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Twelve Voices from Greece and Rome: Ancient Ideas for Modern Times

By Maria Wyke

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9780199597369 | Oxford Univ Pr, November 1, 2014, cover price $29.95

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9780198768036 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, December 13, 2016), cover price $25.00

9780345351906, titled "The Tales of the City" | Reissue edition (Ballantine Books, August 1, 1987), cover price $3.50 | also contains The Tales of the City

PaulÂs Letters and Contemporary Greco-Roman Literature: Theorizing a New Taxonomy

Product Description: In this volume, Paul Robertson re-describes the form of the apostle Paul s letters in a manner that facilitates transparent, empirical comparison with texts not typically treated by biblical scholars. Paul s letters are best described by a set of literary characteristics shared by certain Greco-Roman texts, particularly those of Epictetus and Philodemus...read more

By Paul Robertson

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9789004320277, titled "Paulâs Letters and Contemporary Greco-Roman Literature: Theorizing a New Taxonomy" | Brill Academic Pub, July 21, 2016, cover price $149.00 | About this edition: In this volume, Paul Robertson re-describes the form of the apostle Paul s letters in a manner that facilitates transparent, empirical comparison with texts not typically treated by biblical scholars.

Deep Classics: Rethinking Classical Reception

Product Description: Fragmented, buried, and largely lost, the classical past presents formidable obstacles to anyone who would seek to know it. 'Deep Classics' is the study of these obstacles and, in particular, of the way in which the contemplation of the classical past resembles â and has even provided a model for â other kinds of human endeavor...read more

By Shane Butler (editor)

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9781474260527 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, May 5, 2016, cover price $94.00 | About this edition: Fragmented, buried, and largely lost, the classical past presents formidable obstacles to anyone who would seek to know it.

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9781474260510 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, May 5, 2016, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Fragmented, buried, and largely lost, the classical past presents formidable obstacles to anyone who would seek to know it.

Empirical Models Challenging Biblical Criticism

Product Description: p>Cutting edge reflections on biblical text formation Empirical models based on ancient Near Eastern literature and variations between different textual traditions have been used to lend credibility to the identification of the sources behind biblical literature and the different editorial layers...read more

By Robert Rezetko

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9780884141501 | Society of Biblical Literature, May 27, 2016, cover price $71.95 | About this edition: Cutting edge reflections on biblical text formation Empirical models based on ancient Near Eastern literature and variations between different textual traditions have been used to lend credibility to the identification of the sources behind biblical literature and the different editorial layers.

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9781628371321 | Reprint edition (Society of Biblical Literature, August 27, 2016), cover price $51.95 | About this edition: p>Cutting edge reflections on biblical text formation Empirical models based on ancient Near Eastern literature and variations between different textual traditions have been used to lend credibility to the identification of the sources behind biblical literature and the different editorial layers.

Spinning Fates and the Song of the Loom: The Use of Textiles, Clothing and Cloth Production As Metaphor, Symbol and Narrative Device in Greek and Latin Literature

Product Description: Textile imagery is pervasive in classical literature. An awareness of the craft and technology of weaving and spinning, of the production and consumption of clothing items, and of the social and religious significance of garments is key to the appreciation of how textile and cloth metaphors work as literary devices, their suitability to conceptualise human activities and represent cosmic realities, and their potential to evoke symbolic associations and generic expectations...read more

By Giovanni Fanfani (editor), Mary Harlow (editor) and Marie-louise Nosch (editor)

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9781785701603 | Oxbow Books Ltd, April 30, 2016, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Textile imagery is pervasive in classical literature.

The Tales of the City

The eccentric, mysterious, naive, jaded, up-and-coming, down-and-out, adventuresome, and withdrawn boarders in Russian Hill share their dissimilar worlds and worries

By Armistead Maupin

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9780060186692, titled "Tales of the City" | 20 anv edition (Harpercollins, April 1, 1996), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: The eccentric, mysterious, naive, jaded, up-and-coming, down-and-out, adventuresome, and withdrawn boarders in Russian Hill share their dissimilar worlds and worries

9780126323610, titled "Software Solutions in C" | Repl disk edition (Ap Professional, April 1, 1995), cover price $1.95 | also contains Software Solutions in C

9780443038846, titled "Electric Response Audiometry in Clinical Practice" | Churchill Livingstone, January 1, 1991, cover price $45.00 | also contains Electric Response Audiometry in Clinical Practice

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9780062421081, titled "Tales of the City" | Limited edition (Perennial, September 29, 2015), cover price $10.00

9780061358302, titled "Tales of the City" | Perennial, June 1, 2007, cover price $15.99

9780060964047, titled "Tales of the City" | Reprint edition (Perennial, January 1, 1994), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: The eccentric, mysterious, naive, jaded, up-and-coming, down-and-out, adventuresome, and withdrawn boarders in Russian Hill share their dissimilar worlds and worries

9780345351906 | Reissue edition (Ballantine Books, August 1, 1987), cover price $3.50 | also contains Twelve Voices from Greece and Rome: Ancient Ideas for Modern Times

The Art of Veiled Speech: Self-censorship from Aristophanes to Hobbes

Product Description: Throughout Western history, there have been those who felt compelled to share a dissenting opinion on public matters, while still hoping to avoid the social, political, and even criminal consequences for exercising free speech. In this collection of fourteen original essays, editors Han Baltussen and Peter J...read more

By Peter J. Davis (editor)

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9780812247350 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, August 21, 2015, cover price $79.95 | About this edition: Throughout Western history, there have been those who felt compelled to share a dissenting opinion on public matters, while still hoping to avoid the social, political, and even criminal consequences for exercising free speech.

