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The third century BC was a particularly troubled period of ancient Greek history, when the Aegean sea became the main stage for power struggles between various royal circles and dynasties, including the Antigonids and the Ptolemies. This volume addresses the history of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-09-15
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Greek Tragic Women on Shakespearean Stages argues that ancientGreek plays exerted a powerful and uncharted influence on early modern England's dramatic landscape. Drawing on original research to challenge longstanding assumptions aboutGreek texts' invisibility, the book...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-09-15
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Hellenism and the Local Communities of the Eastern Mediterranean offers a timely re-examination of the relationship between Greek and non-Greek cultures in this region between 400 BCE and 250 CE. The conquests of Alexander the Great and his Successors not only radically...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-09-15
ePub
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Pindar's Eyes is a ground-breaking interdisciplinary exploration of the interactions between Greek lyric poetry and visual and material culture in the early fifth century BCE. Its aim is to open up analysis of lyric to the wider theme of aesthetic experience in early...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-09-15
ePub
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Poverty in fifth- and fourth-century BCE Athens was a markedly different concept to that with which we are familiar today. Reflecting contemporary ideas about labour, leisure, and good citizenship, the 'poor' were considered to be not only those who were destitute, or...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-09-15
ePub
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Hellenism and the Local Communities of the Eastern Mediterranean offers a timely re-examination of the relationship between Greek and non-Greek cultures in this region between 400 BCE and 250 CE. The conquests of Alexander the Great and his Successors not only radically...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-09-08
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Greek Tragic Women on Shakespearean Stages argues that ancientGreek plays exerted a powerful and uncharted influence on early modern England's dramatic landscape. Drawing on original research to challenge longstanding assumptions aboutGreek texts' invisibility, the book...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-09-08
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Pindar's Eyes is a ground-breaking interdisciplinary exploration of the interactions between Greek lyric poetry and visual and material culture in the early fifth century BCE. Its aim is to open up analysis of lyric to the wider theme of aesthetic experience in early...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-09-08
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Poverty in fifth- and fourth-century BCE Athens was a markedly different concept to that with which we are familiar today. Reflecting contemporary ideas about labour, leisure, and good citizenship, the 'poor' were considered to be not only those who were destitute, or...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-09-08
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The third century BC was a particularly troubled period of ancient Greek history, when the Aegean sea became the main stage for power struggles between various royal circles and dynasties, including the Antigonids and the Ptolemies. This volume addresses the history of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-09-08
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This illustrated study comprises a comprehensive and detailed account of the historical development of Greek military architecture and defensive planning, specifically in Arkadia in the Classical and Hellenistic periods.
Employing data gathered from the published...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-08-15
ePub
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This illustrated study comprises a comprehensive and detailed account of the historical development of Greek military architecture and defensive planning, specifically in Arkadia in the Classical and Hellenistic periods.
Employing data gathered from the published...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-08-15
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Polybius boldly declared that 'now that all places have become accessible by land or sea, it is no longer appropriate to use poets and writers of myth as witnesses of the unknown' (4.40.2). And yet, in reality, the significance of myth did not diminish as the borders of...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-07-14
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From a corpus of Greek epics known in antiquity as the "Epic Cycle," six poems dealt with the same Trojan War mythology as the Homeric poems. Though they are now lost, these poems were much read and much discussed in ancient times, not only for their content but for...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-06-22
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Greek tragedy is one of the most important cultural legacies of the classical world, with a rich and varied history and reception, yet it appears to have its roots in a very particular place and time. The authors of the surviving works ofGreek tragic drama-Aeschylus,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-06-16
ePub
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Greek tragedy is one of the most important cultural legacies of the classical world, with a rich and varied history and reception, yet it appears to have its roots in a very particular place and time. The authors of the surviving works ofGreek tragic drama-Aeschylus,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-06-16
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Polybius boldly declared that 'now that all places have become accessible by land or sea, it is no longer appropriate to use poets and writers of myth as witnesses of the unknown' (4.40.2). And yet, in reality, the significance of myth did not diminish as the borders of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-06-02
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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
Parution :
2017-06-02
ePub
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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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