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Epic Visions: Visuality in Greek and Latin Epic and its Reception
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Epic Visions: Visuality in Greek and Latin Epic and its Reception

This wide-ranging, interdisciplinary collection explores different ways of visualising Greek and Roman epic from Homer to Statius, in both ancient and modern culture. The book presents new perspectives on Homer, Virgil, Ovid, Lucan, Valerius Flaccus and Statius, and covers the re-working of epic matter in tragedy, opera, film, late antique speeches of praise, story-boarding, sculpture and wall-painting.
 
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Tags: Statius, Greek, Homer, antique, speeches
The Cat Who Had 14 Tales by Lilian Jackson Braun
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The Cat Who Had 14 Tales by Lilian Jackson BraunThe Cat Who Had 14 Tales by Lilian Jackson Braun

A courageous Siamese bags a cunning cat burglar. A country kitty proves a stumbling block in a violent murder. And an intuitive feline's premonition helps solve the case of the missing antique dealer. Here are 14 Braun "Cat" tales that are riveting and amusing whodunits.

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Tags: Braun, dealer, antique, missing, solve, Tales, Jackson, Lilian
In An Antique Land
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In An Antique LandIn An Antique Land

In the 1980s Amitav Ghosh moved into a converted chicken coop. It was on the roof of a house in Lataifa, a tiny village in Egypt. During the day he poured over medieval letters sent to India from Cairo by Arab merchants. In the evenings he shut out the bellowing of his fat landlord by turning up the volume of his transistor radio and wrote stories based on what he had seen in the village.


 
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Tags: village, turning, landlord, bellowing, merchants, Antique, evenings
Stealing Heaven
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Stealing HeavenStealing Heaven

My name is Danielle. I'm eighteen. I've been stealing things for as long as I can remember.
Dani has been trained as a thief by the best - her mother. Together, they move from town to town, targeting wealthy homes and making a living by stealing antique silver. They never stay in one place long enough to make real connections, real friends - a real life.


 
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Tags: stealing, never, silver, antique, place, Stealing, Heaven, living
Byzantine Art in the Making
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Byzantine Art in the MakingByzantine Art in the Making

The major theoretical contributions of Kitzinger's later career are embodied in his book Byzantine art in the making (1977), originally delivered as a series of lectures at the University of Cambridge, and in a volume of his collected essays, The art of Byzantium and the medieval West (1976). In both volumes Kitzinger maintained his life-long preoccupation with the analysis of style change in late antique and early medieval art, and his conviction that stylistic analysis could speak with an authority equal to that of iconography or textual history.
 
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Tags: Byzantine, analysis, Kitzinger, medieval, antique, Making