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The Discovery of Middle Earth - Mapping the Lost World of the Celts (Paperback): Graham Robb The Discovery of Middle Earth - Mapping the Lost World of the Celts (Paperback)
Graham Robb
R460 R386 Discovery Miles 3 860 Save R74 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Fifty generations ago the cultural empire of the Celts stretched from the Black Sea to Ireland and the Highlands of Scotland. In six hundred years, the Celts had produced some of the finest artistic and scientific masterpieces of the ancient world. In 58 BC, Julius Caesar marched over the Alps, bringing slavery and genocide to western Europe. Within eight years the Celts of what is now France were utterly annihilated, and in another hundred years the Romans had overrun Britain. It is astonishing how little remains of this great civilization.

While planning a bicycling trip along the Heraklean Way, the ancient route from Portugal to the Alps, Graham Robb discovered a door to that forgotten world a beautiful and precise pattern of towns and holy places based on astronomical and geometrical measurements: this was the three-dimensional Middle Earth of the Celts. As coordinates and coincidences revealed themselves across the continent, a map of the Celtic world emerged as a miraculously preserved archival document.

Robb one of the more unusual and appealing historians currently striding the planet (New York Times) here reveals the ancient secrets of the Celts, demonstrates the lasting influence of Druid science, and recharts the exploration of the world and the spread of Christianity. A pioneering history grounded in a real-life historical treasure hunt, The Discovery of Middle Earth offers nothing less than an entirely new understanding of the birth of modern Europe."

The Government of the Qin and Han Empires - 221 BCE - 220 CE (Hardcover): Michael Loewe The Government of the Qin and Han Empires - 221 BCE - 220 CE (Hardcover)
Michael Loewe
R1,095 R990 Discovery Miles 9 900 Save R105 (10%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In this concise volume, Michael Loewe provides an engaging overview of the government of the early empires of China. Topics discussed are: the seat of supreme authority; the structure of central government; provincial and local government; the armed forces; officials; government communications; laws of the empire; control of the people and the land; controversies; and problems and weaknesses of the imperial system. Enhanced by details from recently discovered manuscripts, relevant citations from official documents, maps, a chronology of relevant events, and suggestions for further reading keyed to each topic, this work is an ideal introduction to the ways in which China's first emperors governed.

Plato of Athens - A Life in Philosophy (Hardcover): Robin Waterfield Plato of Athens - A Life in Philosophy (Hardcover)
Robin Waterfield
R664 R539 Discovery Miles 5 390 Save R125 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The first ever biography of the founder of Western philosophy Considered by many to be the most important philosopher ever, Plato was born into a well-to-do family in wartime Athens at the end of the fifth century BCE. In his teens, he honed his intellect by attending lectures from the many thinkers who passed through Athens and toyed with the idea of writing poetry. He finally decided to go into politics, but became disillusioned, especially after the Athenians condemned his teacher, Socrates, to death. Instead, Plato turned to writing and teaching. He began teaching in his twenties and later founded the Academy, the world's first higher-educational research and teaching establishment. Eventually, he returned to practical politics and spent a considerable amount of time and energy trying to create a constitution for Syracuse in Sicily that would reflect and perpetuate some of his political ideals. The attempts failed, and Plato's disappointment can be traced in some of his later political works. In his lifetime and after, Plato was considered almost divine. Though a measure of his importance, this led to the invention of many tall tales about him-both by those who adored him and his detractors. In this first ever full-length portrait of Plato, Robin Waterfield steers a judicious course among these stories, debunking some while accepting the kernels of truth in others. He explains why Plato chose to write dialogues rather than treatises and gives an overview of the subject matter of all of Plato's books. Clearly and engagingly written throughout, Plato of Athens is the perfect introduction to the man and his work.

Metamorphoses of Psyche in Psychoanalysis and Ancient Greek Thought - From Mourning to Creativity (Paperback): Marcia Dobson Metamorphoses of Psyche in Psychoanalysis and Ancient Greek Thought - From Mourning to Creativity (Paperback)
Marcia Dobson
R963 Discovery Miles 9 630 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Blends expert insights on ancient Greek thought and modern psychoanalysis; focuses on expanding analytic theory and clinical practice; contains rich clinical material

Dracontius' Orestes (Paperback): Paul Roche Dracontius' Orestes (Paperback)
Paul Roche
R1,115 Discovery Miles 11 150 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The first English translation of Dracontius' Orestes, written in an accessible way to appeal to scholars and non-scholars alike, accompanied by detailed notes and a comprehensive introduction to the work and its many contexts for all readers.

