Ancient & Classical

How is it that we feel with fictional characters and so approve or disapprove of their actions? For many British Enlightenment thinkers writing at a time when sympathy was the pivot of ethics as well as poetics, this question was crucial. Asserting that...

The "De Rerum Natura" of Lucretius (?97-55 BC) is at first sight something of an oddity: a scientific treatise dealing with atomic physics, human biology and the nature of the cosmos, it is at the same time a poem of great power and intensity,...

The purpose of this volume is to investigate the crucial role played by the return of knowledge of Greek in the transformation of European culture, both through the translation of texts, and through the direct study of the language. It aims to collect...

Scholars have been seeking to understand Sophocles' Antigone for over two millennia. The origins of this long tradition of the play's interpretation are now represented mainly by a series of notes that have survived in the margins of medieval...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781390054Author Marcus Tullius CiceroFormat HardbackPage Count 162Imprint Benediction ClassicsPublisher Benediction ClassicsWeight(grams) 411g

Prudentius is one of the major Latin poets of antiquity. A Christian living and writing in Spain in the late fourth and early fifth centuries, he was thoroughly imbued with the whole tradition of Latin poetry. The Hamartigenia is a didactic poem...

Edited with Introduction, Commentary and IndexBook InformationISBN 9781853991882Author TheophrastusFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint Bristol Classical PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams) 402g

Micro Middle Ages brings together five microhistorical case studies focusing on small or seemingly inconsequential evidence that leads to broader conclusions about medieval history and the way we do and understand history in general. Paul Dutton provides...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789361475092Author Desiderius ErasmusPage Count 72Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

Among the very few papyri devoted to the work of the Attic orator Lysias, one of the most interesting is certainly P. Oxy. XXXI 2537. Dated palaeographically to the late 2nd-early 3rd century CE, it contains the summaries of 22 Lysianic speeches, 18 of...

This book reconstructs the theory of signification implicit in Aristotle's De Interpretatione and its psychological background in his writing De Anima, a project often envisioned by scholars but never systematically undertaken. I begin by explaining what...

The Homeric Questions of the Neoplatonic philosopher Porphyry (3rd cent. CE) is an important work in the history of Homeric criticism. In contrast to the philosopher's allegorical readings of Homer in De Antro and De Styge, in the Homeric Questions...

Classicizing Christian poetry has largely been neglected by literary scholars, but has recently been receiving growing attention, especially the poetry written in Latin. One of the objectives of this volume is to redress the balance by allowing more...

The collection of the elder Seneca assembles quotations from scores of declaimers over a period spanning sixty years, from the Augustan Age through the early decades of the empire. A view is offered onto a literary scene, for this critical period of...

Despite its enormous extent and impact, the Swedish scholarship produced in the context of Olof Rudbeck's monumental 'Atlantica' (4 vols, 1679-1702) has hitherto escaped attention outside Scandinavia. The present volume explores the numerous disciplines...

This book provides an interpretation of Plato's Euthydemus as a unified piece of literature, taking into account both its dramatic and its philosophical aspects. It aims to do justice to a major Platonic work which has so far received comparatively...

Proceedings of the Conference held in Brussels, Belgium, Januari 25-26, 1982Book InformationISBN 9789027714251Author G. BoggioFormat HardbackPage Count 133Imprint Kluwer Academic PublishersPublisher SpringerWeight(grams) 860g

Representation of desiring subjects in the novel is one of the most illuminating issues in the area of ancient gender and sexuality, for such narratives subject societal norms to acute critique. This volume brings together fourteen essays originally...

This book consists of two main, interrelated thematic units: the reception of Aeschylus' Dionysiac plays in Bacchae and the refiguration of the latter in the Byzantine drama Christus Patiens. In both sections the common denominator is Euripides' Bacchae,...

There is little doubt that sympathy plays a pivotal role in aesthetic as well as moral experience, yet also little agreement on how to describe this connection and its long history. This volume investigates the changes in the concept of sympathy as well...

Current demographic developments and change due to long life expectancies, low birth rates, changing family structures, and economic and political crises causing migration and flight are having a significant impact on intergenerational relationships, the...

This is an original collection of exemplary emendations made by ancient and modern scholars. Single examples are analysed in order to extract a method of emendation. The author reviews some attractive interventions which offer a model of textual...

The six speeches contained in this volume, delivered upon Cicero's triumphant return from exile in 57-56 B.C., are here brought to life by a superb new English translation that is based on an improved Latin text. The notes accompanying the translation...

Interpretation of ancient Greek literature is often enough distorted by the preconceptions of modern times, especially on ancient morality. This is often equivalent to begging the question. If we think e.g. of arete, which has different meanings in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645603467Author Sushri Sandhya MohantyFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Black Eagle BooksPublisher Black Eagle BooksWeight(grams) 345gDimensions(mm)...

This book looks at witnesses to suffering and death in ancient Greek epic (Homer's Iliad) and tragedy. Internal spectators abound in both genres, and have received due scholarly attention. The present monograph covers new ground by dealing with a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735937830Author Ori Z SoltesFormat PaperbackPage Count 582Imprint New Academia Publishing, LLCPublisher New Academia Publishing, LLCWeight(grams) 152g

Cicero has played a pivotal role in shaping Western culture. His public persona, his self-portrait as model of Roman prose, philosopher, and statesman, has exerted a durable and profound impact on the educational system and the formation of the ruling...

It is now recognized that emotions have a history. In this book, eleven scholars examine a variety of emotions in ancient China and classical Greece, in their historical and social context. A general introduction presents the major issues in the analysis...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781882514304Author Cyndy ShearerFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Greenleaf Press (TN)Publisher Greenleaf Press (TN)Weight(grams) 494g

The volume offers new insights into the intricate theme of silence in Greek literature, especially drama. Even though the topic has received respectable attention in recent years, it still lends itself to further inquiry, which embraces silence's very...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781888346Author Nick HavelyFormat PaperbackPage Count 412Imprint Modern Humanities Research AssociationPublisher Modern Humanities Research...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783631551929Author Juhani SarsilaFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Peter Lang AGPublisher Peter Lang AGWeight(grams) 320g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783741632Author William TurpinFormat HardbackPage Count 266Imprint Open Book PublishersPublisher Open Book PublishersWeight(grams) 549gDimensions(mm)...

The fathers of modern freemasonry sought a classical pedigree for their rituals and forms of association. This volume offers the first academic study of how freemasons writing in the first half of the 18th century deployed their knowledge of antiquity to...

This volume contributes to the ongoing scholarly debate regarding the reception of Cicero. It focuses on one particular moment in Cicero’s life, the period from the death of Caesar up to Cicero’s own death. These final years have shaped Cicero’s...

Matthew Wright brings Menander's Samia to life by explaining how it achieves its comic effects and how it fits within the broader context of fourth-century Greek drama and society. He offers a scene-by-scene reading of the play, combining close attention...

The world is on the threshold of a great new industrial revolution, a 1 scientific-industrial revolution. Recombinant DNA technology and hybridoma technology ("monoclonal antibodies") have already pro- vided unique investment opportunities for...

The volume offers an innovative and systematic exploration of the diverse ways in which Later Greek Epic interacts with the Latin literary tradition. Taking as a starting point the premise that it is probable for the Greek epic poets of the Late...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789362098740Author Cyril Lyttleton MainwaringPage Count 88Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions