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Consolatory Rhetoric: Grief, Symbol and Ritual in the Greco-Roman Era
by Donovan J. Ochs
Consolatory Rhetoric explores Greco-Roman funeral rituals to reveal how opposing symbols functioned rhetorically to comfort communities afflicted by the death of one of their members. While the bulk of rhetorical criticism interprets written texts, Donovan Ochs broadens the traditional focus to consider non-verbal symbols as well as action and object languages. Ochs demonstrates that non-discursive dimensions of Greco-Roman burial rites held a ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price GB £20.50, Our Price GB £7.95
Greek and Roman Colonisation: Origins, Ideologies and Interactions
Bradley, Simon
The term colonization encompasses much diversity, from the settlement of the western Mediterranean and the Black Sea by Greeks in the archaic period to the foundation of Roman colonies in mainland Italy during the Republic. Though very different in their motives and methods, both Greek and Roman colonizations are presented by our sources as organized and clearly defined processes, within which internal and external relations were firmly ...
Hardback. Price GB £45.00
Greek and Roman Necromancy
Ogden, Daniel
In the Greek and Roman worlds, as in many other ancient societies, if you wanted to know about the future an option was to consult the dead. In this book we enter the world of ghosts, zombies, sorcerers, shamans, witches and oracles, we visit tombs, battlefields, oracular shrines and delve into the underworld to discover why and how people invoked the dead and consulted their wisdom. Ogden's fascinating book on ancient necromancy brings together ...
Paperback. Temporarily out of stock at publishers - will be delayed. Orders will be recorded. Price GB £22.50
Hardback. Price GB £42.95
Families in the Greco-Roman World
edited by Ray Laurence and Agneta Stromberg
The family has been recognised in the ancient world as the key social institution on which both society and the state are based. However, in the pre-Classical and Classical world the family was constructed in dissimilar ways and provides the means to ...
Hardback. Price GB £65.00
Before Forgiveness: The Origins of a Moral Idea
by David Konstan
In this book, David Konstan argues that the modern concept of interpersonal forgiveness, in the full sense of the term, did not exist in ancient Greece and Rome. Even more startlingly, it is not fully present in the Hebrew Bible, nor again in the New ...
Hardback. Price GB £55.00
Ethnic Constructs in Antiquity
by Ton Derks
This volume explores the theme of ethnicity and ethnogenesis in societies of the ancient world. Its starting point is the current view in the social and historical sciences of ethnicity as a subjective construct that is shaped through interaction with an ...
Hardback. Price GB £45.00
Derecho e historia en la sociedad clasica: Memoria y reconstruccion
by J. Muniz Coello
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Paperback. Price GB £49.00
Public Roles and Personal Status: Man and Women in Antiquity
edited by Lena Larsson Loven and Agneta Stromberg
Fourteen essays examine gender, social status and social and sexual roles in the ancient world. Archaeological art art historical essays look at the evidence for male and female social status in the Mycenean period, at Etruscan sarcophagi and tomb ...
Hardback. Price GB £45.00
Die Beendigung des Sklavenstatus im Altertum
by Ingomar Weiler
Slaves accounted for a large proportion of the Greek and Roman population and yet, as this study proclaims, they had no voice. The only accounts of slavery that exist were written by free men. Weiler's detailed study examines the nature of ancient slavery ...
Paperback. Price GB £38.00
Sinn (in) der Antike: Orientierungssysteme, Leitbilder und Wertkonzepte im Altertum
edited by Karl-Joachim Hölkeskamp, Jörn Rüsen et al
These twenty papers, originating from two workshops held in 2000 and 2001, examine the concept of `sense' as it was understood and portrayed during antiquity. The cultural and philosophical theories concerning the human mind are complemented by ...
Hardback. Price GB £55.00
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