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Nothing Ordinary Here - Statius As Creator Of Distinction In The Silvae

by Noelle K. Zeiner

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 Through a combined methodology of philosophy, social theory and archaeology this book offers a reinterpretation of Statius's Silvae.
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Philodemus On Rhetoric Books 1 And 2 - Translation And Exegetical Essays

by Clive Chandler

83,46€ + 10% CARD

 The Epicureans were notorious in antiquity for denigrating most forms of civic participation and for rejecting those cultural activities (such as poetry, music, and rhetoric) which are broadly labelled paideia. In this, as in all else, they ostensibly took their cue from Epicurus and the other founders of the School. In contrast to this, the Epicurean Philodemus, who lived and wrote in Italy in the first century B.C., presents an interesting case. For a substantial portion of his surviving work is preoccupied with investigations into this paideia and with demonstrating how an orthodox Epicurean is to approach them. This book selects one of those investigations, the first two books of Philodemus'' On Rhetoric. An annotated translation is provided of the most recent edition of this text (Longo Auricchio 1977) which is followed by a series of essays which aim to clarify Philodemus'' conception of, and approach to, the problem of rhetoric for Epicureans, and in particular the way he manages citations from the works of the founders to support his arguments against other Epicureans who take a different view. The book constitutes a very helpful guide to this fragmentary and difficult text.
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Philodemus On Rhetoric Books 1 And 2 - Translation And Exegetical Essays

by Clive Chandler

83,46€ + 10% CARD

 The Epicureans were notorious in antiquity for denigrating most forms of civic participation and for rejecting those cultural activities (such as poetry, music, and rhetoric) which are broadly labelled paideia. In this, as in all else, they ostensibly took their cue from Epicurus and the other founders of the School. In contrast to this, the Epicurean Philodemus, who lived and wrote in Italy in the first century B.C., presents an interesting case. For a substantial portion of his surviving work is preoccupied with investigations into this paideia and with demonstrating how an orthodox Epicurean is to approach them. This book selects one of those investigations, the first two books of Philodemus'' On Rhetoric. An annotated translation is provided of the most recent edition of this text (Longo Auricchio 1977) which is followed by a series of essays which aim to clarify Philodemus'' conception of, and approach to, the problem of rhetoric for Epicureans, and in particular the way he manages citations from the works of the founders to support his arguments against other Epicureans who take a different view. The book constitutes a very helpful guide to this fragmentary and difficult text.
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Simonides On The Persian Wars - A Study Of The Elegiac Verses Of The "New Simonides"

by Lawrence M. Kowerski

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 This book examines the arrangement and interpretation of the recently published papyrus fragments named the 'new Simonides', and questions the current assumptions on which most modern scholarship is based.
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Simonides On The Persian Wars - A Study Of The Elegiac Verses Of The "New Simonides"

by Lawrence M. Kowerski

78,16€ + 10% CARD

 This book examines the arrangement and interpretation of the recently published papyrus fragments named the 'new Simonides', and questions the current assumptions on which most modern scholarship is based.
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Singular Dedications - Founders And Innovators Of Private Cults In Classical Greece

by Andrea Purvis

83,46€ + 10% CARD

 Often ignored in studies of Classical Greek religion, private cults were widespread in the Hellenistic world. This study examines three case studies that represent the diversity and complexity that characterize ancient Greek religion in the Classical period.
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For Salvation'S Sake - Provincial Loyalty, Personal Religion, And Epigraphic Production In The Roman And Late Antique Near East

by Jason Moralee

58,29€ + 10% CARD

 This book breaks new ground in the study of cultural unity in the Near East from pre-Roman to early Islamic times (first century BC - eighth century AD). Based on a thorough study of nearly 400 Greek and Latin inscriptions from Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Israel, this book shows how the formula ''for salvation''s sake'' (hyper soterias/pro salute) was fundamental to the political, social and religious lives of hundreds of civic and military elites in the Near East. Initially an expression of ancient indigenous religion, this formula expressed loyalty to the central authority at Rome, while profiling social status and piety. With the arrival of Christianity and Islam, the formula lost its political importance, but persisted in its social and religious applications among Christian and Jewish communities in Late Antiquity. Presenting a new body of evidence, Jason Moralee provides a fresh look at how Romans used the inscriptions to secure the loyalty of their subjects for centuries. This analysis of material culture through several periods redefines notions of political loyalty in the Middle East from antiquity through the Middle Ages, raising new questions about life in the Roman provinces.
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Ambitiosa Mors - Suicide And The Self In Roman Thought And Literature

by T. D. Hill

82,14€ + 10% CARD

 Covering the writing of most major Latin authors between Lucretius and Lucan, this book argues that the significance of the 'noble death' in Roman culture cannot be understood if the phenomenon is viewed in the context of modern ideas of the self.
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Augustan Egypt - The Creation Of A Roman Province

by Livia Capponi

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 With documents including papyri, inscriptions and ostraka, this book casts light on the administration and economy issues faced with the transition of Egypt, from an allied kingdom of Rome to a province of the Roman Empire. It is suitable for students and scholars of ancient history.
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Augustan Egypt - The Creation Of A Roman Province

