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  • - Rome in the Fourth Century
    af John Curran
    741,95 - 2.799,95 kr.

    This book is a study of the transformation of the landscape, civic life, and moral values of the pagan city of Rome following the conversion of the emperor Constantine in the early fourth century. It examines the effects of the rise of Christianity and the decline of paganism in the later Roman empire.

  • af Mario C. D. ( Paganini
    1.345,95 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.

  • af C.E.W. ( Steel
    2.419,95 kr.

    This study of Cicero's political oratory and Roman imperialism in the late Republic offers new readings of neglected speeches. C.E.W. Steel examines the role and capacities of political oratory and puts Cicero's attitude to empire, with its limitations and weaknesses, in the context of wider debates among his contemporaries on the problems of empire.

  • - A Commentary on De rerum natura Book 5 Lines 772-1104
    af Gordon ( Campbell
    3.084,95 kr.

    Lucretius' account of the origin of life, the origin of species, and human prehistory (first century BC) is the longest and most detailed account extant from the ancient world. This commentary seeks to locate Lucretius in both the ancient and modern contexts.

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    3.007,95 kr.

    This edition of Book 5 of Statius' Silvae includes an introduction, translation, and full literary and cultural commentary, enabling readers to engage with the work of this learned and increasingly popular poet.

  • - Moral Inheritance and Decision Making in Greek Tragedy
    af N.J. Sewell-Rutter
    479,95 - 1.827,95 kr.

    Blighted and accursed families are an inescapable feature of Greek tragedy. N.J. Sewell-Rutter gives the familiar issues of inherited guilt, curses, and divine causation a fresh appraisal, with particular reference to Aeschylus' Seven against Thebes and the Phoenician Women of Euripides. All Greek quotations are translated.

  • af Peter (Lecturer in Ancient History Liddel
    2.938,95 kr.

    A fresh approach to the old problem of the nature of individual liberty in ancient Athens. Using modern political theory as a springboard, Peter Liddel argues that the ancient Athenians held liberty to consist of the substantial obligations (political, financial, and military) of citizenship.

  • - The Metamorphoses of Apuleius from Antiquity to the Renaissance
    af Robert H. F. (Lecturer in Renaissance Literature Carver
    1.925,95 kr.

    A full account of the reception of the second-century prose fiction The Golden Ass (or Metamorphoses) of Apuleius, which has intrigued readers as diverse as St Augustine, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton. Robert H. F. Carver traces readers' responses to the novel from the third to the seventeenth centuries.

  • - Politics, Performance, Poetic Tradition
    af David (P. S. Allen Junior Research Fellow in Classics Fearn
    1.937,95 kr.

    An original and wide-ranging study of the Greek lyric poet Bacchylides, exploring his engagement with poetic tradition and evaluating the complex relationship of the poetry to its multiple contexts of performance.

  • - Archaic Forms in Plautus, Terence, and Beyond
    af Wolfgang David Cirilo ( de Melo
    1.940,95 kr.

    The first comprehensive treatment of Latin extra-paradigmatic verb forms, that is, verb forms which cannot easily be assigned to any particular tense in the Latin verbal system.

  • - Insularity, Networks, the Athenian Empire, and the Aegean World
    af Christy Constantakopoulou
    632,95 - 1.034,95 kr.

    A study of the history of the Aegean islands and changing concepts of insularity, with particular emphasis on the fifth century BC. Island connectivity was expressed on many levels - Constantakopoulou investigates island interaction in the areas of religion and imperial politics in particular.

  • - Speech Presentation and Latin Literature
    af Andrew (Lecturer in Classics Laird
    965,95 kr.

    Can a speaker's words ever be faithfully reported? This discussion of Latin literature offers an original contribution to current debates about discourse and representation. Ancient texts are discussed in conjunction with examples from modern literature to highlight what happens when speech itself becomes the subject of a story.

  • - A Commentary on Jerome Letter 60
    af J. H. D. (Professor and Head of the Department of Classics Scourfield
    3.111,95 kr.

    How did early Christians give comfort to the bereaved? This examination of one of the most important early Christian letters of consolation shows how Christian consolers adopted many of the approaches used by their pagan predecessors. The book includes both a text and translation of the letter.

  • - Reasoning Madness
    af Kathleen (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow Riley
    1.688,95 kr.

    A study of the reception of Euripides' tragedy The Madness of Herakles from late antiquity to the present day. Kathleen Riley examines changing ideas of Heraklean madness and, consequently, of the Heraklean hero.

  • - Christian Promotion and Practice 313-450
    af Richard (Regent of Studies Finn OP
    2.522,95 kr.

    Talks about the importance of gifts to the poor for Christians in the later Roman empire. This title is about what was given, how it was given, who was helped, and how preachers sought to shape these practices.

  • af C. A. J. ( Littlewood
    2.938,95 kr.

    Seneca the Younger's tragedies are adaptations from the Greek. C. A. J. Littlewood emphasizes the place of these plays in the Latin literature and in the philosophical context of the reign of the emperor Nero.

