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  • TRANSFORMATIVE CHANGE IN WESTERN THOUGHT
    INGO GILDENHARD
    This groundbreaking volume maps the shifting place and function of marvelous transformations from antiquity to the present day. Shape-shifting, taking animal bodies, miracles, transubstantiation, alchemy, and mutation recur and echo throughout ancient and modern writing and thinking and continue in science fiction today as tales of gene-splicing and hybridisation. The idea of m...

    $1,240.00

  • THE CLASSICAL TRADITION
    MICHAEL SILK / INGO GILDENHARD / ROSEMARY BARROW
    The Classical Tradition: Art, Literature, Thought presents an authoritative, coherent and wide-ranging guide to the afterlife of Greco-Roman antiquity in later Western cultures and a ground-breaking reinterpretation of large aspects of Western culture as a whole from a classical perspective. Features a unique combination of chronological range, cultural scope, coherent argument...

    $888.00

  • PAIDEIA ROMANA
    INGO GILDENHARD
    Paideia Romana: Cicero's Tusculan Disputations takes a new look at an unloved text of the western canon to reveal it as a punchy and profoundly original work, arguably Cicero's most ingenious literary response to the tyranny of Caesar. The book shows how the Tusculans' much lambasted literary design, critically isolated prefaces, and overlooked didactic plot start to cohere onc...

    $639.69

  • AUGUSTUS AND THE DESTRUCTION OF HISTORY
    INGO GILDENHARD
    Augustus and the Destruction of History explores the intense controversies over the meaning and profile of the past that accompanied the violent transformation of the Roman Republic into the Augustan principate. The ten case studies collected here analyse how different authors and agents (individual and collective) developed specific conceptions of history and articulated them ...

    $767.63