{"title":"Sather Classical Lectures","description":"\u003cp\u003eDelve into the ancient world with the Sather Classical Lectures. These insightful volumes offer expert perspectives on Greek and Roman history, literature, and philosophy. A must-read for classicists and history enthusiasts alike.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"laughter-in-ancient-rome-book-mary-beard-9780520287587","title":"Laughter in Ancient Rome","description":"What made the Romans laugh? Was ancient Rome a carnival, filled with practical jokes and hearty chuckles? How did Romans make sense of laughter? What role did it play in the world of the law courts, the imperial palace, or the spectacles of the arena? This book explores one of the most intriguing, but also trickiest, of historical subjects.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49507764011281,"sku":"GOR007485542","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50261392163089,"sku":"CIN0520287584G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50458303430929,"sku":"CIN0520287584VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":50697188540689,"sku":"NGR9780520287587","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52818191646993,"sku":"GOR011597434","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53143616127249,"sku":"GOR011781398","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0520287584.jpg?v=1786118861"},{"product_id":"caesar-s-calendar-book-denis-feeney-9780520251199","title":"Caesar's Calendar","description":"Investigates time and its contours as described by the ancient Romans, first as Rome positioned itself in relation to Greece and then as it exerted its influence as a major world power. This book examines the most important of the ancient world's time divisions, that between myth and history.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49509263147281,"sku":"GOR013708400","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49543080378641,"sku":"GOR006211399","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0520251199.jpg?v=1786120117"},{"product_id":"art-of-living-book-alexander-nehamas-9780520224902","title":"The Art of Living","description":"For much of its history, philosophy was not merely a theoretical discipline but a way of life, an 'art of living'. This title provides an incisive reevaluation of Socrates' place in the Western philosophical tradition and shows the importance of Socrates for Montaigne, Nietzsche, and Foucault.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49510309724433,"sku":"GOR003162472","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49656110088465,"sku":"GOR002119350","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49728492044561,"sku":"NGR9780520224902","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51712920256785,"sku":"CIN0520224906G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52177781260561,"sku":"CIN0520224906VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53521294360849,"sku":"NLS9780520224902","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":53805863207185,"sku":"CIN0520224906A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0520224906.jpg?v=1786097524"},{"product_id":"greek-and-macedonian-art-of-war-book-frank-e-adcock-9780520000056","title":"The Greek and Macedonian Art of War","description":"Sir Frank E. Adcock produced an interesting and readable account of the Greek and Macedonian art of war. Strategy and battle tactics of ground troops are discussed, along with specifics on naval warfare, the cavalry (including those with elephants), siege warfare, and leadership on the battlefield. Historians of military history and the ancient world will find this text an informative and useful resource.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49530562216209,"sku":"CIN0520000056G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49582075019537,"sku":"GOR012551580","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50157441450257,"sku":"GOR005092199","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50461319594257,"sku":"CIN0520000056A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0520000056.jpg?v=1786113761"},{"product_id":"laughter-in-ancient-rome-book-mary-beard-9780520277168","title":"Laughter in Ancient Rome","description":"What made the Romans laugh? Was ancient Rome a carnival, filled with practical jokes and hearty chuckles? Or was it a carefully regulated culture in which the uncontrollable excess of laughter was a force to fear--a world of wit, irony, and knowing smiles? How did Romans make sense of laughter? What role did it play in the world of the law courts, the imperial palace, or the spectacles of the arena? Laughter in Ancient Rome explores one of the most intriguing, but also trickiest, of historical subjects. Drawing on a wide range of Roman writing--from essays on rhetoric to a surviving Roman joke book--Mary Beard tracks down the giggles, smirks, and guffaws of the ancient Romans themselves. From ancient \"monkey business\" to the role of a chuckle in a culture of tyranny, she explores Roman humor from the hilarious, to the momentous, to the surprising.  But she also reflects on even bigger historical questions. What kind of history of laughter can we possibly tell? Can we ever really \"get\" the Romans' jokes?","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49577375039761,"sku":"GOR006074320","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50023823573265,"sku":"GOR008470816","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51002946584849,"sku":"NIN9780520277168","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52628550517009,"sku":"CIN0520277163G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52849308664081,"sku":"GOR009692013","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0520277163.jpg?v=1786109010"},{"product_id":"art-of-living-book-alexander-nehamas-9780520211735","title":"The Art of Living","description":"The idea of philosophy as an art of living has survived in the works of such modern authors as Montaigne, Nietzsche, and Foucault. This book provides a reevaluation of Socrates' place in the Western philosophical tradition and shows the importance of Socrates for Montaigne, Nietzsche, and Foucault.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49624502403345,"sku":"GOR003775226","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50726056460561,"sku":"CIN0520211731VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51591193559313,"sku":"GOR003023314","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51883153588497,"sku":"CIN0520211731G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0520211731.jpg?v=1751455512"},{"product_id":"archaeology-of-greece-book-anthony-m-snodgrass-9780520078925","title":"An Archaeology of Greece","description":"Classical archaeology probably enjoys a wider appeal than any other branch of classical or archaeological studies. As an intellectual and academic discipline, however, its esteem has not matched its popularity. Here, Anthony Snodgrass argues that classical archaeology has a rare potential in the whole field of the study of the past to make innovative discoveries and apply modern approaches by widening the aims of the discipline.