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  • Sulpicia

    Life, Love, and Literature in Ancient Rome

    by Alison Keith ...
    Series series Women in Antiquity
    This is the first full-length biography of Sulpicia, the earliest extant female author of classical Latin poetry. Unmentioned by her contemporaries, Sulpicia belonged to the pinnacle of the Roman aristocracy and wrote openly about her life and love affair in the same literary forms as Ovid, Propertius, and Tibullus. This study investigates Sulpicia's family background, the societal expectations ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Virgil

    by Alison Keith ...
    Series series Understanding Classics
    The works of Virgil (70–19 BCE) define the 'golden age' of Latin poetry and have inspired a long tradition of interpretation and adaptation that starts in his own time and extends to important modern authors. His ascent from the lesser genre of pastoral (the Bucolics) through a more ambitious didactic mode (the Georgics) to the soaring heights of epic (the incomparable Aeneid) shaped the canonical ... Read more

    $26.49 USD

  • Ariana's Fall From Grace

    by Virginia Alison, Keith David ...
    Over the past years, the screams, echoing from within the old house, varied from ecstasy to desperation. Apart from the wildlife, the cries fell on deaf ears; the Mistress liked it this way. Surrounded by acres, including woodland and wide-open stretches of pasture, Mondesto Manor suited her sordid and relatively solitary Machiavellian life style perfectly. Employing only a few staff, her main ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Maternal Conceptions in Classical Literature and Philosophy

    by Alison Sharrock, Alison Keith ...
    Series Book 57 - Phoenix Supplementary Volumes
    Unlike many studies of the family in the ancient world, this volume presents readings of mothers in classical literature, including philosophical and epigraphic writing as well as poetic texts. Rather than relying on a male viewpoint, the essays offer a female perspective on the lifecycle of motherhood.Although almost all ancient authors are men, this book nevertheless aims to carefully unpack the ... Read more

    $59.79 USD

  • Ariana's Fall From Grace

    by Virginia Alison, Keith David ...
    Over the past years, the screams, echoing from within the old house, varied from ecstasy to desperation. Apart from the wildlife, the cries fell on deaf ears; the Mistress liked it this way. Surrounded by acres, including woodland and wide-open stretches of pasture, Mondesto Manor suited her sordid and relatively solitary Machiavellian life style perfectly. Employing only a few staff, her main ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tree of strings

    Crann nan teud: a history of the harp in Scotland

    by Keith Sanger, Alison Kinnaird ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Folk Music
    This is the first history of the harp in Scotland to be published. It sets out to trace the development of the instrument from its earliest appearance on the Pictish stones of the 8th century, to the present day. Describing the different harps played in the Highlands and the Lowlands of Scotland, the authors examine the literary and physical evidence for their use within the Royal Courts and "big ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture

    Edited by Jonathan Edmondson, Alison Keith ...
    Series Book 46 - Phoenix Supplementary Volumes
    Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture investigates the social symbolism and cultural poetics of dress in the ancient Roman world in the period from 200 BCE-400 CE. Editors Jonathan Edmondson and Alison Keith and the contributors to this volume explore the diffusion of Roman dress protocols at Rome and in the Roman imperial context by looking at Rome's North African provinces in particular, ... Read more

    $37.49 USD

  • Fly Without Fear

    by Alison Smith, Keith Godfrey ...
    Do you have a deep-rooted fear of flying, or would you simply like to be more relaxed when you get on a plane? In this informative and accessible guide, veteran airline pilot Captain Keith Godfrey and psychologist Dr Alison Smith welcome you aboard and take you through everything from take-off to touchdown, helping you to feel more confident and at ease when journeying by air. Many of the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Vergil and Elegy

    Edited by Alison Keith, Micah Y. Myers ...
    Series Book 60 - Phoenix Supplementary Volumes
    Born in 70 BCE, the Roman poet Vergil came of age during a period of literary experimentalism among Latin authors. These authors introduced new Greek verse forms and metres into the existing repertoire of Latin poetic genres and measures, foremost among them being elegy, a genre that the ancients thought originated in funeral lament, but which in classical Rome became first-person poetry about the ... Read more

    $82.79 USD

  • Women and War in Antiquity

    Edited by Jacqueline Fabre-Serris, Alison Keith ...
    Women in ancient Greece and Rome played a much more active role in battle than previously assumed.The martial virtues—courage, loyalty, cunning, and strength—were central to male identity in the ancient world, and antique literature is replete with depictions of men cultivating and exercising these virtues on the battlefield. In Women and War in Antiquity, sixteen scholars reexamine classical ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

  • Flexible Learning in Higher Education

    Edited by John Arfield, Keith Hodgkinson, Alison Smith, Winnie Wade ...
    Analyzing the collective experiences of staff from a variety of departments within organizations of higher and further education, this study demonstrates how flexible learning strategies have been adopted to face new challenges. ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Roman Literary Cultures

    Domestic Politics, Revolutionary Poetics, Civic Spectacle

    Edited by Alison Keith, Jonathan Edmondson ...
    Series Book 55 - Phoenix Supplementary Volumes
    Drawing on the historicizing turn in Latin literary scholarship, Roman Literary Cultures combines new critical methods with traditional analysis across four hundred years of Latin literature, from mid-republican Rome in the second century BC to the Second Sophistic in the second century AD. The contributors explore Latin texts both famous and obscure, from Roman drama and Menippean satire through ... Read more

    $64.09 USD