Ancient History, Classical Art And Civilization – alle Bücher, LPs und CDs, Seite 10

Aristotelian Metaphysics

Sixteen prominent scholars offer fresh interpretations and assessments of Aristotle's metaphysical thinking: his accounts of definition and meaning; his understanding of being and the categories; his mode…

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François Jullien,
Vital Nourishment

A philosophical inquiry into how to "feed life," or nourish it, draws from early Chinese thinker Zhuanghi to explore notions of breath, energy, and immanence.

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Elizabeth Fowler
Poetry and the Built Environment

This book is about how poems, as well as other kinds of art, show us how to experience them. It offers a new approach to criticism that recognises poetry as one among the arts of the built environment, in…

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Ioannis Polemis,
Theodore Metochites

"The statesman and scholar Theodore Metochites was one of the most important personalities of the fourteenth-century Byzantine Empire. A close advisor to the emperor Andronikos II and restorer of the famo…

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Anne Sophie Refskou
Shakespeare's Compassion

"Through close readings of key plays - Titus Andronicus, Richard III, Hamlet and King Lear - the main classical sources and the drama of his contemporaries, this book argues that Shakespeare's dramatizati…

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Ilaria Marchesi
Women in Martial

This book systematically examines the portrayals of women in Martial's Epigrams, proposing a new method of exploring the cultural construction of femininity in the Flavian age and demonstrating the extent…

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Robert Cioffi
Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Greek Novel

In this richly detailed study, Robert Cioffi explores the signficance of the Nile River Valley as the geographic centre of the ancient Greek novel during the genre's heyday in the Roman empire. He shows h…

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Lorna Hardwick, Stephen Harrison, Elizabeth Vandiver
Greek and Roman Antiquity in First World War Poetry

Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, and Charles Sorley all died in WWI. They came from diverse social, educational, and cultural backgrounds, but engagement with Greek and Roman antiquity was de…

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Alexandra Hardwick
Off-Stage Groups in Athenian Drama

Off-Stage Groups in Athenian Drama analyses how off-stage groups in fifth- and early fourth-century tragedy and comedy influence and respond to events on stage, and how characters interact with these grou…

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Lorna Hardwick, Stephen Harrison, Elizabeth Vandiver
Greek and Roman Antiquity in First World War Poetry

Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, and Charles Sorley all died in WWI. They came from diverse social, educational, and cultural backgrounds, but engagement with Greek and Roman antiquity was de…

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Essays on Propertian and Ovidian Elegy

This Festschrift in honour of the classical scholar Stephen Heyworth brings together eleven experts on the genre of Latin elegy. All chapters focus on the close reading of elegiac texts primarily by Ovid …

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Roopen Majithia
The Highest Good in the Nicomachean Ethics and the Bhagavad Gita

This open access book presents a comparative study of two classics of world literature, offering the first sustained consideration of what unites and divides the Nicomachean Ethics and the Bhagavad Gita. …

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Catherine Wilson
Epicureanism

This Very Short Introduction corrects the prevalent view of Epicureanism that often conjures up ideas of tasty delights and hedonism. Wilson explains the philosophical and scientific ideas of Epicurus and…

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Christos C Tsagalis
The Homeric Doloneia

The Doloneia is the most controversial book of the Iliad, its authenticity being doubted since antiquity. But by applying sophisticated interpretive tools, this book maintains that Iliad 10 was not compos…

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Lorna Hardwick, Stephen Harrison, Elizabeth Vandiver
Rupert Brooke, Charles Sorley, Isaac Rosenberg, and Wilfred Owen

Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, and Charles Sorley all died in WWI. They came from diverse social, educational, and cultural backgrounds, but engagement with Greek and Roman antiquity was de…

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William Viney
Twinkind

"An arresting illustrated history of twins in mythology, science, and visual culture. Twins have captivated the imagination for centuries, occupying a unique place in our cultural and scientific history. …

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Andrea Falcon
The Architecture of the Science of Living Beings

"The first book-length treatment of Aristotle and Theophrastus' achievements in their separate but coordinated studies of animals and plants. It explores their original motivations for articulating their …

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Christopher Shields
Fractured Goodness

A book about Aristotle's rejection of Plato's doctrine of the Form of the Good. It argues that, according to Aristotle, when we generalize from virtues to goodness, we wrongly form a presumption of univoc…

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Georgia Henley
Reimagining the Past in the Borderlands of Medieval England and Wales

This study demonstrates the emergence of a particular brand of Welsh marcher literature interested in succession, land rights, and the narrative scope of Geoffrey of Monmouth, which had an enduring impact…

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Luisa Ostacchini
Translating Europe in ÆLfric's Lives of Saints

Translating Europe in Ælfric's 'Lives of Saints' is the first study of the representation of European peoples, places and geographies in the Lives of Saints, one of early medieval England's most famed wor…

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