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Augustan Egypt
The Creation of a Roman Province
AvLivia Capponi
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
904 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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
AvJohn Alexander Lobur
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
817 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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 notions become explicated and reconfigured by the upper and mostly non-political classes of Italy and Rome. The chronic turmoil experienced in the late republic shaped the values and program of the imperial system; it molded the comprehensive and authoritative accounts of Roman tradition and history in a way that allowed the system to appear both traditional and historical. This book also examines how shifts in rhetorical and historiographical practices facilitated the spreading and assimilation of shared ideas that allowed the empire to cohere.
Empedocles Redivivus
Poetry and Analogy in Lucretius
AvMyrto Garani
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
1 009 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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 that by praising Empedocles’ discoveries, Lucretius points to his predecessor’s epistemological methods of inquiry concerning the unseen, methods upon which he himself draws extensively and creatively enhances. In this way, he successfully penetrates into the invisible natural world, deciphers its secrets, and thus liberates his pupil from superstitious fears about death and physical phenomena. To justify this proposition, Garani undertakes a systematic analysis of Lucretius’ integration of Empedocles’ methods of creating analogies in the form of literary devices -- personifications, similes, and metaphors -- and demonstrates that his intertextual engagement with Empedocles’ philosophical poem is direct and intensive at both the poetic and the philosophical levels.
Empedocles
An Interpretation
AvSimon Trepanier
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
1 009 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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"
AvLawrence M. Kowerski
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
1 009 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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 evidence these fragments provide for these compositions, and in doing so, questions the validity of the current interpretation of the "new Simonides."
Aristoxenus of Tarentum and the Birth of Musicology
AvSophie Gibson
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
878 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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 from Aristotle. This volume studies the theories of Aristoxenus.
Sex and the Second-Best City
Sex and Society in the Laws of Plato
AvKenneth Royce Moore
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
1 009 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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 of its literary qualities, its influences and the utopian plan that it proposes.
Singular Dedications
Founders and Innovators of Private Cults in Classical Greece
AvAndrea Purvis
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
892 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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 through the financing and administration of cults they established on their own. Singular Dedications is the first comprehensive study of this phenomenon, examining three case studies that represent the diversity and complexity that characterize ancient Greek religion in the Classical period.
Linguistic Commentary on Livius Andronicus
AvIvy Livingston
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
638 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
AvTimothy P. Bridgman
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
904 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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 imply this identification, and provides reasons why some ancient Greek authors identified a mythical people with an actual one. Timothy P. Bridgman demonstrates not only that these authors mythologize history, but that they used the traditional Greek parallel mythical world to interpret history throughout ancient Greek culture, thought and literature.
Aphrodite and Eros
The Development of Erotic Mythology in Early Greek Poetry and Cult
AvBarbara Breitenberger
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
1 009 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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
AvT. D. Hill
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
1 355 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
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, T.D. Hill traces the cultural logic which animated these suicides, describing the meaning and significance of such deaths in their original cultural context. Covering the writing of most major Latin authors between Lucretius and Lucan, this book argues that the significance of the 'noble death' in Roman culture cannot be understood if the phenomenon is viewed in the context of modern ideas of the nature of the self.
Empedocles
An Interpretation
AvSimon Trepanier
Inbunden, Engelska, 2004
2 786 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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
AvAndrea Purvis
Inbunden, Engelska, 2003
2 422 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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 through the financing and administration of cults they established on their own. Singular Dedications is the first comprehensive study of this phenomenon, examining three case studies that represent the diversity and complexity that characterize ancient Greek religion in the Classical period.
Aphrodite and Eros
The Development of Erotic Mythology in Early Greek Poetry and Cult
AvBarbara Breitenberger
Inbunden, Engelska, 2007
2 786 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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
AvIvy Livingston
Inbunden, Engelska, 2004
1 815 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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
AvTimothy P. Bridgman
Inbunden, Engelska, 2005
2 495 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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 imply this identification, and provides reasons why some ancient Greek authors identified a mythical people with an actual one. Timothy P. Bridgman demonstrates not only that these authors mythologize history, but that they used the traditional Greek parallel mythical world to interpret history throughout ancient Greek culture, thought and literature.
Aristoxenus of Tarentum and the Birth of Musicology
AvSophie Gibson
Inbunden, Engelska, 2005
