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Hekate Soteira
A Study of Hekate's Roles in the Chaldean Oracles and Related Literature
Häftad, 1990
535 kr
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Emperors and Usurpers
An Historical Commentary on Cassius Dio's Roman History
Inbunden, 2018
2595 kr
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This historical commentary examines books 79(78)-80(80) of Cassius Dio's Roman History, which cover the period from the death of Caracalla in A. D. 217. to the reign of Severus Alexander and Cassius Dio's retirement from political life in 229. Cassius Dio, a Roman Senator, provides a valuable …
Studies in Classical History and Society
Inbunden, 2002
2375 kr
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Professor Reinhold, a distinguished senior classicist, has produced a fascinating and accessible collection of essays devoted to the study of ancient history. Among the articles included are "The Generation Gap," a major survey exploring myths of the uprising of one generation against another; …
Sextus Empiricus
The Transmission and Recovery of Pyrrhonism
Inbunden, 2002
1894 kr
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The subject is Sextus Empiricus, one the chief sources of information on ancient philosophy and one of the most influential authors in the history of skepticism. Sextus' works have had an extraordinary influence on western philosophy, and this book provides the first exhaustive and detailed study …
The Augustan Succession
An Historical Commentary on Cassius Dio's Roman History Books 55-56 (9 B.C.-A.D. 14)
Inbunden, 2004
2694 kr
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This is an historical commentary on Books 55-56 of Dio's Roman History. These books recount the last half of the reign of the Emperor Augustus, above all his orchestration of the first imperial succession. Addressed to both students and scholars, the new commentary is the first since the eighteenth …
Greek Mythography in the Roman World
Av Alan Cameron
Inbunden, 2004
2765 kr
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By the Roman age the traditional stories of Greek myth had long since ceased to reflect popular culture. Mythology had become instead a central element in elite culture. If one did not know the stories one would not understand most of the allusions in the poets and orators, classics and …
Virgil Recomposed
The Mythological and Secular Centos in Antiquity
Av Scott McGill
Inbunden, 2005
3653 kr
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The Virgilian centos anticipate the avant-garde and smash the image of a staid, sober, and centered classical world. This book examines the twelve mythological and secular Virgilian centos that survive from antiquity. The centos, in which authors take non-consecutive lines or segments of lines from …
Representing Agrippina
Constructions of Female Power in the Early Roman Empire
Av Judith Ginsburg, Eric Gruen
Inbunden, 2006
2092 kr
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Agrippina the Younger ranks as one of the most powerful women in the history of the Roman empire. Judith Ginsburg's book provides a fresh look at both the literary and material representations of Agrippina. Her incisive study exposes both the contrivances of the commissioned artists whose idealized …
Figuring Genre in Roman Satire
Inbunden, 2006
965 kr
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Satirists are social critics, but they are also products of society. Horace, Persius, and Juvenal, the verse satirists of ancient Rome, exploit this double identity to produce their colorful commentaries on social life and behavior. In a fresh comparative study that combines literary and cultural …
Homer's Cosmic Fabrication
Choice and Design in the Iliad
Av Bruce Heiden
Inbunden, 2008
1704 kr
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Although scholars routinely state that the Iliad is an "oral poem," since very near the time of its composition the great epic has circulated as a text stabilized in writing. Thus whether or not it is in some sense "oral poetry," the Iliad undoubtedly has features that render it quite satisfactory …
Hyperides: Funeral Oration
Inbunden, 2009
1451 kr
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Hyperides' Funeral Oration is arguably the most important surviving example of the genre from classical Greece. The speech stands apart from other funeral orations (epitaphioi) in a few key respects. First, we have the actual text as it was delivered in Athens (the other speeches, with the possible …
Religion and Reconciliation in Greek Cities
The Sacred Laws of Selinus and Cyrene
Inbunden, 2010
2039 kr
