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The colonnaded axes define the visitor's experience of many of the great cities of the Roman East. How did this extraordinarily bold tool of urban planning evolve?The street, instead of remaining a mundane passage, a convenient means of passing from one place to...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-06-02
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In the last twenty years, reception studies have significantly enhanced our understanding of the ways in which Classics has shaped modern Western culture, but very little attention has been directed toward the reception of classical architecture. Housing the New Romans:...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-06-01
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The colonnaded axes define the visitor's experience of many of the great cities of the Roman East. How did this extraordinarily bold tool of urban planning evolve?The street, instead of remaining a mundane passage, a convenient means of passing from one place to...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-05-26
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Pater the Classicist is the first book to address in detail Walter Pater's important contribution to the study of classical antiquity. Widely considered our greatest aesthetic critic and now best known as a precursor to modernist writers and post-modernist thinkers of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-03-02
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Pater the Classicist is the first book to address in detail Walter Pater's important contribution to the study of classical antiquity. Widely considered our greatest aesthetic critic and now best known as a precursor to modernist writers and post-modernist thinkers of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-02-23
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Greek Fragments in Postmodern Frames takes as its subject adaptation ofGreek tragedy in the last decades, arguing that rewritings ofGreek tragic texts in this period can be used as a tool to uncover a significant dialogue with postmodernism. Despite the large number of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-12-22
ePub
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Greek Fragments in Postmodern Frames takes as its subject adaptation ofGreek tragedy in the last decades, arguing that rewritings ofGreek tragic texts in this period can be used as a tool to uncover a significant dialogue with postmodernism. Despite the large number of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-12-22
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The Reception of the Homeric Hymns is a collection of original essays exploring the reception of the Homeric Hymns and other early hexameter poems in the literature and scholarship of the first century BC and beyond.
Although much work has been done on the Hymns over...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-11-17
ePub
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The Reception of the Homeric Hymns is a collection of original essays exploring the reception of the Homeric Hymns and other early hexameter poems in the literature and scholarship of the first century BC and beyond.
Although much work has been done on the Hymns over...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-11-17
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'Grey-eyed Athena sent them a following breeze, the fresh-
blowing westerly, whistling over the wine-dark sea'
Twenty years after setting out to fight in the Trojan War, Odysseus is yet to return home to Ithaca. His household is in disarray: a horde of over 100...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-10-21
ePub
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'Grey-eyed Athena sent them a following breeze, the fresh-
blowing westerly, whistling over the wine-dark sea'
Twenty years after setting out to fight in the Trojan War, Odysseus is yet to return home to Ithaca. His household is in disarray: a horde of over 100...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-10-20
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Prudentius and the Landscapes of Late Antiquity offers a thematic analysis of the poetry of the late Latin poet Prudentius, focusing in particular on his descriptions of the geographical and cultural landscapes of late antiquity.
Cillian O'Hogan setsPrudentius in the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-09-22
ePub
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The symposion is arguably the most significant and well-documented context for the performance, transmission, and criticism of archaic and classical Greek poetry, a distinction attested by its continued hold on the poetic imagination even after its demise as a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-09-22
ePub
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Prudentius and the Landscapes of Late Antiquity offers a thematic analysis of the poetry of the late Latin poet Prudentius, focusing in particular on his descriptions of the geographical and cultural landscapes of late antiquity.
Cillian O'Hogan setsPrudentius in the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-09-15
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The symposion is arguably the most significant and well-documented context for the performance, transmission, and criticism of archaic and classical Greek poetry, a distinction attested by its continued hold on the poetic imagination even after its demise as a...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-09-08
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This monograph is a literary study of Lycophron's Alexandra, whose obscurity, a quality notorious already in antiquity, has long hampered holistic approaches. Through a series of distinct but closely integrated literary studies of major aspects of the poem, including...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-06-24
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This monograph is a literary study of Lycophron's Alexandra, whose obscurity, a quality notorious already in antiquity, has long hampered holistic approaches. Through a series of distinct but closely integrated literary studies of major aspects of the poem, including...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-04-21
ePub
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The Octavia is the only surviving historical drama from ancient Rome. With a plot rich in sex, dynastic intrigue, riots, and murder, the play's characters include the philosopher Seneca, the emperor Nero, the ghost of his murdered mother, his wife Octavia, and his...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-12-03
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Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, an exuberant form of festival drama which flourished in Athens during the fifth century BC. One of the most original playwrights in the entire Western tradition, his comedies are remarkable for their...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-11-12
ePub
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Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, an exuberant form of festival drama which flourished in Athens during the fifth century BC. One of the most original playwrights in the entire Western tradition, his comedies are remarkable for their...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-11-12
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