Society & Culture
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Rhetoric in Antiquity [Paperback]
Laurent Pernot (Author)
Regular Price: £31.50
Special Price: £6.95
ISBN: 9780813214078
Published by : Catholic University of America Press
This book offers a full description of ancient rhetoric in the Greco-Roman period, from Homer and classical Athens, through the Hellenistic World, Roman Republic, and Roman Empire, up to the advent of Christianity, explaining the evolutions, illum... .... Learn More -
Roman Working Lives and Urban Living [Paperback]
Ardle Mac Mahon (Author); Jennifer Price (Author)
£34.00ISBN: 9781842171868
Published by : Oxbow Books
The ordinary people who made up the largest section of the population in the cities and towns in the Roman world were largely ignored by contemporary writers and have often been marginalised in traditional studies of Roman urbanism, but resear... .... Learn More -
The Clothed Body in the Ancient World [Paperback]
Liza Cleland (Author); Mary Harlow (Author); Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones (Author)
£36.00ISBN: 9781842171653
Published by : Oxbow Books
The recent renaissance of interest in the history of dress and its cultural importance is celebrated in this collection of interdisciplinary essays. The sixteen contributors present on-going research into the study of the clothed body in ancien... .... Learn More -
Declamation, Paternity and Roman Identity: Authority and the Rhetorical Self [Hardback]
Erik Gunderson (Author)
Regular Price: £67.00
Special Price: £6.95
ISBN: 9780521820059
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Having understood neither the title nor the jacket blurb, I approached the preface of this book with caution. Feeling further baffled and a little dizzy I closed the book and concluded that I was in no way qualified to review the book. An edite... .... Learn More -
The Roman Gaze: Vision, Power and the Body [Hardback]
David Frederick (Author)
Regular Price: £39.50
Special Price: £12.95
ISBN: 9780801869617
Published by : Johns Hopkins University Press
The act of looking, both outwards and inwards, was an important element in Roman culture with Roman vision, so Fredrick argues, being distinct from both Greek and Western vision. This collection of nine essays draws on modern gender and materia... .... Learn More -
The Gladiator: The Secret History of Rome's Warrior Slaves [Paperback]
Alan Baker (Author)
Regular Price: £9.99
Special Price: £2.95
ISBN: 9780306811852
Published by : Da Capo Press
Condemned and yet feared by emperors, almost certain to be slaughtered and yet adored by the masses, the gladiator was the superstar of his day. His existence was invariably short and violent, improved only faintly by the prospect of honor, wealth... .... Learn More -
Greek Romans & Roman Greeks: Studies in Cultural Interaction [Hardback]
E. Ostenfeld (Author); Karin Blomqvist (Author)
£22.95ISBN: 9788772887968
Published by : Aarhus University Press
Series: Aarhus Studies in Mediterranean Antiquity
In its first three centuries the Roman Empire expanded politically at the same time as Greek culture was enjoying its heyday. This not only created tensions but also many productive impulses, which were mirrored in different branches of cultural l... .... Learn More -
Intertextuality and the Reading of Roman Poetry [Hardback]
Lowell Edmunds (Author)
Regular Price: £42.00
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ISBN: 9780801865114
Published by : Johns Hopkins University Press
How can we explain the process by which a literary text refers to another text? For the past decade and a half, intertextuality has been a central concern of scholars and readers of Roman poetry. In Intertextuality and the Reading of Roman Poetry,... .... Learn More -
Die Wagendarstellungen der Pannonischen Grabsteine [Hardback]
Zsolt Visy (Author)
£15.00ISBN: 9789636414566
Published by : University of Pecs
A study of carved reliefs of wagons from Roman tombstones from Pannonia. Visy provides a typology and analysis of the various wagon types and elements such as wheels, undercarriages and so on depicted. The tomb stones are all illustrated. Germa... .... Learn More -
Consolatory Rhetoric: Grief, Symbol and Ritual in the Greco-Roman Era [Hardback]
Donovan J. Ochs (Author)
Regular Price: £38.50
Special Price: £7.95
ISBN: 9780872498853
Published by : University of South Carolina Press
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 te... .... Learn More
