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  • Extraordinary Bodies on Display

    Humans, Animals and Cryptids from Antiquity to the Present

    Edición de Jane Draycott ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Ancient Disabilities
    This volume explores the collection and display of human, animal, and cryptid bodies from antiquity to the present.An increasing amount of attention has been paid to impairment and disability in classical antiquity in recent years. However, one aspect of the subject that has not received significant attention, despite recent developments in the study of ancient paradoxography and ancient ... Leer más

    $61.99 USD

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  • Cleopatra's Daughter

    From Roman Prisoner to African Queen

    de Jane Draycott ...
    **The first modern biography of one of the most influential yet long-neglected rulers of the ancient world: Cleopatra Selene, daughter of Antony and Cleopatra.“A vibrant, fascinating portrait of a great woman who deserves her place in the pantheon of Roman queens.” —Emma Southon**As the only daughter of Roman Triumvir Marc Antony and Egyptian Queen Cleopatra VII, Cleopatra Selene was expected to ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Pearl

    A Translation

    de Jane Draycott ...
    Jane Draycott's translation of Pearl reissued as a Carcanet ClassicA Poetry Book Society Recommended TranslationIn a dream landscape radiant with jewels, a father sees his lost daughter on the far bank of a river: "my pearl, my girl." One of the great treasures of the British Library, the fourteenth-century poem Pearl is a work of poetic brilliance; its account of loss and consolation has retained ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Kingdom

    de Jane Draycott ...
    The Kingdom of Jane Draycott's fifth collection is clearly a world we know, altered a little by Draycott's distinctive, prismatic lyricism, whose loving attention to place and our moment is skewed in a way that opens the world afresh. Here are England's towns and countryside, roads and ports and sushi chains, yards and herbs, an airport and a columbarium, and poems that consider art in a time of ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Occupant

    de Jane Draycott ...
    In galleries and living rooms, on trains and trams and buses, mysterious scenes are briefly illuminated, their occupants caught in 'some small act' or dream - in the National Gallery a gardener steals part of a still-life canvas to replant in his own garden; on a winter train a commuter invokes their braver, doppelgänger self as a fire-fighter; in an abandoned sanatorium the grand piano dreams of ... Leer más

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  • Fulvia

    Die Frau, die im alten Rom alle Regeln brach | Historische Richtigstellung eines über Jahrtausende verzerrten Bildes über eine der mächtigsten Römerinnen im 1. Jahrhundert v. Chr.

    de Jane Draycott ...
    Traducido por Claudia Kotte ...
    »Grausam, habgierig, unweiblich« – Ihre männlichen Gegner hassten Fulvia. Doch wer war sie wirklich, die mächtigste Frau Roms?Um 83 v. Chr. geboren, lebte Fulvia zur Zeit von Cäsar und Kleopatra – und gehörte zu den ganz wenigen Frauen des römischen Reiches, die enorm viel Macht und Einfluss hatten. Bekannt ist sie zwar aus antiken Quellen, doch fast immer als Zerrbild durch die Feder ihrer ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • Over

    de Jane Draycott ...
    Series series Oxford Poets series
    The third full collection of poetry from a critically acclaimed British poet begins with a series of 26 poems based on the International Phonetic Alphabet. From there, the poems travel to a variety of locales, including a California ravine, a Venice piazza, the Atlantic Ocean, and outer space. An extract from a new translation of the medieval dream-vision Pearl is also included. Focusing on the ... Leer más

    $17.95 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Women in Classical Video Games

    Edición de Dr Kate Cook, Jane Draycott ...
    Series series IMAGINES – Classical Receptions in the Visual and Performing Arts
    Despite the prevalence of video games set in or inspired by classical antiquity, the medium has to date remained markedly understudied in the disciplines of classics and ancient history, with the role of women in these video games especially neglected. Women in Classical Video Games seeks to address this imbalance as the first book-length work of scholarship to examine the depiction of women in ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • Prosthetics and Assistive Technology in Ancient Greece and Rome

    de Jane Draycott ...
    This is the first comprehensive study of prosthetics and assistive technology in classical antiquity, integrating literary, documentary, archaeological, and bioarchaeological evidence to provide as full a picture as possible of their importance for the lived experience of people with disabilities in classical antiquity. The volume is not only a work of disability history, but also one of medical, ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • Bodies of Evidence

    Ancient Anatomical Votives Past, Present and Future

    Edición de Jane Draycott ...
    Series series Medicine and the Body in Antiquity
    Dedicating objects to the divine was a central component of both Greek and Roman religion. Some of the most conspicuous offerings were shaped like parts of the internal or external human body: so-calledanatomical votives. These archaeological artefacts capture the modern imagination, recalling vividly the physical and fragile bodies of the past whilst posing interpretative challenges in the ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Roman Domestic Medical Practice in Central Italy

    From the Middle Republic to the Early Empire

    de Jane Draycott ...
    Series series Medicine and the Body in Antiquity
    Roman Domestic Medical Practice in Central Italy examines the roles that the home, the garden and the members of the household (freeborn, freed and slave) played in the acquisition and maintenance of good physical and mental health and well-being. Focussing on the period from the middle Republic to the early Empire, it considers how comprehensive the ancient Roman general understanding of health ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Prostheses in Antiquity

    Edición de Jane Draycott ...
    Series series Medicine and the Body in Antiquity
    Today, a prosthesis is an artificial device that replaces a missing body part, generally designed and assembled according to the individual’s appearance and functional needs with a view to being both as unobtrusive and as useful as possible. In classical antiquity, however, this was not necessarily the case. The ancient literary and documentary evidence for prostheses and prosthesis use is ... Leer más

    $61.99 USD