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  • GRECO-ROMAN WATERS
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    GRECO-ROMAN WATERS
    GEORGIA L. IRBY
    The first of its kind, this book presents a wide range of passages exploring many aspects of the Greco-Roman watery world: physics, philosophy, weather, medicine, marine biology, religion and mythology, infrastructure, sailing, mercantile activities, and waterways that have been politicized. Offering a deep look at the many ways that water culture impacted the ancient world, bo...

    $1,160.00

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  • EPIC ECHOES IN THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS
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    EPIC ECHOES IN THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS
    GEORGIA L. IRBY
    This book explores Grahame’s engagements with classical antiquity in The Wind in the Willows, including ancient epic, parody (Batrachomyomachia), and pastoral imagery. Irby demonstrates how subtle echoes – such as the structure into 12 books, arming scenes, epic catalogues, anabases and katabases, lying tales, Toad’s "cleverness"—cumulatively suggest a link between The Wind in ...

    $560.00

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  • GREEK SCIENCE OF THE HELLENISTIC ERA
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    GREEK SCIENCE OF THE HELLENISTIC ERA
    GEORGIA L. IRBY-MASSIE / PAUL T. KEYSER
    We all want to understand the world around us, and the ancient Greeks were the first to try and do so in a way we can properly call scientific. Their thought and writings laid the essential foundations for the revivals of science in medieval Baghdad and renaissance Europe. Now their work is accessible to all, with this invaluable introduction to c.100 scientific authors active ...

    $1,240.00

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