Robson Classical Lectures – serie
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Roman Social Imaginaries
Language and Thought in the Context of Empire
Inbunden, 2015
586 kr
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In an expansion of his 2012 Robson Classical Lectures, Clifford Ando examines the connection between the nature of the Latin language and Roman thinking about law, society, and empire. Drawing on innovative work in cognitive linguistics and anthropology, Roman Social Imaginaries considers how …
Criticism of Didactic Poetry
Essays on Lucretius, Virgil, and Ovid
Häftad, 2011
413 kr
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Shelley thought all didactic poetry an 'abhorrence,' and most of the Romantics agreed with this judgment. Critics in this century have been less dismissive of the genre, but seem puzzled by it. There has been a tendency to treat a didactic poem as though it were a kind of lyric, in which the focus …
Roman Social Imaginaries
Language and Thought in the Context of Empire
E-bok, 2015
769 kr
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In an expansion of his 2012 Robson Classical Lectures, Clifford Ando examines the connection between the nature of the Latin language and Roman thinking about law, society, and empire. Drawing on innovative work in cognitive linguistics and anthropology, Roman Social Imaginaries considers how …
Roman Social Imaginaries
Language and Thought in the Context of Empire
E-bok, 2015
746 kr
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In an expansion of his 2012 Robson Classical Lectures, Clifford Ando examines the connection between the nature of the Latin language and Roman thinking about law, society, and empire. Drawing on innovative work in cognitive linguistics and anthropology, Roman Social Imaginaries considers how …
Bringing in the Sheaves
Economy and Metaphor in the Roman World
Av Brent Shaw
Häftad, 2015
525 kr
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The annual harvesting of cereal crops was one of the most important economic tasks in the Roman Empire. Not only was it urgent and critical for the survival of state and society, it mobilized huge numbers of men and women every year from across the whole face of the Mediterranean. In Bringing in …
Latin Poets and Italian Gods
Inbunden, 2009
763 kr
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Based on Elaine Fantham's 2004 Robson lectures, Latin Poets and Italian Gods reconstructs the response of Roman poets in the late republic and Augustan age to the rural cults of central Italy. Study of Roman gods is often limited to the grand equivalents of the Olympian Greek deities such as …
Bringing in the Sheaves
Economy and Metaphor in the Roman World
Av Brent Shaw
E-bok, 2013
585 kr
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The annual harvesting of cereal crops was one of the most important economic tasks in the Roman Empire. Not only was it urgent and critical for the survival of state and society, it mobilized huge numbers of men and women every year from across the whole face of the Mediterranean. In Bringing in …
Bringing in the Sheaves
Economy and Metaphor in the Roman World
Av Brent Shaw
E-bok, 2013
688 kr
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The annual harvesting of cereal crops was one of the most important economic tasks in the Roman Empire. Not only was it urgent and critical for the survival of state and society, it mobilized huge numbers of men and women every year from across the whole face of the Mediterranean. In Bringing in …
Classical Tradition in Operation
Av Niall Rudd
E-bok, 1994
1229 kr
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In these five essays Niall Rudd presents an eclectic set of comparisons between certain ancient authors and later English writers ranging from Chaucer to Pound. He shows how five English writers consciously used and adapted classical works, and in so doing he illuminates both the classical authors …
Criticism of Didactic Poetry
Essays on Lucretius, Virgil, and Ovid
E-bok, 1996
1181 kr
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Shelley thought all didactic poetry an 'abhorrence,' and most of the Romantics agreed with this judgment. Critics in this century have been less dismissive of the genre, but seem puzzled by it. There has been a tendency to treat a didactic poem as though it were a kind of lyric, in which the focus …
Emotions of the Ancient Greeks
Studies in Aristotle and Classical Literature
E-bok, 2006
713 kr
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It is generally assumed that whatever else has changed about the human condition since the dawn of civilization, basic human emotions - love, fear, anger, envy, shame - have remained constant. David Konstan, however, argues that the emotions of the ancient Greeks were in some significant respects …
Latin Poets and Italian Gods
E-bok, 2009
980 kr
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Based on Elaine Fantham's 2004 Robson lectures, Latin Poets and Italian Gods reconstructs the response of Roman poets in the late republic and Augustan age to the rural cults of central Italy. Study of Roman gods is often limited to the grand equivalents of the Olympian Greek deities such as …
Latin Poets and Italian Gods
Häftad, 2020
393 kr
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Based on Elaine Fantham's 2004 Robson lectures, Latin Poets and Italian Gods reconstructs the response of Roman poets in the late republic and Augustan age to the rural cults of central Italy. Study of Roman gods is often limited to the grand equivalents of the Olympian Greek deities such as …
Classical Tradition in Operation
Av Niall Rudd
Inbunden, 1994
923 kr
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In these five essays Niall Rudd presents an eclectic set of comparisons between certain ancient authors and later English writers ranging from Chaucer to Pound. He shows how five English writers consciously used and adapted classical works, and in so doing he illuminates both the classical authors …
