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Time and Ancient Medicine is the first monograph to explore, on the one hand, how the introduction of new timekeeping technologies (namely, sundials and water clocks) affected the practice, rhetoric, and philosophy of ancient medicine and, on the other hand, how medical...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-08-23
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This study documents and analyses the structure and function of Greek incubation rituals in Classical and Hellenistic times addressing all relevant and extant literary and epigraphical testimonial concerning the rites and rules surrounding incubation. It shows that...
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Presses universitaires de Liège
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2023-08-21
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Kernos suppléments
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Purity, and its converse, impurity, formed a versatile metaphor in the ancient Greek world. Constructing a multifaceted investigation, with both complementary and contrastive approaches, the thirteen papers collected in this volume explore the range of these ideas, from...
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Presses universitaires de Liège
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2023-08-21
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Kernos suppléments
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Studies in the cultic honours for Hellenistic leaders and benefactors mainly focus on the ideological and diplomatic features of the phenomenon. Conversely, the papers collected in this volume aim to shift the focus to its material and practical aspects: media, ritual...
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Presses universitaires de Liège
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2023-08-21
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Kernos suppléments
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Ritual permeates Greek comedies of the fifth and fourth centuries BC. In Birds and Peace, the performance of sacrifice is central to the plot and its dramatic action; Women at the Thesmophoria is set during the celebration of a religious festival; while the story of...
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Presses universitaires de Liège
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2023-08-21
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Kernos suppléments
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Time and Ancient Medicine is the first monograph to explore, on the one hand, how the introduction of new timekeeping technologies (namely, sundials and water clocks) affected the practice, rhetoric, and philosophy of ancient medicine and, on the other hand, how medical...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-08-08
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Representing the Dynasty in Flavian Rome investigates the problem of contemporary historiography and regime representation in Flavian Rome through a close study of a text not usually read for such purposes but which has obvious promise for a study of this theme, the...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-08-03
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Representing the Dynasty in Flavian Rome investigates the problem of contemporary historiography and regime representation in Flavian Rome through a close study of a text not usually read for such purposes but which has obvious promise for a study of this theme, the...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-07-19
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Hercules is a tragedy of great theatrical, poetic, and cultural value. Written probably at the intersection of the principates of Claudius and Nero, it addresses central issues of early imperial Rome, even as it speaks profoundly to our times. Among its concerns are...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-06-22
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Il volume raccoglie sedici studi che fanno parte di ricerche in corso e inedite o presentano nuove sintesi sull’archeologia e la storia di Ostia e Portus, il porto di Roma, tra l’età repubblicana e la tarda antichità. Quattro sono i temi maggiori dei contributi: la...
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Publications de l'École française de Rome
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2023-06-14
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Collection de l'École française de Rome
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As the most important ancient cultural relics in prehistory, rock art have become a direct basis for the reproduction of human history and ideological process. Since the late 1970s, Yinshan rock art have been found in large quantities. In this study, 2842 Yinshan rock...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2023-06-02
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A sweeping historical account of the Later Roman Empire incorporating the latest scholarly research In the newly revised 3rd edition ofA History of the Later Roman Empire, 284-700, distinguished historians Geoffrey Greatrex and Stephen Mitchell deliver a thoroughly...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2023-05-24
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Blackwell History of the Ancient World
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The most comprehensive reference work on Tacitus published in EnglishThe Tacitus Encyclopedia is the only complete reference of its kind in the field of Tacitean studies. Spanning two volumes, this unprecedented resource contains more than 1,000 entries covering every...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2023-05-22
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What happens when we juxtapose medicine and law in the ancient Roman world? This innovative collection of scholarly research shows how both fields were shaped by the particular needs and desires of their practitioners and users. It approaches the study of these fields...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-05-11
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What happens when we juxtapose medicine and law in the ancient Roman world? This innovative collection of scholarly research shows how both fields were shaped by the particular needs and desires of their practitioners and users. It approaches the study of these fields...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-05-11
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In twelfth-century Byzantium, poetry played a key part in various contexts of textual production and consumption. One of the leading poets of this period was Theodoros Prodromos, whose surviving corpus comprises approximately 17,000 verses. Even though most of his...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-05-10
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Greek tragedy parades, tests, stimulates, and upends human cognition. Characters plot deception, try to fathom elusive gods, and fail to recognise loved ones. Spectators observe the characters' cognitive limitations and contemplate their own, grapple with moral...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-05-04
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Greek tragedy parades, tests, stimulates, and upends human cognition. Characters plot deception, try to fathom elusive gods, and fail to recognise loved ones. Spectators observe the characters' cognitive limitations and contemplate their own, grapple with moral...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-04-26
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