Language & Literature

ISBN: 9780521190640
Published by : Cambridge University Press
This study concentrates primarily on similes spoken by Homeric characters. The first to offer a sustained exploration of such similes, Ready shows how characters are made to contest through and over simile not only with one another but also wit... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780521762779
Published by : Cambridge University Press
This innovative study of the Iliad , drawing on the findings of cognitive psychology, focuses on its visual poetics and considers how the narrative is envisioned by the poet and made visible to the audience. Strauss Clay discusses how the lands... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780521149488
Published by : Cambridge University Press
This innovative study of the Iliad , drawing on the findings of cognitive psychology, focuses on its visual poetics and considers how the narrative is envisioned by the poet and made visible to the audience. Strauss Clay discusses how the lands... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780292723948
Published by : University of Texas Press
Greek drama has been subject to ongoing textual and historical interpretation, but surprisingly little scholarship has examined the people who composed the theatre audiences in Athens. Producing the first book-length work on the subject, David ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780292744028
Published by : University of Texas Press
Greek drama has been subject to ongoing textual and historical interpretation, but surprisingly little scholarship has examined the people who composed the theatre audiences in Athens. Producing the first book-length work on the subject, David ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780715639429
Published by : Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd.
The expansion of Rome's empire dominates Polybius' Histories. As a non-Roman writing in Rome, however his attitude to Roman imperialism is complex and ambivalent. Baronowski first surveys Polybius' contemporaries, setting out what other histori... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781853997426
Published by : Bristol Classical Press
A Greek doctor serving at the court of the Persian king Artaxerxes II in the fifth century BC, Ctesias met travellers and visitors from the far eastern reaches of the Persian Empire, merchants from along the Silk Road and Indians from near the ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780199757923
Published by : Oxford University Press
The Homeric poems have, for almost a century now, been considered as fossilised products of an oral tradition, retaining traces of their formulae and compositional techniques that show this. R. Scott Garner takes this approach and applies it to... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780199562329
Published by : Oxford University Press
Much work on Greek tragedy in recent years has focused on its political relevance and relationship to the city of Athens where it enjoyed its most sustained flourishing. This collection of essays by a wide variety of distinguished scholars furt... .... Learn More