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Maps dominate the modern sense of place and geography. Yet, so far as we can tell, maps were rare in the Greco-Roman world and, when mentioned in sources, are mistrusted and criticized. Today, technological advances have brought to the fore an entirely new set of...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-12-03
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Maps dominate the modern sense of place and geography. Yet, so far as we can tell, maps were rare in the Greco-Roman world and, when mentioned in sources, are mistrusted and criticized. Today, technological advances have brought to the fore an entirely new set of...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-12-03
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What role did poetry, music, song, and dance play in the social and political life of the ancient Greek city? How did philosophy respond to, position itself against, and articulate its own ambitions in relation to the poetic tradition? How did ancient philosophers...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-12-01
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This is a pioneering study that examines the sale of sex in classical Athens from a commercial (rather than from a cultural or moral) perspective. Following the author's earlier book on Athenian banking, this work analyzes erotic business at Athens in the context of the...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-12-01
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Pindar's Library is the first volume to explore how readers during the Hellenistic period encounteredPindar's poetry in book form, analysing in detail the role played byPindar's literary, cultic, and scholarly reception in affecting readers' engagement with his...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-11-26
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The nineteenth century is a key period in the history of the interpretation of the Greek gods.The Greek Gods in Modern Scholarship examines how German and British scholars of the time drew on philology, archaeology, comparative mythology, anthropology, or sociology to...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-11-26
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Think that Ancient Egypt is just a load of old obelisks?Don't bet your afterlife on it.Ancient Egypt should be deader than most of our yesterdays. After all it was at its height 5,000 years ago. Yet we still marvel at its mummies and ponder over its pyramids. It's easy...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2015-11-12
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Dangerous Days
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Margarethe Billerbeck hat sich über Jahrzehnte hinweg unermüdlich für die Klassische Philologie eingesetzt. Generationen von Studenten der Fächer Latein und Griechisch hat sie als Ordinaria an der Universität Freiburg (Schweiz) nicht nur durch ihre wissenschaftliche...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-11-06
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A major new interpretation of how one of the great figures of Christian history came to write the greatest of all autobiographiesAugustine is the person from the ancient world about whom we know most. He is the author of an intimate masterpiece, the Confessions, which...
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Penguin
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2015-11-05
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This is the first full study of Roman strigillated sarcophagi, which are the largest group of decorated marble sarcophagi to survive in the city of Rome. Characterized by panels of carved fluting - hence the description 'strigillated', after the curved strigil used by...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-11-05
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Two of the most famous mosaics from the ancient world, in the church of San Vitale in Ravenna, depict the sixth-century emperor Justinian and, on the wall facing him, his wife, Theodora (497-548). This majestic portrait gives no inkling of Theodora's very humble...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-10-07
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Il problema dell’organizzazione del commercio arcaico è stato rilanciato di recente da due ampi saggi di B. Bravo, apparsi rispettivamente nel n.° 1 (1974) e n.° 3 (1977) dei Dialogues d’Histoire Ancienne, che hanno già trovato una prima eco nel saggio di J....
Editeur :
Publications du Centre Jean Bérard
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2015-09-24
Collection :
Cahiers du Centre Jean Bérard
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The epic 4000-year story of the world's greatest civilisation from a world-leading EgyptologistThe history of Egypt is full of spectacular sites and epic stories, an evolving society rich in heroes and villains, inventors and intellectuals, artisans and pioneers. Now...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2015-09-24
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Fifth-century Athenian musical and political theorist Damon was the first to study music's psychological, behavioural, and political effects, profoundly influencing debates on music theory throughout antiquity. Considered by Isokrates to be the most intelligent Athenian...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-09-24
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Who were Roman authors writing for? Only a minority of the population was fully literate and books were very expensive, individually hand-written on imported papyrus. So does it follow that great poets and prose authors like Virgil and Livy, Ovid and Petronius, were...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-09-24
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Studies on the Text of Caesar's Bellum civile is a companion volume to Damon's revised Oxford Classical Texts edition of Caesar's Bellum civile, his account of his civil war with Pompey. Comprising three parts, this volume investigates the detailed philological...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-09-24
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It has long been recognized that the landscape of Britain is one of the 'richest historical records we possess', but just how old is it? The Fields of Britannia is the first book to explore how far the countryside of Roman Britain has survived in use through to the...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-09-10
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'This is a wonderful, surging narrative - a brilliant and meticulous synthesis of the ancient sources . . . This is a story that should be read by anyone interested in history, politics or human nature - and it has never been better told' - Boris Johnson, Mail on...
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Little, Brown Book Group
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2015-09-03
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Sex: how should we do it, when should we do it, and with whom? How should we talk about and represent sex, what social institutions should regulate it, and what are other people doing? Throughout history human beings have searched for answers to such questions by...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-09-03
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Das Zweistromland im heutigen Irak war schon immer ein ganz besonderer Flecken Erde, das war früher so und gilt auch noch heute. Dahlia Shehata erzählt die Geschichte der antiken Hochkulturen, die hier lebten. Sie berichtet von den Sumerern, die die erste Schrift...
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Wiley-VCH
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2015-08-28
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Für Dummies
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