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  • Dionysiaca

    Edited by Tim Whitmarsh ...
    Series Book 1 - Collected Imperial Greek Epics
    Nonnus of Panopolis's Dionysiaca is the longest and most ambitious epic poem to survive from Greco-Roman antiquity. Written by an Egyptian Christian in the fifth century CE, this stunning mythological adventure explores the birth, upbringing, exploits, and ultimate apotheosis of the god Dionysus, including his establishment of mystery cults, discovery of the vine, conquest of India, and troubling ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Battling the Gods

    Atheism in the Ancient World

    by Tim Whitmarsh ...
    How new is atheism? Although adherents and opponents alike today present it as an invention of the European Enlightenment, when the forces of science and secularism broadly challenged those of faith, disbelief in the gods, in fact, originated in a far more remote past. In Battling the Gods, Tim Whitmarsh journeys into the ancient Mediterranean, a world almost unimaginably different from our own, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Rome's Age of Revolution

    Augustus, Empire, and the Making of Christianity

    by Tim Whitmarsh ...
    A stimulating and expert analysis of the unique conditions that allowed Christianity to take shape and flourish across the Roman Empire during its first three centuries, from one of our leading historians of the ancient worldThe Western world has been shaped by its Christian heritage—years are still measured by their distance from the birth of Jesus Christ. But Christianity was built on Roman ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Reception in the Greco-Roman World

    Literary Studies in Theory and Practice

    Edited by Marco Fantuzzi, Helen Morales, Tim Whitmarsh ...
    Series series Cambridge Classical Studies
    The embrace of reception theory has been one of the hallmarks of classical studies over the last 30 years. This volume builds on the critical insights thereby gained to consider reception within Greek antiquity itself. Reception, like 'intertextuality', places the emphasis on the creative agency of the later 'receiver' rather than the unilateral influence of the 'transmitter'. It additionally ... Read more

    $141.09 USD

  • Beyond the Second Sophistic

    Adventures in Greek Postclassicism

    by Tim Whitmarsh ...
    The "Second Sophistic" traditionally refers to a period at the height of the Roman Empire’s power that witnessed a flourishing of Greek rhetoric and oratory, and since the 19th century it has often been viewed as a defense of Hellenic civilization against the domination of Rome. This book proposes a very different model. Covering popular fiction, poetry and Greco-Jewish material, it argues for a ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Reading Heliodorus' Aethiopica

    Edited by Ian Repath, Tim Whitmarsh ...
    Heliodorus' Aethiopica (Ethiopian Story) is the latest, longest, and greatest of the ancient Greek romances. It was hugely admired in Byzantium, and caused a sensation when it was rediscovered and translated into French in the 16th century: its impact on later European literature (including Shakespeare and Sidney) and art is incalculable. As with all post-classical Greek literature, its popularity ... Read more

    $82.79 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Greek and Roman Novel

    Edited by Tim Whitmarsh ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Greek and Roman novels of Petronius, Apuleius, Longus, Heliodorus and others have been cherished for millennia, but never more so than now. The Cambridge Companion to the Greek and Roman Novel contains nineteen original essays by an international cast of experts in the field. The emphasis is upon the critical interpretation of the texts within historical settings, both in antiquity and in the ... Read more

    $27.09 USD

  • Dirty Love

    The Genealogy of the Ancient Greek Novel

    by Tim Whitmarsh ...
    Series series Onassis Series in Hellenic Culture
    Some of the world's earliest large-form fictional narratives--what would today be called novels-are found in ancient Greece. Dating back to the first century CE, these narratives contain many of the elements common to the novelistic genre, for instance, the joining, separation, and reunion of two lovers. These ancient works have often been heralded as the ancestors of the modern novel; but what ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • The Romance between Greece and the East

    Edited by Tim Whitmarsh, Stuart Thomson ...
    The contact zones between the Greco-Roman world and the Near East represent one of the most exciting and fast-moving areas of ancient-world studies. This new collection of essays, by world-renowned experts (and some new voices) in classical, Jewish, Egyptian, Mesopotamian and Persian literature, focuses specifically on prose fiction, or 'the ancient novel'. Twenty chapters either offer fresh ... Read more

    $44.29 USD

  • The Greek Novel: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by Tim Whitmarsh ...
    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of the ancient world find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    Battling the Gods

    Atheism in the Ancient World

    by Tim Whitmarsh ...
    Narrated by James Langton ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 10 min

    Long before the European Enlightenment and the Darwinian revolution, which we often take to mark the birth of the modern revolt against religious explanations of the world, brave people doubted the power of the gods. Religion provoked skepticism in ancient Greece, and heretics argued that history must be understood as a result of human action rather than divine intervention. They devised theories ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Narrative and Identity in the Ancient Greek Novel

    Returning Romance

    by Tim Whitmarsh ...
    Series series Greek Culture in the Roman World
    The Greek romance was for the Roman period what epic was for the Archaic period or drama for the Classical: the central literary vehicle for articulating ideas about the relationship between self and community. This book offers a reading of the romance both as a distinctive narrative form (using a range of narrative theories) and as a paradigmatic expression of identity (social, sexual and ... Read more

    $36.09 USD