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Cultural Crossroads in the Ancient Novel
Av Marília P. Futre Pinheiro, David Konstan m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
2256 kr
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Cultural Crossroads in the Ancient Novel
Av Marília P. Futre Pinheiro, David Konstan m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
476 kr
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The protagonists of the ancient novels wandered or were carried off to distant lands, from Italy in the west to Persia in the east and Ethiopia in the south; the authors themselves came, or pretended to come, from remote places such as Aphrodisia and Phoenicia; and the novelistic form had …
Inscribing Sorrow
Fourth-Century Attic Funerary Epigrams
Inbunden, 2008
2927 kr
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Fourth-century Attic grave epigrams reflect a transitional phase in the evolution of the genre of epigram. They testify to a shift of interest towards social issues such as the family, the deceased’s age and profession. In a turbulent period of restlessness and uncertainty that followed the …
On Coming After
Studies in Post-Classical Greek Literature and its Reception
Inbunden, 2008
4416 kr
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This book gathers together many of the principal essays of Richard Hunter, whose work has been fundamental in the modern re-evaluation of Greek literature after Alexander and its reception at Rome and elsewhere. At the heart of Hunter’s work lies the high poetry of Ptolemaic Alexandria …
Witches, Isis and Narrative
Approaches to Magic in Apuleius' "Metamorphoses"
Inbunden, 2008
2542 kr
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This is the first in-depth study of Apuleius' Metamorphoses to look at the different attitudes characters adopt towards magic as a key to deciphering the complex dynamics of the entire work. The variety of responses to magic is unveiled in the narrative as the protagonist Lucius encounters an …
Narratology and Interpretation
The Content of Narrative Form in Ancient Literature
Av Jonas Grethlein, Antonios Rengakos
Inbunden, 2009
2542 kr
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Song Exchange in Roman Pastoral
Inbunden, 2011
2729 kr
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Agonistic or friendly song exchange in idyllic settings forms the very heart of Roman pastoral. It is also a key means of metapoetic stance-taking on the part of the long line of authors who have cultivated this “traditional” genre. The present book examines the motif of song exchange in Roman …
Allusion, Authority, and Truth
Critical Perspectives on Greek Poetic and Rhetorical Praxis
Av Phillip Mitsis, Christos Tsagalis
Inbunden, 2010
2871 kr
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Questions about how ancient Greek texts establish their authority, reflect on each other, and project their own truths have become central for a wide range of recent critical discourses. In this volume, an influential group of international scholars examines these themes in a variety of poetic and …
Narrative, Intertext, and Space in Euripides' "Phoenissae"
Inbunden, 2010
2149 kr
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Euripides’ Phoenissae bears one of the richest tragic plots: multiple narrative levels are interwoven by means of various anachronies, focalizers offer different and often challenging points of view, while a complex mythical matrix is deftly employed as the backdrop against which the exploration of …
From Scholars to Scholia
Chapters in the History of Ancient Greek Scholarship
Av Franco Montanari, Lara Pagani
Inbunden, 2011
1962 kr
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This book concerns the field of the history of philological-grammatical exegesis and ancient scholarship. Over recent decades this line of research has aroused lively interest, and noteworthy advances in knowledge have been achieved. In comparison with the state and trends of studies in the …
Archaic and Classical Choral Song
Performance, Politics and Dissemination
Av Lucia Athanassaki, Ewen Lyall Bowie
Inbunden, 2011
2934 kr
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Ancient Scholarship and Grammar
Archetypes, Concepts and Contexts
Av Stephanos Matthaios, Franco Montanari m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
2542 kr
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Ancient Greek scholarship is currently in the centre of a multi-faceted and steadily growing research activity. The volume aims at investigating archetypes, concepts and contexts of the ancient philological discipline from a historical, methodological and ideological perspective. It includes 26 …
Past in Aeschylus and Sophocles
Inbunden, 2011
2934 kr
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The book studies the past of the characters in Aeschylus and Sophocles, a neglected but crucial topic. The characters’ beliefs, values, and emotions bear on their view of the past. This view reinforces their beliefs and their conception of themselves and others as agents of free will and members of …
Crisis on Stage
Tragedy and Comedy in Late Fifth-Century Athens
Av Andreas Markantonatos, Bernhard Zimmermann
Inbunden, 2011
2643 kr
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This volume explores the relationships between masterworks of Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes and critical events of Athenian history, by bringing together internationally distinguished scholars with expertise on different aspects of ancient theatre. These specialists study how tragic and …
Homeric Contexts
Neoanalysis and the Interpretation of Oral Poetry
Av Franco Montanari, Antonios Rengakos m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
3113 kr
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This volume aims at offering a critical reassessment of the progress made in Homeric research in recent years, focussing on its two main trends, Neonalysis and Oral Theory. Interpreting Homer in the 21st century asks for a holistic approach that allows us to reconsider some of our methodological …
Narrating Desire
Eros, Sex, and Gender in the Ancient Novel
