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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Vergil und seine deutschen Übersetzer
by Eckart Klessmann
"By the way, perhaps no poet is more difficult to translate then Virgil." This statement from Christian Ludwig Neuffer (1816) is also confirmed by Eckart Klessmann in this presentation. He directs his attention to the translations of the Aeneid that appeared between 1949 and 2005. There is emphasis on the relationship of the Germans to Virgil. German text.
20p (Franz Steiner Verlag 2009)
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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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Echoing Narratives: Studies of Intertextuality in Greek and Roman Prose Fiction
edited by Konstantin Doulamis
Intertextuality has been recognised as an important feature of ancient prose fiction and yet it has only received sporadic attention in modern scholarship, despite the recent explosion of interest in the ancient novels. This volume is intended to make a contribution towards filling this gap by drawing attention to, and throwing fresh light on, the presence in ancient Greek and Roman narratives of earlier literary echoes. While one volume is by no ...
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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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Enargeia: Untersuchung zur Charakteristik alexandrinischer Dichtung
by Nina Otto
Research and literary historians have always insisted that Alexandrine poetry is particularly focused on sensory perception and the organs that facilitate it. The same appreciation can be seen not only in literature, but also in the ontology and cognitive teachings of the Epicureans and Stoics. The term enargeia, which is important in this context, is also used in Greek and Roman literary criticism to describe certain textual ...
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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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