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Monsters in Greek Literature
Aberrant Bodies in Ancient Greek Cosmogony, Ethnography, and Biology
Häftad, 2021
732 kr
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Monsters in Greek literature are often thought of as creatures which exist in mythological narratives, however, as this book shows, they appear in a much broader range of ancient sources and are used in creation narratives, ethnographic texts, and biology to explore the limits of the human body and …
Politics in the Monuments of Pompey the Great and Julius Caesar
Häftad, 2024
671 kr
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This book explores the diachronic development of the ideological content of Pompey and Caesar’s monuments in Rome, emphasising the importance of the late Republican period as a precursor to imperial propaganda through architecture. In the final years of the Roman Republic, individuals such as …
Bible, Homer, and the Search for Meaning in Ancient Myths
Why We Would Be Better Off With Homer’s Gods
Av John Heath
Inbunden, 2019
2525 kr
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The Bible, Homer, and the Search for Meaning in Ancient Myths explores and compares the most influential sets of divine myths in Western culture: the Homeric pantheon and Yahweh, the God of the Old Testament. Heath argues that not only does the God of the Old Testament bear a striking resemblance …
Text and Intertext in Greek Epic and Drama
Essays in Honor of Margalit Finkelberg
Av Jonathan J. Price, Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz
Inbunden, 2020
2904 kr
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This collection presents 19 interconnected studies on the language, history, exegesis, and cultural setting of Greek epic and dramatic poetic texts ("Text") and their afterlives ("Intertext") in Antiquity. Spanning texts from Hittite archives to Homer to Greek tragedy and comedy to Vergil to …
Generic Enrichment in Plutarch’s Lives
Av Chrysanthos S. Chrysanthou, Timothy E. Duff
Inbunden, 2024
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This volume addresses the important literary phenomenon of ‘generic enrichment’ in Plutarch’s Parallel Lives. It examines the ways in which features of other genres are deployed and incorporated in Plutarch’s biographies and the effects of this on the texts themselves and readers’ responses to …
Homicide in the Attic Orators
Rhetoric, Ideology, and Context
Inbunden, 2020
2600 kr
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This study identifies specific features in the legal procedure and social perception of homicide in Athens in the time of the orators and examines how these features affected and were represented and utilised in forensic rhetoric.The socially transgressive nature of the crime in Athens resulted in …
Fantasy in Greek and Roman Literature
Inbunden, 2019
3173 kr
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Fantasy in Greek and Roman Literature offers an overview of Greek and Roman excursions into fantasy, including imaginary voyages, dream-worlds, talking animals and similar impossibilities. This is a territory seldom explored and extends to rarely read texts such as the Aesop Romance, The Battle of …
Antonio Gramsci and the Ancient World
Av Emilio Zucchetti, Anna Maria Cimino
Inbunden, 2021
2525 kr
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Antonio Gramsci and the Ancient World explores the relationship between the work of the Italian Marxist thinker Antonio Gramsci and the study of classical antiquity. The collection of essays engages with Greek and Roman history, literature, society, and culture, offering a range of perspectives and …
Discourse of Kingship in Classical Greece
Av Carol Atack
Inbunden, 2019
2525 kr
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This book examines how ancient authors explored ideas of kingship as a political role fundamental to the construction of civic unity, the use of kingship stories to explain the past and present unity of the polis and the distinctive function or status attributed to kings in such accounts.It …
Poverty in Ancient Greece and Rome
Realities and Discourses
Av Filippo Carlà-Uhink, Lucia Cecchet m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
2600 kr
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This volume presents an innovative picture of the ancient Mediterranean world. Approaching poverty as a multifaceted condition, it examines how different groups were affected by the lack of access to symbolic, cultural and social – as well as economic – capital.Collecting a wide range of studies by …
Making of Identities in Athenian Oratory
Av Jakub Filonik, Brenda Griffith-Williams m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
2600 kr
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Focusing on extant speeches from the Athenian Assembly, law, and Council in the fifth–fourth centuries BCE, these essays explore how speakers constructed or deconstructed identities for themselves and their opponents as part of a rhetorical strategy designed to persuade or manipulate the …
Frankness, Greek Culture, and the Roman Empire
Av Dana Fields
Inbunden, 2020
2904 kr
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Frankness, Greek Culture, and the Roman Empire discusses the significance of parrhēsia (free and frank speech) in Greek culture of the Roman empire. The term parrhēsia first emerged in the context of the classical Athenian democracy and was long considered a key democratic and egalitarian value. …
Intertextuality in Seneca’s Philosophical Writings
Av Myrto Garani, Andreas N. Michalopoulos m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
2525 kr
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This volume is the first systematic study of Seneca’s interaction with earlier literature of a variety of genres and traditions. It examines this interaction and engagement in his prose works, offering interpretative readings that are at once groundbreaking and stimulating to further study.Focusing …
Married Life in Greco-Roman Antiquity
Av Claude-Emmanuelle Centlivres Challet
Inbunden, 2021
2600 kr
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Beyond the institution of marriage, its norms, and rules, what was life like for married couples in Greco-Roman antiquity? This volume explores a wide range of sources over seven centuries to uncover possible answers to this question.On tombstones, curse or oracular tablets, in contracts, …
Representation of Slavery in the Greek Novel
Resistance and Appropriation
Inbunden, 2019
2904 kr
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This volume offers the first comprehensive treatment of how the five canonical Greek novels represent slaves and slavery. In each novel, one or both elite protagonists are enslaved, and Owens explores the significance of the genre’s regular social degradation of these members of the elite.Reading …
