Physiologus: A Medieval Book of Nature Lore by Michael J. Curley

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 usually been tested as basically a lament. In a brand new departure, this e-book 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 booklet argues that the issues of similarity among the several letters of the Heroides, so usually derided via glossy critics, symbolize an excellent exploitation of intratextuality, within which the Ovidian heroine self-consciously models herself as an alluding writer motivated via what she has learn in the Heroides.

Technopaignia Formspiele in der griechischen Dichtung (Mnemosyne Supplements)

Technopaignia is the 1st accomplished 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 on. ). The learn either discusses every one phenomenon individually as part of the background of old literature and touches upon extra primary questions on the belief of language, the interplay of literary construction and reception, the relation of literary and non-literary different types of writing, the character of artwork and so forth.

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

This choice of essays bargains a entire exam of texts that characteristically were excluded from the most corpus of the traditional Greek novel and restrained to the margins of the style, comparable 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, while assigned along the significant 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.