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49639153533201,"sku":"GOR013018837","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49665366556945,"sku":"GOR001982960","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53521191436561,"sku":"NLS9780520078925","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0520078926.jpg?v=1786120161"},{"product_id":"justice-of-zeus-book-hugh-lloyd-jones-9780520046887","title":"Justice of Zeus","description":"The author here considers, in its general character, the outlook of early Greek religion from the Homeric poems to the end of the fifth century, through and analysis of what he takes to be its central constituent, the concept of Dike. He sees the first and basic notion of Dike as the prerequisite of the later rational speculation to which it led.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49643808915729,"sku":"GOR001886996","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50001252385041,"sku":"CIN0520046889G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50560045777169,"sku":"CIN0520046889A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50886174769425,"sku":"GOR011487765","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53521376575761,"sku":"NLS9780520046887","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0520046889.jpg?v=1786120132"},{"product_id":"aspects-of-death-in-early-greek-art-and-poetry-book-emily-vermeule-9780520044043","title":"Aspects of Death in Early Greek Art and Poetry","description":"The ancient Greeks devoted a significant portion of their artistic energy to exploring themes of death. This book examines the facts and fictions of Greek death, including burial and mourning, visions of the underworld, souls and ghosts, the value of heroic death in battle, the quest for immortality, the linked powers of death, sleep and love and more.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49654404350225,"sku":"GOR004857756","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50310237356305,"sku":"CIN0520044045G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50705231446289,"sku":"GOR014041590","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0520044045.jpg?v=1786114425"},{"product_id":"party-politics-in-the-age-of-caesar-book-lily-ross-taylor-9780520012578","title":"Party Politics in the Age of Caesar","description":"The advice given to Cicero by his astute, campaign-conscious brother to prepare him for the consular elections of 64 B.C., has a curiously modern ring: Avoid taking a definite stand on great public issues either in the Senate or before the people. Bend your energies towards making friends of key-men in all classes of voters. On this text Professor Taylor's book is a shrewd commentary, designed to clarify the true meaning in Roman political life of such terms as party and faction, so like our own to the eye but actually so different. Political parties with programs in our sense were unknown at Rome, the nearest approach being aggregations of friends for personal advancement in politics or finance. The mechanics of Roman politics are explained in detail - the relations of nobles and their clients, the manipulation of the state religion (always regarded in the best Roman theory as a political agency), and the practical issue of delivering the vote as and when wanted.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49656276812049,"sku":"GOR008003737","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49985870528785,"sku":"CIN0520012577G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50017970422033,"sku":"GOR013837272","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50299415068945,"sku":"CIN0520012577VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":51326588453137,"sku":"CIN0520012577A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53521135993105,"sku":"NLS9780520012578","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0520012577.jpg?v=1786120111"},{"product_id":"heroic-temper-book-bernard-m-w-knox-9780520049574","title":"The Heroic Temper","description":"Describes the literary phenomenon of the Sophoclean tragic hero. This work presents an analysis of three plays, the Antigone, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus, that emphasizes the individuality and variety of the living figures Sophocles created on the same basic armature.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49667232891153,"sku":"GOR006212265","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50095736586513,"sku":"CIN0520049578G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53337661604113,"sku":"GOR014857226","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53521119904017,"sku":"NLS9780520049574","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53583433367825,"sku":"CIN0520049578VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0520049578.jpg?v=1751072702"},{"product_id":"greek-gods-abroad-book-robert-parker-9780520293946","title":"Greek Gods Abroad","description":"From even before the time of Alexander the Great, the Greek gods spread throughout the Mediterranean, carried by settlers and largely adopted by the indigenous populations. By the third century b.c., gods bearing Greek names were worshipped everywhere from Spain to Afghanistan, with the resulting religious systems a variable blend of Greek and indigenous elements. Greek Gods Abroad examines the interaction between Greek religion and the cultures of the eastern Mediterranean with which it came into contact. Robert Parker shows how Greek conventions for naming gods were extended and adapted and provides bold new insights into religious and psychological values across the Mediterranean. The result is a rich portrait of ancient polytheism as it was practiced over 600 years of history.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49730192933137,"sku":"NGR9780520293946","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0520293940.jpg?v=1751440398"},{"product_id":"greeks-and-the-irrational-book-eric-r-dodds-9780520242302","title":"The Greeks and the Irrational","description":"Takes on the traditional view of Greek culture as a triumph of rationalism. Using the analytical tools of modern anthropology and psychology, this title asks, 'Why should we attribute to the ancient Greeks an immunity from 'primitive' modes of thought which we do not find in any society open to our direct observation?'.