Barbarolexis: Medieval Writing and Sexuality by Alexandre Leupin

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

Ovid's Heroides, a listing of letters by way of girls who've been abandoned, has too usually been tested as purely a lament. In a brand new departure, this booklet portrays the ladies of the Heroides as a group of authors. Combining shut readings of the texts and their mythological backgrounds with serious equipment, the e-book argues that the issues of similarity among the several letters of the Heroides, so usually derided through sleek critics, symbolize a super exploitation of intratextuality, during which the Ovidian heroine self-consciously models herself as an alluding writer motivated 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 creative play with formal positive aspects (acrostics, anagrams, palindromes and so forth. ). The learn either discusses each one phenomenon individually as part of the background of historic literature and touches upon extra basic questions on the belief of language, the interplay of literary creation and reception, the relation of literary and non-literary sorts of writing, the character of artwork and so forth.

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

This selection of essays bargains a complete exam of texts that ordinarily were excluded from the most corpus of the traditional Greek novel and limited to the margins of the style, resembling 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 better half to the normal undergraduate mythology textbooks or, while assigned along the principal Greek and Roman works, as a source-based replacement to these textbooks. as well as the full texts of the Homeric Hymns and Hesiod's Theogony, this assortment presents beneficiant decisions from over 50 texts composed among the Archaic Age and the fourth century A.