by Livia Capponi

82,14€ + 10% CARD

 With documents including papyri, inscriptions and ostraka, this book casts light on the administration and economy issues faced with the transition of Egypt, from an allied kingdom of Rome to a province of the Roman Empire. It is suitable for students and scholars of ancient history.
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Rhetoric In Cicero'S Pro Balbo - An Interpretation

by Kimberly A. Barber

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 This book offers an examination of Cicero's speech, the Pro Balbo, which was delivered during a momentous period of Roman history, in defence of a highly influential political advisor of Caesar who was charged under the lexPapia for an illegal grant of citizenship.
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Singular Dedications - Founders And Innovators Of Private Cults In Classical Greece

by Andrea Purvis

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 Private cults were widespread in the Hellenistic world. This is a comprehensive study of this phenomenon, focusing on three case studies that represent the diversity and complexity that charcterize ancient Greek religion in the classical period.
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Singular Dedications - Founders And Innovators Of Private Cults In Classical Greece

by Andrea Purvis

83,46€ + 10% CARD

 Often ignored in studies of Classical Greek religion, private cults were widespread in the Hellenistic world. This study examines three case studies that represent the diversity and complexity that characterize ancient Greek religion in the Classical period.
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For Salvation'S Sake - Provincial Loyalty, Personal Religion, And Epigraphic Production In The Roman And Late Antique Near East

by Jason Moralee

58,29€ + 10% CARD

 This book breaks new ground in the study of cultural unity in the Near East from pre-Roman to early Islamic times (first century BC - eighth century AD). Based on a thorough study of nearly 400 Greek and Latin inscriptions from Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Israel, this book shows how the formula ''for salvation''s sake'' (hyper soterias/pro salute) was fundamental to the political, social and religious lives of hundreds of civic and military elites in the Near East. Initially an expression of ancient indigenous religion, this formula expressed loyalty to the central authority at Rome, while profiling social status and piety. With the arrival of Christianity and Islam, the formula lost its political importance, but persisted in its social and religious applications among Christian and Jewish communities in Late Antiquity. Presenting a new body of evidence, Jason Moralee provides a fresh look at how Romans used the inscriptions to secure the loyalty of their subjects for centuries. This analysis of material culture through several periods redefines notions of political loyalty in the Middle East from antiquity through the Middle Ages, raising new questions about life in the Roman provinces.
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Ambitiosa Mors - Suicide And The Self In Roman Thought And Literature

by T. D. Hill

82,14€ + 10% CARD

 Covering the writing of most major Latin authors between Lucretius and Lucan, this book argues that the significance of the 'noble death' in Roman culture cannot be understood if the phenomenon is viewed in the context of modern ideas of the self.
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Consensus, Concordia And The Formation Of Roman Imperial Ideology

by John Alexander Lobur

74,19€ + 10% CARD

 This book concerns the relationship between ideas and power in the genesis of the Roman empire, and how self-justification of the first emperor through the consensus of the citizen body constrained him to adhere to â€˜legitimateâ€™ and â€˜traditionalâ€™ forms of self-presentation.
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Empedocles Redivivus - Poetry And Analogy In Lucretius

by Myrto Garani

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 This book consists of a thorough study of Lucretiusâ€™ poetic and philosophical debt to Empedocles, focusing on their respective uses of analogy and examining how both poets turn these poetic techniques to use in their epistemological approaches to nature.
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Hyperboreans - Myth And History In Celtic-Hellenic Contacts

by Timothy P. Bridgman

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 Contained in what has come down to us of Greek literary tradition are texts that identify the Hyperboreans with the Celts, or Hyperborean lands with Celtic ones. This groundbreaking book studies the texts that make or imply this identification.
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A Linguistic Commentary On Livius Andronicus

by Ivy Livingston

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 As the oldest literary Latin preserved in any quantity, the language of Livius shows many features of linguistic interest and raises intriguing questions of phonolgy, morphology and syntax. In this book, Ivy Livingston frames an examination of Livius' Latin in the form of a commentary.
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Aristoxenus Of Tarentum And The Birth Of Musicology

by Sophie Gibson

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 This volume studies the theories Aristoxenus applied to the development of music theory in antiquity. He rejected Pythagorean methods of harmonics and instead applied a scientific methodology appropriated from Aristotle.
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Aristoxenus Of Tarentum And The Birth Of Musicology

by Sophie Gibson

78,16€ + 10% CARD

 This volume studies the theories Aristoxenus applied to the development of music theory in antiquity. He rejected Pythagorean methods of harmonics and instead applied a scientific methodology appropriated from Aristotle.
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Empedocles - An Interpretation

by Simon Trepanier

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 Offering a complete reinterpretation of Empedocles, Simon Trepanier reconstructs a single original philosophical poem, against previous interpretations which allocate our extant fragments on two works: a religious poem, "The Purifications", and a scientific poem, "On Nature".
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Empedocles - An Interpretation

by Simon Trepanier

82,14€ + 10% CARD

 Offering a complete reinterpretation of Empedocles, Simon Trepanier reconstructs a single original philosophical poem, against previous interpretations which allocate our extant fragments on two works: a religious poem, "The Purifications", and a scientific poem, "On Nature".
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Linguistic Commentary On Livius Andronicus

by Ivy Livingston

46,36€ + 10% CARD

 As the oldest literary Latin preserved in any quantity, the language of Livius shows many features of linguistic interest and raises intriguing questions of phonolgy, morphology and syntax.
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