Ancient & Classical

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789004042254Author P.T. EdenFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint BrillPublisher BrillWeight(grams) 379g

Unlike many studies of the family in the ancient world, this volume presents readings of mothers in classical literature, including philosophical and epigraphic writing as well as poetic texts. Rather than relying on a male viewpoint, the essays offer a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783515138499Author Helge BaumannFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbHPublisher Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden...

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Ovid's poetry has in recent years enjoyed a remarkable renaissance: in particular, there has been a surge of interest in the Heroides, the Fasti, and his exile poetry. Ovid's Literary Loves, by Barbara Weiden Boyd, reopens the Amores for the modern...

In The Heart of Achilles, Graham Zanker addresses the task of reconstructing the ethical thought-world in which the characters of the Iliad live and move. It is only against this background, Zanker argues, that we can convincingly place the ethical...

In what questions are scholars of Horace currently interested? What opportunities does this core Roman author offer twenty-first-century critics? This book discusses recent work on Horace by genre, moving from the early Satires through to the late...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503614281Author George CorbettFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Brepols PublishersPublisher Brepols PublishersWeight(grams) 331g

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This volume of thirteen essays includes "Tantalus and Anaxagoras," by Ruth Scodel; "Notes on Seneca 'Rhetor,'" by W. S. Watt; "More on Pseudo-Quintilian's Longer Declamations," by D. R. Shackleton Bailey; "Lurius Varus, a Stray Consular Legate," by...

This volume of sixteen essays includes "The Earliest Stages in the History of Hesiod's Text," by Friedrich Solmsen; "Notes on Plautus' Bacchides," by Otto Skutsch; "Gadflies (Virg. Geo. 3.146-148)," by Richard F. Thomas; "Homoeoteleuton in Latin Dactylic...

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Aaron Poochigian's new translations of Aeschylus's earliest extant plays provide the clearest rendering yet of their formal structure. The distinction between spoken and sung rhythms is as sharp as it is in the source texts, and for the first time...

"The works of Plautus," writes Palmer Bovie, "mark the real beginning of Roman literature." Now Bovie and David Slavitt have brought together a distinguished group of translators for the final two volumes of a four-volume set containing all twenty-one...

The Roman poet Statius' 4th book of "Silvae", published in AD 95, follows its preface with nine poems celebrating occasions from the building of a road to the gift-giving Saturnalian festival. This edition provides the first commentary since Vollmer's of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814257814Author Michelle ZerbaFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University Press

Roman drama is a genre of Latin literature that was influential both in the cultural life of the ancient Romans and in the European theatre tradition. Plays of Plautus, Terence and Seneca are still very well known today; yet there were numerous works by...

This volume of fifteen essays includes "The Case of the Door's Marriage (Catullus 67.6)," by E. Badian; "The Date of Tacitus' Dialogus," by Charles E. Murgia; "Poetae Novelli," by Alan Cameron; "Three Pieces from the 'Latin Anthology,'" by D. R...

"Orestes" was one of Euripides' most popular plays in antiquity. Its plot, which centres on Orestes' murder of his mother Clytemnestra and its aftermath, is exciting as well as morally complex; its presentation of madness is unusually intense...

Demosthenes was punched in the face by Meidias in the theatre at Athens in 348 BC. His prosecution - a masterpiece of Greek oratorical prose - is one of the most intriguing forensic speeches to survive. It not only details Demosthenes' personal feud with...

Alcidamas is an important figure in the development of Greek rhetoric early in the fourth century BC. Pupil of Gorgias, rival of Isocrates, and teacher of Aeschines, he also influenced Demosthenes and was later admired by both Aristotle and Cicero. His...

Scholars of ancient literature have often focused on the works and lives of major authors rather than on such questions as how these works were produced and who read them. In Roman Literary Culture, Elaine Fantham fills that void by examining the...

Dieses Kompendium stellt erstmals die hethitische Literatur aller Gattungen in umfangreichen Textauszugen und Paraphrasen vor und erschliesst sie durch ausfuhrliche, allgemeinverstandliche Kommentare. Diese berucksichtigen neben der Stilistik besonders...

This volume on the Sanskrit literature is considered a continuation of Max Weber's History of Ancient Sanskrit Text, as Weber's work was strictly using the early Vedic age. The author begins his work from classical Vedic literature and later Vedic texts,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788822259745Author Susanna BarsellaFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Casa Editrice Leo S. OlschkiPublisher Casa Editrice Leo S. Olschki

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788794559133Author PlatoFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Filibooks ClassicsPublisher Filibooks ClassicsWeight(grams) 54g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783963270680Author Stephanie AnthoniozFormat HardbackPage Count 206Imprint ZaphonPublisher ZaphonWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 244mm * 175mm * 15mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783949189968Author Giuseppe Eugenio RalloFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Verlag-AntikePublisher Verlag-AntikeWeight(grams) 476g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783949189272Author Dr. Andrew HartwigFormat HardbackPage Count 390Imprint Verlag-AntikePublisher Verlag-AntikeWeight(grams) 796gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 160mm...

Der in englischer Sprache verfasste Forschungsbericht zu Ovids Metamorphosen wurde von einem Forscher:innenteam der Universitat Huelva unter Leitung von Antonio Ramirez de Verger und Luis Rivero Garcia erstellt und arbeitet die schier unuberschaubare...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503611129Author Franca Ela ConsolinoFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Brepols PublishersPublisher Brepols PublishersWeight(grams) 1148g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503586526Author Jesus Hernandez LobatoFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 544g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782251004020Author D'Ephese SoranosFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Les Belles LettresPublisher Les Belles LettresWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)...

When did fairy tales begin? What qualifies as a fairy tale? Is a true fairy tale oral or literary? Or is a fairy tale determined not by style but by content? To answer these and other questions, Jan M. Ziolkowski not only provides a comprehensive...

The Heroides, a collection of elegiac poems written as letters, fused Ovid's interests in erotics and myth into a new and unique genre, in which experiments with epistolary form and the psychology of first-person narrative would go on to have a profound...

In this new student introduction to a Greek tragedy, Isabelle Torrance looks at what makes Iphigenia among the Taurians a successful tragedy in ancient Greek terms, and how dramatic excitement is achieved through the exotic setting, the cast of...

In this commentary on Aristotle Physics book eight, chapters one to five, the sixth-century philosopher Simplicius quotes and explains important fragments of the Presocratic philosophers, provides the fragments of his Christian opponent Philoponus'...

Boethius (c. 480-c. 525) was a Christian philosopher and author of many translations and works of philosophy, most famously the Consolations of Philosophy which were probably written when he was under house arrest, having been accused of treason by King...

The textual foundations of works of great cultural significance are often less stable than one would wish them to be. No work of Homer, Dante or Shakespeare survives in utterly reliable witnesses, be they papyri, manuscripts or printed editions. Notions...