Language & Literature

ISBN: 9780956838131
Published by : Cambridge Philological Society
Series: Cambridge Classical Journal Supplement
Volume: 38
Sir Richard Jebb (1841–1905) was the most celebrated classical scholar in late Victorian Britain: his edition of Sophocles, which remains a classic, brought him a knighthood. Professor of Greek at Cambridge from 1889, and MP... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781900755351
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
The extensive performance history of Euripides' Medea since the Renaissance underscores its lasting social and political relevance. Here, papers drawn from an interdisciplinary colloquium hosted at Somerville College by the University of Oxfo... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781908343697
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Series: Classical Texts
King Agamemnon is long dead and his killers rule at Argos. Orestes returns from exile to avenge his father by killing his mother Clytemnestra and her seducer Aegisthus. His vengeance will release his sister Electra from oppression... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781905125562
Published by : Classical Press of Wales
In the Ancient World death came – on average - at a far earlier age than in today’s West, and without the authoritative warnings given by modern medicine. Consolation for the trauma of loss had, accordingly, a more pro... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780956838124
Published by : Cambridge Philological Society
Series: Cambridge Classical Journal Supplementary
Volume: 37
Colin Austin, Professor of Greek at Cambridge University 1998–2008, was one of the world’s foremost experts in the reconstruction and interpretation of Greek comedy. When he died in August 2010, he was working towards ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781421408262
Published by : Johns Hopkins University Press
The Poetics of Consent breaks new ground in Homeric studies by interpreting the Iliad's depictions of political action in terms of the poetic forces that shaped the Iliad itself. Arguing that consensus is a central theme of the ep... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781905125579
Published by : Classical Press of Wales
Eight leading contemporary interpreters of Classical Greek tragedy here explore its relation to the thought of the Archaic Period. Prominent topics are the nature and possibility of divine justice; the influence of the gods on hum... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780979975851
Published by : American Society of Papyrologists
Series: AMERICAN STUDIES IN PAPYROLOGY
Volume: 52
P.CtYBR inv. 4000, owned by Yale University's Beinecke Library, is a fragmentary papyrus codex that comprises parts of six bifolia (24 pages) and contains Greek elegiac epigrams. Of the approximately 60 epigrams that are partially... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780521194976
Published by : Cambridge University Press
This book sets out to disentangle the complex chronology of early Greek epic poetry, which includes Homer, Hesiod, hymns and catalogues. The preserved corpus of these texts is characterized by a rather uniform language and many recurring themes... .... Learn More