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This 1996 text was the first detailed commentary on the fragments remaining from the plays of the Greek comic poet Alexis (c. 375–270 BC). The comments discuss all... Læs mere
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Jonathan L. Ready demonstrates that Homer uses similes in the Iliad as arenas of heroic competition. In addition to presenting the first sustained critical... Læs mere
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In this book, Alexander Beecroft explores how the earliest poetry in Greece (Homeric epic and lyric) and China (the Canon of Songs) evolved from being local, oral, and anonymous to being textualized, interpreted, and circulated over increasingly wider areas.
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Examines four texts of the Imperial period by Strabo, Dio of Prusa, Lucian, and Philostratus in order to elucidate how each author... Læs mere
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This text examines how the three most significant Hellenistic poets deal with their poetic inheritance from earlier Greek poetry. It studies how they... Læs mere
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This book examines the work of Ammianus Marcellinus, who has often been underestimated as a writer while lauded as an historian. This book portrays him as a... Læs mere
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This study explores the Greek poetry of the third and second centuries BC and its reception and influence at Rome. Close readings of the most familiar... Læs mere
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This 1965 book is concerned with the process through which the plays of Euripides were transmitted across seventeen centuries and finally... Læs mere
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This 1983 book provides a serious modern literary treatment of perhaps the best known of all surviving works of ancient Greek fiction. Dr Hunter demonstrates the... Læs mere
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Callimachus was one of the most influential writers in the ancient world and had a profound effect on the subsequent course of Greek and Roman literature.... Læs mere
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Pity and Power in Ancient Athens argues that the exercise of power in democratic Athens, especially during its brief fifth-century empire, raised troubling questions about the alleviation and infliction of suffering, and pity emerged as a topic in Athenian culture at this time.
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This book investigates the effect of the great plague of Athens that began in 430 BCE on the imagination of its literary... Læs mere