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Mystic cults in Magna Graecia /

Table of Contents: “…Drew Griffith -- Demeter and Isis -- Aspects of the cult of Demeter in Magna Graecia : the "case" of San Nicola di Albanella / Giulia Sfameni Gasparro -- Landscape synchesis : a Demeter temple in Latium / Kathryn M. …”
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The classical tradition

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A companion to the classical Greek world

Table of Contents: “…A COMPANION TO THE CLASSICAL GREEK WORLD; Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Preface; Abbreviations and a Note on Spelling; Map of Southern Italy and Sicily; Chapter 1: The Classical Age as a Historical Epoch; Chapter 2: The Literary Sources; Chapter 3: The Non-Literary Written Sources; Chapter 4: The Contribution of the Non-Written Sources; Chapter 5: Athens, Sparta and the Wider World; Chapter 6: Aegean Greece; Chapter 7: The Central and Northern Balkan Peninsula; Chapter 8: The Greek Cities of the Black Sea; Chapter 9: Western Greece (Magna Graecia).…”
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Greek Colonization in Local Contexts Case Studies in Colonial Interactions. by Lucas, Jason

Table of Contents: “…Locrian colonization in Magna Graecia: Cities and territories -- 4. Cultural and ethnic dynamics in Sicily during Greek colonization -- 5. …”
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Brills companion to the reception of classics in international modernism.

Table of Contents: “…Goldwyn -- From ithaca to Magna Graecia, Icaria and Hyperborea : some aspects of the classical tradition in the Serbian avant-garde / Bojan Jovic -- Gods, heroes, and myths: the use of classical imagery in Spanish avant-garde prose / Juan Herrero-Senes -- The classical ideal in Fernando Pessoa / Kenneth David Jackson -- "Ulysses' island": nostos as exile in Salvatore Quasimodo's poetry / Ernesto Livorni -- Jean Cocteau, Orphee, and the shock of the old / David Hammerbeck -- The classical past and 'the history of ourselves': Laura Riding's Trojan woman / Anett Jessop -- Platonic eros and the "soul-leading" in C.S. …”
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A companion to Roman Italy

Table of Contents: “…Cooley / Chapter 7 'Italy during the High Empire, from the Flavians to Diocletian' -- Alison E. .Cooley / Chapter 8 'Late Roman and Late Antique Italy: from Constantine to Justinian' -- Neil Christie / PART TWO: LOCAL AND REGIONAL DIVERSITY; 2.1 Cultural diversity; Chapter 9 'Funerary practices' -- Emma-Jayne Graham and Valerie M. .Hope / Chapter 10 'Diversity in Architecture and Urbanism' -- Margaret Laird / Chapter 11 'Language and Literacy in Roman Italy' -- Kathryn Lomas / 2.2 Greek Italy / Chapter 12 'Roman Naples' -- Kathryn Lomas / Chapter 13 'Magna Graecia, 270 BC -- AD 200' -- Kathryn Lomas / 2.3 Case-study: Becoming Roman in Cisalpina; Chapter 14 'The changing face of Cisalpine identity' -- Clifford Ando, .Chicago / PART THREE: TOWN AND COUNTRY; 3.1 Settlement patterns; Chapter 15 'Urbanization -- Joanne Berry / Chapter 16 'Urban Peripheries' -- Penelope Goodman / Chapter 17 'Villas' -- Nigel Pollard / 3.2 Case-studies of towns and their territories; Chapter 18 'Republican and early imperial towns in the Tiber Valley' -- Simon Keay and Martin Millett / Chapter 19 'Cosa and the ager Cosanus' -- Elizabeth Fentress and Phil Perkins / Chapter 20 'Pompeii and the ager Pompeianus' -- Ray Laurence / Chapter 21 'Ostia' -- Janet DeLaine / PART FOUR: ECONOMY AND SOCIETY; Chapter22 'Regional interaction' -- Rebecca Benefiel / Chapter 23 'Agricultural production' -- Robert Witcher / Chapter 24 'Local elites' -- John Patterson / Chapter25 'Sub-elites' -- Jonathan Perry…”
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Performance, iconography, reception : studies in honour of Oliver Taplin

Table of Contents: “…Zeitlin -- Character and characterization in Greek tragedy / Bernd Seidensticker -- Scenes at the door in Aristophanic comedy / Peter Brown -- The poetics of the mask in old comedy / David Wiles -- Putting performance into focus / Robin Osborne -- The Greek gem : a token of recognition / Alfonso Moreno -- Image and representation in the pottery of Magna Graecia / François Lissarrague -- Wagner's Greeks : the politics of Hellenism / Simon Goldhill -- Resurrecting ancient Greece in Nazi Germany : the Oresteia as part of the Olympic Games in 1936 / Erika Fischer-Lichte -- Can the Odyssey ever be tragic? …”
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A Companion to Women in the Ancient World. by James, Sharon L.

Table of Contents: “…Case Study II: Sex and the Single Girl: The Cologne Fragment of Archilochus6 Woman, City, State: Theories, Ideologies, and Concepts in the Archaic and Classical Periods; 7 Women and Law; 8 Women and Medicine; 9 Reading the Bones: Interpreting the Skeletal Evidence for Women's Lives in Ancient Greece; 10 Approaches to Reading Attic Vases; 11 Spartan Girls and the Athenian Gaze; 12 Interpreting Women in Archaic and Classical Greek Sculpture; 13 Dress and Adornment in Archaic and Classical Greece; 14 Women and Religion in Greece; 15 Women and Roman Religion; 16 Women in Magna Graecia.…”
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Panhellenes at Methone : Graphê in Late Geometric and Protoarchaic Methone, Macedonia (ca 700 BCE)

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Children, spaces and identity

Table of Contents: “…Dolors Molas Font -- Children and funerary space : Ritual behaviours in the Greek colonies of Magna Graecia and Sicily / Diego Elia and Valeria Meirano -- Children and their burial practices in the early medieval cemeteries of Castel trosino and Nocera Umbra (Italy) / Valentina de Pasca -- La cultura lúdica en los rituales funerarios infantiles : los juegos de velorio / Jaume Bantulà Janot and Andrés Payà Rico -- Compartir la experiencia de la muerte : El niño muerto y el niño enfrentado a la muerte / Virginia de la Cruz Lichet.…”
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