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  • - An English Translation of the "Hamartigenia"
    af Prudentius
    409,95 - 1.797,95 kr.

    The first English translation in more than 40 years of Prudentius's "Hamartigenia," which considers the origin of sin in the universe and its consequences, culminating with a vision of judgment day.

  • - Reading Latin Poetry in Late Antiquity
    af Aaron Pelttari
    362,95 - 639,95 kr.

    Aaron Pelttari offers the first systematic study of fourth-century Roman poets in a quarter century, giving equal attention to both Christian and Pagan poetry while also taking seriously the issue of...

  • - Lived Religion and the Individual in Ancient Rome
    af Jorg Rupke
    376,95 - 653,95 kr.

    Was religious practice in ancient Rome cultic and hostile to individual expression? Or was there, rather, considerable latitude for individual initiative and creativity? Joerg Rupke, one of the world's leading authorities on Roman religion, demonstrates in his new book that it was a lived religion with individual appropriations evident at the...

  • af Erich S. Gruen
    597,95 - 777,95 kr.

    A compelling account of the assimilation and adaptation of Greek culture by the Romans during the middle and later Republic.

  • - A Critical Text with Introduction and Commentary
    af Seneca
    677,95 - 1.212,95 kr.

    John G. Fitch's new Latin text of Seneca's play, Hercules Furens, is based on a collation of the chief manuscripts, including the Paris manuscript T.

  • - Dangerous Ambition and the Betrayal of Athens
    af Jacqueline de Romilly
    294,95 kr.

    This biography of Alcibiades, the charismatic Athenian statesman and general (c. 450-404 BC) who achieved both renown and infamy during the Peloponnesian War, is both an extraordinary adventure story and a cautionary tale that reveals the dangers that political opportunism and demagoguery pose to democracy. As Jacqueline de Romilly brilliantly...

  • af Katherine M. D. Dunbabin
    639,95 kr.

  • - An Essay
    af Pietro Pucci
    785,95 kr.

    In this provocative book, Pietro Pucci explores what he sees as Euripides's revolutionary literary art. While scholars have long pointed to subversive elements in Euripides's plays, Pucci goes a step further in identifying a Euripidean program of enlightened thought enacted through carefully wrought textual strategies.

  • - Rhetoric, Reality, and Religion in the Fourth Century
    af Raffaella Cribiore
    698,95 kr.

    Raffaella Cribiore draws on her unique knowledge of the entire body of Libanius's vast literary output to offer the fullest intellectual portrait yet of this remarkable thinker.

  • - The Origins of the Western Debate
    af Richard Sorabji
    456,95 - 882,95 kr.

  • - An Essay on Greek Tragedy
    af Nicole Loraux
    829,95 kr.

    Loraux presents a radical challenge to what has become the dominant view of tragedy in recent years: that tragedy is primarily a civic phenomenon.

  • af Friedrich Solmsen
    587,95 kr.

    This book, first published in 1949, has long been recognized as the standard work on Hesiod's influence on other Athenian poets, particularly Aeschylus.

  • af G. M. Kirkwood
    386,95 kr.

    This book shows how Sophocles' method of presenting character, his unique handling of myth, his predilection for presenting ideas by comparison and contrast, and his principles of structure are so closely related that they serve to clarify each other.

  • af Eric Rebillard
    409,95 - 852,95 kr.

    In this provocative book Eric Rebillard challenges many long-held assumptions about early Christian burial customs. For decades scholars of early Christianity have argued that the Church owned and operated burial grounds for Christians as early as the...

  • af Jacqueline de Romilly
    312,95 - 1.432,95 kr.

    First published in France in 1956 and now available in English for the first time, this narratological analysis of Thucydides's "History of the Peloponnesian War" highlights the power and sophistication of the Greek historian's rhetoric.

  • af Timothy D. Barnes
    1.148,95 kr.

    Barnes explores the historian's biases and personal prejudices, documenting seemingly intentional distortions and demonstrating that Ammianus advanced a pessimistic and anti-Christian interpretation of the Roman Empire.

  • af Julia Annas
    428,95 - 882,95 kr.

    Julia Annas here offers a fundamental reexamination of Plato's ethical thought by investigating the Middle Platonist perspective, which emerged at the end of Plato's own school, the Academy.

  • af Robert Parker
    451,95 - 1.443,95 kr.

    A provocative and wide-ranging entree into the world of ancient Greek religion.

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