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Language And Authority In De Lingua Latina - Varro'S Guide To Being Roman

by Diana Spencer

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 Diana Spencer, known for her scholarly focus on how ancient Romans conceptualized themselves as a people and how they responded to and helped shape the world they lived in, brings her expertise to an examination of the Roman scholar Varro and his treatise De Lingua Latina.
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Silenced Voices - The Poetics Of Speech In Ovid

by Bartolo A. Natoli

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 Offers a pointed examination of the loss of speech, exile from community, and memory throughout the literary corpus of the Roman poet Ovid. Bartolo Natoli provides a unique cross-reading of Metamorphoses, Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto, poems written after Ovid's exile from Rome in 8CE.
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Insults In Classical Athens

by Deborah Kamen

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 Scholarly investigations of the rich field of verbal and extraverbal Athenian insults have typically been undertaken piecemeal. Deborah Kamen provides an overview of this vast terrain and synthesizes the rules, content, functions, and consequences of insulting fellow Athenians.
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Ctesias' Persica And Its Near Eastern Context

by Matt Waters

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 The Persica is an extensive history of Assyria and Persia written by the Greek historian Ctesias, who served as a doctor to the Persian king Artaxerxes II around 400 BCE. Matt Waters offers an interdisciplinary analysis of the Persica, and shows how it was infused with two millennia of Mesopotamian and Persian motifs, legends, and traditions.
Inari Sami Folklore - Stories From Aanaar

by August V. Koskimies e Toivo I. Itkonen

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 A rich multivoiced anthology of folktales, legends, joik songs, proverbs, riddles, and other verbal art, this is a comprehensive collection of SÃ¡mi oral tradition in English. Collected by August Koskimies and Toivo Itkonen in the 1880s, the material reveals a complex web of social relations that existed both inside and beyond the community.
The Athenian Adonia In Context - The Adonis Festival As Cultural Practice

by Laurialan Reitzammer

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 Rediscovers the symbolism of women's rituals in ancient Athens. A timely contribution to studies of the ways gender and sexuality intersect with religion and culture in ancient Greece.
Repeat Performances - Ovidian Repetition And The Metamorphoses

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 "The papers in this volume, many of which were delivered at a two-day Langford Conference held at the Florida State University in February of 2013 ... " -- Preface.
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Agamemnon

by Aeschylus

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 A new verse translation of "Agamemnon," the first play in Aeschylus s trilogy "The Oresteia," combines the buoyant lyricism of the Greek text with a faithful rendering of its meaning in lucid English."
Trojan Women, Helen, Hecuba - Three Plays About Women And The Trojan War

by Eurípides

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 Three plays about women and the Trojan War, in fresh translations for the stage, the classroom, or the general reader. The publication of "Trojan Women," "Helen," and" Hecuba" in one volume also invites provocative engagement with issues of gender, history, warfare, and politics.
Flinders Petrie - A Life In Archaeology

by Margaret S. Drower

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 Flinders Petrie has been called the ""Father of Modern Egyptology"" and was one of the pioneers of modern archaeology. Here Drower, a student of his in the 1930s, traces his life from his boyhood, when he was already a budding scholar, to his stunning career in the deserts of Egypt.
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The Hellenistic Aesthetic

by Barbara Hughes Fowler

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 Fowler s . . . own insights are apparent throughout, and they seem to distill the personal appreciation and understanding of a scholar who has devoted much of her career to both contemplating and enjoying Hellenistic poetry. . . . (This book) would make an excellent background text for courses in later Greek and Roman art, and it can be read with profit by anyone interested in exploring the character of Hellenistic culture. J. J. Pollitt, American Journal of Archaeology Outstanding is the range of examples discussed both in poetry and art. Theocritus, Callimachus, Appolonius, the epigrammatists, and others that is, the major figures of the time are considered at length and in several different contexts. Passages are quoted in the original Greek, translated, and analyzed. Fowler s sensitivity to poetic forms, evident in her other published writings, is again evident here. In addition, however, the philosophical context is not overlooked. . . . Also highly commendable are the liberal references to works of art. Sculpture in the round and in relief, portraits, terracotta figurines, original paintings (grave stelai) and Campanian murals, mosaics, gold and silver vessels, and jewelry are introduced at various points. Every work of art discussed is illustrated in astonishingly clear photographs, which are interspersed in the body of the text. Christine Mitchell Havelock The Hellenistic Aesthetic provides classicists with their first thorough discussion of the aesthetic unity found in Hellenistic art and literature. . . . Fowler examines parallels both in subject matter and in artistic approach among a diverse group of literary genres and artistic forms. In twelve chapters, The Hellenistic Aesthetic surveys Alexandrian epigrams, pastorals, epics, sculptural groups, mosaics, paintings, and jewelry to supply a convincing, and frequently unexpected, picture of a unified aesthetic vision. Jeffrey Buller, Classical Outlook"
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Women In Roman Republican Drama

