Greece & the Hellenistic World
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The Eye Expanded: Life and the Arts in Greco-Roman Antiquity [Hardback]
Frances B. Titchener (Author)
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ISBN: 9780520210295
Published by : University of California Press
This book seeks to study 'the interaction between human life and the literary and plastic arts'. The sixteen contributors to this book not only cite examples of this interaction, but study the influence of art on life and society, and vice vers... .... Learn More -
Ancient History [Paperback]
George Rawlinson (Author)
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ISBN: 9780760773581
Published by : Barnes & Noble
Originally published in 1869 this book is full of the spirit of the heroic age of archaeology, and was written to make the recent discoveries in Egypt and the Near East available to a wider audience. Accordingly the book does not subordinate th... .... Learn More -
Celebrity in Antiquity: From Media Tarts to Tabloid Queens [Paperback]
Robert Garland (Author)
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ISBN: 9780715634486
Published by : Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd.
What sort of people were able to grab the attention of the public in the ancient world? How was celebrity achieved? What methods did people use to achieve it? Robert Garland turns the spotlight on the careers of some of the most successful and ... .... Learn More -
Attalos, Athens and the Akropolis: The Pergamene "Little Barbarians" and their Roman and Renaissance Legacy [Hardback]
Andrew Stewart (Author)
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ISBN: 9780521831635
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Discovered in Rome in 1514, the "Little Barbarians" are a group of Roman copies, in marble, of gianys, Amazons, Persians and Gauls, now scattered among museum collections in five European cities. The pieces are brought together herre as Andrew ... .... Learn More -
Central Greece and the Politics of Power in the Fourth Century BC [Hardback]
John Buckler (Author); Hans Beck (Author)
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ISBN: 9780521837057
Published by : Cambridge University Press
The short fourth century is notoriously complex; warfare was endemic, but there is no framework as easy as the Peloponnesian war to shoehorn the ever fluctuating alliances between, and hegemony of, the various city states. This excellent study ... .... Learn More -
The Feminine Matrix of Sex and Gender in Classical Athens [Hardback]
Kate Gilhuly (Author)
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ISBN: 9780521899987
Published by : Cambridge University Press
In The Feminine Matrix of Sex and Gender in Classical Athens, Kate Gilhuly explores the relationship between the prostitute, the wife, and the ritual performer in Athenian literature. She suggests that these three roles formed a symbolic contin... .... Learn More -
Ancient Scepticism [Paperback]
Harald Thorsrud (Author)
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ISBN: 9780520260269
Published by : Acumen Publishing
Scepticism, a philosophical tradition that casts doubt on our ability to gain knowledge of the world and suggests suspending judgement in the face of uncertainty, has been influential since is beginnings in ancient Greece. Harald Thorsrud provi... .... Learn More -
The Narrator in Archaic Greek and Hellenistic Poetry [Hardback]
Andrew Morrison (Author)
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ISBN: 9780521874502
Published by : Cambridge University Press
This book examines the ways in which the great poets of the Hellenistic age were influenced by their Archaic forebears. It focuses on narrative poetic texts and examines the role of the narratorial voice. It demonstrates how Calli... .... Learn More -
Masters of Command: Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, and the Genius of Leadership [Hardback]
Barry Strauss (Author)
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ISBN: 9781439164488
Published by : Simon & Schuster
Aimed at the general reader and delivered in a chatty style, Barry Strauss's new book provides a comparative analysis of the generalship of Alexander the Great, Hannibal and Julius Caesar, reconstructing their key campaigns and as... .... Learn More -
Onomatologos: Studies in Greek Personal Names presented to Elaine Matthews [Hardback]
R. W. V. Catling (Editor); F. Marchand (Author); M. Sasanow (Author)
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ISBN: 9781842179826
Published by : Oxbow Books
onomatologos is a term used in later antiquity to describe eminent lexicographers such as Hesychius and Pollux as 'collectors of words', but here it is used as the title for a major volume of papers prepared in honour of Elaine Matthews, recen... .... Learn More