A Social History of Christian Origins - The Rejected Jesus (Paperback): Simon J Joseph A Social History of Christian Origins - The Rejected Jesus (Paperback)
Simon J Joseph
R1,131 Discovery Miles 11 310 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Employs the social-psychological study of social rejection, social identity theory, and social memory theory, shedding new light on the topic.

The Complete Works of Claudian - Translated with an Introduction and Notes (Paperback): Neil Bernstein The Complete Works of Claudian - Translated with an Introduction and Notes (Paperback)
Neil Bernstein
R1,159 Discovery Miles 11 590 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This first translation of Claudian's works since 1922 offers an accessible, comprehensive overview of his varied works, with full English translations, detailed notes, and glossary.

Antigona by Jose Watanabe - A Bilingual Edition with Critical Essays (Paperback): Cristina Perez Diaz Antigona by Jose Watanabe - A Bilingual Edition with Critical Essays (Paperback)
Cristina Perez Diaz
R1,120 Discovery Miles 11 200 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book brings to English readers, in its entirety for the first time, a translation of Jose Watanabe's Antigona, accompanied by the original Spanish text and critical essays. The lack of availability in English has resulted in the absence of Antigona from important Anglophone studies devoted specifically to the reception of ancient Greek tragedy in the Americas. Perez Diaz's translation fills this gap. The introduction provides the performative, political, and historical contexts in which the text was written in collaboration with the actress Teresa Ralli, from the Peruvian theater group Yuyachkani, who also originally performed it. Following the bilingual text, a critical essay provides an analysis of textual aspects of Antigona that have been disregarded, situating it in relation to Sophocles' Antigone and in conversation with relevant moments of the vast traditions of reception of the Greek tragedy. An appendix briefly surveys some notable productions of the play throughout Latin America. This comprehensive volume provides an invaluable resource for readers interested in Jose Watanabe's work, students and scholars working on classical reception and Latin American literature and theatre, as well as theatre practitioners.

Ancient and Early Medieval Kingdoms of the Pamir Region of Central Asia - Historical Shughnan and its Lost Capital (Paperback):... Ancient and Early Medieval Kingdoms of the Pamir Region of Central Asia - Historical Shughnan and its Lost Capital (Paperback)
Muzaffar Zoirshoevich Zoolshoev
R1,176 Discovery Miles 11 760 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Includes evidence from Soviet scholarship that is often not accessible to scholars working on this period.

Cyprus between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (ca. 600-800) - An Island in Transition (Hardcover): Luca Zavagno Cyprus between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (ca. 600-800) - An Island in Transition (Hardcover)
Luca Zavagno
R3,911 Discovery Miles 39 110 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Research on early medieval Cyprus has focused on the late antique "golden age" (late fourth/early fifth to seventh century) and the so-called Byzantine "Reconquista" (post-AD 965) while overlooking the intervening period. This phase was characterized, supposedly, by the division of the political sovereignty between the Umayyads and the Byzantines, bringing about the social and demographic dislocation of the population of the island. This book proposes a different story of continuities and slow transformations in the fate of Cyprus between the late sixth and the early ninth centuries. Analysis of new archaeological evidence shows signs of a continuing link to Constantinople. Moreover, together with a reassessment of the literary evidence, archaeology and material culture help us to reappraise the impact of Arab naval raids and contextualize the confrontational episodes throughout the ebb and flow of Eastern Mediterranean history: the political influence of the Caliphate looked stronger in the second half of the seventh century, the administrative and ecclesiastical influence of the Byzantine empire was held sway from the beginning of the eighth to the twelfth century. Whereas the island retained sound commercial ties with the Umayyad Levant in the seventh and eighth centuries, at the same time politically and economically it remained part of the Byzantine sphere. This belies the idea of Cyprus as an independent province only loosely tied to Constantinople and allows us to draw a different picture of the cultural identities, political practices and hierarchy of wealth and power in Cyprus during the passage from Late Antiquity to the early Middle Ages.