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49730648277265,"sku":"NGR9780520242302","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50001575248145,"sku":"GOR005334298","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51693841187089,"sku":"CIN0520242300VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51766862315793,"sku":"CIN0520242300G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52696786927889,"sku":"GOR006774284","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53521269063953,"sku":"NLS9780520242302","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0520242300.jpg?v=1786441962"},{"product_id":"shame-and-necessity-second-edition-book-bernard-williams-9780520256439","title":"Shame and Necessity, Second Edition","description":"We tend to suppose that the ancient Greeks had primitive ideas of the self, of responsibility, freedom, and shame, and that now humanity has advanced from these to a more refined moral consciousness. Bernard Williams' original and radical book questions this picture of Western history. While we are in many ways different from the Greeks, Williams claims that the differences are not to be traced to a shift in these basic conceptions of ethical life. We are more like the ancients than we are prepared to acknowledge, and only when this is understood can we properly grasp our most important differences from them, such as our rejection of slavery. The author is a philosopher, but much of his book is directed to writers such as Homer and the tragedians, whom he discusses as poets and not just as materials for philosophy. At the center of his study is the question of how we can understand Greek tragedy at all, when its world is so far from ours. Williams explains how it is that when the ancients speak, they do not merely tell us about themselves, but about ourselves. In a new foreword A.A. Long explores the impact of this volume in the context of Williams' stunning career.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49730730000657,"sku":"NGR9780520256439","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50023878656273,"sku":"CIN0520256433G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50949357535505,"sku":"GOR014139901","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51533325435153,"sku":"GOR005532802","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53521284727057,"sku":"NLS9780520256439","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0520256433.jpg?v=1786119011"},{"product_id":"visual-power-in-ancient-greece-and-rome-book-tonio-hlscher-9780520294936","title":"Visual Power in Ancient Greece and Rome","description":"Visual culture was an essential part of ancient social, religious, and political life. Appearance and experience of beings and things was of paramount importance. In \u003ci\u003eVisual Power in Ancient Greece and Rome\u003c\/i\u003e, Tonio Hölscher explores the fundamental phenomena of Greek and Roman visual culture and their enormous impact on the ancient world, considering memory over time, personal appearance, conceptualization and representation of reality, and significant decoration as fundamental categories of art as well as of social practice. With an emphasis on public spaces such as sanctuaries, agora and forum, Hölscher investigates the ways in which these spaces were used, viewed, and experienced in religious rituals, political manifestations, and social interaction.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49731442278673,"sku":"NGR9780520294936","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0520294939.jpg?v=1786100660"},{"product_id":"greeks-and-the-rational-book-josiah-ober-9780520380165","title":"The Greeks and the Rational","description":"\u003cb\u003eTracing practical reason from its origins to its modern and contemporary permutations\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The Greek discovery of practical reason, as the skilled performance of strategic thinking in public and private affairs, was an intellectual breakthrough that remains both a feature of and a bug in our modern world. Countering arguments that rational choice-making is a contingent product of modernity, \u003ci\u003eThe Greeks and the Rational\u003c\/i\u003e traces the long history of theorizing rationality back to ancient Greece.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e In this book, Josiah Ober explores how ancient Greek sophists, historians, and philosophers developed sophisticated and systematic ideas about practical reason. At the same time, they recognized its limits—that not every decision can be reduced to mechanistic calculations of optimal outcomes. Ober finds contemporary echoes of this tradition in the application of game theory to political science, economics, and business management. \u003ci\u003eThe Greeks and the Rational\u003c\/i\u003e offers a striking revisionist history with widespread implications for the study of ancient Greek civilization, the history of thought, and human rationality itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49742800683281,"sku":"NGR9780520380165","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51002964803857,"sku":"NIN9780520380165","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51261505208593,"sku":"CIN0520380169VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53521614831889,"sku":"NLS9780520380165","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0520380169.jpg?v=1786113380"},{"product_id":"laughter-in-ancient-rome-book-mary-beard-9780520401495","title":"Laughter in Ancient Rome","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Superbly acute and unashamedly complex.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Rich and provocative.\"—\u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"An engaging exploration.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The phenomenal Ms. Beard has written another cracking book, one of her best.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe Independent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e What made the Romans laugh? Was ancient Rome a carnival, filled with practical jokes and hearty chuckles? Or was it a carefully regulated culture in which the uncontrollable excess of laughter was a force to fear—a world of wit, irony, and knowing smiles? How did Romans make sense of laughter? What role did it play in the world of the law courts, the imperial palace, or the spectacles of the arena?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLaughter in Ancient Rome\u003c\/i\u003e explores one of the most intriguing, but also trickiest, of historical subjects. Drawing on a wide range of Roman writing—from essays on rhetoric to a surviving Roman joke book—Mary Beard tracks down the giggles, smirks, and guffaws of the ancient Romans themselves. From ancient “monkey business” to the role of a chuckle in a culture of tyranny, she explores Roman humor from the hilarious, to the momentous, to the surprising.  But she also reflects on even bigger historical questions. What kind of history of laughter can we possibly tell? Can we ever really “get” the Romans’ jokes?","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49750521512209,"sku":"NGR9780520401495","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50320494592273,"sku":"GOR013926007","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51002968146193,"sku":"NIN9780520401495","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51486799003921,"sku":"CIN0520401492G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52843344036113,"sku":"GOR014637992","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0520401492.jpg?v=1751439254"},{"product_id":"greeks-and-the-irrational-book-eric-r-dodds-9780520003279","title":"The Greeks and the Irrational","description":"In this philosophy classic, which was first published in 1951, E. R. Dodds takes on the traditional view of Greek culture as a triumph of rationalism. Using the analytical tools of modern anthropology and psychology, Dodds asks, Why should we attribute to the ancient Greeks an immunity from 'primitive' modes of thought which we do not find in any society open to our direct observation? Praised by reviewers as an event in modern Greek scholarship and a book which it would be difficult to over-praise, \u003ci\u003eThe Greeks and the Irrational \u003c\/i\u003ewas Volume 25 of the Sather Classical Lectures series.