(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198994756)
A Book of Greek Life: The Ancient World Through Epigram introduces interested general readers to the richness and weirdness of the ancient world through its own social media (little poems called epigrams, of which we have thousands)....Loe edasi...
This book analyses the interconnection of space and experience in Roman Antiquity, Byzantium, and the Middle Ages, ca. 100 BCE – 1500 CE....Loe edasi...
Moses and Homer explores the eradication of the Jewish tradition from German intellectual history between 1770 and 1800 and analyzes the numerous ruptures triggered by the exclusion of the representatives of Judaism from the German-speaking...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197800621)
The representation of the ancient world in film has long been an established site of scholarly interest, but animation remains understudied. Given the mediums popularity and its role as an access point to ancient history for young audiences, it dese...Loe edasi...
This volume explores Mexican dramatic receptions of Sophocles Antigone from the 20th and 21st century, investigating the thematic evolution of Antigone in Mexico and its cumulative impact on Mexican heritage discourse....Loe edasi...
This book investigates issues of identity and narrativity in late Byzantine romances in a Mediterranean context, covering the chronological span from the capture of Constantinople by the Crusaders in 1204 to the sixteenth century....Loe edasi...
This book addresses the issue of natural simultaneity of relatives discussed by Aristotle in Categories 7, 7b15-8a12. It is the first book to explore this issue from the perspective of illuminating the Aristotelian views on relatives....Loe edasi...
This book explores the ways in which the origins of time, of the gods, and processes associated with time were conceptualised in antiquity, examining a variety of ancient sources from across the ancient world and addressing issues surrounding the so...Loe edasi...
This book demonstrates how the political economy of mercantilism was not simply a Western invention by various cities and kingdoms during the Renaissance....Loe edasi...
This book takes a new look at an old question: what is the relationship between beauty and monstrosity? How has the notion of beauty transformed through the years and how does it coincide with monstrous ontologies?...Loe edasi...
This interdisciplinary volume explores the ancient Greek myth of Medea and its global analogues found in other mythic and folk tales of deadly, exiled women, such as those of La Malinche and La Llorona, examining the connections between these figure...Loe edasi...
This book delves into the intricate and, as argued, essential relationship between poetics and religion in Pindar. It explores how performance, cult, and religious attitudes intersect, offering readers a nuanced approach to Pindaric poetry concernin...Loe edasi...
This book offers a fresh look at Hesiods concept of a Golden Age. It analyses the ways in which classical philosophers explored it and traces the many creative interactions with it in literature from the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Age of Goet...Loe edasi...
Research on self-control in both philosophy and psychology is thriving. Yet despite a wealth of recent philosophical work on the exercise of self-control, there has been surprisingly little empirically informed work in philosophy on self-control as...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009100540)
Pindar was the single most important, canonical and influential lyric poet in the ancient Greek world. This is the most comprehensive introduction yet published to the poet and his reception. It will be essential for students and their teachers but...Loe edasi...
Pindar was the single most important, canonical and influential lyric poet in the ancient Greek world. This is the most comprehensive introduction yet published to the poet and his reception. It will be essential for students and their teachers but...Loe edasi...
Canaanite Scribal Creativity and the Making of Cuneiform Culture in the Amarna Age offers a nuanced exploration of the scribal practices behind the Canaanite Amarna Letters and wider scribal culture of the Levant during the Late Bronze Age...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197667484)
To Rule All Under Heaven offers an illuminating history of the Warring States period (481-221 BCE), a foundational era of Chinese civilization. It begins in the life of Confucius and extends to the reign of the First Emperor, who founded an...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198979180)
The essay, On the Malice of Herodotus, which has come down to us in the corpus of Plutarch, has often been considered a problematic work because of its hostile tone, the object of its attack, and the quality of its argumentation. This book s...Loe edasi...
In antiquity, selling pharmacological preparations and recipes could mean very big business indeed. The import and trade of exotic pharmacological ingredients, in particular those coming from India, has received some scholarly attention but the pr...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009562348)
The decipherment of undeciphered scripts is a topic that fascinates a very wide range of people, but very few have ever had a chance to see it in action. In this book, readers are given a rare first-hand view of the kind of work involved in that pro...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1965, this was the first analysis from the viewpoints of modern sociology and social psychology of the social structure and culture of ancient Greece. Originally published in 1965, this was the first analysi...Loe edasi...
First published in 1965, Cicero contains a number of assessments of Cicero’s life and works, made by a group of scholars that includes some of the acknowledged experts in their particular field. Cicero is a man on whom most judgments have b...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 politica...Loe edasi...
The aim of this book is to take stock of the state of things in scholarship on Caelius Aurelianus as well as offer new perspectives on this important figure as medical writer and doxographer, but also as historical figure and operating physician....Loe edasi...
