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9781421408828 Add to Cart Academic Inspection Copy
  • Orphic Hymns

  • At the very beginnings of the Archaic Age, the great singer Orpheus taught a new religion that centered around the immortality of the human soul and its journey after death on its way to finding a permanent home. He felt that achieving purity by avoiding meat and refraining from committing harm further promoted the pursuit of a peaceful life. ......
  • ISBN-13: 9781421408828 (Paperback)
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
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    AUD $60.99
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  • Local release date: 13/09/2013
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9781421438603 Add to Cart Academic Inspection Copy
  • Homeric Hymns 3ed

  • A rich source for students of Greek mythology and literature, the Homeric Hymns are also fine poetry. Attributed by the ancients to Homer, these prooimia, or preludes, were actually composed by various poets over centuries. They were performed at religious festivals as entertainment meant to stir up enthusiasm for far more ambitious ......

  • ISBN-13: 9781421438603 (Paperback)
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
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    AUD $58.99
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  • Local release date: 04/05/2021
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  • Women's Life in Greece and Rome:

  • A Source Book in Translation 4ed
  • Now in its fourth edition, this highly acclaimed sourcebook examines the public and private lives and legal status of Greek and Roman women. The texts represent women of all social classes, from public figures remembered for their deeds (or misdeeds), to priestesses, poets, and intellectuals, to working women, such as musicians, wet nurses, and ......

  • ISBN-13: 9781421421131 (Paperback)
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
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    AUD $73.99
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  • Local release date: 14/10/2016
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  • Categories: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]
  • Killing for the Republic:

  • Citizen-Soldiers and the Roman Way of War
  • ""For who is so worthless or indolent as not to wish to know by what means and under what system of polity the Romans... succeeded in subjecting nearly the whole inhabited world to their sole government'a thing unique in history?""'Polybius

    The year 146 BC marked the brutal end to the Roman Republic's 118-year struggle for the ......

  • ISBN-13: 9781421429861 (Hardback)
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
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    AUD $90.99
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  • Local release date: 14/12/2019
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  • Broken Cities:

  • A Historical Sociology of Ruins
  • We have been taught to think of ruins as historical artifacts, relegated to the past by a catastrophic event. Instead, Martin Devecka argues in this highly original, engaging, and elegant work, that we should see them as processes taking place over a long present. In Broken Cities, Devecka offers a wide-ranging comparative study of ......

  • ISBN-13: 9781421438429 (Paperback)
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
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    AUD $80.99
  • Stock: 3 in stock
  • Local release date: 04/05/2021
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9781421408040 Add to Cart Academic Inspection Copy
  • Cut These Words into My Stone:

  • Ancient Greek Epitaphs
  • Cut These Words into My Stone offers evidence that ancient Greek life was not only celebrated in great heroic epics, but was also commemorated in hundreds of artfully composed verse epitaphs. They have been preserved in anthologies and gleaned from weathered headstones.Three-year-old Archianax, playing near a well,Was drawn down by his own silent ......
  • ISBN-13: 9781421408040 (Paperback)
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
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    AUD $64.99
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  • Local release date: 16/03/2013
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9781421416861 Add to Cart Academic Inspection Copy
  • Children and Childhood in Classical Athens 2ed

  • First published in 1990, Children and Childhood in Classical Athens was the first book in English to explore the lives of children in ancient Athens. Drawing on literary, artistic, and archaeological sources as well as on comparative studies of family history, Mark Golden offers a vivid portrait of the public and private lives of children from ......
  • ISBN-13: 9781421416861 (Paperback)
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
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    AUD $53.99
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  • Local release date: 14/08/2015
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  • Day Commodus Killed a Rhino:

  • Understanding the Roman Games
  • The Roman emperor Commodus wanted to kill a rhinoceros with a bow and arrow, and he wanted to do it in the Colosseum. Commodus's passion for hunting animals was so fervent that he dreamt of shooting a tiger, an elephant, and a hippopotamus; his prowess was such that people claimed he never missed when hurling his javelin or firing arrows from his ......
  • ISBN-13: 9781421415864 (Paperback)
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
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    AUD $49.99
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  • Local release date: 16/03/2015
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