Classical category: 3244 books
Playing Hesiod
The 'Myth of the Races' in Classical Antiquity
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
This book offers a new description of the significance of Hesiod's 'myth of the races' for ancient Greek and Roman authors, showing how the most detailed responses to this story go far beyond nostalgia for a lost 'Golden' age or hope of its return. Through a series of close readings, it argues that...
Parallels and Paradoxes
Explorations in Music and Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
These free-wheeling, often exhilarating dialogues—which grew out of the acclaimed Carnegie Hall Talks—are an exchange between two of the most prominent figures in contemporary culture: Daniel Barenboim, internationally renowned conductor and pianist, and Edward W. Said, eminent literary critic...
by alex trostanetskiy
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
Are you looking for a journey that will take you through The Greatest Female Pianists of All Time: Top 100, along with funny comments and a word puzzle? Then this book is for you. Whether you are looking at this book for curiosity, choices, options, or just for fun; this book fits any criteria. Creating...
by Paul Christesen, Donald G. Kyle
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
A Companion to Sport and Spectacle in Greek and Roman Antiquity presents a series of essays that apply a socio-historical perspective to myriad aspects of ancient sport and spectacle.
Covers the Bronze Age to the Byzantine Empire
Includes contributions from a range of international scholars with...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Forty-seven vocal works from the 12th to the 17th centuries, including songs by Henry IV and Henry VIII as well as Thomas Tallis, William Byrd, Thomas Ravenscroft, Thomas Morley, John Dowland, and Thomas Weelkes. Introduction by Joel Newman. Some Suggested Reading. Indexes.
The Woman and the Lyre
Women Writers in Classical Greece and Rome
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1989
Beginning with Sappho in the seventh century B.C.E and ending with Egeria in the fifth century C.E., Snyder profiles ancient Greek and Roman women writers, including lyric and elegiac poets and philosophers and other prose writers. The writers are allowed to speak for themselves, with as much translation...
The Dance of the Islands
Insularity, Networks, the Athenian Empire, and the Aegean World
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2010
Christy Constantakopoulou examines the history of the Aegean islands and changing concepts of insularity, with particular emphasis on the fifth century BC. Islands are a prominent feature of the Aegean landscape, and this inevitably created a variety of different (and sometimes contradictory) perceptions...
Damned If You Do
Dilemmas of Action in Literature and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2010
Problems of individual moral choice have always been closely bound up with the larger normative concerns of political theory. There are several reasons for this continuing connection. First, the value conflicts involved in private moral choice often find themselves reproduced on the public stage:...
Roman Social Imaginaries
Language and Thought in the Context of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
In an expansion of his 2012 Robson Classical Lectures, Clifford Ando examines the connection between the nature of the Latin language and Roman thinking about law, society, and empire. Drawing on innovative work in cognitive linguistics and anthropology, Roman Social Imaginaries considers how metaphor,...
The Mirror of the Self
Sexuality, Self-Knowledge, and the Gaze in the Early Roman Empire
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
People in the ancient world thought of vision as both an ethical tool and a tactile sense, akin to touch. Gazing upon someone—or oneself—was treated as a path to philosophical self-knowledge, but the question of tactility introduced an erotic element as well. In The Mirror of the Self, Shadi...
Hellenistic Tragedy
Texts, Translations and a Critical Survey
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Ancient Greek tragedy is ubiquitously studied and researched, but is generally considered to have ended, as it began, in the fifth century BC. However, plays continued to be written and staged in the Greek world for centuries, enjoying a period of unprecedented popularity and changing significantly...
The Poetics of Victory in the Greek West
Epinician, Oral Tradition, and the Deinomenid Empire
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
The Poetics of Victory in the Greek West examines the relationship between epinician and the heroizing narratives about athletes, or "hero-athlete narratives," that circulated orally in Sicily and Italy in the late archaic and early classical period. Drawing on the colorful stories told...
Callimachus
The Hymns
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Callimachus was arguably the most important poet of the Hellenistic age, for two reasons: his engagement with previous theorists of poetry and his wide-ranging poetic experimentation. Of his poetic oeuvre, which exceeded what we now have of Theocritus, Aratus, Posidippus, and Apollonius combined,...
Afro-Greeks
Dialogues between Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Classics in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2010
Afro-Greeks examines the reception of Classics in the English-speaking Caribbean, from about 1920 to the beginning of the 21st century. Emily Greenwood focuses on the ways in which Greco-Roman antiquity has been put to creative use in Anglophone Caribbean literature, and relates this regional classical...