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

Ovid's Heroides, a list of letters via girls who've been abandoned, has too usually been tested as only 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 serious tools, the e-book argues that the issues of similarity among the various letters of the Heroides, so frequently derided by way of glossy critics, symbolize an excellent exploitation of intratextuality, within which the Ovidian heroine self-consciously models herself as an alluding writer prompted through 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 good points (acrostics, anagrams, palindromes and so forth. ). The research either discusses every one phenomenon individually as part of the heritage of historical literature and touches upon extra basic questions on the perception of language, the interplay of literary creation and reception, the relation of literary and non-literary different types 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 often were excluded from the most corpus of the traditional Greek novel and limited 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 crucial 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.