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A Companion to Augustine presents a fresh collection of scholarship by leading academics with a new approach to contextualizing Augustine and his works within the multi-disciplinary field of Late Antiquity, showing Augustine as both a product of the cultural forces of...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2013-04-09
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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A Companion to Augustine presents a fresh collection of scholarship by leading academics with a new approach to contextualizing Augustine and his works within the multi-disciplinary field of Late Antiquity, showing Augustine as both a product of the cultural forces of...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-04-09
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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'People have it in their minds that he would have been a match for Alexander, had Alexander turned his arms on Europe.'
So Livy characterizes Papirius Cursor, one of Rome's famous generals in the fourth century BC. In Books 6 to 10 of his monumental history of Rome,...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-04-05
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In the course of the eighteenth century, discoveries ranging from Tahiti to Pompeii initiated a scientific turn in the study of the past. Seeking a formal language to display these new findings, Romantic-era plate books presented a wide array of objects as ancient...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-04-04
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'People have it in their minds that he would have been a match for Alexander, had Alexander turned his arms on Europe.'
So Livy characterizes Papirius Cursor, one of Rome's famous generals in the fourth century BC. In Books 6 to 10 of his monumental history of Rome,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-04-04
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Seneca's De Beneficiis (On Benefits) is the only work surviving from antiquity that discusses the exchange of gifts and services. Though the topic is of great importance, in practical moral philosophy, sociology, and in the historical study of how Roman society worked,...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-03-14
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From his first publication, Aratos of Sicyon (1933), to his death in 2008, F. W. Walbank established himself as one of the leading ancient historians of the last century. His many publications - not least his three-volume commentary on the Greek historian of Roman...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-02-28
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Latin is very much alive in the poetry written by the greatLatin poets, and this book is about their poetry, their language, and their culture. Fitzgerald shows the reader with little or no knowledge of theLatin language how it works as a unique vehicle for poetic...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-02-21
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A comprehensive collection of all the major and minor gods of Rome and Greece, with descriptions of festivals and retellings of major mythological stories. E.M. Bernes thoroughly details each Greek and Roman god, goddess, hero, demi-god and creature and gives the reader...
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e-artnow
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2013-02-20
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'He was a man like no other man has ever been'
So Arrian sums up the career of Alexander the Great of Macedon (356-323 BC), who in twelve years that changed the world led his army in conquest of a vast empire extending from the Danube to the rivers of the Punjab,...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-02-14
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The book leads the reader through these vibrant stories, from the origins of the gods through to the homecomings of the Trojan heroes. All the familiar narratives are here, along with some less familiar characters and motifs. In addition to the tales, the book explains...
Editeur :
Robinson
Parution :
2013-02-07
Collection :
Brief Histories
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Gendering Time in Augustan Love Elegy examines how and why time appears to affect men and women differently in Latin love elegy. Considering the genre's brief flowering during the Augustan Principate, it aims to situate the elegies of Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid in...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-01-31
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This comprehensive volume details the variety of constitutions and types of governing bodies in the ancient Greek world. A collection of original scholarship on ancient Greek governing structures and institutions Explores the multiple manifestations of state action...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-01-31
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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Metapoetry in Euripides is the first detailed study of the self-conscious literary devices applied within Euripidean drama and how these are interwoven with issues of thematic importance, whether social, theological, or political. In the volume, Torrance argues that...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-01-31
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The political and social changes that occurred with the transformation of the Roman Empire into a Roman Christian Empire and with the bishops’ new social position as imperial bishops called for new literary representations of the ideal Christian leader. In this...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-01-04
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Community and Communication: Oratory and Politics in Republican Rome brings together nineteen international contributions which rethink the role of public speech in the Roman Republic. Speech was an integral part of decision-making in Republican Rome, and oratory was...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-01-04
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Achilles in Love: Intertextual Studies traces the escapades of Achilles' erotic history, whether in same-sex or opposite-sex relationships, and how they were developed and revealed, or elided and concealed, in the writing and visual arts following Homer.
The volume...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-12-20
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This tenth anniversary revised edition of the authoritative text on Christianity's first thousand years of history features a new preface, additional color images, and an updated bibliography. The essential general survey of medieval European Christendom, Brown's vivid...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-12-18
Collection :
Making of Europe
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This fascinating volume brings together leading specialists, who have analyzed the thoughts and records documenting the worldviews of a wide range of pre-modern societies. Presents evidence from across the ages; from antiquity through to the Age of Discovery Provides...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-12-18
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Ancient World: Comparative Histories
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