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Roman Literature, Gender and Reception: Domina Illustris
ISBN: 9780415825078 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This cutting-edge collection of essays offers provocative studies of ancient history, literature, gender identifications and roles, and subsequent interpretations of the republican and imperial Roman past. The prose and poetry of Cicero and Petronius, Lucretius, Virgil, and Ovid receive fresh interpretations; pagan and Christian texts are re-examined from feminist and imaginative perspectives; genres of epic, didactic, and tragedy are re-examined; and subsequent uses and re-uses of the ancient heritage are probed with new attention: Shakespeare, Nineteenth Century American theater, and... This cutting-edge collection of essays offers provocative studies of ancient history, literature, gender identifications and roles, and subsequent ... |
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757,10 zł |
The Historical Method of Herodotus
ISBN: 9780802076847 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Herodotus was the first writer in the West to conceive the value of creating a record of the recent past. He found a way to co-ordinate the often conflicting data of history, ethnology, and culture. The Historical Method of Herodotus explores the intellectual habits and the literary principles of this pioneer writer of prose. Donald Lateiner argues, against the perception that Herodotus' work seems amorphous and ill organized, that the Histories contain their own definition of historical significance. He examines patterns of presentation and literary structure in... Herodotus was the first writer in the West to conceive the value of creating a record of the recent past. He found a way to co-ordinate the often c... |
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156,47 zł |
The Ancient Emotion of Disgust
ISBN: 9780190604110 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The study of emotions and emotional displays has achieved a deserved prominence in recent classical scholarship. The emotions of the classical world can be plumbed to provide a valuable heuristic tool. Emotions can help us understand key issues of ancient ethics, ideological assumptions, and normative behaviors, but, more frequently than not, classical scholars have turned their attention to "social emotions" requiring practical decisions and ethical judgments in public and private gatherings. The emotion of disgust has been unwarrantedly neglected, even though it figures saliently in many...
The study of emotions and emotional displays has achieved a deserved prominence in recent classical scholarship. The emotions of the classical world c...
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544,25 zł |
Roman Literature, Gender and Reception: Domina Illustris
ISBN: 9781138243118 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This cutting-edge collection of essays offers provocative studies of ancient history, literature, gender identifications and roles, and subsequent interpretations of the republican and imperial Roman past. The prose and poetry of Cicero and Petronius, Lucretius, Virgil, and Ovid receive fresh interpretations; pagan and Christian texts are re-examined from feminist and imaginative perspectives; genres of epic, didactic, and tragedy are re-examined; and subsequent uses and re-uses of the ancient heritage are probed with new attention: Shakespeare, Nineteenth Century American theater, and... This cutting-edge collection of essays offers provocative studies of ancient history, literature, gender identifications and roles, and subsequent ... |
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277,56 zł |