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Polyeideia: The Iambi of Callimachus and the Archaic Iambic Tradition

by Benjamin Acosta-Hughes (Author)
September 2002
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From Alexander to Jesus

by Ory Amitay (Author)
October 2010
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Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire

by Clifford Ando (Author)
August 2013
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The Matter of the Gods: Religion and the Roman Empire

by Clifford Ando (Author)
February 2008
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Everyday Writing in the Graeco-Roman East

by Roger S. Bagnall (Author)
April 2012
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Staged Narrative: Poetics and the Messenger in Greek Tragedy

by James Barrett (Author)
August 2002
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Bishops in Flight: Exile and Displacement in Late Antiquity

by Jennifer Barry (Author)
April 2019
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Epic Traditions in the Contemporary World by Margaret Beissinger, Jane Tylus, Susanne Wofford

Epic Traditions in the Contemporary World: The Poetics of Community

by Margaret Beissinger (Editor), Jane Tylus (Editor), Susanne Wofford (Editor)
March 1999
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The Portrait of the Lover

by Maurizio Bettini (Author)
September 1999
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Encountering the Sacred by Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony

Encountering the Sacred: The Debate on Christian Pilgrimage in Late Antiquity

by Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony (Author)
December 2005
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City and Empire in the Age of the Successors by Ryan Boehm

City and Empire in the Age of the Successors: Urbanization and Social Response in the Making of the Hellenistic Kingdoms

by Ryan Boehm (Author)
November 2021
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An Afterlife for the Khan by Jonathan Z. Brack

An Afterlife for the Khan: Muslims, Buddhists, and Sacred Kingship in Mongol Iran and Eurasia

by Jonathan Z. Brack (Author)
May 2023
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Excavations at Nemea IV by Jorge J. Bravo III

Excavations at Nemea IV: The Shrine of Opheltes

by Jorge J. Bravo III (Author)
March 2018
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Revenge in Attic and Later Tragedy

by Anne Pippin Burnett (Author)
October 1998
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The Body and Desire by Raphael A. Cadenhead

The Body and Desire: Gregory of Nyssa’s Ascetical Theology

by Raphael A. Cadenhead (Author)
November 2018
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The Two Eyes of the Earth by Matthew P. Canepa

The Two Eyes of the Earth: Art and Ritual of Kingship between Rome and Sasanian Iran

by Matthew P. Canepa (Author)
March 2017
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The Iranian Expanse by Matthew P. Canepa

The Iranian Expanse: Transforming Royal Identity through Architecture, Landscape, and the Built Environment, 550 BCE–642 CE

by Matthew P. Canepa (Author)
November 2020
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The Rich and the Pure: Philanthropy and the Making of Christian Society in Early Byzantium

by Daniel Caner (Author)
September 2021
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The Poems of Catullus by Gaius Valerius Catullus

The Poems of Catullus: A Bilingual Edition

by Gaius Valerius Catullus (Author)
August 2007
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Cultural Politics in Polybius's Histories

by Craige Champion (Author)
August 2004
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Greeks, Romans, Germans by Johann Chapoutot

Greeks, Romans, Germans: How the Nazis Usurped Europe's Classical Past

by Johann Chapoutot (Author)
September 2016
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Melania by Catherine Michael Chin, Caroline T. Schroeder

Melania: Early Christianity through the Life of One Family

by Catherine Michael Chin (Editor), Caroline T. Schroeder (Editor)
October 2020
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Art in the Lives of Ordinary Romans by John R. Clarke

Art in the Lives of Ordinary Romans: Visual Representation and Non-Elite Viewers in Italy, 100 B.C.-A.D. 315

by John R. Clarke (Author)
April 2006
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Cleomedes' Lectures on Astronomy by Cleomedes

Cleomedes' Lectures on Astronomy: A Translation of The Heavens

by Cleomedes (Author)
January 2004
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Divine Deliverance: Pain and Painlessness in Early Christian Martyr Texts

by L. Stephanie Cobb (Author)
November 2016
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