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Images at the Crossroads
Media and Meaning in Greek Art
Av Judith M. Barringer, François Lissarrague
Inbunden, 2022
1455 kr
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New studies on the interaction of various media in ancient Greek art This collection includes twenty-one new essays by leading scholars in the field of Greek art and archaeology. Exploring a range of media including vase painting, sculpture, gems and coins, they each address questions that cross …
Envy, Spite and Jealousy
The Rivalrous Emotions in Ancient Greece
Av David Konstan, Keith Rutter
Inbunden, 2003
2920 kr
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Classical Greece was permeated by a spirit of rivalry. Games and sports, theatrical performances, courtroom trials, recitation of poetry, canvassing for public office, war itself - all aspects of life were informed by a competitive ethos. This pioneering book considers how the Greeks viewed, …
Pursuing the Good
Ethics and Metaphysics in Plato's Republic
Av Douglas Cairns, Fritz-Gregor Herrmann m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
1993 kr
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This volume brings together contributions from leading Plato scholars from Britain, Europe and North America on a closely defined topic central to Plato’s thought and to Ancient Philosophy –Plato’s Form of the Good. The importance of the collection lies in the combination and presentation in one …
Greek Notions of the Past in the Archaic and Classical Eras
History Without Historians
Av John Marincola, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
2258 kr
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A wide examination of the ways in which the Greeks constructed, de-constructed, engaged with and relied on their pastsThis volume in The Edinburgh Leventis Studies series collects the papers presented at the sixth A. G. Leventis conference organised under the auspices of the Department of Classics …
Defining Greek Narrative
Av Douglas Cairns, Ruth Scodel
Inbunden, 2014
2772 kr
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The ‘Classic’ narratology that has been widely applied to classical texts is aimed at a universal taxonomy for describing narratives. More recently, ‘new narratologies’ have begun linking the formal characteristics of narrative to their historical and ideological contexts. This volume seeks such a …
Gods of Ancient Greece
Identities and Transformations
Av Jan N. Bremmer, Andrew Erskine
Häftad, 2013
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
450 kr
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The Greek gods are still very much present in modern consciousness. Although Apollo and Dionysos, Artemis and Aphrodite, Zeus and Hermes are household names, it is much less clear what these divinities meant and stood for in ancient Greece. In fact, they have been very much neglected in modern …
Greek Revolution of 1821
European Contexts, Scottish Connections
Av Roderick Beaton, Niels Gaul
Inbunden, 2024
1439 kr
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Political history and history of ideas, art history, theories of nations and nationalism, Classical Reception studies, modern Greek history and modern Scottish history come together in this collection of essays by experts in all these fields. The starting point for the volume is the bicentenary of …
Greek Revolution of 1821
European Contexts, Scottish Connections
Av Roderick Beaton, Niels Gaul
E-bok, 2024
1762 kr
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Political history and history of ideas, art history, theories of nations and nationalism, Classical Reception studies, modern Greek history and modern Scottish history come together in this collection of essays by experts in all these fields. The starting point for the volume is the bicentenary of …
Greek Revolution of 1821
European Contexts, Scottish Connections
Av Roderick Beaton, Niels Gaul
E-bok, 2024
1762 kr
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Political history and history of ideas, art history, theories of nations and nationalism, Classical Reception studies, modern Greek history and modern Scottish history come together in this collection of essays by experts in all these fields. The starting point for the volume is the bicentenary of …
Rereading Plato’s Republic
Av Mary Margaret McCabe, Simon Trépanier
Inbunden, 2025
1535 kr
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Plato's Republic is the master's masterpiece; but how to go about interpreting it is still disputed. Indeed, it may be a masterpiece just because how to understand it is fiercely controversial. This collection of 24 original essays by an international mix of junior and senior scholars reconsiders …
Fabric of Hellenism
Hellenic Culture and Civic Identity in the Imperial Greek World
Inbunden, 2026
1988 kr
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This authoritative series of essays brings together a group of eminent scholars engaged with Imperial Greece in the first work of its kind to address the art-history, archaeology, numismatics and prose literature of Imperial Greek cities in one volume, covering the period from pre-Imperial …
Greek Laughter and Tears
Antiquity and After
Av Margaret Alexiou, Douglas Cairns
Inbunden, 2017
2772 kr
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What makes us laugh and cry, sometimes at the same time? How do these two primal, seemingly discrete and non-verbal modes of expression intersect in everyday life and ritual, and what range of emotions do they evoke? How may they be voiced, shaped and coloured in literature and liturgy, art and …
