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Although it is often thought that Herodotus is a simple author, and that his Histories do not contain many passages requiring textual criticism, closer investigation reveals this view to be inaccurate. Written to accompany and augment the new Oxford Classical Texts...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-08-27
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The continued vitality of the Greek city (polis) in the centuries after the Peloponnesian War has now been richly demonstrated by historians. But how does that vitality relate to the prominence in the same period of both civic unrest, or stasis, and utopian political...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-08-20
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Arabs and Empires before Islam illuminates the history of theArabs before the emergence of Islam, collating nearly 250 translated extracts from an extensive array of ancient sources. Drawn from a broad period between the eighth century BC and the Middle Ages, the...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-07-30
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What did it mean - in terms of social, cultural, and literary negotiations - to publish one's own work in Rome at the end of the first century CE?What kinds of traces has the author's work as editor left on the text as we read it? How can we interpret them?What kind of...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-07-30
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Modern Western European culture would have been impossible without the civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome. The disciplines of philosophy, drama, history, and science all owe an immense debt to these two Mediterranean cultures. At the same time, there are aspects...
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John Murray
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2015-07-30
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All That Matters
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Explanation of the success and failure of the Roman economy is one of the most important problems in economic history. As an economic system capable of sustaining high production and consumption levels, it was unparalleled until the early modern period.
This volume...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-07-30
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After surviving the fifth century fall of the Western European Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire flourished as one of the most powerful economic, cultural, and military forces in Europe for a thousand years.
In this Very Short Introduction Peter Sarris introduces the...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-07-23
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After surviving the fifth century fall of the Western European Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire flourished as one of the most powerful economic, cultural, and military forces in Europe for a thousand years.
In this Very Short Introduction Peter Sarris introduces the...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-07-23
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The poet Robert Graves' use of material from classical sources has been contentious to scholars for many years, with a number of classicists baulking at his interpretation of myth and his novelization of history, and questioning its academic value.
This collection of...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-07-09
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Der Band versammelt die Beiträge einer interdisziplinären Tagung zum Thema «Burgen in Schleswig-Holstein», die vom 20. bis 22. September 2013 in der Sparkassenakademie in Kiel stattfand. Ausgewiesene Burgenexperten der Bereiche Geschichte, Archäologie und Denkmalpflege...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-06-30
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Ancient Samnium focuses on the region of Samnium in Italy, where a rich blend of historical, literary, epigraphic, numismatic, and archaeological evidence supports a fresh perspective on the complexity and dynamism of a part of the ancient Mediterranean that is normally...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-06-25
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Fame and Infamy honours Christopher Pelling, reflecting the range of his interests and demonstrating the extent of his influence in spearheading the so-called literary turn in the study of ancient historiography. The volumes twenty-four chapters are written by former...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-06-25
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Oliver Wehr stellt in seinem Buch die These auf, dass die Ilias in der Gestalt, wie wir sie kennen, für einen Vortrag im Umfeld von Argos konzipiert ist. Beweise findet er im Epos selbst. In der Ilias tritt Diomedes wie ein Doppelgänger des Achilleus auf. Kaum hat...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-05-31
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This study offers an in-depth examination of Porphyrian soteriology, or the concept of the salvation of the soul, in the thought of Porphyry of Tyre, whose significance for late antique thought is immense. Porphyry's concept of salvation is important for an...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-05-26
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Sotto la direzione di John Scheid, Olivier de Cazanove, Filippo Coarelli e Adriana La Regina, lo studio dei luoghi di culto dell’Italia antica è un progetto di ampia portata che si concretizza nella pubblicazione della serie di fascicoli che vanno sotto il nome di Fana,...
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Collège de France
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2015-05-25
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Institut des civilisations
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From around 1800, particularly in Germany, Greek tragedy has been privileged in popular and scholarly discourse for its relation to apparently timeless metaphysical, existential, ethical, aesthetic, and psychological questions. As a major concern of modern philosophy,...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-05-21
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For thousands of years we have been enthralled by tales of Troy and its heroes. Achilles and Hector, Paris and the famed beauty Helen remain some of the most enduring figures in art and literature. But did these titanic characters really walk the earth? Was there ever...
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Bbc Digital
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2015-05-14
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Laughing Awry offers a comprehensive overview of key themes in the interpretation of the plays of Plautus, and explores the connections between deception, desire, slavery, genre, and audience. In doing so, it offers an account of the mechanisms of Plautus' humour and...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-05-14
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Nell’ambito di un più generale interesse alle politiche di riforma nell’impero romano, questo volume raccoglie gli atti di un incontro di studio dedicato alla diversa reazione delle due Partes dell’impero alla crisi e ai gravi problemi che investirono il mondo romano...
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Publications de l'École française de Rome
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2015-05-11
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Collection de l'École française de Rome
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On March 15th, 44 BC a group of senators stabbed Julius Caesar, the dictator of Rome. By his death, they hoped to restore Rome's Republic. Instead, they unleashed a revolution. By December of that year, Rome was plunged into a violent civil war. Three men--Mark Antony,...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-05-06
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