Ancient Classical category: 1324 books
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Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
A Handbook to Classical Reception in Eastern and Central Europe is the first comprehensive English9;]language study of the reception of classical antiquity in Eastern and Central Europe. This groundbreaking work offers detailed case studies of thirteen countries that are fully contextualized historically,...
Pericles on Stage
Political Comedy in Aristophanes' Early Plays
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Since the eighteenth century, classical scholars have generally agreed that the Greek playwright Aristophanes did not as a matter of course write "political" plays. Yet, according to an anonymous Life of Aristophanes, when Dionysius the tyrant of Syracuse wanted to know about the government of Athens,...
by Bruce S Thornton
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
A concise introduction to the literature of Greece and Rome.
Bruce Thornton’s crisp and informative Student’s Guide to Classics provides readers with an overview of each of the major poets, dramatists, philosophers, and historians of ancient Greece and Rome. Including short bios of major...
Medusa
Solving the Mystery of the Gorgon
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2007
Medusa, the Gorgon, who turns those who gaze upon her to stone, is one of the most popular and enduring figures of Greek mythology. Long after many other figures from Greek myth have been forgotten, she continues to live in popular culture. In this fascinating study of the legend of Medusa, Stephen...
Myths of the Underworld in Contemporary Culture
The Backward Gaze
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2019
Myths of the Underworld in Contemporary Culture: The Backward Gaze examines a series of twentieth and twenty-first century fictional works that adapt Greco-Roman myths of the catabasis, the heroic journey to the underworld. Covering a range of genres - including novels, comics, and children's culture,...
Hellenistic Tragedy
Texts, Translations and a Critical Survey
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Ancient Greek tragedy is ubiquitously studied and researched, but is generally considered to have ended, as it began, in the fifth century BC. However, plays continued to be written and staged in the Greek world for centuries, enjoying a period of unprecedented popularity and changing significantly...
Pausanias
Travel Writing in Ancient Greece
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
In this book, Maria Pretzler combines a thorough introduction to Pausanias with exciting new perspectives. She considers the process and influences that shaped the "Periegesis", and maps out its literary and cultural context. Pausanias' text records contemporary interpretations of monuments...
by James Ker
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2009
The forced suicide of Seneca, former adviser to Nero, is one of the most tortured--and most revisited--death scenes from classical antiquity. After fruitlessly opening his veins and drinking hemlock, Seneca finally succumbed to death in a stifling steam bath, while his wife Paulina, who had attempted...
by Andrew Brown
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
That the works of the ancient tragedians still have an immediate and profound appeal surely needs no demonstration, yet the modern reader continually stumbles across concepts which are difficult to interpret or relate to – moral pollution, the authority of oracles, classical ideas of geography –...
Readings of Plato's Apology of Socrates
Defending the Philosophical Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
In Plato’s Apology of Socrates we see a philosopher in collision with his society—a society he nonetheless claims to have benefited through his philosophic activity. It has often been asked why democratic Athens condemned a philosopher of Socrates' character to death. This anthology examines the...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
Since the first edition of Approaches to Greek Myth was published in 1990, interest in Greek mythology has surged. There was no simple agreement on the subject of "myth" in classical antiquity, and there remains none today. Is myth a narrative or a performance? Can myth be separated from...
Ethnography After Antiquity
Foreign Lands and Peoples in Byzantine Literature
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
Although Greek and Roman authors wrote ethnographic texts describing foreign cultures, ethnography seems to disappear from Byzantine literature after the seventh century C.E.—a perplexing exception for a culture so strongly self-identified with the Roman empire. Yet the Byzantines, geographically...
Hoplites at War
A Comprehensive Analysis of Heavy Infantry Combat in the Greek World, 750-100 bce
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2016
It has been 2500 years since the Greek heavy infantry known as hoplites dominated the battlefield. Yet they still capture the imagination today, through a wave of successful action films, novels and documentaries. The mass-media popularity of these famed warriors has, however, helped spawn a number...
Tragedy Offstage
Suffering and Sympathy in Ancient Athens
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Humane ideals were central to the image Athenians had of themselves and their city during the classical period. Tragic plays, which formed a part of civic education, often promoted pity and compassion. But it is less clear to what extent Athenians embraced such ideals in daily life. How were they...