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Jacqueline Arthur-Montagne
Fiction and Education in the Roman World

What was fiction in the Roman world - and how did ancient readers learn to make sense of it? This book redefines ancient fiction not as a genre but as a sociocultural practice, governed by the institution…

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Gondwanaland

The ancient landmass of Gondwanaland began to break up two hundred million years ago into what would become present-day Africa, Antarctica, Australasia, South America, and South Asia--a prehuman "Glo…

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Alley Marie Jordan
Classical Taste in the Architectural World of Thomas Jefferson

Reaching beyond politics and law, this book focuses on Thomas Jefferson as an aesthetic classicist.Jefferson embraced the influence of antiquity through his adoption of classical architecture in his Virgi…

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Ecologizing Late Ancient and Byzantine Worlds

How can we study the late ancient and Byzantine history from ecological perspectives? How might one grapple with the more-than-human in sources and media created by humans? Exploring the diverse ways in w…

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John Marincola
Plutarch's on the Malice of Herodotus and the Writing of History in the Greco-Roman World

The essay, On the Malice of Herodotus , which has come down to us in the corpus of Plutarch, has often been considered a problematic work because of its hostile tone, the object of its attack, and the qua…

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Selena Wisnom
The Library of Ancient Wisdom

A tour of an ancient library transports us to Mesopotamia, introducing us to its people, their ideas, and their humanity.The library of Ashurbanipal, Assyria's last great king, held an astonishing collect…

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The Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World

The ancient Greek world consisted of approximately 1,000 autonomous polities scattered across the Mediterranean basin, and each one developed its own, unique set of socio-political institutions and social…

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Marijn Visscher
Beyond Alexandria: Literature and Empire in the Seleucid World

Beyond Alexandria aims to provide a better understanding of Seleucid literature, covering the period from Seleucus I to Antiochus III. Despite the historical importance of the Seleucid Empire during the l…

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Cursed!

A bewitching study of magical objects from ancient societies, including Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece and RomePublished with Toledo Museum of Art.The belief in magic was widespread across ancient Egypt, Meso…

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Alley Marie Jordan
Classical Taste in the Architectural World of Thomas Jefferson

"Reaching beyond politics and law, this book focuses on Thomas Jefferson as an aesthetic classicist. Jefferson embraced the influence of antiquity through his adoption of classical architecture in hi…

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A Companion to Greeks Across the Ancient World

Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World

A COMPANION TO GREEKS ACROSS THE ANCIENT WORLDAn innovative, up-to-date treatment of ancient Greek mobility and migration from 1000 BCE to 30 BCEA Companion to Greeks Across the Ancient World explores the…

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John Davie
Greek To Us

John Davie, co-author of Et Tu, Brute? turns his attention to Ancient Greece. With a foreword by Harry Mount.Ancient Greek lives on in our culture in surprising ways. Sometimes funny - the word for an act…

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William Dalrymple
The Golden Road

FROM THE AWARD-WINNING, BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND CO-HOST OF THE CHART-TOPPING EMPIRE PODCAST - A REVOLUTIONARY NEW HISTORY OF INDIA?A master storyteller' Sunday TimesIndia is the forgotten heart of the anci…

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A. C. Grayling
Time of the Sages

2,400 years ago there was a sudden and dramatic burst of new ideas across the world.Simultaneously in Athens, Socrates was prompting his contemporaries to question their assumptions; in India, the Buddha …

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A. C. Grayling
Time of the Sages

2,400 years ago there was a sudden and dramatic burst of new ideas across the world.Simultaneously in Athens, Socrates was prompting his contemporaries to question their assumptions; in India, the Buddha …

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Greek Literary Topographies in the Roman Imperial World

Focusing on the Greek world during the high Roman Empire between the 1st and 3rd centuries CE, this edited volume examines the representation of space in literary, rhetorical, and mythographic texts of th…

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Lucretius, Seneca
How to Face the End of the World

Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers

A grimly entertaining anthology of ancient Greek and Roman writings about how to fearlessly prepare for the end of the world and other disastersA remarkable percentage of people believe we are living in t…

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Irene Vallejo,
Consolations

UPLIFTING, PRACTICAL AND SURPRISING WISDOM FROM THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING CLASSICIST'Wonderful. Thoughtfully chosen, carefully explained and beautifully expressed' NATALIE HAYNES 'A literary phenomenon…

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Paulin Ismard,
The City and Its Slaves

What bound the invention of democracy to the practice of slavery in ancient Greece? In this bold book, Paulin Ismard explores that entanglement, offering a new analysis of Athenian slave law. He shows how…

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Peter Meineck
Tony Stark, Odysseus, and the Myths Behind Marvel

NATIONAL BESTSELLER"By connecting our modern heroes to the archetypes of ancient myth, Peter Meineck's marvelous book bestows thrilling contemporary resonance upon those bygone legends." ---Chri…

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