| Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 405 pages) : illustrations |
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Gale eBooks
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| Note |
"A Manly, Inc. Book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Classical studies - Black Athena -- Classical studies - German philological tradition -- Classical studies - Homosexuality -- Classical studies - The Marxist approach -- Classical studies - Modern critical theory -- Classical studies - Translation -- Greece - Aeschylus -- Greece - Aicibiades -- Greece - Aristophanes -- Greece - Aristotle versus Plato -- Greece - Demosthenes -- Greece - Elgin Marbles -- Greece - Euripedes -- Greece - Herodotus -- Greece - Hesoid -- Greece - Homer -- Greece - Library at Alexandria -- Greece - Literacy -- Greece - Plato as an Aristocat -- Greece - Sappho -- Greece - Sophists -- Greece - Sports -- Roman period -- The Aeneid -- Roman period - Cato -- Roman period - Christian Neoplatonism -- Roman period - Cicero versus Caesar -- Roman period - Donatist controversy -- Roman period - Elegists -- Roman period - Fall of the republic -- Roman period - Gladiatorial contests -- Roman period - Ovid -- Roman period - Ovid vesus Virgil -- Roman period - Pausanias -- Roman period - Plutarch -- Roman period - Tiberius Gracchus. |
| Summary |
Addresses heavily debated questions by offering different critical perspectives on major historical events, drawn from all time periods and from all parts of the globe. This volume covers classical antiquity and classical studies. Provides students with an enhanced understanding of events only summarized in history texts, helps stimulate critical thinking and provides ideas for papers and assignments. |
| Subject |
Civilization, Classical.
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History, Ancient.
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Classical literature.
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Classical philology.
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Classical antiquities.
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Greece -- Politics and government -- To 146 B.C.
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Greece -- Politics and government -- 146 B.C.-323 A.D.
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Rome -- Politics and government -- 30 B.C.-476 A.D.
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| Added Author |
Miller, Paul Allen, 1959- editor.
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Platter, Charles, 1957- editor.
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Gale Group.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: History in dispute, Volume 20. Detroit, Mich. : Gale, c2005 9781558624962 |
| ISBN |
9781558627246 (electronic book) |
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1558627243 (electronic book) |
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9781558624962 |
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1558624961 |
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