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The Oxford Handbook of Monsters in Classical Myth

The Oxford Handbook of Monsters in Classical Myth presents forty chapters about the unique and terrifying creatures from myths of the long-ago Near East and Mediterranean world, featuring authoritative co…

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John Colley
Humanism, English Literature, and the Translation of Greek, 1430-1560

This book challenges the assumption that fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century English literature was minimally affected by the rebirth of Greek scholarship in the Italian Quattrocento. English translati…

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The Cambridge History of Later Latin Literature: Volume 2

Histories of Latin literature have often treated the period from the second to the seventh centuries as an epilogue to the main action - and yet the period includes such towering figures as Apuleius, Clau…

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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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Temporalities, Texts, Ideologies

"Temporalities, Texts, Ideologies provides a new analysis of the significance of time in Classical and early modern literature, demonstrating that literary temporality continually intervenes in quest…

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The Cambridge History of Later Latin Literature: Volume 1

Histories of Latin literature have often treated the period from the second to the seventh centuries as an epilogue to the main action - and yet the period includes such towering figures as Apuleius, Clau…

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Ps. Aurelius Victor,
De viris illustribus urbis Romae / Die berühmten Männer der Stadt Rom

Sammlung Tusculum

Unter dem Namen des Aurelius Victor (Mitte 4. Jh.) überliefert, bildet die Schrift De viris illustribus urbis Romae den Mittelteil eines Abrisses der römischen Geschichte, dessen Bogen sich von der mythis…

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A Handbook to the Reception of Greek Drama

A Handbook to the Reception of Greek Drama offers a series of original essays that represent a comprehensive overview of the global reception of ancient Greek tragedies and comedies from antiquity to the …

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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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Martina Russo
Flattery in Seneca the Younger

Flattery in Seneca the Younger explores the discourse of flattery in Seneca's philosophical texts, and analyses the extent to which Seneca developed a theory of adulation. Martina Russo maps a phenomenolo…

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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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Marco Fantuzzi,
The Rhesus Ascribed to Euripides

The first detailed study of the Rhesus, ascribed to Euripides, that is not within an edition of the text, examining its authorship, history, plot, performance and themes.

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Ahuvia Kahane
Epic, Novel and the Progress of Antiquity

"This book rethinks the characterization of two highly contrastive forms of ancient literary tradition - epic and novel - and re-frames their function as dynamic points of reference in the history of…

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The 'Satyrica' of Petronius

This book presents a formal critical edition and English translation of the Satyrica of Petronius.

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Aristophanes and the Current Moment

Examines the comedies of Aristophanes from the perspective of the playwright as a political 'correspondent' rather than a political 'respondent'.

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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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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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Mysterientexte. Die orphisch-bakchischen Goldplättchen

Sammlung Tusculum

Auf Goldplättchen geschrieben und aus Gräbern geborgen, haben sich geheime Texte des Dionysischen Mysterienkults erhalten. Die erst seit dem 19. Jahrhundert zutage tretenden Funde stammen aus fast dem ges…

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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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