"Stand in the Trench, Achilles examines the range of classical receptions in British poetry of the First World War. Elizabeth Vandiver considers poets from a wide social spectrum and discusses the ways in which they refigured classical literature. Vandiver demonstrates that clas…
Although overshadowed by his contemporaries Adam Smith and David Hume, the Scottish philosopher Adam Ferguson strongly influenced eighteenth-century currents of political thought. A major reassessment of this neglected figure, Adam Ferguson in the Scottish englightenment: The Ro…
This book deals with the changing nature of the goddess Ishtar/Astarte/Aphrodite, who was widely revered in the ancient West Asia and the Mediterranean world and was known by different names. Although the three names are often closely related, their mutual relation has not yet b…
Rhetoric and religion in ancient Greece and Rome
by Harris, Edward M., Shannon-Henderson, Kelly E., Mueller, Hans-Friedrich, Papaioannou, Sophia, Serafim, Andreas, Demetriou, Kyriakos, Furley, William, Liotsakis, Vasileios, Filonik, Jakub, Degelmann, Christopher, Holland, Glenn, Keramida, Despina, Melidis, Konstantinos, Patzelt, Maik, Sarischouli, Panagiota
It is perhaps a truism to note that ancient religion and rhetoric were closely intertwined in Greek and Roman antiquity. Religion is embedded in socio-political, legal and cultural institutions and structures, while also being influenced, or even determined, by them. Rhetoric is…
Creationism and its critics in antiquity
The world is configured in ways that seem systematically hospitable to life forms, especially the human race. Is this the outcome of divine planning or simply of the laws of physics? Ancient Greeks and Romans famously disagreed on whether the cosmos was the product of design or …
Living Through the Dead investigates the archaeology of death and commemoration through thematically linked case studies drawn from the Classical world. These investigations stress the processes of burial and commemoration as inherently social and designed for an audience, and t…
"This first complete published catalogue of one of the most important Classical sculpture collections in the United States includes works from Italy, Greece, Cyprus, Asia Minor, North Africa, Roman Syria and Palestine, Egypt, and Babylonia, ranging in date from the late 7th cent…
