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Hegel's Antiquity aims to summarize, contextualize, and criticizeHegel's understanding and treatment of major aspects of the classical world, approaching each of the major areas of his historical thinking in turn: politics, art, religion, philosophy, and history itself....
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OUP Oxford
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2020-07-30
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Hegel's Antiquity aims to summarize, contextualize, and criticizeHegel's understanding and treatment of major aspects of the classical world, approaching each of the major areas of his historical thinking in turn: politics, art, religion, philosophy, and history itself....
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OUP Oxford
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2020-07-30
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This book charts the evolution of Islamic dialectical theory (jadal) over a four-hundred year period. It includes an extensive study of the development of methods of disputation in Islamic theology (kalam) and jurisprudence (u?ul al-fiqh) from the tenth through the...
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Springer
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2020-07-13
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This Palgrave Pivot examines how prominent thinkers throughout history, from ancient Greece to sixteenth-century France, have perceived tyrants and tyranny. Ancient philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle were the first to build a vocabulary for tyrants and the forms...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2020-05-28
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From its origins as a minor nomadic tribe to its status as a major world empire, the rise of the Parthian state in the ancient world is nothing short of remarkable. In their early history, the Parthians benefitted from strong leadership, a flexible and accommodating...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-05-11
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What could Greek poets or Roman historians say in their own language that would be lost in translation? After all, different languages have different personalities, and this is especially clear with languages of the ancient and medieval world. This volume celebrates six...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-04-05
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What could Greek poets or Roman historians say in their own language that would be lost in translation? After all, different languages have different personalities, and this is especially clear with languages of the ancient and medieval world. This volume celebrates six...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-04-05
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An important addition to contemporary scholarship on Plautus and Plautine comedy, provides new essays and fresh insights from leading scholars A Companion to Plautus is a collection of original essays on the celebrated Old Latin period playwright. A brilliant comic...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2020-02-25
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Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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That the Roman republic died is a commonplace often repeated. In extant literature, the notion is first given form in the works of the orator Cicero (106-43 BCE) and his contemporaries, though the scattered fragments of orators and historians from the earlier republic...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-02-20
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That the Roman republic died is a commonplace often repeated. In extant literature, the notion is first given form in the works of the orator Cicero (106-43 BCE) and his contemporaries, though the scattered fragments of orators and historians from the earlier republic...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-02-20
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Cicero's Brutus and Orator constitute his final major statements on the history of Roman oratory and the nature of the ideal orator. In the Brutus he traces the development of political and judicial speech over the span of 150 years, from the early second century to 46...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-01-23
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'Dreams are products of the mind, and do not come from any external source'
Artemidorus' The Interpretation of Dreams (Oneirocritica) is the richest and most vivid pre-Freudian account of dream interpretation, and the only dream-book to have survived complete from...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-01-16
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'Dreams are products of the mind, and do not come from any external source'
Artemidorus' The Interpretation of Dreams (Oneirocritica) is the richest and most vivid pre-Freudian account of dream interpretation, and the only dream-book to have survived complete from...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-01-16
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Nicht, wie man annahm, aus dem 11. oder frühen 12., sondern laut Radiocarbon-Datierung aus dem 7. oder frühen 8. Jahrhundert stammt die Dortmunder Reliquie des Hl. Reinold, also des epischen Renaut de Montauban. Damit muss die Vor- und Frühgeschichte sowohl des...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2019-11-19
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In the first twelve chapters of Book 9 of his Ab Urbe Condita, Livy tells the story of how, in 321 B.C., a young and untested Samnite commander named C. Pontius traps four Roman legions in the narrow mountain pass in the southern Apennines called the Caudine Forks....
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2019-10-24
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This collection of essays examines the various ways in which the Homeric epics have been responded to, reworked, and rewritten by women writers of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Beginning in 1914 with the First World War, it charts this understudied...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-10-03
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This collection of essays examines the various ways in which the Homeric epics have been responded to, reworked, and rewritten by women writers of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Beginning in 1914 with the First World War, it charts this understudied...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-10-03
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Rediscovering E. R. Dodds offers the first comprehensive assessment of a remarkable classical scholar, who was also a poet with extensive links to twentieth-century English and Irish literary culture, the friend of Auden and MacNeice. Dodds was born in Northern Ireland,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-09-26
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Rediscovering E. R. Dodds offers the first comprehensive assessment of a remarkable classical scholar, who was also a poet with extensive links to twentieth-century English and Irish literary culture, the friend of Auden and MacNeice. Dodds was born in Northern Ireland,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-09-26
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Part of the ALL-NEW LADYBIRD EXPERT SERIES'Brought evocatively to life' HISTORY REVEALED- Was there really a Trojan War?- What makes a Homeric hero?- How did Odysseus defeat the Cyclops?IMMERSE yourself in the epic adventures of the Ancient Greek gods and heroes. Filled...
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Penguin
Parution :
2019-09-05
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The Ladybird Expert Series
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