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Augustan Egypt
The Creation of a Roman Province
Häftad, 2014
942 kr
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With updated documents including papyri, inscriptions and ostraka, this book casts fresh and original light on the administration and economy issues faced with the transition of Egypt from an allied kingdom of Rome to a province of the Roman Empire
Consensus, Concordia and the Formation of Roman Imperial Ideology
Häftad, 2012
851 kr
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This book concerns the relationship between ideas and power in the genesis of the Roman empire. The self-justification of the first emperor through the consensus of the citizen body constrained him to adhere to ‘legitimate’ and ‘traditional’ forms of self-presentation. Lobur explores how these …
Empedocles Redivivus
Poetry and Analogy in Lucretius
Av Myrto Garani
Häftad, 2012
1052 kr
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Despite the general scholarly consensus about Lucretius’ debt to Empedocles as the father of the genre of cosmological didactic epic, there is a major disagreement regarding Lucretius’ applause for his Presocratic predecessor’s praeclara reperta (DRN 1.732). In the present study, Garani suggests …
Empedocles
An Interpretation
Häftad, 2013
1052 kr
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Offers the first complete reinterpretation of Empedocles – one of the founding figures of Western philosophy – since the publication of the Strasbourg papyrus in 1999 brought new fragments of his lost work to light.
Simonides on the Persian Wars
A Study of the Elegiac Verses of the "New Simonides"
Häftad, 2012
1052 kr
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This book considers what evidence the "new Simonides" fragments offer for Simonides' elegiac compositions on the Persian Wars. The current orthodoxy is that they represent three separate elegies on individual battles, one on Artemisium, one on Salamis, and one on Plataea. Kowerski evaluates what …
Aristoxenus of Tarentum and the Birth of Musicology
Häftad, 2012
915 kr
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Aristoxenus made an enormous contribution to the development of music theory in antiquity. Despite his Pythagorean upbringing, he rejected Pythagorean methods of harmonics which focused on the mathematical significance of musical structures and instead applied a scientific methodology appropriated …
Sex and the Second-Best City
Sex and Society in the Laws of Plato
Häftad, 2014
1052 kr
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Sex and the Second-Best City deals with the topics of sex and society in the Laws of Plato with recourse to historical context and modern critical theory. It examines reconstructions of ancient "sexuality" with a view to increased clarification. The text of the Laws is considered, along with many …
Singular Dedications
Founders and Innovators of Private Cults in Classical Greece
Häftad, 2015
929 kr
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Often ignored in studies of Classical Greek religion, private cults were widespread in the Hellenistic world. Although worshippers in Classical Greece were normally involved in group and civic worship, there is evidence that they could also act outside of these constraints, expressing their piety …
Linguistic Commentary on Livius Andronicus
Häftad, 2014
665 kr
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As the oldest literary Latin preserved in any quantity, the language of Livius shows many features of linguistic interest and raises intriguing questions of phonolgy, morphology and syntax.
Hyperboreans
Myth and History in Celtic-Hellenic Contacts
Häftad, 2010
942 kr
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In Greek mythology, Hyperboreans were a tribe who lived far to Greece's north. Contained in what has come down to us of Greek literary tradition are texts that identify the Hyperboreans with the Celts, or Hyperborean lands with Celtic ones. This groundbreaking book studies the texts that make or …
Aphrodite and Eros
The Development of Erotic Mythology in Early Greek Poetry and Cult
Häftad, 2010
1052 kr
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An interdisciplinary analysis of the Archaic period--using literary, iconographical, and cultic evidence--shows the distinct concept behind the two deities of love. Aphrodite's character, sphere of influence, and function feature in her traditional myths and are well reflected in cult.
Ambitiosa Mors
Suicide and the Self in Roman Thought and Literature
Av T. D. Hill
Häftad, 2011
1324 kr
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Although the distinctive - and sometimes bizarre - means by which Roman aristocrats often chose to end their lives has attracted some scholarly attention in the past, most writers on the subject have been content to view this a s an irrational and inexplicable aspect of Roman culture. In this book, …
Empedocles
An Interpretation
Inbunden, 2004
2904 kr
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Offers the first complete reinterpretation of Empedocles – one of the founding figures of Western philosophy – since the publication of the Strasbourg papyrus in 1999 brought new fragments of his lost work to light.
Singular Dedications
Founders and Innovators of Private Cults in Classical Greece
Inbunden, 2003
2525 kr
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Often ignored in studies of Classical Greek religion, private cults were widespread in the Hellenistic world. Although worshippers in Classical Greece were normally involved in group and civic worship, there is evidence that they could also act outside of these constraints, expressing their piety …
Aphrodite and Eros
The Development of Erotic Mythology in Early Greek Poetry and Cult
Inbunden, 2007
2904 kr
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An interdisciplinary analysis of the Archaic period--using literary, iconographical, and cultic evidence--shows the distinct concept behind the two deities of love. Aphrodite's character, sphere of influence, and function feature in her traditional myths and are well reflected in cult.