2 647 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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 from Aristotle. This volume studies the theories of Aristoxenus.
Ambitiosa Mors
Suicide and the Self in Roman Thought and Literature
AvT. D. Hill
Inbunden, Engelska, 2004
2 786 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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, T.D. Hill traces the cultural logic which animated these suicides, describing the meaning and significance of such deaths in their original cultural context. Covering the writing of most major Latin authors between Lucretius and Lucan, this book argues that the significance of the 'noble death' in Roman culture cannot be understood if the phenomenon is viewed in the context of modern ideas of the nature of the self.
Nothing Ordinary Here
Statius as Creator of Distinction in the Silvae
AvNoelle K. Zeiner
Inbunden, Engelska, 2005
2 422 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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"
AvLawrence M. Kowerski
Inbunden, Engelska, 2005
2 366 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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 evidence these fragments provide for these compositions, and in doing so, questions the validity of the current interpretation of the "new Simonides."
Augustan Egypt
The Creation of a Roman Province
AvLivia Capponi
Inbunden, Engelska, 2005
2 495 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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
AvKenneth Royce Moore
Inbunden, Engelska, 2005
2 786 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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 of its literary qualities, its influences and the utopian plan that it proposes.
Philodemus on Rhetoric Books 1 and 2
Translation and Exegetical Essays
AvClive Chandler
Inbunden, Engelska, 2005
2 422 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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 founders of the School. In contrast to this, the Epicurean Philodemus, who lived and wrote in Italy in the first century B.C., presents an interesting case. For a substantial portion of his surviving work is preoccupied with investigations into this paideia and with demonstrating how an orthodox Epicurean is to approach them. This book selects one of those investigations, the first two books of Philodemus' On Rhetoric. An annotated translation is provided of the most recent edition of this text (Longo Auricchio 1977) which is followed by a series of essays which aim to clarify Philodemus' conception of, and approach to, the problem of rhetoric for Epicureans, and in particular the way he manages citations from the works of the founders to support his arguments against other Epicureans who take a different view. The book constitutes a very helpful guide to this fragmentary and difficult text.
Consensus, Concordia and the Formation of Roman Imperial Ideology
AvJohn Alexander Lobur
Inbunden, Engelska, 2008
2 495 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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 notions become explicated and reconfigured by the upper and mostly non-political classes of Italy and Rome. The chronic turmoil experienced in the late republic shaped the values and program of the imperial system; it molded the comprehensive and authoritative accounts of Roman tradition and history in a way that allowed the system to appear both traditional and historical. This book also examines how shifts in rhetorical and historiographical practices facilitated the spreading and assimilation of shared ideas that allowed the empire to cohere.
Empedocles Redivivus
Poetry and Analogy in Lucretius
AvMyrto Garani
Inbunden, Engelska, 2007
2 786 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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 that by praising Empedocles’ discoveries, Lucretius points to his predecessor’s epistemological methods of inquiry concerning the unseen, methods upon which he himself draws extensively and creatively enhances. In this way, he successfully penetrates into the invisible natural world, deciphers its secrets, and thus liberates his pupil from superstitious fears about death and physical phenomena. To justify this proposition, Garani undertakes a systematic analysis of Lucretius’ integration of Empedocles’ methods of creating analogies in the form of literary devices -- personifications, similes, and metaphors -- and demonstrates that his intertextual engagement with Empedocles’ philosophical poem is direct and intensive at both the poetic and the philosophical levels.
Philodemus on Rhetoric Books 1 and 2
Translation and Exegetical Essays
AvClive Chandler
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
1 025 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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 founders of the School. In contrast to this, the Epicurean Philodemus, who lived and wrote in Italy in the first century B.C., presents an interesting case. For a substantial portion of his surviving work is preoccupied with investigations into this paideia and with demonstrating how an orthodox Epicurean is to approach them. This book selects one of those investigations, the first two books of Philodemus' On Rhetoric. An annotated translation is provided of the most recent edition of this text (Longo Auricchio 1977) which is followed by a series of essays which aim to clarify Philodemus' conception of, and approach to, the problem of rhetoric for Epicureans, and in particular the way he manages citations from the works of the founders to support his arguments against other Epicureans who take a different view. The book constitutes a very helpful guide to this fragmentary and difficult text.
Rhetoric in Cicero's Pro Balbo
AvKimberly A. Barber
Häftad, Engelska, 2016
266 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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.
Rhetoric in Cicero's Pro Balbo
AvKimberly A. Barber
Inbunden, Engelska, 2004
637 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.

Studies in Classics – serie

Augustan Egypt

Consensus, Concordia and the Formation of Roman Imperial Ideology

Empedocles Redivivus

Empedocles

Simonides on the Persian Wars

Aristoxenus of Tarentum and the Birth of Musicology

Sex and the Second-Best City

Singular Dedications

Linguistic Commentary on Livius Andronicus

Hyperboreans

Aphrodite and Eros

Ambitiosa Mors

Empedocles

Singular Dedications

Aphrodite and Eros

Linguistic Commentary on Livius Andronicus

Hyperboreans

Aristoxenus of Tarentum and the Birth of Musicology

Ambitiosa Mors

Nothing Ordinary Here

Simonides on the Persian Wars

Augustan Egypt

Sex and the Second-Best City

Philodemus on Rhetoric Books 1 and 2

Consensus, Concordia and the Formation of Roman Imperial Ideology

Empedocles Redivivus

Philodemus on Rhetoric Books 1 and 2

Rhetoric in Cicero's Pro Balbo

Rhetoric in Cicero's Pro Balbo