De Gruyter, 2025. — 304 p. — (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes 181). The objective of this edited volume is to bring together contributions from the fields of Ancient Greek and Latin Philology that apply the cognitive linguistic framework of Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) to ancient texts and other source material. The individual chapters are unified by this shared...
Brill, 1995. — xxv, 225 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 146). Theatrum Arbitri is a literary study dealing with the possible influence of Roman comic drama (comedies of Plautus and Terence, theatre of the Greek and Roman mimes, and fabula Atellana) on the surviving fragments of Petronius' Satyrica. The theatrical assessment of this novel is carried out at the levels of...
Leiden: Brill, 1972. — X, 262 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplementum 19). Contents: Preface. Introduction: Survey of the problem. Choosing the manuscripts. Catalogue of the manuscripts used. Recovery of the A-commentary: (A), external criteria. Recovery of the A-commentary: (B), internal criteria. Medicean and minority scholia. Conclusions and problems. Bibliography. Guide to the use of...
Brill, 1995. — xiii, 262 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 144). Psychological and Ethical Ideas studies what Greek poets and philosophers of the Archaic Age of Greece say about certain psychological and ethical ideas. These ideas include “psychological activity”, “soul”, “excellence”, and “justice”. These ideas were chosen to show how early Greek individuals think, act, and relate...
Brill, 1995. — x, 210 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 147). Groaning Tears examines suicide in Greek tragedy in light of the fifth-century ethical climate. No full-scale work has previously been devoted to this pervasive topic. The particular focus of identifying suicide as a response to the expectations of popular ethics and social demands makes it useful for scholars and...
Brill, 1995. — xvi, 255 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 153). The Gorgon's Severed Head looks at three plays of Euripides, one early, one middle and one late in his career. Innovations in genre, in the use of the traditional stories, in the representation of women and of gender issues are present at every period. In all three plays characters are depicted creating themselves and...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 258 p. — (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics). In the first book of odes, Horace presents himself to his Roman readers in a novel guise, as the appropriator of the Greek lyric tradition. He aspired to add a new province to the empire of the national literature. The first book is designed both to establish Horace's engagement with his Greek...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 278 p. — (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics). Euripides' Cyclops is the only example of Attic satyr-drama which survives intact. It is a brilliant dramatisation of the famous story from Homer's Odyssey of how Odysseus blinded the Cyclops after making him drunk. The play has much to teach us, not just about satyr-drama, but also about the...
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. — 475 p. — (Cultural Histories of the Ancient World). A groundbreaking study of the interaction of poetry, performance, and the built environment in ancient Greece. In this volume, Richard Neer and Leslie Kurke develop a new, integrated approach to classical Greece: a "lyric archaeology" that combines literary and art-historical...
Revised Edition. — Brill, 2003. — xliv, 876 p. From classics and history to Jewish rabbinic narratives and the canonical and noncanonical gospels of earliest Christianity, the relevance of studying the novel of the later classical periods of Greek and Rome is widely endorsed. Ancient novels contain insights beyond literary theories and philosophical musings to new sources for...
Brill, 1995. — xiv, 232 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 157). This volume deals with orality and literacy in ancient Greece and what consideration of these areas yields for that society, its literature, traditions and practices. Individual chapters focus on art, comedy, historiography, oratory, religion, rhetoric, philosophy, poetry, tragedy, and on orality in contemporary...
Brill, 1997. — xxx, 684 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 166). The first study to focus on the numerous ancient Greek fables occurring outside (and predating) the extant fable collections. Divided into three parts, its core is an intertextual analysis of the functions of fables and their allusions. Here the author covers many different authors and a variety of genres in Archaic,...
Brill, 1997. — xix, 249 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 168). A revised Greek Text (the first in a century) and English translation (the first in any modern language) of the Art of Political Speech by a writer known as the Anonymous Seguerianus (ca. A.D. 200) and the Art of Rhetoric of Apsines of Gadara (ca. A.D. 230), with introduction, notes, and indices. These works provide...
