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“caroline vout”

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  • Exposed

    The Greek and Roman Body - Shortlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic Runciman Award

    by Caroline Vout ...
    WINNER OF THE LONDON HELLENIC PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE ANGLO-HELLENIC RUNICMAN AWARDA SUNDAY TIMES AND SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR'Essential and hugely enjoyable' Katy Hessel'A triumph ... an extraordinary book that stopped me in my tracks' Peter FrankopanCast in buff bronze and carved in white marble, it's easy to see the Greek and Roman body as flawl... ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • Classical Art

    A Life History from Antiquity to the Present

    by Caroline Vout ...
    How did the statues of ancient Greece wind up dictating art history in the West? How did the material culture of the Greeks and Romans come to be seen as "classical" and as "art"? What does "classical art" mean across time and place? In this ambitious, richly illustrated book, art historian and classicist Caroline Vout provides an original history of how classical art has been continuously ... Read more

    $38.19 USD

  • The Hills of Rome

    Signature of an Eternal City

    by Caroline Vout ...
    Rome is 'the city of seven hills'. This book examines the need for the 'seven hills' cliché, its origins, development, impact and borrowing. It explores how the cliché relates to Rome's real volcanic terrain and how it is fundamental to how we define this. Its chronological remit is capacious: Varro, Virgil and Claudian at one end, on, through the work of Renaissance antiquarians, to embrace ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Fictions of Art History

    by Paul Barolsky, Professor Thomas Crow, Gloria Kury, Ralph Lieberman, Maria H. Loh, Alexander Nemerov, Joanna Scott, Cole Swensen, Marianna Torgovnick, Caroline Vout, Marina Warner ...
    Fictions of Art History, the most recent addition to the Clark Studies in the Visual Arts series, addresses art history’s complex relationships with fiction, poetry, and creative writing. Inspired by a 2010 conference, the volume examines art historians’ viewing practices and modes of writing. How, the contributors ask, are we to unravel the supposed facts of history from the fictions constructed ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Epic Visions

    Visuality in Greek and Latin Epic and its Reception

    Edited by Helen Lovatt, Caroline Vout ...
    This wide-ranging, interdisciplinary collection explores different ways of visualising Greek and Roman epic from Homer to Statius, in both ancient and modern culture. The book presents new perspectives on Homer, Virgil, Ovid, Lucan, Valerius Flaccus and Statius, and covers the re-working of epic matter in tragedy, opera, film, late antique speeches of praise, story-boarding, sculpture and wall ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

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  • The Parthenon Enigma

    by Joan Breton Connelly ...
    Built in the fifth century b.c., the Parthenon has been venerated for more than two millennia as the West’s ultimate paragon of beauty and proportion. Since the Enlightenment, it has also come to represent our political ideals, the lavish temple to the goddess Athena serving as the model for our most hallowed civic architecture. But how much do the values of those who built the Parthenon truly ... Read more

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  • The Discarded Image

    An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature

    by C. S. Lewis ...
    In The Discarded Image, C.S. Lewis paints a lucid picture of the medieval world view, providing the historical and cultural background to the literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. It describes the "image" discarded by later years as "the medieval synthesis itself, the whole organization of their theology, science and history into a single, complex, harmonious mental model of the universe. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Classics: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Mary Beard, John Henderson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    This Very Short Introduction to Classics links a haunting temple on a lonely mountainside to the glory of ancient Greece and the grandeur of Rome, and to Classics within modern culture-from Jefferson and Byron to Asterix and Ben-Hur.We are all Classicists - we come into touch with the Classics daily: in our culture, politics, medicine, architecture, language, and literature. What are the true ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Classical Mythology

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Helen Morales ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    From Zeus and Europa, to Diana, Pan, and Prometheus, the myths of ancient Greece and Rome seem to exert a timeless power over us. But what do those myths represent, and why are they so enduringly fascinating? Why do they seem to be such a potent way of talking about our selves, our origins, and our desires? This imaginative and stimulating Very Short Introduction goes beyond a simple retelling of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Introducing the Ancient Greeks

    From Bronze Age Seafarers to Navigators of the Western Mind

    by Edith Hall ...
    "Wonderful…a thoughtful discussion of what made [the Greeks] so important, in their own time and in ours." —Natalie Haynes, IndependentThe ancient Greeks invented democracy, theater, rational science, and philosophy. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. Yet this accomplished people never formed a single unified social or political identity. In Introducing the Ancient Greeks, ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Ovid

    Edited by Philip Hardie ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Ovid was one of the greatest writers of classical antiquity, and arguably the single most influential ancient poet for post-classical literature and culture. In this Cambridge Companion, chapters by leading authorities from Europe and North America discuss the backgrounds and contexts for Ovid, the individual works, and his influence on later literature and art. Coverage of essential information ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • A Companion to Catullus

    Edited by Marilyn B. Skinner ...
    In this companion, international scholars provide a comprehensive overview that reflects the most recent trends in Catullan studies.Explores the work of Catullus, one of the best Roman ‘lyric poets’Provides discussions about production, genre, style, and reception, as well as interpretive essays on key poems and groups of poemsGrounds Catullus in the socio-historical world around himChapters ... Read more

    $50.00 USD