Ancient Classical category: 1324 books
The Woman and the Lyre
Women Writers in Classical Greece and Rome
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1989
Beginning with Sappho in the seventh century B.C.E and ending with Egeria in the fifth century C.E., Snyder profiles ancient Greek and Roman women writers, including lyric and elegiac poets and philosophers and other prose writers. The writers are allowed to speak for themselves, with as much translation...
The Dance of the Islands
Insularity, Networks, the Athenian Empire, and the Aegean World
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2010
Christy Constantakopoulou examines the history of the Aegean islands and changing concepts of insularity, with particular emphasis on the fifth century BC. Islands are a prominent feature of the Aegean landscape, and this inevitably created a variety of different (and sometimes contradictory) perceptions...
Damned If You Do
Dilemmas of Action in Literature and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2010
Problems of individual moral choice have always been closely bound up with the larger normative concerns of political theory. There are several reasons for this continuing connection. First, the value conflicts involved in private moral choice often find themselves reproduced on the public stage:...
Roman Social Imaginaries
Language and Thought in the Context of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
In an expansion of his 2012 Robson Classical Lectures, Clifford Ando examines the connection between the nature of the Latin language and Roman thinking about law, society, and empire. Drawing on innovative work in cognitive linguistics and anthropology, Roman Social Imaginaries considers how metaphor,...
The Poetics of Victory in the Greek West
Epinician, Oral Tradition, and the Deinomenid Empire
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
The Poetics of Victory in the Greek West examines the relationship between epinician and the heroizing narratives about athletes, or "hero-athlete narratives," that circulated orally in Sicily and Italy in the late archaic and early classical period. Drawing on the colorful stories told...
Callimachus
The Hymns
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Callimachus was arguably the most important poet of the Hellenistic age, for two reasons: his engagement with previous theorists of poetry and his wide-ranging poetic experimentation. Of his poetic oeuvre, which exceeded what we now have of Theocritus, Aratus, Posidippus, and Apollonius combined,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
A Companion to Ancient Egyptian Art presents a comprehensive collection of original essays exploring key concepts, critical discourses, and theories that shape the discipline of ancient Egyptian art.
• Winner of the 2016 PROSE Award for Single Volume Reference in the Humanities & Social...
by Elaine Fantham
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1972
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1972
Of all stylistic devices, imagery has the greatest appeal to the imagination, but is also the most likely to offend, either by staleness or by tasteless excess. This volume establishes some of the limitations which govern figurative language in Latin speech and prose by exploring such questions as...
Expurgating the Classics
Editing Out in Greek and Latin
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
In the first collection to be devoted to this subject, a distinguished cast of contributors explores expurgation in both Greek and Latin authors in ancient and modern times. The major focus is on the period from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, with chapters ranging from early Greek lyric...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
From the dawn of the early modern period around 1400 until the eighteenth century, Latin was still the European language and its influence extended as far as Asia and the Americas. At the same time, the production of Latin writing exploded thanks to book printing and new literary and cultural dynamics....
After Augustine
The Meditative Reader and the Text
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Augustine of Hippo was the most prolific and influential writer on reading between antiquity and the Renaissance, though he left no systematic treatise on the subject. His reluctance to synthesize his views on other important themes such as the sacraments suggests that he would have been skeptical...
Antiquarian Voices
The Roman Academy and the Commentary Tradition on Ovid's Fasti
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Ovid’s Fasti, his poem on the Roman calendar, became especially influential during the fifteenth century as a guide to classical Roman culture. Ovid’s treatment of mythological and astronomical lore, his investigation of anniversaries and customs, and his charting of monuments and history offered...
The Tangled Ways of Zeus
And Other Studies In and Around Greek Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2010
The Tangled Ways of Zeus is a collection of studies written over the last twenty years by the distinguished classicist Alan Sommerstein about various aspects of ancient Greek tragedy (and, in some cases, other related genres). It complements his recent collection of studies in Greek comedy, Talking...
by Penelope Murray, Pierre Destrée
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
The first of its kind, A Companion to Ancient Aesthetics presents a synoptic view of the arts, which crosses traditional boundaries and explores the aesthetic experience of the ancients across a range of media—oral, aural, visual, and literary.
Investigates the many ways in which the arts were...