Biography and the Crafting of Intellectual Identity in Late Antiquity
Ancient biographies were more than accounts of the deeds of past heroes and guides for moral living. They were also arenas for debating pressing philosophical questions and establishing intellectual credentials, as Arthur P. Urbano argues in this study of biographies composed in Late Antiquity. With its origins in the competing philosophical ......
Aristotle labours under no illusion that in the practical sphere humans operate according to the canons of logic. This does not prevent him, however, from bringing his own logical acumen to his study of human behaviour. Aristotle, according to Fr. Flannery, depicts the way in which human acts of various sorts and in various combinations determine ......
Associations in the Greco-Roman World provides students and scholars with a clear and readable resource for greater understanding of the social, cultural, and religious life across the ancient Mediterranean. The authors provide new translations of inscriptions and papyri from hundreds of associations, alongside descriptions of more than two dozen ......
A Concise History of the Religious Cultures of Greece from Antiquity to the Present
Covering an expanse of more than three thousand years, this title charts the history of Greece's religious cultures from antiquity all the way through to present, post-independence Greece.
The pragmatic demands of American life have made higher education's sustained study of ancient Greece and Rome an irrelevant luxury - and this despite the fact that American democracy depends so heavily on classical language, literature, and political theory. In The Grammar of Our Civility, Lee T. Pearcy chronicles how this came to be. Pearcy ......
Surveying funerary rites and attitudes toward death from the time of Homer to the fourth century B.C., Robert Garland seeks to show what the ordinary Greek felt about death and the dead. The Second Edition features a substantial new prefatory essay in which Garland addresses recent questions and debates about death and the early Greeks. The book ......
A comprehensive guide to the gods and goddesses in Greek and Roman mythology. Great companion for any mythology related courses or the mythology buff. It contains 4-pages of laminated information on: the Greek/Roman connection, Aphrodite/Venus, Apollo/Phoebus and much more.
A comprehensive guide to the mortals in Greek and Roman mythology. Great companion for any mythology related courses or the mythology buff. It contains 4-pages of laminated information on: Achilles, Argus, Ariadne, Atlas, Bellerophon, Castor, Pollux and much more.
The chronological scope of this volume ranges from the heroic age of Homer''s Greek East to the time of the rise of Christianity, a period well over 1000 years.'
