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Oxford University Press Inc Rabbis as Romans The Rabbinic Movement in Palestine 100400 CE
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Oxford University Press The Handbook to Life in Ancient Mesopotamia
Book SynopsisModern-day archaeological discoveries in the Near East continue to illuminate our understanding of the ancient world, including the many contributions made by the people of Mesopotamia to literature, art, government, and urban life The Handbook to Life in Ancient Mesopotamia describes the culture, history, and people of this land, as well as their struggle for survival and happiness, from about 3500 to 500 BCE. Mesopotamia was the home of a succession of glorious civilizations--Sumeria, Babylonia, and Assyria--which flourished together for more than three millennia. Sumerian mathematicians devised the sixty-minute hour that still rules our lives; Babylonian architects designed the famed Tower of Babel and the Hanging Gardens of Babylon; Assyrian kings and generals, in the name of imperialism, conducted some of the shrewdest military campaigns in recorded history. Readers will identify with the literary works of these civilizations, such as the Code of Hammurabi and the Epic of GilgamesTrade ReviewBertman, professor emeritus of classics at the University of Windsor, has made a useful contribution to the Handbook to Life series. Covering the lives of Assyrians, Babylonians, and Sumerians from around 3500 to 500 B.C.E., the book is arranged topically, with chapters on geography, archaeology, government, religion, language and literature, arts, and daily life, among other subjects. Bertman's writing is formal but accessible, with touches of dry humor. The book is illustrated with black-and-white photographs and line drawings, which should copy well. Appendixes include a chronological table and a list of museums with major Mesopotamian collections. * Booklist *
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Oxford University Press Xenophons Anabasis or the Expedition of Cyrus
Book SynopsisXenophon''s Anabasis, or The Expedition of Cyrus, is one of the most exciting historical narratives--as well as the most important autobiographical work--to have survived from ancient Greece. It tells the story of Cyrus, a young and charismatic Persian prince, who in 401 BC enlisted more than ten thousand Greek mercenaries in an attempt to seize the vast Persian empire for himself. Cyrus was killed in a great battle, most of the Greek commanders subsequently fell victim to treachery, and an Athenian aristocrat by the name of Xenophon found himself in the unexpected position of taking charge and leading the Greeks from the vicinity of Babylon in modern Iraq back to the Greek cities in Turkey. This book both places the Anabasis in its historical and literary context and, by employing a variety of critical methods, opens up for the reader different ways of interpreting its major themes. Interrelated chapters investigate Xenophon''s self-representation as a model leader, his possible didacTrade ReviewSparkles on every page with apposite and often novel interpretations that shed light where there was darkness. ... It is a model of its kind: a generous, thoughtful, and deeply insightful interpretation of an ancient text, and one that is clear and well written. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *In this stimulating volume Michael Flower provides a comprehensive approach to Xenophon's Anabasis that greatly enhances our understanding of its narrative art and historical reliability. It is by far the most intelligent and thoughtful analysis of the Anabasis now available. ... Flower gives us the basics, but he also airs the controversies and makes illuminating suggestions about them for even the most expert among us. There is a strong streak of originality in his analysis, which sets off his detailed knowledge of the scholarship of others. * Classical Philology *Table of ContentsContents ; Editors' Foreword ; Map ; Preface ; Introduction ; 1. The Anabasis in Context ; 2. Xenophon as Author, Narrator, and Agent ; 3. Let It be Fact and Let It be Fiction? ; 4. Style and the Shaping of Narrative ; 5. Xenophon Takes Command ; 6. Xenophon on Trial ; 7. Reading the Anabasis ; 8. The Hand of God Artfully Placed ; Bibliography ; Prominent Persons ; General Index ; Index Locorum
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Oxford University Press Student Study Guide to The Early Human World
Book SynopsisThe Student Study Guide is an important and unique component that is available for each of the eight books in The World in Ancient Times series. Each of the Student Study Guides is designed to be used with the student book at school or sent home for homework assignments. The activities in the Student Study Guide will help students get the most out of their history books. Each Student Study Guide includes chapter-by-chapter two-page lessons that use a variety of interesting activities to help a student master history and develop important reading and study skills.
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Oxford University Press Polybius Histories
Book SynopsisPolybius'' Histories is one of classical antiquity''s great political narratives. Written in 40 books (of which only the first five are preserved in full), it originally set out to explain the dramatic rise of Rome in the half century from the war against Hannibal to the defeat and abolishment of the Macedonian kingdom in 167 BC. At a later stage, Polybius extended his coverage down to the Roman destruction of Carthage and Corinth in the year 146 BC. Although written in an ordinary Greek style, the work was composed with great care, clarity and skill, and provides a fascinating discourse on the politics of power. The author was himself a leading Greek politician and general who moved at ease among the most powerful men of the day and participated in many of the events that he describes. This volume provides an accessible introduction to this important work of classical literature. Beginning with an outline of its contents and organization, Brian McGing goes on to examine Polybius'' theTrade ReviewMcGing provides an admirably succinct overview of the issues * Denis Feeney, Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsEDITORS' FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; LATER TIMES; MAPS; APPENDIX: OUTLINE OF THE WORK; BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS CITED; LIST OF PROMINENT PERSONS; INDEX
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Oxford University Press Central Asia in World History
Book SynopsisA vast region stretching roughly from the Volga River to Manchuria and the northern Chinese borderlands, Central Asia has been called the pivot of history, a land where nomadic invaders and Silk Road traders changed the destinies of states that ringed its borders, including pre-modern Europe, the Middle East, and China. In Central Asia in World History, Peter B. Golden provides an engaging account of this important region, ranging from prehistory to the present, and focusing largely on the unique melting pot of cultures that this region has produced. Golden describes the traders who braved the heat and cold along caravan routes to link East Asia and Europe; the Mongol Empire of Genghis Khan and his successors, the largest contiguous land empire in history; the invention of gunpowder, which allowed the great sedentary empires to overcome the horse-based nomads; the power struggles of Russia and China, and later Russia and Britain, for control of the area. Finally, he discusses the regioTrade ReviewThis concise but comprehensive textbook outlines the transformation of Central Asia from prehistory to the collapse of the USSR. ... The scope is ambitious ... the book is chronologically, spatially, and thematically wide-ranging without sacrificing the level of detail in the narrative. * Jagjeet Lally, Journal of Global History *Table of Contents1. Editors' Preface
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Oxford University Press Daughters of Hecate
Book SynopsisDaughters of Hecate unites for the first time research on the problem of gender and magic in three ancient Mediterranean societies: early Judaism, Christianity, and Graeco-Roman culture. The book illuminates the gendering of ancient magic by approaching the topic from three distinct disciplinary perspectives: literary stereotyping, the social application of magic discourse, and material culture. The authors probe the foundations of, processes, and motivations behind gendered stereotypes, beginning with Western culture''s earliest associations of women and magic in the Bible and Homer''s Odyssey. Daughters of Hecate provides a nuanced exploration of the topic while avoiding reductive approaches. In fact, the essays in this volume uncover complexities and counter-discourses that challenge, rather than reaffirm, many gendered stereotypes taken for granted and reified by most modern scholarship. By combining critical theoretical methods with research into literary and material evidence, DaTrade ReviewThis impressive collection challenges the seemingly common-sense association between women and magic. Drawing on literary and material evidence from across the ancient Mediterranean world, it powerfully demonstrates that the gendering of magic is neither natural nor universal, but is conditioned by the dynamics of local conflict and given form by historically specific taxonomies of knowledge. * Ra'anan Boustan, author of From Martyr to Mystic *Table of ContentsPreface ; 1. Interrogating the Magic-Gender Connection - Kimberly B. Stratton ; Part I. Fiction and Fantasy: Gendering Magic in Literature ; 2. From Goddess to Hag: The Greek and the Roman Witch in Classical Literature - Barbette Stanley Spaeth ; 3. "The Most Worthy of Women is a Mistress of Magic": Women as Witches and Ritual Practitioners in 1 Enoch and Rabbinic Sources - Rebecca Lesses ; 4. Gendering Heavenly Secrets? Women, Angels, and the Problem of Misogyny and "Magic" - Annette Yoshiko Reed ; 5. Magic, Abjection, and Gender in Roman Literature - Kimberly B. Stratton ; Part II. Gender and Magic Discourse in Practice ; 6. Magic Accusations Against Women in Tacitus's Annals - Elizabeth Ann Pollard ; 7. Drunken Hags with Amulets and Prostitutes with Erotic Spells: The Re-Feminization of Magic in Late Antique Christian Homilies - Dayna S. Kalleres ; 8. The Bishop, the Pope, and the Prophetess: Rival Ritual Experts in Third-Century Cappadocia - Ayse Tuzlak ; 9. Living Images of the Divine: Female Theurgists in Late Antiquity - Nicola Denzey Lewis ; 10. Sorceresses and Sorcerers in Early Christian Tours of Hell - Kirsti Barrett Copeland ; Part III. Gender, Magic, and the Material Record ; 11. The Social Context of Women's Erotic Magic in Antiquity - David Frankfurter ; 12. Cheating Women: Curse Tablets and Roman Wives - Pauline Ripat ; 13. Saffron, Spices, and Sorceresses: Magic Bowls and the Bavli - Yaakov Elman ; 14. Victimology or: How to Deal With Untimely Death - Fritz Graf ; 15. A Gospel Amulet for Joannia (P.Oxy. VIII 1151) - AnneMarie Luijendijk
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Oxford University Press, USA Romantic Antiquity
