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thersites 17
thersites is an international open access journal for innovative transdisciplinary classical studies edited by Annemarie Ambühl, Filippo Carlà-Uhink, Christian Rollinger and Christine Walde. thersites expands classical reception studies by publishing original scholarship free of charge and by reflecting on Greco-Roman antiquity as present phenomenon and diachronic culture that is part of today’s transcultural and highly diverse world. Antiquity, in our understanding, does not merely belong to the past, but is always experienced and engaged in the present. thersites contributes to the critical review on methods, theories, approaches and subjects in classical scholarship, which currently s...
Life on Hold
Grier Hamilton opens her front door expecting to see her prom date. Instead, she finds several police officers, and they are there to arrest her dad...for murder. Someone has made a terrible mistake because there is no way her dad -- a nerdy high school principal -- is a serial killer. But everyone around Grier and her family is quick to believe the worst. Friends disappear, family relationships fracture, and the press descends like a flock of vultures. As Grier navigates the fallout of the unthinkable, one question begins to torment her... What if it's not a mistake? Trigger Warning: There are mentions of sexual abuse and suicide in this book.
Army at Home
Introducing readers to women whose Civil War experiences have long been ignored, Judith Giesberg examines the lives of working-class women in the North, for whom the home front was a battlefield of its own.Black and white working-class women managed farms that had been left without a male head of household, worked in munitions factories, made un...
Records of the Bailey Family
William Bailey became a resident of Newport, Rhode Island soon after its settlement. He married Grace Parsons and they had six children. Tradition holds that William was a weaver of silk ribbon. He died before July, 1670. Descendants listed lived in Rhode Island, Ohio, Connecticut, and elsewhere.
Televising Ancient Rome in the Twenty-First Century
Ever since HBO-BBC’s Rome burst onto screens in 2005, Rome has appeared on television screens in a variety of dramatic productions. These utilise many of the elements of ancient Rome that were familiar to audiences from big screen epic movies, but adapt them for a television genre, in a manner that is characteristic of the the second millennium, playing on older tropes and merging them with new formats. Where do such tropes come from and how have they been developed over time specifically on the small screen, a medium that overlaps with, but is substantially different from, the cinema? How have the changes in technology and the manner in which television is consumed by audiences influenced...
The Presbyterian
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