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Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum
Archaeology, Reception, and Digital Reconstruction
Inbunden, 2010
2759 kr
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The Villa of the Papyri is a unique archaeological site and has been very influential in the field of classical studies. The papyri (the only intact library to survive from Greco-Roman antiquity) and bronze sculptures found in the villa have contributed to our knowledge of the ancient world and the …
Lucretius and His Sources
A Study of Lucretius, "De rerum natura" I 635-920
Inbunden, 2012
2081 kr
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This book discusses Lucretius’ refutation of Heraclitus, Empedocles, Anaxagoras and other, unnamed thinkers in De Rerum Natura 1, 635-920. Chapter 1 argues that in DRN I 635-920 Lucretius was following an Epicurean source, which in turn depended on Theophrastean doxography. Chapter 2 shows that …
Poems in Context
Greek Poetry in the Egyptian Thebaid 200-600 AD
Inbunden, 2008
3113 kr
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Examining carefully the Egyptian epic hexameter production from the 3rd to the 6th centuries AD, especially that of the southern region (Thebaid), this study provides an image of three centuries in the history of the Graeco-Egyptian literature, in which authors and poetry are related directly to …
Language and Rhythm in Plautus
Synchronic and Diachronic Studies
Inbunden, 2008
2487 kr
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The plays of Plautus have long been recognized as a unique mine of information about the spoken Latin of the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC. But detailed and up-to-date linguistic treatments of the Plautine meters and other phenomena in his plays have hitherto been lacking. This book seeks to remedy that …
Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity
Inbunden, 2010
2492 kr
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Many recent discoveries have confirmed the importance of Orphism for ancient Greek religion, philosophy and literature. Its nature and role are still, however, among the most debated problems of Classical scholarship. A cornerstone of the question is its relationship to Christianity, which modern …
From Alexandria to Babylon
Near Eastern Languages and Hellenistic Erudition in the Oxyrhynchus Glossary (P.Oxy. 1802 + 4812)
Inbunden, 2009
1606 kr
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This book provides the first full edition and commentary of the Oxyrhynchus Glossary (POxy 1802 and 4812). This is a unique document both for the history of Greek lexicography and for the study of the cultural and linguistic exchange between the Greeks and the “others” in the Hellenistic near East. …
Prolepsis and Ennoia in the Early Stoa
Av Henry Dyson
Inbunden, 2009
1962 kr
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This book reconstructs the Stoic doctrine of prolepsis. Prolepses are conceptions that develop naturally from ordinary experience. They are often identified with preconceptions (i.e. the first conceptions one unconsciously forms of something). However, this is inconsistent with the Stoics’ claim …
Invectives of Sallust and Cicero
Critical Edition with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary
Inbunden, 2009
1506 kr
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This work covers the history of the text of the invectives of Sallust against Cicero and of Cicero against Sallust. Though these speeches seem unsophisticated to some, they are in fact of considerable importance. The question of the authenticity of both invectives, especially of the invective …
Aristophanes' Comedy of Names
A Study of Speaking Names in Aristophanes
Inbunden, 2010
2149 kr
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The use of significant proper names is one of the most entertaining aspects of Aristophanes’ art; unsurprisingly, it has received much scholarly attention. But although there are a large number of articles and scattered comments on individual names, the present book offers the first systematic …
Tracing Orpheus
Studies of Orphic Fragments
Av Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui, Ana Isabel Jiménez San Cristóbal m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
2729 kr
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There is hardly a more controversial issue in the study of ancient religion than Orphism. More than two centuries of debate have not closed the subject, since new evidence and divergent approaches have kept appearing regularly. This volume sheds light on the most relevant pieces of evidence for …
Poetics of Philosophical Language
Plato, Poets and Presocratics in the "Republic"
Inbunden, 2011
2934 kr
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A close analysis of the Republic’s diverse literary styles shows how the peculiarities of verbal texture in Platonic discourse can be explained by Plato’s remolding of tropes and techniques from poetry and the Presocratics. This book argues that Plato smuggles poetic language into the Republic’s …
Sacred Law of Andania
A New Text with Commentary
Inbunden, 2011
2670 kr
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The inscribed text referred to as the sacred law of Andania contains almost 200 lines of regulations about a mystery festival and the sanctuary in which it took place. Although it concerns one annual festival in Messenia, it imparts information relevant to the general nature of sanctuary activity …
Lyric of Ibycus
Introduction, Text and Commentary
Inbunden, 2012
2487 kr
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Ibycus is one of the nine canonical lyric poets, a crucial figure in the history of Greek poetry and the archaic world. His work has value both for its own poetic qualities and for its importance from a literary-historical point of view. Ibycus’ imagery is complex and demanding, his intertextual …
