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Horace and Housman
Av R. Gaskin
Inbunden, 2013
635 kr
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The lyric poems of Horace and Housman are two enigmatic bodies of work that have much in common, and a close reading of each poet's writings can illuminate the other's. This is the first book to provide a detailed, critical comparison between these two poets, and also the first to make use of …
Combat Trauma and the Ancient Greeks
Av P. Meineck, D. Konstan
Inbunden, 2014
1638 kr
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This ground-breaking book applies trauma studies to the drama and literature of the ancient Greeks. Diverse essays explore how the Greeks responded to war and if what we now term "combat trauma," "post-traumatic stress," or "combat stress injury" can be discerned in ancient Greek culture.
Lucretius and Modernity
Epicurean Encounters Across Time and Disciplines
Inbunden, 2016
583 kr
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Lucretius's long shadow falls across the disciplines of literary history and criticism, philosophy, religious studies, classics, political philosophy, and the history of science. The best recent example is Stephen Greenblatt's popular account of the Roman poet's De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of …
Lucretius and Modernity
Epicurean Encounters Across Time and Disciplines
Häftad, 2016
353 kr
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Lucretius's long shadow falls across the disciplines of literary history and criticism, philosophy, religious studies, classics, political philosophy, and the history of science. The best recent example is Stephen Greenblatt's popular account of the Roman poet's De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of …
Horace and Housman
Av R. Gaskin
Häftad, 2013
635 kr
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The lyric poems of Horace and Housman are two enigmatic bodies of work that have much in common, and a close reading of each poet's writings can illuminate the other's. This is the first book to provide a detailed, critical comparison between these two poets, and also the first to make use of …
Combat Trauma and the Ancient Greeks
Av P. Meineck, D. Konstan
Häftad, 2015
1638 kr
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This ground-breaking book applies trauma studies to the drama and literature of the ancient Greeks. Diverse essays explore how the Greeks responded to war and if what we now term "combat trauma," "post-traumatic stress," or "combat stress injury" can be discerned in ancient Greek culture.
Locating Classical Receptions on Screen
Masks, Echoes, Shadows
Av Ricardo Apostol, Anastasia Bakogianni
Häftad, 2019
1799 kr
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This volume explores film and television sources in problematic conversation with classical antiquity, to better understand the nature of artistic reception and classical reception in particular. Drawing inspiration from well-theorized fields like adaptation studies, comparative literature, and …
Body Unbound
Literary Approaches to the Classical Corpus
Av Katherine Lu Hsu, David Schur m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
1919 kr
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This book explores the body’s physical limits and the ways in which the confines of the body are delineated, transgressed, or controlled in literary and philosophical texts. Drawing on classics, philosophy, religious studies, medieval studies, and critical theory and examining material ranging from …
Body Unbound
Literary Approaches to the Classical Corpus
Av Katherine Lu Hsu, David Schur m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
1919 kr
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This book explores the body’s physical limits and the ways in which the confines of the body are delineated, transgressed, or controlled in literary and philosophical texts. Drawing on classics, philosophy, religious studies, medieval studies, and critical theory and examining material ranging from …
Blake and Lucretius
The Atomistic Materialism of the Selfhood
Inbunden, 2021
1202 kr
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This book demonstrates the way in which William Blake aligned his idiosyncratic concept of the Selfhood – the lens through which the despiritualised subject beholds the material world – with the atomistic materialism of the Epicurean school as it was transmitted through the first-century BC Roman …
Blake and Lucretius
The Atomistic Materialism of the Selfhood
Häftad, 2022
1202 kr
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This book demonstrates the way in which William Blake aligned his idiosyncratic concept of the Selfhood – the lens through which the despiritualised subject beholds the material world – with the atomistic materialism of the Epicurean school as it was transmitted through the first-century BC Roman …
Roman Love Elegy and the Eros of Empire
Inbunden, 2023
1560 kr
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This book explores Roman love elegy from postcolonial perspectives, arguing that the tropes, conventions, and discourses of the Augustan genre serve to reinforce the imperial identity of its elite, metropolitan audience. Love elegy presents the phenomena and discourses of Roman imperialism—in terms …
Roman Love Elegy and the Eros of Empire
Häftad, 2024
1560 kr
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This book explores Roman love elegy from postcolonial perspectives, arguing that the tropes, conventions, and discourses of the Augustan genre serve to reinforce the imperial identity of its elite, metropolitan audience. Love elegy presents the phenomena and discourses of Roman imperialism—in terms …
C. H. Sisson Reconsidered
Inbunden, 2023
1560 kr
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This book is the first collection of essays dedicated to the work of C. H. Sisson (1915-2003), a major English poet, critic and translator. The collection aims to offer an overall guide to his work for new readers, while also encouraging established readers of one aspect (such as his well-known …
C. H. Sisson Reconsidered
Häftad, 2024
1560 kr
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This book is the first collection of essays dedicated to the work of C. H. Sisson (1915-2003), a major English poet, critic and translator. The collection aims to offer an overall guide to his work for new readers, while also encouraging established readers of one aspect (such as his well-known …
