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By its very nature, the art of oratory involves character. Verbal persuasion entails the presentation of a persona by the speaker that affects an audience for good or ill. In this book, James May explores the role and extent of Cicero's use of ethos and demonstrates its persuasive effect. May discusses...

Verbs and nouns of meaning in ancient Greek and Latin are polysemous, just as in the case of the English verb “to mean". Andreas T. Zanker considers how the ancient vocabulary could be used in different ways and investigates its development over time. In the first part of the book, Zanker argues...

Grâce à une connaissance intime de l¿¿uvre de Frédéric Chopin, l¿auteur livre un essai biographique musical novateur dans une tentative originale d¿approcher de sa vérité intime. L'¿uvre et la vie de Chopin se dérobent sous nos pas, insaisissables alors même que l'on tente de s'en...

L'auteur nous invite à réentendre Chopin hors des clichés répandus, à partir de sa musique seule, encore insuffisamment comprise dans sa singularité et ses audaces. " Chez Chopin, seule la musique répond à la musique. Son œuvre, à proprement parler, ne figure rien. Ni l'amour, ni la...

This new scholarly edition consists of the Latin text, with translation and detailed commentary, of a sequence of epigrams from the Anthologia Latina (Shackleton Bailey 78-188). The introduction discusses whether these epigrams constitute a unified collection and are the work of a single author, examines...

Over the past decades there has been something of a revolution in the way we view classical drama generally and Euripides in particular. This book, updated in a second edition, reflects that revolution and aims to show how Euripides was continually reinventing himself. A truly Protean figure, he seems...

The quest to understand the evolution of the literary mind has become a fertile field of inquiry and speculation for scholars across literary studies and cognitive science. In Paleopoetics, Christopher Collins's acclaimed earlier title, he described how language emerged both as a communicative tool...

A Companion to Food in the Ancient World presents a comprehensive overview of the cultural aspects relating to the production, preparation, and consumption of food and drink in antiquity. • Provides an up-to-date overview of the study of food in the ancient world • Addresses all...

Ce livre est un bijou d'intelligence et de subtile écoute de Mozart. Une invitation à sortir des sentiers battus et à laisser de côté les poncifs officiels pour, enfin, entrer dans la célébration du silence, jamais égalée, à laquelle nous convie l'œuvre du compositeur. Ce court essai, à...

The sagas of the ancient Narts are to the Caucasus what Greek mythology is to Western civilization. This book presents, for the first time in the West, a wide selection of these fascinating myths preserved among four related peoples whose ancient cultures today survive by a thread. In ninety-two straightforward...

This startling and original study emerged from Kenneth Rockford's wish to vindicate Aristophanes' Clouds against detractors. As a result of years of rereading and teaching Aristophanes, he realized that the Clouds could not be defended in an analysis of that play in isolation. A better approach, he...

Sexy, scintillating, and sometimes scandalous, Greek epigrams from the age of the Emperor Justinian commemorate the survival of the sensual in a world transformed by Christianity. Around 567 CE, the poet and historian Agathias of Myrina published his Cycle, an anthology of epigrams by contemporary...

Humor and Satire from the ancient world! Check out the old epigrams from Martial as translated by Henry George Bohn for the Bohn Classical Library Series in 1897.  Fourteen books in all! With an extensive active and navigable table of contents.

The health - and especially deaths - of composers excite controversy. Was Mozart really poisoned? Did Tchaikovsky commit suicide? How did Beethoven lose his hearing? Much good previous scholarship has been sullied by unsubstantiated views, and many composers' reputations have been unfairly tarnished...