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Vojt& Hladký
On the Gods and the World

A new interpretation of the Derveni papyrus, an important testimony of intellectual life in Greece of late fourth century BCE, which combines subjects from ancient religious thought, allegorical explanati…

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Thomas Biggs,
Plautus: Poenulus

Plautus' Poenulus (or Little Carthaginian) is a staggering work. Performed in the years after Rome's traumatic struggle with Hannibal's Carthage, the comedy stages the restoration of a Carthaginian family…

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Jonathan S Burgess
The Travels of Odysseus

The various travels of the hero Odysseus are explored to contextualize Homer's Odyssey and analyze the nature of the hero's character.

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Bernardo Ballesteros
Divine Assemblies in Early Greek and Babylonian Epic

This book is the first to chart divine assembly scenes in ancient Babylonian and early Greek epic. It asks why similarities between the two corpora exist, and exploits those similarities to enhance unders…

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Friederike Güsewell
Die Fabelbücher des Laurentius Abstemius

Wer an Fabeln denkt, denkt oft zuerst die antiken Tierfabeln Äsops. Doch auch in späterer Zeit waren Fabeln allgegenwärtig, entwickelten sich weiter und nahmen neue Funktionen ein. Der italienische Autor…

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Melissa Funke
Phryne

How did Mnesarete, a girl from Boeotia, turn into Phryne the famous beauty, and how did she end up as an enduring symbol of ancient Greek culture? This book pieces together the story of the notorious four…

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The Philology of the Future

This book gathers a group of scholars whose work has been influenced by the distinctive dialogue between ancient philosophy (and rhetoric) and critical theory promoted by the scholarship of James I. Porte…

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Platonismus und Esoterik in der französischen Renaissance

Bibliotheca Chaldaica

Frankreich erlebt im 16. Jahrhundert ein Aufblühen des Interesses an griechischer Sprache und Literatur. Eine besondere Rolle spielt dabei der Platonismus einschließlich seiner esoterischen Spielarten wie…

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Essays on Propertian and Ovidian Elegy

This Festschrift in honour of the classical scholar Stephen Heyworth brings together eleven experts on the genre of Latin elegy. All chapters focus on the close reading of elegiac texts primarily by Ovid …

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Lorna Hardwick, Stephen Harrison, Elizabeth Vandiver
Greek and Roman Antiquity in First World War Poetry

Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, and Charles Sorley all died in WWI. They came from diverse social, educational, and cultural backgrounds, but engagement with Greek and Roman antiquity was de…

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Catullus: Poem 64

Catullus' longest poem, a miniature epic or 'epyllion' that tells two apparently unrelated mythological stories, is a central text in the Roman literary tradition. Allusive, exquisite, and sometimes shock…

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Emily Hauser
Penelope's Bones

"Three millennia ago, in an ancient Greece where men spoke and women were silenced, some of the world's first epics were born: Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. But these are not just tales about heroic men…

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Afroditi Angelopoulou
The Body and the Senses in Greek Tragedy

The Body and the Senses in Greek Tragedy is the first book to approach the corporeality of Greek drama in terms of its capacity to involve audiences in the construction of meaning, not only on an affectiv…

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Die Olympiasieger der Antike

Sammlung Tusculum

Die mehrsprachige Ausgabe vereint alle bekannten Zeugnisse über die Sieger der 291 antiken Olympiaden. Gesammelt sind nicht nur die den Sieg direkt betreffenden Quellen, sondern alle weiteren, die den spo…

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A Companion to Plautus

An important addition to contemporary scholarship on Plautus and Plautine comedy, provides new essays and fresh insights from leading scholarsA Companion to Plautus is a collection of original essays on t…

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Robert Cioffi
Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Greek Novel

In this richly detailed study, Robert Cioffi explores the signficance of the Nile River Valley as the geographic centre of the ancient Greek novel during the genre's heyday in the Roman empire. He shows h…

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Lorna Hardwick, Stephen Harrison, Elizabeth Vandiver
Greek and Roman Antiquity in First World War Poetry

Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, and Charles Sorley all died in WWI. They came from diverse social, educational, and cultural backgrounds, but engagement with Greek and Roman antiquity was de…

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Ilaria Marchesi
Women in Martial

This book systematically examines the portrayals of women in Martial's Epigrams, proposing a new method of exploring the cultural construction of femininity in the Flavian age and demonstrating the extent…

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Lorna Hardwick, Stephen Harrison, Elizabeth Vandiver
Rupert Brooke, Charles Sorley, Isaac Rosenberg, and Wilfred Owen

Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, and Charles Sorley all died in WWI. They came from diverse social, educational, and cultural backgrounds, but engagement with Greek and Roman antiquity was de…

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Christos C Tsagalis
The Homeric Doloneia

The Doloneia is the most controversial book of the Iliad , its authenticity being doubted since antiquity. But by applying sophisticated interpretive tools, this book maintains that Iliad 10 was not compo…

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