(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Aug-2023, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691229645)
How a legendary woman from classical antiquity has come to embody the threat of transcendent beauty in movies and TVHelen of Troy in Hollywood examines the figure of the mythic Helen in film and television, showing how storytellers from different Hol...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Aug-2023, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691229645)
How a legendary woman from classical antiquity has come to embody the threat of transcendent beauty in movies and TVHelen of Troy in Hollywood examines the figure of the mythic Helen in film and television, showing how storytellers from different Hol...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 29-Jun-2021, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691211176)
A major new interpretation of Vergils epic poem as a struggle between two incompatible versions of the Homeric heroThis compelling book offers an entirely new way of understanding the Aeneid. Many scholars regard Vergils poem as an attempt to combi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 29-Jun-2021, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691211176)
A major new interpretation of Vergils epic poem as a struggle between two incompatible versions of the Homeric heroThis compelling book offers an entirely new way of understanding the Aeneid. Many scholars regard Vergils poem as an attempt to combi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jun-2021, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9781400849833)
This book traces the transmission and reception of one of the most influential novels in Western literature. The Golden Ass, the only ancient Roman novel to survive in its entirety, tells of a young man changed into an ass by magic and his bawdy adve...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jun-2021, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9781400849833)
This book traces the transmission and reception of one of the most influential novels in Western literature. The Golden Ass, the only ancient Roman novel to survive in its entirety, tells of a young man changed into an ass by magic and his bawdy adve...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Feb-2018, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9781400889938)
How remarkable changes in ancient Greek pottery reveal the transformation of classical Greek cultureWhy did soldiers stop fighting, athletes stop competing, and lovers stop having graphic sex in classical Greek art? The scenes depicted on Athenian po...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Feb-2018, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9781400889938)
How remarkable changes in ancient Greek pottery reveal the transformation of classical Greek cultureWhy did soldiers stop fighting, athletes stop competing, and lovers stop having graphic sex in classical Greek art? The scenes depicted on Athenian po...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Dec-2017, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9781400888009)
How does a culture become Christian, especially one that is heir to such ancient traditions and spectacular monuments as Egypt? This book offers a new model for envisioning the process of Christianization by looking at the construction of Christianit...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Dec-2017, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9781400888009)
How does a culture become Christian, especially one that is heir to such ancient traditions and spectacular monuments as Egypt? This book offers a new model for envisioning the process of Christianization by looking at the construction of Christianit...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2015, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9781400866403)
How can we make sense of the innovative structure of Euripidean drama? And what political role did tragedy play in the democracy of classical Athens? These questions are usually considered to be mutually exclusive, but this book shows that they can o...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2015, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9781400866403)
How can we make sense of the innovative structure of Euripidean drama? And what political role did tragedy play in the democracy of classical Athens? These questions are usually considered to be mutually exclusive, but this book shows that they can o...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Nov-2011, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9781400822713)
How and why did the Western tradition of political theorizing arise in Athens during the late fifth and fourth centuries B.C.? By interweaving intellectual history with political philosophy and literary analysis, Josiah Ober argues that the tradition...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Jul-2011, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9781400840076)
How did the Victorians engage with the ancient world? Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity is a brilliant exploration of how the ancient worlds of Greece and Rome influenced Victorian culture. Through Victorian art, opera, and novels, Simon Gold...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Jul-2011, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9781400840076)
How did the Victorians engage with the ancient world? Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity is a brilliant exploration of how the ancient worlds of Greece and Rome influenced Victorian culture. Through Victorian art, opera, and novels, Simon Gold...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Nov-2010, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9781400836550)
Prevalent among classicists today is the notion that Greeks, Romans, and Jews enhanced their own self-perception by contrasting themselves with the so-called Other--Egyptians, Phoenicians, Ethiopians, Gauls, and other foreigners--frequently through h...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Nov-2010, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9781400836550)
Prevalent among classicists today is the notion that Greeks, Romans, and Jews enhanced their own self-perception by contrasting themselves with the so-called Other--Egyptians, Phoenicians, Ethiopians, Gauls, and other foreigners--frequently through h...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Oct-2010, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9781400836567)
Examining the figure of Aesop and the traditions surrounding him, Aesopic Conversations offers a portrait of what Greek popular culture might have looked like in the ancient world. What has survived from the literary record of antiquity is almost ent...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Oct-2010, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9781400836567)
Examining the figure of Aesop and the traditions surrounding him, Aesopic Conversations offers a portrait of what Greek popular culture might have looked like in the ancient world. What has survived from the literary record of antiquity is almost ent...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Jul-2009, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9781400830756)
Recognizing Persius is a passionate and in-depth exploration of the libellus--or little book--of six Latin satires left by the Roman satirical writer Persius when he died in AD 62 at the age of twenty-seven. In this comprehensive and reflectively per...Loe edasi...
