Shadi Bartsch is a professor of classics at the University of Chicago. She is the author of 5 books on the ancient novel, Neronian literature, political theatricality, and Stoic philosophy, the most recent of which is Perseus: A Study in Food, Philosophy, and the Figural which won the 2016 Goodwin Award of Merit.
12 Ebooks von Shadi Bartsch
Shadi Bartsch: Decoding the Ancient Novel
Using a reader-oriented approach, Shadi Bartsch reconsiders the role of detailed descriptive accounts in the ancient Greek novels of Heliodorus and Achilles Tatius and in so doing offers a new view o …
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Shadi (University of Chicago) Bartsch & Alessandro (Universita degli Studi di Roma ‚La Sapienza‘, Italy) Schiesaro: Cambridge Companion to Seneca
The Roman statesman, philosopher and playwright Lucius Annaeus Seneca dramatically influenced the progression of Western thought. His works have had an unparalleled impact on the development of …
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Bartsch Shadi Bartsch: Persius
The Roman poet and satirist Persius (34-62 CE) was unique among his peers for lampooning literary and social conventions from a distinctly Stoic point of view. A curious amalgam of mocking wit and …
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€67.30
Bartsch Shadi Bartsch: Mirror of the Self
People in the ancient world thought of vision as both an ethical tool and a tactile sense, akin to touch. Gazing upon someone-or oneself-was treated as a path to philosophical self-knowledge, but the …
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€37.46
Vergil: The Aeneid
‚Gripping … A remarkable achievement‘ TLS On his deathbed in 19 BCE, Vergil asked that his epic, the Aeneid, be burned. If his wishes had been obeyed, western literature – maybe even western civili …
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€11.99
Shadi Bartsch: Plato Goes to China
The surprising story of how Greek classics are being pressed into use in contemporary China to support the regime’s political agenda As improbable as it may sound, an illuminating way to understand t …
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€34.99
Bartsch Shadi Bartsch: Ideology in Cold Blood
Is Lucan’s brilliant and grotesque epic Civil War an example of ideological poetry at its most flagrant, or is it a work that despairingly proclaims the meaninglessness of ideology? Shadi Bartsch …
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