Historia. Libro II (Euterpe) by Heródoto de Halicarnaso

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

Ovid's Heroides, a list of letters by means of girls who've been abandoned, has too usually been tested as in basic terms a lament. In a brand new departure, this booklet portrays the ladies of the Heroides as a neighborhood of authors. Combining shut readings of the texts and their mythological backgrounds with severe equipment, the publication argues that the issues of similarity among the various letters of the Heroides, so usually derided by way of glossy critics, symbolize a super exploitation of intratextuality, during which the Ovidian heroine self-consciously models herself as an alluding writer stimulated by way of what she has learn in the Heroides.

Technopaignia Formspiele in der griechischen Dichtung (Mnemosyne Supplements)

Technopaignia is the 1st complete assortment and scholarly research of a corpus of literary phenomena whose particularity is composed within the creative play with formal gains (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 on the perception 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 on.

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

This choice of essays bargains a accomplished exam of texts that normally were excluded from the most corpus of the traditional Greek novel and restricted to the margins of the style, equivalent 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 better half to the normal undergraduate mythology textbooks or, whilst assigned along the vital 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 choices from over 50 texts composed among the Archaic Age and the fourth century A.