Charles Brittain, Harvey Yunis, Hayden Pelliccia, Jeffrey Rusten
Sari: Cornell Studies in Classical Philology
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501783487)
A collection of essays that illuminate and connect the shared concerns and conversation of philosophers, historians, and comic poets in late fifth- and early fourth-century BCE Athens--...Loe edasi...
First published in France in 1956 and now available in English for the first time, this narratological analysis of Thucydidess History of the Peloponnesian War highlights the power and sophistication of the Greek historians......Loe edasi...
This resource for scholars and advanced students presents a set of English translations of fragments of ancient Greek comedies. Material is based on the Greek multi-volume set, Poetae Comici Graeci by R. Kassel and C. A. Austin; the book also inc...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2014, Hardback, Kirjastus: Harvard University Press, ISBN-13: 9780674996748)
In the writings of Philostratus (ca. 170-ca. 250 CE), the renaissance of Greek literature in the second century CE reached its height. HisLife of Apollonius of Tyana, Lives of the Sophists, and Imagines reconceive in different...Loe edasi...
The author known (if he is known at all) as Dionysius Scytobrachion is hardly a topic of general interest, and since scholars of the rank of Eduard Schwartz and Erich Bethe devoted dissertations to him in the last century it may with justice be asked...Loe edasi...
Jacqueline de Romilly, Hunter R. Rawlings, Jeffrey Rusten, Elizabeth Trapnell Rawlings
Sari: Cornell Studies in Classical Philology
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Aug-2012, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9780801450631)
First published in France in 1956 and now available in English for the first time, this narratological analysis of Thucydidess History of the Peloponnesian War highlights the power and sophistication of the Greek historians rhetoric....Loe edasi...
Mabel Langs distinguished contributions to Bronze Age and Classical archaeology were matched by sensitive and original studies of Greek historical writing. Her Martin Classical Lectures on Herodotus were published in 1984; this volume collects her a...Loe edasi...
Jeffrey Rusten, Jeffrey Henderson, David Konstan, Ralph Rosen, Jeffrey Rusten, Niall W. Slater
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-Jun-2011, Hardback, Kirjastus: Johns Hopkins University Press, ISBN-13: 9780801894480)
Aside from the well-known plays of Aristophanes, many of the comedies of Ancient Greece are known only through fragments and references written in Greek. Now a group of distinguished scholars brings these nearly lost works to modern readers with l...Loe edasi...
A collection of essays on the first great work of political history - Thucydides account of the war between Athens and Sparta. All Greek is translated, and an introductory chapter surveys the various ways in which Thucydides has been read and interp...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jul-2009, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199206209)
Thucydides account of the war between Athens and Sparta is the first great work of political history and still a fundamental text for political science and international relations today; it is also a compelling story, full of vivid characters and tr...Loe edasi...
This volume collects important examples of Greek literary portraiture.The Characters of Theophrastus consists of thirty fictional sketches of men who are each dominated by a single fault, such as arrogance, boorishness, or superstition. Unassumin...Loe edasi...
The second book of Thucydides is of particular interest because it contains important sections on the funeral oration, the account of the plague at Athens and the obituary of Pericles. His exceptionally complex structure and techniques make Thucydid...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Mar-1989, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9780521326650)
The second book of Thucydides is of particular interest because it contains important sections on the funeral oration, the account of the plague at Athens and the obituary of Pericles. His exceptionally complex structure and techniques make Thucydid...Loe edasi...
