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Modern readers find it hard to come to terms with the gods in Euripides' dramas. Readers try to dismiss them as a l
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Nature and Illusion is the first extended treatment of the portrayal of nature in Byzantine art and literature. In this
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In the second half of the tenth century, Byzantium embarked on a series of spectacular conquests: first in the southeast
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While we know a great deal about naval strategies in the classical Greek and later Roman periods, our understanding of t
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War, the most profitable economic activity in the ancient world, transferred wealth from the vanquished to the victor. I
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This book is about the representation of gods (both as characters and as a subject for discourse) in two tragedies by Eu
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Investigating ritual in Greece from cross-disciplinary and transhistorical perspectives, Greek Ritual Poetics offers nov
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Scholars have long separated a few privileged “religions of the Book” from faiths lacking sacred texts, including ancien
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