Accidental Grandeur

John R Harris

• Hardcover | Engels | Lang Classical Studies | nr. 1
• Since the work of Milman Parry, Homeric poetry has been subjected to a meticulous re-evaluation. The question of how closely an oral tale should be se... Lees meer

Defining Genre and Gender in Latin Literature

• Hardcover | Engels | Lang Classical Studies | nr. 15
• The Roman confrontation and assimilation of Greek literature entailed a scrutiny, critique, and adaptation of generic assumptions. This book considers... Lees meer

Greek Marseille and Mediterranean Celtic Region

• Hardcover | Engels | Lang Classical Studies | nr. 20
• This unique collection of essays contains a synthesis of recent works by distinguished archaeologists and historians in their field, illuminating exte... Lees meer

Reading Voices

J Andrew Foster

• Hardcover | Engels | Lang Classical Studies | nr. 21
• This book is a study of Theocritus' narrating techniques, intertextual practices, and the relationship between them. J. Andrew Foster provides detaile... Lees meer

Love by the Numbers

Helena Dettmer

• Hardcover | Engels | Lang Classical Studies | nr. 10
• The poetry of Gaius Valerius Catullus survived antiquity by the slimmest of threads. This study concerns the controversial issue of whether the order ... Lees meer

Elegiac Eyes

Stacie Raucci

• Hardcover | Engels | Lang Classical Studies | nr. 17
• Elegiac Eyes is an in-depth examination of vision and spectacle in Roman love elegy. It approaches vision from the perspective of Roman cultural modes... Lees meer

Translating the Heavens

D Mark Possanza

• Hardcover | Engels | Lang Classical Studies | nr. 14
• Germanicus Caesar's translation of Aratus's celebrated astronomical poem, Phaenomena , is crucial for the study of the poetics of Latin translation. B... Lees meer

Duality and Structure in the «Iliad» and «Odyssey»

Chet Van Duzer

• Hardcover | Engels | Lang Classical Studies | nr. 8
• Despite extensive studies on Homer's techniques of formulaic composition, thus far the importance of duality in the construction of the Iliad and Odys... Lees meer

Imagery of Colour and Shining in Catullus, Propertius, and Horace

Jacqueline Clarke

• Hardcover | Engels | Lang Classical Studies | nr. 13
• In recent years there has been growing interest in the concepts of pictorial vividness («enargeia») and pictorial description («ekphrasis») in the wor... Lees meer

Channels of Imperishable Fire

Clement Kuehn

• Hardcover | Engels | Lang Classical Studies | nr. 7
• Ever since the poems of Dioscorus of Aphrodito (ca. 520-ca. 585 C.E.) were discovered on papyri in Upper Egypt, they have perplexed and disturbed scho... Lees meer

An Island Economy

Scott Gallimore

• Hardcover | Engels | Lang Classical Studies | nr. 18
• This book offers the first presentation of Hellenistic and Roman period ceramic assemblages from the city of Hierapytna, located on the southeast coas... Lees meer

Greece in British Women's Literary Imagination, 1913-2013

• Hardcover | Engels | Lang Classical Studies | nr. 19
• Greece in British Women's Literary Imagination offers a comprehensive overview of British female writing on Greece in the twentieth century and beyond... Lees meer

Athena's Justice

Rebecca Futo Kennedy

• Hardcover | Engels | Lang Classical Studies | nr. 16
• Athena is recognized as an allegory or representative of Athens in most Athenian public art except in tragedy. Perhaps this is because tragedy is rare... Lees meer

Cicero's Return from Exile

John Nicholson

• Hardcover | Engels | Lang Classical Studies | nr. 4
• The two ceremonial speeches which Cicero gave in thanksgiving to the Roman senate and people upon his return from exile in 57 B.C. mark a major waters... Lees meer

Rhetorical Studies in the «Aristocratea» of Demosthenes

Terry Papillon

• Hardcover | Duits | Lang Classical Studies | nr. 11
• Demosthenes (384-322 BCE) is one of the great orators from ancient Greece. His speech Against Aristocrates is a common source for information on histo... Lees meer