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William Guast
Greek Declamation and the Roman Empire

Re-evaluates a genre that was central to the Greek literature of the high Roman empire. Rejecting traditional conceptions of the genre as 'nostalgic', it explores the significance of Greek declamation's r…

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Christopher Tanfield
A Companion to the Aeneid in Translation: Volume 3

"For the first time, with this three-volume companion, students can access the full literary and historical significance of the Aeneid in translation through a commentary that unpicks Virgil's litera…

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Benjamin A Saltzman
Turning Away

A sweeping account of how we are at our most human when we turn away from the pains of the world.Why do we look away from the suffering of others? Why do we cover our faces in shame? Why do we lower our h…

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John Holton
Alexander's Successors and the Creation of Hellenistic Kingship

"Alexander's Successors and the Creation of Hellenistic Kingship reconstructs how the development of royal ideologies led to five powerful new kingships after Alexander's death. It reveals how ideolo…

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Vasileios Balaskas
Revivals of Classical Drama in Greece and Spain (1860s-1970s)

Vasileios Balaskas examines how Classical drama was revived at ancient European venues during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, focusing on Spain and Greece. These revivals turned ancient theatres i…

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Gol&
Songs and Stones

The Greek chorus was central to ancient communal life. Some of the most famous poets of the archaic and classical age, such as Sappho and Pindar, wrote for women and men dancing in a chorus. Greek drama, …

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Koki Nakano (geb. 1988)

Klavierwerke "Pre-Choreographed" (180g)

Koki Nakano (Klavier)

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John Holton
Royal Traditions and the Consolidation of Power by Alexander's Successors

"Examining the period of political consolidation after Alexander the Great's death, John Holton reconstructs how the successors used new frameworks of royal ideology to create long-term kingships. Th…

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Wolfram Grajetzki
The Middle Kingdom of Ancient Egypt

"For the ancient Egyptians, the Middle Kingdom (c. 2000-1700 BC) was a classical period of art, history and literature. The Twelfth Dynasty was one of the strongest ever to rule on the banks of the N…

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Christopher Tanfield
A Companion to the Aeneid in Translation: Volume 1

"For the first time, with this three-volume companion, students can access the full literary and historical significance of the Aeneid in translation through a commentary that unpicks Virgil's litera…

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Misinformation, Disinformation, and Propaganda in Greek Historiography

Mindful of the present state of discourse on ancient Greek historiography, this edited volume explores the major themes of pursuing factuality, managing witness/source bias, falling into historical error …

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James Henry Breasted
Ancient Times, A History of the Early World, Part II (Yesterday's Classics)

A continuation of the study of ancient history beginning with the struggle between Athens and Sparta and the fall of the Athenian empire, followed by the exploits of Alexander the Great, the Roman conques…

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Christopher Tanfield
A Companion to the Aeneid in Translation: Volume 2

"For the first time, with this three-volume companion, students can access the full literary and historical significance of the Aeneid in translation through a commentary that unpicks Virgil's litera…

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Koert Debeuf,
The Influence of Averroes on European Thought

An exploration of the reception of Avicenna in the West that presents a new reading of the history of European philosophy.

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David Stuttard
Ancient Greece in Fifty Monuments

An arresting visual tour of the great sites of ancient Greece, told through its city states and the monuments they built to endure through the ages.'We have raised ... monuments that those alive today loo…

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Susanna Morton Braund
Translating Virgil

"The first synthesis and analysis of the translation history of Roman poet Virgil's works into European languages. A wide-ranging interdisciplinary investigation that contributes to western intellect…

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David H Camden
The Cosmological Doctors of Classical Greece

Why did some doctors in Classical Greece feel compelled to study the universe as a whole? How could cosmological principles be employed in clinical practice? This book explores the works of the cosmologic…

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Ryan Denson,
A Zoobiography of the Ancient Sea Monster

Examining a vast corpus of literary references and artistic representations, this volume offers the first comprehensive study of the ketos - the sea monster imagined by the ancient Greeks and Romans.The c…

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A Narratological Commentary on Herodotus' Histories

The narrative art of Herodotus' Histories has always been greatly admired, but it has never received an in-depth and systematic analysis. This commentary lays bare the role of the narrator and his effecti…

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Michael Frede, George Boys-Stones, George Karamanolis
Essays in Later Ancient Philosophy

Essays in Later Ancient Philosophy is a collection of Michael Frede's papers on topics in later ancient philosophy. They centre on pagan and Christian philosophers including Celsus, Numenius, Longinus, Sy…

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