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Product Description: Literary Territories introduces readers to a wide range of literature from 200-900 CE in which geography is a defining principle of literary art. From accounts of Holy Land pilgrimage, to Roman mapmaking, to the systematization of Ptolemy's scientific works, Literary Territories argues that forms of literature that were conceived and produced in very different environments and for different purposes in Late Antiquity nevertheless shared an aesthetic sensibility which treated the classical "inhabited world," the oikoumene, as a literary metaphor for the collection and organization of knowledge...read more
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9780190221232 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 4, 2016, cover price $74.00 | About this edition: Literary Territories introduces readers to a wide range of literature from 200-900 CE in which geography is a defining principle of literary art.
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9780754669661 | Variorum, December 30, 2014, cover price $250.00
Product Description: In The Web of Athenaeus, Christian Jacob produces a completely fresh and unique reading of Athenaeusâs Sophists at Dinner (ca. 200 ce). Jacob provides the reader with a map and a compass to navigate the unfathomable number of intersecting paths in this enormous work: the books, the quotations, the diners, the dishes served, andâabove allâthe wordplay, all within the simulacrum of an ancient Greek library...read more
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9780674073289 | Harvard Univ Pr, May 27, 2013, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In The Web of Athenaeus, Christian Jacob produces a completely fresh and unique reading of Athenaeusâs Sophists at Dinner (ca.
Product Description: This edition of Mar Jacob of Sarug's (d. 521) homily on the sinful woman who anoints Jesus at the banquet - widely identified in the west as Mary Magdalene - focuses on the theme of weeping which Jacob describes as the dominant characteristic of repentence...read more
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9781617198342 | Gorgias Pr Llc, March 31, 2013, cover price $52.91 | About this edition: This edition of Mar Jacob of Sarug's (d.
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9780195336931 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 11, 2012, cover price $185.00
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9780190277536 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, November 1, 2015), cover price $60.00
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9780674059030 | Harvard Univ Pr, May 14, 2012, cover price $35.00
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9780754656838 | Ashgate Pub Co, August 30, 2006, cover price $149.95
Product Description: The Life and Miracles of Thekla offers a unique view on the reception of classical and early Christian literature in Late Antiquity. This study examines the Life and Miracles as an intricate example of Greek writing and attempts to situate the work amidst a wealth of similar literary forms from the classical world...read more
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9780674019614 | Harvard Univ Pr, January 30, 2006, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The Life and Miracles of Thekla offers a unique view on the reception of classical and early Christian literature in Late Antiquity.
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