APHex I
Av Marco Perale
Inbunden, 2020
2216 kr
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Adespota Papyracea Hexametra Graeca provides a comprehensive corpus of ‘anonymous’ hexameter texts on papyri, parchments, ostraca and tablets that have appeared in the current and past two centuries. The project has three main objectives: i) to retrieve and determine how many and what type of …
Doctrine and Doxography
Studies on Heraclitus and Pythagoras
Inbunden, 2013
2487 kr
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Pythagoras and Heraclitus developed theories of the universe and mankind’s place in it which were taken seriously by all later Greek thinkers. None of their works remains, however, except in later paraphrases that all too often are misrepresentations. Pythagoras had followers who attributed their …
Names of Homeric Heroes
Problems and Interpretations
Inbunden, 2015
1569 kr
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The purpose of this book is to contribute to the appreciation of the linguistic, literary and contextual value of Homeric personal names. This is an old topic, which famously interested Plato, and an object of constant scholarly attention from the time of ancient commentators to the present day. …
Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum
Archaeology, Reception, and Digital Reconstruction
Häftad, 2016
403 kr
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The Villa of the Papyri is a unique archaeological site and has been very influential in the field of classical studies. The papyri (the only intact library to survive from Greco-Roman antiquity) and bronze sculptures found in the villa have contributed to our knowledge of the ancient world and the …
Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity
Häftad, 2016
302 kr
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Many recent discoveries have confirmed the importance of Orphism for ancient Greek religion, philosophy and literature. Its nature and role are still, however, among the most debated problems of Classical scholarship. A cornerstone of the question is its relationship to Christianity, which modern …
Apollodoriana
Ancient Myths, New Crossroads
Av Jordi Pàmias
Inbunden, 2017
2149 kr
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A growing interest in myth over the last decades has brought to the fore the main mythographical manual that has came down to us from Antiquity: Apollodorus’ Bibliotheca. A number of recent editions shows this trend, like the commented translations of Carrière & Massonie (1991) and Scarpi & Ciani …
Names of Homeric Heroes
Problems and Interpretations
Häftad, 2017
313 kr
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The purpose of this book is to contribute to the appreciation of the linguistic, literary and contextual value of Homeric personal names. This is an old topic, which famously interested Plato, and an object of constant scholarly attention from the time of ancient commentators to the present day. …
Demades Papyrus (P.Berol. inv. 13045)
A New Text with Commentary
Inbunden, 2022
2131 kr
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Despite the significance of its contents, the so-called Demades papyrus (P.Berol. inv. 13045) has received scarce scholarly attention since the 1923 editio princeps by Karl Kunst. This unique late second-century BCE document of almost 430 lines was found in the Egyptian chora, but it is supposed to …
Original Verses of Apollodorus’ ›Chronica‹
Edition, Translation and Commentary on the First Iambic Didactic Poem in the Light of New Evidence
Inbunden, 2020
2265 kr
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The Chronica by the grammarian Apollodorus of Athens (2nd century BC) was an exemplary chronographical reference work. It was composed in trimeters and represents the first Iambic didactic poem ever. So far, the surviving original verses have hardly been appreciated and analyzed in their own terms. …
Song Regained
Working with Greek Poetic Fragments
Av Margarita Alexandrou, Chris Carey m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
1919 kr
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Apart from relatively few exceptions of texts which survive intact, what we have of Ancient Greek literature remains, to a great degree, fragmentary. As a result it is often misread, overlooked or mined not for its own sake but to support the investigation of texts which survive in their entirety. …
Imagining Telephus
A Greek Myth Across Cultures in the Ancient Mediterranean
Inbunden, 2024
2032 kr
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Telephus, son of Heracles and king of Mysia, was a key figure in the Trojan War. Both enemy and ally of the Achaeans, he fought against them, was wounded and then cured by Achilles, and led Agamemnon’s army to Troy. This book is the first comprehensive study on his myth. It investigates fragmentary …
Euripides and the Myth of Perseus
Two Lost Greek Tragedies Illuminated by a New Papyrus
Inbunden, 2024
1942 kr
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A recently-published second-century papyrus, P.Oxy. 5283, contains prose summaries (hypotheses) of six plays by the Greek dramatist Euripides, including two lost plays depicting the hero Perseus, Dictys and Danaë. This book demonstrates the significance of this discovery for our understanding of …
Discovering Dionysus in the Hexameters of ›Sinai Palimpsest Ar NF 66‹
New Mysteries of the Ancient Orphica?
Av Radcliffe Guest Edmonds (III), Anne-France Morand m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
2062 kr
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The recent discovery of Greek hexameters in a palimpsest in the library of Saint Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai (Sin. ar. NF 66) introduced a fascinating new piece of the puzzle for scholars of ancient Greek mythology studying the tales of the god Dionysus. This volume provides a new critical …
