Ancient Classical category: 1324 books
The Mirror of the Self
Sexuality, Self-Knowledge, and the Gaze in the Early Roman Empire
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
People in the ancient world thought of vision as both an ethical tool and a tactile sense, akin to touch. Gazing upon someone—or oneself—was treated as a path to philosophical self-knowledge, but the question of tactility introduced an erotic element as well. In The Mirror of the Self, Shadi...
The Gentle, Jealous God
Reading Euripides' Bacchae in English
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Euripides' Bacchae is the magnum opus of the ancient world's most popular dramatist and the most modern, perhaps postmodern, of Greek tragedies. Twentieth-century poets and playwrights have often turned their hand to Bacchae, leaving the play with an especially rich and varied translation history....
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Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
This is the endorsed publication from OCR and Bloomsbury for the Greek AS and A-Level set text prescriptions for 2019-21 giving full Greek text, commentary and vocabulary and a detailed introduction for each text that also covers the prescription to be read in English for A Level. The texts covered...
From Byzantium to Italy
Greek Studies in the Italian Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Which famous poet treasured his copy of Homer, but could never learn Greek? What prompted diplomats to circulate a speech by Demosthenes – in Latin translation – when the Turks threatened to invade Europe? Why would enthusiastic Florentines crowd a lecture on the Roman Neoplatonist Plotinus, but...
by Jennifer Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of the ancient world find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Wonder Woman. Asterix the Gaul. Watchmen. These popular comics, and many others, use classical sources, narrative patterns, and references to enrich their imaginative worlds and deepen the stories they present. This volume explores that rich interaction. Son of Classics and Comics presents thirteen...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
The OCR-endorsed publication from Bloomsbury for the Greek AS and A-Level set text prescriptions giving full Greek text, commentary and vocabulary and a detailed introduction for each text that also covers the prescription to be read in English for A Level. The texts covered are:
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Thucydides,...
Plato’s Labyrinth
Sophistries, Lies and Conspiracies in Socratic Dialogues
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
This original and stimulating study of Plato's Socratic dialogues rereads and reinterprets Plato's writings in terms of their dialogical or dramatic form. Taking inspiration from the techniques of Umberto Eco, Jacques Derrida, and Leo Strauss, Aakash Singh Rathore presents the Socratic dialogues as...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Discussions about the nature of the emotions in Hellenistic philosophy have aroused intense scholarly interest over the last few years. The topics covered by the essays in this volume range from the classical background of Hellenistic theories, through debates on emotion in the major Hellenistic schools,...
The Power and Value of Music
Its Effect and Ethos in Classical Authors and Contemporary Music Theory
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Nobody doubts that music has a special, somewhat mysterious power. Less clear is how we can evaluate that power. What makes music good or bad? Are there objective criteria for such a distinction? What impact can or should music have on individuals and on society as a whole? What are the factors responsible...
The Humblest Sparrow
The Poetry of Venantius Fortunatus
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
In The Humblest Sparrow, Michael Roberts illuminates the poetry of the sixth-century bishop and poet Venantius Fortunatus. Often regarded as an important transitional figure, Fortunatus wrote poetry that is seen to bridge the late classical and earlier medieval periods. Written in Latin, his poems...
Victorian Horace
Classics and Class
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
The poetry of Horace was central to Victorian male elite education and the ancient poet himself, suitably refashioned, became a model for the English gentleman. Horace and the Victorians examines the English reception of Horace in Victorian culture, a period which saw the foundations of the discipline...
by Leon Golden
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Aristotle and the Arc of Tragedy is the latest of Leon Golden’s books to connect Ancient Greece to modern culture. In a world facing many pressing issues Classics professor Golden wants to champion the values and achievements of Classical Civilization. He asserts that Homeric Epic and Greek Tragedy...
Becoming Female
The Male Body in Greek Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
"Becoming Female", the first book-length examination of the body in classical Athenian tragedy, reconsiders the figure of the male tragic hero, making use of both feminist and body theory. The male hero becomes female in the space of tragedy through the experience of suffering, and seems...