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  • - Space, Representation, and Ritual
     
    £96.99

    The advent of monarchy at Rome brought major changes to the city of Rome as well as the political system. Here experts reassess the impact of imperial building programs on the configuration of space, representations of the emperor in the city, and the performance of rituals linking emperor and people.

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    £29.99

    This book advances our understanding of the religion, society and culture of Dura-Europos, the small town on the Euphrates known as the 'Pompeii of the Syrian desert' and one of the best sources for day-to-day life in a community on the periphery of the Roman world.

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    £78.99

    Epic's foundational role in Greek and Latin literature places the heroic journey at the center of numerous literary and historical contexts. This volume showcases in a wide-ranging fashion the various functions of the journey from Homer's Odyssey and Vergil's Aeneid to NASA's Apollo 11 mission.

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    £74.49

    This book advances our understanding of the religion, society and culture of Dura-Europos, the small town on the Euphrates known as the 'Pompeii of the Syrian desert' and one of the best sources for day-to-day life in a community on the periphery of the Roman world.

  • - An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Classical Tradition
     
    £29.99

    Essential reading for scholars interested in the classical tradition: from its formation in late antiquity to its relevance for the self-fashioning of artists from Petrarch and Shakespeare to James Joyce and Bob Dylan. The essays are written by specialists in classics, English, Italian and art history.

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    £71.49

    This volume provides a unique overview of the broad historical, geographical and social range of Latin and Greek as second languages. Elucidates the techniques of Latin and Greek instruction across time and place, and the contrasting socio-political circumstances that contributed to and resulted from this remarkably enduring field of study.

  • - An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Classical Tradition
     
    £68.49

    Essential reading for scholars interested in the classical tradition: from its formation in late antiquity to its relevance for the self-fashioning of artists from Petrarch and Shakespeare to James Joyce and Bob Dylan. The essays are written by specialists in classics, English, Italian and art history.

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    £38.49

    The aim of this 1996 book is to identify and assess the distinctive styles of five important ancient Greek sculptors. By using the most recent archaeological evidence and re-evaluating both the ancient literary sources and earlier scholarly literature, the international group of authors whose essays appear here expands our understanding of the role of personal styles in ancient art.

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    £35.49

    This book investigates religious aspects of the Romanization of Italy during the Middle and Late Republic. The mutual impact of Roman and non-Roman practices and institutions is considered, and attempts are made to define the nature of 'Roman', as opposed to 'Latin', 'Italic', or 'Etruscan', religion in the period in question.

  • - Perspectives from Homer to Galen
     
    £83.99

    Anger is found everywhere in the ancient world, starting with the very first word of the Iliad and continuing through all literary genres and every aspect of public and private life. This volume brings together several significant studies on literary, philosophical, medical and political aspects of ancient anger.

  • by Adam Parry
    £29.99

    This volume covers a wide range of topics in Athenian intellectual history, drawing on the methods of various other disciplines to provoke a reconsideration of outstanding problems and controversies in classical studies.

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    £31.99

    This volume explores the various ways in which literary works begin, with essays on nearly all the major genres of Greek and Latin literature.

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    £75.49

    This book investigates religious aspects of the Romanization of Italy during the Middle and Late Republic. The mutual impact of Roman and non-Roman practices and institutions is considered, and attempts are made to define the nature of 'Roman', as opposed to 'Latin', 'Italic', or 'Etruscan', religion in the period in question.

  • - Perspectives from Homer to Galen
     
    £29.99

    Anger is found everywhere in the ancient world, starting with the very first word of the Iliad and continuing through all literary genres and every aspect of public and private life. This volume brings together several significant studies on literary, philosophical, medical and political aspects of ancient anger.

  • - Politics, Culture, Society
     
    £46.49

    This collection of essays by specialists in the field focuses on the Eastern Mediterranean world in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. The essays draw on discoveries in archaeology and epigraphy, and discuss developments in methods and interpretations as well as a wide range of social and historical issues.

  • - Space, Representation, and Ritual
     
    £35.49

    The advent of monarchy at Rome brought major changes to the city of Rome as well as the political system. Here experts reassess the impact of imperial building programs on the configuration of space, representations of the emperor in the city, and the performance of rituals linking emperor and people.

  • - Politics, Culture, Society
     
    £96.99

    This collection of essays by specialists in the field focuses on the Eastern Mediterranean world in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. The essays draw on discoveries in archaeology and epigraphy, and discuss developments in methods and interpretations as well as a wide range of social and historical issues.

  • by Naphtali Lewis
    £29.99

    Yale Classical Studies volume XXVIII is devoted to papyrology. The volume embraces all the principal facets of papyrological study in the many areas of classical antiquity in which our knowledge has been so immeasurably enriched by the discovery and decipherment of Greek and Latin papyri.

  • by Gordon Williams & John J. Winkler
    £35.49

    The essays in this 1982 volume of Yale Classical Studies of Greek literature were collected in an attempt to draw attention to the literary excellence of some undeservedly neglected authors and to inspire more readers to take them seriously.

  • by Jeffrey Henderson
    £29.99

    Aristophanes, one of the greatest and most important poets of the golden age of classical Greek literature, has remained, in the English-speaking world at least, one of the most forbidding, because least well understood. This is a collection of critical and interpretative essays in English devoted entirely to this poet.

  • by T. F. Gould & C. J. Herington
    £35.49

    The essays in volume 25 of Yale Classical Studies were specially commissioned by the editors to provide a cross-section of contemporary approaches to the interpretation of Greek tragedy. All three Attic dramatists receive attention, some essays being studies of a play as a whole, others concentrating on some particular passage or theme.

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