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| 101. |  | Title: Looking at lovemaking: constructions of sexuality in Roman art, 100 B.C.-A.D. 250 Author: Clarke, John R 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Art | Classics | Art and Architecture | Art History | History | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: What did sex mean to the ancient Romans? In this lavishly illustrated study, John R. Clarke investigates a rich assortment of Roman erotic art to answer this question - and along the way, he reveals a society quite different from our own. Clarke reevaluates our understanding of Roman art and society . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 102. |  | Title: Propertius in love: the elegies Author: Propertius, Sextus Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Literature in Translation | Poetry | Literature in Translation Publisher's Description: These ardent, even obsessed, poems about erotic passion are among the brightest jewels in the crown of Latin literature. Written by Propertius, Rome's greatest poet of love, who was born around 50 b.c., a contemporary of Ovid, these elegies tell of Propertius' tormented relationship with a woman he . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 103. |  | Title: Hellenistic philosophy of mind Author: Annas, Julia Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Classics | Social and Political Thought | Intellectual History | Classical Philosophy | Philosophy | Rhetoric Publisher's Description: Hellenistic Philosophy of Mind is an elegant survey of Stoic and Epicurean ideas about the soul - an introduction to two ancient schools whose belief in the soul's physicality offer compelling parallels to modern approaches in the philosophy of mind. Annas incorporates recent thinking on Hellenistic . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 104. |  | Title: The Cynics: the cynic movement in antiquity and its legacy Author: Branham, Robert Bracht Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Social and Political Thought | Religion | Ancient History Publisher's Description: This collection of essays - the first of its kind in English - brings together the work of an international group of scholars examining the entire tradition associated with the ancient Cynics. The essays give a history of the movement as well as a state-of-the-art account of the literary, philosophi . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 105. |  | Title: The art of living: Socratic reflections from Plato to Foucault Author: Nehamas, Alexander 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Classics | Classical Philosophy | Classical Literature and Language | Philosophy | Social and Political Thought | Literature Publisher's Description: For much of its history, philosophy was not merely a theoretical discipline but a way of life, an "art of living." This practical aspect of philosophy has been much less dominant in modernity than it was in ancient Greece and Rome, when philosophers of all stripes kept returning to Socrates as a mod . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 106. |  | Title: Guardians of language: the grammarian and society in late antiquity  Author: Kaster, Robert A Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Language and Linguistics | Ancient History Publisher's Description: What did it mean to be a professional teacher in the prestigious "liberal schools" - the schools of grammar and rhetoric - in late antiquity? How can we account for the abiding prestige of these schools, which remained substantially unchanged in their methods and standing despite the political and r . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 107. |  | Title: Roman honor: the fire in the bones Author: Barton, Carlin A 1948- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Classics | Ancient History | Classical History | Classical Politics | Classical Religions | Comparative Literature Publisher's Description: This book is an attempt to coax Roman history closer to the bone, to the breath and matter of the living being. Drawing from a remarkable array of ancient and modern sources, Carlin Barton offers the most complex understanding to date of the emotional and spiritual life of the ancient Romans. Her pr . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 108. |  | Title: Failure of empire: Valens and the Roman state in the fourth century A.D Author: Lenski, Noel Emmanuel 1965- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Classics | History | Classical History | Ancient History | Classical Politics | Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: Failure of Empire is the first comprehensive biography of the Roman emperor Valens and his troubled reign (a.d. 364-78). Valens will always be remembered for his spectacular defeat and death at the hands of the Goths in the Battle of Adrianople. This singular misfortune won him a front-row seat amon . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 109. |  | Title: Ambrose of Milan: church and court in a Christian capital Author: McLynn, Neil 1960- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Classics | History | Classical Religions | Christianity | Ancient History | Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: In this new and illuminating interpretation of Ambrose, bishop of Milan from 374 to 397, Neil McLynn thoroughly sifts the evidence surrounding this very difficult personality. The result is a richly detailed interpretation of Ambrose's actions and writings that penetrates the bishop's painstaking pr . