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Sather Classical Lectures Series

47 primary works • 47 total works
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Party Politics in the Age of Cæsar (Sather Classical Lectures)
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4.09 · 78 Ratings · 9 Reviews · published 1961 · 20 editions
The advice given to Cicero by his astute, campaign…

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    The Greek and Macedonian Art of War
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    3.78     · 68 Ratings · 10 Reviews · published 1962 · 16 editions
    This informal history traces battle tactics and mi…

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    Myth: Its Meaning & Functions in Ancient & Other Cultures
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    3.62     · 42 Ratings · 10 Reviews · published 1970 · 18 editions
    This book attempts to come to grips with a set of …

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    Structure and History in Greek Mythology and Ritual
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    3.92     · 53 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 1980 · 11 editions
    In Structure and History Burkert's theoretical con…

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    The Heroic Temper: Studies in Sophoclean Tragedy
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    4.20     · 35 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 1983 · 13 editions
    The first two chapters of this book isolate and de…

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    The Justice of Zeus
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    3.83     · 12 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 1971 · 6 editions
    "Lloyd-Jones here considers, in its general charac…

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    The Revolutions of Wisdom: Studies in the Claims and Practice of Ancient Greek Science (Sather Classical Lectures)
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    4.38     · 8 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1987 · 4 editions
    G.E.R. Lloyd's wide-ranging and historical study o…

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    Dionysius and The History of Archaic Rome (Volume 56)
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    3.50     · 2 Ratings · published 1991 · 3 editions
    In The History of Archaic Rome , Dionysius purpose…

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    An Archæology of Greece: The Present State and Future Scope of a Discipline (Sather Classical Lectures)
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    3.33     · 6 Ratings · published 1987 · 4 editions
    Classical archaeology probably enjoys a wider appe…

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    The Classical Foundations of Modern Historiography (Sather Classical Lectures)
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    4.05     · 41 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1992 · 9 editions
    Here, at last, are the long-awaited Sather Classic…

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    Christianity and the Rhetoric of Empire: The Development of Christian Discourse (Sather Classical Lectures)
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    3.78     · 23 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 1991 · 6 editions
    Many reasons can be given for the rise of Christia…

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    L'autore nascosto: Un'interpretazione del «Satyricon»
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    4.17     · 6 Ratings · published 1997 · 7 editions
    The Satyricon of Petronius, a comic novel written …

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    Revenge in Attic and Later Tragedy
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    4.40     · 5 Ratings · published 1998 · 4 editions
    Modern readings of ancient Athenian drama tend to …

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    Pausanias' Guide to Ancient Greece (Sather Classical Lectures)
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    4.44     · 9 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1985 · 4 editions
    A Greek who lived in Asia Minor during the second …

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    Ancient Economy (Sather Classical Lectures)
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    3.84     · 214 Ratings · 24 Reviews · published 1973 · 11 editions
    "Technical progress, economic growth, productivity…

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    Prayers in Stone: Greek Architectural Sculpture (c. 600-100 B.C.E.) (Volume 63)
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    4.40     · 5 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1999 · 3 editions
    The meaning of architectural sculpture is essentia…

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    The Art of Living: Socratic Reflections from Plato to Foucault (Sather Classical Lectures)
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    4.11     · 109 Ratings · 10 Reviews · published 1998 · 12 editions
    For much of its history, philosophy was not merely…

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    Sallust (Sather Classical Lectures)
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    4.23     · 22 Ratings · published 1964 · 9 editions
    With this classic book, Sir Ronald Syme became the…

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    The Greeks and the Irrational
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    4.20     · 1041 Ratings · 95 Reviews · published 1951 · 13 editions
    In this philosophy classic, first published in 195…

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    Greek Roman Empire: Power and Belief under Theodosius II (408–450)
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    3.62     · 16 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2006 · 7 editions
    In the first half of the fifth century, the Latin-…

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    Creationism and Its Critics in Antiquity
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    4.50     · 16 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2007 · 8 editions
    The world is configured in ways that seem systemat…

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    Shame and Necessity
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    4.15     · 237 Ratings · 25 Reviews · published 1993 · 11 editions
    We tend to suppose that the ancient Greeks had pri…

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    Caesar's Calendar: Ancient Time and the Beginnings of History
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    4.03     · 32 Ratings · 7 Reviews · published 2007 · 9 editions
    The ancient Romans changed more than the map of th…

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    Everyday Writing in the Graeco-Roman East
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    4.30     · 10 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2010 · 10 editions
    Most of the everyday writing from the ancient worl…

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    A Free Will: Origins of the Notion in Ancient Thought (Sather Classical Lectures, Vol. 68)
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    4.24     · 33 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 2011 · 7 editions
    Where does the notion of free will come from? How …

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    Reimagining Greek Tragedy on the American Stage
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    3.25     · 4 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2012 · 11 editions
    This book explores the emergence of Greek tragedy …

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    Laughter in Ancient Rome: On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up (Volume 71)
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    3.59     · 409 Ratings · 77 Reviews · published 2014 · 30 editions
    What made the Romans laugh? Was ancient Rome a car…

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    Homer the Preclassic
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    3.71     · 7 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2012 · 5 editions
    Homer the Preclassic considers the development of …

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    Greek Gods Abroad: Names, Natures, and Transformations (Volume 72)
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    4.60     · 10 Ratings · 4 editions
    From even before the time of Alexander the Great, …

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    Fiction as History: Nero to Julian
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    3.10     · 10 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 1995 · 6 editions
    Using pagan fiction produced in Greek and Latin du…

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    Lysias and the Corpus Lysiacum (Volume 39)
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    4.00     · 2 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1968 · 7 editions
    The ancient Greek orator Lysias left to the world …

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    Visual Power in Ancient Greece and Rome: Between Art and Social Reality (Volume 73)
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    4.40     · 5 Ratings · 2 Reviews · 3 editions
    Visual culture was an essential part of ancient so…

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    Classicism and Christianity in Late Antique Latin Poetry (Volume 74)
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    4.50     · 2 Ratings · 2 editions
    After centuries of near silence, Latin poetry unde…

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    Epochs of Greek and Roman Biography
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    Scenes from Greek Drama (Sather Classical Lectures)
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    Change and Decline: Roman Literature in the Early Empire
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    0.00     · published 1978 · 4 editions
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    The Ancient Romances: A Literary-Historical Account of Their Origins (Volume 37)
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    4.00     · 1 Ratings · 1 edition
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    Pindar
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    5.00     · 1 Ratings · published 1974 · 7 editions
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    The Eclogues of Vergil
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    Phases in the Religion of Ancient Rome
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    0.00     · published 1932 · 7 editions
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    Ovid: A Poet Between Two Worlds
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    3.67     · 3 Ratings · published 1945 · 7 editions
    A delightful biography of Ovid replete with much l…

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    Catullus and the Traditions of Ancient Poetry (Sather Classical Lectures)
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    Personal Religion Among the Greeks
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    4.30     · 10 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1954 · 13 editions
    The author discerns two distinct currents of perso…

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    Roman Satire: Its Outlook on Social Life (Volume 12)
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    The Poetry of Homer: Edited with an Introduction by Bruce Heiden
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    4.00     · 1 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2003 · 6 editions
    Samuel Eliot Bassett's classic work The Poetry of …

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    The Mask of Socrates: The Image of the Intellectual in Antiquity
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    3.91     · 11 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1995 · 6 editions
    This richly illustrated work provides a new and de…

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    A Greek State in Formation: The Origins of Civilization in Mycenaean Pylos
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    3.84     · 19 Ratings · 2 Reviews · 3 editions
    The Mycenaean civilization of the Greek Bronze was…

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