Cicero and the Early Latin Poets, Čulнk-Baird Hannah
Автор: Gador-Whyte Sarah Название: Theology and Poetry in Early Byzantium ISBN: 1316505618 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781316505618 Издательство: Cambridge University Press Рейтинг: Цена: 6758.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Romanos` lively and dramatic hymns are a highlight of Byzantine literary invention. This book examines the rhetorical embodiment of theological themes in these kontakia. Through rhetorical techniques like dialogue, metaphor and vivid description, biblical stories and theological concepts are performed, adapted and vivified.
Автор: Decook Travis Название: The Origins of the Bible and Early Modern Political Thought ISBN: 1108830811 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108830812 Издательство: Cambridge University Press Рейтинг: Цена: 21300.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book explores the cultural functions played in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries by accounts of the Bible`s origins. It investigates how these accounts were taken up beyond the expected boundaries of biblical study, and deployed as the theological basis for arguments about the proper ordering of human life.
Описание: A revisionary re-examination of Augustan `propaganda` as the product of dynamic, critical interactions among Roman audiences, artists, and poets from Vergil to Ovid. It sheds new light on the meaning and perception of political iconography for scholars and students of this pivotal period in Roman history, literature, and culture.
Автор: Bassino Paola, Canevaro Lilah Grace, Graziosi Barbara Название: Conflict and Consensus in Early Greek Hexameter Poetry ISBN: 1316625982 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781316625989 Издательство: Cambridge University Press Рейтинг: Цена: 8794.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A fresh and wide-ranging exploration of the themes of conflict and consensus across the early Greek hexameter tradition in all of its variety. The book focuses to an unprecedented extent on issues of poetics and metapoetics, thus offering new insights into the processes of reception and canonisation of Greek epic.
Описание: This book explores how different forms of reasoning and of divine disclosure played equally integral and harmonious roles in the emergence of systematic epistemology in archaic Greece, and particularly in Hesiod, Xenophanes and Parmenides. Provides a fresh perspective on long-standing questions of rationality and irrationality, philosophy and religion.
Описание: This book explains how and why some national mandates for participatory policymaking develop into powerful institutions for citizen engagement. It argues that participatory institution building can happen when new participatory institutions originate in sweeping policy reforms that attract the support of powerful stakeholders who normally would not support participatory policymaking.
Автор: Armstrong Jeremy Название: War and Society in Early Rome: From Warlords to Generals ISBN: 1107474558 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107474550 Издательство: Cambridge University Press Рейтинг: Цена: 8794.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Combines the rich, but problematic, literary tradition for early Rome with the ever-growing archaeological record to present a new interpretation of early Roman warfare and how it related to the city`s various social, political, religious, and economic institutions.
Описание: A dedicated study of how classical Latin erotic elegy was read in the Renaissance and helped shape the emergence of English love poetry. This book will be of interest to scholars of early modern literature and classical literature, in particular love, gender, sex and the body.
Автор: Renfrew Colin, Morley Iain, Boyd Michael Название: Ritual, Play and Belief, in Evolution and Early Human Societies ISBN: 1316507807 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781316507803 Издательство: Cambridge University Press Рейтинг: Цена: 9771.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The origins of religion and ritual in humans hold a longstanding fascination, and have been the focus of centuries of thought in archaeology, anthropology, theology, evolutionary psychology and more. Here ritual and the development of human societies are related to the critical human and animal legacy of play and performance.
Описание: This in-depth and accessible analysis of the rhetoric of dissidents, outsiders and truth-tellers challenges preconceptions about free speech and political criticism in the early Middle Ages, revealing that there was room for political dissent in this period, as long as critics employed the right rhetoric and adhered to scripted roles.
Описание: Focusing on eight writers and artists, this book examines the centrality of the countryside to women`s work, creativity, and aspirations. The authors tell these women`s stories through their art and literature and in the context of the history and culture of gardens, constructed landscapes, and the countryside.
Автор: Kelly Adrian, Metcalf Christopher Название: Gods and Mortals in Early Greek and Near Eastern Mythology ISBN: 1108480241 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108480246 Издательство: Cambridge University Press Рейтинг: Цена: 24818.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Addresses one of the most important current questions in the study of antiquity - the contribution of the Near East to the mythology of Ancient Greece. Leading specialists from both fields come together to consider both shared and unique stories about gods and their relationships with humankind.
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