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The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Political Thought
edited by Peter Rowe and Malcolm Schofield
The first comprehensive and authoritative guide in English to Greek and Roman politics. Thirty-one papers trace the development of political thought and theory, beginning with the origins of the polis in archaic Greece and the beginnings of political reflection in contemporary literature, including Homer and Hesiod. Other essays analyse the works of the orators, Xenophon and Isocates and the representation of political theory in Grrek ...
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The Epigraphy of Death: Studies in the History and Society of Greece and Rome
edited by G J Oliver
Seven papers, from a conference held at Liverpool University in 1995, which assess the enormous contribution of funerary epigraphs to our understanding of Greco-Roman culture. The diverse essays examine, for example, the style, grandeur and cost of Athenian funerary monuments, Milesian immigrants in hellenistic and Roman Athens, the commemoration of infants, Roman military tombstones and the profound influence of antique tombstones and epigraphs ...
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The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times
by Adrienne Mayor
The monsters and giants of Greco-Roman myths have traditionally been explained away by classicists as poetic fantasies or superstition. This highly enjoyable study argues that centaurs, griffins, satyrs, amongst others, can be explained by the ancient interpretation of single bones or complete fossilised skeletons. Mayor argues that not only were Greeks and Romans aware of extinct and unusual creatures but that there were also ancient fossil ...
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Food and Society in Classical Antiquity
by Peter Garnsey
One of the first books to consider, not only the logistics of food production, allocation and consumption, but also the wider social, biological and cultural context. Garnsey deals with the quantity and quality of food, disease and health, food taboos, human desires as well as needs, and the social and cultural roles of food. Evidence is taken from written sources, skeletal evidence and anthropological literature. 175p (Cambridge University ...
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Literate Education in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds
by Teresa Morgan
Interpretation of Hellenistic and Roman education drawing on evidence from all over the classical world, including papyri from Graeco-Roman Egypt. Fresh interpretations of the function of literature, grammar and rhetoric in education; and explores the Hellenistic and Roman theories of cognitive development. 366p, 24 tabs, 1 map (Cambridge UP 1998)
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Pedagogy and Power: Rhetorics of Classical Learning
edited by Yun Lee Too and Niall Livingstone
A selection of papers by Classicists and non-Classicists, appraising the role of classical training, examining its exclusivity, its social and cultural consequences and implications, and its political value. It is a critical history, but also argues for a revision of the position of Classics in education today. Contents: From discipline in crisis to (multi-)cultural capital (Paul Cartledge); Classical pedagogy and authority in the English ...
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Women and Society in Greek and Roman Egypt: A Sourcebook
edited by Jane Rowlandson
This collaborative work makes a fascinating array of source material available to those previously debarred by the difficulty of reading it. Over three hundred texts are translated from Greek, Latin and Egyptian. The introduction is a concise and extremely useful overview of the historical background of Graeco-Roman Egypt; the sections that follow are entitled: Royalty and Religion (Ptolemaic queens, Roman imperial women, goddesses, priestesses, ...
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Graeco-Roman Egypt
by Simon P Ellis
More is known about everyday life in Graeco-Roman Egypt (332BC to AD395) than in any other Greek or Roman territory, largely owing to the thousands of papyri discovered in the rubbish tips of ancient towns at the beginning of this century. This book looks at the archaeology of this period within the context of this information, and covers settlements from Alexandria to small villages. 56p with figs and photos. (Shire Egyptology Series No. 17, ...
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Readings from Classical Rhetoric
edited by Patricia P. Matsen, Philip Rollinson and Marion Sousa
This reader contains a selection of extracts designed to give a detailed overview of ancient rhetoric, its theory and practice, and its centrality to Classical thought. The 24 authors range from Homer to Augustine. 382p (Southern Illinois UP 1990)
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Images of Authority
edited by Mary Margaret Mackenzie and Charlotte Roueché
Twelve papers to honour the 70th birthday of Joyce Reynolds, all written by her former students. The essays discuss the precariousness of political and religious authority in the literature and culture of Greece and Rome as well as in Carolingian Europe and Renaissance Crete. 228p (Cambridge Philological Society Supplementay Vol 16, 1989)
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