Military Diasporas - Building of Empire in the Middle East and Europe (550 BCE-1500 CE) (Paperback): Georg Christ, Patrick... Military Diasporas - Building of Empire in the Middle East and Europe (550 BCE-1500 CE) (Paperback)
Georg Christ, Patrick Sanger, Mike Carr
R1,154 Discovery Miles 11 540 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Military Diasporas proposes a new research approach to analyse the role of foreign military personnel as composite and partly imagined para-ethnic groups. These groups not only buttressed a state or empire's military might but crucially connected, policed, and administered (parts of) realms as a transcultural and transimperial class while representing the polity's universal or at least cosmopolitan aspirations at court or on diplomatic and military missions. Case studies of foreign militaries with a focus on their diasporic elements include the Achaemenid Empire, Ptolemaic Egypt, and the Roman Empire in the ancient world. These are followed by chapters on the Sassanid and Islamic occupation of Egypt, Byzantium, the Latin Aegean (Catalan Company) to Iberian Christian noblemen serving North African Islamic rulers, Mamluks and Italian Stradiots, followed by chapters on military diasporas in Hungary, the Teutonic Order including the Sword Brethren, and the Swiss military. The volume thus covers a broad band of military diasporic experiences and highlights aspects of their role in the building of state and empire from Antiquity to the late Middle Ages and from Persia via Egypt to the Baltic. With a broad chronological and geographic range, this volume is the ideal resource for upper-level undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars interested in the history of war and warfare from Antiquity to the sixteenth century.

A Thousand Small Sanities - The Moral Adventure of Liberalism (Paperback): Adam Gopnik A Thousand Small Sanities - The Moral Adventure of Liberalism (Paperback)
Adam Gopnik
R443 R367 Discovery Miles 3 670 Save R76 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Legacy of Demetrius of Alexandria 189-232 CE - The Form and Function of Hagiography in Late Antique and Islamic Egypt... The Legacy of Demetrius of Alexandria 189-232 CE - The Form and Function of Hagiography in Late Antique and Islamic Egypt (Hardcover)
Maged Mikhail
R4,349 Discovery Miles 43 490 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is the first full-length study of Demetrius of Alexandria (189-232 ce), who generated a neglected, yet remarkable hagiographic program that secured him a positive legacy throughout the Middle Ages and the modern era. Drawing upon Patristic, Coptic, and Arabic sources spanning a millennium, the analysis contextualizes the Demetrian corpus at its various stages of composition and presents the totality of his hagiographic corpus in translation. This volume constitutes a definitive study of Demetrius, but more broadly, it provides a clearly delineated hagiographic program and charts its evolution against a backdrop of political developments and intercommunal interactions. This fascinating study is a useful resource for students of Demetrius and the Church in Egypt in this period, but also for anyone working on Early Christianity and hagiography more generally.

Truth and History in the Ancient World - Pluralising the Past (Hardcover): Lisa Hau, Ian Ruffell Truth and History in the Ancient World - Pluralising the Past (Hardcover)
Lisa Hau, Ian Ruffell
R4,513 Discovery Miles 45 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This collection of essays investigates histories in the ancient world and the extent to which the producers and consumers of those histories believed them to be true. Ancient Greek historiographers repeatedly stressed the importance of truth to history; yet they also purported to believe in myth, distorted facts for nationalistic or moralizing purposes, and omitted events that modern audiences might consider crucial to a truthful account of the past. Truth and History in the Ancient World explores a pluralistic concept of truth - one in which different versions of the same historical event can all be true - or different kinds of truths and modes of belief are contingent on culture. Beginning with comparisons between historiography and aspects of belief in Greek tragedy, chapters include discussions of historiography through the works of Herodotus, Xenophon, and Ktesias, as well as Hellenistic and later historiography, material culture in Vitruvius, and Lucian's satire. Rather than investigate whether historiography incorporates elements of poetic, rhetorical, or narrative techniques to shape historical accounts, or whether cultural memory is flexible or manipulated, this volume examines pluralities of truth and belief within the ancient world - and consequences for our understanding of culture, ancient or otherwise.

