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  • Roman Tombs and the Art of Commemoration

    Contextual Approaches to Funerary Customs in the Second Century CE

    by Barbara E. Borg ...
    The history of funerary customs in Rome contains many unanswered questions and controversial debates, especially concerning the significant developments of the second century CE. In this book, distinguished historian Barbara E. Borg employs the full range of material and written evidence to explore four key questions that change our view of Roman society and its values. For the first time, ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • A Companion to Roman Art

    Edited by Barbara E. Borg ...
    Series series Wiley Companions to the Ancient World
    A Companion to Roman Art encompasses various artistic genres, ancient contexts, and modern approaches for a comprehensive guide to Roman art.Offers comprehensive and original essays on the study of Roman artContributions from distinguished scholars with unrivalled expertise covering a broad range of international approachesFocuses on the socio-historical aspects of Roman art, covering several ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

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    Alexander the Great was a king of the Greek kingdom of Macedon. Born in Pella in 356 BC, Alexander succeeded his father, Philip II, to the throne at the age of twenty. He spent most of his ruling years on an unprecedented military campaign through Asia and northeast Africa, until by the age of thirty he had created one of the largest empires of the ancient world, stretching from Greece to Egypt ... Read more

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  • Poetics

    by Aristotle ...
    Translated by Anthony Kenny ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'What is poetry, how many kinds of it are there, and what are their specific effects?' Aristotle's Poetics is the most influential book on poetry ever written. A founding text of European aesthetics and literary criticism, from it stems much of our modern understanding of the creation and impact of imaginative writing, including poetry, drama, and fiction. For Aristotle, the art of representation ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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  • When Sundiata Keita Built the Mali Empire - Ancient History Illustrated Grade 4 | Children's Ancient History

    by Baby Professor ...
    Did you know that learning about ancient history brings a lot of benefits? It helps your fourth grader understand the past to appreciate the present and determine the future. Tracing his/her roots will help in boosting self-confidence and that unmistakable feeling of completeness. What will your child feel after reading this ancient history book? Find out soon! ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • The Performance of Self

    Ritual, Clothing, and Identity During the Hundred Years War

    by Susan Crane ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    Medieval courtiers defined themselves in ceremonies and rituals. Tournaments, Maying, interludes, charivaris, and masking invited the English and French nobility to assert their identities in gesture and costume as well as in speech. These events presumed that performance makes a self, in contrast to the modern belief that identity precedes social performance and, indeed, that performance ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Terence: Hecyra

    by Terence ...
    Series series Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
    Terence's Hecyra raises social, literary and theatrical issues of great interest to modern students of Roman comedy and, indeed, of Roman culture more broadly. The play pays strikingly close attention to the domestic problems of women and experiments boldly with traditional comic forms, not only in its creation of anticipatory suspense, but through its variations on traditional situations and ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Roman Social Imaginaries

    Language and Thought in the Context of Empire

    by Clifford Ando ...
    In an expansion of his 2012 Robson Classical Lectures, Clifford Ando examines the connection between the nature of the Latin language and Roman thinking about law, society, and empire. Drawing on innovative work in cognitive linguistics and anthropology, Roman Social Imaginaries considers how metaphor, metonymy, analogy, and ideation helped create the structures of thought that shaped the Roman ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

  • Passionate Playgoing in Early Modern England

    by Allison P. Hobgood ...
    Allison P. Hobgood tells a new story about the emotional experiences of theatregoers in Renaissance England. Through detailed case studies of canonical plays by Shakespeare, Jonson, Kyd and Heywood, the reader will discover what it felt like to be part of performances in English theatre and appreciate the key role theatregoers played in the life of early modern drama. How were spectators moved - ... Read more

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  • The Barbarian North in Medieval Imagination

    Ethnicity, Legend, and Literature

    by Robert Rix ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture
    This bookexamines the sustained interest in legends of the pagan and peripheral North, tracing and analyzing the use of an ‘out-of-Scandinavia’ legend (Scandinavia as an ancestral homeland) in a wide range of medieval texts from all over Europe, with a focus on the Anglo-Saxon tradition. The pagan North was an imaginative region, which attracted a number of conflicting interpretations. To ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • Middle English Literature

    Edited by Charles W. Dunn ...
    For the first time available in paperback, this classic anthology provides readers with important literary works composed during the Middle English period (1100-1500) in England, Scotland, and Ireland. The editors provide glosses for all unfamiliar words and obscure phrases and every selection refers to at least one definitive edition where details of recent scholarship can be found. Modern ... Read more

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  • Nobles and Knights of the Middle Ages-Children's Medieval History Books

    by Baby Professor ...
    In the middle ages, there were nobles and knights who performed special roles in society. Open this book to read about what they do and why they do such functions. A glimpse into the past would provide you with facts to model the modern way of living. So what are you waiting for? Get a copy and read this book today! ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD