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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. 1. Minor shelf wear. Else a bright, clean copy. This volume focuses on the great Roman love poet Propertius. Propertius' poetry reveals an ardent love affair between the poet and his girlfriend, whom he calls 'Cynthia', yet it also offers a snapshot of life in ancient Rome during the Augustan age (20s BC). While this was a period of growth and revival after the crippling civil wars of the previous century, it was also a time when Rome was adjusting to a new form of government under its first emperor. Oxford Readings in Propertius is the first volume on Propertius' poetry to bring together some of the best and most influential scholarship written during the last three decades and put them into dialogue with each other. The articles discuss the recent developments in Propertius scholarship, as well as major critical approaches that have emerged in classical studies in general, and look at issues of text, intertextuality, gender, and the social and political context of Propertius' work.…

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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. None. 1. Minor shelf wear. Else a bright, clean copy. This volume focuses on the great Roman love poet Propertius. Propertius' poetry reveals an ardent love affair between the poet and his girlfriend, whom he calls 'Cynthia', yet it also offers a snapshot of life in ancient Rome during the Augustan age (20s BC). While this was a period of growth and revival after the crippling civil wars of the previous century, it was also a time when Rome was adjusting to a new form of government under its first emperor. Oxford Readings in Propertius is the first volume on Propertius' poetry to bring together some of the best and most influential scholarship written during the last three decades and put them into dialogue with each other. The articles discuss the recent developments in Propertius scholarship, as well as major critical approaches that have emerged in classical studies in general, and look at issues of text, intertextuality, gender, and the social and political context of Propertius' work.…

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. 1st Edition. As new condition black boards with white spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Michael MacCambridge; Author Dedication; Preliminary Page Quotes; Prologue; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Source Notes; Bibliographic Essay; Author Interviews; Index and About the Author. Illustrated with two sections of black-and-white photographic plates. "Michael MacCambridge has produced a riveting book you didn't know needed to be written until you turn the first page - at which point you realize it's indispensable history. The Big Time is part cultural biography and part stroll down charming lanes of nostalgia, revisiting indelible characters at their peak powers, from Chrissie Evert to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. But mainly it's an engrossing appraisal of an American decade that changed, well, everything." - Sally Jenkins, author. "If you remember how great sports were in those days, The Big Time will remind you, and if you doubt how great, this book will show you." - Roy Blount Jr., author. "A captivating chronicle of the pivotal decade in American sports, when the games invaded prime time and sports moved from the margins to the mainstream of American culture. Every decade brings change, but as Michael MacCambridge chronicles in The Big Time, no decade in American sports history featured such convulsive cultural shifts as the 1970s. So many things happened during the decade: the move of sports into prime-time television, the beginning of athletes' gaining a sense of autonomy for their own careers, integration becoming - at least within sports - more of the rule than the exception, and the social revolution that brought females more decisively into sports, as athletes, coaches, executives, and spectators. More than politicians, musicians, or actors, the decade in America was defined by its most exemplary athletes. The sweeping changes in the decade could bee seen in the collective experience of Billie Jean King and Muhammad Ali, Henry Aaron and Julius Erving, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Joe Greene, Jack Nicklaus and Chris Evert, among others, who redefined the role of athletes and athletics in American culture. The '70s witnessed the emergence of spectator sports as an ever-expanding mainstream phenomenon, as well as dramatic changes in the way athletes were paid, portrayed, and packaged. In tracing the epic narrative of how American sports was transformed in the '70s, a larger story emerges: of how America itself changed, and how spectator sports moved decisively on a trajectory toward what it has become today, the last truly "big tent" in American culture." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. Pascuzzo, Phil (jacket design); Welch, Tara (author photograph) (illustratore). …

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Paperback or Softback. Condizione: New. Elegiac Cityscape: Propertius & the Meaning of Roman Monuments. Book.

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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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Hardcover. Condizione: New. New hardcover in glossy case wraps. Pages are clean and free of marks or underlining. 8vo. (6 x 0.8 x 9 inches) Includes author's notes, bibliography, index, and figures. 240 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Throughout its history, the city of Rome has inspired writers to describe its majesty, to situate themselves within its sweeping landscape, and to comment upon its contribution to their own identity. The Roman elegiac poet Propertius was one such author. This final published collection, issued in 16 BCE, has been traditionally read as an abandonment by Propertius of his earlier flippant love poems for a more mature engagement with Roman public life or else a comical send-up of imperial policies as embodied in Rome's public buildings. The relationship between poet and city is complicated at every turn with the presence in the background of the emperor Augustus, whose sustained artistic patronage of Roman monuments brought about the most pervasive transformation that the cityscape had yet seen. The Elegiac Cityscape explores Propertius' Rome and the various ways his poetry about the city illuminates the dynamic relationship between one individual and his environment. Combining the approaches of archaeology and literary criticism, Tara S. Welch examines how Propertius' poems on Roman places scrutinize the monumentalization of various ideological positions in Rome, as they poke and prod Rome's monuments to see what further meanings they might admit. The result is a poetic book rife with different perspectives on the eternal city, perspectives that often call into question any sleepy or complacent adherence to Rome's traditional values.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. First Edition. 2012. x, 510pp. "This volume focuses on the great Roman love poet Propertius. Propertius' poetry reveals an ardent love affair between the poet and his girlfriend, whom he calls 'Cynthia', yet it also offers a snapshot of life in ancient Rome during the Augustan age (20s Bc). While this was a period of growth and revival after the crippling civil wars of the previous century, it was also a time when Rome was adjusting to a new form of government under its first emperor. . Oxford Readings in Classical Studies: Propertius is the first volume on Propertius' poetry to bring together some of the best and most influential scholarship written during the last three decades and put them into dialogue with each other. The articles discuss the recent developments in Propertius scholarship, as well as major critical approaches that have emerged in classical studies in general, and look at issues of text, intertextuality, gender, and the social and political context of Propertius' work." The book is in excellent condition. There are no inscriptions and all contents are tight and clean.…

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Hardcover. Condizione: As New in As New dust jacket. A book in the Oxford Readings in Classical Studies series. "The articles discuss the recent developments in Propertius scholarship, as well as major critical approaches that have emerged in classical studies in general, and look at issues of text, intertextuality, gender, and the social political context of Propertius' work." Dust jacket now in mylar protector. 510 pages. ; 5 5/8 x 8 3/4". …

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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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Condizione: New. This is the first volume on Propertius to bring together some of the best and most influential scholarship on his poetry and put them into dialogue with each other. The articles discuss the recent developments in classical scholarship and look at issues of text, intertextuality, gender, and the social and political context of Propertius' work. Editor(s): Greene, Ellen; Welch, Tara S. Series: Oxford Readings in Classical Studies. Num Pages: 528 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 2ADL; 3D; DSBB; HBLA1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 28. Weight in Grams: 668. . 2012. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …