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Body Language in the Greek and Roman Worlds
Av D. L. Cairns, Douglas L. Cairns
Inbunden, 2005
943 kr
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A distinguished cast of scholars discusses models of gesture and non-verbal communication as they apply to Greek and Roman culture, literature and art. Topics include dress and costume in the Homeric poems; the importance of looking, eye-contact, and face-to-face orientation in Greek society; the …
Herakles and Hercules
Exploring a Graeco-Roman Divinity
Av Louis Rawlings, Hugh Bowden
Inbunden, 2005
846 kr
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Herakles and Hercules: two names for a figure of pervasive appeal in Antiquity. He was a hero of myth and a god with cult associations. He was ancestor of Macedonian kings, patron of Carthaginian generals and of Roman emperors, and a role model for Stoic philosophers. As a performer of the famous …
Greek and Roman Colonization
Origins, Ideologies and Interactions
Av G.J. Bradley, John Paul Wilson
Inbunden, 2006
871 kr
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The term 'colonization' encompasses much diversity, from the settlement of the western Mediterranean and the Black sea by Greeks in the archaic period to the foundation of Roman colonies in mainland Italy during the Republic. Though very different in their motives and methods, both Greek and Roman …
Limits of Ancient Biography
Av Brian McGing, Judith Mossman
Inbunden, 2006
1017 kr
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The genre of biography in the ancient world is interestingly diverse and permeable and deserves intensive study, bearing as it does on ideas of characterization and the individual. This volume considers both the form and the content of biography across the ancient world, and is particularly …
Persian Responces
Political and Cultural Interaction with(in) the Achaemenid Empire
Inbunden, 2007
1102 kr
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A generation ago the Achaemenid Empire was a minor sideshow within long-established disciplines. For Greek historians the Persians were the defeated national enemy, a catalyst of change in the aftermath of the fall of Athens or the victim of Alexander. For Egyptologists and Assyriologists they …
Battle in Antiquity
Av Alan B. Lloyd, Alan B. Lloyd
Häftad, 2009
439 kr
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How do fighting men act and feel in battle? How do they deal with the trauma of conflict? What determines the outcome of battle? Modern research on war, notably that of John Keegan and Victor Hanson, has posed these questions with a new acuteness. In the ancient world, warfare was a constant …
Organised Crime in Antiquity
Av Keith Hopwood, Keith Hopwood
Häftad, 1999
453 kr
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What are states but large bandit bands, and what are bandit bands but small states?' So asked St Augustine, reflecting on the late Roman world. Here nine original studies, by established historians of Greece, Rome and other ancient civilisations, explore the activities and the images of ancient …
George Buchanan
Poet and Dramatist
Av Philip Ford, Roger P.H. Green
Inbunden, 2009
1214 kr
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Educated in Scotland and France, George Buchanan became one of the most influential writers of 16th century Europe. Writing in the lingua franca of his time - Classical Latin - he was to be hailed internationally as `easily the prince of poets'. Here fifteen scholars, from many countries, analyse …
Competition in the Ancient World
Av Nick Fisher, Hans van Wees m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
943 kr
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Ancient peoples, like modern, spent much of their lives engaged in and thinking about competitions: both organised competitions with rules, audiences and winners, such as Olympic and gladiatorial games, and informal, indefinite, often violent, competition for fundamental goals such as power, wealth …
Greek and Roman Consolations
Eight Studies of a Tradition and Its Afterlife
Inbunden, 2013
973 kr
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In the Ancient World death came – on average - at a far earlier age than in today's West, and without the authoritative warnings given by modern medicine. Consolation for the trauma of loss had, accordingly, a more prominent role to play. This volume presents eight original studies on consolatory …
Hindsight in Greek and Roman History
Av Anton Powell
Inbunden, 2013
943 kr
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Nine new studies here explore, and reconstruct, determinant episodes of Greek, Hellenistic and Roman history. The authors argue that hindsight – especially in modern works – has falsified the past, by playing down or eliminating the record of ancient unfulfilled forecasts, and of trends in events …
Aristocracy' in Antiquity
Redefining Greek and Roman Elites
Inbunden, 2015
1159 kr
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The words 'aristocrats', 'aristocracy' and 'aristocratic values' appear in many a study of ancient history and culture. Sometimes these terms are used with a precise meaning. More often they are casual shorthand for 'upper class', 'ruling elite' and 'high standards'. This book brings together 12 …
Ancient Macedonians in the Greek & Roman Sources
From History to Historiography
Inbunden, 2018
943 kr
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Recent scholars have analysed ways in which authors of the Roman era appropriated the figure of Alexander the Great. The essays in this collection, by an international team of scholars, cast a wider net. They show how classical Greek, hellenistic and Roman authors reinterpreted, sometimes …
Medicine and Markets in the Graeco-Roman World and Beyond
Essays on Ancient Medicine in Honour of Vivian Nutton
Av Laurence Totelin, R. Flemming
Inbunden, 2020
1015 kr
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For almost half a century, Vivian Nutton has been a leading figure in the study of ancient (and less ancient) medicine. The field itself has been revolutionised over that time. In this volume distinguished colleagues and former students develop, in his honour, key themes of his ground-breaking …
Didactic Poetry of Greece, Rome and Beyond
Knowledge, Power, Tradition
Av Lilah Grace Canevaro, Donncha O'Rourke
Inbunden, 2019
1053 kr
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Here ten scholars examine poetic texts of wisdom and teaching related to the line of Greek and Latin poems descended from Hesiod. Previous scholarship has grappled with the near-total absence in ancient literary criticism of explicit discussion of didactic as a discrete genre and as a result has …
