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Cover of Slave Revolts in Antiquity
by Theresa Urbainczyk
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016

Although much has been written on Greek and Roman slavery, slave resistance has typically been dismissed as historically insignificant and those revolts that are documented are portrayed as wholly exceptional and resulting from peculiar historical circumstances that had little to do with the intrinsic...
Cover of The Romance between Greece and the East
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Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013

The contact zones between the Greco-Roman world and the Near East represent one of the most exciting and fast-moving areas of ancient-world studies. This new collection of essays, by world-renowned experts (and some new voices) in classical, Jewish, Egyptian, Mesopotamian and Persian literature, focuses...
Cover of Approaches to Greek Myth
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Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014

Since the first edition of Approaches to Greek Myth was published in 1990, interest in Greek mythology has surged. There was no simple agreement on the subject of "myth" in classical antiquity, and there remains none today. Is myth a narrative or a performance? Can myth be separated from...
Cover of The Oxford Handbook of Thucydides
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Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017

The Oxford Handbook of Thucydides contains newly commissioned essays on Thucydides as an historian, thinker, and writer. It also features chapters on Thucydides' intellectual context and ancient reception. The creative juxtaposition of historical, literary, philosophical, and reception studies allows...
Cover of Classical Literary Careers and their Reception
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Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010

This is a wide-ranging collection of essays on ancient Roman literary careers and their reception in later European literature, with contributions by leading experts. Starting from the three major Roman models for constructing a literary career - Virgil (the rota Vergiliana), Horace and Ovid - the...
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Epic Lessons

An Introduction to Ancient Didactic Poetry

by Peter Toohey
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013

Didactic Epic was enormously popular in the ancient world. It was used to teach Greeks and Romans technical and scientific subjects, but in verse. Epic Lessons shows how this scientific poetry was intended not just to instruct but also to entertain. Praise for its predecessor, Reading Epic 'Toohey's...
Cover of Rhetorical Exercises from Late Antiquity

Rhetorical Exercises from Late Antiquity

A Translation of Choricius of Gaza's Preliminary Talks and Declamations

by Choricius
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009

The first translation, produced by a team of eight scholars, of the Declamations and Preliminary Talks of the sixth-century sophist Choricius of Gaza. Declamations, deliberative or judicial orations on fictitious themes, were the fundamental advanced exercises of the rhetorical schools of the Roman...
Cover of Egyptian Pyramids Revisited
by Moustafa Gadalla
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017

A complete handbook about the pyramids of Ancient Egypt during the Pyramid Age. It contains: the locations and dimensions of interiors and exteriors of the pyramids; the history and builders of the pyramids; theories of construction; theories on their purpose and function; the sacred geometry that...
Cover of Rome, the Greek World, and the East

Rome, the Greek World, and the East

Volume 3: The Greek World, the Jews, and the East

by Fergus Millar
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011

This volume completes the three-volume collection of Fergus Millar's essays, which, together with his books, transformed the study of the Roman Empire by shifting the focus of inquiry onto the broader Mediterranean world and beyond. The eighteen essays presented here include Millar's classic contributions...
Cover of Rome: The Autobiography
by Jon E. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012

The history of Ancient Rome has been passed down to us through official accounts, personal letters, annotated words of great orators and the considered histories of powerful men. It is found on inscriptions, in private memoirs and official reports from every corner of the Empire. Over 150 pieces...
Cover of The World’s Famous Orations: Volume I, Greece (432 B.C.-324 B.C.)
by William Jennings Bryan
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015

William Jennings Bryan (March 19, 1860 – July 26, 1925) was a tour de force in American politics around the end of the 19th century. Bryan had a long, distinguished career in politics as a liberal in the Democratic Party, including serving as Secretary of State and presidential candidate. He advocated...
Cover of Classical Traditions in Science Fiction
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Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015

For all its concern with change in the present and future, science fiction is deeply rooted in the past and, surprisingly, engages especially deeply with the ancient world. Indeed, both as an area in which the meaning of "classics" is actively transformed and as an open-ended set of texts whose own...
Cover of The Jugurthine War
by Sallust, John Selby Watson
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012

Gaius Sallustius Crispus, or Sallust (86 BC 35 BC), was a Roman politician historian living during the Civil War between Pompey the Great and Julius Caesar. A popularis, Sallust opposed Pompeys party and the aristocratic classes in Rome throughout his life as a writer. Sallust also became a Quaestor...
Cover of Hellenica
by Xenophon
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018

Xenophon was an ancient Greek historian, soldier, and student of Socrates.  Xenophon was not considered a philosopher during his time but he is now often considered one.  Xenophon’s writings cover many different genres and are still widely studied by students today.  This edition of Hellenica includes a table of contents.
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