This book reveals how sociocultural and political debates today are still heavily influenced by ancient mythology. It explores how ancient stories shape how our modern secular society thinks about the interconnected geopolitical, technological, and...Loe edasi...
The Hellenistic age is the link between classical Greece and Rome. Originally published in 1964, this book traces the history of Hellenistic poetry and art as parallel phenomena....Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1936, revised here in 1969, An Introduction to Sophocles starts with a chapter on the life of Sophocles and the chronology of his plays. It goes on with accounts of his thought, characters, plots, songs and style. An appendix...Loe edasi...
This book offers a comprehensive and systematic rather than historical approach to ancient Greek oracular texts, showing their conceptual and formal unity and patternisation, as well as their meaningful diversity....Loe edasi...
The present volume honours this distinctive voice in literary studies with a range of papers addressing some of his many interests, reflecting his deep and growing influence over half a century, and marking out areas for ongoing debate and developme...Loe edasi...
This volume, originally published in 1991, presents English translations of four complete Latin texts essential for any understanding of the fictional treatment of Alexander in the medieval literature of western Europe....Loe edasi...
This volume is the first extended investigation of the classicism of José Rizal (1861-1896), the de facto national hero of the Philippines, and explores how Greco-Roman antiquity was harnessed by Rizal and other Philippine artists and thinkers at th...Loe edasi...
This book applies an SFL-inspired, multi-dimensional approach to Latin linguistics, offering fresh insights into Latin narrative tenses while addressing challenges posed by its closed-corpus nature....Loe edasi...
The first of its kind, this book presents a wide range of passages exploring many aspects of the Greco-Roman watery world: physics, philosophy, weather, medicine, marine biology, religion and mythology, infrastructure, sailing, and mercantile activi...Loe edasi...
The Routledge Pocket Guide to Legal Latin is an invaluable legal reference tool, providing a quick and informative guide to Latin words and phrases commonly used in legal settings....Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1926, this volume analyses the history of irony in ancient writers such as Homer and Lucian and how the use of Irony in modern literature has been shaped and coloured by the Ironical tradition. The works of Tacitus, Shakespea...Loe edasi...
A Study in Creative History (1932) aims to present the main movements of thought as they emerge clearly into history. The book offers the view that the main developments prior to 500 B.C. were the emergence of the Prophetic school in Israel, of Mazd...Loe edasi...
Human beings have always been concerned with fundamental questions about their selves, including the deeply personal nature of human experience. The goal of this volume is to rethink these questions against the backdrop of the Chinese philosophical...Loe edasi...
Lucians writings raise questions about the nature of reading and viewing the lives of others; this book explores these questions through close readings of Lucians best-known dialogues and stories such as Hermotimus, Charon, Icaromenippus, Nigrinus,...Loe edasi...
This book offers a fresh look at Hesiods concept of a Golden Age. It analyses the ways in which classical philosophers explored it and traces the many creative interactions with it in literature from the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Age of Goet...Loe edasi...
Drawing on early modern Iberian, Indigenous, and European sources, the book interrogates how early modern debates regarding war, free trade, abundance, property, race, sovereignty, and history were deeply entwined within ideas and theories driving t...Loe edasi...
This volume addresses the important literary phenomenon of generic enrichment in Plutarchs Parallel Lives, examining the ways in which features of other genres are deployed and incorporated in Plutarchs biographies and the effects of this on the tex...Loe edasi...
This book explores Antigone and her many reconceptualizations from antiquity to the present, examining key themes, modern analysis, and postmodern receptions of the heroine in the arts and society. Suitable for students and scholars of classical lit...Loe edasi...
This book moves beyond the debate on wisdom literature, ongoing in Biblical Studies, demonstrating the productivity of wisdom as a literary category. Featuring work by scholars of Egyptology, Classics, Biblical and Near Eastern Studies, it offers fr...Loe edasi...
This book offers the first systematic, up-to-date, cross-cultural, and detailed study of semi-volitional bodily behaviour (sneezing, spitting, coughing, burping, vomiting, defecating, etc.) in the classical world....Loe edasi...
