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Phaenias of Eresus: Text, Translation, and Discussion
ISBN: 9781412862479 / Angielski / Twarda / 459 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Phaenias of Eresus (c. 375-300 BC) was a member of Aristotle's school, the "Peripatos" or "Lyceum," and a friend and compatriot of Aristotle's successor, Theophrastus. Phaenias's scholarly interests stretched from strictly philosophical treatises to chronology and the history of philosophy and poetry; to the lives, fortunes, and manners of death of tyrants; to biographical and historical themes and details of famous Athenians; to botanical and zoological issues; and even entertaining, "novelistic" stories and strange reports (Mirabilia). This volume includes new scholarship,... Phaenias of Eresus (c. 375-300 BC) was a member of Aristotle's school, the "Peripatos" or "Lyceum," and a friend and compatriot of Aristotle's succ... |
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The Materials of Early Theatre: Sources, Images, and Performance: Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies
ISBN: 9781472488084 / Angielski / Twarda / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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702,94 |
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Silius Italicus' Punica: Rome's War with Hannibal
ISBN: 9781138291454 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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702,94 |
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Aeschylus' Oresteia
ISBN: 9781032646985 / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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702,94 |
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Praxiphanes of Mytilene and Chamaeleon of Heraclea: Text, Translation, and Discussion
ISBN: 9781412847476 / Angielski / Twarda / 606 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This installment of the distinguished RUSCH series focuses on two Peripatetic philosophers of the fourth and third centuries BCE: namely, Chamaeleon and Praxiphanes, both of whom were associated with Theophrastus, Aristotle's successor as head of the Peripatetic School. Chamaeleon and Praxiphanes were intellectuals active in the political and civic life of the Hellenistic Period. Their scholarly interests included inter alia ethics, biography, textual criticism, and linguistics. The work presents new editions of the ancient source texts for Chamaeleon and Praxiphanes. Each... This installment of the distinguished RUSCH series focuses on two Peripatetic philosophers of the fourth and third centuries BCE: namely, Chamaeleo... |
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702,94 |
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Sexuality in Literature for Children and Young Adults
ISBN: 9780367674724 / Angielski / Twarda / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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702,94 |
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Collected Papers on Suetonius
ISBN: 9780367555658 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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702,94 |
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Ancient Women Writers of Greece and Rome
ISBN: 9780367468774 / Angielski / Twarda / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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702,94 |
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Three More Plays by Aristophanes: Staging Politics
ISBN: 9780367747626 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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702,94 |
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Greco-Roman Waters: A Sourcebook
ISBN: 9781032569314 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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702,94 |
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Pindar's Library: Performance Poetry and Material Texts
ISBN: 9780198745730 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pindar's Library is the first volume to explore how readers during the Hellenistic period encountered Pindar's poetry in book form, analysing in detail the role played by Pindar's literary, cultic, and scholarly reception in affecting readers' engagement with his epinician odes. The volume examines the poet's literary devices of encomiastic techniques, mythical narratives, and paraenetic discourses against the background of the song culture of the fifth century, considering the poems as both material documents and performance pieces. With a particular focus on the poems that begin...
Pindar's Library is the first volume to explore how readers during the Hellenistic period encountered Pindar's poetry in book form, analysing...
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706,69 |
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Layers of Loyalty: Latin Panegyric 289 - 307
ISBN: 9780199249183 / Angielski / Twarda / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first monograph in English on the Panegyrici Latini, and the first in any language dedicated to the five speeches of praise from 289-307. The study considers how the orators justified, accommodated, and projected these changes and related them to the local concerns of the people of Northern Gaul. Detailed analyses of the speeches highlight the literary flair and diplomatic acumen their orators required.
This is the first monograph in English on the Panegyrici Latini, and the first in any language dedicated to the five speeches of praise from 289-307. ...
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706,69 |
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Athens and the Cyclades: Economic Strategies 540-314 BC
ISBN: 9780199646357 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Athens and the Cyclades: Economic Strategies 540-314 BC, Brian Rutishauser examines the history and economy of the island region known as the Cyclades during the late sixth to late fourth centuries BC. While certain aspects of geography in the Cyclades remained constant through ancient Greek history, the islanders were able to adapt to changing conditions and to changing hegemony imposed from outside the region, in order to increase economic prosperity.
