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  • A Companion to Food in the Ancient World

    Edición de John Wilkins, Robin Nadeau ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
    A Companion to Food in the Ancient World presents a comprehensive overview of the cultural aspects relating to the production, preparation, and consumption of food and drink in antiquity.• Provides an up-to-date overview of the study of food in the ancient world• Addresses all aspects of food production, distribution, preparation, and consumption during antiquity• Features original scholarship ... Leer más

    $166.00 USD

  • Les manières de table dans le monde gréco-romain

    de Robin Nadeau ...
    Series series Tables des Hommes
    Le banquet est une activité représentative des valeurs de l’élite gréco-romaine du IIe siècle apr. J.-C. Il symbolise l’otium (loisir) et la paideia (culture). Le banquet était déjà le cadre de la transmission des normes comportementales et des valeurs de l’élite à l’époque archaïque, en Grèce, par l’entremise des poèmes épiques et lyriques et par l’observation des pratiques des Anciens. À partir ... Leer más

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  • Hrafnkel's Saga and Other Icelandic Stories

    Written around the thirteenth century AD by Icelandic monks, the seven tales collected here offer a combination of pagan elements tightly woven into the pattern of Christian ethics. They take as their subjects figures who are heroic, but do not fit into the mould of traditional heroes. Some stories concern characters in Iceland - among them Hrafknel's Saga, in which a poor man's son is murdered by ... Leer más

    $12.59 USD

  • Republic

    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Republic is the central work of the Western world's most famous philosopher. Essentially an inquiry into morality, Republic also contains crucial arguments and insights into many other areas of philosophy. It is also a literary masterpiece: the philosophy is presented for the most part for the ordinary reader, who is carried along by the wit and intensity of the dialogue and by Plato's ... Leer más

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  • Homer: Odyssey Books XIII and XIV

    de Homer ...
    Series series Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
    The second part of the Odyssey takes epic in new directions, giving significant roles to people of 'lower status' and their way of life: epic notions of the primacy of the aristocrat and the achievements of the Trojan War are submitted to scrutiny. Books XIII and XIV contain some of the subtlest human exchanges in the poem, as Athena and Odysseus spar with each other and Odysseus tests the quiet ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • Seneca: Oedipus

    Series series Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy
    Oedipus, king of Thebes, is one of the giant figures of ancient mythology. Through the centuries, his story has inspired works of epic poetry, lyric poetry, tragedy, opera, a gospel musical and more. The myth has been famously deployed in psychology by Sigmund Freud. It may not be too bold to claim that Oedipus is the name from Greco-Roman mythology best known beyond the academy at the present ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • The Age of Robert Guiscard

    Southern Italy and the Northern Conquest

    de Graham Loud ...
    Series series The Medieval World
    Founded upon an unrivalled knowledge of the original sources for the conquest, this is a cogent and lucid analysis of a key medieval subject hitherto largely ignored by historians. ... Leer más

    $107.99 USD

  • Libanius the Sophist

    Rhetoric, Reality, and Religion in the Fourth Century

    Series Libro 63 - Cornell Studies in Classical Philology
    Libanius of Antioch was a rhetorician of rare skill and eloquence. So renowned was he in the fourth century that his school of rhetoric in Roman Syria became among the most prestigious in the Eastern Empire. In this book Raffaella Cribiore draws on her unique knowledge of the entire body of Libanius's vast literary output—including 64 orations, 1,544 letters, and exercises for his students—to ... Leer más

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  • The Political Biographies of Cornelius Nepos

    de S. Rex Stem ...
    The Roman writer Cornelius Nepos was a friend of Cicero and Catullus and other first-century BCE authors, and portions of his encyclopedic work On Famous Men are the earliest surviving biographies written in Latin. In The Political Biographies of Cornelius Nepos, Rex Stem presents Nepos as a valuable witness to the late Republican era, whose biographies share the exemplary republican political ... Leer más

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  • Plagiarism in Latin Literature

    de Scott McGill ...
    In response to critics who charged him with plagiarism, Virgil is said to have responded that it was easier to steal Hercules' club than a line from Homer. This was to deny the allegations by implying that Virgil was no plagiarist at all, but an author who had done the hard work of making Homer's material his own. Several other texts and passages in Latin literature provide further evidence for ... Leer más

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  • Ancient Greek Scholarship

    A Guide to Finding, Reading, and Understanding Scholia, Commentaries, Lexica, and Grammatiacl Treatises, from Their Beginnings to the Byzantine Period

    Series series Society for Classical Studies Classical Resources
    Ancient greek sholarship constitutes a precious resource for classicists, but one that is underutilized because graduate students and even mature scholars lack familiarity with its conventions. The peculiarities of scholarly Greek and the lack of translations or scholarly aids often discourages readers from exploiting the large body of commentaries, scholia, lexica, and grammatical treatises that ... Leer más

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  • Ovid Revisited

    The Poet in Exile

    In time for the bimillennium of Ovid's relegation to Tomis on the Black Sea by the emperor Augustus in 8 AD, Jo-Marie Claassen here revises and integrates into a more popular format two decades of scholarship on Ovid's exile. Some twenty articles and reviews from scholarly journals have been shortened, rearranged and merged into seven chapters, which, together with some new material, offer a wide ... Leer más

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