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The Roman Alexander: Reading a Cultural Myth

Diana Spencer - History - 2002 - 312 pages
This book seizes on one of the eternal objects of widespread attention in Ancient History and turns the tables on the scholarship that has shaped and dominated the field ...
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Hostages and Hostage-Taking in the Roman Empire

Joel Allen - History - 2006 - 27 pages
This 2006 book examines hostage-taking in ancient Rome, which was a standard practice of international diplomacy. Hundreds of foreign hostages, typically adolescents, were ...
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Sextus Propertius: The Augustan Elegist

Francis Cairns - History - 2006 - 445 pages
A study of Propertius' four books of elegies investigating their sources and motives.
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The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to ...

Basil Dufallo - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 188 pages
The ancient Romans quite literally surrounded themselves with the dead: masks of the dead were in the atria of their houses, funerals paraded through their main marketplace ...
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Ovid and Augustus: A Political Reading of Ovid's Erotic Poems

P.J. Davis - Foreign Language Study - 2006 - 200 pages
Deals with one of the most contentious issues in the study of Roman literature - the relationship between Augustan literary texts and Augustan politics. This work reads Ovid's ...
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100 Decisive Battles: From Ancient Times to the Present

Paul K. Davis - History - 2001 - 484 pages
Surveys the one hundred most decisive battles in world history from the Battle of Megiddo in 1469 B.C. to Desert Storm, 1991.
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Aeneid, Book 12

Virgil, Stanley Lombardo - Poetry - 2005 - 429 pages
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