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Household Gods Private Devotion in Ancient Greece and Rome

Sofroniew Alexandra

ISBN: HB: 9781606064566, Getty Publications, February 2016
160 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.

Daily religious devotion in the Greek and Roman worlds centered on the family and the home. Besides official worship in rural sacred areas and at temples in towns, the ancients kept household shrines with statuettes of different deities that could ha...

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Cultural Memories in the Roman Empire

Galinsky Karl, Lapatin Kenneth

ISBN: HB: 9781606064627, Getty Publications, January 2016
376 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.

Memory studies one of the most vibrant research fields of the present day brings together such diverse disciplines as art and archaeology, history, religion, literature, sociology, media studies, and neuroscience. In scholarship on ancient Rome, stud...

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Literary Criticism

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Objects as Actors Props and the Poetics of Performance in Greek Tragedy

Mueller Melissa

ISBN: HB: 9780226312958, University of Chicago Press, December 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones

"Objects as Actors" charts a new approach to Greek tragedy based on an obvious, yet often overlooked, fact: Greek tragedy was meant to be performed. As plays, the works were incomplete without physical items in the form of theatrical props. In this b...

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Democracy's Beginning The Athenian Story

Mitchell Thomas N.

ISBN: HB: 9780300215038, Yale University Press, October 2015
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus., 5 maps

The first democracy, established in ancient Greece more than 2,500 years ago, has served as the foundation for every democratic system of government instituted down the centuries. In this lively history, author Thomas N. Mitchell tells the full and r...

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Ancient Egypt Transformed The Middle Kingdom

Oppenheim Adela, Arnold Dorothea, Arnold Dieter, Yamamoto Kei

ISBN: HB: 9781588395641, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2015
400 pp., 31.1x24.9 cm, 365 colour illus., 42 black&white illus., 6 maps

The Middle Kingdom (ca. 2030-1700 B.C.), the second great era of ancient Egyptian culture, was a transformational period during which the artistic conventions, cultural principles, religious beliefs, and political systems formed during earlier dynast...

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History of Art

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Ennion Master of Roman Glass

Lightfoot Christopher, Wight Karol B., Pilosi Lisa, Wypyski Mark T.

ISBN: PB: 9780300208771, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2015
160 pp., 26.7x23.5 cm, 100 colour illus.

Among glass craftsmen active in the first century A.D., the most famous and gifted was Ennion, who came from the coastal city of Sidon in modern Lebanon. Ennion's glass stood out for its quality and popularity, and his products are distinguished by t...

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Persius A Study in Food, Philosophy, and the Figural

Bartsch Shadi

ISBN: HB: 9780226241845, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The Roman poet and satirist Persius (34-62 CE) was unique among his peers for lampooning literary and social conventions from a distinctly Stoic point of view. A curious amalgam of mocking wit and philosophy, his Satires are rife with violent metapho...

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Literary Criticism

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Medea

Euripides

ISBN: PB: 9780226203454, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
72 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

In the centuries since it was first performed, Euripides's "Medea" has established itself as one of the most influential of the Greek tragedies. The story of the wronged wife who seeks revenge against her unfaithful husband by murdering their childre...

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Roman in the Provinces Art on the Periphery of Empire

Hoffman Gail L.

ISBN: PB: 9781892850225, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, August 2014
300 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 75 colour plates, 125 halftones

This beautifully illustrated volume presents new ways of thinking about the concept of "being Roman" – with a particular emphasis on the way people in the provinces and on the periphery of the empire reacted to the state of being a Roman subject. Acc...

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What Did the Romans Know? An Inquiry into Science and Worldmaking

Lehoux Daryn

ISBN: PB: 9780226143217, ISBN: HB: 9780226471143, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 6 halftones, 4 line illus.

What did the Romans know about their world? Quite a lot, as Daryn Lehoux makes clear in this fascinating and much-needed contribution to the history and philosophy of ancient science. Lehoux contends that even though many of the Romans' views about t...

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