Ucal pod aug 1992 (4 resultados)

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Phthonos in Pindar by Patricia Bulman offers the first full-scale examination of one of the most charged and elusive concepts in Greek literature: phthonos, often translated as envy, resentment, or divine jealousy. Focusing on the victory odes of Pindar, Bulman shows how the poet engages with this concept to articulate the precarious balance between human achievement and divine favor. Far from being a marginal motif, phthonos emerges as central to Pindar's poetic strategy, a lens through which he explores the tensions between glory and hubris, community celebration and individual ambition, mortality and the eternal order of the gods. Drawing on close philological analysis and literary interpretation, Bulman situates Pindar's treatment of phthonos within the broader cultural context of archaic and classical Greece. She demonstrates how Pindar's manipulation of the theme allowed him both to defend the legitimacy of aristocratic success and to caution against its excesses, thereby mediating between poet, patron, and audience. By foregrounding this complex and ambivalent idea, the book illuminates the ways Pindaric poetry both reflects and shapes the values of its world. Scholars of Greek literature, classical philology, and cultural history will find in Bulman's study a nuanced account of how a single word reverberates across poetry, society, and thought.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Latin Inscriptions from Central Spain by Robert C. Knapp brings together, translates, and analyzes an extensive body of epigraphic material that illuminates the history and society of Hispania Tarraconensis and Lusitania. Drawing on inscriptions from cities, towns, and rural areas, Knapp reconstructs the lives of communities that flourished under Roman rule. The volume includes funerary epitaphs, honorific dedications, milestones, and religious texts, each annotated and contextualized to reveal the intertwining of local traditions with the broader imperial system. By systematically cataloging this evidence, Knapp opens a window onto the daily lives, beliefs, and identities of provincial populations, while also tracing patterns of Romanization in central Spain. The work is both a reference tool and a historical narrative. It demonstrates how inscriptions preserve voices often absent from literary texts--soldiers, freedmen, women, and local elites--who together contributed to the dynamic cultural blend of the Roman provinces. Combining philological precision with historical interpretation, Knapp highlights the inscriptions' linguistic features, their legal and social dimensions, and their role as public expressions of status and community. This volume thus serves as an essential resource for classicists, historians, archaeologists, and epigraphers, while also underscoring the vitality of epigraphy in reconstructing the complexity of life in the Roman West. …

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - What actions should be punished Should plea-bargaining be allowed How should sentencing be determined In this original, penetrating study, Mark Tunick explores not only why society punishes wrongdoing, but also how it implements punishment.Contending that the theory and practice of punishment are inherently linked, Tunick draws on a broad range of thinkers, from the radical criticisms of Nietzsche, Foucault, and some Marxist theorists through the sociological theories of Durkheim and Girard to various philosophical traditions and the 'law and economics' movement. He defends punishment against its radical critics and offers a version of retribution, distinct from revenge, that holds that we punish not to deter or reform, but to mete out just deserts, vindicate right, and express society's righteous anger. Demonstrating first how this theory best accounts for how punishment is carried out, he then provides 'immanent criticism' of certain features of our practice that don't accord with the retributive principle.Thought-provoking and deftly argued, Punishment will garner attention and spark debate among political theorists, philosophers, legal scholars, sociologists, and criminologists.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - In this study of warfare in ancient Mesoamerica, Ross Hassig offers new insight into three thousand years of Mesoamerican history, from roughly 1500 B.C. to the Spanish conquest. He examines the methods, purposes, and values of warfare as practiced by the major pre-Columbian societies and shows how warfare affected the rise of the state.…