African Americans and the Classics

Margaret Malamud

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Classical Studies | nr. 1
• A new wave of research in black classicism has emerged in the 21st century that explores the role played by the classics in the larger cultural tradit... Lees meer

Ancient Greece and American Conservatism

John Bloxham

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Classical Studies
• US conservatives have repeatedly turned to classical Greece for inspiration and rhetorical power. In the 1950s they used Plato to defend moral absolut... Lees meer

Classical Reception and Children's Literature

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Classical Studies
• Reception studies have transformed the classics. Many more literary and cultural texts are now regarded as 'valid' for classical study. And within thi... Lees meer

Master of Attic Black Figure Painting

Elizabeth Moignard

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Classical Studies
• The great 6th-century BCE Attic potter-painter Exekias is acclaimed as the most accomplished exponent of late 'black-figure' art. His vases, vessels, ... Lees meer

Human and Animal in Ancient Greece

Tua Korhonen, Erika Ruonakoski

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Classical Studies
• Animals were omnipresent in the everyday life and the visual arts of classical Greece. In literature, too, they had significant functions.This book di... Lees meer

Corinth in Late Antiquity

Amelia R Brown

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Classical Studies
• Late antique Corinth was on the frontline of the radical political, economic and religious transformations that swept across the Mediterranean world f... Lees meer

Classical Reception and Children's Literature

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Classical Studies
• Reception studies have transformed the classics. Many more literary and cultural texts are now regarded as 'valid' for classical study. And within thi... Lees meer

The Myth of Hero and Leander

Silvia Montiglio

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Classical Studies
• Hero and Leander are the protagonists in a classical tale of epic but tragic love. Hero lives secluded in a tower on the European shore of the Hellesp... Lees meer

The Trial of Warren Hastings

Chiara Rolli

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Classical Studies
• The impeachment trial of Warren Hastings lasted from 1788 until 1795. Hastings was the first Governor-General of Bengal and his trial had a formative ... Lees meer

Military Leaders and Sacred Space in Classical Greek Warfare

Sonya Nevin

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Classical Studies
• The ancient Greeks attributed great importance to the sacred during war and campaigning, as demonstrated from their earliest texts. Among the first fo... Lees meer

Ancient Greece and American Conservatism

John Bloxham

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Classical Studies
• US conservatives have repeatedly turned to classical Greece for inspiration and rhetorical power. In the 1950s they used Plato to defend moral absolut... Lees meer

African Americans and the Classics

Margaret Malamud

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Classical Studies
• A new wave of research in black classicism has emerged in the 21st century that explores the role played by the classics in the larger cultural tradit... Lees meer

The Rhetoric of Power in Late Antiquity

Elizabeth Depalma Digeser, Robert M Frakes, Justin Stephens

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Classical Studies
• Late Antiquity, the period of transition from the crisis of Roman Empire in the third century to the Middle Ages, has traditionally been considered on... Lees meer

Writing Ancient History

Luke Pitcher

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Classical Studies | nr. 1
• 'History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon', said Napoleon. Yet the actual writing of history, especially ancient h... Lees meer

The Horse in the Ancient World

Carolyn Willekes

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Classical Studies
• The domestication of the horse in the fourth millennium BC altered the course of mankind's future. Formerly a source only of meat, horses now became t... Lees meer

The Spell of Hypnos

Silvia Montiglio

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Classical Studies
• Sleep was viewed as a boon by the ancient Greeks: sweet, soft, honeyed, balmy, care-loosening, as the Iliad has it. But neither was sleep straightforw... Lees meer

The Quest for Classical Greece

Lucy Pollard

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Classical Studies
• 'Greece and Asia Minor proved an irresistible lure to English visitors in the seventeenth century. These lands were criss-crossed by adventurers, merc... Lees meer

Corinth in Late Antiquity

Amelia R Brown

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Classical Studies
• Late antique Corinth was on the frontline of the radical political, economic and religious transformations that swept across the Mediterranean world f... Lees meer

The Laws of Solon

D F Leão, Pj Rhodes

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Classical Studies
• Solon (c 658-558 BC) is famous as both statesman and poet but also, and above all, as the paramount lawmaker of ancient Athens. Though his works survi... Lees meer

Reviving Cicero in Drama

Gesine Manuwald

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Classical Studies | nr. 36
• The influence of Cicero is everywhere to be found. His rhetorical and philosophical writings have made an inescapable impact on the history of western... Lees meer

The Sacred Architecture of Byzantium

Nicholas N Patricios

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Classical Studies
• The churches of the Byzantine era were built to represent heaven on earth. Architecture, art and liturgy were intertwined in them to a degree that has... Lees meer