Electra (Aris & Phillips Classical Texts) by M. J. Cropp

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

Ovid's Heroides, a listing of letters via ladies who've been abandoned, has too often been tested as only a lament. In a brand new departure, this publication portrays the ladies of the Heroides as a neighborhood 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 several letters of the Heroides, so frequently derided by means of glossy critics, characterize a super exploitation of intratextuality, within which the Ovidian heroine self-consciously models herself as an alluding writer inspired through 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 inventive play with formal gains (acrostics, anagrams, palindromes and so forth. ). The learn either discusses each one phenomenon individually as part of the background of old literature and touches upon extra basic questions on the notion of language, the interplay of literary construction and reception, the relation of literary and non-literary sorts of writing, the character of paintings and so forth.

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

This number of essays deals a finished exam of texts that frequently were excluded from the most corpus of the traditional Greek novel and constrained to the margins of the style, corresponding 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 imperative Greek and Roman works, as a source-based replacement to these textbooks. as well as the whole texts of the Homeric Hymns and Hesiod's Theogony, this assortment offers beneficiant choices from over 50 texts composed among the Archaic Age and the fourth century A.