This book offers a comprehensive and systematic rather than historical approach to ancient Greek oracular texts, showing their conceptual and formal unity and patternisation, as well as their meaningful diversit...Lasīt vairāk
This volume examines the dynamism and complexity of religious expressions in rural settings across Late-Antique Iberia. Chapters demonstrate that the rural world was a dynamic space which formed an integral part of the multi-directional process of r...Lasīt vairāk
This book sheds new light on the dramatic works of the American playwright, poet, and lyricist Maxwell Anderson, assessing the pervasive influence of Greek and Roman antiquity on his plays that dominated Broadway in the first half of the twentieth c...Lasīt vairāk
This volume investigates how versions of Trojan War narratives written in Greek in the first through fifth centuries C.E. created nostalgia for audiences, particularly in the case of the third-century C.E. poet Quintus of Smyrnas epic Posthome...Lasīt vairāk
This collection of new essays by an international group of scholars closely examines the works of Aristotles Organon.The Organon is the general title given to the collection of Aristotles logical works: Categories, ...Lasīt vairāk
The essays in this collection explore various various models of representing temporality in ancient Greek and Roman literature to elucidate how structures of time communicate meaning, as well as the way that the cultural impact of measured time is...Lasīt vairāk
This volume offers a detailed study of Ptolemy of Alexandrias Geographical Guide, whose eight books contain a wealth of geographical information unavailable elsewhere and represent the culmination of the Greco-Roman discipline of geography...Lasīt vairāk
This is the first volume to explore the modern reception and contemporary relevance of Aristotle and his philosophy in Japan, making it a valuable contribution to both global Aristotelian studies and studies of Japanese philosophical traditions. The...Lasīt vairāk
This volume explores the effects of Greek presence in the Iberian Peninsula, and how this Iberian Greek experience evolved in resonance with its neighbouring region, the Mediterranean West....Lasīt vairāk
This collection of essays from a diverse group of internationally recognized scholars builds on the work of Steven J. Friesen to analyze the material and ideological dimensions of Johns Apocalypse and the religious landscape of the Roman East....Lasīt vairāk
This book collects new work on Latin didactic poetry and prose in the late Republic and early Empire, and it evaluates the varied, shifting roles that literature of teaching and learning played during this period.Instruction was of special...Lasīt vairāk
Encounters with Greek Art sheds new light on the invention of ancient identities by focusing on encounters between viewers and artworks swept to Italy on the tides of Roman imperialism between 146 BCE and 117 CE. Bringing globalization theory to bea...Lasīt vairāk
Together the Dacians and the Getae were the creators of the largest unified power of ancient Europe outside of the Roman Empire, yet each was colonized and integrated into the Roman imperial system differently. Unlike the short-lived but intense R...Lasīt vairāk
This book provides the first full-length study of personal religious experience in the Greek Archaic and Classical periods through archaeological, epigraphic, and textual evidence. A valuable read for students and scholars of ancient Greek religio...Lasīt vairāk
This fresh, comprehensive study of ancient Greek atheism aims to dismantle the current consensus that atheism was unthinkable in ancient Greece, demonstrating instead that atheism was not only thinkable but inextricably embedded in the Greek rel...Lasīt vairāk
This volume takes an innovative interdisciplinary approach to investigating divination procedures at sanctuaries of Apollo in Classical and Hellenistic Greece, merging neuroscience, psychology, and behavioural studies with archaeology. Suitable fo...Lasīt vairāk
This volume addresses the important literary phenomenon of generic enrichment in Plutarchs Parallel Lives, examining the ways in which features of other genres are deployed and incorporated in Plutarchs biographies and the effects of th...Lasīt vairāk
This volume elucidates how processions, from antiquity to the present, contribute to creating consensus with regards to both political power and communitarian experiences.Many classical sources often only tangentially allude to processions,...Lasīt vairāk
This volume introduces new perspectives on taxation policies in the Roman Empire, particularly its effects in the Galilee before and after the First Jewish Revolt. Suitable for students and scholars in Classical, Biblical, and Jewish studies, as w...Lasīt vairāk