Myth, Literature, and the Creation of the Topography of Thebes

By Daniel W. Berman

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9781107077362 | Cambridge Univ Pr, February 28, 2015, cover price $95.00

Glossae - Scholia - Commentarii: Studies on Commenting Texts in Antiquity and Middle Ages

Product Description: The role of commentary as a basic method of research used broadly in both Classical Antiquity and the Middle Ages still awaits further analysis. Commentary as a research and didactic method becomes especially interesting in a multicultural perspective: were Buddhist and Arabic texts commented in the same way as it was done by late antique and medieval scholars? The extensive medieval commentary literature still awaits scholarly assessment from the perspective of theory of literature as well as methodology and history of various scientific disciplines...read more

By Anna Zajchowska (editor)

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9783631652503 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, December 15, 2014, cover price $58.95 | About this edition: The role of commentary as a basic method of research used broadly in both Classical Antiquity and the Middle Ages still awaits further analysis.

9780415016599, titled "Quality Teaching: A Sample of Cases" | Routledge, March 1, 1992, cover price $62.95 | also contains Quality Teaching: A Sample of Cases | About this edition: Edgar Stones breaks through the sterile debate between theory and practice by focusing on teachers as inquirers trying to solve pedagogical problems and drawing on all the resources - educational and psychological theory, practical teaching experience, knowledge of their subject - at their disposal in order to do so.

Greek Political Imagery from Homer to Aristotle

Product Description: The great helmsman, the watchdog of the people, the medicine the state needs: all these images originated in ancient Greece, yet retain the capacity to influence an audience today. This is the first systematic study of political imagery in ancient Greek literature, history and thought, tracing it from its appearance, influenced by Near Eastern precursors, in Homer and Hesiod, to the end of the classical period and Plato's deployment of images like the helmsman and the doctor in the service of his political philosophy...read more

By Roger Brock

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9781780932064 | Bristol Classical Pr, July 18, 2013, cover price $130.00 | About this edition: The great helmsman, the watchdog of the people, the medicine the state needs: all these images originated in ancient Greece, yet retain the capacity to influence an audience today.

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9781472591661 | Reprint edition (Bloomsbury USA Academic, November 20, 2014), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: The great helmsman, the watchdog of the people, the medicine the state needs: all these images originated in ancient Greece, yet retain the capacity to influence an audience today.

Narratology and Classics: A Practical Guide

By Irene J. F. De Jong

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9780199688692 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 30, 2014, cover price $99.00

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9780199688708 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 30, 2014, cover price $35.00

Classical Literature: A Very Short Introduction

By William Allan

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9780199665457 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 15, 2014, cover price $11.95

Fakes and Forgers of Classical Literature: Ergo Decipiatur!

Product Description: Right from the beginning, classical literature has been embroiled with questions of authenticity, fakes, frauds, and, of course, scandal. Issues of dubious authorship, and contested authority confront philologists, critics and publishers today as surely as they did in the classical era itself...read more

By Javier Martinez (editor)

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9789004266414 | Bilingual edition (Brill Academic Pub, January 16, 2014), cover price $162.00 | About this edition: Right from the beginning, classical literature has been embroiled with questions of authenticity, fakes, frauds, and, of course, scandal.

The Classical Tradition: Art, Literature, Thought

Product Description: The Classical Tradition: Art, Literature, Thought presents an authoritative, coherent and wide-ranging guide to the afterlife of Greco-Roman antiquity in later Western cultures and a ground-breaking reinterpretation of large aspects of Western culture as a whole from a classical perspective...read more

By Rosemary Barrow

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9781405155496 | Blackwell Pub, January 28, 2014, cover price $145.00 | About this edition: The Classical Tradition: Art, Literature, Thought presents an authoritative, coherent and wide-ranging guide to the afterlife of Greco-Roman antiquity in later Western cultures and a ground-breaking reinterpretation of large aspects of Western culture as a whole from a classical perspective.

