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    The Woman Who Broke All the Rules in Ancient Rome

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  • Fatal Monsters

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  • Cleopatra's Daughter

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  • Cleopatra's Daughter

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    Cleopatra's Daughter

    From Roman Prisoner to African Queen

    par Jane Draycott ...
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    The first biography of one of the most fascinating yet long-neglected rulers of the ancient world: Cleopatra Selene, daughter of Antony and Cleopatra.Years ago, archaeologists excavating near Pompeii unearthed a hoard of Roman treasures, among them a bowl depicting a woman with thick, curly hair and sporting an elephant-scalp headdress. For decades, theories circulated about her identity―until, at ... En savoir plus

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  • The Kingdom

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    The Kingdom of Jane Draycott's fifth collection is clearly a world we know, altered a little by Draycott's distinctive, prismatic lyricism, whose loving attention to place and our moment is skewed in a way that opens the world afresh. Here are England's towns and countryside, roads and ports and sushi chains, yards and herbs, an airport and a columbarium, and poems that consider art in a time of ... En savoir plus

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  • The Occupant

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    Following the success of her T. S. Eliot Prize-nominated Over and award-winning translation of the medieval Pearl, Jane Draycott returns with her fourth collection of poems, The Occupant. With a rhythmic subtlety and metrical poise that have become hallmarks of her verse, Draycott hints at the existence of a world of dreamlike clarity underneath our own. In the National Gallery a gardener cuts ... En savoir plus

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  • Prosthetics and Assistive Technology in Ancient Greece and Rome

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  • Over

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    Over, Jane Draycott's third book, takes its title from a sequence of twenty-six poems based on the international phonetic alphabet: Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta... In these and other pieces Draycott creates a world of echoing voices and reflections. She evokes the mirrors and doorways, dreams and night-time journeys that transform the familiar: entrances into a different reality. Over explores ... En savoir plus

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  • Fulvia

    Die Frau, die im alten Rom alle Regeln brach | Historische Richtigstellung eines über Jahrtausende verzerrten Bildes über eine der mächtigsten Römerinnen im 1. Jahrhundert v. Chr.

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  • Pearl

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  • Roman Domestic Medical Practice in Central Italy

    From the Middle Republic to the Early Empire

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