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1 online resource |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction: approaching popular culture in the ancient world / Lucy Grig -- Part I. Classical Greece -- The popular culture of the Athenian institutions: "authorized" popular culture and "unauthorized" elite culture in classical Athens / Mirko Canevaro -- Humouring the masses: the theatre audience and highs and lows of Aristophanic comedy / James Robson -- Part II. Rome -- Popular public opinion in a nutshell: nicknames and non-elite political culture in the late republic / Cristina Rosillo-Lopez -- Plebeian culture in the city of Rome, from the late republic to the early empire / Cyril Courrier -- Pollio's paradox: popular invective and the transition to empire / Tom Hawkins -- The music of power and the power of music: studying popular auditory culture in ancient Rome / Alexandre Vincent -- Part III. The Roman Empire: Greece, Rome and beyond -- The intellectual life of the Roman non-elite / Jerry Toner -- Divination and popular culture / Victoria Jennings -- Children's cultures in Roman Egypt / April Pudsey -- Part IV. Late antiquity -- Interpreting the Kalends of January in late antiquity: a case study for late antique popular culture? / Lucy Grig -- Popular Christianity and lived religion in late antique Rome: seeing magic in the catacombs / Nicola Denzey Lewis -- Popular theology in late antiquity / Jaclyn Maxwell -- Communication and plebeian sociability in late antiquity: the view from North Africa in the age of Augustine / Julio Cesar Magalhaes de Oliveira. |
| Summary |
This book adopts a new approach to the classical world by focusing on ancient popular culture. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Popular culture -- Rome.
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Popular culture -- Greece.
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Popular culture. |
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Greece. |
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Rome -- Social life and customs.
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Rome (Empire) |
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Greece -- Social life and customs.
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Manners and customs. |
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- Greece. |
| Added Author |
Grig, Lucy, editor, author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Popular culture in the ancient world. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017 9781107074897 1107074894 (DLC) 2016026617 (OCoLC)966973279 |
| ISBN |
9781316825990 (electronic book) |
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131682599X (electronic book) |
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9781107074897 (electronic book) |
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1107074894 (electronic book) |
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9781316826713 (electronic book) |
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1316826716 (electronic book) |
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9781139871402 |
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1139871404 |
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9781107427532 (paperback) |
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1107427533 |
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9781107074897 |
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