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Brill's Companion to the Study of Greek Comedy
Inbunden, 2010
4933 kr
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The present volume sets forth the main resources for the advancing student of Ancient Greek Comedy. An international roster of specialists contributes chapters organized into three sections: "Contexts": the intellectual, physical and socio-historical setting of Athenian Comedy; "History": the …
Brill's Companion to Herodotus
Av Egbert J. Bakker, Irene J.F. de Jong m. fl.
Inbunden, 2002
6127 kr
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Herodotus’ Histories can be read in many ways. Their literary qualities, never in dispute, can be more fully appreciated in the light of recent developments in the study of pragmatics, narratology, and orality. Their intellectual status has been radically reassessed: no longer regarded as naïve and …
Brill's Companion to Cicero
Oratory and Rhetoric
Av James M. May
Inbunden, 2002
5299 kr
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This volume is intended as a companion to the study of Cicero's oratory and rhetoric for both students and experts in the field: for the neophyte, it provides a starting point; for the veteran Ciceronian scholar, a place for renewing the dialogue about issues concerning Ciceronian oratory and …
Brill's Companion to Ovid
Inbunden, 2001
5841 kr
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This volume on the Roman poet Ovid (43 BCE – 17 CE) comprises articles by an international group of fourteen scholars. Their contributions cover a wide range of topics, including a biographical essay, a survey of the major manuscripts and textual traditions, and a comprehensive discussion of Ovid’s …
Brill's Companion to Thucydides
Av Antonis Tsakmakis, Antonios Rengakos
Inbunden, 2006
5808 kr
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This volume on Thucydides, the most important historian of the ancient world, comprises articles by thirty leading international scholars. The contributions cover a wide range of issues, including Thucydides’ life, intellectual milieu and predecessors, Thucydides and the act of writing, his …
Brill's Companion to Hellenistic Epigram
Down to Philip
Av Peter Bing, Jon Bruss
Inbunden, 2007
5599 kr
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Important research in recent decades, along with the publication of P.Mil.Vogl. VIII 309 ('the Milan Posidippus papyrus') in 2001, have reinvigorated the study of Hellenistic epigram. Yet, scholarship on this genre often remains fragmented according to disciplinary sub-specialty and approach: some …
Brill's Companion to Seneca
Philosopher and Dramatist
Av Andreas Heil, Gregor Damschen
Inbunden, 2013
4099 kr
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This new and important introduction to Seneca provides a systematic and concise presentation of this author’s philosophical works and his tragedies. It provides handbook style surveys of each genuine or attributed work, giving dates and brief descriptions, and taking into account the most important …
Writing Politics in Imperial Rome
Av W.J. Dominik, J. Garthwaite m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
4799 kr
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Roman literature is inherently political in the varied contexts of its production and the abiding concerns of its subject matter. This collection examines the strategies and techniques of political writing at Rome in a broad range of literature spanning almost two centuries, differing political …
Brill's Companion to Callimachus
Av Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, Luigi Lehnus m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
4821 kr
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Few figures from Greco-Roman antiquity have undergone as much reassessment in recent decades as Callimachus of Cyrene, who was active at the Alexandrian court of the Ptolemies during the early third century BC. Once perceived as a supreme example of ivory tower detachment and abstruse learning, …
Brill's Companion to Apollonius Rhodius
Second, Revised Edition
Av Theodore D. Papanghelis, Antonios Rengakos
Inbunden, 2008
4285 kr
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This volume on Apollonius of Rhodes, whose Argonautica is the sole full-length epic to survive from the Hellenistic period, comprises articles by eighteen leading scholars from Europe and America. Their contributions cover a wide range of issues from the history of the text and the problems of the …
Brill's Companion to Silius Italicus
Inbunden, 2009
4071 kr
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Only recently have scholars turned their attention to Silius Italicus' Punica, a poem the reputation of which was eclipsed by the emergence of Virgil’s Aeneid as the canonical Latin epos of Augustan Rome. This collection of essays aims at examining the importance of Silius' historical epic in …
Brill's Companion to Lucan
Av Paolo Asso
Inbunden, 2011
4756 kr
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Although it was labeled an anti-epic for trumping the celebratory scope of the Roman national epos, Lucan’s Bellum Civile is a hymn to lost republican liberty composed under Nero’s tyrannical empire. Lucan lost his life in a foiled conspiracy to replace the emperor, but his poem survived the …
Brill's Companion to Hesiod
Av Franco Montanari, Chr. Tsagalis m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
4471 kr
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This is the first full-scale companion on Hesiod to appear in English. The twelve contributions included in this volume cover a wide range of aspects of Hesiodic poetry, such as the relation between Hesiod and the literary traditions of the Near East and the entire span of works comprising the …
Brill's Companion to Aphrodite
Inbunden, 2010
3548 kr
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Brill's Companion to Aphrodite brings together an international and multidisciplinary team of experts in the study of Aphrodite—one of the best known, yet ambiguous and complex Graeco-Roman deities. The contributions, which reevaluate conventional approaches to this remarkable goddess, are …
Political Autobiographies and Memoirs in Antiquity
A Brill Companion
Inbunden, 2011
3745 kr
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Ancient autobiography has been the object of several studies and meetings. However, these have focused chiefly on the philosophical and literary aspects. This book aims to examine the development of political autobiography and memoirs in the Greek and Roman world, stressing, instead, the relation …
