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Ancient Environments Serie de eBooks

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  • Conversing with Chaos in Graeco-Roman Antiquity

    Writing and Reading Environmental Disorder in Ancient Texts

    Edición de Esther Eidinow, Dr Christopher Schliephake ...
    Series series Ancient Environments
    How did ancient Greeks and Romans perceive their environments: did they see order or chaos, chance or control? And how do their views compare to modern perceptions?Conversing with Chaos in Graeco-Roman Antiquity challenges prevailing ideas that ancient perceptions of the non-human world rested on a profound belief in universal order, and that the cosmos was harmonious and under human control ... Leer más

    $32.39 USD

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  • Classical Mythology

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Helen Morales ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    From Zeus and Europa, to Diana, Pan, and Prometheus, the myths of ancient Greece and Rome seem to exert a timeless power over us. But what do those myths represent, and why are they so enduringly fascinating? Why do they seem to be such a potent way of talking about our selves, our origins, and our desires? This imaginative and stimulating Very Short Introduction goes beyond a simple retelling of ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

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  • What Did the Romans Know?

    An Inquiry into Science and Worldmaking

    de Daryn Lehoux ...
    What did the Romans know about their world? Quite a lot, as Daryn Lehoux makes clear in this fascinating and much-needed contribution to the history and philosophy of ancient science. Lehoux contends that even though many of the Romans' views about the natural world have no place in modern science—the umbrella-footed monsters and dog-headed people that roamed the earth and the stars that foretold ... Leer más

    $23.09 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Approaches to Greek Myth

    de Lowell Edmunds ...
    "A handy introduction to some of the more useful methodological approaches to and the previous scholarship on the subject of Greek myths." — PhoenixSince the first edition of Approaches to Greek Myth was published in 1990, interest in Greek mythology has surged. There was no simple agreement on the subject of "myth" in classical antiquity, and there remains none today. Is myth a narrative or a ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Emotions of the Ancient Greeks

    Studies in Aristotle and Classical Literature

    de David Konstan ...
    It is generally assumed that whatever else has changed about the human condition since the dawn of civilization, basic human emotions - love, fear, anger, envy, shame - have remained constant. David Konstan, however, argues that the emotions of the ancient Greeks were in some significant respects different from our own, and that recognizing these differences is important to understanding ancient ... Leer más

    $54.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Greek Mythology

    Edición de Roger D. Woodard ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Professor Roger Woodard brings together a group of the world's most authoritative scholars of classical myth to present a thorough treatment of all aspects of Greek mythology. Sixteen original articles guide the reader through all aspects of the ancient mythic tradition and its influence around the world and in later years. The articles examine the forms and uses of myth in Greek oral and written ... Leer más

    $40.99 USD

  • Sexuality in Greek and Roman Culture

    de Marilyn B. Skinner ...
    Series series Ancient Cultures
    This agenda-setting text has been fully revised in its second edition, with coverage extended into the Christian era. It remains the most comprehensive and engaging introduction to the sexual cultures of ancient Greece and Rome.Covers a wide range of subjects, including Greek pederasty and the symposium, ancient prostitution, representations of women in Greece and Rome, and the public regulation ... Leer más

    $46.00 USD

  • Sight and the Ancient Senses

    Edición de Michael Squire ...
    Series series The Senses in Antiquity
    It is to Greek critical thinking about seeing that we owe our conceptual framework for theorizing the senses, and it is also to such thinking that we owe the lasting legacy of Greco-Roman imagery. Sight and the Ancient Senses is the first thorough introduction to the conceptualization of sight in the history, visual culture, literature and philosophy of classical antiquity. Examining how the ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • A Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities

    Edición de Thomas K. Hubbard ...
    Series series Wiley Companions to the Ancient World
    A Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities presents a comprehensive collection of original essays relating to aspects of gender and sexuality in the classical world.Views the various practices and discursive contexts of sexuality systematically and holisticallyDiscusses Greece and Rome in each chapter, with sensitivity to the continuities and differences between the two classical ... Leer más

    $176.00 USD

  • Growth and Guilt

    Psychology and the Limits of Development

    de Luigi Zoja ...
    The relentless exploitation of the earth's resources and technologys boundless growth are a matter of urgent concern. When did this race towards the limitless begin? The Greeks, who shaped the basis of Western thinking, lived in mortal fear of humanity's hidden hunger for the infinite and referred to it as hubris, the one true sin in their moral code. Whoever desired or possessed too much was ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • A Companion to Greek Literature

    Edición de Martin Hose, David Schenker ...
    Series series Wiley Companions to the Ancient World
    A Companion to Greek Literature presents a comprehensive introduction to the wide range of texts and literary forms produced in the Greek language over the course of a millennium beginning from the 6th century BCE up to the early years of the Byzantine Empire.Features contributions from a wide range of established experts and emerging scholars of Greek literatureOffers comprehensive coverage of ... Leer más

    $48.00 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Archaic Greece

    Edición de H. A. Shapiro ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to the Ancient World
    The Cambridge Companion to Archaic Greece provides a wide-ranging synthesis of history, society, and culture during the formative period of Ancient Greece, from the Age of Homer in the late eighth century to the Persian Wars of 490–480 BC. In ten clearly written and succinct chapters, leading scholars from around the English-speaking world treat all aspects of the civilization of Archaic Greece, ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD