Ancient Classical category: 1324 books
Symphosius The Aenigmata
An Introduction, Text and Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
The post-classical compilation known to modern scholarship as the Latin Anthology contains a collection of a hundred riddles, each consisting of three hexameters and preceded by a lemma. It would seem from the preface to this collection that they were composed extempore at a dinner to celebrate the...
The Poetics of Consent
Collective Decision Making and the Iliad
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
The Poetics of Consent breaks new ground in Homeric studies by interpreting the Iliad’s depictions of political action in terms of the poetic forces that shaped the Iliad itself. Arguing that consensus is a central theme of the epic, David Elmer analyzes in detail scenes in which the poem’s three...
The Music of Tragedy
Performance and Imagination in Euripidean Theater
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
The Music of Tragedy offers a new approach to the study of classical Greek theater by examining the use of musical language, imagery, and performance in the late work of Euripides. Naomi Weiss demonstrates that Euripides’ allusions to music-making are not just metatheatrical flourishes or gestures...
Ovid's Early Poetry
From his Single Heroides to his Remedia Amoris
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
Ovid is one of the greatest poets in the Classical tradition and Western literature. This book represents the most comprehensive study to date of his early output as a unified literary production. Firstly, the book proposes new ways of organising this part of Ovid's poetic career, the chronology of...
The Unknown Odysseus
Alternate Worlds in Homer's Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
The Unknown Odysseus is a study of how Homer creates two versions of his hero, one who is the triumphant protagonist of the revenge plot and another, more subversive, anonymous figure whose various personae exemplify an entirely different set of assumptions about the world through which each hero...
by Robert Flaceliere
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
There are several good histories of Greek literature of various shapes and sizes, but the purpose of this book is not simply to consider the literature of ancient Greece as an isolated subject, treating each of the literary modes - epic, lyric, drama, history, philosophy, and rhetoric - in terms of...
by James Morwood
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
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...
Greek Epigram and Byzantine Culture
Gender, Desire, and Denial in the Age of Justinian
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2019
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...
by Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial) (Author), Henry George Bohn (Translator),
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2012
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 Phoenix
An Unnatural Biography of a Mythical Beast
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Arising triumphantly from the ashes of its predecessor, the phoenix has been an enduring symbol of resilience and renewal for thousands of years. But how did this mythical bird become so famous that it has played a part in cultures around the world and throughout human history? How much of its story...
The Many Lives of Ajax
The Trojan War Hero from Antiquity to Modern Times
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2018
Ajax, the archetypal Greek warrior, has over the years been trivialized as a peripheral character in the classics through Hollywood representations, and by the use of his name on household cleaning products. Examining a broad range of sources—from film, art and literature to advertising and sports—this...
by A. F. Garvie
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Aeschylus is the oldest of the three great Greek tragedians. Born probably in 525 or 524 BC, he lived through the end of tyranny at Athens and the restitution of democracy. He took part in the battle of Marathon in 490 and probably also in the battle of Salamis in 480, the subject of his Persians....
by John G Landels
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2002
Music in Ancient Greece and Rome provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of music from Homeric times to the Roman emperor Hadrian, presented in a concise and user-friendly way. Chapters include:
* contexts in which music played a role
* a detailed discussion of instruments
* an analysis...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019
This book explores the insights that Cultural Astronomy provides into the classical Roman world by unveiling the ways in which the Romans made use of their knowledge concerning the heavens, and by shedding new light on the interactions between astronomy and heritage in ancient Roman culture. Leading...