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Classical Diaspora eBook Series

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  • The Classics and South African Identities

    by Michael Lambert ...
    Series series Classical Diaspora
    The teaching and research of the Classics in South Africa are deeply rooted in the racial, political and educational inequalities which have characterised its turbulent history. In this original study, Michael Lambert opens three windows on to this history, using the creation of identities as his theoretical lens.The foundation of the Classical Association of South Africa in 1956 and the cultural ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

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  • Passport through Darkness

    A True Story of Danger and Second Chances

    by Kimberly L. Smith ...
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  • Classics: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Mary Beard, John Henderson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    This Very Short Introduction to Classics links a haunting temple on a lonely mountainside to the glory of ancient Greece and the grandeur of Rome, and to Classics within modern culture-from Jefferson and Byron to Asterix and Ben-Hur.We are all Classicists - we come into touch with the Classics daily: in our culture, politics, medicine, architecture, language, and literature. What are the true ... Read more

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  • Livingstone's African Expedition of 1858-1864, Illustrated

    by A H Guernsey ...
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  • Into the Heart of the Whore

    The Story of Apartheid's Death Squads

    by Jacques Pauw ...
    The ongoing assassinations of anti-apartheid activists led to rumours that some kind of third force must be responsible. The South African government flatly denied any involvement. All investigations of the matter were met with stony silence.The first crack in the wall came with the publication by the Vrye Weekblad newspaper of the extraordinary story of Dirk Coetzee, former Security Branch ... Read more

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  • Creating the Creole Island

    Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Mauritius

    by Megan Vaughan ...
    The island of Mauritius lies in the middle of the Indian Ocean, about 550 miles east of Madagascar. Uninhabited until the arrival of colonists in the late sixteenth century, Mauritius was subsequently populated by many different peoples as successive waves of colonizers and slaves arrived at its shores. The French ruled the island from the early eighteenth century until the early nineteenth. ... Read more

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  • OCR Anthology for Classical Greek AS and A Level

    The OCR-endorsed publication from Bloomsbury for the Greek AS and A-Level set text prescriptions for examination in 2017-2019, giving full Greek text, commentary and vocabulary and a detailed introduction for each text that also covers the prescription to be read in English for A Level. The texts covered are:ASThucydides, Histories, Book IV: 11–14, 21–23, 26–28Plato, Apology, 18a7 to 24b2Homer, ... Read more

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  • Ancient Philosophical Poetics

    by Malcolm Heath ...
    Series series Key Themes in Ancient Philosophy
    What is poetry? Why do human beings produce and consume it? What effects does it have on them? Can it give them insight into truth, or is it dangerously misleading? This book is a wide-ranging study of the very varied answers which ancient philosophers gave to such questions. An extended discussion of Plato's Republic shows how the two discussions of poetry are integrated with each other and with ... Read more

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  • Berenice II Euergetis

    Essays in Early Hellenistic Queenship

    by Branko van Oppen de Ruiter ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Berenice II Euergetis (267/6-221 BCE), the daughter of King Magas of Cyrene (Libya) and wife of King Ptolemy III of Egypt, was queen at an important juncture in Hellenistic history. This collection of four essays focuses on aspects of chronology, genealogy and marital practices, royal ideology and queenship. ... Read more

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  • Africa in the World

    Capitalism, Empire, Nation-State

    by Frederick Cooper ...
    At the Second World War’s end, it was clear that business as usual in colonized Africa would not resume. W. E. B. Du Bois’s The World and Africa, published in 1946, recognized the depth of the crisis that the war had brought to Europe, and hence to Europe’s domination over much of the globe. Du Bois believed that Africa’s past provided lessons for its future, for international statecraft, and for ... Read more

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  • Roman Literary Culture

    From Plautus to Macrobius

    by Elaine Fantham ...
    Series series Ancient Society and History
    This new edition broadens the scope of Fantham’s study of literary production and its reception in Rome.Scholars of ancient literature have often focused on the works and lives of major authors rather than on such questions as how these works were produced and who read them. In Roman Literary Culture, Elaine Fantham fills that void by examining the changing social and historical context of ... Read more

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