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Laughter in Ancient Rome
On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up
Av Mary Beard
Häftad, 2024
174 kr
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"Superbly acute and unashamedly complex."—The Telegraph"Rich and provocative."—Times Literary Supplement"An engaging exploration."—The New Yorker"The phenomenal Ms. Beard has written another cracking book, one of her best."—The IndependentWhat made the Romans laugh? Was ancient Rome a carnival, …
Shame and Necessity, Second Edition
Häftad, 2008
263 kr
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We tend to suppose that the ancient Greeks had primitive ideas of the self, of responsibility, freedom, and shame, and that now humanity has advanced from these to a more refined moral consciousness. Bernard Williams' original and radical book questions this picture of Western history. While we are …
Small Stuff of Roman Antiquity
Av Emily Gowers
Häftad, 2025
352 kr
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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Why are the small and unimportant relics of Roman antiquity often the most enduring, in material form and in our affections? …
Laughter in Ancient Rome
On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up
Av Mary Beard
Inbunden, 2014
271 kr
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What made the Romans laugh? Was ancient Rome a carnival, filled with practical jokes and hearty chuckles? Or was it a carefully regulated culture in which the uncontrollable excess of laughter was a force to fear--a world of wit, irony, and knowing smiles? How did Romans make sense of laughter? …
Caesar's Calendar
Ancient Time and the Beginnings of History
Av Denis Feeney
Häftad, 2008
245 kr
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The ancient Romans changed more than the map of the world when they conquered so much of it; they altered the way historical time itself is marked and understood. In this brilliant, erudite, and exhilarating book Denis Feeney investigates time and its contours as described by the ancient Romans, …
Greeks and the Rational
The Discovery of Practical Reason
Av Josiah Ober
Inbunden, 2022
443 kr
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Tracing practical reason from its origins to its modern and contemporary permutations The Greek discovery of practical reason, as the skilled performance of strategic thinking in public and private affairs, was an intellectual breakthrough that remains both a feature of and a bug in our modern …
Pausanias' Guide to Ancient Greece
Häftad, 1999
455 kr
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A Greek who lived in Asia Minor during the second century A.D., Pausanias traveled through Greece and wrote an invaluable description of its classical sites that is a treasure trove of information on archaeology, religion, history, and art. Although ignored during his own time, Pausanias is …
Greek and Macedonian Art of War
Häftad, 1962
183 kr
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This informal history traces battle tactics and military strategy from the time of the city-states' phalanxes of spearmen to the far-reaching combined operations of specialized land and sea forces in the Hellenistic Age. The author first describes the attitude of the Greek city-state toward war, …
Party Politics in the Age of Caesar
Häftad, 1961
412 kr
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The advice given to Cicero by his astute, campaign-conscious brother to prepare him for the consular elections of 64 B.C., has a curiously modern ring: "Avoid taking a definite stand on great public issues either in the Senate or before the people. Bend your energies towards making friends of …
Justice of Zeus
Häftad, 1983
443 kr
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"Lloyd-Jones here considers, in its general character, the outlook of early Greek religion from the Homeric poems to the end of the fifth century, through and analysis of what he takes to be its central constituent, the concept of Dike. The "justice of Zeus" turns out to be two things, the first …
Structure and History in Greek Mythology and Ritual
Häftad, 1982
272 kr
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"Tantalizingly rich ...this is a splendid book."--Greece and Rome "Burken relegates his learned documentation to the notes and writes in a lively and fluent style. The book is recommended as a major contribution to the interpretation of ancient Greek myth and ritual. The breadth alone of Burkert's …
Heroic Temper
Studies in Sophoclean Tragedy
Häftad, 1983
322 kr
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The first two chapters of this book isolate and describe the literary phenomenon of the Sophoclean tragic hero. In all but one of the extant Sophoclean dramas, a heroic figure who is compounded of the same literary elements faced a situation which is essentially the same. The demonstration of this …
Revolutions of Wisdom
Studies in the Claims and Practice of Ancient Greek Science
Häftad, 1989
475 kr
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G.E.R. Lloyd's wide-ranging and historical study of the development of Greek science is a valuable contribution to current debates in the philosophy of language, on the analysis of scientific revolutions, and the rationality of science.
