The Names of Homeric Heroes

Nikoletta Kanavou

• Hardcover | Engels | Sozomena | nr. 15
• The purpose of this book is to contribute to the appreciation of the linguistic, literary and contextual value of Homeric personal names. This is an o... Lees meer

The Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum

• Hardcover | Engels | Sozomena | nr. 1
• The Villa of the Papyri is a unique archaeological site and has been very influential in the field of classical studies. The papyri (the only intact l... Lees meer

The Invectives of Sallust and Cicero

Anna Novokhatko

• Hardcover | Engels | Sozomena | nr. 6
• This work covers the history of the text of the invectives of Sallust against Cicero and of Cicero against Sallust . Though these speeches seem unsoph... Lees meer

Prolepsis and Ennoia in the Early Stoa

Henry Dyson

• Hardcover | Engels | Sozomena | nr. 5
• This book reconstructs the Stoic doctrine of prolepsis. Prolepses are conceptions that develop naturally from ordinary experience. They are often iden... Lees meer

Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity

Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui

• Paperback | Engels | Sozomena | nr. 7
• Many recent discoveries have confirmed the importance of Orphism for ancient Greek religion, philosophy and literature. Its nature and role are still,... Lees meer

The Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum

• Paperback | Engels | Sozomena | nr. 1
• The Villa of the Papyri is a unique archaeological site and has been very influential in the field of classical studies. The papyri (the only intact l... Lees meer

From Alexandria to Babylon

Francesca Schironi

• Hardcover | Engels | Sozomena | nr. 4
• This book provides the first full edition and commentary of the Oxyrhynchus Glossary (POxy 1802 and 4812). This is a unique document both for the hist... Lees meer

Doctrine and Doxography

• Hardcover | Engels | Sozomena | nr. 14
• Pythagoras and Heraclitus developed theories of the universe and mankind's place in it which were taken seriously by all later Greek thinkers. None of... Lees meer

Tracing Orpheus

• Hardcover | Engels | Sozomena | nr. 10
• There is hardly a more controversial issue in the study of ancient religion than Orphism. More than two centuries of debate have not closed the subjec... Lees meer

Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity

Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui

• Paperback | Engels | Sozomena | nr. 7
• Many recent discoveries have confirmed the importance of Orphism for ancient Greek religion, philosophy and literature. Its nature and role are still,... Lees meer

Apollodoriana

• Hardcover | Engels | Sozomena | nr. 16
• A growing interest in myth over the last decades has brought to the fore the main mythographical manual that has came down to us from Antiquity: Apoll... Lees meer

The Sacred Law of Andania

Laura Gawlinski

• Hardcover | Engels | Sozomena | nr. 11
• The inscribed text referred to as the sacred law of Andania contains almost 200 lines of regulations about a mystery festival and the sanctuary in whi... Lees meer

Imagining Telephus

Martina Delucchi

• Hardcover | Engels | Sozomena | nr. 22
• Telephus, son of Heracles and king of Mysia, was a key figure in the Trojan War. Both enemy and ally of the Achaeans, he fought against them, was woun... Lees meer

Euripides and the Myth of Perseus

Patrick Finglass

• Hardcover | Engels | Sozomena | nr. 21
• A recently-published second-century papyrus, P.Oxy. 5283, contains prose summaries (hypotheses) of six plays by the Greek dramatist Euripides, includi... Lees meer

The Lyric of Ibycus

Claire Louise Wilkinson

• Hardcover | Engels | Sozomena | nr. 13
• Ibycus is one of the nine canonical lyric poets, a crucial figure in the history of Greek poetry and the archaic world. His work has value both for it... Lees meer

Aristophanes' Comedy of Names

Nikoletta Kanavou

• Hardcover | Engels | Sozomena | nr. 8
• The use of significant proper names is one of the most entertaining aspects of Aristophanes' art; unsurprisingly, it has received much scholarly atten... Lees meer

Poems in Context

Laura Miguélez-Cavero

• Hardcover | Engels | Sozomena | nr. 2
• Examining carefully the Egyptian epic hexameter production from the 3rd to the 6th centuries AD, especially that of the southern region (Thebaid), thi... Lees meer

Language and Rhythm in Plautus

Benjamin Fortson

• Hardcover | Engels | Sozomena | nr. 3
• The plays of Plautus have long been recognized as a unique mine of information about the spoken Latin of the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC. But detailed an... Lees meer

Song Regained

• Hardcover | Engels | Sozomena | nr. 20
• Apart from relatively few exceptions of texts which survive intact, what we have of Ancient Greek literature remains, to a great degree, fragmentary. ... Lees meer

Aphex I

Marco Perale

• Hardcover | Duits | Sozomena | nr. 18
• Adespota Papyracea Hexametra Graeca provides a comprehensive corpus of 'anonymous' hexameter texts on papyri, parchments, ostraca and tablets that hav... Lees meer

Lucretius and His Sources

Francesco Montarese

• Hardcover | Engels | Sozomena | nr. 12
• This book discusses Lucretius' refutation of Heraclitus, Empedocles, Anaxagoras and other, unnamed thinkers in De Rerum Natura 1, 635-920. Chapter 1 a... Lees meer

The Poetics of Philosophical Language

Zacharoula Petraki

• Hardcover | Engels | Sozomena | nr. 9
• A close analysis of the Republic 's diverse literary styles shows how the peculiarities of verbal texture in Platonic discourse can be explained by Pl... Lees meer

The Names of Homeric Heroes

Nikoletta Kanavou

• Paperback | Engels | Sozomena | nr. 15
• The purpose of this book is to contribute to the appreciation of the linguistic, literary and contextual value of Homeric personal names. This is an o... Lees meer