Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition – serie
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Ancient Alexandria between Egypt and Greece
Av William V. Harris, Giovanni Ruffini
Inbunden, 2004
2537 kr
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As one of the greatest cities of antiquity, Alexandria has always been a severe challenge to its historians, all the more so because the surviving evidence, material and textual, is so disparate. New archaeological and literary discoveries and the startling diversity of ancient Alexandria (so …
Donati Graeci: Learning Greek in the Renaissance
Inbunden, 2008
3939 kr
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The starting point generally acknowledged for the revival of Greek studies in the West is 1397, when the Byzantine Manuel Chrysoloras began to teach Greek in Florence. With his Erotemata, Chrysoloras gave to Westerners a tool to learn Greek; the search for the ideal Greek textbook, however, …
Aelius Aristides between Greece, Rome, and the Gods
Av William V. Harris, Brooke Holmes
Inbunden, 2008
2772 kr
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Wealthy, conceited, hypochondriac (or perhaps just an invalid), obsessively religious, the orator Aelius Aristides (117 to about 180) is not the most attractive figure of his age, but because he is one of the best-known -- and he is intimately known, thanks to his Sacred Tales -- his works are a …
Collegia Centonariorum: The Guilds of Textile Dealers in the Roman West
Av Jinyu Liu
Inbunden, 2009
2526 kr
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The collegia centonariorum were often seen as the municipal fire-brigades or status groups of sorts in the Roman cities. Through a close investigation of the chronological development and geographical distribution of the collegia centonariorum, their legal privileges, and the prosopographical data …
Egyptianizing Figurines from Delos
A Study in Hellenistic Religion
Inbunden, 2011
3734 kr
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This book investigates Hellenistic popular religion through an interdisciplinary study of terracotta figurines of Egyptian deities, mostly from domestic contexts, from the trading port of Delos. A comparison of the figurines’ iconography to parallels in Egyptian religious texts, temple reliefs, and …
Mental Disorders in the Classical World
Inbunden, 2013
3439 kr
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The historians, classicists and psychiatrists who have come together to produce Mental Disorders in the Classical World aim to explain how the Greeks and their Roman successors conceptualized, diagnosed and treated mental disorders. The Greeks initiated the secular understanding of mental illness, …
Ancient Mediterranean Environment between Science and History
Inbunden, 2013
2130 kr
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Scientists, historians and archaeologists are at last beginning to collaborate seriously on studies of the long-term history of the environment. The fruit of an international conference held in Rome in 2011, The Ancient Mediterranean Environment between Science and History brings together …
Across the Ocean: Nine Essays on Indo-Mediterranean Trade
Inbunden, 2015
1935 kr
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Across the Ocean contains nine essays, each dedicated to a key question in the history of the trade relations between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean from Antiquity to the Early Modern period: the role of the state in the Red Sea trade, Roman policy in the Red Sea, the function of Trajan’s …
Aristophanes and Politics
New Studies
Av Ralph M. Rosen, Helene P. Foley
Inbunden, 2020
2070 kr
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The essays in this volume explore the many aspects of the “political” in the plays of Greek comic dramatist Aristophanes (5th century BCE), posing a variety of questions and approaching them through diverse methodological lenses. They demonstrate that “politics” as reflected in Aristophanes’ plays …
Late-Antique Studies in Memory of Alan Cameron
Av William V. Harris, Anne Hunnell Chen
Inbunden, 2021
2301 kr
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The classicist and historian Alan Cameron (1938-2017) was, among other achievements, one of the scholars who most contributed to the refoundation of late-antique studies. In this tribute W. V. Harris and Anne Hunnell Chen have brought together fourteen contributions that cover a broad range of …
Sublime under Empire
Inbunden, 2026
2125 kr
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The Sublime Under Empire expands the range of classical authors, genres, and phenomena that can be analysed through the lens of the sublime. Building on recent scholarship that has demonstrated the concept’s dynamic versatility, the twelve essays that comprise the present volume locate the sublime …
