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Religion, Society And Culture At Dura-Europos

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 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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Epic Journey In Greek And Roman Literature

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Epic Journey In Greek And Roman Literature

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 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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The Epic Journey In Greek And Roman Literature

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 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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Religion, Society And Culture At Dura-Europos

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 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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Reception And The Classics - An Interdisciplinary Approach To The Classical Tradition

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 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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The Emperor And Rome - Space, Representation, And Ritual

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 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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Learning Latin And Greek From Antiquity To The Present

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 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.
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Reception And The Classics - An Interdisciplinary Approach To The Classical Tradition

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 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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Religion In Republican Italy

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 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.
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Later Greek Literature

by Gordon Williams e John J. Winkler

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 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.
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The Emperor And Rome - Space, Representation, And Ritual

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 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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Beginnings In Classical Literature

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 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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Studies In The Greek Historians

by Donald Kagan

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 The historians considered in this volume lived between the fifth century BC and the third century AD. They came from areas as far apart as Syria and Sicily and they had in common the Greek language and the Greek tradition of historical writing. They include authors who, though not strictly historians, shed important light on the tradition.
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Studies In Latin Language And Literature

by David Ross e Thomas Cole

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 This book covers a wide range of subjects from Latin literature and language to textual history and criticism.
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Greek Tragedy

by C. J. Herington e T. F. Gould

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 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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Aristophanes: Essays In Interpretation

by Jeffrey Henderson

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 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.
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Studies In Latin Poetry

by Christopher M. Dawson e Thomas Cole

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 A volume dedicated to studies in Latin poetry, beginning with an examination of Saturnian verse and ending with an investigation into how much Ovid actually knew of the law, and how he exploited this knowledge with piquancy and inventiveness in his writings.
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Studies In Fifth Century Thought And Literature

by Adam Parry

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 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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From The Tetrarchs To The Theodosians - Later Roman History And Culture, 284â€“450 Ce

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 An integrated collection of essays examining the politics, social networks, law, history and historiography, and literature of the later Roman world. These papers analyse specific events and local developments to highlight examples of both change and continuity in the Roman world from 284â€"450.
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Ancient Anger - Perspectives From Homer To Galen

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 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.
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Papyrology

by Naphtali Lewis

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 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.
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The Greco-Roman East - Politics, Culture, Society

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 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.
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Ancient Anger - Perspectives From Homer To Galen

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 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.
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