Beyond Greece and Rome: Reading the Ancient Near East in Early Modern Europe (Classical Presences) [Illustrated] 9780191079849, 9780198767114, 0191079847

Beyond Greece and Rome: Reading the Ancient Near East in Early Modern Europe (Classical Presences) [Illustrated] 9780198767114, 0198767110

Though the subject of classical reception in early modern Europe is a familiar one, modern scholarship has tended to ass

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Lucretius and the Early Modern (Classical Presences) [Illustrated] 9780198713845, 0198713843

The rediscovery in the fifteenth century of Lucretius' De rerum natura was a challenge to received ideas. The poem

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

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The Religious Aspects of War in the Ancient Near East, Greece, and Rome: Ancient Warfare [1] 9004324755, 9789004324756

This book, in minute detail, presents a polyphony of voices, perspectives and opinions, from which emerges a diverse but

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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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Ancient Geography: The Discovery of the World in Classical Greece and Rome 9780755624300, 9781784530761

Before Columbus there was Eratosthenes: 'inventor' of the discipline of geography as it is known today. There

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Travel, Geography and Culture in Ancient Greece, Egypt and the Near East 1842172492, 9781842172490

This collection of essays looks beyond the focus of existing works on ancient travel and its documentation, to examine i

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