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49968824451345,"sku":"CIN0520003276G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50163084624145,"sku":"GOR002831859","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50302173282577,"sku":"CIN0520003276VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51379540066577,"sku":"GOR004036258","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":51423071109393,"sku":"CIN0520003276A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52107932041489,"sku":"GOR002757150","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0520003276.jpg?v=1750976753"},{"product_id":"polybius-book-f-w-walbank-9780520069817","title":"Polybius","description":"As a young man, the historian Polybius was an active politician in the Achaean Confederacy of the second century B.C., and later, during his detention at Rome, became a close friend of some leading Roman families. His History is our most important source for the momentous half-century during which the Romans weathered the war with Hannibal and became masters of the Mediterranean world. F. W. Walbank describes the historical traditions within which Polybius wrote as well as his concept of history.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50068094222609,"sku":"GOR002364851","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53521188487441,"sku":"NLS9780520069817","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/B007QYZSN2.jpg?v=1786120692"},{"product_id":"caesar-s-calendar-book-denis-feeney-9780520258013","title":"Caesar's Calendar","description":"Investigates time and its contours as described by the ancient Romans, first as Rome positioned itself in relation to Greece and then as it exerted its influence as a major world power. This book examines the most important of the ancient world's time divisions, that between myth and history.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50111117328657,"sku":"GOR006431112","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53521409540369,"sku":"NLS9780520258013","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/B0092JBHY8.jpg?v=1785892978"},{"product_id":"classical-foundations-of-modern-historiography-book-arnaldo-momigliano-9780520078703","title":"The Classical Foundations of Modern Historiography","description":"Here, at last, are the long-awaited Sather Classical Lectures of the great historian Arnaldo Momigliano, In a masterly survey of the origins of ancient historiography, Momigliano captures those features of an ancient historian's work that not only gave it importance in its own day but also encouraged imitation and exploitation in later centuries. He reveals the extent to which Greek, Persian, and Jewish historians influenced the Western historiographic tradition, and then goes on to examine the first Roman historians and the emergence of national history. In the course of his exposition, he traces the development of antiquarian studies as distinctive branch of historical research from antiquity to the modern period, discusses the place of Tacitus in historical thought, and explores the way in which ecclesiastical historiography has developed a tradition of its own. All these lectures illustrate Momigliano's unrivaled ability to combine the study of classical texts and the history of classical scholarship. First delivered in 1962, the lectures were revised during the next fifteen years and then held for annotation that was never completed. They are now published from the author's manuscripts, collated and checked by Momigliano's literary executor, Anne Marie Meyer, of the Warburg Institute, with a foreword by Riccardo Di Donato, of the University of Pisa. The text is printed as the author left it. Sather Classical Lectures, 54","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50202920157457,"sku":"CIN0520078705G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51423970951441,"sku":"CIN0520078705VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53521210507537,"sku":"NLS9780520078703","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0520078705.jpg?v=1786109061"},{"product_id":"shame-and-necessity-book-bernard-williams-9780520088306","title":"Shame and Necessity","description":"Although humanity has changed since the times of the ancient Greeks, this study claims that the differences are not to be traced to a shift in basic conceptions of ethical life. We are more like the ancients than we are prepared to acknowledge, and only when this is understood can we properly grasp our most important differences from them, such as our rejection of slavery. This treatise is directed towards writers such as Homer and the tragedians. At the centre of the study is the question of how we can understand Greek tragedy at all, when its world is so far from ours.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50233506464017,"sku":"CIN0520088301G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50287174058257,"sku":"GOR004064339","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50431123882257,"sku":"CIN0520088301VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51888623354129,"sku":"GOR004001202","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0520088301.jpg?v=1786114139"},{"product_id":"pausanias-guide-to-ancient-greece-book-christian-habicht-9780520061705","title":"Pausanias' Guide to Ancient Greece","description":"A Greek who lived in Asia Minor during the second century A.D., Pausanias traveled through Greece and wrote an invaluable description of its classical sites that is a treasure trove of information on archaeology, religion, history, and art. Although ignored during his own time, Pausanias is increasingly important in ours--to historians, tourists, and archaeologists. Christian Habicht offers a wide-ranging study of Pausanias' work and personality. He investigates his background, chronology, and methods, and also discusses Pausanias' value as a guide for modern scholars and travellers, his attitude toward the Roman world he lived in, and his reception among critics in modern times. A new preface summarizes the most recent scholarship.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50289990402321,"sku":"GOR008052490","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50351354216721,"sku":"CIN0520061705G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51803197276433,"sku":"NGR9780520061705","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53521205625105,"sku":"NLS9780520061705","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0520061705.jpg?v=1786113623"},{"product_id":"revolutions-of-wisdom-book-g-e-r-lloyd-9780520067424","title":"The Revolutions of Wisdom","description":"G.E.R. Lloyd's wide-ranging and historical study of the development of Greek science is a valuable contribution to current debates in the philosophy of language, on the analysis of scientific revolutions, and the rationality of science.