Ancient & Classical

How Romans built their past-and made it speak.During the turbulent transition from Republic to Empire, Romans became intensely preoccupied with their own past. In Evoking the Dead, W. Martin Bloomer examines how memory was constructed, organized, and put...

The aim of this volume is to study Silius' poem as an important step in the development of the Roman historical epic tradition. The Punica is analyzed as transitional segment between the beginnings of Roman literature in the Republican age (Naevius and...

The story of Maecenas and his role in the evolution and continuing legacy of ancient Roman poetry and cultureAn unelected statesman with exceptional powers, a patron of the arts and a luxury-loving friend of the emperor Augustus: Maecenas was one of the...

Before serving as Bishop of Constantinople and becoming known to posterity as "the Theologian", Gregory of Nazianzus was an Athens-trained professional teacher of Greek literature. Steeped in the rhetorical culture of the Second Sophistic, his orations...

Homer and the Good Ruler in Antiquity and Beyond focuses on the important question of how and why later authors employ Homeric poetry to reflect on various types and aspects of leadership. In a range of essays discussing generically diverse receptions of...

Murray contends that a crucial but underappreciated difference between Homer and Apollonius is their relationship to scholarly controversy. Whereas both poets provoked scholarly controversies, Apollonius did so deliberately as part of an innovative...

Das Etymologicum des Grammatikers Orion (5. Jh.) ist das alteste erhaltene griechische etymologische Lexikon und ein relevanter Text auf dem Gebiet der griechisch-byzantinischen Lexikographie. Orions Text basiert auf alteren, nicht mehr erhaltenen...

What do we miss when we see women's agency only through the lens of transgression? What happens when we expand our notion of authorship to include women who were writing books but not necessarily composing 'original' texts? To answer these questions,...

Tracing the influence and impact of Plato's Timaeus-and its major themes, creation and beauty-through the centuriesMore than two thousand years after it was written, Plato's Timaeus continues to fascinate and intrigue its readers. In Timaeus in Paradise,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783911065368Author Prof. Dr. Joseph ConlonFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Brill Deutschland GmbHPublisher Brill Deutschland GmbH

Focusing on the ancient motif of the descent into the underworld (katabasis), this book examines how three 20th-century writers - Eavan Boland, Gloria Naylor and Derek Walcott - articulate their poetics and assert their place within the Western literary...

The legendary Alcibiades, the renowned Athenian general, cut a charismatic yet enigmatic figure, glorious and provocative, attractive and ambiguous. Isocrates’ Peri tou zeugous (On the Team of Horses; 16), from the early 4th century BC, concerns a legal...

This is the first book for a general audience about Women in the Assembly (Ekklesiazousai), whose central themes - gender, politics, theatre - still resonate today. Fed up with Athens' political dysfunction and involvement in yet another war against...

'Brilliant ... enthralling and profoundly relevant' Salman Rushdie 'Joyful, illuminating and engaging ... required reading for anyone interested in translation' Madeline Miller How do we give old words new voices? What must a translator lose - and...

In the ""Heroides"" the Roman poet Ovid wittily plucks 15 abandoned heriones from ancient myth and literature and creates the fiction that each woman writes a letter to the hero who left her behind. But in giving voice to these heroines, is Ovid writing...

Like the male heroes of epic poetry, Helen of Troy has been immortalized, but not for deeds of strength and honor; she is remembered as the beautiful woman who disgraced herself and betrayed her family and state. Norman Austin here surveys...

Time, Tripods, Textiles, and Trees focuses on metaphorical and metonymical elements in key episodes and passages of the Odyssey to better understand the architecture of the epic and its causation. Beginning with an investigation of the trees gifted by...

Is Xenophon's Cyrus the Great the model leader he seems to be, or does his apparent success actually demonstrate the dangers of imperialism and one-man rule?Debating Cyrus gathers ...

A sweeping account of how we are at our most human when we turn away from the pains of the world.Why do we look away from the suffering of others? Why do we cover our faces in shame? Why do we lower our heads in grief? Few gestures are as universal as...

