Ancient Mythological Images and their Interpretation: An Introduction to Iconology, Semiotics and Image Studies in Classical Art History 052119508X, 9780521195089

Writing Ancient History: An Introduction to Classical Historiography 9780755697465, 9781845119577

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon’, said Napoleon. Yet the actual writing of

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Semiotics and Interpretation 9780300160932

“Accessible yet challenging, this book will be the indispensable introductory text for semiotics—indeed for any theoreti

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An Introduction to Applied Semiotics: Tools for Text and Image Analysis [1 ed.] 0367351110, 9780367351113

An Introduction to Applied Semiotics presents nineteen semiotics tools for text and image analysis. Covering a variety o

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Millard Meiss, American Art History, and Conservation: From Connoisseurship to Iconology and Kulturgeschichte 9780367138349, 9780367138356

A member of the art history generation from the golden age of the 1920s and 1930s, Millard Meiss (1904–1975) developed a

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Talking to Tyrants in Classical Greek Thought (Liverpool Studies in Ancient History) 9781789621235, 9781789624267, 1789621232

Talking to Tyrants breaks new ground in the study of Classical Greek history and political thought, exploring the previo

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Rulers and Ruled: An Introduction to Classical Political Theory 9781442679498

A guide to the fundamentals of political thought. Zeitlin shows that certain thinkers have given us insights that rise a

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Image Science: Iconology, Visual Culture, and Media Aesthetics 9780226231501

Almost thirty years ago, W. J. T. Mitchell’s Iconology helped launch the interdisciplinary study of visual media, now a

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The Other Greek: An Introduction to Chinese and Japanese Characters, Their History and Influence 9789004369047, 900436904X

"In The Other Greek, Arthur Cooper offers a captivating and unorthodox introduction to the world of the Chinese scr

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An Introduction to Symmetric Functions and Their Combinatorics

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Psychopathy: An Introduction to Biological Findings and Their Implications 9780814777077

The last two decades have seen tremendous growth in biological research on psychopathy, a mental disorder distinguished

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