Language & Literature

ISBN: 9781913701444
Published by : Cambridge Philological Society
Series: Cambridge Classical Journal Supplements
Volume: 45
Colin Austin (1941–2010), Professor of Greek at Cambridge and distinguished editor of poetic texts, was renowned for the precision and brilliance of his scholarship. This collection of studies, offered by some of his pupils, aims to honour his mem... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781913701420
Published by : Cambridge Philological Society
Series: Cambridge Classical Journal Supplements
Volume: 44
This monograph uses the life and work of ground-breaking female classicist, Wilmer Cave Wright, to examine several questions about the rise of women in that discipline. First, what went into the creation of a classics scholar under circumstances t... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781463242602
Published by : Gorgias Press
Series: Texts and Studies (Third Series)
Volume: 25
The book is a synoptic catalogue of a large class of Greek manuscripts: it describes all pre-seventeenth century copies of the Greek New Testament in which the biblical text is accompanied by commentary. Manuscripts where this commentary consists ... .... Learn More

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ISBN: 9781789257434
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Contexts of and Relations Between Early Writing Systems
Volume: 5
Despite the flourishing of epichoric studies on the Archaic Greek scripts in the 1960s, embodied by archaeologists Lilian Hamilton Jeffery and Margherita Guarducci, most scholarship on early alphabetic writing in Greece has focused on questions ar... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781913701406
Published by : Cambridge Philological Society
Series: Cambridge Classical Journal Supplements
Volume: 43
The canon of classical Greek and Latin poetry is built around big names, with Homer and Virgil at the centre, but many ancient poems survive without a firm ascription to a known author. This negative category, anonymity, ties together texts as dif... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780956838179
Published by : Cambridge Philological Society
Series: Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society Supplementary Volume
Volume: 42
Simonides of Keos was one of the most important praise-poets of the early fifth century BCE, ranking alongside Pindar and Bacchylides. In Simonides Lyricus, a group of leading international experts revisit familiar questions about his lyric poetry... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780674185074
Published by : Harvard University Press
Greek myths have long been admired as beautiful, thrilling stories but dismissed as serious objects of belief. For centuries scholars have held that Greek epics, tragedies, and the other compelling works handed down to us obscure the "real" myths ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781138104952
Published by : Routledge
Over the last two decades, research in cultural geography and landscape studies has influenced many humanities fields, including Classics, and has increasingly drawn our attention to the importance of spaces and their contexts, both geographical a... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780198803614
Published by : Oxford University Press
Charles W. Fornara's Herodotus: An Interpretative Essay (Oxford, 1971) was a landmark publication in the study of the great Greek historian. Well-known in particular for its main thesis that the Histories should be read against the background of t... .... Learn More