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 110. |  | Title: Alexander the Great and the mystery of the elephant medallions Author: Holt, Frank Lee Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Classics | Classical History | Ancient History | Military History | Art and Architecture Publisher's Description: To all those who witnessed his extraordinary conquests, from Albania to India, Alexander the Great appeared invincible. How Alexander himself promoted this appearance - how he abetted the belief that he enjoyed divine favor and commanded even the forces of nature against his enemies - is the subject . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 111. |  | Title: The private orations of Themistius Author: Themistius Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Classical History | Classical Politics | Classical Religions | Ancient History Publisher's Description: Themistius was a philosopher, a prominent Constantinopolitan senator, and an adviser to Roman emperors during the fourth century A.D. In this first translation of Themistius's private orations to be published in English, Robert J. Penella makes accessible texts that shed significant light on the cul . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 112. |  | Title: Representations: images of the world in Ciceronian oratory Author: Vasaly, Ann Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Classics | Literature | Politics | History | Literary Theory and Criticism | Classical Literature and Language Publisher's Description: Ann Vasaly introduces representation theory into the study of Ciceronian persuasion and contends that an understanding of milieu - social, political, topographical - is crucial to understanding Ciceronian oratory. As a genre uniquely dependent on an immediate interaction between author and audience, . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 113. |  | Title: The making of fornication: eros, ethics, and political reform in Greek philosophy and early Christianity Author: Gaca, Kathy L Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Classics | Classical Philosophy | Classical Religions | Classical Politics | Christianity | Ethics | Social and Political Thought | Ancient History | Intellectual History Publisher's Description: This provocative work provides a radical reassessment of the emergence and nature of Christian sexual morality, the dominant moral paradigm in Western society since late antiquity. While many scholars, including Michel Foucault, have found the basis of early Christian sexual restrictions in Greek et . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 114. |  | Title: Restless dead: encounters between the living and the dead in ancient Greece Author: Johnston, Sarah Iles 1957- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Classics | Classical Religions | Classical Literature and Language | Intellectual History | Folklore and Mythology | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: During the archaic and classical periods, Greek ideas about the dead evolved in response to changing social and cultural conditions - most notably changes associated with the development of the polis, such as funerary legislation, and changes due to increased contacts with cultures of the ancient Ne . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 115. |  | Title: Traditional oral epic: the Odyssey, Beowulf, and the Serbo-Croatian return song Author: Foley, John Miles Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | European Literature | Folklore and Mythology | Religion | Language and Linguistics | Classics | Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: John Miles Foley offers an innovative and straightforward approach to the structural analysis of oral and oral-derived traditional texts. Professor Foley argues that to give the vast and complex body of oral "literature" its due, we must first come to terms with the endemic heterogeneity of traditio . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 116. |  | Title: The eye expanded: life and the arts in Greco-Roman antiquity Author: Titchener, Frances B 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Classics | Classical History | Classical Literature and Language | Art and Architecture | Classical Politics | Classical Religions | Ancient History Publisher's Description: Plato and Aristotle both believed that the arts were mimetic creations of the human mind that had the power to influence society. In this they were representative of a widespread consensus in ancient culture. Cultural and political impulses informed the fine arts, and these in turn shaped - and were . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 117. |  | Title: Tragedy and enlightenment: Athenian political thought, and the dilemmas of modernity Author: Rocco, Christopher 1958- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Classics | Classical Philosophy | Classical History | Classical Literature and Language | Social and Political Thought | Social Theory Publisher's Description: Weaving together ancient Greek texts and postmodernist theory, Christopher Rocco addresses the debate between modernity and postmodernity that dominates contemporary theory. Interpreting Greek drama within a critical framework informed by contemporary theorists Foucault, Habermas, Horkheimer and Ado . . . [more] Similar Items |