1.

Record Nr.

UNISA990001832780203316

Autore

ACKERMAN, John

Titolo

Dylan Thomas : his life and work / John Ackerman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : Oxford University Press, 1965

Descrizione fisica

202 p. ; in 8°, 20 cm

Collocazione

VII.3.B. 1172(II i C 673)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910480564203321

Autore

Stoner Jo

Titolo

The Cultural Lives of Domestic Objects in Late Antiquity / / Jo Stoner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, ; Boston : , : BRILL, , 2019

ISBN

90-04-39106-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (133 pages)

Collana

Late Antique Archaeology (Supplementary Series) ; ; v. 4

Disciplina

937/.06

Soggetti

Classical antiquities

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Preface -- Figures -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Heirloom Objects in Late Antiquity -- Gifts in Late Antiquity -- Souvenirs in Late Antiquity -- Case Study: Baskets in Late Antiquity -- Conclusions -- Back Matter -- Bibliography -- Indices -- Late Antique Archaeology.

Sommario/riassunto

In this study, Jo Stoner investigates the role of domestic material culture in Late Antiquity. Using archaeological, visual and textual evidence from across the Roman Empire, the personal meanings of late



antique possessions are revealed through reference to theoretical approaches including object biography. Heirlooms, souvenirs, and gift objects are discussed in terms of sentimental value, before the book culminates in a case study reassessing baskets as an artefact type. This volume succeeds in demonstrating personal scales of value for artefacts, moving away from the focus on economic and social status that dominate studies in this field. It thus represents a new interpretation of domestic material culture from Late Antiquity, revealing how objects transformed houses into homes during this period.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459193903321

Autore

Wohl Victoria <1966->

Titolo

Law's cosmos : juridical discourse in Athenian forensic oratory / / Victoria Wohl [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2010

ISBN

0-511-84799-8

1-107-20261-2

1-282-65167-6

9786612651670

0-511-76904-0

0-511-76681-5

0-511-76988-1

0-511-76542-8

0-511-77067-7

0-511-76820-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 362 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

340.5/38

Soggetti

Forensic oratory

Rhetoric, Ancient

Law, Greek

Law - Greece - Athens - History - To 1500

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).



Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Preface : Before the law -- Introduction : The rhetoric of law -- The world of law : oratory and authority -- Legal violence and the limit of justice -- Legal fictions : subjects probable and improbable -- Logos biou : law's life stories -- Civic amnesia and legal memory : remembering and forgetting in the lawcourts -- Family/law : legal genealogies -- Conclusion : The paradigmatic law.

Sommario/riassunto

Recent literary-critical work in legal studies reads law as a genre of literature, noting that Western law originated as a branch of rhetoric in classical Greece and lamenting the fact that the law has lost its connection to poetic language, narrative, and imagination. But modern legal scholarship has paid little attention to the actual juridical discourse of ancient Greece. This book rectifies that neglect through an analysis of the courtroom speeches from classical Athens, texts situated precisely at the intersection between law and literature. Reading these texts for their subtle literary qualities and their sophisticated legal philosophy, it proposes that in Athens' juridical discourse literary form and legal matter are inseparable. Through its distinctive focus on the literary form of Athenian forensic oratory, Law's Cosmos aims to shed new light on its juridical thought, and thus to change the way classicists read forensic oratory and legal historians view Athenian law.