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Anthropology

Phantom Image Seeing the Dead in Ancient Rome

Crowley Patrick R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226648293, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
328 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 25 colour plates, 71 halftones

Drawing from a rich corpus of art works, including sarcophagi, tomb paintings, and floor mosaics, Patrick R. Crowley investigates how something as insubstantial as a ghost could be made visible through the material grit of stone and paint. In this fr...

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Postclassicisms

ISBN: PB: 9780226672311, ISBN: HB: 9780226672281, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 1 line drawing

Made up of nine prominent scholars, The Postclassicisms Collective aims to map a space for theorizing and reflecting on the values attributed to antiquity. The product of these reflections, Postclassicisms takes up a set of questions about what it me...

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Praetorian The Rise and Fall of Rome's Imperial Bodyguard

Bedoyere Guy de la

ISBN: PB: 9780300234381, Yale University Press, April 2018
344 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 32 colour illus.

A riveting account of ancient Rome's imperial bodyguard, the select band of soldiers who wielded the power to make – or destroy – the emperors they served Founded by Augustus around 27 B.C., the elite Praetorian Guard was tasked with the protection...

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Biography & Memoires

Philo of Alexandria An Intellectual Biography

Niehoff Maren R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300175233, Yale University Press, February 2018
344 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Philo was a Hellenistic Jewish philosopher who left behind one of the richest bodies of work from antiquity, yet his personality and intellectual development have remained a riddle. Maren Niehoff presents the first biography of Philo, arguing that hi...

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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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History of Art

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Pots and Plays Interactions Between Tragedy Vase-Painting of the Fourth Century B.C.

Taplin Oliver

ISBN: HB: 9780892368075, Getty Publications, November 2007
304 pp., 28x28 cm, 76 colour illus., 48 black&white illus.

Greek painted pottery from the fourth century BC is one of the largest and most remarkable bodies of theatrically informed material that still survives. "Pots and Plays" is a thorough and insightful re-evaluation of over 100 Greek vases – mostly from...

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Profile of Ancient Rome

Conti Flavio

ISBN: HB: 9780892366972, Getty Publications, March 2006
217 pp., 29.2x24 cm, 750 colour illus.

During the 1000-year history of Ancient Rome, the Romans developed a vast and sophisticated society that would produce a lasting legacy for Western culture. This is an overview of all facets of Ancient Roman society, including chapters devoted to Rom...

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