Measures of Wisdom : the Cosmic Dance in Classical and Christian Antiquity. by Miller, James

Table of Contents: “…Calcidius: Commentary CXXIII-CXXIV; Excusing the Commotion; The Middle Platonic Spectator; Garlands for the Coryphaeus; 6 LIVING STATUES. …”
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Government, society, and culture in the Roman Empire / by Millar, Fergus

Table of Contents: “…Empire and City, Augustus to Julian: Obligations, Excuses, and Status -- Introduction -- The Cities under the Early Empire: Obligations and Exemptions -- Service to the State, Citizenship, and Exemption -- Veterans and Immunity.…”
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Greeks : EH01.

Table of Contents: “…Danforth -- Servants and sentries / Muriel Dimen -- Cosmos and gender in village Greece ; Meaning of dowery ; Women / Juliet Du Boulay -- Foreign chickens and other outsiders ; Culture enters through the kitchen ; Gender, kinship, and religion ; Greek women / Jill Dubisch -- Kinship, class and selective migration ; Lagging emulation in post-peasant society ; Some aspects of dowry and inheritance in Boetia ; Position of women ; Vasilika / Ernestine Friedl -- Place in history ; Closure as cure ; Embarrassment as pride ; Gender pragmatics ; Honour and shame ; Icons and identity ; In defiance of destiny ; Literacy as symbolic strategy in Greece ; Meaning and morality ; Of definitions and boundaries ; Ours once more ; Pride and perjury ; Semantic slippage and moral fall ; Silence, submission, and subversion ; Dowry in Greece ; Etymology of excuses ; Poetics of manhood ; When exceptions define the rules ; Within and without / Michael Herzfeld -- Greek adults' verbal play ; Heirs of the Greek catastrophe ; Open body/closed space / Renée Hirschon -- Under one roof / Renée B. …”
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Oath and state in Ancient Greece / by Sommerstein, Alan H.

Table of Contents: “…5.3 Athens: introduction5.4 The dicastic oath; 5.5 Litigants' preliminary oaths; 5.6 Excusing absence; 5.7 Oath to avoid irrelevance?; 5.8 Oaths and oath-offers during court speeches; 5.9 Did witnesses swear?…”
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Athletics, gymnastics, and agōn in Plato /

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