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Capra and Graziosi intervene in current debates about classics and its relation to revolutionary ruptures, nationalist movements, and identity politics today. They begin with The Neoplatonists, an explicit love story posing as the work of an imaginary ancient Greek...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-07-12
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The volume is divided into three chapters which, starting from some fragments of Cassio Emina, reconstruct the cultural climate, the forms, the method and the constants of the historiographical activity of this author.The profile of a multifaceted intellectual...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2024-05-21
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The Oxford Handbook of Galen provides a comprehensive overview of the life, work, and legacy of Galen (129--c. 216 CE), arguably the most important medical figure of the Graeco-Roman world. It contains essays by thirty leading experts on Galen's life and background, his...
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Oxford University Press
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2024-05-17
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Roman Architecture casts new light not only on many familiar monuments of the city of Rome, but also on less well-known examples from across theRoman empire.
Rome and its empire were fundamental to the development of western architecture, and its forms and motifs...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-05-09
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What are the prospects for ambitious political reform in communities of traditional, passionate, and even self-righteous citizens? Can thoughtful legislators create a healthy society for citizens whose judgment is typically unsound? In this searching and provocative...
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Oxford University Press
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2024-05-03
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For over a thousand years, the practice of animal sacrifice held a central place in ancient Graeco-Roman culture as a means of both demonstrating piety to the gods and structuring social relationships. As Christianity took root in Rome in the third century CE, the...
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Oxford University Press
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2024-04-23
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How did the division of power work in Ancient Greece? This groundbreaking study reveals Ancient Greek political decision-making to be a multi-layered system of delegation and legal control. Scholars have previously examined the nature and locus of sovereignty in the...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-04-05
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This study explores Kondakarnoie Pienie, a musical phenomenon that flourished in Kievan Rus’ from the 11th-13th centuries and is preserved in only five manuscripts. Stimulated by the global digitization initiatives undertaken by the major holdings East and West,...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2024-04-03
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Capra and Graziosi intervene in current debates about classics and its relation to revolutionary ruptures, nationalist movements, and identity politics today. They begin with The Neoplatonists, an explicit love story posing as the work of an imaginary ancient Greek...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-03-27
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The histories of Europe and Africa are closely intertwined. At times, this closeness has been emphasized, at other times, suppressed and denied. Since the nineteenth century, European imperial powers have carved up the continent of Africa among themselves, drawing...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-03-19
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How rhetoric—the art of persuasion—can help us navigate an age of misinformation, conspiracy theories, and political acrimony The discipline of rhetoric was the keystone of Western education for over two thousand years. Only recently has its perceived...
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Basic Books
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2024-03-19
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The histories of Europe and Africa are closely intertwined. At times, this closeness has been emphasized, at other times, suppressed and denied. Since the nineteenth century, European imperial powers have carved up the continent of Africa among themselves, drawing...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-03-13
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A one-of-a-kind exploration of archaeological evidence from the Roman Empire between 44 BCE and 337 CE InA Companion to the Archaeology of the Roman Empire, distinguished scholar and archaeologist Professor Barbara Burrell delivers an illuminating and wide-ranging...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2024-03-13
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Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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How did the division of power work in Ancient Greece? This groundbreaking study reveals Ancient Greek political decision-making to be a multi-layered system of delegation and legal control. Scholars have previously examined the nature and locus of sovereignty in the...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-02-28
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Provides a comprehensive and systematic treatment of the life and work of Aristophanes A Companion to Aristophanes provides an invaluable set of foundational resources for undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars alike. More than a basic reference text, this...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2024-02-27
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Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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'That was how things stood in the city at the time. With no one in charge, murders were taking place almost every day and the elections could not be held.'
Books 36-40 of the Roman History by Cassius Dio (born ca. 163 CE), covers 69-50 BCE, the last twenty years...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-01-24
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Roman emperors have long functioned--and continue to function--in the western imagination as paradigms of imperial leadership to be emulated or avoided. This innovative volume brings together an international team of experts to examine the literary and artistic...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-01-24
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Athenian Power in the Fifth Century BC provides a new analysis of the fifth-century BCAthenian empire, a central topic in ancient Greek history. Challenging orthodox approaches, which have been mostly empirical, monolithic and focused on Athens, the book argues that...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-01-16
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'That was how things stood in the city at the time. With no one in charge, murders were taking place almost every day and the elections could not be held.'
Books 36-40 of the Roman History by Cassius Dio (born ca. 163 CE), covers 69-50 BCE, the last twenty years...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-01-09
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