Diodorus' Mythistory and the Pagan Mission

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364

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A Commentary on Selected Speeches of Isaios

Brenda Griffith-Williams, University College London

In A Commentary on Selected Speeches of Isaios, Brenda Griffith-Williams offers a fresh insight, accessible to non-Greek readers, into four disputed inheritance cases from the Athenian courts in the 4th century B.C.

€134.00$174.00

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9789004257986

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Shifting Social Imaginaries in the Hellenistic Period

Edited by Eftychia Stavrianopoulou University of Heidelberg

The contributions of the present volume deal with the repercussions of intercultural encounters between Greek and non-Greek groups in the Hellenistic period. Its methodological focus lies in exploring the transformative potential of those encounters and their impact on the social imaginaries of ...

€196.00$254.00

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362

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9789004256699

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Topography and History of Ancient Epicnemidian Locris

Edited by José Pascual, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and Maria-Foteini Papakonstantinou, 14th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities and 24th Ephorate of Byzantine Antiquities fo Greek Ministry of Culture

This book presents the results of a major project carried out by a team from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and the 14th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities at Lamia offering a complete picture of what Epicnemidian Locris was like in the past.

€92.00$119.00

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9789004253896

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Taxing Freedom in Thessalian Manumission Inscriptions

Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz, Tel-Aviv University

In Taxing Freedom Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz examines the nature, the purpose, and the historical and economic context of payments made to the polis by manumitted slaves, as recorded in manumission inscriptions from Hellenistic and Roman Thessaly.

€139.00$180.00

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360

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9789004255944

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Women and the Roman City in the Latin West

Edited by Emily Hemelrijk, University of Amsterdam and Greg Woolf, University of St Andrews

This multidisclinary collection of studies offers a compelling new vision of the role of women in Roman cities in Italy and the western provinces.

€149.00$193.00

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359

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9789004249608

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Epistolary Narratives in Ancient Greek Literature

Edited by Owen Hodkinson University of Leeds, Patricia A. Rosenmeyer University of Wisconsin, Evelien Bracke University of Swansea

Epistolary Narratives presents detailed literary readings of a wide range of Greek literary letter collections across a range of genres, cultural backgrounds, and time periods, leading collectively towards a better appreciation of Greek epistolary collections as a unique literary phenomenon.

€123.00$171.00

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358

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9789004244511

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Individuals and Society in Mycenaean Pylos

Dimitri Nakassis, University of Toronto

This book revises our understanding of Mycenaean society through a detailed prosopographical analysis of individuals attested in the administrative texts from the Palace of Nestor at Pylos in southwestern Greece, ca. 1200 BC.

€99.00$136.00

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357

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9789004244535

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Die dramatische Zeit in Senecas Tragödien

Andreas Heil, Technische Universität Dresden

In four separate studies, Andreas Heil shows that Seneca, in his tragedies Thyestes, Hercules furens, Troas (Troades) and Medea, handles dramatic time less experimentally than has been assumed before. Thus, the survey considerably deepens our understanding of Seneca's dramatic technique. In ...

€128.00$178.00

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356

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9789004248311

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Disabilities in Roman Antiquity

Christian Laes Free University of Brussels, University of Antwerp, C.F. Goodey The Open University, M. Lynn Rose Truman State University

This is the first volume ever to systematically study the subject of disabilities in the Roman world. The contributors examine the topic from head to toe: mental and intellectual disability, alcoholism, visual impairment, speech disorder, hermaphroditism, monstrous births, mobility problems, ...

€116.00$161.00

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355

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9789004247871

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Water and Roman Urbanism

Adam Rogers, University of Leicester

Water and Roman Urbanism provides an innovative archaeological perspective on the Roman urban experience in Britain through its focus on the cultural implications of the crucial relationship between water and settlement and the important development of this relationship over time.