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Onomatologos: Studies in Greek Personal Names presented to Elaine Matthews [Hardback]
R. W. V. Catling (Editor); F. Marchand (Author); M. Sasanow (Author)
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ISBN: 9781842179826
Published by : Oxbow Books
onomatologos is a term used in later antiquity to describe eminent lexicographers such as Hesychius and Pollux as 'collectors of words', but here it is used as the title for a major volume of papers prepared in honour of Elaine Matthews, recen... .... Learn More -
Kostas Varnalis's Papers: The Poet's Workshop and History (Modern Greek) [Paperback]
Theano Michailidou (Editor)
£17.00ISBN: 9789608696099
Published by : American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Series: New Griffon
Volume: 11
Kostas Varnalis (1884-1974) was a Bulgarian-born Greek writer and member of the demoticist movement in Greece. An important contemporary of Angelos Sikelianos and Nikos Kazantzakis, Varnalis’s floruit as a poet was in the interwar period. His most... .... Learn More -
To Mega Biblion: Book-ends, End-Titles, and Coronides in Papyri with Hexametric Poetry [Hardback]
Francesca Schironi (Author)
£44.00ISBN: 9780979975806
Published by : American Society of Papyrologists
Series: American Studies in Papyrology
Volume: 48
A systematic and chronological investigation into the nature and development of end-titles in papyrus rolls and codices of hexameter poetry from the 3rd century BC to the 6th century AD. The bulk of the evidence for presentation o... .... Learn More -
JJP Supplement 13 (2010) Journal of Juristic Papyrology: Qasr Ibrim: The Greek and Coptic Inscriptions Published on Behalf of the Egypt Exploration Society [Hardback]
Adam Lajtar (Author); Jacques vad der Vliet (Author); A. Lajtar (Author); J. van der Vliet (Author)
£75.00ISBN: 9788392591924
Published by : Journal of Juristic Papyrology
Series: JJP Supplements
Volume: 13
This book contains the publication of the Greek and Coptic inscriptions that were brought to light during archaeological work on the site of Qasr Ibrim (Egyptian Nubia) carried out by the Egypt Exploration Society from 1963 onwards. .... Learn More -
Papers of the Langford Latin Seminar, Fourteenth Volume, 2010: Health and Sickness in Ancient Rome; Greek and Roman Poetry and Historiography [Hardback]
Francis Cairns (Editor); Miriam Griffin (Editor)
£60.00ISBN: 9780905205533
Published by : Francis Cairns (Publications) Ltd
Series: ARCA, Classical and Medieval Texts, Papers and Monographs
Volume: 50
Papers of the Langford Latin Seminar 14 contains (in revised, usually enlarged, and annotated form) papers presented at Langford Seminars of the Department of Classics of The Florida State University over the years 2004 to 2008, together with ... .... Learn More -
Bacchylides [Hardback]
D. L. Cairns (Author); J. G. Howie (Author); D. L. Cairns (Editor); J. C. Howie (Translator)
£80.00ISBN: 9780905205526
Published by : Francis Cairns (Publications) Ltd
Series: ARCA, Classical and Medieval Texts, Papers and Monographs
Volume: 49
Among the works of the fifth-century BC lyric poet Bacchylides are epinician odes celebrating victors in the cycle of Greek Games, which were occasions of major political, cultural and religious significance in the Greek world. Fourteen of Bac... .... Learn More -
Aeschylus: Eumenides [Paperback]
Robin Mitchell-Boyask (Author)
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ISBN: 9780715636428
Published by : Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd.
The "Eumenides", the concluding drama in Aeschylus' sole surviving trilogy, the "Oresteia", is not only one of the most admired Greek tragedies, but also one of the most controversial and contested, both to specialist scholars and public intel... .... Learn More -
Greek Literature in the Roman Empire [Paperback]
Jason Konig (Author)
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ISBN: 9781853997136
Published by : Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd.
In this book Jason Konig offers for the first time an accessible yet comprehensive account of the multi-faceted Greek literature of the Roman Empire, focusing especially on the first three centuries AD. He covers in turn the Greek novels of this p... .... Learn More -
Homer's Cosmic Fabrication: Choice and Design in the Iliad [Hardback]
Bruce Heiden (Author)
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ISBN: 9780195341072
Published by : Oxford University Press
A new attempt to get to the bottom of the organisation and construction of the Iliad, which proposes that the poem is structured in such a way as to make reading it profitable, as opposed to the standard conception of its being an... .... Learn More -
Euripides: Ion [Paperback]
Laura Swift (Author)
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ISBN: 9780715637449
Published by : Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd.
Ion is one of Euripdes' less well known plays, in antiquity just as today, possibly due to the obscurity of the myth on which it was based. The story concerns the rape of Creousa by Apollo, and the upbringing of the resultant son abandoned son ... .... Learn More