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Two Greek cities which in their time were leading states in the Mediterranean world, Selinus in Sicily and Cyrene in Libya, set up inscriptions of the kind called sacred laws, but regulating worship on a larger scale than elsewhere - Selinus in the mid fifth century B.C., Cyrene in the late fourth. …
Studies on the Text of Macrobius' Saturnalia
Inbunden, 2010
944 kr
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Studies on the Text of Macrobius' Saturnalia is a companion to new editions of Macrobius' encyclopedic dialogue that are to appear in the Loeb Classical Library and the Oxford Classical Texts series. The first chapter reports the results of a new survey of all the extant manuscripts of the work …
Traditional Elegy
The Interplay of Meter, Tradition, and Context in Early Greek Poetry
Inbunden, 2011
2547 kr
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Though often assumed by scholars to be a product of traditional, and perhaps oral, compositional practices comparable to those found in early Greek epic, archaic elegy has not until this point been analyzed in similar detail with respect to such verse-making techniques. This volume is intended to …
Work in Progress
Literary Revision as Social Performance in Ancient Rome
Inbunden, 2012
2336 kr
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Work in Progress offers an in-depth study of the role of literary revision in the compositional practices and representational strategies of Roman authors at the end of the republic and the beginning of the principate. It focuses on Cicero, Horace, Quintilian, Martial, and Pliny the Younger, but …
Eleusis and Athens
Documents in Finance, Religion, and Politics in the Fifth Century B.C.
Häftad, 1996
1205 kr
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Eleusis and Athens offers a new text and detailed commentary on two account-inventories for a major panhellenic sanctuary (Demeter) during the final decade of the fifth century BC. In addition to the publication of inscriptions, the accompanying commentary provides a wide array of information …
M. Tullius Cicero, the Fragmentary Speeches
An Edition With Commentary
Häftad, 1994
1198 kr
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This volume contains testimonia and fragments of Cicero's speeches that circulated in antiquity but which have since been lost. This edition includes the fragmenta incertae sedis and an appendix on falsely identified oratorical fragments.
Musa Lapidaria
A Selection of Latin Verse Inscriptions
Av E. Courtney
Häftad, 1995
935 kr
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Essay On the Life and Poetry Of Homer
Av Plutarch, J. J. Keaney m. fl.
Häftad, 1996
1010 kr
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This bilingual edition, with introduction and brief commentary, makes accessible for the first time in English a text of great importance for the history and interpretation of Homer. Although attributed to Plutarch, the Essay is probably the work of a grammaticus of the second and third century and …
The Comet Of 44 B.C. and Caesar's Funeral Games
Av John T. Ramsey, A. Lewis Licht
Häftad, 1997
448 kr
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This unique collaboration between a classicist and physicist at the University of Illinois at Chicago is the first work to combine the evidence from both China and Rome for the spectacular daylight comet of 44 BC, perhaps the most famous comet in antiquity. This investigation, which also examines …
Archaic Latin Prose
Häftad, 1999
1198 kr
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This work aims to show how certain striking features of classical Latin prose style have their roots in forms of expression established in archaic Latin and even beyond that in Indo-European. Some of these forms are to be explained by the origins of complex syntactical constructions, some by …
Matro of Pitane and the Tradition of Epic Parody in the Fourth Century BCE
Text, Translation, and Commentary
Av S. Douglas Olson, Alexander Sens
Häftad, 2003
956 kr
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The fragments of Matro of Pitane (c. 300 BC) offer insights not only into the largely forgotten and obscure late-classical genre of epic parody, but also into 4th-century Athenian history, the role of food and dining in antiquity, and the history of the text of Homer and the reception of the Iliad …
The Etymology and Usage of Peirar in Early Greek Poetry
A Study in the Interrelationship of Metrics, Linguistics and Poetics
Häftad, 1975
410 kr
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Iamblichus and the Theory of the Vehicle of the Soul
Häftad, 1985
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579 kr
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