Cavafy's Hellenistic Antiquities
History, Archaeology, Empire
Inbunden, 2023
1441 kr
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This book reinterprets C. P. Cavafy’s historical and archaeological poetics by correlating his work to major cultural, political and sexualized receptions of antiquity that marked the turn of the 20th century. Focusing on selected poems which stage readings of Hellenistic and late ancient texts and …
Cavafy's Hellenistic Antiquities
History, Archaeology, Empire
Häftad, 2024
1441 kr
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This book reinterprets C. P. Cavafy’s historical and archaeological poetics by correlating his work to major cultural, political and sexualized receptions of antiquity that marked the turn of the 20th century. Focusing on selected poems which stage readings of Hellenistic and late ancient texts and …
Dead Sea Scrolls
New Insights on Ancient Texts
Av Alex P. Jassen, Lawrence H. Schiffman
Inbunden, 2024
1315 kr
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This volume draws readers into the exciting world of the Dead Sea Scrolls – around 930 manuscripts which were discovered in caves near the ancient settlement of Qumran between 1947 and 1956, and which transformed scholarship of the Bible, Judaism and Christianity. Ten scholars working at the …
Dead Sea Scrolls
New Insights on Ancient Texts
Av Alex P. Jassen, Lawrence H. Schiffman
Häftad, 2025
1322 kr
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This volume draws readers into the exciting world of the Dead Sea Scrolls – around 930 manuscripts which were discovered in caves near the ancient settlement of Qumran between 1947 and 1956, and which transformed scholarship of the Bible, Judaism and Christianity. Ten scholars working at the …
Working Lives in Ancient Rome
Av Del A. Maticic, Jordan Rogers
Inbunden, 2024
1919 kr
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This book sheds new light on labor and laboring in the Roman world. It starts with the individual laborer and works up, emphasizing their agency in navigating, transforming, and transcending the systems and structures around them. Taking advantage of the broad applicability of notions of work and …
Working Lives in Ancient Rome
Av Del A. Maticic, Jordan Rogers
Häftad, 2025
1919 kr
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This book sheds new light on labor and laboring in the Roman world. It starts with the individual laborer and works up, emphasizing their agency in navigating, transforming, and transcending the systems and structures around them. Taking advantage of the broad applicability of notions of work and …
Restoring the Ancient Religion
The Theurgic Orthopraxy of Iamblichus
Inbunden, 2026
1534 kr
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This book reconsiders Iamblichus’ Response to Porphyry, Late Antiquity’s seminal work on theurgy, which is often referred to as De Mysteriis. Was this text intended to be more than just a defence of ritualism or a philosophical crossing of metaphysical wits between Porphyry and Iamblichus? This …
Roman Imperial Cult
Local Practices and the Reception of the Emperor
Av Sofia Bianchi Mancini, Lorena Pérez Yarza m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
1791 kr
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This book offers a novel approach to the study of the Roman imperial cult, disrupting the traditional Eurocentric narrative and tendency to relativise the cult’s religious dimension in favour of its political implications. Instead, this collection argues for understanding the imperial cult within …
Before Emotion
Conceptualizing Affectivity in Pre-modern Cultures
Inbunden, 2026
1910 kr
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This book brings together scholars working in eleven different classical traditions – Greek, Chinese, Latin, Hebrew, Sanskrit, Arabic, Pali, Hittite, Egyptian, Japanese and Sumerian – to investigate how major texts in these traditions conceptualized, mapped and categorized the sentiments, attitudes …
Romantic Paganism
The Politics of Ecstasy in the Shelley Circle
Inbunden, 2018
1322 kr
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This book addresses the function of the classical world in the cultural imaginations of the second generation of romantic writers: Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Thomas Love Peacock, John Keats, Leigh Hunt, and the rest of their diverse circle. The younger romantics inherited impressions of the …
Classical Presences in Irish Poetry after 1960
The Answering Voice
Inbunden, 2018
1322 kr
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This book provides the first overview of classical presences in Anglophone Irish poetry after 1960. Featuring detailed studies of Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Derek Mahon, and Eavan Boland, including close readings of key poems, it highlights the evolution of Irish poetic engagements with Greece …
Romantic Paganism
The Politics of Ecstasy in the Shelley Circle
Häftad, 2019
1322 kr
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This book addresses the function of the classical world in the cultural imaginations of the second generation of romantic writers: Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Thomas Love Peacock, John Keats, Leigh Hunt, and the rest of their diverse circle. The younger romantics inherited impressions of the …
Classical Presences in Irish Poetry after 1960
The Answering Voice
Häftad, 2019
961 kr
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This book provides the first overview of classical presences in Anglophone Irish poetry after 1960. Featuring detailed studies of Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Derek Mahon, and Eavan Boland, including close readings of key poems, it highlights the evolution of Irish poetic engagements with Greece …
Locating Classical Receptions on Screen
Masks, Echoes, Shadows
Av Ricardo Apostol, Anastasia Bakogianni
Inbunden, 2018
1799 kr
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This volume explores film and television sources in problematic conversation with classical antiquity, to better understand the nature of artistic reception and classical reception in particular. Drawing inspiration from well-theorized fields like adaptation studies, comparative literature, and …
