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      The Well-Read Muse: Present and Past in Callimachus and the Hellenistic Poets

      Peter Bing

      Tradition and originality, the interplay of present and past, are a concern of poets in any age. Peter Bing’s seminal monograph chases this idea through the thickets of Hellenistic poetry…

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      The Scroll and the Marble: Studies in Reading and Reception in Hellenistic Poetry

      Peter Bing

      While people of previous ages relied on public performance as their chief means of experiencing poetry, the Hellenistic age developed what one may term a culture of reading. This book…

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      The Political Logic of the US-China Trade War

      This collection examines the political logic of the ongoing trade war between the United States and China. The contributors examine a number of theories behind the trade war, the historical…

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      Brill’s Companion to Hellenistic Epigram: Down to Philip

      Peter Bing,Jon Bruss

      An internationally renowned set of experts on epigram offers an introduction, fresh approaches, and new direction to the study of Hellenistic-era epigram by exploring the models, forms, poetology, sub-genera, intertexts…

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      Games of Venus: An Anthology of Greek and Roman Erotic Verse from Sappho to Ovid

      Contains a useful introduction acquainting the reader with ancient sexual mores in their social setting, and offering a helpful guide to reading ancient erotic verse. Poems are prefaced by brief…

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      Games of Venus: An Anthology of Greek and Roman Erotic Verse from Sappho to Ovid

      First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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      Savage Energies: Lessons of Myth and Rutual in Ancient Greece

      Walter Burkert

      We often think of classical Greek society as a model of rationality and order. Yet, in this text, Walter Burkert demonstrates that there were archaic, savage forces, with potentially violent…

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      Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth

      Walter Burkert

      Blood sacrifice, the ritual slaughter of animals, has been basic to religion through history, so that it survives in spiritualized form even in Christianity. How did this violent phenomenon achieve…

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      Aristaenetus, Erotic Letters

      Peter Bing (Department of Classics, Emory University),Regina Hschele,Aristaenetus

      Full of erotic spice and charm, this late-antique collection of fictitious letters by Aristaenetus (ca. 500 AD), who drew on a wealth of Classical and post-Classical models to compose his…

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      Aristaenetus, Erotic Letters

      Peter Bing (Department of Classics, Emory University),Regina Hschele,Aristaenetus

      Full of erotic spice and charm, this late-antique collection of fictitious letters by Aristaenetus (ca. 500 AD), who drew on a wealth of Classical and post-Classical models to compose his…

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      Savage Energies: Lessons of Myth and Ritual in Ancient Greece

      Walter Burkert (University of Zurich)

      Uncovers deep connections between the strange nocturnal ritual, in which two virgin girls carried sacred offerings into a cave and later returned with something given to them there, and tribal…

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      Binge Breaker!™: Stop Out-of-Control Eating and Lose Weight

      Peter M Miller

      The author of the million-copy bestseller The Hilton Head Metabolism Diet now delivers a six-step program to help readers overcome out-of-control binge eating.

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      Emotional And Compulsive Eating: Discover how to Stop Binge Eating Disorders and Love Yourself Better

      Peter Alison

      Do you feel powerless with food? Are you so overwhelmed with the stress of everyday life you seek comfort and control with food? Have you ever binged so hard you…

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      Overcoming Bulimia Nervosa and Binge Eating 3rd Edition: A self-help guide using cognitive behavioural techniques

      Peter J. Cooper

      Step-by-step - the proven path to recovery from bulimia nervosa and binge-eating

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      Artefacts of Writing: Ideas of the State and Communities of Letters from Matthew Arnold to Xu Bing

      Peter D. McDonald (Professor of English and Related Literature, University of Oxford and Fellow, St Hugh's College)

      Explores the relationship between literature and international relations and considers how writing resists norms and puts any fixed or final idea of community in question. Part I examines the European…

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      Labored in Papyrus Leaves: Perspectives on an Epigram Collection Attributed to Posidippus (P. Mil. Vogl. VIII 309)

      This colloquium volume celebrates a new Hellenistic epigram collection attributed to the third-century B.C.E. poet Posidippus, one of the most significant literary finds in recent memory. Included in this collection…

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      The Political Logic of the US-China Trade War

      This collection examines the political logic of the ongoing trade war between the United States and China. The contributors examine a number of theories behind the trade war, the historical…

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