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Space and Society in the Greek and Roman Worlds
We cannot properly understand history without a full appreciation of the spaces through which its actors moved, whether in the home or in the public sphere, and the ways in which …
Modern Greek Folklore and Ancient Greek Religion
Greek Historians
The Greeks invented history as a literary genre in the fifth century B.C. The first historians owed much to Homer and adopted his vivid and direct style in narrating historical …
The Pronunciation Of Greek And Latin Proper Names In English (1905)
Greek Theatre and Festivals
A collection of essays, by leading international scholars, on the history of the Greek theatre, and on the wider context of festival culture in which theatrical activity took place …
Menander: Samia (The Woman from Samos)
For eight centuries after his death Menander was the third most popular poet in the Greek-speaking world, and his plays, through Roman imitations and adaptations, engendered a …
Fearmongering in Greek and Roman Literature and Beyond
This volume provides, for the first time, a focused study of scare tactics and fearmongering in a broad range of Greek and Roman authors and genres, showing how alarmist tactics …
The Serious Student's Guide to Vocabulary Building: An Analysis of Greek and Latin Etyma for English Words
The Serious Student's Guide to Western Culture (c) is an extraordinary series of reference works designed for students and readers at any level who want to learn more about the …
The Story of the Greek King and the Physician Douban
When a wandering physician named Douban cures a Greek king of his leprosy, he inspires murderous jealousy in the king’s vizir, leading the king to tell a cautionary tale of his …
An Attempt Toward Revising our English Translation of the Greek Scriptures, ... and Toward Illustrating the Sense by Philological and Explanatory Notes. In two Volumes. ... By William Newcome, ... of 2; Volume 2
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its …
Brown-Eyed Stranger, Greek Holidays, Lemons and Oranges