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Xenophon's Cyropaedia
Style, Genre, and Literary Technique
Inbunden, 1993
5076 kr
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This book is a literary study of the Cyropaedia, Xenophon's fictional account of Cyrus the Great and the founding of his empire. The Cyropaedia is a complex blend of various literary forms, and this book examines several of its literary genres. General discussions of the works of Xenophon's …
Roman Priests from Republic to Empire
Values, Expectations, Representations
Inbunden, 2025
1974 kr
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This book reconstructs the values, expectations and representations of priests and priesthoods in ancient Rome from the republic to the early empire. Challenging preconceived assumptions that Rome's priests were important primarily because of their political currency, Roman Priests from Republic to …
Thucydides
Narrative and Explanation
Av Tim Rood
Häftad, 2004
1544 kr
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`War is a harsh teache' wrote Thucydides in the fifth-century BC. Rood analyses the techniques through which Thucydides' narrative explains the origin and course of the Peloponnesian War and exposes harsh truths about how individuals and states behave. Rood concentrates on how the use of …
Aristocles of Messene
Testimonia and Fragments
Inbunden, 2001
3185 kr
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Aristocles of Messene is an extremely important source for understanding the philosophical thought of early Pyrrhonism. But so far his polemical attitudes have discouraged scholars from taking seriously the extant fragments of his work and at present he is still an obscure figure. In this book Dr …
Gymnasia and Greek Identity in Ptolemaic Egypt
Inbunden, 2021
1696 kr
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This book provides the first complete study of the documentation relevant to the gymnasium and gymnasial life in Egypt at the time of the Ptolemies, the longest reigning Hellenistic Royal House (323-30 BC). Paganini analyses the diffusion, characteristics, administration, and developments of the …
Coptic Interference in the Syntax of Greek Letters from Egypt
Av Victoria Beatrix Maria Fendel
Inbunden, 2022
2210 kr
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Egypt in the early Byzantine period was a bilingual country where Greek and Egyptian (Coptic) were used alongside each other. Historical studies along with linguistic studies of the phonology and lexicon of early Byzantine Greek in Egypt testify to this situation. In order to describe the …
Epicurus’ Human Beings
Beyond Person and Self
Inbunden, 2026
2209 kr
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.Epicurus' philosophical project is predicated on its eudaimonistic …
Latin Poetry in the Ancient Greek Novels
Inbunden, 2021
2099 kr
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Latin Poetry in the Ancient Greek Novels establishes and explores connections between Greek imperial literature and Latin poetry. This work challenges conventional thinking about literary and cultural interaction of the period, which assumes that imperial Greeks were not much interested in Roman …
The Interpretation of Order
A Study in the Poetics of Homeric Repetition
Inbunden, 1994
1689 kr
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This is an exciting and original study on the poetic significance of formal repetition in Homer. The author argues that localization, metre, and verse-structure are regularly used as semantic markers, providing certain words with a "meaning" that extends beyond their immediate context. This meaning …
Metamorphosis in Greek Myths
Häftad, 1992
1556 kr
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The transformation of human beings to animals, plants, and stones is one of the commonest, and most characteristic themes of Greek mythology. In the first study of the subject in English, Dr Forbes Irving examines what is of most interest in Greek myths - their appeal as stories. He attempts to …
Thebaid IX
Av Statius
Inbunden, 1991
4365 kr
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BLWith Latin text and English translationThe epic poem the Thebaid was composed by Statius about AD 80 to 92 in twelve books. The subject is the expedition of the Seven against Thebes in support of the attempt by Oedipus' son Polyneices to recover the throne from his brother Eteocles. Book IX is …
Prophecy and History in the Crisis of the Roman Empire
A Historical Commentary on the Thirteenth Sibylline Oracle
Inbunden, 1990
3495 kr
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The Sibylline Oracles (sacred prophecies) which provide narratives of Roman history are our best sources for popular understanding of contemporar y events, since they were written by those with no obvious connection with the government. The thirteenth is of particular interest because it remains …
Prudentius on the Martyrs
Inbunden, 1989
5498 kr
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The Latin poet Prudentius, born in Spain in the mid-fourth century AD, rose to high office in the imperial secretariat in Milan. His pride in this achievement was tempered by a powerful Christian vocation to the composition of poetry, a medium largely determined by an education in the Latin …
Consoling Heliodorus
A Commentary on Jerome Letter 60
Inbunden, 1992
5284 kr
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Jerome (AD c. 347-420) is best remembered as the author of the Vulgate translation of the Bible. But he was also an untiring letter-writer. Among the many letters which have survived are several written to friends who have suffered recent bereavement. In the most impressive of these, Letter 60, …
Roman Nature
The Thought of Pliny the Elder
Av Mary Beagon
Inbunden, 1992
3443 kr
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Pliny's Natural History has too often been regarded as simply a quarry for quaint stories - a view which has tended to overshadow its overall structure and purpose. Dr Beagon redresses the balance and illuminates the Natural History as the work of an author with an identifiable mode of thinking and …
Jerome, Greek Scholarship, and the Hebrew Bible
A Study of the Quaestiones Hebraicae in Genesim
Av Adam Kamesar
Inbunden, 1993
3452 kr
