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An account of what papyrology is and what the papyrologist does. _

This is an original study which explores Virgil's poetic and mythical transformation of Roman imperialist ideology in the "Aeneid". The author aims to refute the popular modern theory that Virgil was anti-Augustan by discussing the depth and detail with which he explored imperialist themes.

Euripides' "Heracles" is a tragedy with a serious theme, the sudden downfall of the good and the glorious. In this edition the editor has attempted to help the modern reader approach Euripides' works by studying the formal elements which are prominent in his plays plus his rhetorical style.

A collection of the writings of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762), which includes essays (some published anonymously in newspapers), her poetry (dealing with issues still relevant today), and her one comedy, which has recently been revived in productions around the UK.

`One of the most original and significant performance-oriented studies of Shakespeare to appear in the last two decades.' Theatre Journal.

This comprehensive study of the history of Asia Minor in antiquity charts Anatolian history from the time of Alexander the Great to the heyday of the Byzantine Empire. This particular volume examines the rise of Christianity across the region.

This study deals with the nobility surrounding the monarchy of Caesar Augustus, which was reborn after years of civil war. The exposition ranges from the closing age of the Republic to Nero's demise, detailing a century-and-a-half of the history of Roman aristocracy and individual families.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the development of English conurbations, suburbs, satellite towns, garden cities and seaside resorts, and is also a vivid social history of 19th and early 20th-century England.

An examination of the system of linkages that determine the success of multinational firms and the resulting performance of nations.

The symposion, or male drinking group of archaic and classical Greece, was an institution whose effects can be detected from the painted pottery and the poetry to many areas of ancient Greek social life. This book is a record of a symposion held in Oxford in 1984.

Geoffrey Hellman presents a detailed interpretation of mathematics as the investigation of structural possibilities, as opposed to absolute, Platonic objects. After dealing with the natural numbers and analysis, he extends his approach to set theory, and shows how to dispense with a fixed universe of sets. Finally, he addresses problems of application to the physical world.

These collected essays supply theoretical background to the author's work on moral philosophy. His central theme is the paradox that, if moral judgements were just statements of fact, relativism would be inescapable.

This imaginative and unusual book analyses the moral sensibilities and assumptions that were at the heart of political debate in Victorian and early twentieth-century Britain, focusing on the role as public moralists of intellectuals from John Stuart Mill and Matthew Arnold to J. M. Keynes and F. R. Leavis.

This is an account of how moral concepts such as forgiveness, praise, guilt and punishment apply to human interaction and behaviour. The author attempts to reach conclusions about which versions of traditional Christian doctrines utilizing such notions are morally acceptable.

This study traces the development of Karl Marx's ethics as they underwent shifts and changes during different periods of his life.

What is music for? How does it work? What can it teach us? This thought-provoking book, combining musical and appropriate scientific research, seeks the answers to these and other fundamental questions about music.

This study offers an interpretation of Britain's policy towards Germany in the years immediately following World War II, and a reassessment of the part played by Britain in the collapse of the Grand Alliance and the development of the Cold War.

These essays represent the full range of Dodds' literary and philosophical interests, and his ability to combine profound scholarship with the lucid humanity of a teacher convinced of the value of Greek studies to the modern world.

The influence of J.L.Austin on contemporary philosophy was substantial during his lifetime, and has grown greatly since his death, at the height of his powers, in 1960. This book, first published in 1961, was the first of three volumes to increase the influence and popularity of his work.

Drawing together political philosophy, jurisprudence, and public choice theory, this study forces the reader to reconsider some basic assumptions about the authority of the state. Various popular theories - conventionalism, contractarianism, and communitarianism - are assessed by the author.

This is the first scholarly book to concentrate on the important contemporary issue of human rights in the discipline of international law. It examines firstly how human rights and humanitarian norms relate to customary law, and then how they relate to the law of state responsibility.

This detailed and incisive study of Milton's confrontation with his precursors and contemporaries, establishes him as a monumental but divided figure - torn between radical and conservative mentalities, between eroticism and hatred of the flesh, and between patriarchal and egalitarian conceptions of Paradisal marriage.

This edition of Briscoe's standard commentary is largely historical, but also attempts to deal with stylistic matters. Introductory sections contain discussions of Livy's use of his sources, his language and style and the political situation in Rome at the time of the Second Macedonian War.

This book examines two notable forms of chamber music involving piano and strings. Smallman surveys the development of these genres from their origins in the mid-eighteenth century to the present day.

This paperback edition replaces the hardback first published in 1957.

A selection of writings from the "Ancrene Wisse", a guide for female recluses written in the West Midlands in the early 13th century, and the closely related religious works of the "Katherine Group". This edition is designed to introduce them to a wider audience.

Based on public lectures given in Oxford, this book contributes to one of the most fundamental debates in modern European history - that concerning the conflict which debilitated and transformed Europe between 1914 and 1918.

This study of the West Indies in the mid-19th century draws on the experiences of more than a dozen sugar colonies to illustrate the politics and society of the islands on the eve of emancipation. It places British government policies towards the region in the context of Victorian attitudes.

This illustrated account of all aspects of the music of ancient Greece includes actual transcriptions of the surviving examples of ancient music, complete with musical analysis, and covers a whole range of topics - from the place of music in Greek life to instruments; scales; and ancient theories of music.

An analysis of Vergil's epic poem, which explores the secondary narrators whose voices can be heard throughout the work. The author examines Vergil's method of using such further voices to comment upon, question or occasionally subvert the epic's main narrator.