Re-Reading Sappho

• Paperback | Engels | Classics and Contemporary Thought | nr. 3
• Re-Reading Sappho reflects the recent fascination with Sappho's "afterlife." The essays examine the changing interpretations of scholars and writers w... Lees meer

Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire

Clifford Ando

• Hardcover | Engels | Classics and Contemporary Thought | nr. 6
• The Roman empire remains unique. Although Rome claimed to rule the world, it did not. Rather, its uniqueness stems from the culture it created and the... Lees meer

The Gift of the Nile

Phiroze Vasunia

• Hardcover | Engels | Classics and Contemporary Thought | nr. 8
• The Egyptians mesmerized the ancient Greeks for scores of years. The Greek literature and art of the classical period are especially thick with repres... Lees meer

Reading Sappho

• Paperback | Engels | Classics and Contemporary Thought | nr. 2
• Reading Sappho considers Sappho's poetry as a powerful, influential voice in the Western cultural tradition. Essays are divided into four sections: "L... Lees meer

Horace and the Gift Economy of Patronage

Phebe Lowell Bowditch

• Paperback | Engels | Classics and Contemporary Thought | nr. 7
• This innovative study explores selected odes and epistles by the late-first-century poet Horace in light of modern anthropological and literary theory... Lees meer

Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire

Clifford Ando

• Paperback | Engels | Classics and Contemporary Thought | nr. 6
• The Roman empire remains unique. Although Rome claimed to rule the world, it did not. Rather, its uniqueness stems from the culture it created and the... Lees meer

Catullan Provocations

William Fitzgerald

• Paperback | Engels | Classics and Contemporary Thought | nr. 1
• Restoring to Catullus a provocative power that familiarity has tended to dim, this book argues that Catullus challenges us to think about the nature o... Lees meer

Warriors Into Traders

David W Tandy

• Paperback | Engels | Classics and Contemporary Thought | nr. 5
• The eighth century dawned on a Greek world that had remained substantially unchanged during the centuries of stagnation known as the Dark Age. This bo... Lees meer