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Using as evidence the texts of Menander's comedies, this work surveys the restraints imposed on the movements of characters by 4th century theatrical conventions and cites comparison with the Romans Plautus and Terence.
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A study of the relationship between Greek prose literature of the Antonine Age in the 2nd century AD (the Second Sophistic) and idea-theory, a type of literary stylistics best known from the Peri Ideon of Hermogenes of Tarsus.
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This text describes Athenian attempts to cope with the contradictions in the character of Theseus who seemed the perfect Athenian, but under this exterior lay a... Læs mere
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Did the Greeks find it amusing, irritating or threatening when they heard another Greek speaking in a different dialect? This... Læs mere
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Aristophanes' comedies are famous for their comic characters and earthy humour. But they are also highly topical, with many contemporary political... Læs mere
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Hesiod's Works and Days was often performed in its entirety, but was also relentlessly excerpted, quoted, and reapplied. This volume situates the... Læs mere
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The presumed dichotomy between a Greco-Roman paradigm of Western humanism and new theoretical currents in the humanities is exploded in this volume, which explores the myriad... Læs mere
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Focusing on the depiction of the natural world in Herodotus' Histories, this volume explores the fluid and complex network of... Læs mere
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The gods of the Iliad have long troubled readers, with many features of their presentation defying satisfactory explanation. This volume... Læs mere
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The third and final volume of a commentary on the history of the first 20 years of the Peloponnesian War written by the great fifth-century BC Greek... Læs mere
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Taking a different look at the veneration and cult of heroic men, living and dead, in ancient Greece, this book finds the roots of the Hellenistic ruler cult, and hence... Læs mere
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A new critical edition (the first since 1864) of Proclus' Commentary on Plato's Parmenides. Proclus' work is the most important document on the... Læs mere