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Fiction And Education In The Roman World - The Cultivation Of The Reader

by Jacqueline (University Of Virginia) Arthur-Montagne

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 Reveals how fiction was taught and reimagined in the Roman world. Bridging elite education and popular storytelling, it shows how the ancient novel both emerged from and satirized the literary training that shaped Roman cultural life. For classicists, literary theorists, and anyone interested in ancient education.
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Fiction And Education In The Roman World - The Cultivation Of The Reader

by Jacqueline (University Of Virginia) Arthur-Montagne

~~168,98€~~ 152,08€ 10% OFF

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 Reveals how fiction was taught and reimagined in the Roman world. Bridging elite education and popular storytelling, it shows how the ancient novel both emerged from and satirized the literary training that shaped Roman cultural life. For classicists, literary theorists, and anyone interested in ancient education.
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Greek Declamation And The Roman Empire

by William (Winchester College) Guast

~~33,79€~~ 30,41€ 10% OFF

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 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 re-enactment of classical history for its own times and how it contributed to identity formation, social interaction and political discussion.
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Christianity, Philosophy, And Roman Power - Constantine, Julian, And The Bishops On Exegesis And Empire

by Lea (University Of Cambridge) Niccolai

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 Shows that the paradox of the late antique clash between Christianity and Greco-Roman culture is that classical culture wrote the script for the Christianisation of Roman power. Emperor Julian's writings reveal the continuous influence of traditional philosophical ideals in shaping the competition between fourth-century pagan and Christian leaders.
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The Aesthetics Of Hope In Late Greek Imperial Literature - Methodius Of Olympus' Symposium And The Crisis Of The Third Century

by Dawn (Australian Catholic University, Melbourne) Lavalle Norman

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 Sheds light on a relatively dark period of literary history, the late third century CE, by examining how some early Christian writers tried to re-orient literature. Methodius of Olympus' dialogic Symposium exposes an era's new concerns, with its insistence that the future is more interesting than the past.
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Dionysius Of Halicarnassus And Augustan Rome - Rhetoric, Criticism And Historiography

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 The Augustan Age was the Golden Age of Latin literature. This book explores how a Greek author of Augustan Rome bridged the gap between Greece and Rome, and between historiography and rhetoric. Indispensable for scholars of Augustan Rome and for students of Greek and Latin literature.
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Roman Ionia - Constructions Of Cultural Identity In Western Asia Minor

by Martin (Universitat Wien, Austria) Hallmannsecker

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 Through a detailed study of Roman Ionia, this book offers insight into the perceptions and constructions of collective cultural identities in the ancient world. It will benefit scholars and students interested in the issues of regional identities and the cultural history of Ancient Greece overall.
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Late Hellenistic Greek Literature In Dialogue

~~41,91€~~ 33,53€ 20% OFF

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 Argues for the need to rethink the place of late Hellenistic literature within the wider landscape of Greek and Roman literary history. Explores a wide range of texts and genres, in prose and verse, showing how they engaged with their social, cultural and political contexts and with each other.
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Greek Declamation And The Roman Empire

by William Guast

~~33,11€~~ 26,49€ 20% OFF

 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 re-enactment of classical history for its own times and how it contributed to identity formation, social interaction and political discussion.
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Greek Declamation And The Roman Empire

by William Guast

~~33,11€~~ 26,49€ 20% OFF

 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 re-enactment of classical history for its own times and how it contributed to identity formation, social interaction and political discussion.
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Roman Phrygia - Culture And Society

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 This multidisciplinary collection of essays transforms our understanding of ancient inner Anatolia, one of the most fascinating and understudied regions of the Roman empire. With essays on law, religion, architecture and art history, this book will be essential reading for all social and cultural historians of the Roman world.
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The Social World Of Intellectuals In The Roman Empire - Sophists, Philosophers, And Christians

by Kendra (Boston College, Massachusetts) Eshleman

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 Explores how social networks shaped the identity of sophists, philosophers, and Christians in the early Roman Empire. Taking a sociological focus, this book redresses a bias toward intellectual concerns, enriches understanding of the Second Sophistic and reframes the formation of Christian 'orthodoxy'.
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Christianity, Philosophy, And Roman Power - Constantine, Julian, And The Bishops On Exegesis And Empire

