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Latin for the Illiterati, Second Edition

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Jon R Stone

Published 06/23/2009

This revised and updated edition includes a brand new foreword by Richard LaFleur and more than fifteen hundred new entries and abbreviations. Organized alphabetically within the...

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The Roman Garden

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Katharine T von Stackelberg

Published 06/19/2009

This innovative book is the first comprehensive study of ancient Roman gardens to combine literary and archaeological evidence with contemporary space theory. It applies a...

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Series Name: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies 

The Routledge Introduction to Literary Ottoman

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Korkut Bugday

Published 04/22/2009

This represents the first modern introduction to literary Ottoman available in English. The author has devised this textbook to provide a course of lessons, readings...

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Athena

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Susan Deacy

Published 02/11/2008

In this definitive assessment of the various representations and approaches to Athena, Susan Deacy does what no other has done before and brings all the...

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Series Name: Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World 

Empedocles Redivivus

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Myrto Garani

Published 12/07/2007

Despite the general scholarly consensus about Lucretius’ debt to Empedocles as the father of the genre of cosmological didactic epic, there is a major disagreement...

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Series Name: Studies in Classics 

Oedipus

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Lowell Edmunds

Published 10/17/2006

An indispensable guide to the myth of Oedipus this book is the first to analyze its long and varied history from ancient times to the...

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Series Name: Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World 

Medea

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Emma Griffiths

Published 12/12/2005

Giving access to the latest critical thinking on the subject, Medea is a comprehensive guide to sources that paints a vivid portrait of the Greek...

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Series Name: Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World 

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