Brill's Companion to Sophocles
Inbunden, 2012
4542 kr
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Brill's Companion to Sophocles offers 32 specially commissioned essays from leading international scholars which give critical examinations of the progress and direction of numerous wide-ranging debates about various aspects of Sophoclean drama. Each chapter offers an authoritative and …
Brill's Companion to Ancient Macedon
Studies in the Archaeology and History of Macedon, 650 BC - 300 AD
Inbunden, 2011
4513 kr
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In the past 35 years our archaeological and epigraphic evidence for the history and culture of ancient Macedon has been transformed. This book brings together the leading Greek archaeologists and historians of the area in a major collaborative survey of the finds and their interpretation, many of …
Brill’s Companion to Greek and Latin Epyllion and Its Reception
Av Manuel Baumbach, Silvio Bär
Inbunden, 2012
4756 kr
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In classical scholarship of the past two centuries, the term “epyllion” was used to label short hexametric texts mainly ascribable to the Hellenistic period (Greek) or the Neoterics (Latin). Apart from their brevity, characteristics such as a predilection for episodic narration or female characters …
Brill's Companion to Statius
Av William J. Dominik, Carole E. Newlands m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
4011 kr
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Brill’s Companion to Statius is the first companion volume to be published on arguably the most important Roman poet of the Flavian period. Thirty-four newly commissioned chapters from international experts provide a comprehensive overview of recent approaches to Statius, discuss the fundamental …
Brill's Companion to Aineias Tacticus
Inbunden, 2017
2377 kr
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Brill’s Companion to Aineias Tacticus is a collection of articles on the significance of the earliest Greek handbook on military tactics. Aineias’ (Aeneas) wrote his Poliorketika in the mid-fourth century BC, offering a unique perspective on contemporary Greek city-states, warfare and intellectual …
Brill's Companion to Horace
Inbunden, 2012
4756 kr
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This volume centres on a detailed analysis of the whole corpus of Horace’s work by Edward Courtney (Satires), Elaine Fantham (Epistles I and Odes IV), Hans-Christian Günther (Epodes, Odes I – III, Carmen Saeculare and Epistles II) and Tobias Reinhardt (Ars Poetica). The latter is preceeded by a …
Brill's Companion to Valerius Flaccus
Av Mark Heerink, Gesine Manuwald
Inbunden, 2014
3571 kr
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Brill’s Companion to Valerius Flaccus is the first English-language survey on all key aspects of this Flavian poet and his epic Argonautica (1st century CE). A team of international specialists offers both an account of the state of the art and new insights. Topics covered include textual …
Brill's Companion to Roman Tragedy
Inbunden, 2015
3285 kr
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Until the Renaissance the centrality of Roman tragedy in Western society and culture was unchallenged. Studies on Roman Republican tragedy and on Imperial Roman tragedy by the contributors have been directing the gaze of scholarship back to Roman tragedy. This volume has two goals: first, to …
Hellenistic Astronomy
The Science in Its Contexts
Av Alan C. Bowen, Francesca Rochberg
Inbunden, 2020
3841 kr
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In Hellenistic Astronomy: The Science in Its Contexts, new essays by renowned scholars address questions about what the ancient science of the heavens was in the ancient Near East and Mediterranean worlds, and the numerous contexts in which it was pursued. Together, these essays will enable readers …
Brill's Companion to Ancient Macedon
Studies in the Archaeology and History of Macedon, 650 BC - 300 AD
Häftad, 2015
1289 kr
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In the past 35 years our archaeological and epigraphic evidence for the history and culture of ancient Macedon has been transformed. This book brings together the leading Greek archaeologists and historians of the area in a major collaborative survey of the finds and their interpretation, many of …
Brill's Companion to Ancient Geography
The Inhabited World in Greek and Roman Tradition
Av Serena Bianchetti, Michele Cataudella m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
3486 kr
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Brill's Companion to Ancient Geography edited by S. Bianchetti, M. R. Cataudella, H. J. Gehrke is the first collection of studies on historical geography of the ancient world that focuses on a selection of topics considered crucial for understanding the development of geographical thought. In this …
Brill’s Companion to Nonnus of Panopolis
Inbunden, 2016
5198 kr
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The Egyptian Nonnus of Panopolis (5th century AD), author of both the ‘pagan’ Dionysiaca, the longest known poem from Antiquity (21,286 lines in 48 books, the same number of books as the Iliad and Odyssey combined), and a ‘Christian’ hexameter Paraphrase of St John’s Gospel (3,660 lines in 21 …
Brill's Companion to Theocritus
Inbunden, 2021
3830 kr
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Through the variety of its scholarly perspectives, Brill Companion to Theocritus offers a tool for the study of one of antiquity’s foremost poets. Offering a thorough examination of textual transmission, ancient commentaries, literary dialect, and poetic forms, the present volume considers …
Brill’s Companion to Cassius Dio
Inbunden, 2023
2922 kr
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This Companion is the first of its kind on the Roman historian Cassius Dio. It introduces the reader to the life and work of one of the most fundamental but previously neglected historians in the Roman historical cannon. Together the eighteen chapters focus on Cassius Dio’s background as a …
Brill’s Companion to Roman Prosopography
Inbunden, 2025
2430 kr
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This companion explores the discipline of Roman prosopography from a wide variety of perspectives. The study of people and their relationships and connections, both as individuals and groups, lies at the heart of research into Roman society and politics. The essays in this volume constitute an …
