Language & Literature
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Theocritus; Moschus; Bion [Hardback]
Neil Hopkinson (Editor)
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ISBN: 9780674996441
Published by : Harvard University Press
Theocritus (early third century BCE), born in Syracuse and also active on Cos and at Alexandria, was the inventor of the bucolic genre. Like his contemporary Callimachus, Theocritus was a learned poet who followed the aesthetic, developed a genera... .... Learn More -
Gods Rich in Praise: Early Greek and Mesopotamian Religious Poetry
Christopher Metcalf (Author)
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ISBN: 9780198723363
Published by : Oxford University Press
Many scholars today believe that early Greek literature, as represented by the great poems of Homer and Hesiod, was to some extent inspired by texts from the neighbouring civilizations of the ancient Near East, especially Mesopotamia. It is true t... .... Learn More -
Sophist Kings: Persians as Other in Herodotus [Hardback]
Vernon L Provencal (Author)
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ISBN: 9781780936130
Published by : Bloomsbury
Sophist Kings: Persians as Other sets forth a reading of Herodotus' Histories that highlights the consistency with which the Persians are depicted as sophists and Persian culture is infused with a sophistic ideology. The Persians as the Greek 'oth... .... Learn More -
Performing Oaths in Classical Greek Drama [Paperback]
Judith Fletcher (Author)
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ISBN: 9781107525832
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Oaths were ubiquitous rituals in ancient Athenian legal, commercial, civic and international spheres. Their importance is reflected by the fact that much of surviving Greek drama features a formal oath sworn before the audience. This is the first ... .... Learn More -
Callimachus: The Hymns [Paperback]
Susan A. Stephens (Editor)
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ISBN: 9780199783045
Published by : Oxford University Press
Callimachus was arguably the most important poet of the Hellenistic age, for two reasons: his engagement with previous theorists of poetry and his wide-ranging poetic experimentation. Of his poetic oeuvre, which exceeded what we now have of Theocr... .... Learn More -
Hesiod's Works and Days: How to Teach Self-Sufficiency [Hardback]
Lilah Grace Canevaro (Author)
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ISBN: 9780198729549
Published by : Oxford University Press
Greek poet Hesiod's canonical archaic text, the Works and Days, was performed in its entirety, but was also relentlessly excerpted, quoted, and reapplied. In this volume, Lilah Grace Canevaro situates the poem within these two modes of reading and... .... Learn More -
Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy [Hardback]
Fabian Meinel (Author)
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ISBN: 9781107044463
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Pollution is ubiquitous in Greek tragedy: matricidal Orestes seeks purification at Apollo's shrine in Delphi; carrion from Polyneices' unburied corpse fills the altars of Thebes; delirious Phaedra suffers from a 'pollution of the mind'. This book ... .... Learn More -
Pindar and the Construction of Syracusan Monarchy in the Fifth Century BC [Hardback]
Kathryn Morgan (Author)
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ISBN: 9780199366859
Published by : Oxford University Press
This groundbreaking book attempts a fully contextualized reading of the poetry written by Pindar for Hieron of Syracuse in the 470s BC. It argues that the victory odes and other occasional songs composed by Pindar for the Sicilian tyrant were part... .... Learn More -
No Laughing Matter [Paperback]
C. W. Marshall (Author); George Kovacs (Author)
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ISBN: 9781780930152
Published by : Bristol Classical Press
A wide-ranging collection of new studies of the comic theatre of Athens, from its origins until the 340s BCE. Fifteen international scholars employ an array of approaches and methodologies that will appeal to Classics and Theatre scholars while st... .... Learn More -
Myth, Literature and the Creation of the Topography of Thebes [Hardback]
Daniel W. Berman (Author)
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ISBN: 9781107077362
Published by : Cambridge University Press
How does a city's legendary past affect its present? Thebes remains a city with one of the richest traditions of myth in all of Greece – it was the home of Cadmus, Oedipus, and Hercules, and the traditional birthplace of Dionysus. The city's topog... .... Learn More
