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A Commentary on Thucydides: Volume I: Books I - III by Simon Hornblower
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Art and Myth in Ancient Greece
Thomas H. Carpenter - 1991
With its copious illustrations, it forms an indispensable and unrivaled reference work for everybody interested in art, drama, poetry, anthropology or religion.There is no surviving account in ancient Greek literature of of stories as important as the fall of Troy or Theseus and the Minotaur. It is to visual sources that we have to turn for much of our knowledge of the myths. Vase paintings, engraved gems and sculpture in bronze and and stone often pre-date reference to the myths in literature or offer alternative versions to the familiar accounts; always they throw light on the way the Greeks understood the stories of gods and heroes.
Late Antiquity: Crisis and Transformation
Thomas F.X. Noble - 2008
You also study what it was like to live in the late antique world: How did people earn their livings?What was the role of women in society? What distinguished the great cities of the era?Nothing in Rome's previous experience compared with the ferment of late antiquity, which saw the unpredictable growth of new institutions, states, religions, and arts. After taking this course you will never think of the barbarians and the "fall" of Rome in quite the same way again. Your imagination will be alive with the incidents, innovations, and peoples of an exciting era that gave birth to us all: late antiquity.
Scribes and Scholars: A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature
L.D. Reynolds - 1974
A note on how to interpret the information given in an apparatus criticus is also included.