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"This volume deals with the topics of friendship, flattery, and frankness of speech in the Greco-Roman world. The three topics were often related, with candor of frank criticism viewed as the trait that distinguished the true friend from the flatterer." "The book's eleven essays…
Late antiquity: a very short introduction
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Sheds light on the concept of late antiquity and the events of its time, showing that this was in fact a period of great transformation
Roman Crete: New Perspectives
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Challenging the modern belief that democracy and bondage are incompatible, Paulin Ismard directs our attention to the cradle of Western democracy, ancient Athens, where the functioning of civic government depended crucially on highly skilled experts who were literally public ser…