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Politics Of Identity In Greek Sicily And Southern Italy

by Mark R. Thatcher

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 This analysis of the relationship between collective identities and politics in ancient Greece focuses on four key types of identity -- polis identity, ethnicity (e.g., Dorian or Achaean), regional, and Greek -- and places these multiple and flexible self-perceptions at the center of a new account of politics in the Greek West.
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Politics Of Identity In Greek Sicily And Southern Italy

by Mark R. Thatcher

84,79€ + 10% CARD

 This analysis of the relationship between collective identities and politics in ancient Greece focuses on four key types of identity -- polis identity, ethnicity (e.g., Dorian or Achaean), regional, and Greek -- and places these multiple and flexible self-perceptions at the center of a new account of politics in the Greek West.
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Myth, Locality, And Identity In Pindar'S Sicilian Odes

by Virginia M. Lewis

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 This book argues that Pindar engages in a striking, innovative style of mythmaking that represents and shapes Sicilian identities in his epinician odes for Sicilian victors in the fifth century BCE, and it contributes new insights into current debates on the relationship between myth and place in classical literature.
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Myth, Locality, And Identity In Pindar'S Sicilian Odes

by Virginia M. Lewis

91,41€ + 10% CARD

 This book argues that Pindar engages in a striking, innovative style of mythmaking that represents and shapes Sicilian identities in his epinician odes for Sicilian victors in the fifth century BCE, and it contributes new insights into current debates on the relationship between myth and place in classical literature.
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Pindar And The Construction Of Syracusan Monarchy In The Fifth Century B.C.

by Kathryn A. Morgan

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 This book situates Pindar's victory odes for Hieron of Syracuse within the tumultuous context of Syracuse and Greece in the early fifth century BC. It combines exploration of the material and musical culture of Hieron's Syracuse with literary analysis to demonstrate how Pindar's poetry manipulates epinician form to effect political legitimation.
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Archaic And Classical Greek Sicily - A Social And Economic History

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 Ancient Greek migrants in Sicily produced societies and economies that paralleled and differed from their homeland. Since the nineteenth century explanations for this have been heavily debated. This book is the first to gather the historical and archaeological evidence and to deploy it to test the various historical models proposed.
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Archaic And Classical Greek Sicily - A Social And Economic History

by Franco De Angelis

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 Ancient Greek migrants in Sicily produced societies and economies that paralleled and differed from their homeland. Since the nineteenth century explanations for this have been heavily debated. This book is the first to gather the historical and archaeological evidence and to deploy it to test the various historical models proposed.
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Archaic And Classical Greek Sicily - A Social And Economic History

by Franco De Angelis

38,41€ + 10% CARD

 Ancient Greek migrants in Sicily produced societies and economies that paralleled and differed from their homeland. Since the nineteenth century explanations for this have been heavily debated. This book is the first to gather the historical and archaeological evidence and to deploy it to test the various historical models proposed.
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Poetics Of Victory In The Greek West - Epinician, Oral Tradition, And The Deinomenid Empire

by Nigel Nicholson

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 By setting epinician in dialogue with the colorful stories about athletes that circulated in the same period, The Poetics of Victory in the Greek West offers a new and compelling account of the Deinomenids' self-promotion and of the complex communities within and around the Deinomenid empire.
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Poetics Of Victory In The Greek West - Epinician, Oral Tradition, And The Deinomenid Empire

by Nigel Nicholson

79,49€ + 10% CARD

 By setting epinician in dialogue with the colorful stories about athletes that circulated in the same period, The Poetics of Victory in the Greek West offers a new and compelling account of the Deinomenids' self-promotion and of the complex communities within and around the Deinomenid empire.
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Italy'S Lost Greece - Magna Graecia And The Making Of Modern Archaeology

by Giovanna Ceserani

88,76€ + 10% CARD

 Italy's Lost Greece reveals the untold story of the modern engagement with Magna Graecia, the region of ancient Greek settlement in South Italy, and provides a unique perspective on the humanist investment in the ancient past, the evolution of modern Hellenism, and the making of the discipline of classical archaeology.
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Pindar And The Construction Of Syracusan Monarchy In The Fifth Century B.C.

