Gestures: Essays in Ancient History, Literature, and Philosophy presented to Alan L Boegehold
edited by Geoffrey W Bakewell and James P Sickinger
These thirty essays were presented to Alan L Boegehold, a distinguished philologist and an inspirational teacher, on the occasion of his retirement and his seventy-fifth birthday. The contributions fall into two categories, each one reflecting Boegehold's diverse interests in classical studies: the first section includes essays on literary and philosophical topics, several of which pick up on the theme of "gestures"; the second section is ...
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Exemplum and Myth, Criticism and Creation: Papers on Early Greek Literature
by J. G. Howie
J. Gordon Howie's seminal papers on Homer, Hesiod, Sappho, Pindar, Euripides, Thucydides, and Xenophon document the vitality and influence of cultural and intellectual patterns first visible in early Greek epic and lyric, and reveal the impact of those patterns on Attic drama and on the Greek historians. A focal figure in this process, and throughout Howie's papers, is Pindar, who transmitted his poetic past while transforming it in ways that ...
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Papers of the Langford Latin Seminar, Fifteenth Volume, 2012
edited by Francis Cairns
The fifteenth volume of PLLS (and the fifth in the Langford series) contains major papers on early Greek epic and tragedy, aspects of ekphrasis, Roman republican culture and politics, and astrology in the imperial period. 350pp (Arca 51, Francis Cairns (Publications) Ltd., 2012)
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Papers of the Langford Latin Seminar, Fourteenth Volume, 2010: Health and Sickness in Ancient Rome; Greek and Roman Poetry and Historiography
edited by Francis Cairns and Miriam Griffin
Papers of the Langford Latin Seminar 14 contains (in revised, usually enlarged, and annotated form) papers presented at Langford Seminars of the Department of Classics of The Florida State University over the years 2004 to 2008, together with supplementary articles contributed at the request of the editors. The papers in the section Health and Sickness in Ancient Rome mostly derive from the Spring 2008 Conference organised by Miriam ...
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Generic Composition in Greek and Roman Poetry
by Francis Cairns
Original in conception and powerful in scope, Generic Composition in Greek and Roman Poetry remains one of the most important books on early Greek, Hellenistic and Roman poetry in a generation. First published in the philological climate of the early 1970s, Francis Cairns' book was among the first works that sought to further our comprehension of difficult or obscure ancient poems by applying new literary-critical conventions and ...
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In Search of the Sorcerer's Apprentice: The Traditional Tales of Lucian's Lover of Lies
by Daniel Ogden
In Search of the Sorcerer's Apprentice is the first book in English to be devoted to Lucian's Philopseudes or Lover of Lies (ca. 170s AD). It comprises an extensive discussion, with full translation, on this engaging and satirical Greek text with its ten tales of magic and ghosts. One of these is the famous story of The Sorcerer's Apprentice, and this conveys the flavour of the rest. In other tales a plague of snakes ...
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Herakles and Hercules: Exploring a Graeco-Roman Divinity
edited by Louis Rawlings and Hugh Bowden
Herakles and Hercules: two names for a figure of pervasive appeal in Antiquity. He was a hero of myth and a god with cult associations. He was ancestor of Macedonian kings, patron of Carthaginian generals and of Roman emperors, and a role model for Stoic philosophers. As a performer of the famous labours, wanderer, liberator, madman and murderer of kin, Herakles-Hercules has retained his fascination down to the present. The eleven new studies in ...
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Athenaeus and his World
edited by David Braund and John Wilkins
Subtitled `Reading Greek culture in the Roman Empire' these essays provide the first sustained attempt to understand and explore the work of Athenaeus as a whole and in its own right. It emerges as no mere compendium of texts but as a vibrant work of complex structure and substantial creativity. The book makes sense of the massive and polyphonous Deipnosophistae, the quarry upon which classicists and ancient historians depend for their ...
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Ancient Epic
by Katherine Callen King
Ancient Epic offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to six of the greatest ancient epics Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Vergil's Aeneid, Ovid's Metamorphoses, and Apollonius of Rhodes' Agonautica. It aims to inspire as well as inform and has a lively tone appropriate to its introductory purpose. It surveys the historical background to the epics and the societies from which they sprang, investigating the function of epic poetry, and ...
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