Beyond Aristophanes

• Paperback | Engels | Society for Classical Studies American Classical Studies | nr. 38
• This collection of essays is devoted to the most important changes--in theme, language, structure, style, and production--that characterize the transf... Lees meer

Hyperides

Judson Herrman

• Hardcover | Engels, Oudgrieks | Society for Classical Studies American Classical Studies | nr. 53
• Hyperides' Funeral Oration is arguably the most important surviving example of the genre from classical Greece. The speech stands apart from other fun... Lees meer

Representing Agrippina

Judith Ginsburg

• Hardcover | Engels | Society for Classical Studies American Classical Studies | nr. 50
• Agrippina the Younger, wife of the emperor Claudius and mother of his successor Nero, wielded power and authority at the center of the Roman empire in... Lees meer

Traditional Elegy

Robert Scott Garner

• Hardcover | Engels | Society for Classical Studies American Classical Studies | nr. 56
• Though often assumed by scholars to be a product of traditional, and perhaps oral, compositional practices comparable to those found in early Greek ep... Lees meer

Studies on the Text of Macrobius' Saturnalia

Robert a Kaster

• Hardcover | Engels | Society for Classical Studies American Classical Studies | nr. 55
• Studies on the Text of Macrobius' Saturnalia is a companion to new editions of Macrobius' encyclopedic dialogue that are to appear in the Loeb Classic... Lees meer

Emperors and Usurpers

Andrew G Scott

• Hardcover | Engels | Society for Classical Studies American Classical Studies
• This historical commentary examines books 79(78)-80(80) of Cassius Dio's Roman History , which cover the period from the death of Caracalla in A. D. 2... Lees meer

Matro of Pitane and the Tradition of Epic Parody in the Fourth Century Bce

S Douglas Olson, Alexander Sens

• Hardcover | Engels | Society for Classical Studies American Classical Studies | nr. 44
• The fragments of Matro of Pitane (c. 300 BC) offer insights not only into the largely forgotten and obscure late-classical genre of epic parody, but a... Lees meer

The Anxieties of Pliny the Younger

Stanley E Hoffer

• Hardcover | Engels | Society for Classical Studies American Classical Studies | nr. 43
• This book provides a new understanding of Pliny's letters by combining historical analysis of the social pressures that shape Pliny's authorial pose w... Lees meer

Eleusis and Athens

Maureen B Cavanaugh

• Paperback | Engels | Society for Classical Studies American Classical Studies | nr. 35
• Eleusis and Athens offers a new text and detailed commentary on two account-inventories for a major panhellenic sanctuary (Demeter) during the final d... Lees meer

Matro of Pitane and the Tradition of Epic Parody in the Fourth Century Bce

S Douglas Olson, Alexander Sens

• Paperback | Engels | Society for Classical Studies American Classical Studies | nr. 44
• The fragments of Matro of Pitane (c. 300 BC) offer insights not only into the largely forgotten and obscure late-classical genre of epic parody, but a... Lees meer

Archaic Latin Prose

Edward Courtney

• Paperback | Engels | Society for Classical Studies American Classical Studies | nr. 42
• This work aims to show how certain striking features of classical Latin prose style have their roots in forms of expression established in archaic Lat... Lees meer

Virgil Recomposed

Scott McGill

• Hardcover | Engels | Society for Classical Studies American Classical Studies | nr. 49
• The Virgilian centos anticipate the avant-garde and smash the image of a staid, sober, and centered classical world. This book examines the twelve myt... Lees meer

Work in Progress

Sean Alexander Gurd

• Hardcover | Engels | Society for Classical Studies American Classical Studies | nr. 57
• Work in Progress offers an in-depth study of the role of literary revision in the compositional practices and representational strategies of Roman aut... Lees meer

Homer's Cosmic Fabrication

Heiden

• Hardcover | Engels | Society for Classical Studies American Classical Studies | nr. 52
• Although scholars routinely state that the Iliad is an "oral poem," since very near the time of its composition the great epic has circulated as a tex... Lees meer

Studies in Classical History and Society

Meyer Reinhold

• Hardcover | Engels | Society for Classical Studies American Classical Studies | nr. 45
• Professor Reinhold, a distinguished senior classicist, has produced a fascinating and accessible collection of essays devoted to the study of ancient ... Lees meer

Essay on the Life and Poetry of Homer

Plutarch

• Paperback | Engels | Society for Classical Studies American Classical Studies | nr. 40
• This bilingual edition, with introduction and brief commentary, makes accessible for the first time in English a text of great importance for the hist... Lees meer

The Augustan Succession

Peter Michael Swan

• Hardcover | Engels | Society for Classical Studies American Classical Studies | nr. 47
• Written in the author's maternal Greek, the Roman History of the third-century A.D. historian Cassius Dio is our fullest surviving historical source f... Lees meer

The Comet of 44 B.C. and Caesar's Funeral Games

John T Ramsey, A Lewis Licht

• Paperback | Engels, Oudgrieks, Latijn | Society for Classical Studies American Classical Studies | nr. 39
• This unique collaboration between a classicist and physicist at the University of Illinois at Chicago is the first work to combine the evidence from b... Lees meer

M. Tullius Cicero, the Fragmentary Speeches

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Jane W Crawford

• Paperback | Engels | Society for Classical Studies American Classical Studies | nr. 37
• This volume contains testimonia and fragments of Cicero's speeches that circulated in antiquity but which have since been lost. This edition includes ... Lees meer

Greek Mythography in the Roman World

Alan Cameron

• Hardcover | Engels | Society for Classical Studies American Classical Studies | nr. 48
• By the Roman age the traditional stories of Greek myth had long since ceased to reflect popular culture. Mythology had become instead a central elemen... Lees meer

Sextus Empiricus

Luciano Floridi

• Hardcover | Engels | Society for Classical Studies American Classical Studies | nr. 46
• The subject is Sextus Empiricus, one the chief sources of information on ancient philosophy and one of the most influential authors in the history of ... Lees meer

Emmins on Sentencing

Christopher Emmins

• Paperback | Engels | Society for Classical Studies American Classical Studies
• Sentencing is one of the fastest moving areas of law, with frequent legislative changes and hundreds of reported appellate decisions each year. The fo... Lees meer

Figuring Genre in Roman Satire

Catherine Keane

• Hardcover | Engels | Society for Classical Studies American Classical Studies | nr. 51
• Satirists are social critics, but they are also products of society. Horace, Persius, and Juvenal, the verse satirists of ancient Rome, exploit this d... Lees meer