by Kathryn A. Morgan

91,41€ + 10% CARD

 This book situates Pindar's victory odes for Hieron of Syracuse within the tumultuous context of Syracuse and Greece in the early fifth century BC. It combines exploration of the material and musical culture of Hieron's Syracuse with literary analysis to demonstrate how Pindar's poetry manipulates epinician form to effect political legitimation.
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Invention Of Greek Ethnography - From Homer To Herodotus

by Joseph E. Skinner

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 The Invention of Greek Ethnography offers a fresh approach to the origins and development of ethnographic thought, Greek identity, and narrative history.
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Invention Of Greek Ethnography - From Homer To Herodotus

by Joseph E. Skinner

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 The Invention of Greek Ethnography offers a fresh approach to the origins and development of ethnographic thought, Greek identity, and narrative history.
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The Politics Of Identity In Greek Sicily And Southern Italy

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 This analysis of the relationship between collective identities and politics in ancient Greece focuses on four key types of identity -- polis identity, ethnicity (e.g., Dorian or Achaean), regional, and Greek -- and places these multiple and flexible self-perceptions at the center of a new account of politics in the Greek West.
ENGLISH

Myth, Locality, And Identity In Pindar'S Sicilian Odes

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 This book argues that Pindar engages in a striking, innovative style of mythmaking that represents and shapes Sicilian identities in his epinician odes for Sicilian victors in the fifth century BCE, and it contributes new insights into current debates on the relationship between myth and place in classical literature.
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The Comfort Of Strangers - Social Life And Literary Form

by Gage (Professor Of English, Professor Of English, Williams College) Mcweeny

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 The Comfort of Strangers argues for a new understanding of the relation between literary form and the socially dense environments of modernity. In a period of vast population increase in Britain, literary form imagined and licensed new ways of being with, and getting away from, other people.
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Understanding Your Migraines - A Guide For Patients And Families

by Morris, Md (Director, Director, Ucsf Headache Center, University Of California San Francisco) Levin e Thomas N., Md (Director, Director, Dartmouth Headache Center) Ward

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The Morphosyntax-Phonology Connection - Locality And Directionality At The Interface

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 The essays in this volume address a core question regarding the structure of linguistic systems: how much access do the grammatical components - syntax, morphology and phonology - have to each other?
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The Invention Of Greek Ethnography - From Homer To Herodotus

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 The Invention of Greek Ethnography offers a fresh approach to the origins and development of ethnographic thought, Greek identity, and narrative history.
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Archaic And Classical Greek Sicily - A Social And Economic History

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 Ancient Greek migrants in Sicily produced societies and economies that paralleled and differed from their homeland. Since the nineteenth century explanations for this have been heavily debated. This book is the first to gather the historical and archaeological evidence and to deploy it to test the various historical models proposed.
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The Poetics Of Victory In The Greek West - Epinician, Oral Tradition, And The Deinomenid Empire

by Nigel Nicholson

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 By setting epinician in dialogue with the colorful stories about athletes that circulated in the same period, The Poetics of Victory in the Greek West offers a new and compelling account of the Deinomenids' self-promotion and of the complex communities within and around the Deinomenid empire.
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Pindar And The Construction Of Syracusan Monarchy In The Fifth Century B.C.

by Kathryn A. Morgan

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 This book situates Pindar's victory odes for Hieron of Syracuse within the tumultuous context of Syracuse and Greece in the early fifth century BC. It combines exploration of the material and musical culture of Hieron's Syracuse with literary analysis to demonstrate how Pindar's poetry manipulates epinician form to effect political legitimation.
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Palliative Care And Ethics

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 The practice of palliative care and hospice is filled with overt and sometimes covert ethical challenges. These challenges are addressed by leading international palliative care and hospice scholars under three main domains: care delivery systems; addressing the many dimensions of suffering; and difficult decisions near the end of life.
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