Herausgegeben von Christoph Riedweg in Zusammenarbeit mit Valentin Dietrich, Jasmin Li, Maxime Paratte, Tim Richter und Michèle Schlager (Hegi). — Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2024. — S. VIII, 655-1258. — (Hypomnemata. Supplement-Reihe, Band 2, Teilband 2). — ISBN 978-3-525-30223-1. Inhalt: Mythica, Ritualia, Religiosa : La violence sacrificielle: faits et réflexions...
Herausgegeben von Christoph Riedweg in Zusammenarbeit mit Valentin Dietrich, Jasmin Li, Maxime Paratte, Tim Richter und Michèle Schlager (Hegi). — Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2024. — XXV, 653 S. — (Hypomnemata. Supplement-Reihe, Band 2, Teilband 1). — ISBN 978-3-525-30223-1. Inhalt: Vorwort. Jan N. Bremmer, Introduction. Homerica : Zum altgriechischen Mitleidsbegriff...
Brill, 1998. — x, 238 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 186). This volume contains a collection of 11 studies on the philosophical and scientific background of Lucretius' De rerum natura. The studies 1-7 form a running commentary on the history of ideas in Drn. 5.780-1160 (Lucretius' famous description of the History of Human Mankind); 8-10 discuss some topics from book 4 (sleep,...
Brill, 1999. — xxx, 730 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 187). This is most comprehensive study of Seneca's Hercules Furens to date and indeed of any Roman tragedy. Apart from illustrating the poetic language, the literary conventions and the dramatic technique of the play, the book highlights the figure of the Roman Hercules in relation to its Greek model, the Euripidean Herakles....
Brill, 1998. — x, 374 p. — (Mnemosyne Supplements 189). The author's approach to Roman epic is interpretative; the reader is invited to study a choice of typical texts, from the beginnings to the end of Antiquity. Famous poets are given the attention they deserve, but also some minor authors are discovered as precious 'missing links' between the ages. Special heed is paid to...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016. — 328 p. — (Bloomsbury Classical Studies Monographs). At the Iliad's climax, the great Trojan hero Hektor falls at the hands of Achilles. But who is Hektor? He has resonated with audiences as a tragic hero, great warrior, loyal husband and father, protector of a doomed city. Yet never has a major work sought to discover how these different aspects...
Brill, 1998. — x, 268 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 185). This volume contains fourteen papers on Greek literature, historiography and philosophy. Its titles seeks to bring out the author's intention to explore the consequences of the paradox that goes with interpreting messages that were never meant to be heard by us, but are nevertheless widely believed to be significant to...
University of Pennsylvania, 2019. — 221 p. Like its principal hero, the Iliad has a reputation for straightforwardness that it does not deserve and (unlike Achilles) does not pretend to. Contrary to Auerbach’s thesis that Homeric narrative “leave[s] nothing in obscurity” (1953: 4), this dissertation emphasizes how the Iliad’s narrative modulates the story that it represents—in...
University of Michigan, 2021. — 187 p. The most distinctive feature of Greek epic poetry, especially of the Iliad and Odyssey attributed to Homer, is its highly developed system of epithets that mark out heroic characters and allowed for improvised oral performance. The question of how the epithet system conveys the identities of particular heroes, and of what “identity” means...
Ghent University, 2019. — 679 p. The thesis addresses the way in which Philostratos, writing in the early third century C.E., fashions a new version of the Trojan War in the central part of his dialogue, the Heroikos. The study presents a thorough analysis of the dialog’s sources and their use as well as of the parallels with other literary and non-literary texts from the...
University of Washington, 2019. — 267 p. This dissertation investigates the iconic function of repetitions of words and other units of speech in the Iliad and Odyssey as a component of the structural stylistics and aesthetics of Homeric epic. While these works are famously repetitive on a number of scales, I focus on small-scale patterns of repetitions that have received...
