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Scholars may agree: on the subject of secretive Sparta, a state richly productive of myth andwishful thinking, Thucydides stands supreme as a source.
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Celebrates the work of Nick Fisher, Emeritus Professor of Ancient History at Cardiff University. This title contains essays on the theme of ancient Greek social behaviour. It reflects the diversity and the unities in the honorand's interests.
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This book studies both what Appian had to say and how he said it; and engages in a dialogue about the value of Appian's text as a source of history, the relationship between that history and his own times, and the impact on his narrative of the author's own opinions.
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One of the most fertile and fast-developing themes of recent historiography is treated by the 10 new papers in this volume. The history of the ancient world has traditionally been studied with a view to tracing the origins of those grand developments which eventually occurred.
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Research into the mechanisms and the morality of Athenian hegemony is now perhaps livelier than ever.
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The study of ancient medicine has been revolutionised over thelast half century and Vivian Nutton has been a leading figure.
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Here a team of young, established scholars offers new perspectives on poetic texts of wisdom, learning and teaching related to the great line of Greek and Latin poems descended from Hesiod.
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This volume traces negative thinking about Athens from the late archaic period to Roman times. It challenges... Læs mere
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This volume aims to set an example of a collaborative approach to textual criticism, in which significant choices are based not on the judgement of a single authoritative editor, but on the outcome of debate between scholars who represent a broad range of viewpoints.
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Nikolsky questions the current gender and psychoanalytical approaches to Hippolytus and challenges the widespread interpretations of the play as being concerned with the irresistible force of love and the inevitability of punishment for those who underestimate its power.
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Stahl's new monograph is the most thorough study so far to question modern Virgilian criticism on philological grounds.
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The pioneering ideas of John Kenyon Davies, one of the most significant Ancient Historians of the past half century, are celebrated in this collection of essays.