Language & Literature
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The Fall of Cities in the Mediterranean: Commemoration in Literature Folk-Song and Liturgy [Hardback]
Ann Suter (Editor); Dorota M. Dutsch (Editor); Mary R. Bachvarova (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781107031968
Published by : Cambridge University Press
A body of theory has developed about the role and function of memory in creating and maintaining cultural identity. Yet there has been no consideration of the rich Mediterranean and Near Eastern traditions of laments for fallen cities in commemora... .... Learn More -
The Poetics of Victory in the Greek West: Epinician Oral Tradition and the Deinomenid Empire [Hardback]
Nigel Nicholson (Author)
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ISBN: 9780190209094
Published by : Oxford University Press
The Poetics of Victory in the Greek West examines the relationship between epinician and the heroizing narratives about athletes, or "hero-athlete narratives" that circulated orally in Sicily and Italy in the late archaic and early classical perio... .... Learn More -
Aristophanes and Alcibiades: Echoes of Contemporary History in Athenian Comedy [Hardback]
Michael Vickers (Author)
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ISBN: 9783110437539
Published by : Walter de Gruyter
The conventional view of Aristophanes bristles with problems. Important testimony for Alcibiades’ paramount role in comedy is consistently disregarded, and the tradition that “masks were made to look like the komodoumenoi, so that before an actor ... .... Learn More -
The Spell of Hypnos: Sleep and Sleeplessness in Ancient Greek Literature [Hardback]
Silvia Montiglio (Author)
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ISBN: 9781784533519
Published by : I.B. Tauris
Sleep was viewed as a boon by the ancient Greeks: sweet, soft, honeyed, balmy, care-loosening, as the Iliad has it. But neither was sleep straightforward, nor safe. It could be interrupted, often by a dream. It could be the site of dramatic interv... .... Learn More -
Thucydides [Paperback]
P. J. Rhodes (Author)
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ISBN: 9781472523990
Published by : Bloomsbury
Thucydides was labelled the 'greatest historian that ever lived' by Macauley and no study of Classical Greece is complete without encountering his history of the Peloponnesian War, the greatest war of Greeks against Greeks in the late fifth centur... .... Learn More -
The Romance between Greece and the East [Paperback]
Tim Whitmarsh (Editor); Stuart Thomson (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781107543003
Published by : Cambridge University Press
The contact zones between the Greco-Roman world and the Near East represent one of the most exciting and fast-moving areas of ancient-world studies. This new collection of essays, by world-renowned experts (and some new voices) in classical, Jewis... .... Learn More -
Epideictic Rhetoric: Questioning the Stakes of Ancient Praise [Hardback]
Laurent Pernot (Author)
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ISBN: 9780292768208
Published by : University of North Carolina Press
Speeches of praise and blame constituted a form of oratory put to brilliant and creative use in the classical Greek period (fifth to fourth century BC) and the Roman imperial period (first to fourth century AD), and they have influenced public spe... .... Learn More -
Euripides and the Politics of Form [Hardback]
Victoria Wohl (Author)
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ISBN: 9780691166506
Published by : Princeton University Press
How can we make sense of the innovative structure of Euripidean drama? And what political role did tragedy play in the democracy of classical Athens? These questions are usually considered to be mutually exclusive, but this book shows that they ca... .... Learn More -
Callimachus in Context: From Plato to the Augustan Poets [Paperback]
Benjamin Acosta-Hughes (Author)
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ISBN: 9781107470644
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Scholarly reception has bequeathed two Callimachuses: the Roman version is a poet of elegant non-heroic poetry (usually erotic elegy), represented by a handful of intertexts with a recurring set of images - slender Muse, instructing divinity, smal... .... Learn More -
Misery and Forgiveness in Euripides: Meaning and Structure in the Hippolytus [Hardback]
Boris Nikolsky (Author)
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ISBN: 9781910589038
Published by : Classical Press of Wales
The tragedies of Euripides are among the most admired works of Greek literature. They are valued especially in our own day for their sceptical attitude to authority and divinity, for their psychological complexity and for their sympathetic but uns... .... Learn More
