Political bodies/body politic : the semiotics of gender / by Juschka, Darlene M., 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Spectacles of gender : performing masculinities in ancient Rome and modern cinema -- ch. 6. Sign-symbol and icon : deconstructing the Eliadean paradigm.…”
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The ears of Hermes : communication, images, and identity in the classical world / by Bettini, Maurizio

Table of Contents: “…Hermes' ears : places and symbols of communication in ancient culture -- Brutus the fool -- Mos, mores, and mos maiorum : the invention of morality in Roman culture -- Face to face in ancient Rome : the vocabulary of physical appearance in Latin -- Sosia and his substitute : thinking the double at Rome -- Ghosts of exile : doubles and nostalgia in Vergil's Parva troia -- Death and its double : imagines, ridiculum, and honos in the Roman aristocratic funeral -- Argumentum.…”
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Love songs : a hidden history / by Gioia, Ted

Table of Contents: “…-- Procreative music -- Sappho and Confucius -- Love in ancient Rome -- Debauched maidens and lustful harlots -- The North African and Middle Eastern connection -- The troubadours -- The triumph of romance -- A love supreme -- Profane love -- Divas and deviancy -- Folk songs and love songs -- Love songs for the mass market -- The African connection (again) -- Crooners, torch songs and bobbysoxers -- Rock 'n' roll and the summer of love -- As nasty as they wanna be.…”
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Love songs : a hidden history / by Gioia, Ted

Table of Contents: “…-- Procreative music -- Sappho and Confucius -- Love in ancient Rome -- Debauched maidens and lustful harlots -- The North African and Middle Eastern connection -- The troubadours -- The triumph of romance -- A love supreme -- Profane love -- Divas and deviancy -- Folk songs and love songs -- Love songs for the mass market -- The African connection (again) -- Crooners, torch songs and bobbysoxers -- Rock 'n' roll and the summer of love -- As nasty as they wanna be.…”

Painting, ethics, and aesthetics in Rome / by Jones, Nathaniel B.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title page; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; List of Plates; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: The Painting of Painting in Ancient Rome; 1 Winckelmann and the Cultural Dynamics of Painting; 2 Disrupting the Frame; 3 The Ethics and Politics of Art; 4 Transparent and Opaque: Medium and Materiality on the Roman Wall; Plates; 5 Paradigms, Ensembles, and Anachronisms; Epilogue: Reflection and Reflexivity; Bibliography; Index…”
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Shakespeare's political imagination : the historicism of setting / by Goldfarb Styrt, Philip

Table of Contents: “…The European past : Ancient Rome. Julius Caesar, factions and the end of the Roman republic -- Coriolanus and the tribunes in the early Roman republic -- Part Three. …”

Problematics of military power : government, discipline, and the subject of violence / by Drake, Michael S., 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Ancient. Ancient Rome and historical sociology ; The Roman republic ; The imperial order ; From Pax romana to the order of Feud -- Medieval. …”
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Nature knows no color-line : research into the Negro ancestry in the white race / by Rogers, J. A. 1880-1966

Table of Contents: “…And why -- Color prejudice among whites themselves -- Negroes in ancient Europe-Greece -- Whites and blacks in ancient Rome -- Racial intermixture in Spain and Portugal -- The Negro as "Moor." aristocratic European families -- Whites and blacks in Greece, Turkey, Italy, Germany -- Negro ancestry in the French -- Negro ancestry in the Anglo-Saxons -- Negro ancestry in white America -- Recent mixed marriages -- Appendix. …”
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The rule of empires : those who built them, those who endured them, and why they always fall / by Parsons, Timothy, 1962-

The rule of empires : those who built them, those who endured them, and why they always fall / by Parsons, Timothy, 1962-

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The Romans : from village to empire / by Boatwright, Mary Taliaferro

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Saint Valentine / by Sabuda, Robert

Pearson my world history and geography Tennessee edition. : gr. 6

Gardens and ghettos : the art of Jewish life in Italy /

Table of Contents: “…Mann -- Jewish art and culture in ancient Rome / Richard Brilliant -- Hebrew illuminated manuscripts from Italy / Evelyn Cohen -- Jewish ceremonial art in the era of the City States and the Ghettos / Dora Liscia Bemporad -- From Risorgimento to the Resistance : a century of Jewish artists in Italy / Emily Braun -- A millennium of Hebrew poetry in Italy / Allen Mandelbaum.…”

Civil religion and the Enlightenment in England, 1707-1800 / by Walsh, Ashley

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Hanoverian civil religion and its intellectual eesources -- Building Athens from Jerusalem : Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury -- The politics of priestcraft : John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon -- The church-state alliance : Henry St John, Viscount Bolingbroke, and William Warburton -- The civil faith of common sense : David Hume -- The legacy of ancient Rome : Edward Gibbon and Conyers Middleton -- Subscription, reform, and Dissent : civil religion and enlightened divinity during the late eighteenth century -- Conclusion : Hanoverian civil religion and its aftermath.…”
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Suicidal honor : General Nogi and the writings of Mori Ōgai and Natsume Sōseki / by Bargen, Doris G.

Table of Contents: “…"Okitsu Yagoemon no isho" (first version): junshi postponed ; "Sahashi Jingorō": anything but seppuku ; "Okitsu Yagoemon no isho" (second version): a spectacle for the lord's successor ; "Abe ichizoku": the perplexities of permission ; Mori Ōgai's "Sakai jiken": rebellion and martyrdom ; Natsume Sōseki's Kokoro: living as though dead -- Coda: last stands in ancient Rome and modern Japan.…”
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On the wings of time : Rome, the Incas, Spain, and Peru / by MacCormack, Sabine

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Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic : Selfhood, Stoicism and Civil War / by Gray, Patrick

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The Family in Italy from antiquity to the present /

Table of Contents: “…Saller -- Child rearing in ancient Italy / Peter Garnsey -- The cultural meaning of death : age and gender in the Roman family / Brent Shaw -- Ideals and practicalities in matchmaking in ancient Rome / Susan Treggiari -- The Augustan law on adultery : the social and cultural context / David Cohen -- Constructing kinship in Rome : marriage and divorce, filiation and adoption / Mireille Corbier -- Ideas about procreation and their influence on ancient and medieval views of kinship / Jane Fair Bestor -- Sexuality, marriage, celibacy, and the family in central and northern Italy : Christian legal and moral guides in the early Middle Ages / Michael Sheehan.…”

History of toxicology and environmental health : toxicology in antiquity II / by Wexler, Philip, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Murder, execution, and suicide in Ancient Greece and Rome -- Chemical and biological warfare in antiquity -- Anthropogenic air pollution in ancient times -- Poisoning in Ancient Rome: the legal framework, the nature of poisons, and gender stereotypes -- Asclepius and the snake as toxicological symbols in Ancient Greece and Rome -- Drugs, suppositories, and cult worship in antiquity -- Kohl use in antiquity: effects on the eye -- "Gleaming and deadly white": toxic cosmetics in the Roman world -- Poisonous medicine in Ancient China -- The venomous virgin: fact or fantasy? …”
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