sappho
Contemporary Approaches
Av Ellen Greene
Häftad, 1999
323 kr
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Reading Sappho considers Sappho's poetry as a powerful, influential voice in the Western cultural tradition. Essays are divided into four sections: "Language and Literary Context," "Homer and Oral Tradition", "Ritual and Social Context", and "Women's Erotics". Contributors focus on literary …
Re-Reading Sappho
Reception and Transmission
Av Ellen Greene
Häftad, 1999
323 kr
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Re-Reading Sappho reflects the recent fascination with Sappho's "afterlife." The essays examine the changing interpretations of scholars and writers who have read the fragmentary remains of Sappho's poetry. As the contributors explore the ways that each generation creates its own Sappho, the …
Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire
Inbunden, 2000
906 kr
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The Roman empire remains unique. Although Rome claimed to rule the world, it did not. Rather, its uniqueness stems from the culture it created and the loyalty it inspired across an area that stretched from the Tyne to the Euphrates. Moreover, the empire created this culture with a bureaucracy …
Catullan Provocations
Lyric Poetry and the Drama of Position
Häftad, 2000
343 kr
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Restoring to Catullus a provocative power that familiarity has tended to dim, this book argues that Catullus challenges us to think about the nature of lyric in new ways. Fitzgerald shows how Catullus's poetry reflects the conditions of its own consumption as it explores the terms and possibilities …
Horace and the Gift Economy of Patronage
Häftad, 2001
460 kr
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This innovative study explores selected odes and epistles by the late-first-century poet Horace in light of modern anthropological and literary theory. Phebe Lowell Bowditch looks in particular at how the relationship between Horace and his patron Maecenas is reflected in these poems' themes and …
Warriors into Traders
The Power of the Market in Early Greece
Häftad, 2000
307 kr
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The eighth century dawned on a Greek world that had remained substantially unchanged during the centuries of stagnation known as the Dark Age. This book is a study of the economic and cultural upheaval that shook mainland Greece and the Aegean area in the eighth century, and the role that poetry …
Gift of the Nile
Hellenizing Egypt from Aeschylus to Alexander
Inbunden, 2001
630 kr
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The Egyptians mesmerized the ancient Greeks for scores of years. The Greek literature and art of the classical period are especially thick with representations of Egypt and Egyptians. Yet despite numerous firsthand contacts with Egypt, Greek writers constructed their own Egypt, one that differed in …
Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire
Häftad, 2013
456 kr
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The Roman empire remains unique. Although Rome claimed to rule the world, it did not. Rather, its uniqueness stems from the culture it created and the loyalty it inspired across an area that stretched from the Tyne to the Euphrates. Moreover, the empire created this culture with a bureaucracy …
Tragedy and Enlightenment
Athenian Political Thought and the Dilemmas of Modernity
Häftad, 1997
575 kr
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Tragedy and Enlightenment: Athenian Political Thought and the Dilemmas of Modernity by Christopher Rocco offers a bold rethinking of the relationship between classical antiquity and contemporary political theory. Rocco argues that the dramas and dialogues of ancient Athens—Sophocles’ *Oedipus …
Tragedy and Enlightenment
Athenian Political Thought and the Dilemmas of Modernity
Inbunden, 1997
946 kr
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Tragedy and Enlightenment: Athenian Political Thought and the Dilemmas of Modernity by Christopher Rocco offers a bold rethinking of the relationship between classical antiquity and contemporary political theory. Rocco argues that the dramas and dialogues of ancient Athens—Sophocles’ *Oedipus …
