Zbirka: Antična zgodovina / antične civilizacije
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Latin inscriptions(2016) BOOMS, DIRKIllustrated with the best examples of inscriptions from the British Museum's Roman collection, this book explores the meaning of putting up public inscriptions and the standardised system of abbreviation that was used to ensure Romans from all areas of thVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Music and Memory in the Ancient Greek and Roman Worlds(2021)Explores the deep connection between music and memory in Graeco-Roman culture, and how this connection was understood and experienced by ancient authors, artists, performers, and audiences. Reveals how musical memory formed a fundamental part of social, cVezava: Trda136,50 € -
Afterlives of the Roman Poets(2019) GOLDSCHMIDT, NORA (UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM)Brings innovations in modern life-writing studies to Roman poetry and its reception. While its core fields are Latin poetry and reception studies, this interdisciplinary book will interest all those working on life-writing. Individual chapters focus on toVezava: Trda176,72 € -
Tears of Re(2015) KRITSKY, GENEEntomologist Gene Kritsky presents the first full-length discussion of the ways in which bees were a part of life in ancient Egypt. From the presence of bees in paintings and hieroglyphs in tombs to the use of beeswax in a variety of products, bees had aVezava: Trda63,66 € -
Euripides' Medea(2022) EWANS, MICHAELThis book offers a new, accurate and actable translation of one of Euripides’ most popular plays, together with a commentary which provides insight into the challenges it sets for production and suggestions for how to solve them.Vezava: Mehka30,40 € -
Battling the Gods(2017) WHITMARSH, TIMHow new is atheism?Long before the Enlightenment sowed seeds of disbelief in a deeply Christian Europe, atheism was a matter of serious public debate in the Greek world.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Antigone and other Tragedies(2021) SOPHOCLESThese original and distinctive verse translations convey the vitality of Sophocles' poetry and the vigour of the plays in performance, doing justice to both the sound of the poetry and the theatricality of the tragedies.Vezava: Mehka7,00 € -
Socrates(2019) TAYLOR, C.C.W. (EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY, OXFORD UNIVERSITY AND EMERITUS FELLOW OF CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE)Christopher Taylor introduces the life and philosophy of Socrates, whose work has played a central role in shaping Western philosophical thinking for centuries. Examining what we can deduce about Socrates from the writings of his contemporaries (as he himVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Alaric the Goth(2020) BOIN, DOUGLAS (SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY)The first biography of Alaric to appear in English tells the history of the fourth-and fifth-century Roman Empire through the life of the Goth who attacked it.Vezava: Trda33,75 € -
Dragon in the West(2021) OGDEN, DANIEL (PROFESSOR OF ANCIENT HISTORY, PROFESSOR OF ANCIENT HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF EXETER)The Dragon in the West is the first book to offer an in-depth examination of the history of the image and idea of the dragon. A creature popular in contemporary fiction and cinema, Ogden reveals how the dragon was known to the ancient Greek and Roman worlVezava: Trda76,97 € -
Falls of Rome(2021) SALZMAN, MICHELE RENEE (UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDE)This book is essential reading for understanding what happened to Rome at the end of antiquity. By focusing on the actions of senatorial aristocrats, I explore the restoration of the city of Rome and the slow growth of the influence of the papacy at theVezava: Trda68,43 € -
Icons of Sound(2022)Icons of Sound: Voice, Architecture and Imagination in Medieval Art brings together art history and sound studies to offer new perspectives on medieval churches and cathedrals as spaces where the perception of the visual is inherently shaped by sound.Vezava: Mehka75,24 € -
Homer: Iliad Book XVIII(2019) HOMERBook 18 of the Iliad is an outstanding example of the range and power of Homeric epic. This edition provides an introduction, text and commentary suitable for intermediate and advanced students of Greek. It includes grammatical and other aid to translatioVezava: Mehka53,22 € -
Orations, Volume II(2021) ARISTIDES THEODORUS, PUBLIUS AELIUSAelius Aristides (117–after 180), among the most versatile authors of the Second Sophistic and an important figure in the transmission of Hellenism, produced speeches and lectures, declamations on historical themes, polemical works, prose hymns, and essayVezava: Trda50,39 € -
Menander Rhetor. Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Ars Rhetorica(2019) RHETOR, MENANDER,DIONYSIUS OF HALICARNASSUSThe instructional treatises of Menander Rhetor and the Ars Rhetorica, deriving from the schools of rhetoric that flourished in the Greek East from the 2nd through 4th centuries AD, provide a window into the literary culture, educational practices, and socVezava: Trda44,47 € -
Roman Britain(2015) SALWAY, PETER (QUONDAM FELLOW, ALL SOULS COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, AND EMERITUS FELLOW OF THE OPEN UNIVERSITY)For centuries Britain was an integral part of the Roman Empire. In this Very Short Introduction, Peter Salway weaves together the latest archaeological investigations and historical scholarship to chart life in Roman Britain from the first Roman invasionVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Alexander the Great(2014) BOWDEN, HUGH (SENIOR LECTURER IN ANCIENT HISTORY AT KING'S COLLEGE LONDON)In 336 BC Alexander the Great became king of Macedon. During his twelve-year reign he conquered the Achaemenid Persian Empire, the largest to have yet existed, and in the process had a profound effect on the world he moved through. In this examination ofVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Generation. Nature of the Child. Diseases 4. Nature of Women. Barrenness(2012) HIPPOCRATESThis volume, the tenth of Hippocrates’ invaluable texts on the practice of medicine in antiquity, provides essential information about human reproduction and reproductive disorders and expounds a general theory of physiology and pathology, in five Greek tVezava: Trda44,47 €
