Language & Literature

ISBN: 9780292738805
Published by : University of Texas Press
In this original study Deborah Beck analyses the full range of methods of speech representation, placing a new weight on non-direct speech. She examines the complex and overlapping functions of each form of speech representation, ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781107007871
Published by : Cambridge University Press
This collection of essays by international experts examines the victory ode from a range of angles: its genesis and evolution, the nature of the commissioning process, the patrons, context of performance and re-performance, and t... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781905125586
Published by : Classical Press of Wales
One of the most fertile and fast-developing themes of recent historiography is treated by the 10 new papers in this volume. The history of the ancient world has traditionally been studied with a view to tracing the origins of those grand develo... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781107029316
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Within the field of ancient bilingualism, Sicily represents a unique terrain for analysis as a result of its incredibly rich linguistic history, in which 'colonial' languages belonging to branches as diverse as Italic (Oscan and L... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780415651707
Published by : Routledge Ltd
This book examines the arrangement and interpretation of the recently published papyrus fragments named the 'new Simonides', and questions the current assumptions on which most modern scholarship is based. The author argues that these fragments... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780905205540
Published by : Francis Cairns (Publications) Ltd
Series: COLLECTED CLASSICAL PAPERS
Volume: 3
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 ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780856688706
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Greek Drama IV: Texts, Context, Performance contains fourteen papers that comprise a snapshot of current work on Greek drama. How do notions of performance and performance context influence interpretation of individual plays? How do we reconst... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780674996588
Published by : Harvard University Press
The Histories of Polybius are an invaluable source for the rise of Rome and her acquisition of control over the Mediterranean in the years during and after the Punic Wars, by a Greek author who was a hostage in Rome for many years, knew leadi... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780674996595
Published by : Harvard University Press
The Histories of Polybius are an invaluable source for the
rise of Rome and her acquisition of control over the
Mediterranean in the years during and after the Punic Wars, by a
Greek author who was a hostage in Rome fo... .... Learn More