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Symbols of Jesus
This is a systematic theology focusing on what makes Jesus important in Christianity. It studies six families of symbols about Jesus, showing how...
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Symbols of Jesus
This is a systematic theology focusing on what makes Jesus important in Christianity. It studies six families of symbols about Jesus, showing how...
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Tacitus: Histories Book I
The first historical work by Rome’s greatest historian, Tacitus’ Histories hold a crucial place in the history of Latin literature. Book I covers...
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Tacitus: Histories Book I
The first historical work by Rome’s greatest historian, Tacitus’ Histories hold a crucial place in the history of Latin literature. Book I covers...
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Herodotus: Histories Book IX
Book IX of Herodotus’ Histories provides the conclusion and climax to his work, as the victories at Plataea and Mycale complete the improbable...
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Herodotus: Histories Book IX
Book IX of Herodotus’ Histories provides the conclusion and climax to his work, as the victories at Plataea and Mycale complete the improbable...
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Euripides: Medea
This up-to-date edition makes Euripides’ most famous and influential play accessible to students of Greek reading their first tragedy as well as to...
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Gender and Rhetoric in Plato’s Political Thought
Gender and Rhetoric in Plato’s Thought explores the relation between Plato’s Republic and Laws on the set of issues that the Laws itself marks...
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Writing and the Origins of Greek Literature
Professor Powell ties the origin and nature of archaic Greek literature to the special technology of Greek alphabetic writing. In building his model...
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Antiphon the Sophist
This edition collects all the surviving evidence for the fifth-century BCE Athenian sophist Antiphon and presents it together with a translation and...
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Petronius and the Anatomy of Fiction
Petronius’ Satyricon, long regarded as the first novel of the Western tradition, has always sparked controversy. It has been puzzled over as a...
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The Making of Orthodoxy
This volume of essays honours Henry Chadwick, probably the greatest and best-known of English scholars of early Christianity. The essays, written by...
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Isaiah’s Christ in Matthew’s Gospel
Matthew’s Jesus is typically described as the humble, compassionate messiah. This book argues that this is, however, only half the story....
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Eros and Polis
Eros and Polis examines how and why Greek theorists treated political passions as erotic. Because of the tiny size of ancient Greek cities,...
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Achilles in Greek Tragedy
This study examines how one of the most popular and glamorous figures of Greek mythology was imagined on the tragic stage of fifth-century Athens. Dr...
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Cheap Bibles
The cheap Bibles of nineteenth-century Britain were read in millions of homes, and were also potent symbols of national virtue. In an age of social...
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A Greek Anthology
This book offers an ideal first reader in ancient Greek. It presents a selection of extracts from a comprehensive range of Greek authors, from Homer...
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Before Copyright
When printing first began, a new book automatically fell into the public domain upon publication. Only a special law or privilegium enacted by a...
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The Play of Character in Plato’s Dialogues
This book attempts to bridge the gulf that still exists between literary and philosophical interpreters of Plato by looking at his use of...
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Consciousness and Language
One of the most important and influential philosophers of the last 30 years, John Searle has been concerned throughout his career with a single...
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Pilgrimage
Pilgrimage was a central feature of medieval English life which affected history, politics, art and literature. The shrines were destroyed during the...
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Deontic Morality and Control
This book addresses a dilemma concerning freedom and moral obligation (obligation, right and wrong). If determinism is true, then no one has control...
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Ransom, Revenge, and Heroic Identity in the Iliad
From beginning to end of the Iliad, Agamemnon and Achilleus are locked in a high-stakes struggle for dominance based on their efforts to impose...
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