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1	Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece more books like this by Jean Pierre Vernant, Pierre Vidal-Naquet (Photographer), Janet Lloyd, Lady (Translator) Jean Pierre-Vernant and Pierre Vidal-Naquet are leaders in a contemporary French classical scholarship that has produced a a stunning reconfiguration of Greek thought and literature. In this work, published here as a single volume, the authors present a disturbing and decidedly non-classical reading of Greek tragedy that insists on its radical ... see all copies from £6.83! new only from £16.62! \| first editions
2	France Under the Germans: Collaboration and Compromise more books like this by Philippe Burrin (Preface by), Janet Lloyd, Lady (Translator) A study of the range of reactions ordinary French citizens had to the German occupation during the Second World War. The dichotomy of resisters and collaborators is an inaccurate model, and Burrin explores the choices people made under extreme pressure. Most French citizens ending up practicing some form of "opportunistic accommodation," although ... see all copies from £5.46! new only from £7.68! \| first editions
3	Sexual Ambivalence more books like this by Luc Brisson, Janet Lloyd, Lady (Translator) This fascinating book collects and translates most of the extant written Graeco-Roman material on human beings, divinities, animals, and other creatures who were said to have been both female and male. Luc Brisson provides a commentary that situates this rich source material within its historical and intellectual contexts. These selections--from ... see all copies from £4.98! new only from £4.98! \| first editions
4	Nazi Anti-Semitism: From Prejudice to the Holocaust more books like this by Philippe Burrin, Janet Lloyd, Lady (Translator) From a leading historian of Nazi Germany, a new exploration of the evolution of policies that led to the horror of the Holocaust. One of the continuing puzzles of twentieth-century history is how Germany moved from a kind of anti-Semitism that was despicable, but did not seem exceedingly dangerous, to the Final Solution. This question has been ... see all copies from £5.85! new only from £5.87! \| first editions
5	The Social History of the Third Reich, 1933-1945 more books like this by Pierre Aycoberry, Janet Lloyd, Lady (Translator) This social history examines the way Nazism rose and took over German culture and looks at all levels of society--especially the middle class and the labor movements. It reveals how violence, nationalism, anti-Semitism, and terror played out among individuals and groups over two decades and how it affected those who supported and those who ... see all copies from £5.46! new only from £6.40! \| first editions
6	The Propensity of Things: Toward a History of Efficacy in China more books like this by Francois Jullien, Franaois Jullien, Janet Lloyd, Lady (Translator) In this contribution to our understanding of Chinese philosophy, Francois Jullien uses the Chinese concept of shi - meaning disposition or circumstance, power or potential - as a touchstone to explore Chinese culture and to uncover the intricate and coherent structure underlying Chinese modes of thinking. A Hegelian prejudice still haunts studies ... see all copies from £14.33! new only from £15.65!
7	The Spanish Inquisition: A History more books like this by Joseph Perez, Janet Lloyd, Lady (Translator) A new history of the Spanish Inquisition--a terrifying battle for a unified faith. see all copies from £6.18! new only from £6.97! \| first editions
8	The Invention of Literature: From Greek Intoxication to the Latin Book more books like this by Professor Florence DuPont, Johns Hopkins University, Janet Lloyd, Lady (Translator) Writing, so often claimed as the necessary tool for social and individual progress, has another history. In classical Greece, writing was looked upon with suspicion, an attempt to subject the reader to the writer's will. The spread of books and their exaltation announced the victory of conquerors. In antiquity, writing was not written for a ... see all copies from £3.07! new only from £8.65! \| first editions
9	Alexander: Destiny and Myth more books like this by Claude Mosse, Janet Lloyd, Lady (Translator), Professor Paul Cartledge (Foreword by) Few figures from history have aroused as much admiration as Alexander the Great, the Macedonian king who, between 334 and 323 B.C., conquered the immense Persian Empire, led his army as far as India, and transformed the known world. Even in antiquity, he was an almost mythical hero, and over the centuries he has been remembered as the paragon of ... see all copies from £6.55! new only from £12.63!