Book SynopsisWhile scholars have long noted the fascination with Roman literature and history expressed by many preeminent British cultural figures of the early and middle-eighteenth century, they have only sparingly commented on the increasingly vexed role Rome played during the subsequent Romantic period. This critical oversight has skewed our understanding of British Romanticism as being either a full-scale rejection of classical precedents or an embrace of Greece at the expense of Rome. In contrast, Romantic Antiquity argues that Rome is relevant to the Romantic period not as the continuation of an earlier neoclassicism, but rather as a concept that is simultaneously transformed and transformative: transformed in the sense that new models of historical thinking produced a changed understandings of historicity itself and therefore a way to comprehend changes associated with modernity. The book positions Rome as central to a variety of literary events, including the British response to the FrenchTrade ReviewIt is a confident, authoritative examination of the uses to which Rome was put in Romanticism: how the legacy of the Roman republic was debated, manipulated, and fought over, and its relevance to concepts of nation and political ideology. * Felicity James and Eliza OBrien, Years Work in English Studies *an impressive contribution * Matthew Hiscock, Journal of Roman Studies *Table of ContentsPART I: POLITICAL WRITING AND THE NOVEL; PART II: POETRY; PART III: DRAMA
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Oxford University Press Faustina I and II
Book SynopsisThe elder Faustina (c. 97 - 140 AD) was the wife of Antonius Pius and the aunt of Marcus Aurelius, and her more prominent daughter, Faustina II (130 - 175), the wife of Marcus Aurelius and the mother of Commodus. Bearing the same name, and both the wives of rulers, these women shed valuable light on the role of imperial women in in what is often considered the golden age of the Roman Empire. Barbara Levick''s Faustina I and II highlights the importance of these women to the internal politics of the Empire during this period and shows how they are links in a chain of elite Roman women for whom varying levels of recognition and even power were available. The Faustinae, as they are jointly called, come between the discreet Matidiae, the discreetly manipulative Plotina (Trajan''s women), the philosophical Sabina (Hadrian''s wife) and in the Severan dynasty Julia Domna, who has had a very high profile. In assessing their place in this chain, Levick will examine especially Faustina II''s deeTrade ReviewAddressing the question whether a biography of the Faustinae is feasible in the light of the casual and often tendentious remarks in the literary sources that - as is common in the study of ancient women - did not focus on them, and the official nature of the numerous statues, inscriptions and coins, she expresses the aim of assessing the relative power and recognition of the Faustinae in comparison to the empresses who preceded and succeeded them. ... Taking a broad scope, Levick synthesizes a wide range of sources and studies not only on the Faustinae but also on the Antonine emperors, their ancestors and families and their predecessors with their wives and families. Her vast knowledge of prosopography allows her to knit them all together. ... Levick's aim has surely been reached. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ; Maps ; Introduction ; 1. Sources ; 2. The Empresses and Women's Power ; 3. The Succession to Hadrian ; 4. The Faustinas as Empresses, 138-75 ; 5. Public and Private in the Dynasty ; 6. The Deified Faustinas: Association, Assimilation, and Consecration ; 7. Faustina's Children and the End of the Antonines ; Who's Who ; Family Trees ; Abbreviations ; Chronology ; Glossary ; Bibliography ; Indexes ; Persons ; Places and Peoples (with modern equivalents) ; General
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Oxford University Press Inc Magic Witchcraft and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds
Trade ReviewThis is a marvelous book, in every sense of the word. For one thing, it is full of marvel? * marvelous stories of ghostly and magical happenings.... a reference source that everyone researching this field will be delighted to possess.Journal of Scientific Exploration *Table of ContentsPreface ; Abbreviations ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Greek Sorcerers ; 3. Alien Sorcerers ; 4. The Rivals of Jesus ; 5. Medea and Circe ; 6. Witches in Greek Literature ; 7. Witches in Latin Literature ; 8. Ghosts ; 9. Necromancy ; 10. Curses ; 11. Erotic Magic ; 12. Voodoo Dolls and Magical Images ; 13. Amulets ; 14. Magic and the Law ; 15. Supplementary Texts ; Bibliographies ; Indices
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Oxford University Press The Oxford Anthology of Roman Literature
Book SynopsisThough the wonders of ancient Roman culture continue to attract interest across the disciplines, it is difficult to find a lively, accessible collection of the full range of the era''s literature in English. The Oxford Anthology of Literature in the Roman World provides a general introduction to the literature of the Roman empire at its zenith, between the second century BC and the second century AD. Two features of this extraordinarily fertile period in literary achievement as evidenced by this anthology are immediately and repeatedly clear: how similar the Romans'' view of the world was to our own and, perhaps even more obviously, how different it was. Most of the authors included in the anthology wrote in Latin, but as the anthology moves forward in time, relevant Greek texts that reflect the cultural diversity of Roman literary life are also included, something no other such anthology has done in the past. Roman literature was wonderfully creative and diverse, and the texts in this volume were chosen from a broad range of genres: drama, epic, philosophy, satire, lyric poetry, love poetry. By its very nature an anthology can abbreviate and thus obscure the most attractive features of even a masterpiece, so the two editors have not only selected texts that capture the essence of the respective authors, but also have included accompanying introductions and afterwords that will guide the reader in pursuing further reading. The presentations of the selections are enlivened with illustrations that locate the works within the contexts of the world in which they were written and enjoyed. The student and general reader will come away from this learned yet entertaining anthology with a fuller appreciation of the place occupied by literature in the Roman world.Trade ReviewThe editors paint an intriguing portrait of the interdisciplinary challenges in harvesting history from a body of ancient literature * Library Journal *This is simply the best collection available today of ancient sources from the Roman world. The translations are consistently readable and appealing. The prefaces to each selection are of exceptional quality, and make this a useful reference work for all readers. The afterwords likewise contain fascinating introductions to the post-classical history and tradition of each selection, and are worth reading for their own sake. Knox and McKeown are to be applauded for the real service they have done for Classics teachers and students everywhere with this valuable volume. * Barbara Weiden Boyd, Bowdoin College *The two editors have outstanding reputations as Latin scholars, and they write in a very accessible manner, communicating a great deal of information with clarity and energy. The main strengths of the book are that it covers a remarkable range of Roman literature in authoritative translations and also provides a totally reliable and scholarly background for each text. The editors give us a fascinating line-up of great variety, even including Greek authors who wrote about Roman affairs. It is the only book of its kind on the market, and fills a real gap. * Denis Feeney, Princeton University *Succinct yet highly informative and colorfully written forewords and afterwords give excellent orientation to the wide and very rich selection of readings in this well-judged anthology of Roman literature. Less advanced students will find a very practical but entertaining introduction to landmark texts of the Republican and Imperial eras; but more advanced students will also find much of value in the editors' state-of-the-art cultural-historical contextualization of their selections. * Gareth Williams, Columbia University *an impressive collection of material * Simon Squires, Classics for All *Table of ContentsPreface ; The Roman World of Books ; I. The Early Period ; Plautus, The Brothers Menaechmus ; Polybius, The Histories ; II. The Late Republic ; Lucretius, On the Nature of the Universe ; Catullus, Poems ; Cicero, Against Catiline ; In Defense of Caelius ; Julius Caesar, The Gallic War ; Sallust, Catiline's Conspiracy ; III. The Augustan Age ; Virgil, Georgics ; Aeneid ; Propertius, Elegies ; Horace, Odes ; Livy, From the Foundation of the City ; Ovid, Amores ; Metamorphoses ; IV. The Early Empire ; Seneca, Medea ; Josephus, Jewish Antiquities ; Lucan, Civil War ; Petronius, The Satyricon ; Pliny the Elder, Natural History ; Statius, Thebaid ; Quintilian, The Orator's Education ; Martial, Epigrams ; V. The High Empire ; Tacitus, Annals ; Pliny the Younger, Epistles ; Suetonius, Life of Nero ; Plutarch, Antony ; Juvenal, Satires ; Apuleius, Metamorposes ; Lucian, True History ; Marcus Aurelius, Meditations ; Postscript ; Suggestions for Further Reading ; Maps ; Chronological Table ; Glossary
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OUP/British Academy Mari and the Early Israelite Experience
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Oxford University Press Epigraphy and the Historical Sciences
Book SynopsisBy far the largest single source of new information about the ancient Greek and Roman world is provided by the flow of newly discovered inscriptions, which presents both a challenge and an opportunity. In order to interpret any inscription we need to be able to apply the knowledge that we already have. On the other hand, inscriptions present the opportunity to gain new knowledge about virtually every aspect of the mix of cultures and societies which we call Graeco-Roman antiquity. This book therefore emphasises the importance of the two-way connections and contributions which link epigraphic studies with the historical sciences as a whole. Epigraphic information is helping to reshape and extend our knowledge of the religious life, the languages, the populations, the governmental systems, and the economies of the Graeco-Roman world. New techniques and technologies are helping to make epigraphically based information more accessible, whether in terms of public display or in terms of the Trade ReviewThis splendid and accessible volume is strongly recommended to all historians of the ancient world * Peter Thonemann, sehepunkte *Table of ContentsPART 1. EPIGRAPHY AND RELIGION ; PART 2. EPIGRAPHY AND LANGUAGE ; PART 3. EPIGRAPHY AND THE ANCIENT POPULATION ; PART 4. EPIGRAPHY AND GOVERNMENT ; PART 5. DISPLAY AND PEDAGOGY ; PART 6 EPIGRAPHY AND ECONOMICS ; PART 7 EPIGRAPHY AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ; PART 8 SCHLUSSREDE
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Oxford University Press Romes Holy Mountain The Capitoline Hill in Late Antiquity Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity
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Clarendon Press Greek Lyric Poetry from Alcman to Simonides Oxford Scholarly Classics
Book SynopsisOxford Scholarly Classics is a new series that makes available again great academic works from the archives of Oxford University Press. Reissued in uniform series design, the reissues will enable libraries, scholars, and students to gain fresh access to some of the finest scholarship of the last century.
