Ancient & Classical

Homer's characters are often very far from an unreflecting struggle for status at others' expense. Rather than being a 'zero-sum game', their negotiations can be of an impressive delicacy, designed to protect the 'face' of the other. Gifts and visible...

Latin poets and prose writers of the classical period and later used - and withheld - names subtly and to important effect. Here, in eleven new essays, an eminent international cast explore themes which include 'speaking' names, often involving bilingual...

The esteem in which satyr drama was held in antiquity still arouses curiosity and controversy. Twelve new papers, generated in North America by a distinguished cast of scholars, explore questions central to the genre. How did satyr drama relate to comedy...

This title includes eight new essays, from a distinguished international cast, that examine the techniques of Cicero's verbal aggression. Analysis includes political and forensic context but also Cicero's own formal theory of rhetoric and his debts to...

Since its first appearance in 2008, this book has changed the landscape of Virgilian studies. Analysing closely the logic and the literary genres of Virgil's three poems, it politely confronts the modern orthodoxy that Virgil signalled distaste for the...

The genre of biography in the ancient world is interestingly diverse and permeable and deserves intensive study, bearing as it does on ideas of characterization and the individual. This volume considers both the form and the content of biography across...

Sing of rage, Goddess, that bane of Akhilleus, Peleus' son, which caused untold pain for Akhaians, sent down throngs of powerful spirits to aides, war-chiefs rendered the prize of dogs and everysort of bird. Edward McCrorie's new translation of Homer's...

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...

Rome, Season One: History Makes Television examines the first season of the HBO-BBC collaboration, Rome, in a collection of thought-provoking essays by some of the world's most influential scholars in the fields of classical antiquity and popular culture...

The present volume in this distinguished series includes the essays "Homer as Oral Poet," by Albert B. Lord; "Callimachus, Fragments 260-261," by Hugh Lloyd-Jones and John Rea; "A King's Notebooks," by E. Badian; "Roman Policy in Spain before the...

Volume 102 of Harvard Studies in Classical Philology includes the following contributions: Mika Kajava, "Hestia: Hearth, Goddess, and Cult"; Jonathan Burgess, "Untrustworthy Apollo and the Destiny of Achilles: Iliad 24.55-63"; Anna Bonifazi, "Relative...

This volume includes: Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz, "Half Slave, Half Free: Partial Manumission in the Ancient Near East and Beyond"; Chris Eckerman, "I Weave a Variegated Headband: Metaphors for Song and Communication in Pindar's Odes";...

Volume 101 of Harvard Studies in Classical Philology includes the following contributions: Stephen Scully, "Reading the Shield of Achilles: Terror, Anger, Delight"; Hugh Lloyd-Jones, "Zeus, Prometheus, and Greek Ethics"; Robert W. Wallace, "An Early...

Among the eleven articles in this volume, dedicated to Mason Hammond, are "The Emergence of Mediaeval Towns: Independence or Continuity?" by Professor Hammond; "Existimatio, Fama, and the Ides of March," by Zvi Yavetz;...

This volume of twenty-two articles includes: Charles F. Ahern, Jr., "Daedalus and Icarus in the Ars Amatoria"; T. D. Barnes, "Structure and Chronology in Ammianus, Book 14"; Daniel R. Blickman, "Lucretius, Epicurus, and Prehistory"; John Bodel, "Missing...

This volume of sixteen articles includes: T. D. Barnes, "The Significance of Tacitus' Dialogus de oratoribus"; Wendell Clausen, "Cicero and the New Poetry"; Gregory Crane, "Three Notes on Herodas 8"; Thomas K. Hubbard,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780898759969Author John Addington SymondsFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the...

Andre Levy provides a "picture of Chinese literature of the past" that brilliantly illustrates the four great literary genres of China: the classics, prose, poetry, and the literature of entertainment. His discussion of approximately 120 vivid...

The word peregrinacion permeates Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese literature, and can be described as wandering, alienation, and exile, combined with pious devotion. Complementing the work of Antonio Vilanova, Juergen Hahn's study of peregrinacion...

This volume is composed of articles by former students of Professor Holmes and presented to him in his sixty-fifth year. Most of the essays deal with medieval subjects or subjects very closely associated with the Middle Ages.Book InformationISBN...

Editing this work in the context of modern scholarship has involved many literary and linguistic problems left untouched by the Meyer edition of 1880. The present edition provides a new, accurate reading of the sole manuscript, supported by copious...

These fourteen essays, written especially for this volume by colleagues and students of Professor Caldwell, cover a vast range of classical subjects. They are arranged chronologically so that the reader may catch something of the grand sweep and drama of...

Focusing on literary evidence, Gold explores patronage in Greece and Rome through the words of the authors, revealing the forces that patronage exerted on genius and talent. The author argues that, although the patron was in important influence in the...

Early in his life, and again in maturity, Horace sought to turn his poetic skills to the uses of moral and aesthetic discussion in the series of didactic works translated here. In the Satires, Horace adopts one persona after another, each of which...

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"Desultoria scientia" is the fifth volume of "Caeculus" and contains the proceedings of the fifth Fransum Colloquium, held on 18 May 2002. The Fransum Colloquia are meant to assist PhD-candidates in Mediterranean Archaeology and Greek and Roman Studies...

This "Festschrift" honours the Dutch Latinist Ben Hijmans. Besides his studies on Seneca "philosophus" and Ovid, Hijmans published numerous articles on Apuleius' works, both that author's philosophical and rhetorical oeuvre, and his novel, "The Golden...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788772898575Author Sten EbbesenFormat PaperbackPage Count 263Imprint Museum Tusculanum PressPublisher Museum Tusculanum PressWeight(grams) 430g

Hoplitkrigsforelse i arkaisk og klassisk tidBook InformationISBN 9788772899916Author Adam SchwartzFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Museum Tusculanum PressPublisher Museum Tusculanum PressWeight(grams) 331g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783700181408Author Kurt SmolakFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Austrian Academy of Sciences PressPublisher Austrian Academy of Sciences...

The war between the Heike and Genji clans in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries is among the most compelling and significant moments in Japan's history, immortalized in The Tale of the Heike. Beyond the events recorded in this canonical text, the...

The war between the Heike and Genji clans in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries is among the most compelling and significant moments in Japan's history, immortalized in The Tale of the Heike. Beyond the events recorded in this canonical text, the...

The distinction between ancient and modern modes of historical thought is characterized by the growing complexity of the discipline of history in modernity. Consequently, the epistemological and methodological standard of ancient historiography is...