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The Frame in Classical Art: A Cultural History

Verity Platt, Michael Squire - Art - 2017 - 737 pages
This book reveals how 'marginal' aspects of Graeco-Roman art play a fundamental role in shaping and interrogating ancient and modern visual culture.
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Bodies and Boundaries in Graeco-Roman Antiquity

Thorsten Fögen, Mireille M. Lee - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 326 pages
In the Graeco-Roman world, the cosmic order was enacted, in part, through bodies. The evaluative divisions between, for example, women and men, humans and animals, “barbarians ...
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Rome and the Greek East to the Death of Augustus

Robert K. Sherk - History - 1984 - 204 pages
A collection in English translation of sources for the study of Greek and Roman history.
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Famine and Food Supply in the Graeco-Roman World: Responses to Risk and Crisis

Peter Garnsey - Business & Economics - 1988 - 328 pages
Detailed case studies of Athens and Rome, the best known states of antiquity, reveal the effects of the breakdown of the food supply systems and response to the crisis by the ...
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The Sleep of Reason: Erotic Experience and Sexual Ethics in Ancient Greece ...

Martha C. Nussbaum, Juha Sihvola - History - 2002 - 480 pages
Sex is beyond reason, and yet we constantly reason about it. So, too, did the peoples of ancient Greece and Rome. This work looks at how erotic experience is understood in ...
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Rome, the Greek World, and the East, Volume 1

Fergus Millar - History - 2002 - 420 pages
Rome, the Greek World, and the East: Volume 1: The Roman Republic and the Augustan Revolution
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The Private Orations of Themistius

Themistius - Fiction - 2000 - 284 pages
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