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Oxford University Press MED LETTERS M AURELIUS C And a Selection from the Letters of Marcus and Fronto
Book SynopsisMarcus Aurelius governed Rome and its empire from 161 to 180 AD. The Meditations were written in his old age, composed while on campaign, and provide an insight into the emperor's mind. They reveal, albeit subtly, the personality of the writer.
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Clarendon Press Inventing the Barbarian
Book SynopsisIncest, polygamy, murder, sacrilege, impalement, castration, female power, and despotism: these are some of the images by which the Greek tragedians defined the non-Greek, `barbarian'' world. This book explains for the first time the reasons behind their singular fascination with barbarians. It sets the plays against the historical background of the Panhellenic wars against Persia and the establishment of an Athenian empire based on democracy and slavery. Contemporary anthropology and political philosophy is discussed, revealing how the poets conceptualized the barbarian as the negative embodiment of Athenian civic ideals. By comparing the treatment of foreigners in Homer and tragedy, it shows that the new dimension which the idea of the barbarian had brought to the tragic theatre radically affected the past, and enriched the tragedians'' repertoire of aural and visual effects. The invented barbarian of the tragic stage was a powerful cultural expression of Greek xenophobia and chauvinTrade Review`she sets out the important considerations with great clarity ... this is a thorough, well-researched and broadly convincing book ... an impressive piece of work.' Classical Review`Dr Hall offers a careful survey of the archaic background, enlivened by much shrewd observation. It is no criticism of this learned and lively book to observe that it suggests more questions than it answers.' Times Literary Supplement`a most impressive analysis of ancient Greek ethnocentrism' Greece & Rome'H. presents her case with great skill and learning. Her scholarship is meticulous but not stodgy, and the argument is constantly enriched with references to comparative material on ethnicity drawn from a wide range of historical and social contexts'. R.G.A. Buxton, Journal of Hellinic Studies'.'a beautiful book which developed out of the author's PhD-thesis. It is elegantly produced, provided with an elaborate bibliography, an index of passages cited and a general index ... well-argued and carefully referenced text ... an important contribution to both Athenian history and Persian history.' Heleen Sancisi-Weerdenburg, Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht, De Novis Libris JudiciaTable of ContentsAcknowldgements; Preface; Editions and abbreviations; Setting the stage; Inventing Persia; The barbarian enters myth; An Athenian rhetoric; The polarity deconstructed; Bibliography; Index
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Oxford University Press, USA Plutarch Caesar Translated with an Introduction and Commentary Clarendon Ancient History Series
Book SynopsisPlutarch's Life of Caesar deals with the best known Roman of them all, Julius Caesar, and covers virtually all of the major events of the last generation of the Republic. Pelling's volume gives a new translation of the Life, together with an introduction and commentary, while also acknowledging the literary aspects of the narrative.Trade Reviewa commentary that will remain an indispensable resource for historians and historiographers alike â and which constitutes something of a reproof to anyone insisting that history and historiography are incompatible enterprises. * W. Jeffrey Tatum, Journal of Roman Studies *[an] awe-filling, exemplar of how decades of excellent scholarship have produced a book that will be in use for many decades, and generations, to come. * Brad L. Cook, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *Table of ContentsLIST OF MAPS ; ABBREVIATIONS ; INTRODUCTION ; 1. Plutarch and the Caesars ; 2. TheLife of Caesar ; a) Biography and History ; b) Alexander and Caesar: Pair and Series ; 3. Sources and Methods ; a) Gathering the Material ; b) The Sources ; c) Remoulding the Material ; 4. Plutarch and Roman Politics ; 5. Caesar and Julius Caesar: Plutarch and Shakespeare ; TRANSLATION ; COMMENTARY ; INDEXES ; Names ; General Index
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Clarendon Press The East Face of Helicon
Book SynopsisOver the last sixty years scholars have increasingly become aware of links connecting early Greek poetry with the literatures of the ancient Near East. Martin West's book far surpasses previous studies in comprehensiveness, demonstrating these links with massive and detailed documentation and showing they are much more fundamental and pervasive than has hitherto been acknowledged.Trade ReviewAn impressive and substantial volume ... The book is very readable and OT scholars can learn much from it * Journal for the Study of the Old Testament *Table of ContentsAbbreviations ; Note on the transcription of oriental languages ; Note on chronologies ; 1. Aegean and Orient ; 2. Ancient Literatures of Western Asia ; 3. Of Heaven and Earth ; 4. Ars Poetica ; 5. A Form of Words ; 6. Hesiod ; 7. The Iliad ; 8. The Odyssey ; 9. Myths and Legends of Heroes ; 10. The Lyric Poets ; 11. Aeschylus ; 12. The Question of Transmission ; Bibliography ; Indexes
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Clarendon Press The Empire of the Tetrarchs Imperial Pronouncements and Government AD 284324 Oxford Classical Monographs
Book SynopsisExamines the government of the Roman empire at an important period of administrative and religious change. Drawing together material from a wide variety of sources, the book studies the vast range of documents issued by the emperors and their officials, and assesses how effectively the machinery of government matched imperial ambitions.Trade ReviewWith its undoubted authority and clear organisation, many will be tempted to use The Empire of the Tetrarchs as a reference book; they should not. Corcoran marshals important arguments carefully and quietly, and The Empire of the Tetrarchs deserves to be read from cover to cover. * Roger Rees, Edinburgh University, Hermathena *A general index and an index locorum complete a thorough and thoroughly impressive work. * Roger Rees, Edinburgh University, Hermathena *Corcoran enjoys the enviable ability to mine in the murky depths some of Late Antiquity's most impenetrable unaccommodating material - to unearth diamonds ... The Empire of the Tetrarchs is scintillating, valuable and, I'd wager, very durable. * Roger Rees, Edinburgh University, Hermathena *
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Clarendon Press The Great Sophists in Periclean Athens
Book Synopsis''a brilliant introduction to the Sophists of fifth-century Athens and a major reinterpretation of the goals and effects of their thought. Engagingly written, this eminently accessible account deserves lasting popularity.'' Choice ''This is a fine work, indispensable for any study of Socrates, the Sophists or Plato . . . the interest of de Romilly''s book lies not only with the combination of enthusiasm and sound scholarship in the use of a wide range of texts, but also in the general and continuing problems of dialogue between thinkers ahead of their times and their contemporary public.'' Phronesis ''a vigorous and stimulating book which richly deserves to be made available to an English-speaking readership.'' Classical Review ''now available in this smooth and readable translation . . . a lively and engaging introduction to the Sophistic movement. While Great Sophists is written primarily for a general educated audience, scholars will find much of interest in de Romilly''s reconstTrade ReviewA lively and engaging introduction to the Sophistic movement....De Romilly deserves much credit for bringing a remarkable immediacy to the subject of the Sophists and their legacy. Classicists and the general public should appreciate this new and controversial assessment of the Sophistic movement. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *Table of Contents1. The Rise and Success of the Sophists ; 2. A New Teaching ; 3. Rhetorical Education ; 4. The Doctrines of the Sophists: A Tabula Rasa ; 5. The Dangers of the the Tabula Rasa: Immoralism ; 6. Reconstruction on the Basis of the Tabula Rasa ; 7. Recovering the Virtues ; 8. Politics ; Conclusion and Afterthoughts ; Bibliographical Notes ; Chronological Table ; Index ; Supplementary References ; Translator's Note on Greek and Latin Texts
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Clarendon Press Zadoks Heirs
Book SynopsisThis study of the high priesthood in ancient Israel, from the earliest local chief priests in the pre-monarchic period down to the Hasmonaean priest-kings in the first century BCE, discusses material from the Old Testament and Apocrypha, together with contemporary documents and coins.Trade ReviewA timely reminder that traditional methods of scholarship have much to offer ... This mature work well repays a careful reading * Journal for the Study of the Old Testament *
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Oxford University Press, USA From Jupiter to Christ On the History of Religion in the Roman Imperial Period
Book SynopsisThe history of Roman imperial religion is of fundamental importance to the history of religion in Europe. Emerging from a decade of research, From Jupiter to Christ demonstrates that the decisive change within the Roman imperial period was not a growing number of religions or changes in their ranking and success, but a modification of the idea of ''religion'' and a change in the social place of religious practices and beliefs. Religion is shown to be transformed from a medium serving the individual necessities - dealing with human contingencies like sickness, insecurity, and death - and a medium serving the public formation of political identity, into an encompassing system of ways of life, group identities, and political legitimation.Instead of offering an encyclopaedic presentation of religious beliefs, symbols, and practices throughout the period, the volume thematically presents the media that manifested and diffused religion (institutions, texts, and law), and analyses representative cases. It asks how religion changed in processes of diffusion and immigration, how fast (or how slow) practices and institutions were appropriated and modified, and reveals how these changes made Roman religion ''exportable'', creating those forms of intellectualisation and enscripturation which made religion an autonomous area, different from other social fields.Trade ReviewRüpke's work overall is expert, and his arguments well founded. * Carson Bay, Gnomon *Table of ContentsPART 1; PART 2; PART 3