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Jerome (c. 345-420) was one of the greatest Bibilical scholars of antiquity. Among his achievements was his Latin translations of the Bible `according to the Hebrew', or iuxta Hebraeos. This translation came to constitute the major part of the Vulgate, the standard Bible of Latin Christendom. The …
Canons of Style in the Antonine Age
Idea-Theory and its Literary Context
Inbunden, 1998
755 kr
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The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between literature and stylistic theory in the Antonine Age. The literature is the prose literature of the Second Sophistic and the stylistic theory is the so-called idea-theory set out in the Peri Ideon of Hermogenes of Tarsus, as well as …
Landowners and Tenants in Roman Egypt
The Social Relations of Agriculture in the Oxyrhynchite Nome
Inbunden, 1996
4074 kr
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Oxyrhynchus in Egypt is the best documented city of the Roman Empire. This book uses the thousands of papyrus documents found there to examine how its urban landowning class derived its wealth from the rural hinterland. After an introductory chapter discussing the topography and agricultural …
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius: A Study
Häftad, 1991
1978 kr
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Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor from AD 161 to 180, is renowned for his just rule at home and for his long frontier wars. But his lasting claim to fame rests on the work known as the Meditations - a bedside book of reflections and self-admonitions composed in Greek (the language of philosophy) …
De Raptu Prosperpinae
Inbunden, 1993
5393 kr
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Claudian was one of the last great Latin poets of the classical tradition, writing in the fourth century AD. J. B. Hall has already produced two editions of his poem De Raptu Proserpinae which deal exhaustively with the complicated manuscript traditions of the work. But he self-confessedly leaves …
Inventing the Barbarian
Greek Self-Definition through Tragedy
Av Edith Hall
Häftad, 1991
2041 kr
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Incest, polygamy, murder, sacrilege, impalement, castration, female power, and despotism: these are some of the images by which the Greek tragedians defined the non-Greek, `barbarian' world. This book explains for the first time the reasons behind their singular fascination with barbarians. It sets …
The Chronicle of Hydatius and the Consularia Constantinopolitana
Two Contemporary Accounts of the Final Years of the Roman Empire
Inbunden, 1993
1990 kr
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This book contains new critical editions of two early and important examples of the most popular Late Roman historical genres and the first ever English translation of Hydatius. The first, the Chronicle of Hydatius, is an account of the beginning of the collapse of the Roman Empire and the end of …
Apollodoros the Son of Pasion
Inbunden, 1992
3285 kr
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This is a study of an influential fourth-century BC Athenian politician, Apollodoros the son of Pasion. It provides the first full-length treatment of his career and of the seven lawcourt speeches which he delivered, and which have come down to us attributed - wrongly - to the famous orator …
Ovid and the Fasti
An Historical Study
Inbunden, 1994
4760 kr
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Despite the death of contemporary witnesses for the late Augustan and early Tiberian Principates, Ovid's Fasti has remained curiously neglected as an historical source for the period. The aim of this new research is to show that the poem of some five thousand lines on the Roman calendar, written …
The Empire of the Tetrarchs
Imperial Pronouncements and Government AD 284-324
Inbunden, 1996
3602 kr
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The era of Diocletan and Constantine is a significant period for the Roman empire, with far-reaching administrative changes that established the structure of government for three hundred years - a time when the Christian church passed from persecution to imperial favour. It is also a complex period …
Greek Bastardy in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods
Av Daniel Ogden
Inbunden, 1996
5112 kr
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Societies are defined at their margins. In the ancient Greek world bastards were often marginal, their affinities being with the female, the alien, the servile, the poor, and the sick. The study of bastardy in ancient Greece is therefore of an importance that goes far beyond the subject's intrinsic …
Roman Historical Myths
The Regal Period in Augustan Literature
Av Matthew Fox
Inbunden, 1996
4022 kr
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This book offers an enlivening and sophisticated analysis of the pervasive use of historical myth in some of the best-known writers of the Late Republic and Augustan periods - from Cicero in the De Republica and the first book of Livy to Propertius IV and Ovid's Fasti. The chapters on prose …
From Barbarians to New Men
Greek, Roman, and Modern Perceptions of Peoples from the Central Apennines
Av Emma Dench
Inbunden, 1995
3697 kr
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The Central Apennine peoples, represented alternately as decadent and dangerous snake-charming barbarians or as personifications of manly wisdom and virtue, as austere and worthy "new men", were important figures in Greek and Roman ideology. Concentrating on the period between the later fourth …
Rome and Baetica
Urbanization in Southern Spain c.50 BC-AD 150
Av A. T. Fear
Inbunden, 1996
3130 kr
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This book examines the development of urban units and their relationship to the adoption of Roman cultural forms in the province of Baetica (roughly modern Andalusia) in the Early Imperial period. Its starting point is a general examination of the notion of `Romanization' followed by a discussion …
Early Rome and Latium
Economy and Society c.1000-500 BC
Inbunden, 1996
4546 kr
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The first full account in English of the archaeological material from early Rome and the surrounding region of Latium, from the Late Bronze Age down to the end of the sixth century BC. The book sets for the first time the region of Latium in its proper context as the hinterland of Rome, and as …
