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Examines the constitution of political domination in premodern polities, illustrating common ‘state-making’ practices through specific case studies ranging from Sumer to the Inka and from Mexico to Madagascar.
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The Impact of Freed Slaves on the Roman Empire
An important collection of essays on a much debated area of Roman society and culture
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The Hellenic Approach to the Limitations of Reason
An important contribution to the study of emotion in the ancient world and today.
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This carefully focussed volume covers aspects of the background to Alcibiades I; the philosophical issues it raises and its relationship to other Platonic texts.
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In Search of the Romans is a lively and informative introduction to Roman history and society, making extensive use of ancient sources.
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The first book in English on the personal names of the Romans, from the early days of the city state to the fall of the empire in the West in the fifth century AD
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The first English translation of this important treatise on providence and fate by the fifth-century Neoplatonist Proclus.
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This companion sets Prometheus Bound in its historical context, explores its challenge to authority, and traces its reception from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries.
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Part I: Soul as Form of the Body, Parts of the Soul, Nourishment, and Perception
Part I of the first English translation of the philosopher Alexander of Aphrodisias' treatise On the Soul.
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An important re-examination of the Byzantine iconoclasm - the widespread phenomenon of destruction of images that took place in the 7th to 9th centuries AD.
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This examination of representations of slaves considers how the image of the slave was used to justify, reinforce and naturalize slavery in ancient Greece.
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An insightful series of portraits of Boudicca as envisaged by both ancient and modern writers and artists.
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Regional Identity and Local Power, c. 400-1050
A detailed case-study of the Liguria region of Italy, using the insights gained there to illuminate events at the end of Roman imperial rule.
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China and Porcelain in Medieval and Early Modern Japan
China and Porcelain in Medieval and Early Modern Japan
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This study brings together the basic evidence for different aspects of change and evolution in Egyptian technology. It also examines wider cognitive and social contexts.
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Greek Old Comedy and Poetics
The first comprehensive study of the relationship between Greek comedy and ancient literary criticism, offering an original and sophisticated reading of the works of Old Comedy.
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Aristocracy and Authority, AD 800-1200
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This new edition describes how ancient biographies of poets were inspired by the poets' own works and were meant to be understood as historical fiction.
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On Aristotle Physics 1.5-9
This is the first translation into English of this part of the sixth-century philosopher Simplicius' commentary on Aristotle's Physics, which deals with the treatment of matter.
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Editing Out in Latin and Greek
The first collection on expurgation in the Classics, exploring the strategies used to deal with obscene and other textual material in conflict with post-classical values.
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An accessible introduction to Ancient Greek sculpture from the eighth century to the second century BC with particular focus on its context.
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Studies in Old and Middle Comedy
A specially commissioned collection of papers covering widely read works, fragmentary plays and lost authors, giving a new perspective on the study of ancient comedy.
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Discusses subjects including the nature of fiery and light phenomena, the formation of comets and hail, the Milky Way and the properties of moist exhalation.
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This is the first translation into English of part of the commentary of the sixth-century philosopher Philoponus on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics.
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The first translation into English of the Neoplatonic philosopher Philoponus' commentary on Aristotle Posterior Analytics.
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A New Audit
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A clear and stimulating introduction to Homer's Iliad, the greatest poem of Western culture.
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A well focussed collection of case-studies of sixteenth- to eighteenth-century English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish neo-Latin poets by scholars from a variety of backgrounds.
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This concise and readable study assesses the current state of conflict archaeology, looking forward to what the field can offer as it develops.
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A GCSE Reader
Classical Greek passages for translation from beginners' level to GCSE
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This is the first translation into English of the commentary of the sixth-century philosopher Philoponus on Aristotle's Physics Book 4, Chapters 1-5.
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Conflict and Compromise
The role of the bishops in Late Antiquity is here examined and analysed by an important and international cast of contributors.
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Elegy and Politics in a Time of Revolution
A concise introduction to the politics of love, artistic subversion and creativity in Latin love elegy.
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Cultural Transfer in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, 400-800 AD
Examines culture from a Mediterranean world politically fragmented by the fall of the western Roman empire and the Islamic expansion into Europe.
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The Myth of the Dying God in the Italian Renaissance
A detailed treatment of the myth of Adonis in the Italian literary culture of the Renaissance and early Baroque.
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New Approaches
A collection of focussed essays re-evaluating existing orthodoxies about ancient ethnographic thought.
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Key Themes for Archaeologists
A basic introduction to key debates in the study of hunter-gatherers, specifically from an anthropological perspective, but designed for an archaeological readership.
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The Latin Works and Networks of the Enlightened Dr Heerkens
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Context, Connoisseurship and the History of Roman Art
Argues that the lack of information about the findspots for many works of Roman art has grave consequences for our understanding of the past.
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This is the first translation into English of the commentary of the sixth-century philosopher Simplicius on Aristotle's Physics Book 8, Chapters 1-5.
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A thorough investigation of Statius' poetry in relation to changing attitudes to Greek culture, gender, Roman imperialism and local identities.
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Classics in the British Colonies of West Africa
A fascinating and original investigation into the cultural politics of classics in the British colonies of West Africa in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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The works of two Christian philosophers from Gaza, Aeneas of Gaza and Zacharias of Mytilene, here translated in to English for the first time.
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This volume completes the translation in this series of the commentary of Ammonius (c. 440-520 AD), professor of philosophy in Alexandria, on Aristotle's On Interpretation.
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A comprehensive study of political imagery in archaic and classical Greek literature and history.
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Magic, Philosophy and Science in Early Greece
An original discussion of the relationship between magic, philosophy and the investigation of nature in presocratic Greece.
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This translation makes one of the major works on ancient psychology accessible to a wider audience for the first time.
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