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Cover of Herodot fra Halikarnassos: Ægypten

Herodot fra Halikarnassos: Ægypten

Anden bog af Herodots Historie. Autentiske beretninger fra en rejse i faraonernes og pyramidernes land nedskrevet af den græske historiker Herodot for 2500 år siden. Af indholdet: det ældste folk i v …

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Jens Peter Jensen: Religio Latina

Den foreliggende øvebog i latin er især en læsebog med lettere konstruerede og bearbejdede tekster om romersk religion og har til formål at føre religionsstuderende og religionsinteresserede læsere i …

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Arrianos fra Nikomedia: Alexandros’ bedrifter

Arrian (egtl. Lucius Flavius Arrianus) fra Nikomedia (ca. 86-160) var en romersk historiker og filosof af græsk oprindelse. Hans historiske værker er skrevet på attisk græsk, mens hans filosofiske sk …

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Nicholas Cipolla & Anne F. LaGatta: Why Ancient Objects Matter

This collection of twenty-eight essays by emerging and established scholars presents work that deeply engages with the materiality and history of Greek and Roman artworks, artifacts, and monuments. D …

Cover of Christina-Panagiota Manolea & François Renaud: Reassessing Homer in the Platonic Tradition

Christina-Panagiota Manolea & François Renaud: Reassessing Homer in the Platonic Tradition

Plato’s famous and infamous criticism of Homer was the climax of a series of attacks by early thinkers on the first and greatest Greek poet Homer. It triggers an even longer series of responses attem …

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Vasileios Pappas: Non-Elegiac Latin Love Poetry of Late Antiquity

For about five hundred years – between Ovid’s death (17 AD) and Maximianus’ Elegies (6th century AD) – the genre of love elegy disappears. Does this mean that love poetry in general was no longer bei …

Cover of María-Elena García-Peláez & David Lévystone: Voices and Echoes of Early Greek Philosophy

María-Elena García-Peláez & David Lévystone: Voices and Echoes of Early Greek Philosophy

The seventeen contributions constituting this edited volume focus on archaic Greek thought — Presocratics broadly understood, including Sophists, Archaic poets, or Tragedians — and its multiform rece …

Cover of Diego Elia & Eleni Hasaki: Technology, Crafting and Artisanal Networks in the Greek and Roman World

Diego Elia & Eleni Hasaki: Technology, Crafting and Artisanal Networks in the Greek and Roman World

This volume aims to merge theoretical models with methodological approaches on ceramic technology and artisanal networks in the Classical world. This convergence of analytical frameworks allowed scho …

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Katerina Philippides: Performance and Imagination

This is an original study of the notion of space in surviving New Comedy plays by Menander, Plautus and Terence, informed by theoretical discussion on its specific categories. The main focus is on sc …

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Gillian Ramsey Neugebauer: A Social and Cultural History of the Hellenistic World

Explore the detailed and personal stories of real people living throughout the Hellenistic world In A Social and Cultural History of the Hellenistic World, author Gillian Ramsey Neugebauer paints a v …