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Assent and Argument: Studies in Cicero’s “Academic Books”: Proceedings of the 7th Symposium Hellenisticum (Utrecht, August 21-25, 1995)

Edited by Brad Inwood (NHC Fellow, 1995–96) and Jaap Mansfeld Cicero's philosophical works are a rich source for the understanding of Hellenistic philosophy, and hisAcademic Books are of critical importance for the study of ancient epistemology, especially the central debate between the Academic sceptics and the Stoics. This volume makes Cicero's challenging work accessible to philosophers … Continued

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Fortress Attica: Defense of the Athenian Land Frontier, 404-322 B.C.

By Josiah Ober (NHC Fellow, 1983–84) This book analyzes the defense policy of Athens in the period after the Peloponnesian War. In order to counter new offensive strategies and to protect vital local sources of revenue, the Athenians instituted a system of territorial defense, based on massive frontier fortresses and a sophisticated signal network. Individual chapters … Continued

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Metamorphosis: The Changing Face of Ovid in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Edited by Alison Keith (NHC Fellow, 2007–08) and Stephen Rupp This collection of fifteen essays examines the literary influence of Ovid’s Metamorphoses from the late Middle Ages to the seventeenth century. Such notable authors as Christine de Pizan, Gower, Chaucer, Petrarch, Scève, Cervantes, Góngora, and Milton are explored. By concentrating on Ovid’s most influential work, … Continued

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Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture

Edited by Alison Keith (NHC Fellow, 2007–08) and J. C. Edmondson 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 … Continued

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The Lindian Chronicle and the Greek Creation of Their Past

By Carolyn Higbie (NHC Fellow, 2003–04) Carolyn Higbie uses an inscription of the first century BC from Lindos to study the ancient Greeks and their past. The inscription contains two inventories. The first catalogues some forty objects given to Athena Lindia by figures from the mythological past (including Heracles, Helen, and Menelaus) and the historical … Continued

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Friendship in the Classical World

By David Konstan (NHC Fellow, 1994–95) This book – the only history of friendship in classical antiquity that exists in English – examines the nature of friendship in Greece and Rome from Homer to the Christian Roman Empire of the fourth century AD. Friendship is conceived of as a voluntary and loving relationship, but there … Continued

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Rome’s World: The Peutinger Map Reconsidered

By Richard J. A. Talbert (NHC Fellow, 2000–01) The Peutinger Map is the only map of the Roman world to come down to us from antiquity. An elongated masterpiece, full of colorful detail and featuring land routes across Europe, North Africa, and the Near East, it was rediscovered mysteriously around 1500 and then came into … Continued

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The Lost Italian Renaissance: Humanists, Historians, and Latin’s Legacy

By Christopher S. Celenza (NHC Fellow, 2003–04) In The Lost Italian Renaissance, historian and literary scholar Christopher Celenza argues that serious interest in the intellectual life of Renaissance Italy can be reinvigorated—and the nature of the Renaissance itself reconceived—by recovering a major part of its intellectual and cultural activity that has been largely ignored since the … Continued