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50351468577041,"sku":"CIN0520067428A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53127484178705,"sku":"GOR005006971","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53521377296657,"sku":"NLS9780520067424","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0520067428.jpg?v=1786119048"},{"product_id":"fiction-as-history-book-g-w-bowersock-9780520088245","title":"Fiction as History","description":"Using pagan fiction produced in Greek and Latin during the early Christian era, this text investigates the complex relationship between historical and fictional truths. The book concentrates on secular literature and reconstructs the social contexts of certain literary motifs.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50351920513297,"sku":"CIN0520088247G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0520088247.jpg?v=1751261767"},{"product_id":"ancient-economy-book-m-i-finley-9780520219465","title":"The Ancient Economy","description":"Technical progress, economic growth, productivity, even efficiency have not been significant goals since the beginning of time, declares M. I. Finley in his classic work. The states of the ancient Mediterranean world had no recognizable real-property market, never fought a commercially inspired war, witnessed no drive to capital formation, and assigned the management of many substantial enterprises to slaves and ex-slaves. In short, to study the economies of the ancient world, one must begin by discarding many premises that seemed self-evident before Finley showed that they were useless or misleading. Available again, with a new foreword by Ian Morris, these sagacious, fertile, and occasionally combative essays are just as electrifying today as when Finley first wrote them.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50352420487441,"sku":"CIN0520219465G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52085793816849,"sku":"CIN0520219465VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52109140066577,"sku":"GOR006860117","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0520219465.jpg?v=1751261796"},{"product_id":"theory-of-will-in-classical-antiquity-book-albrecht-dihle-9780520040595","title":"The Theory of Will in Classical Antiquity","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50355257737489,"sku":"CIN0520040597G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0520040597.jpg?v=1750846644"},{"product_id":"creationism-and-its-critics-in-antiquity-book-david-sedley-9780520253643","title":"Creationism and Its Critics in Antiquity","description":"The world is configured in ways that seem systematically hospitable to life forms, especially the human race. Is this the outcome of divine planning or simply of the laws of physics? This book examines this question and illuminates the historical perspectives on the pantheon of thinkers who laid the foundations of Western philosophy and science.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50406687998225,"sku":"GOR005198065","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51415945937169,"sku":"CIN0520253647G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0520253647.jpg?v=1751358582"},{"product_id":"change-and-decline-book-gordon-williams-9780520033337","title":"Change and Decline","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50452499005713,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50452502249745,"sku":"CIN0520033337G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0520033337.jpg?v=1751103900"},{"product_id":"fiction-as-history-book-g-w-bowersock-9780520208810","title":"Fiction as History","description":"Using pagan fiction produced in Greek and Latin during the early Christian era, this text investigates the complex relationship between historical and fictional truths. The book concentrates on secular literature and reconstructs the social contexts of certain literary motifs.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50492390310161,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50492390801681,"sku":"CIN0520208811VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0520208811.jpg?v=1786119626"},{"product_id":"greek-roman-empire-book-fergus-millar-9780520253919","title":"A Greek Roman Empire","description":"Focuses on the Imperial mission to promote the unity of the Church, the State's involvement in intensely-debated doctrinal questions, and the calling by the Emperor of two major Church Councils at Ephesus, in 431 and 449. This work also includes material that illustrates the working of government and the involvement of State and the church.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50649104089361,"sku":"CIN0520253914A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51191608312081,"sku":"NGR9780520253919","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53445041160465,"sku":"GOR011722610","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53521258479889,"sku":"NLS9780520253919","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53601675510033,"sku":"CIN0520253914G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/B006Z2M6W2.jpg?v=1785821137"},{"product_id":"structure-and-history-in-greek-mythology-and-ritual-book-walter-burkert-9780520047709","title":"Structure and History in Greek Mythology and Ritual","description":"Defines myth, ritual, and religion. The author locates his work in the context of culture and the history of ideas, and he is not hesitant to draw on sociology and biology. It is suitable for philosophers, historians, and even theologians, as well as for classicists and historians of Greek culture.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50663685652753,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50663686111505,"sku":"CIN0520047702G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53521288200465,"sku":"NLS9780520047709","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0520047702.jpg?v=1750911578"},{"product_id":"small-stuff-of-roman-antiquity-book-emily-gowers-9780520413146","title":"The Small Stuff of Roman Antiquity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Why are the small and unimportant relics of Roman antiquity often the most enduring, in material form and in our affections? Through close encounters with minor things such as insects, brief lives, quibbles, irritants, and jokes, Emily Gowers provocatively argues that much of what the Romans dismissed as superfluous or peripheral in fact took up immense imaginative space. It was often through the small stuff that the Romans most acutely probed and challenged their society’s overarching values and priorities and its sense of proportion and justice. There is much to learn from what didn’t or shouldn’t matter. By marking the spots where the apparently pointless becomes significant, this book radically adjusts our understanding of the Romans and their world, as well as our own minor feelings and intimate preoccupations.