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Clarendon Press A Commentary on Herodotus in Two Volumes With Introduction and Appendixes Volume 2 Books VIX
Book SynopsisHerodotus has been called by Cicero and other ancient critics `the father of history''. He was in fact the first to make the events of the past the subject of research and verification (historie) and then relate their consequences to the present. The main subject of his Histories is the struggle between Persia and Greece from the time of Croesus to that of Xerxes; added to this are frequent digressions, varying in length, giving a wealth of information on customs and cultures of people foreign to the Greeks.The new paperback edition of How and Wells''s standard commentary on the Histories (in print continuously since 1912) deals with the last five books (out of nine) covering Sparta under King Cleomenes, the Battles of Marathon, Thermopylae, and Salamis, and the final rout of the Persians at Plataea in 479 BC. The detailed commentary, though of interest to the scholar, is aimed primarily at the student: short summaries introduce the subject-matter of sections of the text, and there are eight appendixes addressing problems raised in the commentary. This volume also contains an index to the complete commentary.Table of ContentsCommentary on books V - IX; Appendices 16-22; Herodotus on Tyranny; Sparta under King Cleomenes (520-490 BC); Marathon; Numbers of the armies and fleets (480-479 BC); The campaign of 480 BC; Salamis; The campaigns of 479 BC; Arms, tactics, and strategy in the Persian War; Additional notes; Index (to both volumes)
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Oxford University Press The Histories Volume 2 Books iiiv
Book SynopsisA commentary and translation of Sallust's "Histories", covering the years 78-67 BC, one of the least well documented, but eventful periods of the era. This edition reflects recent research on the period and fragments of the text discovered since the edition of Maurenbrecher (1891-93).Trade ReviewM. has done a valuable service in making the remains of Sallust's masterpiece more accessible ... the translation is clear and generally reliable and the notes helpfully elucidate the historical contexts of the fragments. A welcome new feature is the inclusion of a concordance and cross-references to Maurenbrecher's numeration. * J.W. Rich, University of Nottingham, The Classical Review, Vol. XLVI, No. 2 '96 *Table of ContentsIntroduction - life of Sallust; the writings of Sallust; the sources of the "Histories"; the transmission of the text; compositional structure; thematic structure; the time of writing; translation - book 3, book 4, book 5, fragments of uncertain reference; commentary - book 3, book 4, book 5, fragments of uncertain reference.
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Oxford University Press Homer
Book SynopsisIliad I provides the commentary and student aids lacking in larger volumes of Homer''s work. It contains a full Introduction designed to highlight the most important features of the text. There are sections on the Iliad and its qualities, the Homeric question, dating, oriental influences, style, gods, men, the transmission of the text, the scholia, the epic dialect, and metre. The Commentary, as well as containing material addressed to advanced readers, is also designed to be accessible to those who are new to Homer. To this end, Greek quotations in the Introduction and Commentary are translated, and technical discussions are marked off in square brackets (beginners may pass over them if they wish). The Greek text of Iliad I is printed with a facing English translation of a literal kind, primarily intended to help beginners to construe the Greek and there is also a full vocabulary list.Trade ReviewThis commentary is a welcome addition to the scholarly literature, and will undoubtedly serve its intended audience very well indeed. * Hermathena: A Trinity College Dublin Review *Pulleyn's horizons are broad, his linguistic foundation impeccable, his enthusiasm and appreciation of Homer's art everywhere evident ... a great deal of hard work and hard thought has gone into this edition, which deserves to be widely used. * Hermathena: A Trinity College Dublin Review *Pulleyn's intended readership are undergraduate students and readers who come to Homer for the first time after having been reared on Attic language and literature. These readers will certainly profit from Pulleyn's reliable translation and his thorough treatment of Homeric syntax ... the commentary offers much useful guidance in reading the original text. Readers will also profit from Pulleyn's full introduction, which addresses many of the long-standing problems of Homeric scholarship ... will be useful to readers wishing to tackle liad 1 in the original language. * Journal of Hellenic Studies *Informative introduction and rich commentary. * Greece & Rome *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; Text and Translation ; Commentary ; Glossary ; General Index ; Index of Greek words
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Oxford University Press A World History of Ancient Political Thought
Book SynopsisThis revised and expanded edition of A World History of Ancient Political Thought examines the political thought of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Israel, Iran, India, China, Greece, Rome and early Christianity, from prehistory to c.300 CE. The book explores the earliest texts of literate societies, beginning with the first written records of political thought in Egypt and Mesopotamia and ending with the collapse of the Han dynasty and the Western Roman Empire.In most cultures, sacred monarchy was the norm, but this ranged from absolute to conditional authority. ''The people'' were recipients of royal (and divine) beneficence. Justice, the rule of law and meritocracy were generally regarded as fundamental. In Greece and Rome, democracy and liberty were born, while in Israel the polity was based on covenant and the law. Confucius taught humaneness, Mozi and Christianity taught universal love; Kautilya and the Chinese ''Legalists'' believed in realpolitik and an authoritarian state. The coTrade ReviewIn this ambitious book, Antony Black provides a short and global explanation of ancient political thought. He should be considered one of the greatest and most consistent specialists in medieval political thought, but in this book he shows an impressive comprehension of the sources of ancient cultures ... can be highly recommended. * Rafael Ramis Barceló, Political Studies Review *Admirably ambitious ... This is not a merely encyclopaedic account of ancient thought but a genuinely comparative analysis, with the constant attention to the divergences from basic similarities that creates the exciting sense of a single argument. * Richard Seaford, History of Political Thought *Table of ContentsAbbreviations Time Chart Introduction 1: Early Communities and States 2: Egypt 3: Mesopotamia, Assyria, Babylon 4: Iran 5: Israel 6: India 7: China 8: The Greeks 9: Rome 10: Greco-Roman Humanism 11: The Kingdom of Heaven and the Church of Christ 12: Topics: Similarities and Differences 13: Conclusion
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Oxford University Press Ancient Relativity
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Oxford University Press ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA
Book SynopsisAthanasius of Alexandria (c.295-373) is one of the greatest and most controversial figures of early Christian history. His life spanned the period of fundamental change for the Roman Empire and the Christian Church that followed the conversion of Constantine the Great, the first Christian Roman emperor. A bishop and theologian, an ascetic and a pastoral father, Athanasius played a central role in shaping Christianity in these crucial formative years. As bishop of Alexandria (328-73) he fought to unite the divided Egyptian Church and inspired admiration and opposition alike from fellow bishops and the emperor Constantine and his successors. Athanasius attended the first ecumenical Council of Nicaea summoned by Constantine in 325 and as a theologian would be remembered as the defender of the original Nicene Creed against the ''Arian'' heresy. He was also a champion of the ascetic movement that transformed Christianity, a patron of monks and virgins and the author of numerous ascetic workTrade Review...This is a fine introduction with an up-to-date bibliography ... Oxford has done a service in making this available at an affordable price, and I recommend its purchase by university and departmental libraries * David Greenwood, The Expository Times *Until David Gwynn produced this brilliant and masterly account, there was no single book in which Athanasius' life and varied achievements were reviewed together ... Every expert will learn from this book and, for the uninitiated, this is the best introduction to Athanasius. * Bernard Green, The Tablet *a qualified success * Michael Slusser, Theological Studies *David Gwynn offers an admirably learned, fluent and concise introduction to Athanasius of Alexandria, the controversial and colourful church Father. ... This is an introduction as it should beand its evident qualities recommend it to students, scholars and the wider educated public alike. * Winrich Lohr, Journal of Ecclesiastical History *This book provides a comprehensive introduction to one of the most important figures of early Christianity. It will undoubtedly prove to be an invaluable resource for historians and theologians alike. ... benefits from a whole range of recent research into what might once have been treated as too obscure for the student. * Frances Young, Theology *Table of Contents1. Life and Writings ; 2. Bishop ; 3. Theologian ; 4. Ascetic ; 5. Father ; 6. Death and Legacy ; Conclusion
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Oxford University Press, USA Xenophon Oxford Readings in Classical Studies
