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  • The Occupant

    af Jane Draycott ...
    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 ... Læs mere

    64,74 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Over

    af Jane Draycott ...
    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 ... Læs mere

    71,64 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • The Kingdom

    af Jane Draycott ...
    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 ... Læs mere

    77,74 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Pearl

    af Jane Draycott ...
    Jane Draycott's translation of Pearl reissued as a Carcanet ClassicA Poetry Book Society Recommended TranslationIn a dream landscape radiant with jewels, a father sees his lost daughter on the far bank of a river: 'my pearl, my girl'. One of the great treasures of the British Library, the fourteenth-century poem Pearl is a work of poetic brilliance; its account of loss and consolation has retained ... Læs mere

    64,74 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Cleopatra's Daughter

    Egyptian Princess, Roman Prisoner, African Queen

    af Jane Draycott ...
    The first modern biography of one of the most fascinating, and unjustly neglected, female rulers of the ancient world: Cleopatra Selene. Princess, prisoner, African queen – and surviving daughter of Cleopatra VII.In 1895, archaeologists excavating a villa at Boscoreale, outside Pompeii, uncovered a spectacular hoard of high-quality Roman silverware. In the centre of one especially fine gilded dish ... Læs mere

    116,65 kr.

  • Fulvia

    The Woman Who Broke All the Rules in Ancient Rome

    af Jane Draycott ...
    'A thoroughly rapacious woman...as cruel as she is greedy' Cicero' A woman who took no thought for spinning or housekeeping...m eddlesome and headstrong' Plutarch' [She] caused the death of many, both to satisfy her enmity and to gain their wealth ' Cassius Dio' She acted in a haughty manner towards those who were placing her i... ... Læs mere

    74,88 kr.

  • Fatal Monsters

    Cleopatra, Her Sister Queens and the Downfall of a Dynasty

    af Jane Draycott ...
    Today, Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt is the most famous woman of the ancient world. Yet she was not the only queen of her generation. She had an elder sister, Berenike, and a younger one, Arsinoe, both of whom also ruled Egypt.The circumstances in which three sister queens each sought power for themselves were unprecedented. Women had not ruled Egypt since the time of the Pharaohs, 1,500 years ... Læs mere

    137,38 kr.

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  • Women in Classical Video Games

    Redigeret af Dr Kate Cook, Jane Draycott ...
    Serier serie IMAGINES – Classical Receptions in the Visual and Performing Arts
    Despite the prevalence of video games set in or inspired by classical antiquity, the medium has to date remained markedly understudied in the disciplines of classics and ancient history, with the role of women in these video games especially neglected. Women in Classical Video Games seeks to address this imbalance as the first book-length work of scholarship to examine the depiction of women in ... Læs mere

    260,74 kr.

  • Prosthetics and Assistive Technology in Ancient Greece and Rome

    af Jane Draycott ...
    This is the first comprehensive study of prosthetics and assistive technology in classical antiquity, integrating literary, documentary, archaeological, and bioarchaeological evidence to provide as full a picture as possible of their importance for the lived experience of people with disabilities in classical antiquity. The volume is not only a work of disability history, but also one of medical, ... Læs mere

    235,73 kr.

  • Roman Domestic Medical Practice in Central Italy

    From the Middle Republic to the Early Empire

    af Jane Draycott ...
    Serier serie Medicine and the Body in Antiquity
    Roman Domestic Medical Practice in Central Italy examines the roles that the home, the garden and the members of the household (freeborn, freed and slave) played in the acquisition and maintenance of good physical and mental health and well-being. Focussing on the period from the middle Republic to the early Empire, it considers how comprehensive the ancient Roman general understanding of health ... Læs mere

    493,43 kr.

  • Bodies of Evidence

    Ancient Anatomical Votives Past, Present and Future

    Redigeret af Jane Draycott, Emma-Jayne Graham ...
    Serier serie Medicine and the Body in Antiquity
    Dedicating objects to the divine was a central component of both Greek and Roman religion. Some of the most conspicuous offerings were shaped like parts of the internal or external human body: so-calledanatomical votives. These archaeological artefacts capture the modern imagination, recalling vividly the physical and fragile bodies of the past whilst posing interpretative challenges in the ... Læs mere

    493,43 kr.

  • Prostheses in Antiquity

    Redigeret af Jane Draycott ...
    Serier serie Medicine and the Body in Antiquity
    Today, a prosthesis is an artificial device that replaces a missing body part, generally designed and assembled according to the individual’s appearance and functional needs with a view to being both as unobtrusive and as useful as possible. In classical antiquity, however, this was not necessarily the case. The ancient literary and documentary evidence for prostheses and prosthesis use is ... Læs mere

    493,43 kr.