Byzantium in the Eleventh Century - Being in Between (Hardcover): Marc D. Lauxtermann, Mark Whittow Byzantium in the Eleventh Century - Being in Between (Hardcover)
Marc D. Lauxtermann, Mark Whittow
R4,501 Discovery Miles 45 010 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The eleventh century in Byzantium is all about being in between, whether this is between Basil II and Alexios Komnenos, between the forces of the Normans, the Pechenegs and the Turks, or between different social groupings, cultural identities and religious persuasions. It is a period of fundamental changes and transformations, both internal and external, but also a period rife with cliches and dominated by the towering presence of Michael Psellos whose usually self-contradictory accounts continue to loom large in the field of Byzantine studies. The essays collected here, which were delivered at the 45th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, explore new avenues of research and offer new perspectives on this transitional period. The book is divided into four thematic clusters: 'The age of Psellos' studies this crucial figure and seeks to situate him in his time; 'Social structures' is concerned with the ways in which the deep structures of Byzantine society and economy responded to change; 'State and Church' offers a set of studies of various political developments in eleventh-century Byzantium; and 'The age of spirituality' offers the voices of those for whom Psellos had little time and little use: monks, religious thinkers and pious laymen.

Official Power and Local Elites in the Roman Provinces (Hardcover): Rada Varga, Viorica Rusu-Bolindet Official Power and Local Elites in the Roman Provinces (Hardcover)
Rada Varga, Viorica Rusu-Bolindet
R4,199 Discovery Miles 41 990 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Presenting a new and revealing overview of the ruling classes of the Roman Empire, this volume explores aspects of the relations between the official state structures of Rome and local provincial elites. The central objective of the volume is to present as complex a picture as possible of the provincial leaderships and their many and varied responses to the official state structures. The perspectives from which issues are approached by the contributors are as multiple as the realities of the Roman world: from historical and epigraphic studies to research of philological and linguistic interpretations, and from architectural analyses to direct interpretations of the material culture. While some local potentates took pride in their relationship with Rome and their use of Latin, exhibiting their allegiances publicly as well as privately, others preferred to keep this display solely for public manifestation. These complex and complementary pieces of research provide an in-depth image of the power mechanisms within the Roman state. The chronological span of the volume is from Rome's Republican conquest of Greece to the changing world of the fourth and fifth centuries AD, when a new ecclesiastical elite began to emerge.

Critical Essays on Roman Literature (Hardcover): J.P. Sullivan Critical Essays on Roman Literature (Hardcover)
J.P. Sullivan
R3,907 Discovery Miles 39 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1962 and 1963, these two volumes bridge the gap between the study of classics and the study of literature and attempt to reconcile the two disciplines. The collection of essays offers a critical examination of Latin literature and aims to stimulate critical discussion of a selection of Latin poets. This experimental and ground-breaking set will be of particular interest to students of Roman Literature, Classics and Poetry.

Reconceptualizing Plato's Socrates at the Limit of Education - A Socratic Curriculum Grounded in Finite Human... Reconceptualizing Plato's Socrates at the Limit of Education - A Socratic Curriculum Grounded in Finite Human Transcendence (Hardcover)
James M. Magrini
R4,195 Discovery Miles 41 950 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Bridging the gap between interpretations of "Third Way" Platonic scholarship and "phenomenological-ontological" scholarship, this book argues for a unique ontological-hermeneutic interpretation of Plato and Plato's Socrates. Reconceptualizing Plato's Socrates at the Limit of Education offers a re-reading of Plato and Plato's Socrates in terms of interpreting the practice of education as care for the soul through the conceptual lenses of phenomenology, philosophical hermeneutics, and ontological inquiry. Magrini contrasts his re-reading with the views of Plato and Plato's Socrates that dominate contemporary education, which, for the most part, emerge through the rigid and reductive categorization of Plato as both a "realist" and "idealist" in philosophical foundations texts (teacher education programs). This view also presents what he terms the questionable "Socrates-as-teacher" model, which grounds such contemporary educational movements as the Paideia Project, which claims to incorporate, through a "scripted-curriculum" with "Socratic lesson plans," the so-called "Socratic Method" into the Common Core State Standards Curriculum as a "technical" skill that can be taught and learned as part of the students' "critical thinking" skills. After a careful reading incorporating what might be termed a "Third Way" of reading Plato and Plato's Socrates, following scholars from the Continental tradition, Magrini concludes that a so-called "Socratic education" would be nearly impossible to achieve and enact in the current educational milieu of standardization or neo-Taylorism (Social Efficiency). However, despite this, he argues in the affirmative that there is much educators can and must learn from this "non-doctrinal" re-reading and re-characterization of Plato and Plato's Socrates.

The Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt (Paperback): Helen Strudwick The Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt (Paperback)
Helen Strudwick
R875 R686 Discovery Miles 6 860 Save R189 (22%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

For more than 3,000 years, Egypt was home to the greatest civilization on earth. Illustrated with more than 1,500 photographs and specially commissioned illustrations, The Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt is a celebration of the wonders of ancient Egypt, from the mask of Tutankhamun to the Valley of the Kings and the great pyramids of Giza, and from tomb hieroglyphs to golden treasures decorated with ankhs and scarabs. Exploring the history, religion, literature, and art of the ancient Egyptians, as well as the day-to-day experience of ordinary citizens such as pyramid builders, scribes, and craftsmen, this book brings to life the world of the pharaohs in vivid detail, providing a wealth of information about this fascinating and mysterious culture.

The Animal and the Human in Ancient and Modern Thought - The 'Man Alone of Animals' Concept (Hardcover, New): Stephen... The Animal and the Human in Ancient and Modern Thought - The 'Man Alone of Animals' Concept (Hardcover, New)
Stephen Newmyer
R4,495 Discovery Miles 44 950 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Ancient Greeks endeavored to define the human being vis-a-vis other animal species by isolating capacities and endowments which they considered to be unique to humans. This approach toward defining the human being still appears with surprising frequency, in modern philosophical treatises, in modern animal behavioral studies, and in animal rights literature, to argue both for and against the position that human beings are special and unique because of one or another attribute or skill that they are believed to possess. Some of the claims of man's unique endowments have in recent years become the subject of intensive investigation by cognitive ethologists carried out in non-laboratory contexts. The debate is as lively now as in classical times, and, what is of particular note, the examples and methods of argumentation used to prove one or another position on any issue relating to the unique status of human beings that one encounters in contemporary philosophical or ethological literature frequently recall ancient precedents. This is the first book-length study of the 'man alone of animals' topos in classical literature, not restricting its analysis to Greco-Roman claims of man's intellectual uniqueness, but including classical assertions of man's physiological and emotional uniqueness. It supplements this analysis of ancient manifestations with an examination of how the commonplace survives and has been restated, transformed, and extended in contemporary ethological literature and in the literature of the animal rights and animal welfare movements. Author Stephen T. Newmyer demonstrates that the anthropocentrism detected in Greek applications of the 'man alone of animals' topos is not only alive and well in many facets of the current debate on human-animal relations, but that combating its negative effects is a stated aim of some modern philosophers and activists.

Militarism and the Indo-Europeanizing of Europe (Hardcover): Robert Drews Militarism and the Indo-Europeanizing of Europe (Hardcover)
Robert Drews
R4,356 Discovery Miles 43 560 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book argues that the Indo-Europeanizing of Europe essentially began shortly before 1600 BC, when lands rich in natural resources were taken over by military forces from the Eurasian steppe and from southern Caucasia. First were the copper and silver mines (along with good harbors) in Greece, and the copper and gold mines of the Carpathian basin. By ca. 1500 BC other military men had taken over the amber coasts of Scandinavia and the metalworking district of the southern Alps. These military takeovers offer the most likely explanations for the origins of the Greek, Keltic, Germanic and Italic subgroups of the Indo-European language family. Battlefield warfare and militarism, Robert Drews contends, were novelties ca. 1600 BC and were a consequence of the military employment of chariots. Current opinion is that militarism and battlefield warfare are as old as formal states, going back before 3000 BC. Another current opinion is that the Indo-Europeanizing of Europe happened long before 1600 BC. The "Kurgan theory" of Marija Gimbutas and David Anthony dates it from late in the fifth to early in the third millennium BC and explains it as the result of horse-riding conquerors or raiders coming to Europe from the steppe. Colin Renfrew's Archaeology and Language dates the Indo-Europeanizing of Europe to the seventh and sixth millennia BC, and explains it as a consequence of the spread of agriculture in a "wave of advance" from Anatolia through Europe. Pairing linguistic with archaeological evidence Drews concludes that in Greece and Italy, at least, no Indo-European language could have arrived before the second millennium BC.

