Peter Toohey Eds (6 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. 1 page with corner creasing. Else very minor shelfwear.; Inventing Ancient Culture is an exciting introduction to new approaches to the classics. There is a tendency for those interested in the broader field of cultural studies to claim that modern perceptions of self, modern affectivities, and modern societal and institutional structures date from the Enlightenment. This volume will vigorously challenge this misperception. Contributors to the volume address issues including the extent of which cultural and social forms change through time, and the extent, or otherwise, of change in cultural systems since antiquity.; 248 pages.…

Soft cover. Condition: As New. Pbk 338pp an unread copy excellent clean tight unmarked as new.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Tiny tear to head of spine. Underlining in pencil to a few pages.; Edinburgh Readings on the Ancient World; 400 pages; This volume collects and introduces some of the best writing on sexual behavior and gender differences in ancient Greece and Rome including four chapters newly translated from German and French. The volume charts the extraordinary evolution of scholarly investigation of a once-hidden aspect of the ancient world.…

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Very faint shelfwear.; Edinburgh Readings on the Ancient World; 400 pages; This volume collects and introduces some of the best writing on sexual behavior and gender differences in ancient Greece and Rome including four chapters newly translated from German and French. The volume charts the extraordinary evolution of scholarly investigation of a once-hidden aspect of the ancient world.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Gift inscription from Peter Toohey to Martin Cropp on ffep. Creasing to rear upper corner.; Edinburgh Readings on the Ancient World; 400 pages; This volume collects and introduces some of the best writing on sexual behavior and gender differences in ancient Greece and Rome including four chapters newly translated from German and French. The volume charts the extraordinary evolution of scholarly investigation of a once-hidden aspect of the ancient world.; Signed by Editor.…

Original softcover. Condition: Sehr gut. IX, 238 p., ill. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Price tag residue on the back, slight staining on bottom edge, slightly rubbed, otherwise very good and clean. / Preisschildrückstand auf der Rückseite, leichte Anschmutzung auf Fußschnitt, leicht berieben, sonst sehr gut und sauber. - Contents: I. Antiquity and the Enlightenment: Inventing the present -- 1. Towards a History of Body History, Amy Richlin -- 2. Painters and Pederasts: Ancient Art, Sexuality, and Social History, Martin Kilmer -- 3. Trimalchio's constipation: Periodizing Madness, Eros, and Time, Peter Toohey -- 4. Philosophy, friendship, and cultural history, David Konstan -- 5. Continuity and Change in Roman Social History: Retrieving 'Family Feeling(s)' from Roman Law and Literature, Suzanne Dixon -- II. Reconstructing the past: The practice of periodization -- 6. Periodization and the Heroes: Inventing a Dark Age, Ian Morris -- 7. Reconstructing change: Ideology and the Eleusinian Mysteries, Christiane Sourvino-Inwood -- 8. The Problem of Periodization: The Case of the Peloponnesian War, Barry S. Srauss -- 9. Change or Continuity? Children and Childhood in Hellenistic Historiography, Mark Golden -- 10. Did Roman Women haven an Empire?, Phyllis Culham. ISBN 9780415099608 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 455.…