By the time of the Persian Wars many of these islands had their own naval forces, coinage, and monumental architecture. During the... In Athens and the Cyclades: Economic Strategies 540-314 BC, Brian Rutishauser examines the history and economy of the island region known as the Cycla...
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706,69 |
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Imperialism, Cultural Politics, and Polybius
ISBN: 9780199600755 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The essays in this volume address central problems in the development of Roman imperialism in the third and second century BC. Published in honour of the distinguished Oxford academic Peter Derow, they follow some of his main interests: the author Polybius, the characteristics of Roman power and imperial ambition, and the mechanisms used by Rome in creating and sustaining an empire in the east. Written by a distinguished group of international historians, all of whom were taught by Derow, the volume constitutes a new and distinctive contribution to the history of this centrally important...
The essays in this volume address central problems in the development of Roman imperialism in the third and second century BC. Published in honour of ...
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706,69 |
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Shopping in Ancient Rome: The Retail Trade in the Late Republic and the Principate
ISBN: 9780199698219 / Angielski / Twarda / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Shopping in Ancient Rome provides the first comprehensive account of the retail network of this ancient city, an area of commerce that has been largely neglected in previous studies. Given the remarkable concentration of consumers in ancient Rome, the vast majority of which were entirely reliant on the market for survival, a functioning retail trade was vital to the survival of Rome in the late Republic and the Principate.
In this volume Holleran provides the first systematic account of Rome's retail sector through a comprehensive analysis of the literary, legal, epigraphic, and... Shopping in Ancient Rome provides the first comprehensive account of the retail network of this ancient city, an area of commerce that has been largel...
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706,69 |
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The Clay Sanskrit Library: Religion: 10-Volume Set
ISBN: 9780814717462 / Angielski / Twarda / 2250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Religion A diverse set, the religion set includes works from the biographical narratives of Buddha and stories of his past rebirths, to the lyrical account of love affair between gods, to a play that satirized religions to make a laughingstock of their followers and their tenets. Included in this set: The Epitome of Queen Lilavati By Jina.ratna. Edited and translated by Richard Fynes. Volume 1 543 pages / 978-0-8147-2741-6 The Epitome of Queen Lilavati Volume 2 By Jina.ratna. Edited and translated by Richard Fynes. 650 pages / 978-0-8147-2742-3 Garland of the Buddha s Past... Religion A diverse set, the religion set includes works from the biographical narratives of Buddha and stories of his past rebirths, to the lyric... |
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707,78 |
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Euripides: Phoenissae
ISBN: 9780521604468 / Angielski / Miękka / 684 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume provides a thorough philological and dramatic commentary on Euripides' Phoenissae, the first detailed commentary in English since 1911.
This volume provides a thorough philological and dramatic commentary on Euripides' Phoenissae, the first detailed commentary in English since 1911.
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714,77 |
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The Orphic Hymns: Poetry and Genre, with a Critical Text and Translation
ISBN: 9789004714076 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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715,56 |
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Performance, Iconography, Reception: Studies in Honour of Oliver Taplin
ISBN: 9780199232215 / Angielski / Twarda / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Performance, Reception, Iconography assembles twenty-three papers from an international group of scholars who engage with, and develop, the seminal work of Oliver Taplin. Oliver Taplin has for over three decades been at the forefront of innovation in the study of Greek literature, and of the Greek theatre, tragic and comic, in particular. The studies in this volume centre on three key areas - the performance of Greek literature, the interactions between literature and the visual realm of iconography, and the reception and appropriation of Greek literature, and of Greek culture more widely, in...
Performance, Reception, Iconography assembles twenty-three papers from an international group of scholars who engage with, and develop, the seminal wo...
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718,17 |
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The Agamemnon of Aeschylus: A Commentary for Students
ISBN: 9780199595600 / Angielski / Twarda / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This commentary discusses Aeschylus' play Agamemnon (458 BC), which is one of the most popular of the surviving ancient Greek tragedies, and is the first to be published in English since 1958. It is designed particularly to help students who are tackling Aeschylus in the original Greek for the first time, and includes a reprint of D. L. Page's Oxford Classical Text of the play.
The introduction defines the place of Agamemnon within the Oresteia trilogy as a whole, and the historical context in which the plays were produced. It discusses Aeschylus' handling of the traditional myth and the... This commentary discusses Aeschylus' play Agamemnon (458 BC), which is one of the most popular of the surviving ancient Greek tragedies, and is the fi...
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718,17 |
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