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Odes
Av Horace
Häftad, 2014
169 kr
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The Odes of Horace are a treasure of Western civilization, and this new English translation is a lively rendition by one of the prominent poet-translators of our own time, David R. Slavitt. Horace was one of the great poets of Rome’s Augustan age, benefiting (as did fellow poet Vergil) from the …
Oresteia
Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, and the Holy Goddesses
Av Aeschylus
Inbunden, 2018
522 kr
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First presented in the spring of 458 B.C.E. at the festival of Dionysus in Athens, Aeschylus' trilogy Oresteia won the first prize. Comprised of three plays—Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, and The Furies—it is the only surviving example of the ancient trilogy form for Greek tragedies.This drama of the …
Euripides and the Tragic Tradition
Häftad, 2006
446 kr
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'The most extensive scholarship to appear on this Greek dramatist in many years, Michelini's work will be important to specialists and students of classical literature, literary theory, and both English and comparative literature.' - Modern Greek Studies
Hellenistic Sculpture V. 1; Styles of Ca. 331-200 B.C.
Häftad, 2001
283 kr
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This text questions the Hellenistic dating of many famous monuements, based on careful examination of the evidence.
Kallimachos
The Alexandrian Library and the Origins of Bibliography
Av Rudolf Blum
Häftad, 2011
382 kr
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The famous library of Alexandria, founded around 295 BCE by Ptolemaios I, housed the greatest collection of texts in the ancient world and was a fertile site of Hellenistic scholarship. Rudolf Blum's landmark study, originally published in German in 1977, argues that Kallimachos of Kyrene was not …
Archaic Greek Poetry
Häftad, 1992
316 kr
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With this anthology, Barbara Hughes Fowler presents a comprehensive selection of Greek poetry of the 7th and 6th centuries BC. Fowler's translations provide access to six Homeric hymns, eight selections from Bakchylides, 11 odes of Pindar, selections from the iambicists and elegists, virtually all …
Game of Death in Ancient Rome
Arena Sport and Political Suicide
Av Paul Plass
Häftad, 1998
211 kr
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Offering a reminder of the complex uses to which institutionalized violence can be put, this study shows how the deadly violence of arena sport and political suicide served a social purpose in ancient Rome.
Flinders Petrie
A Life in Archaeology
Häftad, 1995
412 kr
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Flinders Petrie has been called the ""Father of Modern Egyptology"" - and indeed he is one of the pioneers of modern archeological methods. Here Margaret S. Drower, a student of Petrie's in the early 1930s, traces his life from his boyhood, when he was already a budding scholar, through his …
Worshipping Athena
Panathenaia and Parthenon
Häftad, 1996
275 kr
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The foremost religious festival of ancient Athens—the city dedicated to Athena, goddess of war, fertility, arts, and wisdom—was the Panathenaia. Challenging old assumptions and refuting new theories, Worshipping Athena addresses the many problems of interpretation and understanding that have …
Fourth-Century Styles in Greek Sculpture
Av Brunilde S. Ridgway, Peter Grandbois
Inbunden, 1997
530 kr
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Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway, one of the world’s leading experts on classical sculpture, turns her attention in this volume to the fourth century, a period of transition from the classical Athenian style to an array of styles found simultaneously in the Hellenistic diaspora. Though a period very rich …
Hellenistic Sculpture II
The Styles of Ca. 200-100 B.C.
Häftad, 2008
341 kr
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Employing the same methodology she has used in her previous studies of Greek sculpture, Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway critically scrutinizes most of the best-known pieces of Greek sculpture to determine what can be securely considered to have been produced during 200-100 B.C. Arguing that …
Grafting Helen
The Abduction of the Classical Past
Av University of Wisconsin Press
Häftad, 2001
281 kr
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Classicism = cultural embezziement? History is a love story: a tale of desire and jealousy, abandonment and fidelity, abduction and theft, rupture and reconciliation. This contention is central is central to Grafting Helen, Matthew Gumpert's original and dazzling meditation on Helen of Troy as a …
Personal Styles in Early Cycladic Sculpture
Häftad, 2013
399 kr
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Pat Getz-Gentle provides a clear and detailed survey of the Cycladic period, an early Bronze Age culture that thrived at the heart of the Aegean. In particular, she emphasises the steps leading to the iconic, reclining folded-arm figure that uniquely defines the Cycladic era. Getz-Gentle also …
Iconography of Sculptured Statue Bases in the Archaic and Classical Periods
Inbunden, 2003
588 kr
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This is a comprehensive collection of material on sculptured statue bases which should be of interest to archaeologists, historians of art and of religion, and scholars of ancient culture (including athletics and gender studies).
