The W. B. Stanford Memorial Lectures – serie
Visar alla böcker i serien The W. B. Stanford Memorial Lectures. Handla med fri frakt och snabb leverans.
14 produkter
Plato and his Predecessors
The Dramatisation of Reason
Häftad, 2007
716 kr
Lägg i varukorg
How does Plato view his philosophical antecedents? Plato and his Predecessors considers how Plato represents his philosophical predecessors in a late quartet of dialogues: the Theaetetus, the Sophist, the Politicus and the Philebus. Why is it that the sophist Protagoras, or the monist Parmenides, …
The Roman Clan
The Gens from Ancient Ideology to Modern Anthropology
Av C. J. Smith
Häftad, 2008
796 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The gens, a key social formation in archaic Rome, has given rise to considerable interpretative problems for modern scholarship. In this comprehensive exploration of the subject, Professor Smith examines the mismatch between the ancient evidence and modern interpretative models influenced by social …
Foucault's Virginity
Ancient Erotic Fiction and the History of Sexuality
Häftad, 1995
842 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The sexy, witty and often bizarre novels, poetry and dialogues of the first centuries of this era (works such as Longus' Daphnis and Chloe, Achilles Tatius' Leukippe and Cleitophon and Plutarch's Amatorius) were being composed at the same time as fundamental ideas about the body, gender and …
Ideas of Slavery from Aristotle to Augustine
Häftad, 1996
699 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This study, unique of its kind, asks how slavery was viewed by the leading spokesmen of Greece and Rome. There was no movement for abolition in these societies, nor a vigorous debate, such as occurred in antebellum America, but this does not imply that slavery was accepted without question. Dr …
Plato and his Predecessors
The Dramatisation of Reason
Inbunden, 2000
1593 kr
Lägg i varukorg
How does Plato view his philosophical antecedents? Plato and his Predecessors considers how Plato represents his philosophical predecessors in a late quartet of dialogues: the Theaetetus, the Sophist, the Politicus and the Philebus. Why is it that the sophist Protagoras, or the monist Parmenides, …
Reading Roman Comedy
Poetics and Playfulness in Plautus and Terence
Inbunden, 2009
1022 kr
Lägg i varukorg
For many years the domain of specialists in early Latin, in complex metres, and in the reconstruction of texts, Roman comedy is now established in the mainstream of Classical literary criticism. Where most books stress the original performance as the primary location for the encountering of the …
Archaeologies of the Greek Past
Landscape, Monuments, and Memories
Inbunden, 2002
1610 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Social memory - the shared remembrances of group experience - creates shared identity, and provides people with both an image of their past and a design for their future. But how are we to conceive the memories of past peoples such as, for example, the ancient Greeks? This 2002 book makes a strong …
The Roman Clan
The Gens from Ancient Ideology to Modern Anthropology
Av C. J. Smith
Inbunden, 2006
1872 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The gens, a key social formation in archaic Rome, has given rise to considerable interpretative problems for modern scholarship. In this comprehensive exploration of the subject, Professor Smith examines the mismatch between the ancient evidence and modern interpretative models influenced by social …
Archaeologies of the Greek Past
Landscape, Monuments, and Memories
Häftad, 2002
737 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Social memory - the shared remembrances of group experience - creates shared identity, and provides people with both an image of their past and a design for their future. But how are we to conceive the memories of past peoples such as, for example, the ancient Greeks? This 2002 book makes a strong …
Greece and Mesopotamia
Dialogues in Literature
Inbunden, 2013
1872 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book proposes a new approach to the study of ancient Greek and Mesopotamian literature. Ranging from Homer and Gilgamesh to Herodotus and the Babylonian-Greek author Berossos, it paints a picture of two literary cultures that, over the course of time, became profoundly entwined. Along the way, …
The Closure of Space in Roman Poetics
Empire's Inward Turn
Inbunden, 2015
1312 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This ambitious book investigates a major yet underexplored nexus of themes in Roman cultural history: the evolving tropes of enclosure, retreat and compressed space within an expanding, potentially borderless empire. In Roman writers' exploration of real and symbolic enclosures - caves, corners, …
Reading Roman Comedy
Poetics and Playfulness in Plautus and Terence
Häftad, 2012
738 kr
Lägg i varukorg
For many years the domain of specialists in early Latin, in complex metres, and in the reconstruction of texts, Roman comedy is now established in the mainstream of Classical literary criticism. Where most books stress the original performance as the primary location for the encountering of the …
The Closure of Space in Roman Poetics
Empire's Inward Turn
Häftad, 2018
672 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This ambitious book investigates a major yet underexplored nexus of themes in Roman cultural history: the evolving tropes of enclosure, retreat and compressed space within an expanding, potentially borderless empire. In Roman writers' exploration of real and symbolic enclosures - caves, corners, …
Greece and Mesopotamia
Dialogues in Literature
Häftad, 2020
654 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book proposes a new approach to the study of ancient Greek and Mesopotamian literature. Ranging from Homer and Gilgamesh to Herodotus and the Babylonian-Greek author Berossos, it paints a picture of two literary cultures that, over the course of time, became profoundly entwined. Along the way, …