The Shaping of Three Capitals. First published in 2017, Rome The Shaping of Three Capitals explores the impact of political history on the built environment of the Eternal City. First published in 2017, Rome: The Shaping of Three Capita...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Mar-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108835800)
Latin poetry is defined by its relationships with poetry in other languages. In this bold and innovative book, brilliant Latinist Stephen Hinds explores these relationships through ancient conversations between Latin and Greek verse texts, followed...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Feb-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781316510148)
The most comprehensive and detailed history of Latin literature from the second to the seventh centuries, which includes towering figures like Apuleius, Claudian, Prudentius, Augustine, Jerome, Boethius, and Isidore. An essential point of reference f...Loe edasi...
Ancient Warfare: The Basics offers an engaging introduction to warfare in the ancient Mediterranean World from the mythical Trojan War, through the rise of hoplites and conquests of Alexander the Great to Roman hegemony and the Arab conqu...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198994756)
A Book of Greek Life: The Ancient World Through Epigram introduces interested general readers to the richness and weirdness of the ancient world through its own social media (little poems called epigrams, of which we have thousands)....Loe edasi...
This book analyses the interconnection of space and experience in Roman Antiquity, Byzantium, and the Middle Ages, ca. 100 BCE – 1500 CE....Loe edasi...
Moses and Homer explores the eradication of the Jewish tradition from German intellectual history between 1770 and 1800 and analyzes the numerous ruptures triggered by the exclusion of the representatives of Judaism from the German-speaking...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197800621)
The representation of the ancient world in film has long been an established site of scholarly interest, but animation remains understudied. Given the mediums popularity and its role as an access point to ancient history for young audiences, it dese...Loe edasi...
This volume explores Mexican dramatic receptions of Sophocles Antigone from the 20th and 21st century, investigating the thematic evolution of Antigone in Mexico and its cumulative impact on Mexican heritage discourse....Loe edasi...
In 136 BC, in Sicily (which was then a Roman province), some four hundred slaves of Syrian origin rebelled against their masters and seized the city of Henna with much bloodshed. Their leader, a fortune-teller named Eunus, was declared king (taking t...Loe edasi...
This book investigates issues of identity and narrativity in late Byzantine romances in a Mediterranean context, covering the chronological span from the capture of Constantinople by the Crusaders in 1204 to the sixteenth century....Loe edasi...
This book addresses the issue of natural simultaneity of relatives discussed by Aristotle in Categories 7, 7b15-8a12. It is the first book to explore this issue from the perspective of illuminating the Aristotelian views on relatives....Loe edasi...
This book explores the ways in which the origins of time, of the gods, and processes associated with time were conceptualised in antiquity, examining a variety of ancient sources from across the ancient world and addressing issues surrounding the so...Loe edasi...
This book demonstrates how the political economy of mercantilism was not simply a Western invention by various cities and kingdoms during the Renaissance....Loe edasi...
This book takes a new look at an old question: what is the relationship between beauty and monstrosity? How has the notion of beauty transformed through the years and how does it coincide with monstrous ontologies?...Loe edasi...
This interdisciplinary volume explores the ancient Greek myth of Medea and its global analogues found in other mythic and folk tales of deadly, exiled women, such as those of La Malinche and La Llorona, examining the connections between these figure...Loe edasi...
This book delves into the intricate and, as argued, essential relationship between poetics and religion in Pindar. It explores how performance, cult, and religious attitudes intersect, offering readers a nuanced approach to Pindaric poetry concernin...Loe edasi...
This book offers a fresh look at Hesiods concept of a Golden Age. It analyses the ways in which classical philosophers explored it and traces the many creative interactions with it in literature from the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Age of Goet...Loe edasi...
Research on self-control in both philosophy and psychology is thriving. Yet despite a wealth of recent philosophical work on the exercise of self-control, there has been surprisingly little empirically informed work in philosophy on self-control as...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009100540)
Pindar was the single most important, canonical and influential lyric poet in the ancient Greek world. This is the most comprehensive introduction yet published to the poet and his reception. It will be essential for students and their teachers but...Loe edasi...
Pindar was the single most important, canonical and influential lyric poet in the ancient Greek world. This is the most comprehensive introduction yet published to the poet and his reception. It will be essential for students and their teachers but...Loe edasi...
Canaanite Scribal Creativity and the Making of Cuneiform Culture in the Amarna Age offers a nuanced exploration of the scribal practices behind the Canaanite Amarna Letters and wider scribal culture of the Levant during the Late Bronze Age...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197667484)
To Rule All Under Heaven offers an illuminating history of the Warring States period (481-221 BCE), a foundational era of Chinese civilization. It begins in the life of Confucius and extends to the reign of the First Emperor, who founded an...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198979180)
The essay, On the Malice of Herodotus, which has come down to us in the corpus of Plutarch, has often been considered a problematic work because of its hostile tone, the object of its attack, and the quality of its argumentation. This book s...Loe edasi...
