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Heritage, Communities and ArchaeologyL Smith and E Waterton Explores the changing relationships between archaeology, heritage and communities, drawing on a range of national and international case studies. MORE ABOUT THIS TITLE
Interpreting the Athenian EmpireEdited by John Ma, Nikolaos Papazarkadas and Robert Parker Explores new approaches to the key phenomenon of fifth-century Greek history, the growth and collapse of the Athenian Empire. MORE ABOUT THIS TITLE
THE ART OF LIVING: The Stoics on the Nature and Function of PhilosophyIt is a commonplace to say that in antiquity philosophy was conceived as a way of life or an art of living, but precisely what such claims amount to has remained unclear. If ancient philosophers did think that philosophy should transform an individual’s way of life, then what conception of philosophy stands behind this claim? MORE ABOUT THIS TITLE
THE AENEID: 2nd EditionThe Aeneid of Virgil is one of the greatest works of Classical antiquity. This study by the Virgilian scholar R. Deryck Williams, first published in 1987 and long since unavailable, sets the Aeneid in its historical literary background and shows how Virgil related his own world of the newly established Roman Empire to the experience of the past. MORE ABOUT THIS TITLE
THE ILIAD: Second EditionNo Western text boasts a life as long as the Iliad, and few can match its energy and glory. This introduction to Homer’s poem sees it as rooted in a particular culture with its own narrative and thematic conventions, but it opposes the trends of much recent scholarship which place it in a straitjacket of oral poetry and heroic design. MORE ABOUT THIS TITLE |