Latin-into-hebrew: Texts and Studies

By Yossef Schwartz (editor)

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9789004254169 | Brill Academic Pub, December 19, 2013, cover price $345.00

Classical World Literatures: Sino-japanese and Greco-roman Comparisons

Product Description: Ever since Karl Jaspers's "axial age" paradigm, there have been a number of influential studies comparing ancient East Asian and Greco-Roman history and culture. However, to date there has been no comparative study involving multiple literary traditions in these cultural spheres...read more

By Wiebke Denecke

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9780199971848 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 26, 2013, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: Ever since Karl Jaspers's "axial age" paradigm, there have been a number of influential studies comparing ancient East Asian and Greco-Roman history and culture.

Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic

Product Description: This collection of essays explores how epic narratives negotiate, define, and transform genre-specific geographical configurations. A team of international scholars engages in an interdisciplinary discussion about how Greek and Roman epic poetry interacts with the historical and cultural dynamics of geography...read more

By Ioannis Ziogas (editor)

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9783110314731 | Walter De Gruyter Inc, January 30, 2014, cover price $182.00 | About this edition: This collection of essays explores how epic narratives negotiate, define, and transform genre-specific geographical configurations.

Latin-Into-Hebrew: Texts and Studies: Studies

Product Description: This two-volume work, Latin-into-Hebrew: Texts and Studies sheds new light on an under-investigated phenomenon of European medieval intellectual history: the transmission of knowledge and texts from Latin into Hebrew between the twelfth and the fifteenth century...read more

By Resianne Fontaine (editor)

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9789004229310 | Bilingual edition (Brill Academic Pub, August 1, 2013), cover price $209.00 | About this edition: This two-volume work, Latin-into-Hebrew: Texts and Studies sheds new light on an under-investigated phenomenon of European medieval intellectual history: the transmission of knowledge and texts from Latin into Hebrew between the twelfth and the fifteenth century.

Latin-into-hebrew: Texts and Studies: Texts in Contexts

By Alexander Fidora (editor)

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9789004229327 | Brill Academic Pub, August 1, 2013, cover price $222.00 | About this edition: This two-volume work, Latin-into-Hebrew: Texts and Studies sheds new light on an under-investigated phenomenon of European medieval intellectual history: the transmission of knowledge and texts from Latin into Hebrew between the twelfth and the fifteenth century.

Antiquity and the Meanings of Time: A Philosophy of Ancient and Modern Literature

Product Description: Society and contemporary culture seem forever fascinated by the topic of time. In modern fiction, Ian McEwan (The Child in Time) and Martin Amis (Time's Arrow) have led the way in exploring the human condition in relation to past, present and future...read more

By Duncan F. Kennedy

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9781845118150 | Tauris Academic Studies, July 25, 2013, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: Society and contemporary culture seem forever fascinated by the topic of time.

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9781845118167 | Tauris Academic Studies, July 25, 2013, cover price $29.00 | About this edition: Society and contemporary culture seem forever fascinated by the topic of time.

Classical Authors: 500 Bce to 1100 Ce

Product Description: Since ancient times, storytelling has been a valued art form that enables traditions, beliefs, and lessons to be transmitted from one generation to the next. Epics such as Homers Odyssey and Virgils Aeneid and tales such as those contained in the collected The Thousand and One Nights offer modern-day readers a glimpse into various countries and cultures, as well as different eras...read more

By Kathleen Kuiper (editor)

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9781615309979 | Britannica Educational Pub, July 15, 2013, cover price $53.00 | About this edition: Since ancient times, storytelling has been a valued art form that enables traditions, beliefs, and lessons to be transmitted from one generation to the next.

Ope Ingenii: Experiences of Textual Criticism

By Gian Biagio Conte

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9783110312720 | Walter De Gruyter Inc, November 30, 2013, cover price $98.00

The Ancient Novel and Early Christian and Jewish Narrative: Fictional Intersections

Product Description: This innovative collection explores the vital role played by fictional narratives in Christian and Jewish self-fashioning in the early Roman imperial period. Employing a diversity of approaches, including cultural studies, feminist, philological, and narratological, expert scholars from six countries offer twelve essays on Christian fictions or fictionalized texts and one essay on Aseneth...read more

By Richard Pervo (editor)

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9789491431210 | David Brown Book Co, August 31, 2013, cover price $101.00 | About this edition: This innovative collection explores the vital role played by fictional narratives in Christian and Jewish self-fashioning in the early Roman imperial period.

Aesthetic Value in Classical Antiquity

By Ralph M. Rosen (editor)

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9789004231672 | Brill Academic Pub, October 1, 2012, cover price $221.00

The Ears of Hermes: Communication, Images, and Identity in the Classical World

Product Description: Though in many respects similar to us moderns, the Greeks and Romans often conceived things differently than we do. The cultural inheritance we have received from them can therefore open our eyes to many âmanners of lifeâ we might otherwise overlook...read more

By Maurizio Bettini

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9780814211700 | Ohio State Univ Pr, November 20, 2011, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: Though in many respects similar to us moderns, the Greeks and Romans often conceived things differently than we do.

9780814292716 | Cdr edition (Ohio State Univ Pr, November 20, 2011), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Though in many respects similar to us moderns, the Greeks and Romans often conceived things differently than we do.

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