In antiquity, selling pharmacological preparations and recipes could mean very big business indeed. The import and trade of exotic pharmacological ingredients, in particular those coming from India, has received some scholarly attention but the pr...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Apr-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Liverpool University Press, ISBN-13: 9781805968931)
Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. The Romans claimed to have invented satireone of the most enduring and certainly one of the most entertaining genres of literature bequeathed to poster...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009562348)
The decipherment of undeciphered scripts is a topic that fascinates a very wide range of people, but very few have ever had a chance to see it in action. In this book, readers are given a rare first-hand view of the kind of work involved in that pro...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1965, this was the first analysis from the viewpoints of modern sociology and social psychology of the social structure and culture of ancient Greece. Originally published in 1965, this was the first analysi...Loe edasi...
First published in 1965, Cicero contains a number of assessments of Cicero’s life and works, made by a group of scholars that includes some of the acknowledged experts in their particular field. Cicero is a man on whom most judgments have b...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 politica...Loe edasi...
The aim of this book is to take stock of the state of things in scholarship on Caelius Aurelianus as well as offer new perspectives on this important figure as medical writer and doxographer, but also as historical figure and operating physician....Loe edasi...
The Shaping of Three Capitals. First published in 2017, Rome The Shaping of Three Capitals explores the impact of political history on the built environment of the Eternal City. First published in 2017, Rome: The Shaping of Three Capita...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Mar-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108835800)
Latin poetry is defined by its relationships with poetry in other languages. In this bold and innovative book, brilliant Latinist Stephen Hinds explores these relationships through ancient conversations between Latin and Greek verse texts, followed...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Feb-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781316510148)
The most comprehensive and detailed history of Latin literature from the second to the seventh centuries, which includes towering figures like Apuleius, Claudian, Prudentius, Augustine, Jerome, Boethius, and Isidore. An essential point of reference f...Loe edasi...
Ancient Warfare: The Basics offers an engaging introduction to warfare in the ancient Mediterranean World from the mythical Trojan War, through the rise of hoplites and conquests of Alexander the Great to Roman hegemony and the Arab conqu...Loe edasi...
Ancient Warfare: The Basics offers an engaging introduction to warfare in the ancient Mediterranean World from the mythical Trojan War, through the rise of hoplites and conquests of Alexander the Great to Roman hegemony and the Arab conques...Loe edasi...
This volume explores the adaptations of Greek tragedy, performances, and activism of playwright Luis Alfaro and their impact on the field of Classics, classroom instruction, and community outreach.The chapters in this volume are organized i...Loe edasi...
This book presents the first English edition of YANG Bojun’s authoritative annotated commentary on the Mengzi, a Confucian canon by Mencius. It masterfully integrates classical Chinese exegetical traditions with contemporary philological precision...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1957 and as a fourth edition in 1970 this is an accessible history of Byzantium from Constantine the Great to its final conquest by the Ottoman Turks in 1453 Originally published in 1957 and as a fourth editi...Loe edasi...
Sidonius Apollinaris fifth-century Letters are a highpoint of Latin literature and a unique document of the end of the Western Roman Empire on the brink of the Middle Ages. This edition uses a selection to show students its depth and coherence, pro...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Jan-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781316514504)
Sidonius Apollinaris fifth-century Letters are a highpoint of Latin literature and a unique document of the end of the Western Roman Empire on the brink of the Middle Ages. This edition uses a selection to show students its depth and coherence, pro...Loe edasi...
A translation and transliteration of the most important and authoritative funerary text from Ancient EgyptAt the turn of the twentieth century, a representative of the British Museum traveled to Egypt and heard stories of an incredi...Loe edasi...
Explores the social history of furniture found in houses, tombs, and temples in the period from 2500 BCE to the Byzantine Era, as narrated through archaeological evidence. Covering the period from 2500 BCE to the Byzantine Era, this vol...Loe edasi...
Miletos, on the coast of Asia Minor, was one of the most important Greek cities – a key economic power as well as a centre of philosophy and learning. Yet with historical sources scarce, and the mass of archaeological work done in over a century o...Loe edasi...
Metafiction, the practice in fictional texts of displaying an awareness of their fictional status, highlighting it, or even exploring it after the manner of literary criticism, existed in ancient Greek and Roman literature. The significance of met...Loe edasi...
In the past 40 years, Greek antiquity has witnessed several scholarly revolutions. With the emergence of critical theory alongside major archaeological, epigraphic, and papyrological discoveries, long-held assumptions and traditional methodologies...Loe edasi...