Book SynopsisA selection of important recent articles on Xenophon which will serve as an introduction to his writings by presenting current debates about the way in which to read them. A specially written introduction by Vivienne J. Gray places the articles in the context of Xenophon's life and works.Trade Review[a] fine selection of essays ... offer[s] further insight into his literary skills as well as a good sense of the cultural interest of Xenophon as a historical figure in his own right * Tim Rood, Times Literary Supplement *tremendously accomplished pieces of scholarship, and will be of permanent value to all who work on this fascinating text, or on fourth-century Athens more generally. * Jeremy Trevett, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; I. GENDER ; 1. Slavery in the Greek Domestic Economy in the Light of Xenophon's Oeconomicus ; 2. Xenophon's Foreign Wives ; 3. Xenophon on Male Love ; II. DEMOCRACY ; 4. Xenophon's Programme in the Poroi ; 5. Virtuous Toil, Vicious Work: Xenophon on Aristocratic Style ; 6. The Seductions of the Gaze: Socrates and his Girlfriends ; III. SOCRATES ; 7. Xenophon's Socrates as Teacher ; 8. Xenophon's Socrates as Dialectician ; 9. The Dancing Socrates and the Laughing Xenophon, or The Other Symposium ; 10. The Straussian Interpretation of Xenophon: The Paradigmatic Case of Memorabilia IV.4 ; IV. CYROPAEDIA ; 11. The Idea of Imperial Monarchy in Xenophon's Cyropaedia ; 12. Fictional Narrative in the Cyropaideia ; 13. The Question of the Good Life. The Meeting of Cyrus and Croesus in Xenophon ; 14. Xenophon's Cyropaedia and the Hellenistic Novel ; 15. The death of Cyrus. Xenophon's Cyropaedia as a Source for Iranian History ; V. HISTORICAL WRITING ; 16. The Sources for the Spartan Debacle at Haliartus ; 17. Xenophon's Anabasis ; 18. You can't go home again: Displacement and Identity in Xenophon's Anabasis ; 19. Irony and the arrator in Xenophon's Anabasis ; 20. Interventions and Citations in Xenophon's Hellenica and Anabasis
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Oxford University Press, USA Classical Culture and Modern Masculinity
Book SynopsisSince the middle of the eighteenth century, the classical world has been seen as foundational and exemplary to Western civilization. However, the Greeks never invaded and colonised western and northern Europe the way the Romans did, and, conversely, Greece was a difficult place to reach for modern travellers well into the nineteenth century. Inevitably, therefore, the links with ancient Greece were a product of the imagination: an exemplary civilization, in its politics, arts, and culture. There was one problem, however: the Greeks, it seemed, enjoyed pederastic relations. And not only this: one of Athens'' most famous teachers, Socrates, was attracted to boys. Daniel Orrells offers a fresh, original examination of how modern thinkers in Germany and Britain, who were so invested in a model of history that directly traced the European present back to an ancient Greek past, negotiated the tricky issue of ancient Greek pederasty.Trade ReviewOrrells skilfully offers an overview of his period as well as close analysis of well-chosen examples ... the book is intelligently shaped by an understanding that in confronting what Platonic pedastry meant to its modern readers, we raise large issues concerning interactions between past and present. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *Classical Culture and Modern Masculinity provides an in-depth look at the debate over ancient Greece's most controversial legacy. * Charles Green, Gay & Lesbian Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. Paiderastia and the Contexts of German Historicism ; 2. Translating the Love of Philosophy: Jowett and Pater on Plato ; 3. The Bewildering Case of John Addington Symonds ; 4. Trying Greek Love: Oscar Wilde and E. M. Forster's Maurice ; 5. Freud and the History of Masculinity: Between Oedipus and Narcissus ; Conclusion: The Truth of Eros and the Eros for Truth
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Clarendon Press Germania Clarendon Ancient History Series
Book SynopsisThe Germania of Tacitus is the most extensive account of the ancient Germans written during the Roman period, but has been relatively neglected in the scholarship of the English-speaking world: the last commentary appeared in 1938, and only a handful of studies have appeared since that time. In recent decades, however, there have been important scholarly developments that significantly affect our understanding of it. Ongoing archaeological work in western and central Europe has greatly increased our knowledge of the iron-age cultures in those regions, while new anthropological and literary approaches have called into question some of the traditional assumptions that shaped the use of this text as a historical source. This new commentary, together with the extensive introduction, provides a current and comprehensive guide to the relevant textual and archaeological evidence and also examines the methodological issues involved in the interpretation of this important work.Trade ReviewA reader seeking information about Tacitus' monograph and guidance as to its importance in a variety of areas will receive good value from this book. Sane, learned, and well written, it will at once become an important entry in all bibliographies on the Germania. * Gnomon *Rives has given us a volume which will require the attention of all students of the Germania, both for his own views and his recapitulation of earlier scholarship. It is a rich feast. * Gnomon *Rives ducks no important and difficult point; his discussions are extensive and sane. * Gnomon *The reader who comes to study the monograph without much background will learn a great deal. Rives is particularly good on the ethnographic tradition of which Tacitus was a part and on anthropology. * Gnomon *Rives has done a masterful job ... handsomely produced, with attractive type and ample white space on the page. It will serve its varied readers well, both those who know no Latin and those who wish the text elucidated. * Gnomon *A scholarly, authoritative text ... a great resource. * Phoenix *Rives's edition will prove useful work to anyone interested in this fascinating ancient text, classicist or otherwise, and it will be a great help in raising the profile of this important text. * James T. Chlup *
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Oxford University Press The Church in Ancient Society
Book SynopsisThe Church in Ancient Society provides a full and enjoyable narrative history of the first six centuries of the Christian Church. Ancient Greek and Roman society had many gods and an addiction to astrology and divination. This introduction to the period traces the process by which Christianity changed this and so provided a foundation for the modern world: the teaching of Jesus created a lasting community, which grew to command the allegiance of the Roman emperor. Christianity is discussed in relation to how it appeared to both Jews and pagans, and how its Christian doctrine and practice were shaped in relation to Graeco-Roman culture and the Jewish matrix. Among the major figures discussed are Tertullian, Clement of Alexandria, Origen, Constantine, Julian the Apostate, Basil, Ambrose, and Augustine.Following a chronological approach, Henry Chadwick''s clear exposition of important texts and theological debates in their historical context is unrivalled in detail. In particular, theologTrade ReviewReview from previous edition The first 600 years: that is nearly one third of the Church's entire history. No one but Henry Chadwick ... could have given us so full and so authoritative an account of these decisive centuries. His new book crowns a body of illuminating work on several of the outstanding figures as well as on many of the thorniest problems of the early Church's history. * R. A. Markus, The Tablet *The book is a tour de fource to which we will keep turning as an essential reference work. * R. A. Markus, The Tablet *This is a tour de force by a great scholar ... a magisterial account of the doctrinal and institutional history of the early Church, particularly in the east Roman provinces. The easy style, not without a sprinkling of colloquialisms, conceals the author's great learning and enthusiasm for his subject ... Henry Chadwick's book will remain a standard work on the history of early Christianity for the forseeable future. * English Historical Review *Whoever looks for a reliable and highly readable companion to the formative centuries of Christianity and, in many respects, of European culture as well could hardly make a better choice ... The exposition is rich in detail, and makes an enjoyable read that will appeal to an academic and to a general readership alike.Marked by a monumentality both of scope and detail ... the last great narrative history of the twentieth century in its field ... Henry Chadwick ranks as one of the great figures of the twentieth century in his field, and there is every reason to believe that a future generation of scholars will be keen to have access to his guidance on any one of a thousand points of detail. * Kate Cooper, Times Literary Supplement *`A masterpiece beyond classification.' Church TimesTable of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. The First Followers of Jesus ; 2. The Jewish Matrix ; 3. Jews and Christians Survive Rome's Crushing of Revolts ; 4. The Hebrew Scriptures in the Church ; 5. Interpreting Scripture: Philo and paul ; 6. Apostles and Evangelists ; 7. Women among Jesus' Followers ; 8. 'Barnabas', Jewish Christianity, Trouble at Corinth ; 9. Ignatius of Antioch ; 10. Didache ; 11. Marcion ; 12. Justin ; 13. Irenaeus of Lyon ; 14. The New Testament Text ; 15. Celsus: A Platonist Attack ; 16. Montanism: Perpetua ; 17. Tertullian, Minucius Felix ; 18. Clement of Alexandria ; 19. Julius Africanus ; 20. Hippolytus and Liturgy ; 21. Origen ; 22. Cyprian of Carthage ; 23. Dionysius of Alexandria ; 24. Paul of Samosata ; 25. Mani ; 26. Plotinos, Porphyry ; 27. Diocletian and the Great Persecution, Rise of Constantine ; 28. Constantine, Lactantius, and Eusebios of Caesarea ; 29. The Seeds of Reaction ; 30. The Church at Prayer ; 31. Athanasios, Marcellus, and the Gathering Storm ; 32. Fiasco at Serdica ; 33. Religious Division: A Note on Intolerance ; 34. Athanasios' Return: A Wind of Change ; 35. Constantius' Double Council of Unity ; 36. Julian and the Church ; 37. Damasus, Siricius, Papal Authority, Synesios of Cyrene ; 38. Basil of Caesarea (Cappadocia) ; 39. Ambrose ; 40. Ambrosiaster ; 41. Donatism ; 42. Monks: The Ascetic Life ; 43. Messalians; The Macarian Homilies ; 44. Schism at Antioch: The Council of Constantinople (381) ; 45. Jerome and Rufinus: Controversy about Origen ; 46. Pelagius, Celestius, and the Roman See in Gaul and North Africa ; 47. Julian of Eclanum: Augustine's Critics in Gaul and North Africa ; 48. Augustine ; 49. John Chrysostom ; 50. Innocent I and John Chrysostom's Honour. Alaric and the fall of Rome ; 51. The Christological Debate I: To the First Council of Ephesus ; 52. The Christological Debate II: From Reunion to a breakdown of unity (449) ; 53. The Christological Debate III; From the Second Council of Ephesus (449) to Chalcedon (451) ; 54. Chalcedon II: fall of Dioscoros. the emperor Leo's Encyclia ; 55. The aftermath of the Council of Chalcedon; Zeno's Henotikon ; 56. Justinian: Origen and the Three Chapters ; 57. The Church and the Barbarian Invasions in the West; Salvian, Sidonius, Caesarius ; 58. Worship after Constantine ; 59. Pope Gregory the Great (590 - 604) ; 60. Pilgrims ; 61. Penance ; Further Reading ; Dates of Roman Emperors ; List of Bishops of Rome, Alexandria, Antioch, Constantinople, and Jerusalem
