The Sculpted Word: Epicureanism and Philosophical Recruitment in Ancient Greece 9780520312135, 0520312139

The Sculpted Word: Epicureanism and Philosophical Recruitment in Ancient Greece 9780520312135, 0520312139

This study of the recruitment techniques used by the philosophical schools of Hellenistic Greece. Bernard Frischer focus

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The Sculpted Word [Reprint 2020 ed.] 9780520312135

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Word And Image In Ancient Greece 9780748679850

In ancient Greek society communication was largely oral and visual. The epic poets sang and recited the legends that ser

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Diogenes of Oinoanda: Epicureanism and Philosophical Debates 9789462701014

The texts of Diogenes of Oinoanda (2nd century AD) who invited his readers to an Epicurean life is the largest ancient i

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Shameless: The Canine and the Feminine in Ancient Greece 9780520957428

The figure of the dog is a paradox. As in so many cultures, past and present, the dog in ancient Greece was seen as the

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The Seer in Ancient Greece 9780520934009

The seer (mantis), an expert in the art of divination, operated in ancient Greek society through a combination of charis

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Music and Musicians in Ancient Greece 9781501733222

What do we know, or what can we reasonably conjecture, about ancient Greek musicmakers and what they played or sang? D

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Law and the Courts in Ancient Greece 9781472540966, 9780715631171

How successful were the Athenians and other Greeks in bringing about the rule of law? What did the Greeks recognise as ‘

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The Way and the Word: Science and Medicine in Early China and Greece 9780300129168

The rich civilizations of ancient China and Greece built sciences of comparable sophistication—each based on different f

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Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece 9780520932173

This book presents a state-of-the-art debate about the origins of Athenian democracy by five eminent scholars. The resul

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