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Ruth Webb (1) (1963–)

Author of Demons and Dancers: Performance in Late Antiquity

For other authors named Ruth Webb, see the disambiguation page.

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Works by Ruth Webb

Demons and Dancers: Performance in Late Antiquity (2009) 10 copies

Ekphrasis, Imagination and Persuasion in Ancient Rhetorical Theory and Practice (2009) 6 copies, 1 review

Associated Works

A Companion to Greek Rhetoric (2006) — Contributor — 43 copies

Images of the Greek Theatre (1995) — Contributor — 41 copies

A Companion to Classical Receptions (2008) — Contributor — 29 copies

The Oxford Handbook of Rhetorical Studies (2017) — Contributor — 22 copies

Education in Greek and Roman Antiquity (2001) — Contributor — 21 copies

Women, Men and Eunuchs: Gender in Byzantium (1997) — Contributor — 19 copies, 1 review

The Oxford Handbook of the Second Sophistic (Oxford Handbooks) (2017) — Contributor — 15 copies

The Passions in Roman Thought and Literature (1997) — Contributor — 11 copies

The Ancient Dancer in the Modern World: Responses to Greek and Roman Dance (2010) — Contributor — 11 copies

Greek Literature in Late Antiquity: Dynamism, Didacticism, Classicism (2006) — Contributor — 11 copies

Women Classical Scholars: Unsealing the Fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly (2016) — Contributor — 11 copies

Homer and The Odyssey (1998) — Translator, some editions — 8 copies

The Romance between Greece and the East (2013) — Contributor — 8 copies

Athenaeus and his world : reading Greek culture in the Roman Empire (2000) — Contributor — 8 copies

Greek Laughter and Tears: Antiquity and After (2017) — Contributor — 7 copies

New directions in ancient pantomime (2008) — Contributor — 7 copies

Sight and the ancient senses (2015) — Contributor — 5 copies

Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca. 400 BC to ca. AD 400 (2018) — Contributor — 5 copies

Greeks on Greekness: Viewing the Greek Past Under the Roman Empire (2006) — Contributor — 3 copies

Imagining Reperformance in Ancient Culture: Studies in the Traditions of Drama and Lyric (2017) — Contributor — 3 copies

Knowing Bodies, Passionate Souls: Sense Perceptions in Byzantium (2017) — Contributor — 3 copies

Images of the Pagan Gods: Papers of a Conference in Memory of Jean Seznec (Warburg Institute Colloquia) (2010) — Contributor — 1 copy

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Birthdate: 1963
Gender: female

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Ekphrasis, Imagination and Persuasion in Ancient Rhetorical Theory and Practice by Ruth Webb

A little repetitive in its phrasing but very thorough in the history of ekphrasis and provides great context for how it was used then, and now and within different media.

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Rating: 4.0

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ISBNs: 14
Languages: 1

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