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  • af Maria (Independent scholar) Mili
    1.534,95 kr.

    Religion and Society in Ancient Thessaly explores the issues of regionalism in ancient Greek religion and the relationship between religion and society, investigating the Thessalian particularities of the evidence and the role of religion in giving Thessalonians a sense of their identity and place in the wider Greek world.

  • - Exile, the Polis, and Political Thought, c. 404-146 BC
    af Benjamin (Chancellor's Fellow in Classics Gray
    1.370,95 kr.

    This volume offers a history of the role of exile in the Greek city-state in the period c. 404-146 BC, from the end of the Peloponnesian War to the Roman conquest of the Greek world.

  • - Interpretation and Belief in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Germany and Britain
    af Michael D. (Academic Visitor Konaris
    1.893,95 kr.

    The Greek Gods in Modern Scholarship examines major theories of interpretation of the Greek gods in German and British classical scholarship during the nineteenth and early twentieth century and their significance and influence.

  • - The Men who would be King
    af Boris (Assistant Professor of Historical Studies and Classics Chrubasik
    1.632,95 kr.

    This volume focuses on ideas of kingship and power in the Seleukid empire, specifically the role of usurpers. Redefining the king as only one of several political players, it advances a political history predicated on social power and argues that despite its strong rulers the empire was structurally weak and the position of its kings precarious.

  • - A Linguistic Approach
    af Alessandro (Research Assistant in Comparative Philology and Junior Research Fellow Vatri
    1.623,95 kr.

    This study discusses whether there is a linguistic difference between classical Attic prose texts intended for public oral delivery and those intended for written circulation and private performance, establishing a rigorous methodology for the reconstruction of the native perception of clarity in the original contexts of textual reception.

  • - Republic to Principate
    af Hannah (Lecturer in Ancient History and Leverhulme Early Career Fellow Cornwell
    1.364,95 kr.

    The concept of Roman peace (pax) did not just denote the absence of war but formed part of a much greater discourse on how Rome conceptualized herself. This volume explores its changing meaning from Republic to Principate, arguing that it is fundamental to understanding the shifting balance of power and the creation of the Roman Empire.

  • - Two Contemporary Accounts of the Final Years of the Roman Empire
    af Hydatius
    1.534,95 kr.

    New critical editions, with detailed introductions, appendices, and English translations of two important historical sources for late antiquity.

  • af Daniel (Leventis Lecturer in the Impact of Greek Culture King
    1.408,95 kr.

    Traditional accounts of ancient pain tend to focus either on philosophical or medical theories of pain or on Christian notions of suffering: this volume moves beyond these approaches to argue that pain in Imperial Greek culture was not a narrow physiological perception but must be understood within its broad personal, social, and emotional context.

  • - Edited with an Introduction and Commentary
    af Stephanie (Tytus Fellow Roussou
    1.858,95 kr.

    The epitome misattributed to Arcadius is one of the two main sources for Herodian's highly influential lost work on ancient Greek grammar and prosody, De Prosodia Catholica. This new critical edition contains an extensive introduction, critical apparatus, apparatus of parallel passages, and the first full commentary on the text.

  • af Kelly E. (Assistant Professor of Classics Shannon-Henderson
    1.752,95 kr.

    This first book-length treatment of religion in Tacitus' Annals analyzes his numerous references to religious material through the lens of cultural memory theory, revealing them as a key vehicle for his assessment of the principate as a system of government, the activities of individual emperors, and their impact on Roman cultural identity.

  • - Freedom and Control
    af Lindsay G. (Assistant Professor in Latin and Roman Social/Religious History Driediger-Murphy
    1.468,95 kr.

    Scholarship on Roman Republican augury has previously tended towards the view that official divination was organized to tell its users what they wanted to hear. This volume argues instead that its rules did not allow humans simply to create or ignore signs at will: when human and divine will clashed it was the latter which was supposed to prevail.

  • - Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary
    af Matthew (Junior Research Fellow Hosty
    1.365,95 kr.

    This new critical edition of the Batrachomyomachia (Battle of the Frogs and Mice) seeks to return the poem to the centre of scholarly attention, presenting a new Greek text alongside an English verse translation, along with a comprehensive introduction and a line-by-line commentary dealing with linguistic, stylistic, and thematic questions.

  • af Felix J. (Research Assistant in the Department of Classics Meister
    1.056,95 kr.

    Surveying a large body of Greek (and occasionally Roman) literature, as well as material remains, this volume offers the first systematic study of a central motif in the praise of humans in antiquity, and explores when, how, why, and to what effect humans are compared to gods in the poetry of archaic and classical Greece.

  • - Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens
    af Guy (Departmental Lecturer in Greek Literature Westwood
    1.615,95 kr.

    Offering an incisive analysis of all surviving public speeches of contemporaries and bitter rivals Demosthenes and Aeschines, this volume examines how democratic politicians in classical Athens created versions of the city's past to persuade mass decision-making audiences, cement their own authority, and compete for public endorsement.

  • - Style, Genre, and Literary Technique
    af Deborah Levine (Lecturer in Classics Gera
    3.008,95 kr.

    A study of the "Cyropaedia", an historical novel by the Greek writer Xenophon, based on the life of the Persian King Cyrus the Great. This book looks at the various genres in the work and combines discussion of Xenophon's predecessors and contemporaries with a commentary on selected passages.

  • af Daniel (Lecturer in Ancient Greek and Latin Languages and Literature Jolowicz
    1.434,95 kr.

    Latin Poetry in the Ancient Greek Novels establishes and explores connections between Greek imperial literature and Latin poetry. The work offers the first book-length study of the role of Latin literature in Greek literary culture, and provides fresh perspectives and new approaches to the literature and culture of this period.

  • - Critical Edition, Translation, and Commentary
     
    1.305,95 kr.

    This volume provides the first English translation of Consentius's Ars de barbarismis et metaplasmis, the most extensive ancient treatise on deviations from 'standard' Latin, both errors (barbarisms) and poetic licenses (metaplasms). Mari prvides a new critical edition, drawing on new evidence on its textual transmission.

  • - The Myth in Archaic and Classical Greece
    af Sophie Marianne (Brasenose College Bocksberger
    1.170,95 kr.

    Telamonian Ajax provides a complete overview of the development of Telamonian Ajax's myth in archaic and classical Greece. Bocksberger's study focuses on the Panhellenic figure of Ajax in early Greek hexameter poetry and archaic art, in the art of archaic and classical Aegina, and in the art of archaic and classical Athens.

  • af Mario C. D. ( Paganini
    1.429,95 kr.

    This book provides the first complete study of the documentation relevant to the gymnasium and gymnasial life in Egypt in the period 323-30 BC. Paganini analyses the role of the gymnasium in Ptolemaic Egypt and how it related to Greek identity in the region.