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      Epic Lessons: An Introduction to Ancient Didactic Poetry

      Peter Toohey

      Didactic epic was enormously popular in the ancient world. It was used to teach Greeks and Romans technical and scientific subjects - in verse. Epic Lessons shows how this scientific…

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      Epic Lessons: An Introduction to Ancient Didactic Poetry

      Peter Toohey

      Didactic epic was enormously popular in the ancient world. It was used to teach Greeks and Romans technical and scientific subjects - in verse. Epic Lessons shows how this scientific…

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      Reading Epic: An Introduction to the Ancient Narratives

      Peter Toohey

      This survey offers guidance through the major classical writers of epic to readers new to the subject: it begins with Homer and concludes with an overview of the development of…

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      Reading Epic: An Introduction to the Ancient Narratives

      Peter Toohey

      This survey offers guidance through the major classical writers of epic to readers new to the subject: it begins with Homer and concludes with an overview of the development of…

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      Boredom: A Lively History

      Peter Toohey

      Arguing for the benefits of boredom, this title dispels the myth that it’s simply a childish emotion or an existential malaise like Jean-Paul Sartre’s nausea. It shows how boredom is…

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      Fresh Every Hour: Detailing the Adventures, Comic and Pathetic, of One Jimmy Martin, Purveyor of Publicity (1922)

      John Peter Toohey

      A Young Gentleman Possessing Sublime Nerve, Whimsical Imagination, Colossal Impudence, And Withal, The Heart Of A Child.

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      A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Classical World

      A thematic overview of how sexuality was perceived in the period from 800 BCE to 350 CE, covering homosexuality, heterosexuality, sexual variations, prostitution, medicine, religion, erotica and popular belief.

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      Sex and Difference in Ancient Greece and Rome

      This volume collects and introduces some of the best writing on sexual behaviour and gender differences in ancient Greece and Rome including four chapters newly translated from German and French.

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      Sex and Difference in Ancient Greece and Rome

      This volume collects and introduces some of the best writing on sexual behaviour and gender differences in ancient Greece and Rome including four chapters newly translated from German and French.

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      Inventing Ancient Culture: Historicism, periodization, and the ancient world

      An analysis of classical culture, its understandings of philosophy, friendship, the human body, sexuality and historiography.

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      A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Classical World

      A thematic overview of how sexuality was perceived in the period from 800 BCE to 350 CE, covering homosexuality, heterosexuality, sexual variations, prostitution, medicine, religion, erotica and popular belief.

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      Hold On: The Life, Science, and Art of Waiting

      Peter Toohey (Professor of Classics, Professor of Classics, University of Calgary)

      What do you do when you’re not asleep and not eating? You’re most likely waiting - to finish work, to get home, to finish your duties. This book aims to…

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      An Integrated Life of Leadership: 20 Years of Nurturing & Inspiring Others to Reach for the Stars

      Ginny Wilson-Peters

      Twenty years ago, Ginny Wilson-Peters started Integrity Integrated with a vision of fulfilling a life purpose of nurturing and inspiring others to reach for the stars. Her journey, however, began…

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