A history of classical scholarship / Vol. 3 by John Sandys, Sir

The Ovidian Heroine as Author: Reading, Writing, and Community in the Heroides

Ovid's Heroides, a list of letters by means of ladies who've been abandoned, has too often been tested as simply a lament. In a brand new departure, this ebook portrays the ladies of the Heroides as a group of authors. Combining shut readings of the texts and their mythological backgrounds with serious tools, the e-book argues that the issues of similarity among the various letters of the Heroides, so frequently derided via glossy critics, symbolize a super exploitation of intratextuality, within which the Ovidian heroine self-consciously models herself as an alluding writer stimulated by means of what she has learn in the Heroides.

Technopaignia Formspiele in der griechischen Dichtung (Mnemosyne Supplements)

Technopaignia is the 1st finished assortment and scholarly research of a corpus of literary phenomena whose particularity is composed within the inventive play with formal positive aspects (acrostics, anagrams, palindromes and so forth. ). The examine either discusses every one phenomenon individually as part of the background of old literature and touches upon extra basic questions about the notion of language, the interplay of literary creation and reception, the relation of literary and non-literary types of writing, the character of paintings and so on.

Fiction on the Fringe: Novelistic Writing in the Post-Classical Age

This choice of essays bargains a entire exam of texts that frequently were excluded from the most corpus of the traditional Greek novel and restrained to the margins of the style, similar to the "Life of Aesop", the "Life of Alexander the Great", and the "Acts of the Christian Martyrs".

Anthology of classical myth : primary sources in translation

This quantity is designed as a spouse to the normal undergraduate mythology textbooks or, whilst assigned along the significant Greek and Roman works, as a source-based replacement to these textbooks. as well as the total texts of the Homeric Hymns and Hesiod's Theogony, this assortment offers beneficiant decisions from over 50 texts composed among the Archaic Age and the fourth century A.