University of Calgary, 2022. — 277 p. The first part of the thesis investigates hymns as a poetic genre in Ancient Greece. Focusing on the early attestations of the term humnos itself and on selected excerpts from Archaic hymnic poetry, the work aims at retracing the main explicit definitions of this genre from the 8th to early 4th century BCE, as well as integrating insights...
Boston University, 2024. — 416 p. This dissertation provides a methodology by which to study the relationship between a character’s rhetoric and the narrative context in rhythmical terms. In the first chapter, I remark on the differences between the narrator’s voice and that of his characters. In order to assess such distinctions in rhythm, I study the traditional hexameter...
Oxford University, 2023. — 467 p. The present study is an attempt to compare three different poetic traditions whose origins are believed to have been influenced to a significant degree by oral composition in performance: the Ancient Greek, the Sanskrit, and the Old English. These traditions all belong to the Indo-European language family, with interesting parallels not only in...
De Gruyter, 2024. — 176 p. — (Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur 189). This volume studies and analyses the work De lepra by Greek church father Methodius of Olympus (3rd/4th century). The dialogue, which delves into the Old Testament legislation on leprosy in Leviticus 13, is approached from an interdisciplinary perspective, including...
Kytzler Bernhard (ed.). — Leipzig: B.G. Teubner Verlagsgesellschaft, 1992. — 56 p. — (Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana). Octavius is an early writing in defense of Christianity by the Roman Marcus Minucius Felix. It is written in the form of a dialogue between the pagan Caecilius Natalis and the Christian Octavius Januarius, a provincial lawyer, the...
Willis James (ed.). — De Gruyter, 1994. — 478 p. — (Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana). Saturnalia (Latin: Saturnaliorum Libri Septem, "Seven Books of the Saturnalia") is a work written after c. 431 CE by the Roman provincial Macrobius Theodosius. The Saturnalia consists of an account of the discussions held at the house of Vettius Agorius Praetextatus...
Willis James (ed.). — De Gruyter, 1994. — 257 p. — (Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana 1526). Commentary on Cicero's Dream of Scipio (Latin: Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis) is a philosophical treatise of Macrobius based on the famous dream narrated in On the republic of Cicero (Chapter VI, 9-29). In Cicero's work, Scipio Africanus appears to his...
Oxford University Press, 2010. — 138 p. — (American Philological Association. American Classical Studies 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 Classical Library and the Oxford Classical Texts series. The first chapter reports the results of a new survey of all the...
Gowers Emily (ed.). — Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 383 p. — (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics). Horace's first book of Satires is his debut work, a document of one man's self-fashioning on the cusp between Republic and Empire and a pivotal text in the history of Roman satire. It wrestles with the problem of how to define and assimilate satire and justifies the poet's...
Fantham Elaine (ed.). — Cambridge University Press, 1998. — 302 p. — (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics). Book IV of the Fasti, Ovid's celebration of the Roman calendar and its associated legends, is the book of April and honours the festivals of Venus, Cybele, Ceres, and their cult, as well as the traditional date of the foundation of Rome and many religious and civic...
Richardson Nicholas James (ed.). — Oxford University Press, 1974. — xiv, 365 p. The Homeric Hymn to Demeter has not previously been the subject of a separate commentary in English. The edition of Allen and Sikes (Macmillan, 1904), and the revision of this by Allen and Halliday (Oxford, 1936), cover all the Hymns, and although both of these (particularly the first) contain much...
Richardson Nicholas (ed.). — Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 287 p. — (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics). These lively narrative poems, attributed in antiquity to Homer, are works of great charm. Composed for recitation at festivals in honour of the gods, they tell of Apollo's birth on the island of Delos and his foundation of the Delphic Oracle; Hermes' invention of the...
Kearns Emily (ed.). — Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 344 p. — (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics). Euripides' Iphigeneia among the Taurians has been a popular and influential text from antiquity onwards. It is a suspenseful drama set on the Black Sea coast in what is now Crimea, which explores themes of family loyalty, Greeks and barbarians, and the nature of the gods....