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The Greco-Roman East
Politics, Culture, Society
Häftad, 2007
921 kr
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This collection of papers illustrates how our picture of the Greco-Roman East has changed in recent decades. The chapters, by a distinguished international cast of contributors, present a view of life in the Eastern Empire from the bottom up, and show how a thoughtful use of both more recent and …
Ancient Anger
Perspectives from Homer to Galen
Av Susanna Braund, Glenn W. Most
Häftad, 2007
654 kr
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Anger is found everywhere in the ancient world, starting with the very first word of the Iliad and continuing through all literary genres and every aspect of public and private life. Yet it is only recently, as a variety of disciplines start to devote attention to the history and nature of the …
Papyrology
Av Naphtali Lewis, Naphtali Lewis
Häftad, 2009
654 kr
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Yale Classical Studies volume XXVIII is devoted to papyrology, which celebrated its centenary as a branch of classical studies in the eighties. The volume embraces all the principal facets of papyrological study: editions and re-editions of texts and papers - ranging from brief pieces to …
Beginnings in Classical Literature
Av Francis M. Dunn, Thomas Cole
Häftad, 2009
692 kr
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The ways in which literary works begin have proved fascinating to readers and critics at least since Aristophanes. This collection of essays gives life to a topic of perennial interest by presenting a variety of original readings in nearly all the major genres of Greek and Latin literature. The …
Studies in Latin Poetry
Av Christopher M. Dawson, Thomas Cole
Häftad, 2009
622 kr
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This volumes begins with a long essay on the nature and structure of Saturnian verse. This is followed by two studies of Plautus (the Menaechmi seen as a comedy of errors and the prologue of the Poenulus as an editor's conflation of several scripts). There is an essay on nine graffito epigrams from …
Greek Tragedy
Av T. F. Gould, C. J. Herington
Häftad, 2009
670 kr
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The essays in volume 25 of Yale Classical Studies were specially commissioned by the editors to provide a cross-section of contemporary approaches to the interpretation of Greek tragedy. All three Attic dramatists receive attention, some essays being studies of a play as a whole, others …
Studies in Latin Language and Literature
Häftad, 2009
622 kr
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This book covers a wide range of subjects from Latin literature and language to textual history and criticism. E. D. Francis gives a history of the words prae and pro, as adverb, preposition and prefix. H. D. Jocelyn surveys the distribution and differing uses of quotations from Greek poetry in …
Aristophanes: Essays in Interpretation
Häftad, 2009
654 kr
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Aristophanes, one of the greatest and most important poets of the golden age of classical Greek literature, has remained, in the English-speaking world at least, one of the most forbidding, because least well understood. This is a collection of critical and interpretative essays in English devoted …
Studies in the Greek Historians
Av Donald Kagan
Häftad, 2009
640 kr
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The historians considered in this volume lived between the fifth century BC and the third century AD. They came from areas as far apart as Syria and Sicily and they had in common the Greek language and the Greek tradition of historical writing. They include authors who, though not strictly …
Studies in Fifth Century Thought and Literature
Av Adam Parry
Häftad, 2009
654 kr
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This volume covers a wide range of topics in Athenian intellectual history, drawing on the methods of various other disciplines to provoke a reconsideration of outstanding problems and controversies in classical studies. The papers have been organised by the editor around three natural groupings. …
Later Greek Literature
Av John J. Winkler, Gordon Williams
Häftad, 2010
767 kr
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Under the Roman Empire Greek literature experienced a renaissance. This flowering of interest in the Classics was in part a revival of the traditional culture associated with the glorious past and in part a development of new forms such as the novel, the classical lecture and the erotic letter. …
Religion in Republican Italy
Av Celia E. Schultz, Paul B. Harvey
Häftad, 2010
687 kr
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This book explores how recent findings and research provide a richer understanding of religious activities in Republican Rome and contemporary central Italic societies, including the Etruscans, during the period of the Middle and Late Republic. While much recent research has focused on the …
The Emperor and Rome
Space, Representation, and Ritual
Av Björn C. Ewald, Carlos F. Noreña
Inbunden, 2010
1928 kr
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The transition from republic to monarchy with the accession of Augustus heralded the transformation not just of the Roman political system but of the city of Rome itself. This volume, written by some of the foremost scholars from around the world, addresses three main topics: the impact of imperial …
Personal Styles in Greek Sculpture
Av Olga Palagia, J. J. Pollitt
Häftad, 1999
754 kr
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The aim of this 1996 book is to identify and evaluate the distinctive styles of five important ancient Greek sculptors whose work is discussed by ancient writers. Its underlying assumption is that the history of Greek sculpture was not simply governed by impersonal, evolutionary forces but that, …
