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Roman Literary Culture, second edition: From Plautus to ...

Roman Literary Culture, second edition: From Plautus to ...

Elaine Fantham

From Plautus to Macrobius Elaine Fantham. Preface. to. the. First. Edition. Let me start with a demurral. This book does not try to be a literary history. That would demand a rare combination of synoptic vision and intimate understanding of ...
Roman Readings: Roman Response to Greek Literature from ...

Roman Readings: Roman Response to Greek Literature from ...

Elaine Fantham

This volume presents closely connected articles by Elaine Fantham which deal with Roman responses to Greek literature on three major subjects: the history and criticism of Latin poetry and rhetoric, women in Roman life and dramatic poetry ...
Roman Literary Culture: From Cicero to Apuleius

Roman Literary Culture: From Cicero to Apuleius

Elaine Fantham

Scholars of ancient literature have often focused on the works and lives of major authors rather than on such questions as how these works were produced and who read them.
Statius: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

Statius: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

Elaine Fantham

In classics, as in other disciplines, researchers at all levels are drowning in potentially useful scholarly information, and this guide has been created as a tool for cutting through that material to find the exact source you need.
Virgil: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

Virgil: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

Elaine Fantham

In classics, as in other disciplines, researchers at all levels are drowning in potentially useful scholarly information, and this guide has been created as a tool for cutting through that material to find the exact source you need.
Roman Religion: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

Roman Religion: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

Elaine Fantham

In classics, as in other disciplines, researchers at all levels are drowning in potentially useful scholarly information, and this guide has been created as a tool for cutting through that material to find the exact source you need.
Julia Augusti

Julia Augusti

Elaine Fantham

Julia Augusti studies the life of the only daughter of Augustus, the first Roman emperor, and the father who sacrificed his daughter and her children in order to establish a dynasty.
Ovid's Metamorphoses

Ovid's Metamorphoses

Elaine Fantham

This introduction to Ovid's Metamorphoses considers how Ovid defined and shaped his narrative, its cultural context, and its vivid depictions of the cruelty of jealous gods, the pathos of human love, and the imaginative fantasy of flight, ...
Women in the Classical World: Image and Text

Women in the Classical World: Image and Text

Elaine Fantham

The first book on classical women to give equal weight to written texts and artistic representations, it brings together a great wealth of materials--poetry, vase painting, legislation, medical treatises, architecture, religious and ...
Women in the Classical World: Image and Text

Women in the Classical World: Image and Text

Elaine Fantham

The first book on classical women to give equal weight to written texts and artistic representations, it brings together a great wealth of materials--poetry, vase painting, legislation, medical treatises, architecture, religious and ...
Ancestral House: The Black Short Story in the Americas and ...

Ancestral House: The Black Short Story in the Americas and ...

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“Marriage Bones” by Helen Elaine Lee. Copyright © 1995 by Helen Elaine Lee. Printed with the permission of Helen Elaine Lee. “Shoemaker Arnold” from A Brief Conversation and Other Stories by Earl Lovelace (Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann  ...
The Young Wives

The Young Wives

Elaine Crowley

Elaine Crowley creates a community bound together by the special intimacy that comes when a group of people is thrown together and living far away from their homes and families.
A Generous Vision: The Creative Life of Elaine de Kooning

A Generous Vision: The Creative Life of Elaine de Kooning

Cathy Curtis

Elaine de Kooning letter to Philip Pavia, [postmarked] February 25, 1959, Philip Pavia Papers. Elaine de Kooning interview with John Jonas Gruen. Graham Gallery letter to Oliver Rowe, June 15, 1971, James Graham & Sons Gallery Records, ...
Special of the Day

Special of the Day

Elaine Fox

Writing with her trademark wit and humour, Elaine Fox brings us another wonderfully charming contemporary romance about a beauty who finally finds love that is more than just skin deep.
The Cambridge Companion to Caryl Churchill

The Cambridge Companion to Caryl Churchill

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Elaine Aston, Elin Diamond. I. ELAINE ASTON AND ELIN DIAMOND ... and internationally. Hence, wherever one looks the Churchillian landscape is ' frightening'. At Introduction: on Caryl Churchill ELAINE ASTON AND ELIN DIAMOND.
Elaine Lustig Cohen: Modernism Redefined

Elaine Lustig Cohen: Modernism Redefined

Aaris Sherin

A short critical overview of Elaine Lustig Cohen's pioneering design work as well as her paintings and collages.
Working with Families of African Caribbean Origin: ...

