(Ilmumisaeg: 27-Feb-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780197267868)
Thinking with Classical Matter brings together leading experts from the humanities to consider the place of the Ancient Greco-Roman world in different orders of knowledge, exploring the topic from diverse, theoretically informed perspectives...Loe edasi...
This path-breaking book has made an unusual and original contribution to literary theory by means of a study of the literature of ancient Greece. It investigates an aspect of poetic imagery in the practical context of Greek lyric and drama up to and...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Feb-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009469593)
This path-breaking book has made an unusual and original contribution to literary theory by means of a study of the literature of ancient Greece. It investigates an aspect of poetic imagery in the practical context of Greek lyric and drama up to and...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Apr-2022, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198792543)
Heliodorus Aethiopica (Ethiopian Story) is the latest, longest, and greatest of the ancient Greek romances. It was hugely admired in Byzantium, and caused a sensation when it was rediscovered and translated into French in the 16th...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-May-2021, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781316518588)
The embrace of reception theory has been one of the hallmarks of classical studies over the last 30 years. This volume builds on the critical insights thereby gained to consider reception within Greek antiquity itself. Reception, like intertextualit...Loe edasi...
This volume explores the proposition that the absorption of the Greek world into the Roman empire created a new emphasis upon local identities, much as globalisation in the modern world has done. Localism became the focal point for complex debates: i...Loe edasi...
The first modern commentary in English on this most sophisticated and brilliant of ancient Greek novels. With its freewheeling plotline, its setting on the edge of the Greek world, its ironic play with the readers expectations and its sallies into o...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Jun-2020, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781107190368)
The first modern commentary in English on this most sophisticated and brilliant of ancient Greek novels. With its freewheeling plotline, its setting on the edge of the Greek world, its ironic play with the readers expectations and its sallies into o...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-May-2020, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520344587)
The “Second Sophistic” traditionally refers to a period at the height of the Roman Empire’s power that witnessed a flourishing of Greek rhetoric and oratory, and since the 19th century it has often been viewed as a defense of Hellenic civilizati...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199742653)
Some of the worlds earliest large-form fictional narratives--what would today be called novels-are found in ancient Greece. Dating back to the first century CE, these narratives contain many of the elements common to the novelistic genre, for instan...Loe edasi...
Long before the Enlightenment sowed the seeds of disbelief in a deeply Christian Europe, atheism was a matter of serious public debate in the Greek world. How new is atheism? The author journeys into the ancient Mediterranean to recover the stories o...Loe edasi...
How new is atheism? Although adherents and opponents alike today present it as an invention of the European Enlightenment, when the forces of science and secularism broadly challenged those of faith, disbelief in the gods, in fact, originated in a...Loe edasi...
saadame teile pakkumise kasutatud raamatule, mille hind võib erineda kodulehel olevast hinnast
Long before the European Enlightenment and the Darwinian revolution, which we often take to mark the birth of the modern revolt against religious explanations of the world, brave people doubted the power of the gods. This book tells the story of the...Loe edasi...
Long before the European Enlightenment and the Darwinian revolution, which we often take to mark the birth of the modern revolt against religious explanations of the world, brave people doubted the power of the gods. Religion provoked skepticism in a...Loe edasi...
Long before the European Enlightenment and the Darwinian revolution, which we often take to mark the birth of the modern revolt against religious explanations of the world, brave people doubted the power of the gods. Religion provoked skepticism in a...Loe edasi...
Long before the European Enlightenment and the Darwinian revolution, which we often take to mark the birth of the modern revolt against religious explanations of the world, brave people doubted the power of the gods. Religion provoked skepticism in a...Loe edasi...
saadame teile pakkumise kasutatud raamatule, mille hind võib erineda kodulehel olevast hinnast
Dispels the notion that atheism and doubt are modern phenomena and describes atheism in ancient Greece, citing the thoughts of Diagoras of Melos, Democritus, Socrates, and Epicurus and his followers. Dispels the notion that atheism and doubt...Loe edasi...
saadame teile pakkumise kasutatud raamatule, mille hind võib erineda kodulehel olevast hinnast
Long before the European Enlightenment and the Darwinian revolution, which we often take to mark the birth of the modern revolt against religious explanations of the world, brave people doubted the power of the gods. Religion provoked skepticism...Loe edasi...
Explores the four major extant Greek novels, among the most important products of Greek literature under the Roman Empire, and offers a fresh reading of the romance both as a distinctive narrative form (using a range of narrative theories) and as a p...Loe edasi...