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 Latin plays were written for audiences whose gender perspectives and expectations were shaped by life in Rome, and the crowds watching the plays included both female citizens and female slaves. This is the first book to confront directly the role of women in Roman Republican plays of all genres, as well as to examine the role of gender in the influence of this tradition on later dramatists.
The Oneida Indian Journey - From New York To Wisconsin, 1784-1860

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 This collection of essays examines the removal of the Oneida Indians from New York to Wisconsin. The editors present a collaboration between the Oneida Indian Nation and academic community, to discuss tribal dispossession, Oneida views of Oneida history, and the means of studying Oneida history.
The Offense Of Love - Ars Amatoria, Remedia Amoris, And Tristia 2

by Ovid

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 This sparkling new translation of Ovid s love poems, notorious for the sexual content that led to his exile by the emperor Augustus, also includes Tristia 2, Ovid s witty self-defense. With helpful footnotes and a comprehensive introduction, this edition gives readers a poetic tour of the literature, mythology, topography, religion, politics, and sexuality of ancient Rome."
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Selected Epigrams

by Martial

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 This lively translation accurately captures the wit and uncensored bawdiness of the epigrams of Martial, who satirized Roman society, both high and low, in the first century CE. His pithy little poems amuse, but also offer vivid insight into the world of patrons and clients, doctors and lawyers, prostitutes, slaves, and social climbers in ancient Rome.
Modes Of Viewing In Hellenistic Poetry And Art

by Graham Zanker

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 Taking a look at the poetry and visual art of the Hellenistic age, from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC to the Romans' defeat of Cleopatra in 30 BC, this book makes discoveries about the assumptions and conventions of Hellenistic poets and artists and their audiences.
Times Of Trouble - Violence In Russian Literature And Culture

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 Investigates the conspicuous marks of violence in Russian history and culture. Exploring the problem of violence in Russia, this work features essays that look into Russian history as well as depictions of violence in the visual arts and in literature, including the works of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Isaac Babel, Mikhail Lermontov, and Nina Sadur.
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Religion In Ancient Etruria

by Jean-Rene Jannot

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 In this examination of Etruscan religion, Jean-Rene Jannot uses three major constructs - death, ritual, and the nature of the gods to present an overview of ancient Etruscan beliefs, including the afterlife, funerary customs, and mythology.
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The Slave In Greece And Rome

by Jean Andreau e Raymond Descat

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 Jean Andreau and Raymond Descat break new ground in this comparative history of slavery in Greece and Rome. Focusing on slavesâ€™ economic role in society, their crucial contributions to Greek and Roman culture, and their daily and family lives, the authors examine the different ways in which slavery evolved in the two cultures.
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Greek Prostitutes In The Ancient Mediterranean, 800 Bce-200 Ce

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 Challenges the often-romanticised view of the prostitute as an urbane and liberated courtesan by examining the social and economic realities of the sex industry in Greco-Roman culture. Departing from the conventional focus on elite society, these essays consider the Greek prostitute as displaced foreigner, slave, and member of an urban underclass.
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Responses To Oliver Stone'S ""Alexander - Film, History, And Cultural Studies

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 In 2004 director Oliver Stone's epic film ""Alexander"" generated a renewed interest in Alexander the Great. The critical response to the film offers a fascinating lesson in the contentious dialogue between historiography and modern entertainment. This book scrutinizes Stone's project from its inception and design to its production and reception.
Hellenistic Sculpture Ii - The Styles Of Ca. 200-100 B.C.

by Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway

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 Scrutinizes most of the best-known pieces of Greek sculpture to determine what can be securely considered to have been produced during 200-100 BC. This book reveals a tentative but plausible picture of the artistic trends of this fascinating period.
The Shadow Of A Year - The 1641 Rebellion In Irish History And Memory

by John Gibney

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The Complete Poetry Of Catullus

by Catullus

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 These translations of the poems of Catallus are accompanied by: an introduction and commentary that provide biographical and bibliographical information about Catallus; a history of his times; a discussion of the translations; and definitions and notes.
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