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Martial The World of the Epigram
ISBN: PB: 9780226252551, University of Chicago Press, May 2021
268 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In this age of the sound bite, what sort of author could be more relevant than a master of the epigram? Martial, the most influential epigrammatist of classical antiquity, was just such a virtuoso of the form, but despite his pertinence to today's cu...
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£28,00
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Eternal City A History of Rome in Maps
ISBN: HB: 9780226591452, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 64 colour plates
One of the most visited places in the world, Rome attracts millions of tourists each year to walk its storied streets and see famous sites like the Colosseum, St. Peter's Basilica, and the Trevi Fountain. Yet this ancient city's allure is due as much...
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£30,00
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Localism and the Ancient Greek City-State
ISBN: PB: 9780226711485, ISBN: HB: 9780226711348, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones, 2 line drawings
Much like our own time, the ancient Greek world was constantly expanding and becoming more connected to global networks. The landscape was shaped by an ecology of city-states, local formations that were stitched into the wider Mediterranean world. Wh...
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£32,00
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£96,00
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Phantom Image Seeing the Dead in Ancient Rome
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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£45,00
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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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£26,00
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£74,00
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Dangerous Counsel Accountability and Advice in Ancient Greece
ISBN: PB: 9780226653792, ISBN: HB: 9780226654010, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones
We often talk loosely of the "tyranny of the majority" as a threat to the workings of democracy. But, in ancient Greece, the analogy of demos and tyrant was no mere metaphor, nor a simple reflection of elite prejudice. Instead, it highlighted an impo...
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£24,00
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£72,00
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Conquest of Ruins The Third Reich and the Fall of Rome
ISBN: PB: 9780226588193, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
576 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 44 halftones
The Roman Empire has been a source of inspiration and a model for imitation for Western empires practically since the moment Rome fell. Yet, as Julia Hell shows in "The Conquest of Ruins", what has had the strongest grip on aspiring imperial imaginat...
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Alchemy and Authority in the Holy Roman Empire
ISBN: PB: 9780226639727, University of Chicago Press, February 2019
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones
What distinguished the true alchemist from the fraud? This question animated the lives and labors of the common men – and occasionally women – who made a living as alchemists in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Holy Roman Empire. As purveyors o...
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Studies of Homeric Greece
ISBN: PB: 9788024635613, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2018
320 pp., 23.5x16.5 cm, 8 colour plates, 16 halftones, 109 line drawings, 30 maps
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Studies of Homeric Greece" is a comprehensive companion to the archaeology and history of Late Mycenaean to Geometric Greece and the koine of Early Iron Age Geometric styles in Europe and...
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£23,00
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Aeneid
ISBN: HB: 9780226450186, University of Chicago Press, September 2017
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone
So begins the "Aeneid", greatest of Western epic poems. Virgil's story of the journey of Aeneas has been a part of our cultural heritage for so many centuries that it's all too easy to lose sight of the poem itself – of its brilliantly cinematic depi...
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