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...Sara Forsdyke Scott Michael , Delphi: A History of the Center of the Ancient World . ( Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2014 ), 440 pp. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016...

...Jochen Brüning Chemla Karine , ed., The History of Mathematical Proof in Ancient Traditions . ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2012 ), 612 pp. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015...

...Susan Stephens Parkinson R. B. , Reading Ancient Egyptian Poetry among Other Histories ( Chichester, U.K. : Wiley-Blackwell , 2009 ), 392 pp. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 LITTLE REVIEWS Amir Alexander...

... fantasy, conjured by its diehard, oligarchic opponents, such as Plato, than a real, viable alternative mode of doing democratic politics. Thus, ancient Greek political history has its limits as a guide through our present troubles. References Cartledge Paul . Democracy: A Life . New ed...

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... together the work of ancient and medieval historians, to examine their own positions vis-à-vis the discipline of history and to reflect on its political and rhetorical aspects. The seminar, titled “Jews, Pagans, and Christians Write History in Antiquity,” was meant to question, through self-reflexive...

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... Livy Pierre Corneille Rome ancient history Horatii conflict resolution Symposium: Peace by Other Means, Part 2 LIVY AND CORNEILLE Conflict and Resolution in the Story of the Horatii Colin Davis Perhaps the ancient tales have something...

...Edith Bruder A contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium on xenophilia, this article examines the ethnic groups (more than a dozen) on the African continent that have proclaimed their connections to ancient Israel and have developed versions of their tribal histories that place them as a part...

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... Prize of the American Historical Associa- tion; Marpingen: Apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Bismarckian Germany; The Long Nineteenth Century; Populists and Patricians; and Class, Religion, and Local Politics in Wilhelmine Germany. G. W. Bowersock is professor emeritus of ancient history...

... of Classical Art in Antiquity; The Greeks Overseas; The History of Greek Vases; and The Relief Plaques of Eastern Eurasia and China: The “Ordos Bronzes,” Peter the Great’s Treasure, and Their Kin. G. W. Bowersock, professor emeritus of ancient history at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton...

... the doings of human beings such as the Homeric heroes; it is essentially a form of early history—in fact, the COMMON KNOWLEDGE COMMON “ancient history” of antiquity. A corollary is that the characters who people these myths, usually larger...

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...) Doctrine and Debate in the East Christian World, 300 1500; Late Antiquity on the Eve of Islam; and volumes 13 and 14 of the Cambridge Ancient History. William M. Chace is president emeritus of Emory University and honorary professor emeri- tus of English at Stanford University. His books include One...

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... the puzzles. Haven enumerates specific examples of the formula s triumph. Girard, who thought of himself as a philosophical anthropologist, saw what Marx and Freud C O M M O N K N O W L E D G E 17 0 had missed; he dug deeper into ancient history than Schliemann; his understand- ing of war surpassed...

... Antiquity on the Eve of Islam: The Formation of Classical Islam; and volumes 13 and 14 of the Cambridge Ancient History. Adam S. Cohen, who has recently returned from teaching at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art on a Getty Foundation grant, is associate professor of medieval art history...

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