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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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Alison Keith
Sulpicia

This is the first full-length biography of Sulpicia, the earliest extant female author of classical Latin poetry. Unmentioned by her contemporaries, Sulpicia belonged to the pinnacle of the Roman aristocr…

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Alison Keith
Sulpicia

This is the first full-length biography of Sulpicia, the earliest extant female author of classical Latin poetry. Unmentioned by her contemporaries, Sulpicia belonged to the pinnacle of the Roman aristocr…

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Linda Freedman
The Myth of the Fall in Nineteenth-Century Literature

The Myth of the Fall in Nineteenth-Century Literature offers fresh close readings of both canonical and less well-known works and is divided into two parts, fiction-making and nation-building, addressing …

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Amanda Holton
Rhyme and the Construction of Love in English Lyric 1300-1579

This book, underpinned by a database, demonstrates that rhyme is not a superficial decorative feature but rather a powerful force which fundamentally determines subject-matter. It focuses on the relations…

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Patrick Cheney
Placing Elysium in Renaissance Britain

Cheney explores the literary trope of Elysium from ancient Greek poetry to the English Renaissance, with attention to its place in cartography and the geographies of the sixteenth century, and with emphas…

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Euripides,
Medea

"A Student Edition of Euripides' play with commentary by Will Shuler, which looks at its portrayal of violence - both onstage and off; the original performance conditions; staging challenges, both th…

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T E Franklinos
Propertius' Cynthia

Propertius' Cynthia considers Propertius' metapoetic and intra- and intertextual habits and their relationship with the repetitious amatory discourse that he fashions for himself with his beloved, Cynthia.

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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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Emily Gowers
Rome's Patron

The story of Maecenas and his role in the evolution and continuing legacy of ancient Roman poetry and cultureAn unelected statesman with exceptional powers, a patron of the arts and a luxury-loving friend…

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Simone Weil, Rachel Bespaloff,
War and the Iliad

War and the Iliad is a perfect introduction to the range of Homer's art as well as a provocative and rewarding demonstration of the links between literature, philosophy, and questions of life and death.Si…

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Melanie Racette-Campbell
The Crisis of Masculinity in the Age of Augustus

The political rupture caused by the ascension of Augustus Caesar in ancient Rome, which ended the centuries-old Republic, had drastic consequences for the performance and understanding of masculinity in a…

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Ekphrasis in Ancient and Modern Literature

**This volume examines the interaction between literary and visual representation through ekphrasis in contemporary poetry and ancient literature, viewing ekphrasis as a dynamic and evolving concept rathe…

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Mario Telò,
Reading Greek Tragedy with Judith Butler

"Considering Butler's "tragic trilogy"-a set of interventions on Sophocles' Antigone, Euripides' Bacchae, and Aeschylus's Eumenides-this book seeks to understand not just how Butler uses an…

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A Companion to Ancient Education

A Companion to Ancient Education presents a series of essays from leading specialists in the field that represent the most up-to-date scholarship relating to the rise and spread of educational practices a…

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Emily Hauser
How Women Became Poets

How the idea of the author was born in the battleground of genderWhen Sappho sang her songs, the only word that existed to describe a poet was a male one---aoidos , or "singer-man." The most fam…

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Artificial Intelligence in Greek and Roman Epic

An exploration of concepts and representations of artificial intelligence in ancient Greek and Roman epic as well as its reception in later literature and culture.

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Camilla Caporicci
The Song of Songs and Its Tradition in Renaissance Love Lyric

Traditionally attributed to King Solomon and called by Rabbi Aqiva the "Holy of Holies" among sacred Scriptures (Mishnah, Yadayim 3:5), the Song of Songs is one of the most fascinating and contr…

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Laura Loporcaro
Reading Quintilian

Reading Quintilian analyses how didactic authority is created in Quintilian's Institutio oratoria . Laura Loporcaro argues that the implementation in the Institutio of the same rhetorical strategies it de…

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Filippo Gianferrari
Dante's Education

Gianferrari explores the early education Dante would have received in medieval Florence and its influence on his literary works. He reconstructs literacy instruction in late-medieval Italy to offer a comp…

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