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Nigel Nicholson
Victory and Celebration

Victory and Celebration traces how athletic success was transformed into broader social and political capital in ancient Greece--how being a good boxer, or having a fast son or good horses was made into s…

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David A Desilva
Judea Under Greek and Roman Rule

Judea under Greek and Roman Rule provides a reconstruction of the history of Judea and its neighboring regions from 334 BCE, when Alexander's eastward conquests brought Judea into the Greek empire, throug…

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Tom McConnell
Chronology, Dialect, and Style in Early Greek Hexameter Poetry

Chronology, Dialect, and Style in Early Greek Hexameter Poetry concerns the language of epic poetry of Ancient Greece. It focuses on various unique texts, whose authors and dates of composition we know ne…

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Jeremy Mcinerney
Centaurs and Snake-Kings

"Combining scholarship with readability, Jeremy McInerney's wide-ranging, stimulating new book uncovers the complexity and potency of ancient hybridity. Hybrids, McInerney reveals, confuse categories…

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Will Brockliss
Horror in Ancient Greek and Roman Epic

By demonstrating the importance of horrific motifs in Greek and Roman epic, this book challenges existing conceptions of what an epic poem is and of what it means to engage with such a text. Taking the re…

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David A Desilva
Judea Under Greek and Roman Rule

Judea under Greek and Roman Rule provides a reconstruction of the history of Judea and its neighboring regions from 334 BCE, when Alexander's eastward conquests brought Judea into the Greek empire, throug…

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Yanni Kotsonis
The Greek Revolution and the Violent Birth of Nationalism

"At the beginning of the nineteenth century, Greece was not a country-it was only a vague idea. The territories we now call Greece were part of the Ottoman Empire, though some of its islands were rul…

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Disability in the Greek Patristic Tradition

This volume explores the profound ways in which key thinkers from the Greek Christian East engaged with the realities of human frailty, impairment, and divine purpose.

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Tatiana Bur
Technologies of the Marvellous in Ancient Greek Religion

For the first time investigates the ways that technological, and especially mechanical, strategies were integrated into ancient Greek religion. Presents in full the evidence from the fifth century BCE to …

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A Companion to Greek Warfare

"The first part of the book, a "Historical Survey," focuses on changing issues in strategy and grand strategy-on Greek motives, goals, and responses to military success and failure, the Mac…

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Sebastiana Nervegna
The Performance Reception of Greek Tragedy in Ancient Theatres

"Reconstructs the rich afterlife of Greek tragedy on ancient stages across the entire Mediterranean area, from the fourth century BC to the early third century AD. Draws on an extensive collection of…

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Joe Whitchurch
Revenge, Punishment and Anger in Ancient Greek Justice

"Anger was the engine of justice in the ancient Greek world. It drove quests for vengeance which resulted in a variety of consequences, often harmful not only for the relevant actors but also for the…

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The Senses in Ancient Greek Athletics

An exploration of ancient Greek athletics through the lens of the senses, examining for the first time the performance, social significance and representation in literature.

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Ancient Greek Philosophers

Leather-Bound Classics

Trace the origins of modern philosophy back to ancient Greece with the likes of Plato, Aristotle, and other famous thinkers.

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Francesca Modini
Aelius Aristides and the Poetics of Lyric in Imperial Greek Culture

"This is the first major study of Greek lyric poetry in imperial Greek culture. It shows how knowledge of lyric enabled imperial writers to demonstrate a more sophisticated level of paideia; and reve…

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Miguel Vargas
The Oniad Sibyl

Through an investigation of its prophetic literature, The Oniad Sibyl examines the history, historical consciousness, and culture of one Egyptian-Jewish community that participated in a Mediterranean-wide…

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Carolina López-Ruiz
Greek Mythology

Greek Mythology is an accessible and nuanced overview of creation myths from the ancient Greek and Near Eastern worlds, informed by the understanding of the cultural and social context of the stories. Eac…

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Shadi Bartsch
Plato Goes to China

The surprising story of how Greek classics are being pressed into use in contemporary China to support the regime's political agendaAs improbable as it may sound, an illuminating way to understand today's…

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Joyce Manor

Million Dollars To Kill Me

Joyce Manor scheinen seit ihrem Signing bei Epitaph einem strengen Zweijahresplan zu folgen. Nach »Never Hungover Again« (2014) und »Cody« (2016) ist »Million Dollars To Kill Me« der dritte Labellangspiel…

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Ken Jennings,
Greek Mythology

Provides facts on the classic myths of the Greeks and Romans, from how Prometheus outsmarted the gods to how Achilles's heel led to his death.

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