The History of Menander the Guardsman. Introductory Essay, Text, Translation and Historiographical Notes

R C Blockley

• Paperback | Engels | Arca, Classical and Medieval Texts, Papers and Monographs | nr. 17
• Almost all of the very little we know of Menander comes from the preface of his History. Having studied the law, Menander did not become an advocate, ... Lees meer

Papers of the Langford Latin Seminar

• Hardcover | Engels | Arca, Classical and Medieval Texts, Papers and Monographs | nr. 54
• PLLS 16 contains papers mainly arising from several Langford Colloquia held by the Department of Classics, Florida State University. Contents The Elde... Lees meer

The Fifth-Century Chroniclers

S Muhlberger

• Paperback | Engels | Arca, Classical and Medieval Texts, Papers and Monographs
• The fifth century AD has always been a period of intense interest for historians. At the beginning, the Roman Empire looked as impentrable as it had d... Lees meer

Papers of the Langford Latin Seminar

• Hardcover | Engels | Arca, Classical and Medieval Texts, Papers and Monographs | nr. 51
• The fifteenth volume of PLLS (and the fifth in the Langford series) contains major papers on early Greek epic and tragedy, aspects of ekphrasis, Roman... Lees meer

Rome and Persia at War, 502-532

Geoffrey Greatrex

• Paperback | Engels | Arca, Classical and Medieval Texts, Papers and Monographs
• The first modern account of the conflict between the eastern Roman Empire and the Sasanian kingdom. Greatrex traces the background to the war, investi... Lees meer

Ancient Biography

• Hardcover | Engels | Arca, Classical and Medieval Texts, Papers and Monographs | nr. 55
• The narration of lives (bioi) is pervasive in ancient written texts, but there has been comparatively little recent research into the genre of biograp... Lees meer

Anastasius I

Fiona K Haarer

• Hardcover | Engels | Arca, Classical and Medieval Texts, Papers and Monographs | nr. 46
• When Anastasius I came to the throne in 491, the Late Roman Empire was in severe difficulty. Internal instability, exacerbated by the dominance of the... Lees meer

Vergil's Aeneid and the Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius

Damien Nelis

• Hardcover | Engels | Arca, Classical and Medieval Texts, Papers and Monographs | nr. 39
• Virgil's debt to Homer is well known but, as this detailed and specialised analysis demonstrates, Apollonius Rhodius' Argonautica, itself influenced b... Lees meer

Roman Poetry, Republican and Imperial

• Hardcover | Engels | Arca, Classical and Medieval Texts, Papers and Monographs
• After a long period in which the late Republican and Augustan poets were the main focus of scholarship in Latin poetry, more attention is now being gi... Lees meer

Cult, Myth, and Occasion in Pindar's Victory Odes

Eveline Krummen

• Hardcover | Engels | Arca, Classical and Medieval Texts, Papers and Monographs | nr. 52
• In this pioneering study, first published in German as Pyrsos Hymnon. Festliche Gegenwart und mythisch-rituelle Tradition als Voraussetzung einer Pind... Lees meer