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Literary Criticism

Ancient World

Eclipse of Action Tragedy and Political Economy

Halpern Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780226433653, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
336 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

According to traditional accounts, the history of tragedy is itself tragic: following a miraculous birth in fifth-century Athens and a brilliant resurgence in the early modern period, tragic drama then falls into a marked decline. While disputing the...

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Political Science

Ancient World

Ethics and the Orator The Ciceronian Tradition of Political Morality

Remer Gary A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226439167, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
304 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

For thousands of years, critics have attacked rhetoric and the actual practice of politics as unprincipled, insincere, and manipulative. In "Ethics and the Orator", Gary A. Remer disagrees, offering the Ciceronian rhetorical tradition as a rejoinder....

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Classicisms

Norman Larry F., Leonard Anne

ISBN: PB: 9780935573572, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, February 2017
184 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 105 colour plates

As an aesthetic ideal, classicism is often associated with a conventional set of rules founded on supposedly timeless notions such as order, reason, and decorum. As a result, it is sometimes viewed as rigid, outdated, or stodgy. But in actuality, cla...

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Literary Criticism

Aristophanes and the Cloak of Comedy Affect, Aesthetics, and the Canon

Telo Mario

ISBN: HB: 9780226309699, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The Greek playwright Aristophanes (active 427-386 BCE) is often portrayed as the poet who brought stability, discipline, and sophistication to the rowdy theatrical genre of Old Comedy. In this groundbreaking book, situated within the affective turn i...

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Variety The Life of a Roman Concept

Fitzgerald William

ISBN: HB: 9780226299495, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The idea of variety may seem too diffuse, obvious, or nebulous to be worth scrutinizing, but modern usage masks the rich history of the term. This book examines the meaning, value, and practice of variety from the vantage point of Latin literature an...

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Literary Criticism

Ancient World

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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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

Ancient World

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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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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