Humanities - Page 455

Housing the Stranger in the Mediterranean World: Lodging, Trade, and Travel in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages

The Greek pandocheion, Arabic funduq, and Latin fundicum (fondaco) were ubiquitous in the Mediterran...

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The Two Eyes of the Earth : Art and Ritual of Kingship Between Rome and Sasanian Iran

This pioneering study examines a pivotal period in the history of Europe and the Near East. Spanning...

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Summoned to the Roman Courts : Famous Trials from Antiquity

Summoned to the Roman Courts is the first work by Detlef Liebs, an internationally recognized expert...

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Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era

In Illiberal Reformers, Thomas Leonard reexamines the economic progressives whose ideas and reform a...

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Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays

With the publication of the Parerga and Paralipomena in 1851, there finally came some measure of the...

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Ancient Libraries

The circulation of books was the motor of classical civilization. However, books were both expensive...

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Proclus: An Introduction

Proclus of Lycia (412–485) was one of the greatest philosophers of antiquity, producing the most sys...

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Science Writing in Greco-Roman Antiquity

We access Greek and Roman scientific ideas mainly through those texts which happen to survive. By co...

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Freud : An Intellectual Biography

The life and work of Sigmund Freud continue to fascinate general and professional readers alike. Joe...

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Ancestral Fault in Ancient Greece

Ancestral fault is a core idea of Greek literature. 'The guiltless will pay for the deeds later: eit...

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When Heroes Sing: Sopholces and the Shifting Soundscape of Tragedy

This book examines the lyrical voice of Sophocles' heroes and argues that their identities are groun...

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Structure and Method in Aristotle's Meteorologica: A More Disorderly Nature

In the first full-length study in any modern language dedicated to the Meteorologica, Malcolm Wilson...

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The Symposion in Ancient Greek Society and Thought

The symposion was a key cultural phenomenon in ancient Greece. This book investigates its place in a...

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Sport, Democracy and War in Classical Athens

Athenian democracy may have opened up politics to every citizen, but it had no impact on participati...

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Scylla: Myth, Metaphor, Paradox

What's in a name? Using the example of a famous monster from Greek myth, this book challenges the do...

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