Linguistic Commentary on Livius Andronicus
Inbunden, 2004
1892 kr
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As the oldest literary Latin preserved in any quantity, the language of Livius shows many features of linguistic interest and raises intriguing questions of phonolgy, morphology and syntax.
Hyperboreans
Myth and History in Celtic-Hellenic Contacts
Inbunden, 2005
2600 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In Greek mythology, Hyperboreans were a tribe who lived far to Greece's north. Contained in what has come down to us of Greek literary tradition are texts that identify the Hyperboreans with the Celts, or Hyperborean lands with Celtic ones. This groundbreaking book studies the texts that make or …
Rhetoric in Cicero's Pro Balbo
Inbunden, 2004
883 kr
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This book offers an examination of Cicero's speech, the Pro Balbo, which was delivered during a momentous period of Roman history, in defence of a highly influential political advisor of Caesar who was charged under the lexPapia for an illegal grant of citizenship.
Aristoxenus of Tarentum and the Birth of Musicology
Inbunden, 2005
2759 kr
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Aristoxenus made an enormous contribution to the development of music theory in antiquity. Despite his Pythagorean upbringing, he rejected Pythagorean methods of harmonics which focused on the mathematical significance of musical structures and instead applied a scientific methodology appropriated …
Ambitiosa Mors
Suicide and the Self in Roman Thought and Literature
Av T. D. Hill
Inbunden, 2004
2904 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Although the distinctive - and sometimes bizarre - means by which Roman aristocrats often chose to end their lives has attracted some scholarly attention in the past, most writers on the subject have been content to view this a s an irrational and inexplicable aspect of Roman culture. In this book, …
Nothing Ordinary Here
Statius as Creator of Distinction in the Silvae
Inbunden, 2005
2525 kr
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Through a combined methodology of philology, social theory and archaeology this book offers a reinterpretation of Statius's Silvae.
Simonides on the Persian Wars
A Study of the Elegiac Verses of the "New Simonides"
Inbunden, 2005
2466 kr
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This book considers what evidence the "new Simonides" fragments offer for Simonides' elegiac compositions on the Persian Wars. The current orthodoxy is that they represent three separate elegies on individual battles, one on Artemisium, one on Salamis, and one on Plataea. Kowerski evaluates what …
Augustan Egypt
The Creation of a Roman Province
Inbunden, 2005
2600 kr
Lägg i varukorg
First published in 2005. With updated documents including papyri, inscriptions and ostraka, this book casts fresh and original light on the administration and economy issues faced with the transition of Egypt from an allied kingdom of Rome to a province of the Roman Empire.
Sex and the Second-Best City
Sex and Society in the Laws of Plato
Inbunden, 2005
2904 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Sex and the Second-Best City deals with the topics of sex and society in the Laws of Plato with recourse to historical context and modern critical theory. It examines reconstructions of ancient "sexuality" with a view to increased clarification. The text of the Laws is considered, along with many …
Philodemus on Rhetoric Books 1 and 2
Translation and Exegetical Essays
Inbunden, 2005
2525 kr
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The Epicureans were notorious in antiquity for denigrating most forms of civic participation and for rejecting those cultural activities (such as poetry, music, and rhetoric) which are broadly labelled paideia. In this, as in all else, they ostensibly took their cue from Epicurus and the other …
Consensus, Concordia and the Formation of Roman Imperial Ideology
Inbunden, 2008
2600 kr
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This book concerns the relationship between ideas and power in the genesis of the Roman empire. The self-justification of the first emperor through the consensus of the citizen body constrained him to adhere to ‘legitimate’ and ‘traditional’ forms of self-presentation. Lobur explores how these …
Empedocles Redivivus
Poetry and Analogy in Lucretius
Av Myrto Garani
Inbunden, 2007
2904 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Despite the general scholarly consensus about Lucretius’ debt to Empedocles as the father of the genre of cosmological didactic epic, there is a major disagreement regarding Lucretius’ applause for his Presocratic predecessor’s praeclara reperta (DRN 1.732). In the present study, Garani suggests …
Philodemus on Rhetoric Books 1 and 2
Translation and Exegetical Essays
Häftad, 2015
1069 kr
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The Epicureans were notorious in antiquity for denigrating most forms of civic participation and for rejecting those cultural activities (such as poetry, music, and rhetoric) which are broadly labelled paideia. In this, as in all else, they ostensibly took their cue from Epicurus and the other …
Rhetoric in Cicero's Pro Balbo
Häftad, 2016
277 kr
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This book offers an examination of Cicero's speech, the Pro Balbo, which was delivered during a momentous period of Roman history, in defence of a highly influential political advisor of Caesar who was charged under the lexPapia for an illegal grant of citizenship.
