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  • Plautus: Cistellaria

    de Professor Ariana Traill ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Ancient Comedy Companions
    This volume is the first book-length introduction to Plautus' Cistellaria (The Jewelry Box), offering an incisive overview for both students and scholars coming to it for the first time. This play is a story of young lovers defying social norms and disapproving parents in order to be together, featuring a memorable cast of characters and moments of both high humor and drama. This classic mistaken ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD

  • A Companion to Terence

    Edición de Antony Augoustakis, Ariana Traill ...
    Series series Wiley Companions to the Ancient World
    A comprehensive collection of essays by leading scholars in the field that address, in a single volume, several key issues in interpreting Terence offering a detailed study of Terence’s plays and situating them in their socio-historical context, as well as documenting their reception through to present day• The first comprehensive collection of essays on Terence in English, by leading scholars in ... Leer más

    $180.00 USD

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  • On Pedantry

    A Cultural History of the Know-it-All

    de Arnoud S. Q. Visser ...
    A lively and entertaining cultural history of a supremely annoying intellectual viceIntellectuals have long provoked scorn and irritation, even downright aggression. Many learned individuals have cast such hostility as a badge of honor, a sign of envy, or a form of resistance to inconvenient truths. On Pedantry offers an altogether different perspective, revealing how the excessive use of learning ... Leer más

    $21.59 USD

  • Laughter in Ancient Rome

    On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up

    de Mary Beard ...
    Series Libro 71 - Sather Classical Lectures
    What made the Romans laugh? Was ancient Rome a carnival, filled with practical jokes and hearty chuckles? Or was it a carefully regulated culture in which the uncontrollable excess of laughter was a force to fear—a world of wit, irony, and knowing smiles? How did Romans make sense of laughter? What role did it play in the world of the law courts, the imperial palace, or the spectacles of the arena ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Medieval Invention of Travel

    de Shayne Aaron Legassie ...
    Over the course of the Middle Ages, the economies of Europe, Asia, and northern Africa became more closely integrated, fostering the international and intercontinental journeys of merchants, pilgrims, diplomats, missionaries, and adventurers. During a time in history when travel was often difficult, expensive, and fraught with danger, these wayfarers composed accounts of their experiences in ... Leer más

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  • On Roman Religion

    Lived Religion and the Individual in Ancient Rome

    de Jörg Rüpke ...
    Series Libro 67 - Cornell Studies in Classical Philology
    Provocative reading for anyone interested in Roman culture in the late Republic and early Empire.â• Religious Studies ReviewWas religious practice in ancient Rome cultic and hostile to individual expression? Or was there, rather, considerable latitude for individual initiative and creativity? Jörg Rüpke, one of the world’s leading authorities on Roman religion, demonstrates in his new book that it ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • A Companion to Catullus

    Edición de Marilyn B. Skinner ...
    In this companion, international scholars provide a comprehensive overview that reflects the most recent trends in Catullan studies.Explores the work of Catullus, one of the best Roman ‘lyric poets’Provides discussions about production, genre, style, and reception, as well as interpretive essays on key poems and groups of poemsGrounds Catullus in the socio-historical world around himChapters ... Leer más

    $50.00 USD

  • TransAntiquity

    Cross-Dressing and Transgender Dynamics in the Ancient World

    Edición de Domitilla Campanile, Filippo Carlà-Uhink, Margherita Facella ...
    Series series Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
    TransAntiquity explores transgender practices, in particular cross-dressing, and their literary and figurative representations in antiquity. It offers a ground-breaking study of cross-dressing, both the social practice and its conceptualization, and its interaction with normative prescriptions on gender and sexuality in the ancient Mediterranean world. Special attention is paid to the reactions of ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Dress and the Roman Woman

    Self-Presentation and Society

    de Kelly Olson ...
    In ancient Rome, the subtlest details in dress helped to distinguish between levels of social and moral hierarchy. Clothes were a key part of the sign systems of Roman civilization – a central aspect of its visual language, for women as well as men.This engaging book collects and examines artistic evidence and literary references to female clothing, cosmetics and ornament in Roman antiquity, ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Love

    A History in Five Fantasies

    de Barbara H. Rosenwein ...
    We make sense of love with fantasies, stories that shape feelings that are otherwise too overwhelming, incoherent, and wayward to be tamed. For love is a complex, bewildering, and ecstatic emotion covering a welter of different feelings and moral judgments.Drawing on poetry, fiction, letters, memoirs, and art, and with the aid of a rich array of illustrations, historian Barbara H. Rosenwein ... Leer más

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  • Readers and Reading Culture in the High Roman Empire

    A Study of Elite Communities

    de William A. Johnson ...
    Series series Classical Culture and Society
    In Readers and Reading Culture in the High Roman Empire, William Johnson examines the system and culture of reading among the elite in second-century Rome. The investigation proceeds in case-study fashion using the principal surviving witnesses, beginning with the communities of Pliny and Tacitus (with a look at Pliny's teacher, Quintilian) from the time of the emperor Trajan. Johnson then moves ... Leer más

    $53.09 USD

  • Beyond Greek

    The Beginnings of Latin Literature

    de Denis Feeney ...
    A History Today Best Book of the YearA Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the YearVirgil, Ovid, Cicero, Horace, and other authors of ancient Rome are so firmly established in the Western canon today that the birth of Latin literature seems inevitable. Yet, Denis Feeney boldly argues, the beginnings of Latin literature were anything but inevitable. The cultural flourishing that in time produced ... Leer más

    $21.59 USD