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The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature (OHCREL) is designed to offer a comprehensive investigation of the numerous and diverse ways in which literary texts of the classical world have stimulated responses and refashioning by English writers....
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OUP Oxford
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2016-01-28
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The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature (OHCREL) is designed to offer a comprehensive investigation of the numerous and diverse ways in which literary texts of the classical world have stimulated responses and refashioning by English writers....
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-01-28
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A Companion to the Flavian Age of Imperial Rome provides a systematic and comprehensive examination of the political, economic, social, and cultural nuances of the Flavian Age (69–96 CE). Includes contributions from over two dozen Classical Studies scholars organized...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-01-11
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Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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The concern of the book is whether Hilary of Poitiers compromised the Nicene faith, a charge suggested even in Hilary’s own day, when he attempted to bring together the homouseans and the homoeouseans.The author revisits the arguments offered by recent studies on the...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-01-08
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Literary Territories introduces readers to a wide range of literature from 200-900 CE in which geography is a defining principle of literary art. From accounts of Holy Land pilgrimage, to Roman mapmaking, to the systematization of Ptolemy's scientific works,Literary...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-01-04
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Modern readers find it hard to come to terms with the gods in Euripides' dramas. Readers try to dismiss them as a literary convention. Stage productions leave them out, especially in the cases when they appear ex machina. Instead, they place disproportionate emphasis on...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-12-30
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This new collection presents a rich selection of innovative scholarship on the Etruscans, a vibrant, independent people whose distinct civilization flourished in central Italy for most of the first millennium BCE and whose artistic, social and cultural traditions helped...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-12-10
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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Alongside the works of the better-known classical Greek dramatists, the tragedies of Lucius Annaeus Seneca have exerted a profound influence over the dramaturgical development of European theatre. The Senecan Aesthetic surveys the multifarious ways in which Senecan...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-12-10
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Homeric Epic and its Reception, comprising twelve chapter--some previously published but revised for this collection, and others appearing here in print for the first time--offers literary interpretations of the Iliad, the Odyssey, and theHomeric Hymn to Aphrodite....
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OUP Oxford
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2015-12-10
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This rich collection of essays by an international group of scholars explores commentaries in many different languages on ancient Latin and Greek texts. The commentaries discussed range from the ancient world to the twentieth century. Together, the chapters contribute...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-12-03
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When Kersti Berg died in 1735, she was honoured with an obituary in the form of a poetic epitaph composed by Olof von Dalin. A modern-day reader can easily get the impression that Dalin’s poem is an example of a funerary poem for a human being – one of the eighteenth...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-11-27
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Catullus, one of the most Hellenizing, scandalous, and emotionally expressive of the Roman poets, burst onto the British cultural scene during the Romantic era. It was not until this socially, politically, and culturally explosive epoch, with its mania for all things...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-11-05
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This book presents a substantially revised version of some of the most important and innovative articles published by Alan Cameron in the field of late antique Greek poetry and philosophy. Much new material has been added to the account of the "Wandering Poets" from...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-11-02
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The Poetics of Victory in the Greek West examines the relationship between epinician and the heroizing narratives about athletes, or "hero-athlete narratives," that circulated orally in Sicily and Italy in the late archaic and early classical period. Drawing on the...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-11-02
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The Oxford History of Classical Reception (OHCREL) is designed to offer a comprehensive investigation of the numerous and diverse ways in which literary texts of the classical world have stimulated responses and refashioning by English writers. Covering the full range...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-10-29
ePub
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The Oxford History of Classical Reception (OHCREL) is designed to offer a comprehensive investigation of the numerous and diverse ways in which literary texts of the classical world have stimulated responses and refashioning by English writers. Covering the full range...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-10-29
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A Companion to Josephus presents a collection of readings from international scholars that explore the works of the first century Jewish historian Flavius Josephus. Represents the first single-volume collection of readings to focus on Josephus Covers a wide range of...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-10-27
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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In the conservative and competitive society of ancient Rome, where the law of the father (patria potestas) was supposedly absolute, motherhood took on complex aesthetic, moral, and political meanings in elite literary discourse. Reproducing Rome is a study of the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-10-15
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Much has been written about the contribution of ancient Greece to modern discourses of homosexuality, but Rome's significant rôle has been largely overlooked. Ancient Rome and the Construction of Modern Homosexual Identities explores the contested history of responses...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-10-08
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The rediscovery in the fifteenth century of Lucretius' De rerum natura was a challenge to received ideas.The poem offered a vision of the creation of the universe, the origins and goals of human life, and the formation of the state, all without reference to divine...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-10-08
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