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Aphrodite's Tortoise. The veiled woman of ancient
Greece by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones ISBN-13: 978-1-905125-42-5 ISBN-10: 1-905125-42-9, paperback, GB £28 Greek women routinely wore the veil. That is the unexpected finding of this major study. [More details] |
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Approaches to Homer. Ancient and modern edited by Robert J. Rabel ISBN-13 978-1-905125-04-3, hardback, 240 pp., GB £45.00 Ten new essays, from a distinguished cast of (mainly) North American scholars, approach Homer with insights gained from the modern disciplines of psychology and anthropology, narratology, oral theory and cognitive research. [More details] |
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Archaic Greece. New evidence and new approaches edited by Nick Fisher and Hans van Wees ISBN-13 978-0-7156-2809-6, hardback, 464 pp., 1998, GB £50.00 The study of archaic Greece is being transformed by exciting discoveries and interpretations. [More details] |
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Aristomenes of Messene. Legends of Sparta's nemesis
by Daniel Ogden ISBN-13 978-0-9543-845-4-8, hardback, 240 pp., 2004, GB £45.00 The legends of Aristomenes, hero of the Messenian resistance to Sparta, were designed to excite, gratify and amuse. Yet they remain almost unknown even to specialist ancient historians. [More details] |
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Battle in Antiquity edited by Alan B. Lloyd ISBN 978-1-905125-27-2, paperback, 2009, GB £20.00 How do fighting men act and feel in battle? How do they deal with the
trauma of conflict? What determines the outcome of battle? [More
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Behind Closed Eyes. Dreams and nightmares in ancient
Egypt by Kasia Szpakowska ISBN-13 978-0-9543845-0-0, hardback, 200 pp., 2003 GB £40.00 This book is the first to present a comprehensive study of dreams as they were perceived and interpreted by the Egyptians in the third and second millennia BC - from Old Kingdom to New Kingdom. [More details] |
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Body Language in the Greek and Roman World ISBN-13: 978-1-905125-01-2 ISBN-10: 1-905125-01-1, hardback, 300 pp., 2005, GB £45.00 A distinguished cast of scholars discusses models of gesture and non-verbal communication as they apply to Greek and Roman culture, literature and art. [More details] |
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George Buchanan: Poet and Dramatist ISBN-13: 978-1-905125-36-4 ISBN-10: 1-905125-36-4, hardback, 380pp, 2009, GB£50 Educated in Scotland and France, George Buchanan became one of the most influential writers of 16th century Europe. Writing in the lingua franca of his time - Classical Latin - he was to be hailed internationally as `easily the prince of poets'. [More details] |
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Catullus: A Textual Reappraisal ISBN-13: 978-1-905125-15-9 ISBN-10: 1-905125-15-1, hardback, 200pp, 2007, GB£45.00 The poems of Catullus have notoriously been subjected to numerous accidental corruptions. This work represents a radical reappraisal of his text. [More details] |
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Cicero on the Attack: Invective and subversion in the orations and
beyond ISBN-13: 978-1-905125-19-7 ISBN-10: 1-905125-19-4, hardback, 220pp. 2007. GB£45.00 Eight new essays, from a distinguished international cast, examine the techniques of Cicero's verbal aggression. Analysis includes political and forensic context but also Cicero's own formal theory of rhetoric and his debts to other genres, literary and dramatic. [More details] |
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| Competition in the Ancient
World edited by Nick Fisher and Hans van Wees ISBN: 978-1-905125-48-7, 302pp, 2010, GB £50 Ancient peoples, like modern, spent much of their lives engaged in and thinking about competitions: both organised competitions with rules, audiences and winners, such as Olympic and gladiatorial games, and informal, indefinite, often violent, competition for fundamental goals such as power, wealth and honour. [More details] |
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| Creating a Hellenistic World edited by Andrew Erskine and Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones ISBN-13: 978-1-905125-43-2 ISBN-10: 1-905125-43-7, hardback, 380pp, 2010, GB £55 Alexander's conquest of the Persian empire had far-reaching impact, in space and time. Much of the territory that he seized would remain under the control of Macedonian kings until the arrival of the Romans. But Macedonian power also brought with it Greeks and Greek culture. [More details] |
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Cremna in Pisidia by Stephen Mitchell with contributions by Sarah Cormack, Robin Fursdon, Jean Ozturk and Eddie Owens ISBN-13 978-0-7156-2696-2, hardback, 329 pp., 1995, GB £50.00 Cremna, a ruined city in southern Turkey, has one of the most spectacular sites in Asia Minor, high in the Taurus mountains. [More details] |
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Dialectic in Action. An examination of Plato's Crito by Michael C. Stokes ISBN-13 978-0-9543845-9-3, hardback, x+246 pp., 2005, GB £45.00 Plato's Crito examines a single moral decision, whether Socrates ought to escape from his death-cell. Stokes's book discusses Socrates' arguments against Crito's offer of escape. [More details] |
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Dionysalexandros ISBN-13: 978-1-905125-13-5 , hardback, 300pp, 2006, GB £45.00 In seventeen original essays, a distinguished international cast considers the text, interpretation and cultural context of Greek tragedy. [More details] |