Robert E. Sherwood and the Classical Tradition
The Muses in America
Inbunden, 2020
2904 kr
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This volume explores the reception of the classical past in the works of twentieth-century American dramatist Robert E. Sherwood and his use of the ancient world to critique key events and trends in American history. It explores his comedies and the influence of both Greek Old and New Comedy, as …
Poetics in its Aristotelian Context
Av Pierre Destrée, Malcolm Heath m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
2525 kr
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This volume integrates aspects of the Poetics into the broader corpus of Aristotelian philosophy. It both deals with some old problems raised by the treatise, suggesting possible solutions through contextualization, and also identifies new ways in which poetic concepts could relate to Aristotelian …
Making and Unmaking Ancient Memory
Av Martine De Marre, Rajiv Bhola
Inbunden, 2022
2904 kr
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Making and Unmaking Ancient Memory explores the way in which ancient Greeks and Romans represented their past, and in turn how modern literature and scholarship has approached the reception and transmission of some aspects of ancient culture.The contributions, organised into three sections – …
Aristotle and the Animals
The Logos of Life Itself
Inbunden, 2022
2525 kr
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With a novel approach to Aristotle’s zoology, this study looks at animals as creatures of nature (physis) and reveals a scientific discourse that, in response to his predecessors, exiles logos as reason and pursues the logos intrinsic to animals’ bodies, empowering them to sense the world and …
Ancient History from Below
Subaltern Experiences and Actions in Context
Av Cyril Courrier, Julio Cesar Magalhães de Oliveira
Inbunden, 2021
2600 kr
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If ancient history is particularly susceptible to a top-down approach, due to the nature of our evidence and its traditional exploitation by modern scholars, another ancient history—‘from below’—is actually possible. This volume examines the possibilities and challenges involved in writing …
Illiterate Geography in Classical Athens and Rome
Inbunden, 2020
2600 kr
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This study is devoted to the channels through which geographic knowledge circulated in classical societies outside of textual transmission. It explores understanding of geography among the non-elites, as opposed to scholarly and scientific geography solely in written form which was the province of …
Epigraphic Culture in the Eastern Mediterranean in Antiquity
Inbunden, 2020
2842 kr
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This book investigates the epigraphic habit of the Eastern Mediterranean in antiquity, from the inception of alphabetic writing to the seventh c. CE, aiming to identify whether there was one universal epigraphic culture in this area or a number of discrete epigraphic cultures. Chapters examine …
Xenophon’s Socratic Works
Inbunden, 2021
2525 kr
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Xenophon’s Socratic Works demonstrates that Xenophon, a student of Socrates, military man, and man of letters, is an indispensable source for our understanding of the life and philosophy of Socrates. David M. Johnson restores Xenophon’s most ambitious Socratic work, the Memorabilia (Socratic …
Ideal Themes in the Greek and Roman Novel
Av Jean Alvares
Inbunden, 2021
2904 kr
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This book explores the areas in which novels such as Chariton’s Callirhoe and Heliodorus’s Aithiopika are ideal beyond the ideal love relationship and considers how concepts of the ideal connect to archetypal and literary patterns as well as reflecting contemporary ideological and cultural …
Taxation, Economy, and Revolt in Ancient Rome, Galilee, and Egypt
Av Thomas R. Blanton IV, Agnes Choi m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
2600 kr
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This volume introduces new perspectives on taxation policies in the Roman Empire, the Galilee, and Egypt, with unique insights into the economic effects of imperial pacification on local and regional microlevel economies in the Galilee both before and after the First Jewish Revolt against …
Proclus and the Chaldean Oracles
A Study on Proclean Exegesis, with a Translation and Commentary of Proclus’ Treatise On Chaldean Philosophy
Av Nicola Spanu
Inbunden, 2020
2525 kr
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This volume examines the discussion of the Chaldean Oracles in the work of Proclus, as well as offering a translation and commentary of Proclus’ Treatise On Chaldean Philosophy. Spanu assesses whether Proclus’ exegesis of the Chaldean Oracles can be used by modern research to better clarify the …
Dionysus and Politics
Constructing Authority in the Graeco-Roman World
Av Filip Doroszewski, Dariusz Karłowicz
Inbunden, 2021
2600 kr
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This volume presents an essential but underestimated role that Dionysus played in Greek and Roman political thought. Written by an interdisciplinary team of scholars, the volume covers the period from archaic Greece to the late Roman Empire.The reader can observe how ideas and political themes …
Roman Masculinity and Politics from Republic to Empire
Inbunden, 2020
2600 kr
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This volume explores the role that republican political participation played in forging elite Roman masculinity. It situates familiarly "manly" traits like militarism, aggressive sexuality, and the pursuit of power within a political system based on power sharing and cooperation.In deliberations in …
Time and Chronology in Creation Narratives
Av Silvie Kilgallon, Fiona Mitchell
Inbunden, 2024
2525 kr
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This book explores the ways in which the origins of time, of the gods, and processes associated with time were conceptualised in antiquity, examining a variety of ancient sources from across the ancient world and addressing issues surrounding the sources themselves.Time is a key framework through …
Dionysus and Politics
Constructing Authority in the Graeco-Roman World
Av Filip Doroszewski, Dariusz Karłowicz
Häftad, 2024
671 kr
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This volume presents an essential but underestimated role that Dionysus played in Greek and Roman political thought. Written by an interdisciplinary team of scholars, the volume covers the period from archaic Greece to the late Roman Empire.The reader can observe how ideas and political themes …