10	A History of Ancient Greece more books like this by Claude Orrieux, Pauline Schmitt Pantel, Janet Lloyd, Lady (Translator) This is a major, single-volume introduction to the whole of Ancient Greek History. It covers the period from the Golden Age of Knossos and Mycenae to the incorporation of Greece into the Roman empire in the second century BC. The book combines narrative and socio-economic history to cover all regions of Greece, including territories on the edge of ... see all copies from £12.95! new only from £22.82! \| first editions
11 view cover	The Origins of Nazi Violence: By Enzo Traverso; Translated by Janet Lloyd more books like this by Enzo Traverso, Janet Lloyd, Lady (Translator) In the half-century since the appearance of Hannah Arendt's seminal work The Origins of Totalitarianism, innumerable historians have detailed the history of the Nazi years. Now, in a brilliant synthesis of this work, Enzo Traverso situates the extermination camps as the final, terrible moment in European modernity's industrialization of killing ... see all copies from £7.39! new only from £7.39! \| first editions
12 view cover	An Historical Geography of France more books like this by Xavier De Planhol, Janet Lloyd, Lady (Translator), Paul Claval In this book, Xavier de Planhol and Paul Claval, two of France's leading scholars in the field, trace the historical geography of their country from its roots in the Roman province of Gaul to the present day. They demonstrate how, for centuries, France was little more than an ideological concept, despite its natural physical boundaries and long ... see all copies from £36.15! new only from £36.15! \| first editions
13 view cover	Memories of Odysseus: Frontier Tales from Ancient Greece more books like this by Francois Hartog, Janet Lloyd, Lady (Translator), Professor Paul Cartledge (Foreword by) The conception of the Other has long been a problem for philosophers. Emmanuel Levinas, best known for his attention to the issue argued that the voyages of Odysseus represent the very nature of Western philosophy : "His adventure in the world is nothing but a return to his native land, a complacency with the Same, a misrecognition of the Other." ... see all copies from £17.53! new only from £23.03! \| first editions
14 view cover	The Birth of Europe more books like this by Jacques Le Goff, Janet Lloyd, Lady (Translator) In this ground-breaking book, the great French historian Jacques Le Goff tells the story of the key events and ideas that shaped the Middle Ages. His overview ranges widely, from the Fall of Rome to the Discovery of the Americas, and from Ireland to the Black Sea. In clear, concise language, the author presents his personal view of the importance ... see all copies from £23.78! new only from £23.78!
15 view cover	A Theory of /Cloud: Toward a History of Painting more books like this by Hubert Damisch, Janet Lloyd, Lady (Translator) This is the first in a series of books in which one of the most influential of contemporary art theorists revised from within the conceptions underlying the history of art. The author's basic idea is that the rigor of linear perspective cannot encompass all of visual experience and that it could be said to generate an oppositional factor with ... see all copies from £17.23! new only from £19.25!
16 view cover	Double Exposure: Cutting Across Buddhist and Western Discourses more books like this by Bernard Faure, Janet Lloyd, Lady (Translator) This book explores the possible relations between Western types of rationality and Buddhism. It also examines some cliches about Buddhism and questions the old antinomies of Western culture ("faith and reason," or "idealism and materialism"). The use of the Buddhist notion of the Two Truths as a hermeneutic device leads to a double or multiple ... see all copies from £16.32! new only from £16.32!
17 view cover	Shakespeare's Festive World: Elizbethan Seasonal Entertainment and the Professional Stage more books like this by Francois Laroque, Janet Lloyd, Lady (Translator), Keith Thomas (Foreword by) This book offers an exciting new perspective on Shakespeare's relation to popular culture. Shakespeare's plays draw extensively on the events and traditions of Elizabethan festivals and holidays, mingling popular and aristocratic or royal forms of entertainment in ways that combine or clash to produce new meaning, offering surprises which ... see all copies from £26.62! new only from £26.62!
18 view cover	The Writing of Orpheus: Greek Myth in Cultural Context more books like this by Marcel Detienne, Janet Lloyd, Lady (Translator) Son of a mortal king and an immortal Muse, Orpheus possessed a gift for music unmatched among humans; with his lyre he could turn the course of rivers, drown the fatal song of the Sirens, and charm the denizens of the underworld. The allure of his music speaks through the myths and stories of the Greeks and Romans, who tell of his mysterious ... see all copies from £23.85! new only from £28.08! \| signed copies
19	From Munich to the Liberation 1938-1944 more books like this by Jaen-Pierre Azema, Jean-Pierre Azema, Janet Lloyd, Lady (Translator) This is a vivid and highly readable account of the most complex and disturbing series of events in French history since the Revolution, which makes use of contemporary literature and films in addition to a vast range of more conventional sources. As such, it will become a standard addition to the literature on the Second World War. It provides an ... see all copies from £15.52!
20 view cover	The Poetics of Eros in Ancient Greece more books like this by Claude Calame, Janet Lloyd, Lady (Translator) "The Poetics of Eros in Ancient Greece" offers the first comprehensive inquiry into the deity of sexual love, a power that permeated daily Greek life. Avoiding Foucault's philosophical paradigm of dominance/submission, Claude Calame uses an anthropological and linguistic approach to re-create indigenous categories of erotic love. He maintains that ... see all copies from £35.33! new only from £35.33!
21 view cover	The Mirror of Herodotus: The Representation of the Other in the Writing of History more books like this by Francois Hartog, Janet Lloyd, Lady (Translator) Herodotus's great work is not only an account of the momentous historical conflict between the Greeks and the Persians but also the earliest sustained exploration in the West of the problem of cultural difference. Francois Hartog asks fundamental questions about how Herodotus represented this difference. How did he and his readers understand the ... see all copies from £44.31! new only from £58.67!

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