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Reinventing Cicero

Exploring the reception of an influential phase in the life of the orator and politician Cicero, this volume focuses on the legacy of his public speeches and political writings that were made between 60-5…

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The Intersectional Alexander the Great

Surveying a diverse range of topics in relation to Alexander the Great and his legacy, this book offers innovative approaches and interpretations to our historical understanding of this controversial figu…

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Hallie Franks,
Ancient Sculpture and Twentieth-Century American Womanhood

This book examines the reception of Graeco-Roman sculptures of Venus and their role in the construction of the body aesthetics of the "fit" American woman in the decades around the turn of the 2…

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Tom McConnell
Chronology, Dialect, and Style in Early Greek Hexameter Poetry

Chronology, Dialect, and Style in Early Greek Hexameter Poetry concerns the language of epic poetry of Ancient Greece. It focuses on various unique texts, whose authors and dates of composition we know ne…

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The Athenian Funeral Oration

In classical Athens, a funeral speech was delivered for dead combatants almost every year, the most famous being that by Pericles in 430 BC. In 1981, Nicole Loraux transformed our understanding of this ge…

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Courtney Ann Roby
The Mechanical Tradition of Hero of Alexandria

"The first sustained study of Hero, who is a key figure in the history of technology in antiquity and the early modern period. It also contributes much to the history of the book and to an understand…

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Michael Pope
Lucretius and the End of Masculinity

From beginning to end, the De rerum natura upsets expectations. This book's premise is that Lucretius intentionally provokes his imagined male audience, playfully and forcefully proving to them that they …

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The Last Musician Of Auschwitz (2024) (Blu-ray) (UK Import)

The extraordinary story of cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch alongside other victims of the camp who played and created music amidst the terrors of the Holocaust. To mark the 80th anniversary of Auschwitz's …

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Ravi Sharma
Plato's Hippias Minor

Ravi Sharma provides a close study of an important but neglected Socratic dialogue by Plato. A new interpretation of the dialogue thoroughly re-examines the ancient evidence bearing on its interpretation …

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Rachana Kamtekar
Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. OSAP is …

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Rachana Kamtekar
Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. OSAP is …

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Martin Devecka
Citizen Beast

Animals, power, and belonging in the Roman Empire.Animals were everywhere in the Roman world: in labor, ritual, entertainment, warfare, and luxury. In Citizen Beast, Martin Devecka argues that they were n…

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Gabriel Zuchtriegel,
The Buried City

The director of the Pompeii Archaeological Park offers a vivid view of daily life in the lost city, shares the latest discoveries, and reflects on preserving heritage.InThe Buried City, Gabriel Zuchtriege…

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Mirjam E Kotwick
The Ancient Interpretation of Dreams

The first book-length study of dream interpretation in classical GreeceLong before Freud, dreams and how to make sense of them fascinated ancient thinkers. In The Ancient Interpretation of Dreams , Mirjam…

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The Last Musician Of Auschwitz (2024) (UK Import)

The extraordinary story of cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch alongside other victims of the camp who played and created music amidst the terrors of the Holocaust. To mark the 80th anniversary of Auschwitz's …

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Silvia Montiglio
Schadenfreude and Its Wicked Delights in Ancient Greece

This volume explores the significance of schadenfreude in Greek literature and culture from the archaic period to the second century CE. It examines how schadenfreude works, what purposes it serves within…

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Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. OSAP is …

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Women Re-Creating Classics

"Drawing together an interdisciplinary range of scholarly and creative voices, this volume looks at contemporary discussions surrounding women's engagement with the classical past. There is a discuss…

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Plato,
Euthydemus. Gorgias

Socrates against sophistry.Plato of Athens, who laid the foundations of the Western philosophical tradition and in range and depth ranks among its greatest practitioners, was born to a prosperous and poli…

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The Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World

The ancient Greek world consisted of approximately 1,000 autonomous polities scattered across the Mediterranean basin, and each one developed its own, unique set of socio-political institutions and social…

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