  • - Gold, Labour, and Aristocratic Dominance
    af Jairus (Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study Banaji
    1.094,95 kr.

    In a critique of Max Weber's influential ideas about the Mediterranean region in late antiquity, Jairus Banaji shows that the fourth to seventh centuries were in fact a period of major social and economic change, bound up with an expanding circulation of gold.

  • af P. M. C. Forbes Irving
    913,95 kr.

    The transformation of human beings into animals, plants and stones is one of the most characteristic themes of Greek mythology. This study argues that attempts to explain away these myths as relics of long-forgotten rituals ignores their most interesting trait - their appeal as stories.

  • - The Regal Period in Augustan Literature
    af Matthew (Lecturer in Classics Fox
    2.384,95 kr.

    This is a critical analysis of the pervasive theme of historical myths used by some of the best-known writers of the Late Republic and Augustan periods - from Cicero in the "De Republica" and the first book of Livy to Ovid's "Fasti".

  • - A Study of Words and Myths
    af Michael (Lecturer Clarke
    2.765,95 kr.

    This text offers an integrated interpretation of Homeric man. The author starts with the working hypothesis that, in this poetry, the human being is not divided into two parts - inner and outer; body and soul; flesh and spirit - but stands as an indivisible unity.

  • - Urbanization in Southern Spain c.50 BC-AD 150
    af A. T. (Lecturer in Ancient History Fear
    2.072,95 kr.

    The book explores the cultural interaction between Rome and the various native groups found in Baetica (ancient Andalusia). It examines the degree to which Rome wished to change the area, how far our available evidence will allow us to see the outcome of such attempts, and the varied reactions of the native populations to the Roman presence.

  • - The Religion of Herodotus
    af Thomas Harrison
    685,95 - 1.934,95 kr.

    Thomas Harrison presents a study of the religious beliefs of the ancient Greek historian Herodotus - his beliefs in divine retribution, in oracles and divination, in miracles or in fate. The author shows not only how such beliefs were central to his work, but also how they were compatible with lived experience.

  • - Economy and Society c.1000-500 BC
    af Christopher John (Lecturer in Ancient History Smith
    3.007,95 kr.

    What was happening in Rome when Homer was writing the Iliad in Greece? This book is the first detailed account in English to study both the earliest archaeological and literary evidence of Rome's earliest history, going right back to the Late Bronze Age. The book is also unique in setting the development of civilization in the context of the Mediterranean as a whole.

  • - All There Is to Say
    af Ada (Lecturer in Philosophy Bronowski
    1.854,95 kr.

    After Plato's Forms, and Aristotle's substances, the Stoics posited the fundamental reality of lekta - the meanings of sentences, distinct from the sentences themselves. This volume analyses the resulting unique, complex, and consistent cosmic view in which lekta are the keystones of the structure of reality: they are all there is to say.

  • - Edited with an Introduction, Translation, and Commentary
    af Ruth (Lecturer in Classics Parkes
    2.285,95 kr.

    Thebaid is a Latin epic, composed by Statius in AD 80-92, about the mythological story of the expedition of the seven warriors against Thebes. In this volume Parkes offers the first full-length scholarly commentary on the whole of Thebaid 4, with text and apparatus criticus, an English translation, and a comprehensive introduction.

  • af Ittai (Lecturer & Gradel
    1.217,95 kr.

    This is the first study of emperor worship among the Romans themselves, in Rome and its heartland Italy. It argues that emperor worship was indeed perfectly in keeping with Roman religious tradition, which has been generally misunderstood by a posterity imbued with radically different notions of the relationship between humans and the divine.

  • - Romans and Gauls in Republican Italy
    af J. H. C. ( Williams
    2.315,95 kr.

    By examining the literary evidence relating to the historical, ethnographic, and geographic writings of Greeks and Romans focussing on invasion and conflict, this work attempts to answer the questions how and why the Gauls became the deadly enemy of the Romans.

  • - Lesbos and the Troad between Anatolia and the Aegean
    af Aneurin (Departmental Lecturer in Ancient History at Oriel and Jesus Colleges Ellis-Evans
    1.441,95 kr.

    The Kingdom of Priam offers a detailed exploration of questions about regional integration in the ancient world through a diverse series of case studies focusing on the regional history of Lesbos and the Troad from the seventh century BC down to the first century AD.

  • - Greek Self-Definition through Tragedy
    af Edith (Lecturer Hall
    1.159,95 kr.

    The aim of this treatise is to explain the singular fascination ancient Greek tragedians felt for the non-Greek, "barbaric" world. It sets Greek drama against the historical background of the Panhellenic wars with Persia and the establishment of an Athenian empire based on democracy and slavery.

  • - Presence and Representation
    af Lucy C. M. M. (Assistant Professor in Classics (Greek Literature) Jackson
    1.345,95 kr.

    This first comprehensive study of the ancient Greek dramatic chorus in the fourth century reassesses the traditional narrative that it more or less 'declined' in quantity and quality, demonstrating instead how varied and vital this component of drama continued to be during a time when the theatre became truly international.

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