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by Desiderius Erasmus, John Grant
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
This sixth of seven volumes devoted to the Adages in the Collected Works of Erasmus completes the translation and annotation of the more than 4000 proverbs gathered and commented on by Erasmus in his Adagiorum Chiliades (Thousands of Adages, usually known more simply as the Adagia). This volume’s...
Pope, Homer, and Manliness
Some Aspects of Eighteenth Century Classical Learning
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
The author here reassesses the concept of ‘masculinity’, and argues that it cannot be seen as an absolute standard, but only as the product of perpetual conflict between competing and unstable models.
The argument is sustained by a close reading of the problematic conflict between gendered...
Hip Sublime
Beat Writers and the Classical Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2018
Despite their self-presentation as iconoclasts, the writers of the Beat Generation were deeply engaged with the classical tradition. Many of them were university-trained and highly conscious of their literary forebears, and they frequently incorporated their knowledge of Greco-Roman literature into...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
This volume sheds new light on a wealth of early 20th-century engagement with literature of Graeco-Roman antiquity that significantly shaped the work of anglophone literary modernism. The essays spotlight 'translation,' a concept the modernists themselves used to reckon with the Classics and to denote...
Ancient Greek Scholarship
A Guide to Finding, Reading, and Understanding Scholia, Commentaries, Lexica, and Grammatiacl Treatises, from Their Beginnings to the Byzantine Period
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2007
Ancient greek sholarship constitutes a precious resource for classicists, but one that is underutilized because graduate students and even mature scholars lack familiarity with its conventions. The peculiarities of scholarly Greek and the lack of translations or scholarly aids often discourages readers...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
A Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities presents a comprehensive collection of original essays relating to aspects of gender and sexuality in the classical world.
Views the various practices and discursive contexts of sexuality systematically and holistically
Discusses Greece and Rome in each...
The Cast of Character
Style in Greek Literature
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Well before Aristotle's Rhetoric elucidated the elements of verbal style that give writing its persuasive power, Greek poets and prose authors understood the importance of style in creating compelling characters to engage an audience. And because their works were composed in predominantly oral settings,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
A Companion to Ancient Education presents a series of essays from leading specialists in the field that represent the most up-to-date scholarship relating to the rise and spread of educational practices and theories in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds.
Reflects the latest research findings...
Reception and the Classics
An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Classical Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
This collection brings together leading experts in a number of fields of the humanities to offer a new perspective on the classical tradition. Drawing on reception studies, philology and early modern studies, the essays explore the interaction between literary criticism and the multiple cultural contexts...
Laughter in Ancient Rome
On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
What made the Romans laugh? Was ancient Rome a carnival, filled with practical jokes and hearty chuckles? Or was it a carefully regulated culture in which the uncontrollable excess of laughter was a force to fear—a world of wit, irony, and knowing smiles? How did Romans make sense of laughter? What...
Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'
A Reader's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2010
Perhaps no other classical text has proved its versatility so much as Ovid's epic poem. A staple of undergraduate courses in Classical Studies, Latin, English and Comparative Literature, Metamorphoses is arguably one of the most important, canonical Latin texts and certainly among the most widely...
by Brian C. McGing
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2010
Polybius' Histories is one of classical antiquity's great political narratives. Written in 40 books (of which only the first five are preserved in full), it originally set out to explain the dramatic rise of Rome in the half century from the war against Hannibal to the defeat and abolishment of the...
Celtic Literary Archetypes in The Mabinogion
A Study of the Ancient Tale of Pwyll, Lord of Dyved
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
HISTORIA: A Gateway to Ancient and Medieval History and Archaeology!
This book introduces the reader to some of the literary traditions of the ancient Celts through the study of the first branch of The Mabinogion: Pwyll, Lord of Dyved. This ancient text is both a record of British mythology...
Awakening Higher Consciousness
Guidance from Ancient Egypt and Sumer
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Explains the relevance of ancient myths to the awakening to higher states of consciousness and enlivened experience of the world
• Shows how higher consciousness can arise within each of us by following the guidance found in ancient myths
• Reveals how myths influence our personal...