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Oxford University Press A Small Greek World
Book SynopsisGreek civilization and identity crystallized not when Greeks were close together but when they came to be far apart. It emerged during the Archaic period when Greeks founded coastal city states and trading stations in ever-widening horizons from the Ukraine to Spain. No center directed their diffusion: mother cities were numerous and the new settlements (colonies) would often engender more settlements. The Greek center was at sea; it was formed through back-ripple effects of cultural convergence, following the physical divergence of independent settlements. The shores of Greece are like hems stitched onto the lands of Barbarian peoples (Cicero). Overall, and regardless of distance, settlement practices became Greek in the making and Greek communities far more resembled each other than any of their particular neighbors like the Etruscans, Iberians, Scythians, or Libyans. The contrast between center and periphery hardly mattered (all was peri-, around), nor was a bi-polar contrast with BTrade ReviewMalkin has written a thought-provoking and very readable book, which introduces a promising new method to the study of Greek colonisation and identity. Jorrit M. Kelder, Landscape History this book succeeds in evoking a compelling image of The Greek Wide Web as multidirectional, decentralized, nonhierarchical, boundless and proliferating, accessible, expansive, and interactive.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Maps ; Acknowledgements ; A note on transliteration ; Abbreviations ; 1. Introduction: Networks and History ; 2. Island Networking and Hellenic Convergence: From Rhodes to Naukratis ; 3. Sicily and the Greeks: Apollo Archegetes and the Sikeliote Network ; 4. Herakles and Melqart: Networking Heroes ; 5. Networks and Middle Grounds in the Western Mediterranean ; 6. Cult and Identity in the Far West: Phokaians, Ionians, and Hellenes ; Conclusion
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OUP USA Oxford Handbook of Early China
Book SynopsisThe Oxford Handbook on Early China brings 30 scholars together to cover early China from the Neolithic through Warring States periods (ca 5000-500BCE). The study is chronological and incorporates a multidisciplinary approach, covering topics from archaeology, anthropology, art history, architecture, music, and metallurgy, to literature, religion, paleography, cosmology, religion, prehistory, and history.Trade ReviewIn focusing on early Chinese civilization, this handbook is unique ... The Oxford Handbook of Early China fills a niche for those needing a detailed focus on early Chinese civilization. * R. Withers, CHOICE *This handbook is unique.... [It] fills a niche for those needing a detailed focus on early Chinese civilization. * CHOICE *Authoritative and multidisciplinary in scope, this landmark volume offers a comprehensive overview of the latest research trends, paradigms, and approaches in the study of early China, from the Neolithic era to the Warring States period. * International Convention of Asia Scholars Book Prize 2021, Accolades in the Humanities *Table of ContentsList of Contributors SECTION I INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND Introduction and Background to The Oxford Handbook on Early China Elizabeth Childs-Johnson, Old Dominion University SECTION II NEOLITHIC FARMERS, CERAMICS, AND JADE 1. The Neolithic Revolution in the North ca. 7/6000-2000 bce: Xinglongwa, Xinlei, Yangshao, Hongshan, and Related Cultures (Inequality/Social Complexity) in Neolithic Northern China Andrew Womack, Yale University 2. The Neolithic Revolution in the South, ca. 7/6000-2000 bce, Majiabang, Hemudu, Daxi, and Songze Cultures Xiangming Fang, Zhejiang Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology 3. The Neolithic Jade Revolution in Northeast China Chung Tang, Shandong University, Mana Hayashi Tang, Washington University in St. Louis, Guoxiang Liu, Institute of Archaeology, CASS and Yadi Wen, Southern University of Science and Technology 4. The Jade Age Revisited, ca. 3500-2000 bce Elizabeth Childs-Johnson, Old Dominion University 5. Liangzhu Culture and the Ancient City of Liangzhu Bin Liu, Zhejiang Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology 6. Longshan Culture Issues: Taosi and Cosmology Nu He, Institute of Archaeology, CASS SECTION III FIRST DYNASTY OF THE BRONZE AGE: XIA PERIOD 7. Introduction to the Xia Period: Definitions, Themes, and Debate Hong Xu, Institute of Archaeology, CASS 8. Settlements, Buildings, and Society of the Erlitou Culture Hong Xu, Institute of Archaeology, CASS, and Xiang Li, University of Pittsburgh 9. The Bronze-Casting Revolution and the Ritual Vessel Set Hong Xu, Institute of Archaeology, CASS, and Xiang Li, University of Pittsburgh 10. The Spread of Erlitou yazhang to South China and the Origin and Dispersal of Early Political States Chung Tang, Shandong University and Fang Wang, Jinsha Site Museum SECTION IV THE FIRST HEIGHT OF THE BRONZE AGE: THE SHANG PERIOD 11. The Cultural and Historical Setting of the Shang Jonathan Smith, Christopher Newport University, with Yuzhou Fan, Nanjing University 12. Early and Middle Shang Periods Guoding Song, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences 13. Shang Belief and Art Elizabeth Childs-Johnson, Old Dominion University 14. Shang Bronze-Casting Technology and Metallurgy Issues Changping Zhang, Wuhan University 15. Late Shang Ritual and Residential Architecture at Great City Shang, Yinxu in Anyang, Henan Elizabeth Childs-Johnson, Old Dominion University 16. Late Shang: Fu Zi [Fu Hao] and M5 at Xiaotun Dingyun Cao, Institute of Archaeology, CASS SECTION V THE SECOND HEIGHT OF THE BRONZE AGE: THE WESTERN ZHOU PERIOD 17. Western Zhou Cultural and Historic Setting Maria Khayutina, Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich 18. Western Zhou Government and Society Paul Nicholas Vogt, Indiana University 19. Western Zhou Rites and Mortuary Practice (Inscriptions and Texts) Constance A. Cook, Lehigh University 20. Bronze Vessels: Style, Assemblages, and Innovations of the Western Zhou Period Yan Sun, Gettysburg College 21. Bells and Music in the Zhou Scott Cook, Yale-NUS College SECTION VI THE THIRD HEIGHT OF THE BRONZE AGE: SPRINGS AND AUTUMNS PERIOD 22. Historical Background during the Springs and Autumns Period Yuri Pines, Hebrew University of Jerusalem 23. Historiography, Thought, and Intellectual Development during the Springs and Autumns Period Yuri Pines, Hebrew University of Jerusalem 24. Cultures and Styles of Art during the Springs and Autumns Period Xiaolong Wu, Hanover College SECTION VII THE IRON AGE-WARRING STATES PERIOD 25. The Warring States Period: Historical Background Yuri Pines, Hebrew University of Jerusalem 26. Iron Technology and Its Regional Development during the Eastern Zhou Period Wengcheong Lam, Chinese University of Hong Kong 27. Institutional Reforms and Reformers during the Warring States Period Yuri Pines, Hebrew University of Jerusalem 28. Change and Continuity at the Intersection of Received History and the Material Record during the Warring States Period Charles Sanft, University of Tennessee 29. The Army, Wars, and Military Arts during the Warring States Period Albert Galvany, The University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU 30. The Shi, Diplomats, and Urban Expansion during the Warring States Period Andrew Meyer, Brooklyn College 31. Confucius, Mencius, and Their Daoist-Legalist Critics Moss Roberts, New York University 32. Mozi Vincent S. Leung, Lingnan University 33. Mohism and the Evolving Notion of Jian Ai Carine Defoort, University of Leuven 34. Chu Religion and Art John S. Major, Independent Scholar, and Elizabeth Childs-Johnson, Old Dominion University 35. The Artistic Revolution in the Warring States Period Jie Shi, Bryn Mawr College Index
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OUP USA Oxford Handbook of Ancient Anatolia
The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Anatolia is a unique blend of comprehensive overviews on archaeological, philological, linguistic, and historical issues at the forefront of Anatolian scholarship in the 21st century. Anatolia is home to early complex societies and great empires, and was the destination of many migrants, visitors, and invaders. The offerings in this volume bring this reality to life as the chapters unfold nearly ten thousand years (ca. 10,000-323 BCE) of peoples, languages, and diverse cultures who lived in or traversed Anatolia over these millennia. The contributors combine descriptions of current scholarship on important discussion and debates in Anatolian studies with new and cutting edge research for future directions of study. The fifty-four chapters are presented in five separate sections that range in topic from chronological and geographical overviews to anthropologically based issues of culture contact and imperial structures, and from historical settings of enti
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Oxford University Press, USA Senecan Tragedy and the Reception of Augustan Poetry