Working with Families of African Caribbean Origin: ...

Elaine Arnold

In this book, Elaine Arnold examines the psychological impact that immigration had on these families, in particular with relation to attachment issues.
A Family Cursed

A Family Cursed

Elaine Crowley

Elaine Crowley. children. In a small white coffin, without any service or ceremony or his mother even seeing him, the baby was carried by Fergus to the graveyard. And there, in a small section called the Killeen, a place of unconsecrated ...
Family rights: family law and medical advance

Family rights: family law and medical advance

Elaine Sutherland

Elaine Sutherland The importance of the ante-natal environment for the development of the fetus and, ultimately, the neonate and child is now accepted as being considerable. This is acknowledged in many jurisdictions by the provision of ...
Adam, Eve, and the Serpent: Sex and Politics in Early ...

Adam, Eve, and the Serpent: Sex and Politics in Early ...

Elaine Pagels

In this provocative masterpiece of historical scholarship Elaine Pagels re-creates the controversies that racked the early church as it confronted the riddles of sexuality, freedom, and sin as embodied in the story of Genesis.
From Poho on Dope to Ph.D.

From Poho on Dope to Ph.D.

Elaine B. Richardson

From PoHo on Dope to Ph.D. is a raw narrative chronicling Dr. Elaine Richardson's early traumas as a young black woman in the ghettoes of Cleveland, Ohio, before she re-invented herself in the halls of the university.
Leave the Mud, Learn to Soar

Leave the Mud, Learn to Soar

Elaine Martens Hamilton

"For years I had just enough of God to make me miserable", writes Elaine Martens Hamilton.
READY, CLICK, WIN! How to Find, Enter and Win Online Sweepstakes

READY, CLICK, WIN! How to Find, Enter and Win Online Sweepstakes

Sharon Elaine

Elaine offers a guide to finding, entering, organizing, and winning online sweepstakes as a profitable hobby. (Games/Gamebooks/Crosswords)
We Were the Least of These: Reading the Bible with Survivors ...

We Were the Least of These: Reading the Bible with Survivors ...

Elaine A. Heath

Finally, Elaine Heath has provided a welcome reframing of scripture for survivors of sexual abuse. This book offers a compassionate, theologically sound reading of biblical stories and shares a healing, redemptive perspective.
How Change Happens-- Or Doesn't: The Politics of US Public ...

How Change Happens-- Or Doesn't: The Politics of US Public ...

Elaine Ciulla Kamarck

Answering those questions is the purpose of this book. Elaine Kamarck traces the paths of a series of modern policy initiatives from the orderly world of analysis to the messy world of partisan politics.
Urban, Social, and Educational Issues

Urban, Social, and Educational Issues

Leonard H. Golubchick

A Future for Jennifer, 38 Elaine Todd Koren This award-winning case study examines a disturbed child attending an elementary school in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn. 11. James Is Gone: Thank Heaven, 41 Elaine Todd Koren This ...
Palm Beach Life

Palm Beach Life

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655-8655. 19 Kravis Center for the Performing Arts — Gala Night of Stars benefit at the Cohen Pavilion and Gimelstob Ballroom. Carol Feinberg Cohen, chairwoman; Elaine Langone and Elaine Gimelstob, co- chairwomen; Renate Dreyfoos, ...
Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem: Devilish Indians and ...

Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem: Devilish Indians and ...

Elaine G. Breslaw

In this important book, Elaine Breslaw claims to have rediscovered Tituba, the elusive, mysterious, and often mythologized Indian woman accused of witchcraft in Salem in 1692 and immortalized in Arthur Miller's The Crucible.
America and the Pill: A History of Promise, Peril, and ...

America and the Pill: A History of Promise, Peril, and ...

Elaine Tyler May

But as renowned historian Elaine Tyler May reveals in America and the Pill, it was women who embraced it and created change. They used the pill to challenge the authority of doctors, pharmaceutical companies, and lawmakers.
Great Expectations: Marriage and Divorce in Post-Victorian ...

Great Expectations: Marriage and Divorce in Post-Victorian ...

Elaine Tyler May

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the divorce rate in the United States rose by a staggering 2,000 percent. To understand this dramatic rise, Elaine Tyler May studied over one thousand detailed divorce cases.

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