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  • - Architecture, Cult, and Community
    af Ann Marie (University of Southern California) Yasin
    450,95 - 1.282,95 kr.

    This book looks at the architecture and decoration of early Christian churches of the Mediterranean, revealing how the buildings functioned as social spaces in which local communities defined a sense of group identity and communicated with the divine through prayer and ritual.

  • af California) Parker & Grant (Stanford University
    609,95 - 1.282,95 kr.

    India fascinated the ancient Romans. Drawing on literary and archaeological sources, this book sketches the contours of that India - as much the source of luxury goods and the marker of the end of world empire for both polytheists and Christians as the home of holy men and their special knowledge.

  • - Greeks, Jews and Christians in Antioch
    af Isabella (University of Bristol) Sandwell
    307,95 - 1.277,95 kr.

    Offers an approach to understanding religious interaction in the fourth century AD. The text tackles the fundamental question of attitudes to religious identity by exploring how the Christian preacher John Chrysostom and the Graeco-Roman orator Libanius wrote about and understood issues of religious allegiance.

  • - The Transformations of Greek Identity and the Reception of the Classical Tradition
    af Anthony (Ohio State University) Kaldellis
    643,95 - 1.465,95 kr.

    This text was first book to examine the transformation in the meaning of Hellenism in late antiquity and Byzantium, when Greek identity and the classical legacy were profoundly re-evaluated. Its discussion of the sources will appeal to classicists and students of modern Greece.

  • - Landscape and Literature in the Periegesis of Pausanias
    af Virginia) Hutton & William (College of William and Mary
    462,95 - 1.415,95 kr.

    Pausanias' Description of Greece is the most important non-fictional travel work in ancient Greek literature. It is here explored against contemporary literary currents and the archaeological remains of those places described. Pausanias emerges as a unique witness to what it meant to be a Greek subject of the Roman Empire.

  • af Trinity University, Texas) Kim & Lawrence (Assistant Professor
    409,95 - 1.098,95 kr.

    Examines four texts of the Imperial period by Strabo, Dio of Prusa, Lucian, and Philostratus in order to elucidate how each author formulates very different conceptions of Homer, his motivations, and his poetic methods in constructing his imaginative and innovative treatment of Homer's relation to heroic history.

  • - Imagery, Values and Identity in Italy, 50 BC-AD 250
    af Zahra (University of Warwick) Newby
    473,95 - 1.269,95 kr.

    This book explores the representations of Greek myths in Roman art, including public, domestic and funerary contexts. It shows the crucial role Greek culture played in forming Roman identity, and how this changed over time. The book is aimed at scholars and students of Roman art and of Roman social and cultural history.

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    1.208,95 kr.

    Galen is the most important medical writer in Graeco-Roman antiquity. This volume locates him firmly in the intellectual life of his period of the second century AD, and tries to explain the medical and philosophical 'world of knowledge' that he tries to create.

  • af California) Trimble & Jennifer (Stanford University
    525,95 - 1.465,95 kr.

    Roman portrait statues, famed for their individuality, repeatedly employed the same body forms. This book examines the 'Large Herculaneum Woman' statue type, a draped female body common in the second century CE and surviving in about two hundred examples, to demonstrate how sameness helped to communicate a woman's social identity.

  • - Returning Romance
    af Oxford) Whitmarsh & Tim (Corpus Christi College
    415,95 - 1.098,95 kr.

    Romance was the dominant Greek literary genre of the Roman Empire. This book explores its distinctive qualities and the reasons for its popularity. Using cultural and narrative theory, it argues that the romance was simultaneously primal and malleable enough to capture the tensions in Greek identity during this era.

  • af A. J. S. (University of Newcastle upon Tyne) Spawforth
    416,95 - 1.098,95 kr.

    This book examines the impact of the Roman cultural revolution under Augustus on the Roman province of Greece and argues that the transformation of Roman Greece into a classicising 'museum' was a specific response of the provincial Greek elites to the cultural politics of the Roman imperial monarchy.

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    1.460,95 kr.

    The first volume of its kind to be devoted to the works of Philostratus, the great essayist, biographer and historian of Greek culture in the Roman world. The papers contained cover his remarkable range, from hagiographic fiction to historical dialogue, and from prescriptions for gymnastics to the lives of the Sophists.

  • af Nathanael J. (University of Oregon) Andrade
    470,95 - 1.282,95 kr.

    Drawing upon the issues raised by postcolonial and performance theory, this book evaluates how Syrians redefined Greekness and negotiated the pressures of Greek colonialism and Roman imperialism. Of interest to ancient historians, archaeologists and classicists generally and for those studying the Near East in particular.

  • - Jewish Ways of Seeing in Late Antiquity
    af Ann Arbor) Neis & Rachel (University of Michigan
    416,95 - 1.116,95 kr.

    Vision was a powerful sense in the ancient world. How did the rabbis living in Roman Palestine and Persian Mesopotamia understand and seek to discipline and cultivate it? This book offers a new perspective on the significance of sight for the rabbis, of interest to a wide range of scholars.

  • - The Tabulae Iliacae in their Roman Context
    af Tennessee) Petrain & David (Vanderbilt University
    412,95 - 1.085,95 kr.

    The Tabulae Iliacae are stone plaques created for Imperial Rome that retell Homer's Iliad and the Troy saga through carved images and text. New photographs and translations of key texts will make this study accessible to all readers interested in Greek epic and how it is adapted to new contexts.

  • - The Literary Imagination of Claudius Aelianus
    af New York) Smith & Steven D. (Hofstra University
    401,95 - 1.117,95 kr.

    This book argues that Aelian's important work on animals, the De natura animalium, represents a sophisticated literary critique of Severan Rome. His fascination with animals reflects the cultural issues of his day: philosophy, religion, the exoticism of Egypt and India, sex, gender, and imperial politics.

  • af Germany) Remijsen & Sofie (Universitat Mannheim
    468,95 - 1.282,95 kr.

    The demise of the ancient Olympics has commonly been blamed on a ban imposed by the Christian emperor Theodosius I. Sofie Remijsen challenges this conventional view, and traces instead the collapse of the entire professional circuit of Greek athletics under the pressure of changing institutions and perceptions in late antiquity.

  • - Rhetoric, Criticism and Historiography
     
    1.098,95 kr.

    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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