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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018

"Philosophy begins in wonder." --Plato Have you ever wondered about the development of civilization? What topics were discussed in the days of Ancient Greece? This collection of thoughts from Plato, Aristotle, and other masters of philosophy will lead your mind on a journey of enlightened exploration...
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Cinema and Classical Texts

Apollo's New Light

by Martin M. Winkler
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2009

Apollo was the ancient god of light and the divine patron of the arts. He is therefore a fitting metaphor for cinematography, which is the modern art of writing with moving light. This book interprets films as visual texts and provides the first systematic theoretical and practical demonstration of...
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Among Women

From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World

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Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2009

Women's and men's worlds were largely separate in ancient Mediterranean societies, and, in consequence, many women's deepest personal relationships were with other women. Yet relatively little scholarly or popular attention has focused on women's relationships in antiquity, in contrast to recent interest...
Cover of The Generation of Animals (Illustrated Edition)
by Aristotle
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence attributed to Aristotle. Along with Plato and Socrates, Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) is one of the triumvirate of philosophers responsible for the establishment of Western philosophy as it exists today. Socrates,...
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by Jonathan Ben-Dov, Wayne Horowitz, John M. Steele
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012

Lunar calendars suffer from an inherent uncertainty in the length of each month and the number of months in the year. Variable atmospheric conditions, weather and the acuity of the eye of an observer mean that the first sighting of the new moon crescent can never be known in advance. Calendars which...
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Shameless

The Canine and the Feminine in Ancient Greece

by Cristiana Franco
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014

The figure of the dog is a paradox. As in so many cultures, past and present, the dog in ancient Greece was seen as the animal closest to humans, even as it elicited from them the most negative representations. Still a loaded term today, the word bitch not only signified shamelessness and a lack of...
Cover of Artifacts from Ancient Egypt
by Barbara Mendoza Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017

Primary source documents and detailed entries reveal what ancient Egypt was like, using the objects and artifacts of daily life from the period covering the Predynastic era through the Græco-Roman period (5000 BCE to 300 CE). • Features anecdotal information about daily life that helps to...
Cover of Flora Trade Between Egypt and Africa in Antiquity
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Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017

In recent decades, study of the ancient Egyptian natural world and its classification has adopted innovative approaches involving new technologies of analysis and a multidisciplinary general view (ethnolinguistics, geobotanics). This collection of papers focuses on one particularly important aspect...
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by Fred Naiden
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2006

This is the first book-length treatment of supplication, an important social practice in ancient Mediterranean civilizations. Despite the importance of supplication, it has received little attention, and no previous study has explored so many aspects of the practice. Naiden investigates the varied...
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by Payne-Gallwey, Ralf
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014

One of the most devastating weapons of the Middle Ages, the crossbow probably originated in the Western Roman Empire early in the fourth century, its design perhaps suggested by the balista, an ancient form of catapult. This book is the only work ever devoted exclusively to this widely used bowstring...
Cover of Nonsense and Meaning in Ancient Greek Comedy
by Stephen E. Kidd
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014

This book examines the concept of 'nonsense' in ancient Greek thought and uses it to explore the comedies of the fifth and fourth centuries BCE. If 'nonsense' (phluaria, lēros) is a type of language felt to be unworthy of interpretation, it can help to define certain aspects of comedy that have proved...
Cover of Sport and Democracy in the Ancient and Modern Worlds
by Paul Christesen
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012

This book explores the relationship between sport and democratization. Drawing on sociological and historical methodologies, it provides a framework for understanding how sport affects the level of egalitarianism in the society in which it is played. The author distinguishes between horizontal sport,...
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Violence and Community

Law, Space and Identity in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean World

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Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017

Violence and community were intimately linked in the ancient world. While various aspects of violence have been long studied on their own (warfare, revolution, murder, theft, piracy), there has been little effort so far to study violence as a unified field and explore its role in community formation....
Cover of The Romans and Trade
by André Tchernia
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016

André Tchernia is one of the leading experts on amphorae as a source of economic history, a pioneer of maritime archaeology, and author of a wealth of articles on Roman trade, notably the wine trade. This book brings together the author's previously published essays, updated and revised, with recent...
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