Av Marília P. Futre Pinheiro, Marilyn B. Skinner m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
1569 kr
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Representation of desiring subjects in the novel is one of the most illuminating issues in the area of ancient gender and sexuality, for such narratives subject societal norms to acute critique. This volume brings together fourteen essays originally given as oral presentations at the Fourth …
Versatile Needle
Hosidius Geta’s Cento "Medea" and Its Tradition
Inbunden, 2012
1863 kr
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The cento-tragedy Medea usually attributed to Hosidius Geta was transmitted in the Codex Salmasianus (now Codex Parisinus 10318). This is a comprehensive study and reevaluation of the text against the background of the ancient cento tradition, also providing a new English translation. After …
Plato's "Sophist" Revisited
Av Beatriz Bossi, Thomas M. Robinson
Inbunden, 2013
2542 kr
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This book consists of a selection of papers which throw new light on old problems in one of Plato's most difficult dialogues. The papers included fall into three broad categories: a) those dealing directly with the ostensible aim of the dialogue, the various definitions of a sophist from different …
Of Golden Manes and Silvery Faces
The Partheneion 1 of Alcman
Inbunden, 2012
1863 kr
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Ever since the papyrus containing Alcman’s Partheneion was first published in 1863, classicists have been faced with one of the hardest riddles of their scholarship. Although the language was more or less clear, the meaning of many verses and the character of the poem remained elusive. Therefore it …
Noscendi Nilum Cupido
Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus
Inbunden, 2012
2390 kr
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What significations did Egypt have for the Romans a century after Actium and afterwards? How did Greek imperial authors respond to the Roman fascination with the Nile? This book explores Egypt's aftermath beyond the hostility of Augustan rhetoric, and Greek and Roman topoi of Egyptian "barbarism." …
Thucydides Between History and Literature
Av Antonis Tsakmakis, Melina Tamiolaki
Inbunden, 2013
1962 kr
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This volume brings together scholars from various areas (history, philology, linguistics, history of political ideas) and attempts a fresh survey of current trends in the analysis of Thucydides' historical narrative. Individual contributions range from a general outlook of Thucydides' historical …
Generic Interfaces in Latin Literature
Encounters, Interactions and Transformations
Av Theodore D. Papanghelis, Stephen J. Harrison m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
2934 kr
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Neither older empiricist positions that genre is an abstract concept, useless for the study of individual works of literature, nor the recent (post) modern reluctance to subject literary production to any kind of classification seem to have stilled the discussion on the various aspects of genre in …
Flavian Epic Interactions
Av Gesine Manuwald, Astrid Voigt
Inbunden, 2013
2670 kr
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This volume on the three Flavian epic poets (Valerius Flaccus, Statius and Silius Italicus) for the first time critically engages with a unique set-up in Roman literary history: the survival of four epic poems from the same period (Argonautica; Thebaid, Achilleid; Punica). The interactions of these …
Geography, Topography, Landscape
Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic
Av Marios Skempis, Ioannis Ziogas
Inbunden, 2013
2390 kr
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By introducing a multifaceted approach to epic geography, the editors of the volume wish to provide a critical assessment of spatial perception, of its repercussions on shaping narrative as well as of its discursive traits and cultural contexts. Taking the genre-specific boundaries of Greco-Roman …
Shaping of Narrative in Polybius
Inbunden, 2013
1765 kr
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The narrative artistry of Polybius has received relatively little scholarly attention. Critics have tended to discuss his reflections on the various issues presented in his work or to use him as a source of valuable information about the historical period that he records. This volume, which draws …
Play of Words
Blood Ties and Power Relations in Aeschylus' "Oresteia"
Inbunden, 2014
1559 kr
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"The play of words" examines the dynamics of interfamilial violence in the Oresteia. It argues that the key element of the play's discourse about violence is to be found in the inquiry for a definition of Clytemnestra's motherhood. The failure of this research challenges the reader with some open …
Nonnus of Panopolis in Context
Poetry and Cultural Milieu in Late Antiquity with a Section on Nonnus and the Modern World
Inbunden, 2014
1844 kr
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Nonnus of Panopolis (fifth century CE) composed two poems once thought to be incompatible: the Dionysiaca, a mythological long epic with a marked interest in astrology, the occult, the paradox and not least the beauty of the female body, and a pious and sublime Paraphrase of the Gospel of St John. …
Hellenistic Studies at a Crossroads
Exploring Texts, Contexts and Metatexts
Av Richard Hunter, Antonios Rengakos m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
2205 kr
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Seneca Philosophus
Av Jula Wildberger, Marcia L. Colish
Inbunden, 2014
1791 kr
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Lysias 21
A Commentary
Inbunden, 2014
1506 kr
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Lysias’ 21st speech “On a charge of taking bribes” is an important example of Attic oratory that sheds significant light on Classical history and society. Delivered after the restoration of democracy in 402 B.C.E., this speech provides information that is critical for our understanding of the …
