Die Altpersischen Inschriften der Achaimeniden: Editio minor by Rudiger Schmitt

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

Ovid's Heroides, a list of letters via ladies who've been abandoned, has too usually been tested as in basic terms a lament. In a brand new departure, this publication 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 publication argues that the issues of similarity among the various letters of the Heroides, so frequently derided by way of 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 entire 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 examine either discusses every one phenomenon individually as part of the heritage of historic literature and touches upon extra basic questions about the perception of language, the interplay of literary construction and reception, the relation of literary and non-literary varieties of writing, the character of artwork and so on.

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

This number of essays deals a entire exam of texts that usually were excluded from the most corpus of the traditional Greek novel and limited 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 significant other to the traditional undergraduate mythology textbooks or, whilst assigned along the critical Greek and Roman works, as a source-based substitute to these textbooks. as well as the total 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.