The Ancient Aesthetics of Deception. The Ethics of Enchantment from Gorgias to Heliodorus, Hardback - ***

A bold new history of ancient aesthetics which offers a nuanced understanding of the effects, in Greek literature, of representation. It argues tha...

Publisher: Hirmer VerlagAuthor(s): Jessica RichardsonIllustration(s): 240 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 380Publication date: 2021Dimensions:...

Presents a fresh approach to how traditional art mediums - painting, sculpture, and drawing - changed in the twentieth century as a result of photo...

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DescriptionIt is a commonplace that the modern world cannot be experienced as enchanted--that the very concept of enchantment belongs to past ages ...

Publisher: Dorling Kindersley LtdAuthor(s): DKIllustration(s): 883 photographsNumber of pages: 360Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 243 x 287 x 33C...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr Enea (NUI Galway, Ireland) BianchiNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 162 x 242...

Are copies of Greek and Roman masterpieces as important as the originals they imitate?

From the New York Times bestselling author of Sorcery of Thorns and An Enchantment of Ravens comes a thrilling new YA fantasy about a teen girl wit...

From Villain to Hero explores the reception of Odysseus in philosophy from the Socratics to the Middle Platonists.Publisher: The University of Mich...

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What is right? What is wrong? How do we decide? To a remarkable extent, our decision-making is determined by the origins of the ethical ideas that ...

A Short History of Ethics is a significant contribution written by one of the most important living philosophers. For the second edition Alasdair M...

Tells the history of this pivotal region, the doorway between Europe and Asia.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): John D GraingerIllustratio...

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Master of Deception is a biography of Peter Fleming, elder brother of Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond. Peter Fleming worked as a travel writer a...

Five thousand years of military history. The best elite unites that have fought across the globe. Their story told by acclaimed adventurer and ex-S...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Clyde CaseyWinner of the 2010 New Mexico Book Award for Best CookbookSince he first traveled to New Mexico in the 1960s, Cl...

Reducere. From Internet-dating profiles to Native American folktales to the photo trickery of Hollywood gossip magazines, this volume explores deception and ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Professor Emeritus Paul (University of Illinois, USA, and University of Tasmania, Australia.) Duncum...

This book applies ecofeminist ethics to the realm of aesthetics, exploring how alternative configurations of the self, nature and non-human animals...

Publisher: Gorgias PressAuthor(s): Jorunn BuckleyIllustration(s): 1, black & white illustrationsNumber of pages: 408Publication date: 2006Dimension...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Alan OgdenNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 157 x 234 x 24Cover type: Paperback ...

How does Shakespeare represent war? This volume reviews scholarship to date on the question and introduces new perspectives, looking at contemporar...

This book is for readers interested in both ancient history and the history of olive oil and wine. Readers will appreciate this book's in-depth acc...

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In this concise and elegant work, first published in 1952, Bertrand de Jouvenel purposely ignores the economic evidence that redistributional effor...

Reducere. DescriptionIf you want to discover the captivating history of ancient China, then keep reading... To understand present-day China, its politics, so...

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The book of Numbers raises ethical questions central to the Jewish faith. Too often, we learn these Biblical stories as children and never revisit ...

LGBTQ writing from ancient times to yesterday, selected by award-winning translator Frank Wynne.Editor(s): Frank Wynne

Is monastic profession in the West-Syriac tradition a "second baptism"? A relationship clearly exists between the two rites of initiation in the We...

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Embracing history and society, literature and theatre, medicine and religion, author and magician Ian Keable reveals our susceptibility to being du...

Fills a gap in scholarship by examining representations of undocumented migration in literature.Publisher: Gorgias PressAuthor(s): Nahrain Al-Mousa...

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Publisher: Twelfth Realm PublishingAuthor(s): Mark WatersNumber of pages: 390Collection: Nousidian ChroniclesPublication date: 2012Dimensions: 239 ...

A select international group of landscape architects and historians discuss the subject of planting design through the lens of their own work, cont...

In recent years, libertarian impulses have increasingly influenced national and economic debates, from welfare reform to efforts to curtail affirma...