David Jones and Rome: Reimagining the Decline of Western Civilisation (Classical Presences) 9780192638595, 2021943245, 9780198868194, 0192638599

Ancient Rome and the Construction of Modern Homosexual Identities (Classical Presences) 9780199689729, 0199689725

Much has been written about the contribution of ancient Greece to modern discourses of homosexuality, but Rome's si

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The Novel of Neronian Rome and its Multimedial Transformations: Sienkiewicz's Quo vadis (Classical Presences) 9780198867531, 0198867530

The Polish writer Henryk Sienkiewicz was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1905 largely on the basis of his hist

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Corruption and the Decline of Rome 9780300191226

Prominent historian Ramsay MacMullen here offers a new perspective on the decline and fall of Rome. MacMullen argues tha

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Greece and Rome at the Crystal Palace: Classical Sculpture and Modern Britain, 1854-1936 (Classical Presences) [Illustrated] 9780199596461, 0199596468

The marble halls of the British Museum might seem the natural habitat for classical sculpture, but in the nineteenth cen

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Masculinity and Ancient Rome in the Victorian Cultural Imagination (Classical Presences) [Illustrated] 9780198833031, 0198833032

Masculinity and Ancient Rome in the Victorian Cultural Imagination examines Victorian receptions of ancient Rome, with a

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Robert Graves and the Classical Tradition (Classical Presences) 9780198738053, 0198738056

The poet Robert Graves' use of material from classical sources has been contentious to scholars for many years, wit

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Ancient Rome and Victorian Masculinity (Classical Presences) [Illustrated] 9780192569394, 9780198833031, 0192569392

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China from the Ruins of Athens and Rome: Classics, Sinology, and Romanticism, 1793-1938 (Classical Presences) 9780198767015, 0198767013

Fascinated and often baffled by China, Anglophone writers turned to classics for answers. In poetry, essays, and travel

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Classical Myth and Psychoanalysis: Ancient and Modern Stories of the Self (Classical Presences) 9780199656677, 0199656673

Since Freud published the Interpretation of Dreams in 1900 and utilized Sophocles' Oedipus Rex to work through his

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The Novel of Neronian Rome and its Multimedial Transformations: Sienkiewicz's Quo vadis (Classical Presences) 9780192637598, 9780198867531, 0192637592

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