The Phonological Interpretation of Ancient Greek

Vit Bubenik

• Paperback | Engels | Phoenix Supplementary Volumes | nr. 19
• This volume treats systematically the variation found in the successive stages of the development of all ancient Greek dialects. It combines synchroni... Lees meer

Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture

Jonathan Edmondson

• Paperback | Engels | Phoenix Supplementary Volumes | nr. 46
• Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture investigates the social symbolism and cultural poetics of dress in the ancient Roman world in the period ... Lees meer

Marguerite Yourcenar's Hadrian

Keith Bradley

• Hardcover | Engels | Phoenix Supplementary Volumes
• Marguerite Yourcenar is best known as the author of the 1951 novel Mémoires d'Hadrien , her recreation of the life of the Roman emperor Hadrian. The w... Lees meer

Studies in the Textual Tradition of Terence

John N Grant

• Paperback | Engels | Phoenix Supplementary Volumes
• The textual tradition of the Latin dramatist Publius Terentius Afer (second century BC) is unusually rich and complex. Over six hundred manuscripts co... Lees meer

The Manuscript Tradition of Propertius

James Butrica

• Paperback | Engels | Phoenix Supplementary Volumes
• The elegist Sextus Propertius (ca 50-ca 16 BC) is generally reckoned among the most difficult of Latin authors. At the root of this difficulty lies a ... Lees meer

Comparative Studies in Republican Latin Imagery

Elaine Fantham

• Paperback | Engels | Phoenix Supplementary Volumes
• Of all stylistic devices, imagery has the greatest appeal to the imagination, but is also the most likely to offend, either by staleness or by tastele... Lees meer

Vergil and Elegy

• Hardcover | Engels | Phoenix Supplementary Volumes
• Born in 70 BCE, the Roman poet Vergil came of age during a period of literary experimentalism among Latin authors. These authors introduced new Greek ... Lees meer

Apuleius and Antonine Rome

Keith Bradley

• Hardcover | Engels | Phoenix Supplementary Volumes | nr. 50
• Apuleius and Antonine Rome features outstanding scholarship by Keith Bradley on the Latin author Apuleius of Madauros and on the second-century Roman ... Lees meer

The Historical Method of Herodotus

Donald Lateiner

• Paperback | Engels | Phoenix Supplementary Volumes | nr. 23
• Herodotus was the first writer in the West to conceive the value of creating a record of the recent past. He found a way to co-ordinate the often conf... Lees meer

Celebrity, Fame, and Infamy in the Hellenistic World

• Hardcover | Engels | Phoenix Supplementary Volumes
• Modern notions of celebrity, fame, and infamy reach back to the time of Homer's Iliad . During the Hellenistic period, in particular, the Greek unders... Lees meer

Epigraphy and the Greek Historian

• Paperback | Engels | Phoenix Supplementary Volumes | nr. 47
• Epigraphy is a method of inferring and analyzing historical data by means of inscriptions found on ancient artifacts such as stones, coins, and statue... Lees meer

Coastal Demes of Attika

C W J Eliot

• Paperback | Engels | Phoenix Supplementary Volumes
• The way in which the demes and trittyes of Attika were grouped for the formation of the Kleisthenic tribes is an important historical problem. The ten... Lees meer

Localism in Hellenistic Greece

• Hardcover | Engels | Phoenix Supplementary Volumes
• The Hellenistic age witnessed a dynamic increase of cultural fusion and entanglement across the Mediterranean and Eurasian worlds. Amid seismic change... Lees meer

Belonging and Isolation in the Hellenistic World

Sheila Ager, Reimer Faber

• Hardcover | Engels | Phoenix Supplementary Volumes | nr. 53
• The Hellenistic period was a time of unprecedented cultural exchange. In the wake of Alexander's conquests, Greeks and Macedonians began to encounter ... Lees meer

Walking Through Elysium

• Hardcover | Engels | Phoenix Supplementary Volumes
• Walking through Elysium stresses the subtle and intricate ways writers across time and space wove Vergil's underworld in Aeneid 6 into their works. Th... Lees meer

Roman Literary Cultures

• Hardcover | Engels | Phoenix Supplementary Volumes | nr. 55
• Drawing on the historicizing turn in Latin literary scholarship, Roman Literary Cultures combines new critical methods with traditional analysis acros... Lees meer

Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture

• Hardcover | Phoenix Supplementary Volumes
• Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture investigates the social symbolism and cultural poetics of dress in the ancient Roman world in the period ... Lees meer