\u003cbr\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51127232987409,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51127234134289,"sku":"NGR9780520413146","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53801521742097,"sku":"CIN0520413148VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":54064646357265,"sku":"CIN0520413148G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0520413148.jpg?v=1785992857"},{"product_id":"creationism-and-its-critics-in-antiquity-book-david-sedley-9780520260061","title":"Creationism and Its Critics in Antiquity","description":"The world is configured in ways that seem systematically hospitable to life forms, especially the human race. Is this the outcome of divine planning or simply of the laws of physics? Ancient Greeks and Romans famously disagreed on whether the cosmos was the product of design or accident. In this book, David Sedley examines this question and illuminates new historical perspectives on the pantheon of thinkers who laid the foundations of Western philosophy and science. Versions of what we call the 'creationist' option were widely favored by the major thinkers of classical antiquity, including Plato, whose ideas on the subject prepared the ground for Aristotle's celebrated teleology.But Aristotle aligned himself with the anti-creationist lobby, whose most militant members - the atomists - sought to show how a world just like ours would form inevitably by sheer accident, given only the infinity of space and matter. This stimulating study explores seven major thinkers and philosophical movements enmeshed in the debate: Anaxagoras, Empedocles, Socrates, Plato, the atomists, Aristotle, and the Stoics.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51303864926481,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51303866204433,"sku":"GOR007121943","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51834101465361,"sku":"CIN0520260066G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53521408983313,"sku":"NLS9780520260061","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0520260066.jpg?v=1786111814"},{"product_id":"shame-and-necessity-book-bernard-williams-9780520080461","title":"Shame and Necessity","description":"Although humanity has changed since the times of the ancient Greeks, this study claims that the differences are not to be traced to a shift in basic conceptions of ethical life. We are more like the ancients than we are prepared to acknowledge, and only when this is understood can we properly grasp our most important differences from them, such as our rejection of slavery. This treatise is directed towards writers such as Homer and the tragedians. At the centre of the study is the question of how we can understand Greek tragedy at all, when its world is so far from ours.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51334500614417,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":51334501892369,"sku":"CIN0520080467A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53339842281745,"sku":"GOR007692640","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0520080467.jpg?v=1751040000"},{"product_id":"poetry-of-being-and-the-prose-of-the-world-in-early-greek-philosophy-book-victoria-wohl-9780520413320","title":"The Poetry of Being and the Prose of the World in Early Greek Philosophy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Presocratic philosophers, writing in Greece in the sixth and fifth centuries BCE, invented new ways of thinking about human life, the natural world, and structures of reality. They also developed novel ways of using language to express their thought. In this book, Victoria Wohl examines these innovations and the productive relation between them in the work of five figures: Parmenides, Heraclitus, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, and Democritus.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Bringing these thinkers into conversation with modern critical theorists on questions of shared concern, Wohl argues for the poetic sophistication of their work and the inextricable convergence of their aesthetic form and philosophical content. In addition to offering original readings of these fascinating figures and robust strategies for interpreting their fragmentary, rebarbative texts, this book invites readers to communicate across entrenched divisions between literature and philosophy and between antiquity and modernity.\u003cbr\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51596585238801,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51596585435409,"sku":"NGR9780520413320","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0520413326.jpg?v=1786091539"},{"product_id":"poetry-of-being-and-the-prose-of-the-world-in-early-greek-philosophy-book-victoria-wohl-9780520422643","title":"The Poetry of Being and the Prose of the World in Early Greek Philosophy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Presocratic philosophers, writing in Greece in the sixth and fifth centuries BCE, invented new ways of thinking about human life, the natural world, and structures of reality. They also developed novel ways of using language to express their thought. In this book, Victoria Wohl examines these innovations and the productive relation between them in the work of five figures: Parmenides, Heraclitus, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, and Democritus.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Bringing these thinkers into conversation with modern critical theorists on questions of shared concern, Wohl argues for the poetic sophistication of their work and the inextricable convergence of their aesthetic form and philosophical content. In addition to offering original readings of these fascinating figures and robust strategies for interpreting their fragmentary, rebarbative texts, this book invites readers to communicate across entrenched divisions between literature and philosophy and between antiquity and modernity.\u003cbr\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51596640321809,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51596640583953,"sku":"NGR9780520422643","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0520422643.jpg?v=1786111598"},{"product_id":"free-will-book-michael-frede-9780520272668","title":"A Free Will","description":"Where does the notion of free will come from? How and when did it develop, and what did that development involve? In Michael Frede's radically new account of the history of this idea, the notion of a free will emerged from powerful assumptions about the relation between divine providence, correctness of individual choice, and self-enslavement due to incorrect choice. Anchoring his discussion in Stoicism, Frede begins with Aristotle - who, he argues, had no notion of a free will - and ends with Augustine. Frede shows that Augustine, far from originating the idea (as is often claimed), derived most of his thinking about it from the Stoicism developed by Epictetus.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51612446556433,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51612447310097,"sku":"CIN0520272668G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53521407738129,"sku":"NLS9780520272668","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0520272668.jpg?v=1786090734"},{"product_id":"christianity-and-the-rhetoric-of-empire-book-averil-cameron-9780520089235","title":"Christianity and the Rhetoric of Empire","description":"Asking how Christianity succeeded in becoming the dominant ideology in the unpromising circumstances of the Roman Empire, the author turns to the development of Christian discourse over the first to sixth centuries AD, investigating its essential characteristics, its effects on existing forms of communication, and its eventual preeminence.