The renowned Basler Homer-Kommentar of the Iliad, edited by Anton Bierl and Joachim Latacz and originally published in German, presents the latest developments in Homeric scholarship.
Der Kolax (Der Schmeichler) des Menander war in der Antike äußerst beliebt und spielte in der Geschichte des Parasiten auf der Komödienbühne eine zentrale Rolle.
"e;The Iliad"e; is Homer's legendary account of the Trojan War, an epic battle that took place over three thousand years ago and had a significant impact on world history.
A provocative case for why immortalizing Greek and Roman culture as ';classical' marginalizes and devalues Black lifeGreek and Roman antiquity has been enshrined in disciplines and curricula at all levels of education, perpetuating what the historian of political thought J.
Comedy created a joyful mode of perceiving rhetoric, grammar, and literary criticism through the somatic senses of the author, the characters, the actors and the spectators.
The life of Emperor Basil I (867–886), the founder of the Macedonian Dynasty, is the only extant secular biography in Byzantine literature; in its importance and as an instance of the genre it is comparable to Einhard’s Vita Caroli Magni.
In a time of acute crisis when our societies face a complex series of challenges (race, gender, inclusivity, changing pedagogical needs and a global pandemic) we urgently need to re-access the nature of our engagement with the Classical World.
This volume gathers together about two thirds of the articles and essays published between 1983 and 2021 by Philip Hardie, whose work on ancient literature has been of seminal importance in the field.
This book demonstrates that the carefully chosen Greek words in Persius' programmatic passages play a significant role in the context of his literary criticism: they allow him to express his objection to the Graecizing poetic compositions of his day more convincingly, while facilitating intertextual dialogues with many writers.
Explore the world's great myths and legends, brought to life in this enthralling retelling of age-old stories passed down from generation to generationFrom the heroes of Ancient Greece to The Dreaming of Australian aborigines, here are the myths that, thousands of years after they were first told, are still relevant today.
Manuscripts from the Byzantine era hand down lists of outstanding Greek authors or canons in the various literary and scientific-philosophical genres, but there has been a lack of research into their nature, chronology, origin, formation and use.
Die Gnomai in den Epinikien des griechischen Chorlyrikers Bakchylides haben als vermeintlich konventionelles Beiwerk in der Forschung bislang wenig Interesse gefunden.
Neronian representations of magic, a practice prevalent in the everyday life of the period and a central topic in its literary production, are characterized by unprecedented accuracy and detail.
During the sixteenth century, antiquarian studies (the study of the material past, comprising modern archaeology, epigraphy, and numismatics) rose in Europe in parallel to the technical development of the printing press.
Il volume offre un commento ai frammenti delle tragedie latine di età repubblicana incentrate su diverse fasi del mito di Medea: la Medea exul di Ennio, il Medus di Pacuvio, la Medea sive Argonautae di Accio.
Volume I of Franco Montanari's "e;Kleine Schriften"e; comprises some 66 papers on ancient scholarship, a topic which he decisively helped establishing as an extremely important field of study; they include general surveys of Alexandrian and Pergamene philology, major contributions to ancient Homeric scholarship (with a particular emphasis on Aristarchus), ancient scholarship on Hesiod and Aeschylus, as well as an important number of editions and notes on papyrological scholarly texts.