What pleasures did Plautus' heroic tricksters provide their original audience? How should we understand the compelling mix of rebellion and social conservatism that Plautus offers? Through a close reading of four plays representing the full range of his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788891334404Author Michele Di BelloFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint L'Erma Di BretschneiderPublisher L'Erma Di BretschneiderWeight(grams) 9198g

Cicero Rhetorica. Vol. I (De Oratore)Book InformationISBN 9780198146155Author A. S. WilkinsFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 350gDimensions(mm) 194mm * 130mm * 20mm

This volume deals with the perception and conception of crises in ancient societies from an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspective, with contributions on Greece, Rome, Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia, India and China. The focus is on the extent to...

"In her extended introduction, Nagle offers illuminating information and commentary . . . This verse translation, internally glossed for clarification, is as accurate as modern English will allow. . . . Highly recommended." -Choice"An excellent rendition...

The main challenge in writing the history of Roman women is their silence, for they either did not themselves write, or what writing they did was not kept and transmitted. There are, however, a few welcome exceptions, such as the work of the Roman...

Musical as Classical Reception: Amplifying Antiquity investigates music as a site of classical reception from the early modern rise of opera to contemporary hip-hop. The volume's contributors explore topics across musical genres and classical...

Sidonius Apollinaris' fifth-century Letters are a highpoint of Latin literature. They are also a unique document from the end of the Western Roman Empire on the brink of the Middle Ages. They have a direct appeal to modern readers for the struggle...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Reviews'...his treatment is admirably sane and judicious, and the material which he presents together with his own sound treatment of it will be of great value to critics of the...

This is the first book-length critical study of the three Virgilian works to be published in English for twenty years. It examines in detail the thematic design and intent of the Eclogues, Georgics and Aeneid, and documents the development of their...

The essays in this volume explore the many aspects of the "political" in the plays of Greek comic dramatist Aristophanes (5th century BCE), posing a variety of questions and approaching them through diverse methodological lenses. They demonstrate that...

Xenophon is usually believed to have written his Hellenica as a general ''history of his own times'' in Greece, and is criticized for his disproportionately close attention to Spartan affairs and his apparent bias in favour of the Spartans. But his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789004048690Author Robert Blair EdlowFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint BrillPublisher BrillWeight(grams) 263g

This is a word-for-word commentary on the first part (vv. 1-382) of Hesiod's Works and Days. Special attention has been paid to peculiarities of grammar and idiom, but also to figures of style and the poet's train of thought. All interpretations - many...

In this book, Katie Reid argues that the fifth-century author Martianus Capella was a significant influence in the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. His poetic encyclopaedia, The Marriage of Philology and Mercury, was a source for writing on the liberal...

Although editions of Nemesianus have been surprisingly numerous, very few have contributed appreciably to our understanding of this author, and most texts have been based on a very limited number of manuscripts. There has been no commentary of any length...

Irreducible to conventional labels usually applied to him, the Tang poet Du Fu (712-770) both defined and was defined by the literary, intellectual, and socio-political cultures of the Song dynasty (960-1279). Jue Chen not only argues in his work that...

Switzerland suffered four major terrorist attacks in 1969 and 1970, which forced the Swiss government to address the issue of international terrorism for the first time. Subsequently, "neutral" Switzerland worked closely with Western Cold War powers to...

The volume consists of six papers that propose new approaches to the study of fragmentary Hesiodic epic. They explore interpretive questions referring not only to the better-studied Catalogue of Women and the Aspis, but also to rather neglected epics...

The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. Ce livre propose une etude intertextuelle des descriptions d'aurores et de crepuscules dans la Thebaide de Stace. Les images...

Canonisation is fundamental to the sustainability of cultures. This volume is meant as a (theoretical) exploration of the process, taking Eurasian societies from roughly the first millennium BCE (Babylonian, Assyrian, Persian, Greek, Egyptian, Jewish and...