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51693248971025,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51693249036561,"sku":"GOR006537854","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":53004208767249,"sku":"CIN0520089235A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53362838503697,"sku":"GOR012682320","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53385369256209,"sku":"CIN0520089235G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53521191633169,"sku":"NLS9780520089235","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53617078501649,"sku":"CIN0520089235VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0520089235.jpg?v=1786119537"},{"product_id":"development-of-the-attic-black-figure-revised-edition-book-john-davidson-beazley-9780520055933","title":"Development of the Attic Black-Figure, Revised edition","description":"The eight lectures that comprise this edition were first delivered by John Davidson Beazley in 1949. They were published in 1951 and soon became a of classical study of ancient Greek vases. This revised edition includes many additional illustrations.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51731985694993,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51731985793297,"sku":"GOR014383052","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0520055934.jpg?v=1751358460"},{"product_id":"poetic-scientific-and-other-forms-of-discourse-book-joshua-whatmough-9780520314559","title":"Poetic, Scientific and Other Forms of Discourse","description":"\u003cb\u003ePoetic, Scientific, and Other Forms of Discourse: A New Approach to Greek and Latin Literature\u003c\/b\u003e is the twenty-ninth volume in the esteemed Sather Classical Lectures series. This work delves into the interplay of language, literary criticism, and the foundational texts of Greek and Latin literature. The author advocates for a dual focus: a deep understanding of classical texts through their original languages and the pure enjoyment of literature, free from overburdened textual criticism. With a critical lens on the methodologies of textual editors, the book argues that rigid adherence to analogy and rule—whether in grammar, meter, or textual annotation—often obscures the essence of these works rather than illuminating them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This volume positions literature as a sophisticated form of communication, emphasizing its purpose-driven nature while integrating insights from modern linguistic theories. The lectures explore how principles from diverse fields, including mathematical linguistics and systems theory, can enhance our understanding of classical texts. By synthesizing evidence across disciplines, the book not only revisits traditional interpretations but also proposes innovative approaches to appreciating Greek and Latin literature. Engaging with the broader educational implications of this approach, it blends technical exploration with personal reflection, making a compelling case for a reinvigorated, language-centered engagement with the classics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1956.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51803297087761,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51803297546513,"sku":"NGR9780520314559","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53521160732945,"sku":"NLS9780520314559","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780520314559.jpg?v=1786105684"},{"product_id":"revenge-in-attic-and-later-tragedy-book-anne-pippin-burnett-9780520210967","title":"Revenge in Attic and Later Tragedy","description":"After considering how our view of Elizabethan drama has obscured an accurate view of the ancient tragedies, this text reviews early Greek notions of vengeance as expressed in the Odyssey, Heracles' tales, Pindar's odes, Attic judicial processes, and the legend of Harmodius and Aristogeiton.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51828480246033,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51828480475409,"sku":"NGR9780520210967","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53521250976017,"sku":"NLS9780520210967","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780520210967.jpg?v=1786106163"},{"product_id":"prayers-in-stone-book-brunilde-s-ridgway-9780520215566","title":"Prayers in Stone","description":"The meaning of architectural sculpture is essential to our understanding of ancient Greek culture. The embellishment of buildings was common for the ancient Greeks, and often provocative. Some ornamental sculpture was placed where, when the building was finished, no mortal eye could view it. And unlike much architectural ornamentation of other cultures, Greek sculpture was often integral to the building, not just as decoration, and could not be removed without affecting the integrity of the building structure. This book is the first comprehensive treatment of the significance of Greek architectural sculpture. Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway, a world-class authority on ancient Greek sculpture, provides a highly informative tour of many dimensions of Greek public buildings - especially temples, tombs, and treasuries - in a text that is at once lucid, accessible, and authoritative. Ridgway's pragmatism and common sense steer us tactfully and clearly through thickets of uncertainty and scholarly disagreement. She refers to a huge number of monuments, and documents her discussions with copious and up-to-date bibliographies.\nThis book is sure to be acknowledged at once as the standard treatment of its important topic.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51828487520529,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51828487717137,"sku":"NGR9780520215566","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53521268637969,"sku":"NLS9780520215566","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780520215566.jpg?v=1786105561"},{"product_id":"personal-religion-among-the-greeks-book-andre-jean-festugiere-9780520317062","title":"Personal Religion Among the Greeks","description":"This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1954.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":53143826530577,"sku":"NGR9780520317062","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53497907511569,"sku":"NLS9780520317062","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780520317062.jpg?v=1786044073"},{"product_id":"ancient-economy-book-moses-finley-9780520025646","title":"Ancient Economy","description":"Technical progress, economic growth, productivity, even efficiency have not been significant goals since the beginning of time, declares M. I. Finley in his classic work. The states of the ancient Mediterranean world had no recognizable real-property market, never fought a commercially inspired war, witnessed no drive to capital formation, and assigned the management of many substantial enterprises to slaves and ex-slaves. In short, to study the economies of the ancient world, one must begin by discarding many premises that seemed self-evident before Finley showed that they were useless or misleading. Available again, with a new foreword by Ian Morris, these sagacious, fertile, and occasionally combative essays are just as electrifying today as when Finley first wrote them.