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A Roman life : Rutilius Gallicus on paper and in stone
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ISBN: 0859895653 Year: 1998 Publisher: Exeter University of Exeter press

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The renaissance hospital : healing the body and healing the soul
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ISBN: 0300109954 Year: 2006 Publisher: New Haven ; London Yale University Press

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Morals and villas in Seneca's Letters : places to dwell
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ISBN: 0521829445 0521036224 0511185677 0511184840 0511313608 0511482221 1280449306 0511187513 0511186584 9780511186585 9780511187513 9780521829441 9780511185670 9780511184840 9780511482229 9781280449307 9786610449309 6610449309 9780511313608 Year: 2004 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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John Henderson explores three letters of Seneca describing visits to Roman villas, and surveys the whole collection to show how these villas work as designs for contrasting lives. Seneca's own place is ageing drastically; a recent Epicurean's paradise is a seductive oasis away from the dangers of Nero's Rome; once a fortress of the dour Rome of yesteryear, the legendary Scipio's lair was now a shrine to the old morality: Seneca revels in its primitive bath-house, dark and cramped, before exploring the garden with the present owner. Seneca brings the philosophical epistle to Latin literature, creating models for moralizing which feature self-criticism, parody and re-animated myth. Virgil and Horace come in for rough handling, as the Latin moralist wrests ethical practice and writing away from Greek gurus and texts, and into critical thinking within a Roman context. Here is powerful teaching on metaphor and translation, on self-transformation and cultural tradition.

A life of Ernest Starling
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ISBN: 9780195177800 0195177800 1461475260 9786611049942 1281049948 0080535496 Year: 2005 Publisher: New York : Published for the American Physiological Society by Oxford University Press,

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Ernest Starling (1866-1927) was pre-eminent in the golden age of British Physiology. His name is usually associated with his "Law of the Heart,” but his discovery of secretin (the first hormone whose mode of action was explained) and his work on capillaries were more important contributions. He coined the word 'hormone' one hundred years ago. His analysis of capillary function demonstrated that equal and opposite forces move across the capillary wall--an outward (hydrostatic) force and an inward (osmotic) force derived from plasma proteins.

Fighting for Rome : poets and Caesars, history and civil war
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ISBN: 0521580269 9780521580267 Year: 1998 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University press

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The Roman book of gardening
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ISBN: 0415324505 0415324491 9780415324502 0203682718 1134346123 9786613917010 1283604566 1280036109 9786610036103 0203356993 9780203356999 9780415324496 9781280036101 9781134346127 9781134346073 1134346077 9781134346110 1134346115 661391701X 9781283604567 6610036101 Year: 2004 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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The Roman Book of Gardening brings together the Latin texts which teach and celebrate herb and vegetable gardening in verse and prose. Henderson provides the only book on the practice of Roman gardening.

Memory and forgetting
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ISBN: 0415186528 Year: 1999 Publisher: London Routledge

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Pliny's statue : the Letters, self-portraiture and classical art
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ISBN: 0859897206 Year: 2002 Publisher: Exeter University of Exeter press

Juvenal's Mayor, the professor who lived on 2D. a day
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ISBN: 0906014190 9780906014196 Year: 1998 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge philological society

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