Drawn together from many disciplines by a common interest in oral theory, participants look in turn at poetry in performance and literacy and orality. The 11 papers in this collection consider such ma
Recent archaeological discoveries, coupled with long-lost but now available epigraphical evidence, and a more expansive view of literary sources, provide new and dramatic evidence of the emergence of
President of the Archaeological Institute of America, professor at the University of Michigan from 1889 to 1927, and president of the American Philological Association, Francis Kelsey was crucially in
Long before US politicians began telegraphing their intention to run for president by releasing an autobiography, the genre of the political autobiography was in full flourish. They differ from philos
Praise for Silvia Montiglio "[A] brilliant and important book. . . . "---Journal of Religion, on Silence in the Land of Logos "[A]n invigorating reevaluation of both the ancient symbolic landscape and
Junius is widely regarded as the most important representative of northern Dutch humanism between the deaths of Erasmus and Janus Secundus in 1536, and the founding of Leiden University in 1575. To ma
In a revised version of his 2008 PhD dissertation in philosophy at Rheinischen Friedrick-Wilhelms-U., Bonn, Wiater explores the ideological foundation of the well-known classical style of Greek histor
Classical Literature: An Introduction provides a series of essays on all the major authors of Greek and Latin literature, as well as on a number of writers less often read. An introductory chapter pro
Classical Literature: An Introduction provides a series of essays on all the major authors of Greek and Latin literature, as well as on a number of writers less often read. An introductory chapter pro
The Second Sophistic (50 to 250 BCE) was an intellectual movement throughout the ancient Greek and Roman world. Although it can be characterized as a literary and cultural phenomenon of which rhetoric
Haugen (English and comparative literature, California Institute of Technology) explains that Bently (1662-1742) was a highly respected scholar of classical antiquity and member of the international g
Ancient and Medieval Literary Texts Often Call Attention to Their Existence as Physical Objects. Shane Butler Helps us to Understand Why. Arguing that Writing has Always been as Much a Material SStru
The practice of condensing writings has deep historical roots and plenty of angles for historical and philosophical analysis, given that its activity reflects a culture's preservation efforts, has tie
"There is sufficient careful scholarship, critical analysis, and contextualisation in this collection to warrant the claim that it provides a sophisticated and far-ranging overview of this burgeoning
Did Homer tell the 'truth' about the Trojan War? If so, how much, and if not, why not? The issue was hardly academic to the Greeks living under the Roman Empire, given the centrality of both Homer, the father of Greek culture, and the Trojan War, the event that inaugurated Greek history, to conceptions of Imperial Hellenism. This book examines four Greek texts of the Imperial period that address the topic - Strabo's Geography, Dio of Prusa's Trojan Oration, Lucian's novella True Stories, and Philostratus' fictional dialogue Heroicus - and shows how their imaginative explorations of Homer and his relationship to history raise important questions about the nature of poetry and fiction, the identity and intentions of Homer himself, and the significance of the heroic past and Homeric authority in Imperial Greek culture.
This volume is dedicated to the ideals and standards of a number of Greek and Roman authors and artists: Hesiod, Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle (to the orator), Philo, Clemens of Alexandria and Origenes
Encountering an ancient text not only as a historical source but also as a literary artifact entails an important paradigm shift, which in recent years has taken place in classical and Oriental philol
