Homer's Iliad and the Problem of Force

Charles H Stocking

• Hardcover | Engels | Classics in Theory
• The topic of force has long remained a problem of interpretation for readers of Homer's Iliad , ever since Simone Weil famously proclaimed it as the p... Lees meer

Law and Love in Ovid

Ioannis Ziogas

• Hardcover | Engels | Classics in Theory
• In classical scholarship, the presence of legal language in love poetry is commonly interpreted as absurd and incongruous. Ovid's legalisms have been ... Lees meer

Narratology

Genevieve Liveley

• Hardcover | Engels | Classics in Theory
• This volume explores the extraordinary contribution that classical poetics has made to twentieth and twenty-first century theories of narrative, aimin... Lees meer

The Art of Complicity in Martial and Statius

Erik Gunderson

• Hardcover | Engels | Classics in Theory
• The Art of Complicity in Martial and Statius examines the relationship between politics and aesthetics in two poets from the reign of Domitian. Gunder... Lees meer

Inventing the Novel

R Bracht Branham

• Hardcover | Engels | Classics in Theory
• Inventing the Novel uses the work of the Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) to explore the ancient origins of the modern novel. The analy... Lees meer

Aristotle on the Concept of Shared Life

Sara Brill

• Hardcover | Engels | Classics in Theory
• According to the terms of Aristotle's Politics , to be alive is to instantiate a form of rule. In the growth of plants, the perceptual capacities and ... Lees meer

Antiquities Beyond Humanism

• Hardcover | Engels | Classics in Theory
• Greco-Roman antiquity is often presumed to provide the very paradigm of humanism from the Renaissance to the present. This paradigm has been increasin... Lees meer

Ancient Unconscious

Vered Lev Kenaan

• Hardcover | Engels | Classics in Theory
• In the field of classical studies, the psychoanalytic construction of the unconscious is rarely regarded as a fruitful methodological concept. Commonl... Lees meer

Biopolitics and Ancient Thought

Jussi Backman

• Hardcover | Engels | Classics in Theory
• The volume studies, from different perspectives, the relationship between ancient thought and biopolitics, that is, theories, discourses, and practice... Lees meer

Metalepsis

• Hardcover | Engels | Classics in Theory
• 'Metalepsis' is a term from classical rhetoric, but in the twentieth century, it was re-framed more broadly as a crossing of the boundaries that separ... Lees meer

Rethinking Metonymy

Sebastian Matzner

• Hardcover | Engels | Classics in Theory
• Although metonymy has long been recognized as being a central device in poetic language, it has received little critical attention in its own right. N... Lees meer