Joan Palevsky Imprint in Classical Literature

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Xenophon's Prince: Republic and Empire in the Cyropaedia

by Christopher Nadon (Author)
June 2001
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What Makes a Church Sacred? by Mary K. Farag

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What Makes a Church Sacred?: Legal and Ritual Perspectives from Late Antiquity

by Mary K. Farag (Author)
November 2021
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Visual Power in Ancient Greece and Rome by Tonio Hölscher

Visual Power in Ancient Greece and Rome: Between Art and Social Reality

by Tonio Hölscher (Author)
June 2018
Hardcover $49.95, £42.00

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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Thucydides' War Narrative by Carolyn Dewald

Thucydides' War Narrative: A Structural Study

by Carolyn Dewald (Author)
February 2006
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Thesaurus Linguae Graecae by Maria C. Pantelia

Thesaurus Linguae Graecae: A Bibliographic Guide to the Canon of Greek Authors and Works

by Maria C. Pantelia (Author)
April 2022
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There Is No Crime for Those Who Have Christ by Michael Gaddis

There Is No Crime for Those Who Have Christ: Religious Violence in the Christian Roman Empire

by Michael Gaddis (Author)
March 2015
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Theodoret's People: Social Networks and Religious Conflict in Late Roman Syria

by Adam M. Schor (Author)
May 2011
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Summoned to the Roman Courts by Detlef Liebs

Summoned to the Roman Courts: Famous Trials from Antiquity

by Detlef Liebs (Author)
February 2017
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A State of Mixture: Christians, Zoroastrians, and Iranian Political Culture in Late Antiquity

by Richard E. Payne (Author)
September 2015
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Staged Narrative: Poetics and the Messenger in Greek Tragedy

by James Barrett (Author)
August 2002
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Sons of Hellenism, Fathers of the Church by Susanna Elm

Sons of Hellenism, Fathers of the Church: Emperor Julian, Gregory of Nazianzus, and the Vision of Rome

by Susanna Elm (Author)
September 2015
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Societies in Transition in Early Greece by Alex R. Knodell

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Societies in Transition in Early Greece: An Archaeological History

by Alex R. Knodell (Author)
May 2021
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Shenoute of Atripe and the Uses of Poverty by Ariel G. Lopez

Shenoute of Atripe and the Uses of Poverty: Rural Patronage, Religious Conflict, and Monasticism in Late Antique Egypt

by Ariel G. Lopez (Author)
February 2013
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Shameless: The Canine and the Feminine in Ancient Greece

by Cristiana Franco (Author)
September 2014
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The Shadows of Poetry by Sabine MacCormack

The Shadows of Poetry: Vergil in the Mind of Augustine

by Sabine MacCormack (Author)
June 1998
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Self-Portrait in Three Colors by Bradley K. Storin

Self-Portrait in Three Colors: Gregory of Nazianzus's Epistolary Autobiography

by Bradley K. Storin (Author)
September 2019
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The Seer in Ancient Greece

by Michael Flower (Author)
January 2008
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The Seer and the City by Margaret Foster

The Seer and the City: Religion, Politics, and Colonial Ideology in Ancient Greece

by Margaret Foster (Author)
January 2018
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Seeing Theater: The Phenomenology of Classical Greek Drama

by Naomi Weiss (Author)
May 2023
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Seeing Double: Intercultural Poetics in Ptolemaic Alexandria

by Susan A. Stephens (Author)
January 2003
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The School of History: Athens in the Age of Socrates

by Mark H. Munn (Author)
January 2003
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Scenting Salvation by Susan Ashbrook Harvey

Scenting Salvation: Ancient Christianity and the Olfactory Imagination

by Susan Ashbrook Harvey (Author)
August 2015
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Rome and the Mysterious Orient by Plautus

Rome and the Mysterious Orient: Three Plays by Plautus

by Plautus (Author)
December 2005
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Riot in Alexandria: Tradition and Group Dynamics in Late Antique Pagan and Christian Communities

by Edward J. Watts (Author)
February 2017
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