Language & Literature
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Word and Context in Latin Poetry: Studies in Memory of David West [Hardback]
A. J. Woodman (Editor); J. Wisse (Editor)
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ISBN: 9780956838155
Published by : Cambridge Philological Society
Series: Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society Supplementary Volume
Volume: 40
This volume of essays is intended to commemorate the eminent Latin scholar David West, best known for his work on Lucretius, Horace, Virgil and Shakespeare. The contributors – Francis Cairns, Ian Du Quesnay, Bruce Gibson, Alex Hardie, Stephen Harr... .... Learn More -
Understanding Relations Between Scripts: The Aegean Writing Systems [Paperback]
Philippa Steele (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781785706448
Published by : Oxbow Books
Understanding Relations Between Scripts: The Aegean Writing Systems arises from a conference held in Cambridge in 2015. The question of how writing systems are related to each other, and how we can study those relationships, ... .... Learn More -
JJP Supplement 30 (2016) Journal of Juristic Papyrology: Fragments, Holes, and Wholes: Reconstrucing the Ancient World in Theory and Practice [Hardback]
Tomasz Derda (Editor); Jennifer Hilder (Editor); Jan Kwapisz (Editor)
£50.00ISBN: 9788394684808
Published by : Journal of Juristic Papyrology
Series: JJP Supplements
Volume: 30
The present volume offers a variety of case studies rather than a theoretically oriented survey of trends and overall approaches towards the fragmentarily preserved ancient material. Nevertheless, the discussions of specific cases are not confined... .... Learn More -
Archaeology and Homeric Epic [Paperback]
Susan Sherratt (Editor); John Bennet (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781785702952
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology
The relationship between the Homeric epics and archaeology has long suffered mixed fortunes, swinging between 'fundamentalist' attempts to use archaeology in order to demonstrate the essential historicity of the epics and their background, and out... .... Learn More -
Ancient Historiography on War and Empire [Hardback]
Timothy Howe (Editor); Sabine Müller (Editor); Richard Stoneman (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781785702990
Published by : Oxbow Books
In the ancient Greek-speaking world, writing about the past meant balancing the reporting of facts with shaping and guiding the political interests and behaviours of the present. Ancient Historiography on War and Empire shows the ways in which the... .... Learn More -
Writing Biography in Greece and Rome: Narrative Technique and Fictionalization [Hardback]
Koen de Temmerman (Editor); Kristoffel Demoen (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781107129122
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Ancient biography is now a well-established and popular field of study among classicists as well as many scholars of literature and history more generally. In particular biographies offer important insights into the dynamics underlying ancient per... .... Learn More -
Thucydides [Paperback]
P. J. Rhodes (Author)
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ISBN: 9781472523990
Published by : Bloomsbury
Thucydides was labelled the 'greatest historian that ever lived' by Macauley and no study of Classical Greece is complete without encountering his history of the Peloponnesian War, the greatest war of Greeks against Greeks in the late fifth centur... .... Learn More -
Sophist Kings: Persians as Other in Herodotus [Hardback]
Vernon L Provencal (Author)
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ISBN: 9781780936130
Published by : Bloomsbury
Sophist Kings: Persians as Other sets forth a reading of Herodotus' Histories that highlights the consistency with which the Persians are depicted as sophists and Persian culture is infused with a sophistic ideology. The Persians as the Greek 'oth... .... Learn More -
Greek Music, Drama, Sport, and Fauna [Hardback]
Calum Maciver (Editor)
£70.00ISBN: 9780905205571
Published by : Francis Cairns (Publications) Ltd
Volume: 4
PROFESSOR E. KERR BORTHWICK (1925–2008) studied Classics at Aberdeen University and at Christ’s College Cambridge before being appointed Lecturer, first at the University of Leeds and then, in 1955, at Edinburgh Univer... .... Learn More -
Homer on the Gods and Human Virtue [Hardback]
Peter J. Ahrensdorf (Author)
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ISBN: 9780521193887
Published by : Cambridge University Press
This book seeks to restore Homer to his rightful place among the principal figures in the history of political and moral philosophy. Through this fresh and provocative analysis of the Iliad and the Odyssey, Peter J. Ahrensdorf examines Homer's und... .... Learn More