by Lea (University Of Cambridge) Niccolai

~~141,95€~~ 113,56€ 20% OFF

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 Shows that the paradox of the late antique clash between Christianity and Greco-Roman culture is that classical culture wrote the script for the Christianisation of Roman power. Emperor Julian's writings reveal the continuous influence of traditional philosophical ideals in shaping the competition between fourth-century pagan and Christian leaders.
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Painting, Ethics, And Aesthetics In Rome

by Nathaniel B. (Washington University, St Louis) Jones

~~37,85€~~ 30,28€ 20% OFF

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 In the first centuries BCE and CE, Roman wall painters frequently placed representations of works of art, especially panel paintings, within their own mural compositions. This richly illustrated book explores the social, ethical and aesthetic dimensions of this practice and will appeal to both classicists and art historians.
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Lives Of Ancient Villages - Rural Society In Roman Anatolia

by Peter Thonemann

~~43,73€~~ 34,98€ 20% OFF

 This is the first detailed ethnographic analysis of the kinship structure, religious life, culture and ethics of an ancient rural community. It will be essential reading for all historians of the Greco-Roman world, and will also be of interest to anthropologists interested in kinship and pre-modern rural societies.
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Lives Of Ancient Villages - Rural Society In Roman Anatolia

by Peter Thonemann

~~43,73€~~ 34,98€ 20% OFF

 This is the first detailed ethnographic analysis of the kinship structure, religious life, culture and ethics of an ancient rural community. It will be essential reading for all historians of the Greco-Roman world, and will also be of interest to anthropologists interested in kinship and pre-modern rural societies.
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Greek Declamation And The Roman Empire

by William (Winchester College) Guast

~~120,32€~~ 96,26€ 20% OFF

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 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 re-enactment of classical history for its own times and how it contributed to identity formation, social interaction and political discussion.
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The Lives Of Ancient Villages - Rural Society In Roman Anatolia

by Peter (University Of Oxford) Thonemann

~~44,61€~~ 35,69€ 20% OFF

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 This is the first detailed ethnographic analysis of the kinship structure, religious life, culture and ethics of an ancient rural community. It will be essential reading for all historians of the Greco-Roman world, and will also be of interest to anthropologists interested in kinship and pre-modern rural societies.
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Roman Ionia - Constructions Of Cultural Identity In Western Asia Minor

by Martin Hallmannsecker

~~38,43€~~ 30,74€ 20% OFF

 Through a detailed study of Roman Ionia, this book offers insight into the perceptions and constructions of collective cultural identities in the ancient world. It will benefit scholars and students interested in the issues of regional identities and the cultural history of Ancient Greece overall.
ENGLISH

Roman Ionia - Constructions Of Cultural Identity In Western Asia Minor

by Martin Hallmannsecker

~~38,43€~~ 30,74€ 20% OFF

 Through a detailed study of Roman Ionia, this book offers insight into the perceptions and constructions of collective cultural identities in the ancient world. It will benefit scholars and students interested in the issues of regional identities and the cultural history of Ancient Greece overall.
ENGLISH

Late Hellenistic Greek Literature In Dialogue

~~41,08€~~ 32,86€ 20% OFF

 Argues for the need to rethink the place of late Hellenistic literature within the wider landscape of Greek and Roman literary history. Explores a wide range of texts and genres, in prose and verse, showing how they engaged with their social, cultural and political contexts and with each other.
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Late Hellenistic Greek Literature In Dialogue

~~41,08€~~ 32,86€ 20% OFF

 Argues for the need to rethink the place of late Hellenistic literature within the wider landscape of Greek and Roman literary history. Explores a wide range of texts and genres, in prose and verse, showing how they engaged with their social, cultural and political contexts and with each other.
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Oppian'S Halieutica - Charting A Didactic Epic

by Emily Kneebone

~~60,95€~~ 48,76€ 20% OFF

 Demonstrates the sophistication, influence, and cultural centrality of an understudied imperial Greek didactic epic. Written for students and scholars of imperial Greek literature and culture (including the ancient novel), ancient heroic and didactic epic poetry, and those interested in human-animal relations in the ancient world.
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Late Hellenistic Greek Literature In Dialogue

~~133,84€~~ 107,07€ 20% OFF

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 Argues for the need to rethink the place of late Hellenistic literature within the wider landscape of Greek and Roman literary history. Explores a wide range of texts and genres, in prose and verse, showing how they engaged with their social, cultural and political contexts and with each other.
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