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Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-10-22 - Publisher: BRILL

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This volume explores the significance of the physical materials and contexts of inscribed texts in Greek and Roman antiquity and their performative roles in anc
Archaic and Classical Greek Epigram
Language: en
Pages: 455
Authors: Manuel Baumbach
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-12-02 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This book explores dialogue between Archaic and Classical Greek epigrams and their readers, and argues for their often-unacknowledged literary and aesthetic ach
Monumentality and the Roman Empire
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Pages: 405
Authors: Edmund Thomas
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-11-15 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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'Monumentality and the Roman Age' presents a study of the concept of monumentality in classical antiquity, asks what it is that the notion encompasses and how s
A Companion to Ancient Epigram
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-02-12 - Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

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A delightful look at the epic literary history of the short, poetic genre of the epigram From Nestor’s inscribed cup to tombstones, bathroom walls, and Twitte
Sacred Thresholds: The Door to the Sanctuary in Late Antiquity
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Sacred Thresholds. The Door to the Sanctuary in Late Antiquity offers a far-reaching account of boundaries within pagan and Christian sanctuaries: gateways in a