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...
This book explores the ways in which the origins of time, of the gods, and processes associated with time were conceptualised in antiquity, examining a variety of ancient sources from across the ancient world and addressing issues surrounding the so...Loe edasi...
Its chapters framed by the editors deeply researched introduction and theorist Caroline Levines reflective afterword model both theoretical analysis and close reading of drama, lyric, and prose polemic, while encompassing generic, metrical, rhetoric...Loe edasi...
This volume explores emotion and its importance in Polybius conception of history, his writing of historiography, and the benefits of this understanding to readers of history....Loe edasi...
First published in 1983, Spensers Faerie Queene and the Cult of Elizabeth presents The Faerie Queene as a central document in the cult of Elizabeth....Loe edasi...
First published in 1967, Latin Biography contains chapters on Nepos, Plutarch and Suetonius, the three best-known Classical biographers. There are also accounts of the less-familiar works of Q. Curtius Rufus and the author or authors of the Histori...Loe edasi...
First published in 1965, Cicero contains a number of assessments of Ciceros political career, his character, his oratory, philosophy and poems, and his influence on subsequent literature and scholarship....Loe edasi...
This is the first full-length volume in English that focuses on the historiographical section of the Mirabilia and is an invaluable resource for students and scholars of the text, and of Greek philosophy, historiography, and literature more broadly....Loe edasi...
First published in 1968, Virgils Aeneid is to help all who approach the long and difficult poem seriously (in Latin or in English) to read it with discerning appreciation....Loe edasi...
This volume offers for the first time a translation of the poetic corpus of Alcuin of York (c. 735-804), with detailed translations, a thorough introduction, and appendices outlining avenues for future research. A stimulating resource for those work...Loe edasi...
This is the first book to study how Haitian authors from independence to the present have adapted Greco-Roman material and harnessed it to Haitis anti-colonial legacy. This fascinating study appeals to anyone interested in Haiti, Haitian literature...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1996, this volume contains essays by scholars, critics and translators and includes themes such as the myth in the Cretan Renaissance and the use of ancient myth by 19th and 20th Century poets....Loe edasi...
This volume explores innovative ways of opening up Classics to educational and museum audiences. It demonstrates that Classics can be taught cost-effectively and inclusively by non-specialist teachers and in non-traditional settings. Suitable for th...Loe edasi...
This volume explores a range of perspectives on diversity and inclusion in modern classics education, particularly in the US, UK, and Greece. Suitable for anyone teaching Classics as well as scholars and researchers interested in issues of diversity...Loe edasi...
This is the first English translation of Dracontius Orestes: a Latin poem from Vandal North Africa. Accompanied by comprehensive notes and a full introduction, it is suitable for students and scholars of ancient literature, especially late antique L...Loe edasi...
This volume examines Apuleius The Golden Ass within the context of the popular beliefs and Jewish and Christian writings that were part of the intellectual culture of 2nd century C.E. North Africa. Suitable for those studying Apuleius, Roman literat...Loe edasi...
This volume examines patterns of rhetoric in Constantine the Greats surviving correspondence on conflicts among Christians, exploring how and why Constantine applied his power to internal church divisions. Suitable for students and scholars of earl...Loe edasi...
The book attempts to trace an overview of the different components that define the cultural landscape of the state of Odisha in relation to its history, religious cults, art, and literature....Loe edasi...
This book examines Gore Vidals lifelong engagement with the ancient world and the influence of antiquity on himself and the primary subjects of his work: sex, politics and religion. Suitable for students and scholars in classical studies, reception...Loe edasi...
Herodotus is the epochal authority who inaugurated the Western consciousness of collective identity. In this book fourteen contributors explore ethnicity - the very self-understanding of belonging to a body of human beings - through the lens of Hero...Loe edasi...
This book studies the extant writings of major female authors from the Greco-Roman world together for the first time in a single volume, featuring original texts, fresh English translations, and diverse scholarship on ths subject. Suitable for those...Loe edasi...
This book argues that the biblical creation accounts draw directly from Platos Timaeus, demonstrating the influence of Plato and the cosmogenies of Greek natural philosophers on Genesis. Suitable for students and scholars in both biblical and class...Loe edasi...
This volume explores ancient Greek and Roman representations of the past, and modern approaches to the reception and transmission of aspects of ancient culture. Suitable for academics and scholars interested in memory, historiography, and ancient re...Loe edasi...
Pliny and the Eruption of Vesuvius is a forensic examination of two of the most famous letters from the ancient Mediterranean world, Pliny the Youngers Epistulae 6.16 and 6.20, which offer a contemporary account of the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD....Loe edasi...
Wide-ranging and ambitiously conceived, this Research Companion investigates Shakespeares relationship to the classic in two broad senses. The essays analyze Shakespeares specific debts to classical works and weigh his classicisms likeness and unlik...Loe edasi...
Forging Boethius reconsiders the influence of the thirteenth-century Pseudo-Boethian forgery De disciplina scolarium on medieval understandings of Boethius, using a a variety of different works including texts of translatio studii et imperii, the po...Loe edasi...
This volume offers independent reflections upon central texts and upon the relation of social theory and comparative method to the study of archaic and classical Greek literature. Drawing on work in anthropology, linguistics, economics and sociology...Loe edasi...
This collection of essays, written by philologists, historians, epigraphers, palaeographers, archaeologists, and art historians, brings together the best of old and new traditions of classical study, from senior emeritus faculty with established rec...Loe edasi...
Published in 1991 The Tragedye of Solyman and Perseda is a late Elizabethan romantic tragedy by Thomas Kyd. It dramatises the triangular relationship of the Turkish emperor Soliman, his captive Perseda and her beloved Erastus against the fictionalis...Loe edasi...
This collection of essays seeks to demonstrate that many biblical authors deliberately used Classical and Hellenistic Greek texts for inspiration when crafting many of the narratives in the Primary History. With an original introduction and final ch...Loe edasi...