Polybius
Häftad, 1990
342 kr
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As a young man, the historian Polybius was an active politician in the Achaean Confederacy of the second century B.C., and later, during his detention at Rome, became a close friend of some leading Roman families. His History is our most important source for the momentous half-century during which …
Dionysius and The History of Archaic Rome
Av Emilio Gabba
Inbunden, 1991
794 kr
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In The History of Archaic Rome, Dionysius purposely viewed Roman history as an embodiment of all that was best in Greek culture. Gabba places Dionysius's remarkable thesis in its cultural context, comparing this author with other ancient historians and evaluating Dionysius's treatment of his …
Classical Foundations of Modern Historiography
Häftad, 1992
289 kr
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Here, at last, are the long-awaited Sather Classical Lectures of the great historian Arnaldo Momigliano, In a masterly survey of the origins of ancient historiography, Momigliano captures those features of an ancient historian's work that not only gave it importance in its own day but also …
Archaeology of Greece
The Present State and Future Scope of a Discipline
Häftad, 1992
306 kr
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Classical archaeology probably enjoys a wider appeal than any other branch of classical or archaeological studies. As an intellectual and academic discipline, however, its esteem has not matched its popularity. Here, Anthony Snodgrass argues that classical archaeology has a rare potential in the …
Christianity and the Rhetoric of Empire
The Development of Christian Discourse
Häftad, 1994
297 kr
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Many reasons can be given for the rise of Christianity in late antiquity and its flourishing in the medieval world. In asking how Christianity succeeded in becoming the dominant ideology in the unpromising circumstances of the Roman Empire, Averil Cameron turns to the development of Christian …
Hidden Author
An Interpretation of Petronius's Satyricon
Inbunden, 1997
578 kr
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"The Satyricon of Petronius", a comic novel written in the first century A.D., is famous today primarily for its amazing banquet tale, "Trimalchio's Feast." But this episode is only one part of the larger picture of life during Nero's rule presented in the work. In this accessible discussion of …
Revenge in Attic and Later Tragedy
Inbunden, 1998
1012 kr
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Modern readings of ancient Athenian drama tend to view it as a presentation of social or moral problems, as if ancient drama showed the same realism seen on the present-day stage. Such views are belied by the plays themselves, in which supremely violent actions occur in a legendary time and place …
Prayers in Stone
Greek Architectural Sculpture (c. 600-100 B.C.E.)
Inbunden, 1999
867 kr
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The meaning of architectural sculpture is essential to our understanding of ancient Greek culture. The embellishment of buildings was common for the ancient Greeks, and often provocative. Some ornamental sculpture was placed where, when the building was finished, no mortal eye could view it. And …
Art of Living
Socratic Reflections from Plato to Foucault
Häftad, 2000
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460 kr
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For much of its history, philosophy was not merely a theoretical discipline but a way of life, an 'art of living'. This practical aspect of philosophy has been much less dominant in modernity than it was in ancient Greece and Rome, when philosophers of all stripes kept returning to Socrates as a …
Sallust
Av Ronald Syme
Häftad, 2002
333 kr
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With this classic book, Sir Ronald Syme became the first historian of the twentieth century to place Sallust - whom Tacitus called the most brilliant Roman historian - in his social, political, and literary context. Scholars had considered Sallust to be a mere political hack or pamphleteer, but …
Greeks and the Irrational
Häftad, 2004
306 kr
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In this philosophy classic, which was first published in 1951, E.R. Dodds takes on the traditional view of Greek culture as a triumph of rationalism. Using the analytical tools of modern anthropology and psychology, Dodds asks, 'Why should we attribute to the ancient Greeks an immunity from …
Greek Roman Empire
Power and Belief under Theodosius II (408–450)
Häftad, 2006
306 kr
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In the first half of the fifth century, the Latin-speaking part of the Roman Empire suffered vast losses of territory to barbarian invaders. But in the Greek-speaking half of the Eastern Mediterranean, with its capital at Constantinople, there was a stable and successful system, using Latin as its …
Homer the Preclassic
Av Gregory Nagy
Inbunden, 2012
1181 kr
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"Homer the Preclassic" considers the development of the Homeric poems - in particular "The Iliad" and "Odyssey" - during the time when they were still part of the oral tradition. Gregory Nagy traces the evolution of rival 'Homers' and the different versions of Homeric poetry in this pretextual …
Creationism and Its Critics in Antiquity
Av David Sedley
Häftad, 2008
306 kr
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The world is configured in ways that seem systematically hospitable to life forms, especially the human race. Is this the outcome of divine planning or simply of the laws of physics? Ancient Greeks and Romans famously disagreed on whether the cosmos was the product of design or accident. In this …
Everyday Writing in the Graeco-Roman East
Inbunden, 2011
1181 kr
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Most of the everyday writing from the ancient world - that is, informal writing not intended for a long life or wide public distribution - has perished. Reinterpreting the silences and blanks of the historical record, leading papyrologist Roger S. Bagnall convincingly argues that ordinary people - …
Free Will
Origins of the Notion in Ancient Thought
Inbunden, 2011
1027 kr
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Where does the notion of free will come from? How and when did it develop, and what did that development involve? In Michael Frede's radically new account of the history of this idea, the notion of a free will emerged from powerful assumptions about the relation between divine providence, …
Reimagining Greek Tragedy on the American Stage
Inbunden, 2012
1394 kr
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This book explores the emergence of Greek tragedy on the American stage from the nineteenth century to the present. Despite the gap separating the world of classical Greece from our own, Greek tragedy has provided a fertile source for some of the most innovative American theater. Helene P. Foley …