Complete Poetry of Catullus
Häftad, 2002
251 kr
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In these translated poems, David Mulroy aims to bring to life the witty, poignant and brutally direct voice of a flesh-and-blood man, a young provincial in Julius Caesar's Rome, reacting to real people and events in a city full of violent conflict among individuals marked by genius and …
Mail and Female
Epistolary Narrative and Desire in Ovid's Heroides
Häftad, 2003
381 kr
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In the ""Heroides"" the Roman poet Ovid wittily plucks 15 abandoned heriones from ancient myth and literature and creates the fiction that each woman writes a letter to the hero who left her behind. But in giving voice to these heroines, is Ovid writing like a woman, or writing ""Woman"" like a …
Modes of Viewing in Hellenistic Poetry and Art
Av Graham Zanker, Patricia A. Rosenmeyer
Inbunden, 2003
527 kr
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Taking a fresh look at the poetry and visual art of the Hellenistic age, from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC to 20 BC, Graham Zanker makes enlightening discoveries about the assumptions and conventions of Hellenistic poets and artists and their audiences. Zanker offers exciting new …
Modes of Viewing in Hellenistic Poetry and Art
Häftad, 2007
332 kr
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Taking a fresh look at the poetry and visual art of the Hellenistic age, from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C. to the Romans' defeat of Cleopatra in 30 B.C., Graham Zanker makes enlightening discoveries about the assumptions and conventions of Hellenistic poets and artists and their …
Symposion of Praise
Horace Returns to Lyric in Odes IV
Av Timothy Johnson, Patricia A. Rosenmeyer
Häftad, 2007
381 kr
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Horace's later lyric poetry, ""Odes IV"", which focuses on praising Augustus, the imperial family, and other political insiders, has often been treated more as propaganda than art. But, the author, here, examines the richly textured ambiguities of ""Odes IV"".
Religion in Ancient Etruria
Av Jean-Rene Jannot, Patricia A. Rosenmeyer
Häftad, 2005
331 kr
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This lively translation of Devins, Dieux et Demons is the first English-language edition of Jean-Rene Jannot's highly informative examination of Etruscan religion. Jannot tackles this elusive subject within three major constructs - death, ritual, and the nature of the gods - and presents recent …
Satire and the Threat of Speech in Horace's "Satires" Bk. 1
Av Catherine Schlegel, Patricia A. Rosenmeyer
Inbunden, 2006
462 kr
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In his first book of Satires, written in the late, violent days of the Roman republic, Horace exposed satiric speech as a tool of power and domination. Using critical theories from classics, speech act analysis, and other fields, Catherine Schlegel argues that Horace's acute poetic observation of …
Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World
Av Christopher A. Faraone, Laura McClure
Häftad, 2006
283 kr
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Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World explores the implications of sex-for-pay across a broad span of time, from ancient Mesopotamia to the early Christian period. In ancient times, although they were socially marginal, prostitutes connected with almost every aspect of daily life. They …
Asinaria
The One About the Asses
Av University of Wisconsin Press
Häftad, 2006
251 kr
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Asses, asses, and more asses! This new edition of Plautus' rumbustious comedy provides the complete original Latin text, witty scholarly commentary, and an English translation that both complements and explicates Plautus' original style. John Henderson reveals this play as a key to Roman social …
Ulysses in Black
Ralph Ellison, Classicism, and African American Literature
Häftad, 2008
316 kr
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Ulysses in Black demonstrates that, similar to their white counterparts, African American authors - including Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, and Countee Cullen - have been students of classical languages, literature, and mythologies by such writers as Homer, Euripides, and Seneca. Ultimately, this …
Pandora's Senses
Häftad, 2010
381 kr
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The notorious image of Pandora haunts mythology: a woman created as punishment for the crimes of man, she is the bearer of hope yet also responsible for the Earth’s desolation. She binds together perpetuating dichotomies that underlie the most fundamental aspects of the Western canon: beauty and …
New Perspectives on Etruria and Early Rome
Inbunden, 2009
639 kr
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This title provides a panoramic view of ancient cultures in Italy. This impressive collection brings to light the works of international scholars, some previously unavailable to an English-language audience. With new information and assessments about the art, architecture, and archaeology of one of …
Image of the Poet in Ovid's Metamorphoses
Inbunden, 2009
713 kr
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Barbara Pavlock unmasks major figures in Ovid's ""Metamorphoses"" as surrogates for his narrative persona, highlighting the conflicted revisionist nature of the ""Metamorphoses"". Although Ovid ostensibly validates traditional customs and institutions, instability is in fact a defining feature of …
Responses to Oliver Stone's ""Alexander
Film, History, and Cultural Studies
Av Paul Cartledge, Fiona Rose Greenland
Häftad, 2010
289 kr
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The charismatic Alexander the Great of Macedon (356-323 B.C.E.) was one of the most successful military commanders in history, conquering Asia Minor, Egypt, Persia, central Asia, and the lands beyond as far as Pakistan and India. Alexander has been, over the course of two millennia since his death …
Greek Prostitutes in the Ancient Mediterranean, 800 BCE-200 CE
Av Allison Glazebrook, Madeleine M. Henry
Häftad, 2011
281 kr
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Greek Prostitutes in the Ancient Mediterranean, 800 BCE–200 CE challenges the often-romanticised view of the prostitute as an urbane and liberated courtesan by examining the social and economic realities of the sex industry in Greco-Roman culture. Departing from the conventional focus on elite …
