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Bücher der Reihe Greek Culture in the Roman World

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  • - Epiphany and Representation in Graeco-Roman Art, Literature and Religion
    von Cornell University, New York) Platt & Verity (Associate Professor of Classics and History of Art
    52,00 - 181,00 €

    This book explores divine manifestations and their representations not only in art, but also in literature, histories and inscriptions. The cultural analysis of epiphany is set within a historical framework that examines its development from the archaic period through the Hellenistic world and into the Roman Empire.

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    109,00 €

    This exciting 2010 collection of essays offers a reappraisal of current ideas about Greek identity under the Roman empire. Drawing on extensive discussions of sources and modern theories of the tension between global and local identities, the authors argue that regional identities were both produced and challenged by Roman imperialism.

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    135,00 €

    Galen is the most important medical writer in Graeco-Roman antiquity. This volume locates him firmly in the intellectual life of his period of the second century AD, and tries to explain the medical and philosophical 'world of knowledge' that he tries to create.

  • von California) Trimble & Jennifer (Stanford University
    52,00 - 168,00 €

    Roman portrait statues, famed for their individuality, repeatedly employed the same body forms. This book examines the 'Large Herculaneum Woman' statue type, a draped female body common in the second century CE and surviving in about two hundred examples, to demonstrate how sameness helped to communicate a woman's social identity.

  • - Returning Romance
    von Oxford) Whitmarsh & Tim (Corpus Christi College
    46,00 - 125,00 €

    Romance was the dominant Greek literary genre of the Roman Empire. This book explores its distinctive qualities and the reasons for its popularity. Using cultural and narrative theory, it argues that the romance was simultaneously primal and malleable enough to capture the tensions in Greek identity during this era.

  • von A. J. S. (University of Newcastle upon Tyne) Spawforth
    51,00 - 125,00 €

    This book examines the impact of the Roman cultural revolution under Augustus on the Roman province of Greece and argues that the transformation of Roman Greece into a classicising 'museum' was a specific response of the provincial Greek elites to the cultural politics of the Roman imperial monarchy.

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    187,00 €

    The first volume of its kind to be devoted to the works of Philostratus, the great essayist, biographer and historian of Greek culture in the Roman world. The papers contained cover his remarkable range, from hagiographic fiction to historical dialogue, and from prescriptions for gymnastics to the lives of the Sophists.

  • von Nathanael J. (University of Oregon) Andrade
    53,00 - 138,00 €

    Drawing upon the issues raised by postcolonial and performance theory, this book evaluates how Syrians redefined Greekness and negotiated the pressures of Greek colonialism and Roman imperialism. Of interest to ancient historians, archaeologists and classicists generally and for those studying the Near East in particular.

  • - Jewish Ways of Seeing in Late Antiquity
    von Ann Arbor) Neis & Rachel (University of Michigan
    45,00 - 117,00 €

    Vision was a powerful sense in the ancient world. How did the rabbis living in Roman Palestine and Persian Mesopotamia understand and seek to discipline and cultivate it? This book offers a new perspective on the significance of sight for the rabbis, of interest to a wide range of scholars.

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