(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)Emmanuel Vallverdu
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The ancient world was a difficult place to live, and without aid services, anyone unable or unwilling to adapt and provide for themselves their families would not survive long.
This was specifically the case of strangers, of newcomers in a new city. The flight of refugees to another area in the Classical Period appears to have been an organized event, with a coherent plan for departure from their home on the part of the refugees and prior agreement...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Women, both real and mythical, should progress through certain stages of liminality in their lives in the Ancient Classical period. These stages of varying liminality and distance from status society are, interestingly, incorporated within the structures of status society as regularized and necessary periods within it.
In classical Athenian society, women normatively shed their blood as they move through stages, from childhood to menarche to marriage...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The crucial task of this book has been to lay the theoretical foundations for new reading approaches to the ancient novels across world literature. New strategies are used for integrating the study of the ancient novels with the literature of slavery. This book has focused much more on the cultural aspects of reception rather than the idiosyncratic ones, and thus it has prioritized the exploration of the literary milieu of Roman Africa and the East...