Book SynopsisIn their practice of aemulatio, the mimicry of older models of writing, the Augustan poets often looked to the Greeks: Horace drew inspiration from the lyric poets, Virgil from Homer, and Ovid from Hesiod, Callimachus, and others. But by the time of the great Roman tragedian Seneca, the Augustan poets had supplanted the Greeks as the classics to which Seneca and his contemporaries referred. Indeed, Augustan poetry is a reservoir of language, motif, and thought for Seneca''s writing. Strangely, however, there has not yet been a comprehensive study revealing the relationship between Seneca and his Augustan predecessors. Christopher Trinacty''s Senecan Tragedy and the Reception of Augustan Poetry is the long-awaited answer to the call for such a study. Senecan Tragedy and the Reception of Augustan Poetry uniquely places Senecan tragedy in its Roman literary context, offering a further dimension to the motivations and meaning behind Seneca''s writings. By reading Senecan tragedy through anTrade Reviewthe fact remains that [Trinacty's] intertextual approach has yielded a book of great value to specialists in the fields of both Augustan poetry and Senecan tragedy. * Gareth Williams, Language and Literature *In crisp, clear prose, Trinacty mounts a reading of the texts of Seneca's dramatic poems as full participants in the intertextual system of meanings and significances that scholars have discerned in Augustan poetry and its Hellenistic models. Thanks to his cogent arguments and sensitive readings, it will henceforth no longer be possible to characterize the allusive presences of Virgil, Horace, and Ovid in Seneca's poetry as mere reminiscences or symptoms of an impoverished belatedness. This is an impressive contribution, and a most welcome one, to the study of a Roman author whose seriousness as a poet as well as a philosopher is once again fully visible for the first time in several centuries. * David Wray, University of Chicago *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ; Introduction ; 1. Seneca the Reader ; 2. Intertextuality and Character ; 3. Intertextuality and Plot ; 4. Intertextuality, Writers, and Readers ; 5. Epilogue ; Bibliography ; Index of Passages ; General Index
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Oxford University Press Policing the Roman Empire
Book SynopsisHistorians often regard the police as a modern development, and indeed, many pre-modern societies had no such institution. Most recent scholarship has claimed that Roman society relied on kinship networks or community self-regulation as a means of conflict resolution and social control. This model, according to Christopher Fuhrmann, fails to properly account for the imperial-era evidence, which argues in fact for an expansion of state-sponsored policing activities in the first three centuries of the Common Era. Drawing on a wide variety of source material--from art, archaeology, administrative documents, Egyptian papyri, laws, Jewish and Christian religious texts, and ancient narratives--Policing the Roman Empire provides a comprehensive overview of Roman imperial policing practices with chapters devoted to fugitive slave hunting, the pivotal role of Augustus, the expansion of policing under his successors, and communities lacking soldier-police that were forced to rely on self-help orTrade ReviewFuhrmann's book is a very well documented and convenient synthesis on the contribution of the Roman army to law enforcement in peacetime during the imperial period. * Cedric Brelaz, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *Table of ContentsAbbreviations ; Roman Emperors from Augustus to Julian ; Maps of the Roman Empire ; 1. Introduction ; 2. "Arrest me, for I have run away": Fugitive Slave Hunting in the Roman Empire ; 3. "Like a thief in the night": Self-help, Magisterial Authority, and Civilian Policing ; 4. "I brought peace to the provinces": Augustus and The Rhetoric of Imperial Peace ; 5. "To squelch the discord of the rabble": Military Policing in Rome and Italy under Augustus' Successors ; 6. "Let there be no violence contrary to my wish": Emperors and Provincial Order ; 7. "Keep your province pacified and quiet": Provincial Governors, Public Order, and Policing ; 8. "Military stations throughout all provinces": Detached-Service Soldier-Police ; 9. Conclusion ; Appendix: Differentiating stationarii from beneficiarii consulares and Other Detached-Service Soldiers ; Bibliography ; Index of Ancient Sources ; General Index
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Oxford University Press Heavens Purge
Book SynopsisThe doctrine of purgatory - the state after death in which Christians undergo punishment by God for unforgiven sins - raises many questions. What is purgatory like? Who experiences it? Does purgatory purify souls, or punish them, or both? How painful is it? Heaven''s Purge explores the first posing of these questions in Christianity''s early history, from the first century to the eighth: an era in which the notion that sinful Christians might improve their lot after death was contentious, or even heretical.Isabel Moreira discusses a wide range of influences at play in purgatory''s early formation, including ideas about punishment and correction in the Roman world, slavery, the value of medical purges at the shrines of saints, and the authority of visions of the afterlife for informing Christians of the hereafter. She also challenges the deeply ingrained supposition that belief in purgatory was a symptom of barbarized Christianity, and assesses the extent to which Irish and Germanic vieTrade ReviewA book that is thoughtful, learned, and refreshingly independent-minded. She Moreira avoids the conventional explanations that have been advance by scholars since the Reformation... remarkable. * The New York Review of Books *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Purgatory in Late Antiquity ; Chapter One. Purgatory in Early Christian and Patristic Thought ; Chapter Two. Of Sons and Slaves: Violence and Correction in the Afterlife ; Chapter Three. O Purgatorium Caeleste!: Purging Body and Soul at St. Martin's Shrine ; Chapter Four. Purgation in the Sixth and Seventh Centuries ; Chapter Five. Purgatory, Penitentials, and the Irish Question ; Chapter Six. Purgatory in Bede and Boniface ; Chapter Seven. Missionary Eschatology and the Politics of Certainty ; Chapter Eight. Barbarians, Law Codes, and Purgatory ; Conclusion
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Oxford University Press Inc The Classical Tradition
Book SynopsisA monumental work of literary scholarship, reissued with a legacy-establishing foreword by Harold Bloom.Trade Review"Solidly grounded and solidly built...[Highet] deals with every period, every movement, every individual, and every separate work as an interesting special case for which he tries to find the special explanation."--The New Yorker "An excellent outline...[an] intelligent, erudite, perceptive interpretation...a book for the times."--The Nation "It is Highet's appreciate of good literature...which gives a special charm to his book...[It] will be read with gratitude by many."--Times Literary Supplement "Having reread Gilbert Highet's The Classical Tradition, I am once again under its spell. The book, like Curtius' European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages, is a monument to a certain moment of mid-20th-century classicism, deeply humane, fundamentally conservative, committed to putting back together what seemed like the shattered pieces of Western civilization in the wake of Nazi barbarism. It is its vast scope, its capacious overview, that gives it its power."--Stephen Greenblatt, Harvard University "More than sixty years after Gilbert Highet's book first appeared, it remains the best single guide to the whole afterlife of Greek and Latin literature. The Classical Tradition does full justice to the complexity of this millenial story: Highet shows us both how ancient books shaped later readers, and how medieval and modern writers used classical elements to build their own, distinctive literatures. Learned, epigrammatic, and humanely opinionated, Highet's book is as readable as it is comprehensive."--Anthony Grafton, Princeton UniversityTable of ContentsForeword ; Preface ; Abbreviations ; Chapter 1: Introduction ; Chapter 2: The Dark Ages: English Literature ; Chapter 3: The Middle Ages: French Literature ; Chapter 4: Dante and Pagan Antiquity ; Chapter 5: Towards the Renaissance: Petrarch, Boccaccio, Chaucer ; Chapter 6: The Renaissance: Translation ; Chapter 7: The Renaissance: Drama ; Chapter 8: The Renaissance: Epic ; Chapter 9: The Renaissance: Pastoral and Romance ; Chapter 10: Rabelais and Montaigne ; Chapter 11: Shakespeare ; Chapter 12: The Renaissance and Afterwards: Lyric Poetry ; Chapter 13: Transition ; Chapter 14: The Battle of the Books ; Chapter 15: A Note on Baroque
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Oxford University Press The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory
Book SynopsisThe Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory addresses one of the most debated and least understood revolutions in the history of our species, the change from hunting and gathering to farming. Graeme Barker takes a global view, and integrates a massive array of information from archaeology and many other disciplines, including anthropology, botany, climatology, genetics, linguistics, and zoology. Against current orthodoxy, Barker develops a strong case for the development of agricultural systems in many areas as transformations in the life-ways of the indigenous forager societies, and argues that these were as much changes in social norms and ideologies as in ways of obtaining food. With a large number of helpful line drawings and photographs as well as a comprehensive bibliography, this authoritative study will appeal to a wide general readership as well as to specialists in a variety of fields.Trade Review...a masterpiece of interdisciplinary synthesis, which encompasses all parts of the world, not just well-researched areas...He puts today's all-embracing, and often popular, theories in a much more sophisticated context. This important and erudite work will surely become a classic... * Brian Fagan, European Journal of Archaeology *a magisterial survey on a global scale * Peter Bogucki, *Table of Contents1. Approaches to the origins of agriculture ; 2. Understanding foragers ; 3. Identifying foragers and farmers ; 4. The 'hearth of domestication'? Transitions to farming in South-West Asia ; 5. Central and South Asia: the wheat/rice frontier ; 6. Rice and forest farming in East and South-East Asia ; 7. Weed, tuber, and maize farming in the Americas ; 8. Africa: Afro-Asiatic pastoralists and Bantu farmers? ; 9. Transitions to farming in Europe: ex oriente lux? ; 10. The agricultural revolution in prehistory: why did foragers become farmers?
