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  • af Thomas Schmidt
    692,95 kr.

    From a workshop held at Universite Laval, Perceptions of the Second Sophistic and its Times brings together fourteen essays and a range of perspectives, including work from scholars in literature, philology, linguistics, history, political science, sociology, and religion.

  • af C J Simpson
    344,95 kr.

    This volume presents one of very few accounts of the household artifacts found at an estate centre remote from urban Rome. It provides an important resource for specialists seeking to date similar objects, and adds much interesting detail to our picture of the rural economy of Italy in late antiquity.

  • af Alison Keith
    1.232,95 kr.

    This collection explores Vergil’s engagement with the genre of elegy across various themes, linguistic traditions, and historical periods.

  • - A Pandialectal Analysis
    af Vit Bubenik
    486,95 kr.

    This volume treats systematically the variation found in the successive stages of the development of all ancient Greek dialects. It combines synchronic approach, in which generative rules expound phonological divergencies between the systems of different dialects, with a diachronic statement of unproductive and mostly pan-Hellenic shifts.

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    980,95 kr.

    Epigraphy and the Greek Historian is a comprehensive examination of epigraphy and a timely resource for students and scholars involved in the study of ancient history.

  • af Thomas Schmidt
    477,95 kr.

    From a workshop held at Université Laval, Perceptions of the Second Sophistic and its Times brings together fourteen essays and a range of perspectives, including work from scholars in literature, philology, linguistics, history, political science, sociology, and religion.

  • - Domestic Politics, Revolutionary Poetics, Civic Spectacle
     
    961,95 kr.

    Drawing on the historicizing turn in Latin literary scholarship, Roman Literary Cultures combines new critical methods with traditional analysis across four hundred years of Latin literature.

  • - The Acropolis Sanctuary
     
    1.218,95 kr.

    The buildings and artifacts uncovered by Canadian excavations at Stymphalos (1994-2001) shed light on the history and cult of a small sanctuary on the acropolis of the ancient city. The thirteen detailed studies collected here illuminate a variety of aspects of the site.

  • - Volume III: The Faunal and Plant Remains
    af Michael MacKinnon
    2.398,95 kr.

    Written with a thoroughness and attention to detail not often seen in zooarchaeological work, this analysis represents an important advance in the study of faunal and botanical data in Roman archaeology in Italy, and will be an invaluable resource for all environmental and classical archaeologists.

  • - Configurations of the Unpossessed Body
     
    723,95 kr.

    This is a study of the positive and negative features of sexual renunciation, from ancient Greek divinities and mythical women, in Rome's Vestal Virgins, in the Christian martyrs and Mariology in the Medieval and early Modern period, and in Grace Marks, the heroine of Margaret Atwood's novel Alias Grace.

  • af Frederick Winter
    1.833,95 kr.

    Studies in Hellenistic Architecture is an invaluable resource, containing a wealth of illustrations of the various types of Hellenistic building and the most comprehensive scholarship to date on the topic.

  • af Michele George
    798,95 kr.

    The contributors engage with questions concerning the slave trade, manumission, slave education, containment and movement, and the use of slaves in the Roman army.

  • - A Study of the Language of Justin's "Epitome" of Trogus
    af J.C. Yardley
    1.036,95 kr.

    Yardley also demonstrates how much Trogus was influenced by his contemporary Livy as well as other Roman authors such as Sallust and Caesar, and how the Epitome reveals the influence of Roman poetry, especially the work of Virgil.

  • - Historical Essays
    af Keith Bradley
    692,95 kr.

    Apuleius and Antonine Rome effectively illustrates how socio-cultural history can be recovered from works of literature.

  • af Jonathan Edmondson
    343,95 kr.

    Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture investigates the social symbolism and cultural poetics of dress in the ancient Roman world in the period from 200 BCE-400 CE.

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    753,95 kr.

    This book investigates the presence of Fides ("good faith") in Flavian literature, exploring its ideological significance in the aftermath of Rome's civil wars (68-69 CE) in a variety of works by prose and verse authors.

  •  
    938,95 kr.

    Unique in both scope and perspective, this volume will prove invaluable to a cross-section of archaeological scholars.

  • af Craig Cooper
    733,95 kr.

    Epigraphy and the Greek Historian is a comprehensive examination of epigraphy and a timely resource for students and scholars involved in the study of ancient history.

  • - Studies in Ptolemaic Propaganda
    af R.A. Hazzard
    853,95 kr.

    Scholars have long known that the Egyptian Ptolemaic monarchy underwent a transformation between 323 and 30 BC, but the details of this change have proven problematic. This book presents a clear argument based on the author's theories.

  • af Donald Lateiner
    499,95 kr.

    The Historical Method of Herodotus illuminates the idiosyncrasies and ambitious nature of a major text in classics and the Western tradition and touches on aspects of historiography, ancient history, rhetoric, and the history of ideas.

  • af Malcolm Wilson
    1.033,95 kr.

    This book presents the first comprehensive treatment of Aristotle's theory of autonomous scientificdisciplines and the systematic connections between them: analogy, focality, and cumulation.

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    531,95 kr.

    This revision of Douglas Thomson's Catullus: A Critical Edition (1978) offers a new text of the poems, with a commentary, a codicology of the manuscript tradition, and a thorough review of Catullus scholarship.

  • - Narratives of Kinship in Flavian Epic
    af Neil Bernstein
    783,95 kr.

    Neil W. Bernstein argues that four Roman epic poems contain depictions of kinship that are significantly different from earlier epic and examines these representations in the context of the social, political, and aesthetic changes of the early Imperial period.

  • af Alison Sharrock
    733,95 kr.

    This book explores motherhood in Greek and Roman literature, focusing on images of mothers and their relationships with their children across a variety of genres.

  • - Volume II: The Small Finds
    af C.J. Simpson
    1.263,95 kr.

    This volume presents one of very few accounts of the household artifacts found at an estate centre remote from urban Rome. It provides an important resource for specialists seeking to date similar objects, and adds much interesting detail to our picture of the rural economy of Italy in late antiquity.

  • af James L Butrica
    548,95 kr.

    The elegist Sextus Propertius (ca 50-ca 16 BC) is generally reckoned among the most difficult of Latin authors. This study, the fullest survey of the manuscripts so far, considers the affiliation of more than 140 complete or partial witnesses and offers a thorough reassessment of the tradition.

  • - Vergil's Underworld and the Poetics of Tradition
     
    896,95 kr.

    Walking through Elysium traces Vergil's influence on literary representations of underworlds, souls, afterlives, prophecies, journeys, and spaces, from sacred and profane to wild and civilized.

  •  
    990,95 kr.

    This book traces the roots of modern notions of celebrity, fame, and infamy back to the Hellenistic period of classical antiquity, when sensational personages like Cleopatra of Egypt and Alexander the Great became famous world-wide.

  • af Sheila Ager
    1.099,95 kr.

    With a range of social, artistic, economic, political, and literary perspectives, the contributors provide a lively exploration of the tensions and opportunities of life in the Hellenistic Mediterranean.