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Silvia Montiglio
Schadenfreude and Its Wicked Delights in Ancient Greece

This volume explores the significance of schadenfreude in Greek literature and culture from the archaic period to the second century CE. It examines how schadenfreude works, what purposes it serves within…

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Eleni Bozia
Politics of Language

Examining the identity and belonging of native and non-native speakers of Greek during the time of the High Roman Empire, Eleni Bozia closely studies grammarians, lexicographers and literary writers who u…

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Paul Allen Miller
Truth and Enjoyment in Cicero

Truth and Enjoyment in Cicero offers a fundamental re-examination of the relation between truth and enjoyment as understood in the traditional confrontation between rhetoric and philosophy in Cicero. His …

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Leah O'Hearn
Akrasia and the Catullan Lover

Exploring how the Roman poet Catullus portrays erotic desire as a problem of self-control, Leah O'Hearn argues that Catullus presents himself as a lover plagued by akrasia (the failure to act on better ju…

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Eric Csapo, Peter Wilson
A Social and Economic History of the Theatre to 300 Bc: Volume 1, the Theatre Festivals of Athens: Documents with Translation and Commentary

This is the first volume of A Social and Economic History of the Theatre to 300 BC and focuses exclusively on the theatre festivals in the city of Athens. It presents and discusses in detail all the docum…

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Anna Chiara Corradino,
Representations of Endymion and Selene

A focused study of an ancient myth and its reception, which provokes new consideration of how myth in general can challenge social norms. Analyzing the visual and literary transformations of the myth of E…

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Máiréad Casey
Demon Possession and Sexual Violence in Post-Great Recession American Horror Cinema

University of Wales Press

Examines how cultural and economic anxieties in 2008 influenced the popularity of demon possession and gendered violence in American horror.This book examines American horror films as key sites for explor…

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Rachana Kamtekar
Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. OSAP is …

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Jan Carson
Few and Far Between

From a "deeply talented" (The New York Times Book Review), award-winning writer comes an alternate history of Northern Ireland's recent past where the last remaining residents of a haunted archi…

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Amaranth Feuth
Metaliterary Katabasis in the Writings of Eavan Boland, Derek Walcott and Gloria Naylor

Focusing on the ancient motif of the descent into the underworld (katabasis), this book examines how three 20th-century writers - Eavan Boland, Gloria Naylor and Derek Walcott - articulate their poetics a…

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Virginia Woolf,
A Room of One's Own

Penguin Publishing Group

Virginia Woolf's pioneering work of feminism, "probably the most influential piece of non-fictional writing by a woman in [the twentieth] century" (Hermione Lee), featuring a new introduction by…

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Rachana Kamtekar
Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. OSAP is …

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Trevor Boffone, Danielle Rosvally
Yassified Shakespeare

This book explores the under-theorized intersections between Shakespeare and drag in contemporary American culture and performances of and around what it terms "ShaxDrag."From the root word &quo…

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William Jardine
The Naturalist's Library. The Natural History of Parrots

Reprint of the original, first published in 1836. The Antigonos publishing house specialises in the publication of reprints of historical books. We make sure that these works are made available to the pub…

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Cicero,
Pro Quinctio. Pro Roscio Amerino. Pro Roscio Comoedo. Pro Tullio. de Lege Agraria

"Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician, and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise, dictatorship, a…

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Achille Castaldo
Ascetic Images

Examines the narrative articulation of social invisibility in works by two of the most influential Italian cultural producers of the twentieth century.The product of centuries of systemic violence and act…

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Julian Richards,
Shakespeare in the Theatre Glen Byam Shaw and the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre

Glen Byam Shaw was a pivotal but overlooked figure in the development of Shakespearean performance in 20th century Britain. This book serves as the first full analysis of Shaw's work as Director of the Sh…

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Sam Tabet
Beyond the Lesbian Vampire

A study of the rebirth and subversion of the violent lesbian trope in queer horror.Beyond the Lesbian Vampire is a groundbreaking dive into the pervasive archetype of the violent lesbian in cinema. This b…

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Trevor Boffone, Danielle Rosvally
Yassified Shakespeare

'This exhilarating tour of meme, yass, RuPaul and drag embraces Shakespearean postmodernity in all its inauthentic authenticity.' - Emma Smith, University of Oxford, UK.To 'yassify': to 'glamify' - often …

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Krzysztof Ziarek
License to Think

Argues for developing literacy of listening and silence as as an alternative to the dominance of logical procedures and the exactness of calculative thought.License to Think argues for a necessary reconsi…

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