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The Laurel and the Olive

Collected Essays on Archaic and Hellenistic Poetry

By: Benjamin Acosta-Hughes

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The Laurel and the Olive

Collected Essays on Archaic and Hellenistic Poetry

By: Benjamin Acosta-Hughes

A central, much-studied feature of the poetry of 3rd cent. BCE Alexandria is the artistic treatment of the cultural past, the reception of earlier Greek poetry and artwork in the artistic creations of a new, Greco-Egyptian world deracinated both geographically and temporally from the heroes and models of Archaic and Classical Greece. Benjamin Acosta-Hughes has devoted a 30+ year professional scholarly career to the study of this reception, one of both imitation and variation, which took place concurrently with the massive collection and categorization of earlier Greek literature in the work of the scholars gathered under royal patronage at the Ptolemaic court in Alexandria, a truly revolutionary new effort of cultural memorialization. The poets of this period, among them Callimachus, Theocritus, Apollonius and Posidippus, vied in their efforts to compose works that at once celebrated their poetic heritage and at the same time marked their own poetry as original artistic creation and as critical commentary upon their earlier models. This collection will be of interest not only for readers of Archaic and Hellenistic poetry, but also for readers interested in the later reception of the Alexandrians at Rome.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110787830

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9783110787832

Haunted by Atrocity

Civil War Prisons in American Memory

By: Benjamin G. Cloyd

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Haunted by Atrocity

Civil War Prisons in American Memory

By: Benjamin G. Cloyd

Benjamin G. Cloyd deftly analyzes how Americans have remembered the military prisons of the Civil War from the war itself to the present, making a strong case for the continued importance of the great conflict in contemporary America. The first study of Civil War memory to focus exclusively on the military prison camps, Haunted by Atrocity offers a cautionary tale of how Americans, for generations, have unconsciously constructed their recollections of painful events in ways that protect cherished ideals of myth, meaning, identity, and, ultimately, the deeply rooted faith in American exceptionalism.

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278

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LSU Press

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0807137383

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9780807137383

The Elementary Theory of Groups

A Guide through the Proofs of the Tarski Conjectures

By: Benjamin Fine,Anthony Gaglione,Alexei Myasnikov,Gerhard Rosenberger,Dennis Spellman

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The Elementary Theory of Groups

A Guide through the Proofs of the Tarski Conjectures

By: Benjamin Fine,Anthony Gaglione,Alexei Myasnikov,Gerhard Rosenberger,Dennis Spellman

After being an open question for sixty years the Tarski conjecture was answered in the affirmative by Olga Kharlampovich and Alexei Myasnikov and independently by Zlil Sela. Both proofs involve long and complicated applications of algebraic geometry over free groups as well as an extension of methods to solve equations in free groups originally developed by Razborov. This book is an examination of the material on the general elementary theory of groups that is necessary to begin to understand the proofs. This material includes a complete exposition of the theory of fully residually free groups or limit groups as well a complete description of the algebraic geometry of free groups. Also included are introductory material on combinatorial and geometric group theory and first-order logic. There is then a short outline of the proof of the Tarski conjectures in the manner of Kharlampovich and Myasnikov.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110382571

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9783110382570

The History of the Descendants of Elder John Strong of Northampton

Vol. 2

By: Benjamin W. Dwight

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The History of the Descendants of Elder John Strong of Northampton

Vol. 2

By: Benjamin W. Dwight

Reprint of the original. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3382100592

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The history of the descendants of Elder John Strong

Vol. 2

By: Benjamin W. Dwight

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The history of the descendants of Elder John Strong

Vol. 2

By: Benjamin W. Dwight

Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

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3382135221

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Book's by Benjamin F. Thompson

The Laurel and the Olive

The Laurel and the Olive

Haunted by Atrocity

Haunted by Atrocity

The Elementary Theory of Groups

The Elementary Theory of Groups

The History of the Descendants of Elder John Strong of Northampton

The History of the Descendants of Elder John Strong of Northampton

The history of the descendants of Elder John Strong

The history of the descendants of Elder John Strong

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