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Greek and Roman epic poetry has always provided creative artists in the modern world with a rich storehouse of themes. Tim Supple and Simon Reade's 1999 stage adaptation of Ted Hughes' Tales from Ovid for the RSC heralded a new lease of life for receptions of the genre,...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-10-26
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This volume investigates an important and surprisingly widespread phenomenon in Latin literature, which has to date received little sustained discussion: the deliberate assumption of a weaker voice by speakers who in fact hold sufficient status not to be forced into...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-10-25
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Medieval romances with their magic fountains, brave knights, and beautiful maidens have come to stand for the Middle Ages more generally. This close connection between the medieval and the romance has had consequences for popular conceptions of the Middle Ages, an...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-10-17
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Provides a broad view of the history and current state of scholarship on the art of the ancient Near East This book covers the aesthetic traditions of Mesopotamia, Iran, Anatolia, and the Levant, from Neolithic times to the end of the Achaemenid Persian Empire around...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2018-09-08
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Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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'Charlotte Higgins's Red Thread is a masterwork' Ali SmithA thrillingly original, labyrinthine journey through myth, art, literature, history, archaeology and memoir. The tale of how the hero Theseus killed the Minotaur, finding his way out of the labyrinth using...
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Vintage Digital
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2018-08-02
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Noted scholars in the field explore the rich variety of late antique literature With contributions from leading scholars in the field, A Companion to Late Antique Literature presents a broad review of late antique literature. The late antique period encompasses a...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2018-07-27
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Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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A Companion to the City of Rome presents a series of original essays from top experts that offer an authoritative and up-to-date overview of current research on the development of the city of Rome from its origins until circa AD 600. Offers a unique interdisciplinary,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
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2018-07-10
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Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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Literary studies and their associated critical theories offer a refreshing viewpoint from which humanist-oriented studies of ageing may be re-conceptualized, and an integrated view of ageing and gender can be developed. The present volume builds on the work of seminal...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2018-02-13
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The Oxford English Literary History is the new century's definitive account of a rich and diverse literary heritage that stretches back for a millennium and more.
Each of these thirteen groundbreaking volumes offers a leading scholar's considered assessment of the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-09-15
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Readers coming to the Odyssey for the first time are often dazzled and bewildered by the wealth of material it contains which is seemingly unrelated to the central story: the main plot of Odysseus' return to Ithaca is complicated by myriad secondary narratives related...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-09-15
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Readers coming to the Odyssey for the first time are often dazzled and bewildered by the wealth of material it contains which is seemingly unrelated to the central story: the main plot of Odysseus' return to Ithaca is complicated by myriad secondary narratives related...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-09-15
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The Oxford English Literary History is the new century's definitive account of a rich and diverse literary heritage that stretches back for a millennium and more.
Each of these thirteen groundbreaking volumes offers a leading scholar's considered assessment of the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-09-15
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An exciting study of ancient slavery in Greece and Rome This book provides an introduction to pivotal issues in the study of classical (Greek and Roman) slavery. The span of topics is broad—ranging from everyday resistance to slavery to philosophical justifications of...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-09-12
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Art history traditionally concentrates on the visual. Sound has either been ignored or has been appreciated in a highly selective manner within a different discipline: music. This book is about recent attempts by artists trained in (West) Germany to provoke listening...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-08-31
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Das lateinische Tierlobgedicht, eine poetische Untergattung des Enkomiums, ist in der Forschung bislang kaum beachtet worden. Die vorliegende Arbeit will diese Forschungslücke schließen. Sie schlägt einen weiten Bogen von den einflussreichen antiken Vorbildern aus der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-07-21
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This new volume gives discursive shape to several key facets of the relationship among politics, theology and religious thought. Powerfully relevant to a wealth of further academic disciplines including history, law and the humanities, it sharpens the contours of our...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-06-30
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This book explores the cultural conditions that led to the emergence and proliferation of Saint Hermenegildo as a stage character in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It considers how this saint became a theatrical trope enabling the Society of Jesus to address...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-06-27
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A comprehensive treatment of the Classical World in film and television,A Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome on Screen closely examines the films and TV shows centered on Greek and Roman cultures and explores the tension between pagan and Christian worlds. Written by...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-06-01
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Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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The book sets out identity of metaphor in the literary discourse from a comparative perspective and links it with the ontological metaphor of identity.The author analyses both American and Romanian texts such as Lucian Blaga’s lyrosophical hermeneutics, Ileana...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-05-23
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Bis in die Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts gab es keine Ärztinnen. Der Arzt war ein Mann und die akademische Medizin reine Männersache. Der Eintritt der Frauen ins Medizinstudium seit 1850 und ihre Etablierung in der Arztpraxis werden hier ländervergleichend dargestellt. Das...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-04-20
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