Ramsey, J. T. (professor of Classics, Professor of Classics, University of Illinois at Chicago)

In his Bellum Catilinae, C. Sallustius Crispus or Sallust (86-35/34 B.C.E.) recounts the dramatic events of the year 63 B.C.E. when a disgruntled and

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M. Lindsay Kaplan expands the study of the history of racism through an analysis of the medieval Christian concept of Jewish servitude. Developed thro

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Between 1846 and 1940, more than 50 million Europeans moved to the Americas, irrevocably changing both their new lands and the ones they left behind.

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Interdisciplinary perspectives on the capacity to perceive, appreciate, and make music.

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This innovative study of the patriarchy belies the accepted notion of the father figure as tyrannical and exploitative.

Offers intermediate Greek students a reliable, up-to-date introduction to Plato's most influential work. Plato's Greek is not difficult, but his ideas

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