(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783111579900)
Phrynichus’ Praeparatio sophistica ranks not last among the most importat works of ancient scholarly literature which we wish we could read in its original, full redaction. It was Phrynichus’ magnum opus, and the high status of...Loe edasi...
What would you do if somebody told you it was possible to time travel The Gold of the Incas is the fourth book in The Time Explorers series which mixes comic book dialogues with an adventure novel for children, and it’ s full of colorfu...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1983 and as a second edition in 1993, this book deals with 3 universal but culturally variable phenomena: the family, women and death....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198807735)
This book explores the hidden histories offered by Greco-Roman myths of metamorphosis, and what they can reveal about the lived experience of ancient men and women. It investigates what these stories reveal concerning ancient beliefs about the human...Loe edasi...
This book offers a comprehensive and systematic – rather than historical – approach to ancient Greek oracular texts, showing their conceptual and formal unity and patternisation, as well as their meaningful diversit...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781474466387)
Places Alexander the Great and his monarchical ideology within his Near-Eastern context. This book offers the first systematic, comparative analysis of the ideology of kingship and empire under the Achaemenids, Alexander the Great and the...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Sep-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Liverpool University Press, ISBN-13: 9781836245223)
A collection of papers that introduces the notion of the technosoma (techno body) into discussions on the representations of the body in classical antiquity....Loe edasi...
This volume is the first extended investigation of the classicism of José Rizal (1861-1896), the de facto national hero of the Philippines, and explores how Greco-Roman antiquity was harnessed by Rizal and other Philippine artists and thinkers at th...Loe edasi...
This book includes the ancient Greek world in the longue durée of disaster discourse, adopting semiotic and ecocritical perspectives to show how ancient Greek literature and culture employ signs as a hermeneutic form of disaster management....Loe edasi...
This book focuses on the element of thresholds makeshift gates, makeshift structures and house doors as concepts of liminality in ancient Near Eastern magical rituals and the idea of transformation they reflect, specifically concentrating on the g...Loe edasi...
This book rethinks the characterization of two highly contrastive forms of ancient literary tradition - epic and novel - and re-frames their function as dynamic points of reference in the history of ideas and in our understanding of the interfa...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198947011)
Greek Personal Names in Egypt provides a comprehensive overview of Greek onomastics in Egypt from the Ptolemaic to the Late Byzantine period, highlighting the rich and diverse onomastic landscape and paying special attention to diachronic ch...Loe edasi...
Reveals Euripides ground-breaking use of monody, or solo actors song, in his late tragedies. Contributing to the current scholarly debate on music, emotion, and characterization in Greek drama, Claire Catenaccio examines the role of monody in the...Loe edasi...
Focusing on the texts, tools and territories of Latin literature from the classical to Neo-Latin, the Critical Guide situates classical Latin within its global context; recalibrates links with adjoining disciplines (e.g. history, philosophy, materia...Loe edasi...
Beyond Alexandria argues for the existence of a distinctive Seleucid literature, with its own preferred genres and thematic concerns. It proposes new readings of these authors and argues that they can be understood only in the wider political contex...Loe edasi...
This book brings together historical thinkers from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds to offer original interpretations of the essence of history. It addresses why it is that the essence of history itself cannot be so easily thematised or conce...Loe edasi...
