East & west : papers in ancient history presented to Glen W. Bowersock / edited by T. Corey Brennan and Harriet I. Flower.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bowersock, G. W. (Glen Warren), 1936-

Brennan, T. Corey

Flower, Harriet I.

Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund.

Series:

Loeb classical monographs ; 14.

Loeb classical monographs ; 14

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Classical.

Civilization, Greco-Roman.

Mediterranean Region--Civilization.

Mediterranean Region.

Civilization.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

ix, 208 pages ; 22 cm.

Other Title:

East and west

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Dept. of the Classics, Harvard University : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

Essays in English; one essay in French.

Summary:

"Essays relating to the work of Glen W. Bowersock and exploring classical antiquity from the second century BC to late antiquity, from Hellenistic Greece and Republican Rome to Egypt and Arabia"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

"Only connect" / Aldo Schiavone

Ethnography and universal history in Agatharchides / Walter Ameling

Metis in Rome: a Greek dream of Sulla / Andrea Giardina

Iure Plectimur: the Roman critique of Roman imperialism / Miriam T. Griffin

The survival of the sophists / Christopher Jones

Himerius' orations to his students / Robert J. Penella

Alms and the afterlife: a Manichaean view of an early Christian practice / Peter Brown

De Pétra à Jérusalem ... et retour! / Maurice Sartre.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund.

ISBN:

9780674033481

0674033485

OCLC:

261174530