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Giovanni Parmeggiani
Ephorus of Cyme and Greek Historiography

"Through a careful study of the surviving fragmentary evidence, Giovanni Parmeggiani throws new light on the lost Histories of the fourth-century B.C. Greek historian Ephorus of Cyme, the first, acco…

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P E Easterling
Studies in Greek Literature: Volume 2, Early Greek Literature, Reception, Ancient and Modern Scholarship

Pat Easterling's articles are fundamental to her status as one of the most influential Hellenists of her generation. Characterised by unostentatious astuteness and an arresting capacity for observation, t…

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The Cambridge Critical Guide to Latin Literature

The Cambridge Critical Guide to Latin Literature offers a critical overview of work on Latin literature. Where are we? How did we get here? Where to next? Fifteen commissioned chapters, along with an exte…

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Articulating Resistance under the Roman Empire

"The Changing Scope of Resistance Studies During the twentieth century - whose concerns were framed by colonialist and postcolonial political contexts worldwide, as well as by the geopolitics and pro…

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John Holton
Royal Traditions and the Consolidation of Power by Alexander's Successors

In the wake of Alexander the Great's death, his ambitious Successors sought to solidify their positions as kings and establish a framework of new royal traditions. John Holton delves into the interconnect…

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Lea Niccolai
Christianity, Philosophy, and Roman Power

"Shows that the paradox of the late antique clash between Christianity and Greco-Roman culture is that classical culture wrote the script for the Christianisation of Roman power. Emperor Julian's wri…

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Eric H. Cline
The Trojan War: A Very Short Introduction

Homer's tale of the abduction of Helen to Troy and the ten-year war to bring her back to Greece has fascinated mankind for centuries since he related it in The Iliad and The Odyssey. More recently, it has…

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Alaudae Volume 1

For the first time, more than just a handful of readers will be able to study, enjoy and become acquainted with one of the seminal works by Karl Heinrich Ulrichs. Many have been able to read his works in …

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Peter Fibiger Bang
The Roman Empire and World History

How do we fit the Roman Empire into world history? Too often the empire has simply been conceived of in terms of the West. But Rome was too big to be squeezed into a purely European model; her empire best…

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Reassessing the Peloponnesian War

Modern accounts of the great war between the Athenians and the Spartans in the late fifth century BC have simply reanalysed the gripping analysis of military and political events given by Thucydides. But …

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Peter Fibiger Bang
The Roman Empire and World History

How do we fit the Roman Empire into world history? Too often the empire has simply been conceived of in terms of the West. But Rome was too big to be squeezed into a purely European model; her empire best…

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Palmyra, the Mediterranean and Beyond

"An innovative collection illuminating Palmyra's and Palmyrene society's negotiations, struggles, benefits and disadvantages from being part of the Roman Empire, situated on the fringes between the E…

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Chiara Bozzone
Homer's Living Language

An accessible, up-to-date, and innovative account of key features of Homer's poetry (formularity, meter, and dialect). This book is informed by contemporary linguistics and cognitive sciences, and leverag…

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Tom Jackson
Engineering

"Engineering: An Illustrated History from Ancient Craft to Modern Technology is an authoritative reference book and timeline about how technology has given shape to our civilization. A guide to each …

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Making the Middle Republic

"Shows the importance of the Middle Republic for the broader study of Roman and Mediterranean history, with the forging in Italy of new political relationships, new economic practices, and new socioc…

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Jeremy Hartnett
The Remarkable Life, Death, and Afterlife of an Ordinary Roman

When we think of Romans, Julius Caesar or Constantine might spring to mind. But what was life like for everyday folk, those who gazed up at the palace rather than looking out from within its walls? In thi…

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Rosa Andújar
Playing the Chorus in Greek Tragedy

Modern audiences see the chorus as an emblematic yet static element of ancient Greek drama, whose reflective songs puncture the action. This is the first book to look beyond these odes to the group's comp…

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Claire Catenaccio
Monody in Euripides

The solo singer takes center stage in Euripides' late tragedies. Solo song - what the Ancient Greeks called monody - is a true dramatic innovation, combining and transcending the traditional poetic forms …

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Katerina Stergiopoulou
Modernist Hellenism

Modernist Hellenism argues that engagement with Greek was central to the evolution of modernist poetics throughout the first half of the twentieth century. It shows that Eliot, Pound, and H.D. all turn to…

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Misinformation, Disinformation, and Propaganda in Greek Historiography

Mindful of the present state of discourse on ancient Greek historiography, this edited volume explores the major themes of pursuing factuality, managing witness/source bias, falling into historical error …

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