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Ancient World
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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Ancient World
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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Ancient World
Culture Studies
Appian Way Ghost Road, Queen of Roads
Kaster Robert A.
ISBN: PB: 9780226142999, ISBN: HB: 9780226425719, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
144 pp., 21.8x14.2 cm, 24 halftones, 3 line illus.
The Roman poet Statius called the via Appia "the Queen of Roads", and for nearly a thousand years that description held true, as countless travelers trod its path from the center of Rome to the heel of Italy. Today, the road is all but gone, destroye...
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Literary Criticism
Ancient World
Alcman and the Cosmos of Sparta
Ferrari Gloria
ISBN: PB: 9780226668680, ISBN: HB: 9780226668673, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
192 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 20 colour plates, 2 halftones
The "Partheneion", or "maiden song", composed in the seventh century BCE by the Spartan poet Alcman, is the earliest substantial example of a choral lyric. A provocative reinterpretation of the "Partheneion" and its broader context, "Alcman and the C...
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