Reception and the Classics
An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Classical Tradition
Av William Brockliss, Pramit Chaudhuri m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
1778 kr
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This collection brings together leading experts in a number of fields of the humanities to offer a new perspective on the classical tradition. Drawing on reception studies, philology and early modern studies, the essays explore the interaction between literary criticism and the multiple cultural …
Ancient Anger
Perspectives from Homer to Galen
Av Susanna Braund, Glenn W. Most
Inbunden, 2004
1891 kr
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Anger is found everywhere in the ancient world, starting with the very first word of the Iliad and continuing through all literary genres and every aspect of public and private life. Yet it is only recently, as a variety of disciplines start to devote attention to the history and nature of the …
The Greco-Roman East
Politics, Culture, Society
Inbunden, 2004
2029 kr
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This collection of papers illustrates how our picture of the Greco-Roman East has changed in recent decades. The chapters, by a distinguished international cast of contributors, present a view of life in the Eastern Empire from the bottom up, and show how a thoughtful use of both more recent and …
Religion in Republican Italy
Av Celia E. Schultz, Paul B. Harvey
Inbunden, 2006
1610 kr
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This book explores how recent findings and research provide a richer understanding of religious activities in Republican Rome and contemporary central Italic societies, including the Etruscans, during the period of the Middle and Late Republic. While much recent research has focused on the …
From the Tetrarchs to the Theodosians
Later Roman History and Culture, 284-450 CE
Av Scott McGill, Cristiana Sogno m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
1894 kr
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An integrated collection of essays examining the politics, social networks, law, historiography, and literature of the later Roman world. The volume treats three central themes: the first section looks at political and social developments across the period and argues that, in spite of the stress …
Relief in Greek, Roman, and Late Antique Art
Av Jas' Elsner, Milette Gaifman m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
1576 kr
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The artistic category of relief has long dominated scholarly discussions of ancient Greco-Roman art for good reason: images in relief pervaded ancient visual culture from the rise of the Greek city-state through to the Christian era. They are witnessed in public and private contexts; terracotta, …
Learning Latin and Greek from Antiquity to the Present
Av Elizabeth P. Archibald, William Brockliss m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
1565 kr
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This volume provides a unique overview of the broad historical, geographical and social range of Latin and Greek as second languages. It elucidates the techniques of Latin and Greek instruction across time and place, and the contrasting socio-political circumstances that contributed to and resulted …
Religion, Society and Culture at Dura-Europos
Av Ted Kaizer
Inbunden, 2016
1677 kr
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This volume advances our understanding of the religion, society and culture of Dura-Europos, the small town on the Euphrates known since the 1930s as the 'Pompeii of the Syrian desert'. Several features make the site potentially our best source for day-to-day life in a small town situated on the …
The Emperor and Rome
Space, Representation, and Ritual
Av Björn C. Ewald, Carlos F. Noreña
Häftad, 2015
687 kr
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The transition from republic to monarchy with the accession of Augustus heralded the transformation not just of the Roman political system but of the city of Rome itself. This volume, written by some of the foremost scholars from around the world, addresses three main topics: the impact of imperial …
Religion, Society and Culture at Dura-Europos
Av Ted Kaizer
Häftad, 2021
574 kr
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This volume advances our understanding of the religion, society and culture of Dura-Europos, the small town on the Euphrates known since the 1930s as the 'Pompeii of the Syrian desert'. Several features make the site potentially our best source for day-to-day life in a small town situated on the …
The Epic Journey in Greek and Roman Literature
Inbunden, 2019
1778 kr
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This volume explores journeys across time and space in Greek and Latin literature, taking as its starting point the paradigm of travel offered by the epic genre. The epic journey is central to the dynamics of classical literature, offering a powerful lens through which characters, authors, and …
Reception and the Classics
An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Classical Tradition
Av William Brockliss, Pramit Chaudhuri m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
654 kr
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This collection brings together leading experts in a number of fields of the humanities to offer a new perspective on the classical tradition. Drawing on reception studies, philology and early modern studies, the essays explore the interaction between literary criticism and the multiple cultural …