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Oxford University Press Medieval Grammar and Rhetoric
Book SynopsisMedieval Grammar and Rhetoric: Language Arts and Literary Theory, AD 300-1475 contributes to two fields, the history of the language arts and the history of literary theory. It brings together essential sources in the disciplines of grammar and rhetoric which were used to understand literary form and language and teach literary composition. Grammar and rhetoric, the language disciplines, formed the basis of any education from antiquity through the Middle Ages, no matter what future career a student would want to pursue. Because literature was also the subject matter of grammatical teaching, and because rhetorical teaching gave great attention to literary form, these were also the disciplines that would prepare students for an understanding of literary language and form. These arts constituted the abiding theoretical toolbox for anyone engaged in a life of letters.The book brings together more than fifty primary texts from the medieval history of grammar and rhetoric, well over half of Trade ReviewMonumental ... In their heroic labour of translation and scholarship, Copeland and Sluiter provide an entrée to the millennium of pedagogy that formed countless priests, monks, bishops, intellectuals, courtiers and secular bureaucrats. * Barbara Newman, London Review of Books *Table of ContentsPART 1 ARTS OF LANGUAGE, AD CA. 300-CA. 950; PART 2 DOSSIERS ON THE ABLATIVE ABSOLUTE AND ETYMOLOGY; PART 3 SCIENCES AND CURRICULA OF LANGUAGE IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY; SECTION 4 PEDAGOGIES OF GRAMMAR AND RHETORIC, CA. 1150-1280; PART 6 RECEPTIONS OF THE TRADITIONS: THE LANGUAGE ARTS AND POETICS IN THE LATER MIDDLE AGES, CA. 1369-CA. 1475
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Oxford University Press Between Empires
Book SynopsisIn Between Empires Greg Fisher tackles the problem of pre-Islamic Arab identity by examining the relationship between the Roman Empire and the Empire of Sasanian Iran, and a selection of their Arab allies and neighbours, the Jafnids, Nasrids, and Hujrids. Fisher focuses on the last century before the emergence of Islam and stresses the importance of a Near East dominated by Rome and Iran for the formation of early concepts of Arab identity. In particular, he examines cultural and religious integration, political activities, and the role played by Arabic as factors in this process. He concludes that interface with the Roman Empire, in particular, played a key role in helping to lay the foundation for later concepts of Arab identity, and that the world of Late Antiquity is, as a result, of enduring interest in our understanding of what we now call the Middle East.Trade ReviewReview from previous edition I would heartily recommend this book for anyone interested in the affairs and status of the Arabs in the sixth century. For anybody interested in the history of the Arabs immediately prior to the Rise of Islam, it is vital reading * UNRV Website, Ian Hughes *Greg Fisher provides a fresh contribution to an historical problem of considerable interest, that of the identity, role, and place of the Arabs in contact with the Roman and Sasanian empires before the advent of Islam ... the author offers readers a masterful synthesis ... This is a work of advanced scholarship for advanced scholars. * CHOICE *Between Empires provides a compact, cogent introduction to, and explanation of, Rome's relationship with its Arab clients. It should be in every serious research library. * Matthew P. Canepa, Sehepunkte *Fisher has made a valuable contribution to the various historical debates he has joined, not least through his surveys, with bibliographical references, of the current state of scholarship. * James Howard-Johnston, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies *Table of ContentsBIBLIOGRAPHY ; INDEX
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Oxford University Press Suetonius
Book SynopsisSuetonius'' Life of Augustus is the most commonly read ancient account of the life of Rome''s first emperor, presenting a mass of historical and biographical detail about both his public and personal lives. This volume provides the first large-scale commentary on Suetonius'' work in English, drawing out what is unique about Suetonius'' information, discussing how it relates to other ancient accounts, and assessing its historical reliability. The commentary is the first to be accessible to readers without any knowledge of Latin or Greek due to its use of English lemmata, while the new translation remains faithful to the original Latin. Accompanied by an introduction which investigates the career of Suetonius, the date of the Lives of the Caesars, the structure of the Life of Augustus, the various sources utilized by Suetonius, and the way in which the reader should approach this complex text, the commentary also looks to examine Suetonius'' work not just as a repository of facts, but asTrade Reviewabsolutely invaluable for anyone interested in a major source for the life of the first Roman emperor * Peter Jones, Classics for All *an essential addition to the Roman historian's bookshelf * Arthur J Pomeroy, Acta Classica *To absorb the sheer range of published scholarship relating both to such a well-trodden text and to the lengthy career of Augustus is a daunting task, but Wardle. has shown that it can be done. In the commentary itself he synthesises clearly, evaluates judiciously and offers perceptive insights of his own: for example, noting Suetonius' tragic framing of the reversals in Augustus' family fortunes (416). His practice of not only referencing and discussing but often quoting the most relevant comparative or contextualising primary sources will be greatly appreciated by undergraduates in particular. He is also refreshingly forthright about the limitations of what we can glean from any of them * Penelope J. Goodman, Journal of Roman Studies *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION; TRANSLATION; COMMENTARY; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
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Oxford University Press, USA Aristotle as Poet
Book SynopsisAristotle is known as a philosopher and as a theorist of poetry, but he was also a composer of songs and verse. This is the first comprehensive study of Aristotle''s poetic activity, interpreting his remaining fragments in relation to the earlier poetic tradition and to the literary culture of his time. Its centerpiece is a study of the single complete ode to survive, a song commemorating Hermias of Atarneus, Aristotle''s father-in-law and patron in the 340''s BCE. This remarkable text is said to have embroiled the philosopher in charges of impiety and so is studied both from a literary perspective and in its political and religious contexts.Aristotle''s literary antecedents are studied with an unprecedented fullness that considers the entire range of Greek poetic forms, including poems by Sappho, Pindar, and Sophocles, and prose texts as well. Apart from its interest as a complex and subtle poem, the Song for Hermias is noteworthy as one of the first Greek lyrics for which we have subTrade ReviewAndrew Ford shows us...that Aristotle's two complete surviving poems...are well-worth knowing. Indeed, as Ford brilliantly demonstrates, they offer a unique window onto poetic production and reception in the classical era.... In Ford's able hands, these become paradigmatic texts, through which he provides us with an object lesson in how to read a Greek poem. * CJ-Online, a service of The Classical Journal *Table of ContentsABBREVIATIONS; BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Oxford University Press Inc Ancient Mediterranean Sacrifice
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Oxford University Press The Dynamics of Ancient Empires
Book SynopsisTranscending ethnic, linguistic, and religious boundaries, early empires shaped thousands of years of world history. Yet despite the global prominence of empire, individual cases are often studied in isolation. This series seeks to change the terms of the debate by promoting cross-cultural, comparative, and transdisciplinary perspectives on imperial state formation prior to the European colonial expansion.The world''s first known empires took shape in Mesopotamia between the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf, beginning around 2350 BCE. The next 2,500 years witnessed sustained imperial growth, bringing a growing share of humanity under the control of ever-fewer states. Two thousand years ago, just four major powers--the Roman, Parthian, Kushan, and Han empires--ruled perhaps two-thirds of the earth''s entire population. Yet despite empires'' prominence in the early history of civilization, there have been surprisingly few attempts to study the dynamics of ancient empires in the western Old World comparatively. Such grand comparisons were popular in the eighteenth century, but scholars then had only Greek and Latin literature and the Hebrew Bible as evidence, and necessarily framed the problem in different, more limited, terms. Near Eastern texts, and knowledge of their languages, only appeared in large amounts in the later nineteenth century. Neither Karl Marx nor Max Weber could make much use of this material, and not until the 1920s were there enough archaeological data to make syntheses of early European and west Asian history possible. But one consequence of the increase in empirical knowledge was that twentieth-century scholars generally defined the disciplinary and geographical boundaries of their specialties more narrowly than their Enlightenment predecessors had done, shying away from large questions and cross-cultural comparisons. As a result, Greek and Roman empires have largely been studied in isolation from those of the Near East. This volume is designed to address these deficits and encourage dialogue across disciplinary boundaries by examining the fundamental features of the successive and partly overlapping imperial states that dominated much of the Near East and the Mediterranean in the first millennia BCE and CE.A substantial introductory discussion of recent thought on the mechanisms of imperial state formation prefaces the five newly commissioned case studies of the Neo-Assyrian, Achaemenid Persian, Athenian, Roman, and Byzantine empires. A final chapter draws on the findings of evolutionary psychology to improve our understanding of ultimate causation in imperial predation and exploitation in a wide range of historical systems from all over the globe. Contributors include John Haldon, Jack Goldstone, Peter Bedford, Josef Wiesehofer, Ian Morris, Walter Scheidel, and Keith Hopkins, whose essay on Roman political economy was completed just before his death in 2004.Trade ReviewThis volume is an ambitious cross-cultural perspective of the ancient empires in a series of case studies based on political theory as well as on recent archeological research. * Journal of World History *Table of ContentsCONTRIBUTORS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
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Oxford University Press Rome and China
Book SynopsisThis volume brings together experts in the history of the ancient Mediterranean and early China and presents a series of comparative case studies on clearly defined aspects of state formation in early eastern and western Eurasia, focusing on the process of initial developmental convergence.Trade Reviewan admirable demonstration of the great potential that lies in comparative analysis of the Greco-Roman world and Ancient China. * Hyun Jin Kim, Bryn Mawr Classical Review31/10/2012 *Table of ContentsCONTRIBUTORS; CHRONOLOGY; INTRODUCTION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
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