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Satires of Rome
This new survey of Roman satire locates its most salient possibilities and effects at the center of every Roman reader’s cultural and political...
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Mood and Modality
Since the publication of F. R. Palmer’s first edition of Mood and Modality in 1986, when the topic of ‘modality’ was fairly unfamiliar, there...
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Uneasy Virtue
The predominant view of moral virtue can be traced back to Aristotle. He believed that moral virtue must involve intellectual excellence. To have...
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Satires of Rome
This new survey of Roman satire locates its most salient possibilities and effects at the center of every Roman reader’s cultural and political...
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Biolinguistics
This book investigates the nature of human language and its importance for the study of the mind. In particular, it examines current work on the...
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Practical Rules
Rules proliferate; some are kept with a bureaucratic stringency bordering on the absurd, while others are manipulated and ignored in ways that injure...
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Using Italian Synonyms
This is an essential reference for intermediate and advanced students of Italian as well as teachers and other professional linguists seeking access...
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Breakdown of Will
Ainslie argues that our responses to the threat of our own inconsistency determine the basic fabric of human culture. He suggests that individuals...
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Catullus and the Poetics of Roman Manhood
This book applies comparative cultural and literary models to a reading of Catullus’ poems as social performances of a poetics of manhood: a...
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Using Italian Synonyms
This is an essential reference for intermediate and advanced students of Italian as well as teachers and other professional linguists seeking access...
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Scientific Essentialism
Scientific Essentialism defends the view that the fundamental laws of nature depend on the essential properties of the things on which they are said...
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The Syntax of Early English
This book is a guide to the development of English syntax between the Old and Modern periods. Beginning with an overview of the main features of...
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Living without Free Will
Most people assume that, even though some degenerative or criminal behavior may be caused by influences beyond our control, ordinary human actions...
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Tacitus: Dialogus de oratoribus
Tacitus’ Dialogus de Oratoribus is his most neglected work - there has not been an English-language commentary in over a century - and yet it is...
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Ontology, Identity, and Modality
This book gathers together thirteen of Peter van Inwagen’s essays on metaphysics, several of which have acquired the status of modern classics in...
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Ontology, Identity, and Modality
This book gathers together thirteen of Peter van Inwagen’s essays on metaphysics, several of which have acquired the status of modern classics in...
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Ancient Epistolary Fictions
The first comprehensive look at fictive letters in Greek literature from Homer to Philostratus. It includes both embedded epistolary narratives in a...
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The Syntax of Early English
This book is a guide to the development of English syntax between the Old and Modern periods. Beginning with an overview of the main features of...
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Virgil and the Augustan Reception
This book is an examination of the ideological reception of Virgil at specific moments in the last two millennia. The author focuses on the emperor...
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Latin Language and Latin Culture
The Latin language is popularly imagined in a number of specific ways: as a masculine language, an imperial language, a classical language, a dead...
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The Parthenon Frieze
The Parthenon frieze, one of Western civilization’s major monuments, has been the subject of intense study for over two hundred years. Most...
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The Cambridge Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald
Eleven specially-commissioned essays by major Fitzgerald scholars present a clearly written and comprehensive assessment of F. Scott Fitzgerald as a...
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Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil
Beyond Good and Evil is one of the most scathing and powerful critiques of philosophy, religion, science, politics and ethics ever written. In it,...
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The Cambridge Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald
Eleven specially-commissioned essays by major Fitzgerald scholars present a clearly written and comprehensive assessment of F. Scott Fitzgerald as a...
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