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A Companion to Greek Mythology by Dowden Ken Livingstone Niall & Niall Livingstone
epub |eng | 2011-03-02 | Author:Dowden, Ken, Livingstone, Niall & Niall Livingstone

CHAPTER SIXTEEN Myth and Death: Roman Mythological Sarcophagi Zahra Newby Myth and the Sarcophagus: The Question of Interpretation The sudden emergence in the second century AD of marble sarcophagi decorated ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 28,2019 )
A Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome on Screen by Arthur J. Pomeroy
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-07-26 | Author:Arthur J. Pomeroy

Rossi and Greek and Roman Film Studies The three miniseries discussed offer a substantial body of work for further exploration: at eighteen hours in total, they provide nearly as much ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 28,2019 )
A Companion to Food in the Ancient World by Wilkins John; Nadeau Robin; & Robin Nadeau
epub |eng | 2015-07-20 | Author:Wilkins, John; Nadeau, Robin; & Robin Nadeau

Historiography Research and publications on Greek dining have increased in the last 20 years. It is now possible to read a continuous history of this practice from the Mycenaean period ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 28,2019 )
A Companion to Greek Art by Tyler Jo Smith & Dimitris Plantzos
epub |eng | 2012-04-02 | Author:Tyler Jo Smith & Dimitris Plantzos

21.3 Tyrants, Aristocrats, and their Impact on Art in the Archaic Period The 7th and 6th c. BC are characterized by intense mobility inside and outside the borders of the ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 28,2019 )
A Companion to the Latin Language by Clackson James
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-06-23 | Author:Clackson, James

PART IV Literary Registers of Latin CHAPTER 19 The Language of Roman Comedy Wolfgang de Melo Introduction Roman comedy is not a uniform genre. The type that is best attested ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 28,2019 )
A Companion to Ancient Near Eastern Art by Ann C. Gunter
epub |eng | 2018-11-20 | Author:Ann C. Gunter

Figuring Protection Visual and material aspects of apotropaic practice also reveal the tropes of liminality and condoned transgression of divine power. The histories and identities of apotropaic figures engender various ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 28,2019 )
A Companion to the Archaeology of the Roman Republic by Evans Jane DeRose;
epub |eng | 2013-02-18 | Author:Evans, Jane DeRose;

At issue is the problem that was posed by Mattingly: “what makes Romanization and Hellenization particularly unhelpful constructs is that the terms are used to describe both process and outcome, ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 28,2019 )
A Companion to the Etruscans by Bell Sinclair; Carpino Alexandra A.; & Alexandra A. Carpino
epub |eng | 2016-02-22 | Author:Bell, Sinclair; Carpino, Alexandra A.; & Alexandra A. Carpino

GUIDE TO FURTHER READING The study of bucchero is a complex subfield within Etruscan studies. The literature on the subject is somewhat fragmented and there is no single volume that ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 28,2019 )
A Companion to Greek Architecture by Margaret M. Miles
epub |eng | 2016-08-08 | Author:Margaret M. Miles

The pioneering techniques, set into place with a new defensive mindset, may be seen in the early fourth‐century BCE circuit wall at Syracuse. Dionysios I recognized the necessity of protecting ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 28,2019 )
Women's Life in Greece and Rome: A Source Book in Translation by Maureen B. Fant & Mary R. Lefkowitz
epub |eng | 2016-07-27 | Author:Maureen B. Fant & Mary R. Lefkowitz [Fant, Maureen B.]

Vitruvius' handbook on architecture seems an unlikely place to look for women's history, and yet this apocryphal account of the origin of a common architectural form recounts a dramatic event ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 28,2019 )
Polybius' Histories by McGing Brian C.;
epub |eng | 2010-05-27 | Author:McGing, Brian C.;

Further Reading There is a very good account of the workings of Hellenistic courts in Herman (1997) and also Mooren (1998). For a political assessment of Apelles’ “conspiracy,” see Errington ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 28,2019 )
The Two Falls of Rome in Late Antiquity by James Moreton Wakeley
epub |eng | | Author:James Moreton Wakeley

Actual, more primordial origin, therefore, was of little import when a new people like the relatively well-attested Gothic groups, who often form the basis of such analyses, were being formed ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 28,2019 )
Image and Myth by Giuliani Luca; O'Donnell Joe;
epub |eng | 2013-05-27 | Author:Giuliani, Luca; O'Donnell, Joe; [Giuliani, Luca]

41. Peloponnesian shield-band relief, 570-560. Olympia, Museum, Inv. B 8364. A very different way of depicting the episode can be seen on a tripod pyxis in Berlin.104 Here we see ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 28,2019 )
History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
epub |eng | 2017-05-27 | Author:Thucydides

1. As to the temple and oracle of the Pythian Apollo, we are agreed that whosoever will shall have access to it, without fraud or fear, according to the usages ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 28,2019 )
The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
epub, pdf |eng | 2009-05-11 | Author:Thucydides [Thucydides]

BOOK SEVEN After repairing their ships Gylippus and Pythen sailed down the 1 coast from Taras to Epizephyrian Locri. They now learnt the true situation, that Syracuse was not yet ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 27,2019 )

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