Ancient Classical category: 1324 books
The Masks of Tragedy
Essays on Six Greek Dramas
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
"What matters about a play is not the extent to which it is like any other play, but the way in which it is different," writes Thomas G. Rosenmeyer. "This is, I suggest, how the ancient audiences received the performances.... My purpose, then, in writing these essays is twofold: ......
History after Liberty
Tacitus on Tyrants, Sycophants, and Republicans
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Roman historian Tacitus wrote a damning critique of the first century CE Roman empire. The emperors in Tacitus’ works are almost universally tyrants surrounded by flatterers and informants, and the image Tacitus creates is of a society that has lost the liberty enjoyed under the Roman Republic....
Rethinking the Gods
Philosophical Readings of Religion in the Post-Hellenistic Period
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Ancient philosophers had always been fascinated by religion. From the first century BC onwards the traditionally hostile attitude of Greek and Roman philosophy was abandoned in favour of the view that religion was a source of philosophical knowledge. This book studies that change, not from the usual...
by Alan Cameron
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
This book presents a substantially revised version of some of the most important and innovative articles published by Alan Cameron in the field of late antique Greek poetry and philosophy. Much new material has been added to the account of the "Wandering Poets" from early Byzantine Egypt,...
The Greek Epic Cycle and its Ancient Reception
A Companion
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
The poems of the Epic Cycle are assumed to be the reworking of myths and narratives which had their roots in an oral tradition predating that of many of the myths and narratives which took their present form in the Iliad and the Odyssey. The remains of these texts allow us to investigate diachronic...
by Fiona McHardy
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Revenge was an all important part of the ancient Athenian mentality, intruding on all forms of life - even where we might not expect to find it today. Revenge was of prime importance as a means of survival for the people of early Greece and remained in force during the rise of the 'poleis'. The revenge...
by George S. Claghorn
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The purpose of this study is to determine Aristotle's attitude toward the content and method of Plato's natural science. Plato and Aristotle have often been regarded as on opposite sides of a philosophic 'Great Divide'. On the other hand, those who have found that the two men were in agreement have...
by Lee Fratantuono
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
Lucretius’ philosophical epic De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things) is a lengthy didactic and narrative celebration of the universe and, in particular, the world of nature and creation in which humanity finds its abode. This earliest surviving full scale epic poem from ancient Rome was of immense...
The Emblematics of the Self
Ekphrasis and Identity in Renaissance Imitations of Ancient Greek Romance
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2012
The ancient Greek romances of Achilles Tatius and Heliodorus were widely imitated by early modern writers such as Miguel de Cervantes, Philip Sidney, and Mary Wroth. Like their Greek models, Renaissance romances used ekphrasis, or verbal descriptions of visual representation, as a tool for characterization....
by Mary T. Clark, Siobhan Nash-Marshall, William Werpehowski
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
This volume brings into dialogue the ancient wisdom of Augustine of Hippo, a bishop of the early Christian Church of the fourth and fifth centuries, with contemporary theologians and ethicists on the topic of social justice. Each essay mines the major themes present in Augustine's extensive corpus...
An Ecology of World Literature
From Antiquity to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
What constitutes a nation’s literature? How do literatures of different countries interact with one another? In this groundbreaking study, Alexander Beecroft develops a new way of thinking about world literature. Drawing on a series of examples and case studies, the book ranges from ancient epic...
Variety
The Life of a Roman Concept
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
The idea of variety may seem too diffuse, obvious, or nebulous to be worth scrutinizing, but modern usage masks the rich history of the term. This book examines the meaning, value, and practice of variety from the vantage point of Latin literature and its reception and reveals the enduring importance...
Beyond Greek
The Beginnings of Latin Literature
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Ancient Roman authors are firmly established in the Western canon, and yet the birth of Latin literature was far from inevitable. The cultural flourishing that eventually produced the Latin classics was one of the strangest events in history, as Denis Feeney demonstrates in this bold revision.
Parmenides of Elea
A text and translation with an introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1991
David Gallop provides a Greek text and a new facing-page translation of the extant fragments of Parmenides' philosophical poem. He also includes the first complete translation into English of the contexts in which the fragments have been transmitted to us, and of the ancient testimonia regarding Parmenides'...