Discover Dorset - The Romans (Paperback): Bill Putnam Discover Dorset - The Romans (Paperback)
Bill Putnam
R150 Discovery Miles 1 500 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Violence and Community - Law, Space and Identity in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean World (Hardcover): Ioannis K. Xydopoulos,... Violence and Community - Law, Space and Identity in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean World (Hardcover)
Ioannis K. Xydopoulos, Kostas Vlassopoulos, Eleni Tounta
R3,907 Discovery Miles 39 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Violence and community were intimately linked in the ancient world. While various aspects of violence have been long studied on their own (warfare, revolution, murder, theft, piracy), there has been little effort so far to study violence as a unified field and explore its role in community formation. This volume aims to construct such an agenda by exploring the historiography of the study of violence in antiquity, and highlighting a number of important paradoxes of ancient violence. It explores the forceful nexus between wealth, power and the passions by focusing on three major aspects that link violence and community: the attempts of communities to regulate and canalise violence through law, the constitutive role of violence in communal identities, and the ways in which communities dealt with violence in regards to private and public space, landscapes and territories. The contributions to this volume range widely in both time and space: temporally, they cover the full span from the archaic to the Roman imperial period, while spatially they extend from Athens and Sparta through Crete, Arcadia and Macedonia to Egypt and Israel.

The Legacy of Rome - How the Roman Empire Shaped the Modern World (Hardcover): Simon Elliott The Legacy of Rome - How the Roman Empire Shaped the Modern World (Hardcover)
Simon Elliott
R511 Discovery Miles 5 110 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The world of the Roman Republic and Empire is still very much with us, alive and a key companion as we negotiate the trials and tribulations of modern life. We don't just walk in the footsteps of Romans great and small; we walk side by side with them. At its height in the second century AD the Roman Empire stretched across three continents, from Hadrian's Wall in the far north-west to the bustling port cities on the Red Sea, but its influence spread even further afield, with its legacy lasting to this day. In The Legacy of Rome, acclaimed historian Dr Simon Elliott sets off on a grand tour of the whole empire, reviewing each region in turn to show how the experience of being part of the Roman world still has a dramatic impact on our lives today. From wild Britannia, where the legacy of conquest still influences relationships with the Continent; to western Europe, where the language, church and even law can be traced back to antiquity; to schisms and war across central Europe and the Middle East that are directly rooted in the world of Rome - the result is a fascinating exploration of the reach of Rome beyond its borders and through time.

The Ancient Aesthetics of Deception - The Ethics of Enchantment from Gorgias to Heliodorus (Hardcover): Jonas Grethlein The Ancient Aesthetics of Deception - The Ethics of Enchantment from Gorgias to Heliodorus (Hardcover)
Jonas Grethlein
R1,018 R962 Discovery Miles 9 620 Save R56 (6%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The concept of mimesis has dominated reflection on the nature and role, in Greek literature, of representation. Jonas Grethlein, in his ambitious new book, takes this reflection a step further. He argues that, beyond mimesis, there was an important but unacknowledged strand of reflection focused instead on the nuanced idea of apate (often translated into English as 'deceit'), oscillating between notions of 'deception' and 'aesthetic illusion'. Many authors from Gorgias and Plato to Philo, Plutarch and Clement of Alexandria used this key concept to entwine aesthetics with ethics. In creatively exploring the various reconfigurations of apate, and placing these in their socio-historical contexts, the book offers a bold new history of ancient aesthetics. It also explores the present significance of the aesthetics of deception, unlocking the potential of ancient reflection for current debates on the ethical dimension of representation. It will appeal to scholars in classics and literary theory alike.

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