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":53340765585681,"sku":"CIN0520025644A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53601681408273,"sku":"CIN0520025644G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780520025646.jpg?v=1774459068"},{"product_id":"sallust-book-ronald-syme-9780520234796","title":"Sallust","description":"With this classic book, Sir Ronald Syme became the first historian of the twentieth century to place Sallust - whom Tacitus called the most brilliant Roman historian - in his social, political, and literary context. Scholars had considered Sallust to be a mere political hack or pamphleteer, but Syme's text makes important connections between the politics of the Republic and the literary achievement of the author to show Sallust as a historian unbiased by partisanship. In a new foreword, Ronald Mellor delivers one of the most thorough biographical essays of Sir Ronald Syme in English. He both places the book in the context of Syme's other works and details the progression of Sallustian studies since and as a result of Syme's work.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53347186147601,"sku":"GOR014864681","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53347254796561,"sku":"GOR010847215","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53521123934481,"sku":"NLS9780520234796","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780520234796.jpg?v=1786120164"},{"product_id":"pindar-book-gilbert-norwood-9780520319271","title":"Pindar","description":"This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1945.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53497852297489,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53497852789009,"sku":"NLS9780520319271","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780520319271.jpg?v=1777934981"},{"product_id":"poetry-of-homer-book-samuel-eliot-bassett-9780520320369","title":"The Poetry of Homer","description":"This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1938.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53497855803665,"sku":"NLS9780520320369","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780520320369.jpg?v=1777934995"},{"product_id":"epochs-of-greek-and-roman-biography-book-duane-reed-stuart-9780520331471","title":"Epochs of Greek and Roman Biography","description":"\u003cb\u003eSather Classical Lectures, Volume Four: Epochs of Greek and Roman Biography\u003c\/b\u003e provides an episodic yet insightful exploration of the development of biography as a literary genre in ancient Greece and Rome. Rooted in the principle articulated by Polybius, the work emphasizes the interconnectedness of history and the evolution of human ideas, particularly in the context of biographical writing. The author selects topics that address key problems and stages in the growth of biographical purpose, drawing connections between ancient and modern biographers, from Plutarch's enduring influence on psychoanalytic biographers to the continued relevance of classical ideals in contemporary biographical theory. While not attempting a complete history, the book offers a rich analysis of how biographical works reflect broader cultural and intellectual movements, and how the goals and methods of ancient biographers resonate with modern practices.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This volume also stands out for its thorough academic approach, bolstered by an extensive array of footnotes and references designed not just for scholars, but for readers with a broad interest in biography. The book is the result of specialized study, offering a detailed bibliography that aims to engage those with a genuine enthusiasm for the genre. The author balances academic rigor with the intention to make ancient biography accessible and engaging, demonstrating the timeless relevance of ancient practices and offering a critical examination of their enduring influence. This makes the volume both a valuable resource for experts and an engaging read for those curious about the evolution of biographical writing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1928.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53497858949393,"sku":"NLS9780520331471","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780520331471.jpg?v=1777935009"},{"product_id":"life-and-literature-in-the-roman-republic-book-tenney-frank-9780520325357","title":"Life and Literature in the Roman Republic","description":"\u003cb\u003eLife and Literature in the Roman Republic\u003c\/b\u003e delves into the dynamic interplay between the societal environment and the literary evolution of early Rome. The text provides a compelling analysis of how Roman writers responded to the social, political, and cultural forces of their era. Unlike their Greek predecessors, whose literary brilliance appeared almost as a natural flowering, Roman literature evolved more deliberately, shaped by the pragmatic and austere spirit of its people. This book emphasizes the Romans’ ability to assimilate and adapt Greek forms while retaining their own distinct voice, reflecting their societal priorities and challenges. From early ballads and dramas rooted in ritualistic traditions to sophisticated epics and tragedies influenced by Greek masters, Roman literature is portrayed as a mirror of its environment—pragmatic, experimental, and deeply entwined with the realities of Roman life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The narrative also examines the profound impact of historical milestones, such as the Punic Wars, on Rome's cultural consciousness. These events not only fostered a newfound sense of identity and self-awareness among Romans but also acted as a catalyst for their engagement with Greek culture. By the time of the Republic, Roman literature began to reflect a unique synthesis of inherited Greek forms and an emerging national character. The text explores the tensions between cultural purists like Cato, who resisted the influx of Hellenistic influence, and those who embraced it, leading to an era of vibrant yet contentious cultural exchange. By placing literary figures within their socio-political contexts, the book underscores how the pragmatic and sometimes rigid Roman spirit found its voice through literature that was both a product of and a response to its time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1930.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53497877037329,"sku":"NLS9780520325357","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780520325357.jpg?v=1786102176"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/sather-classical-lectures-book-series.oembed?page=5","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}