Reference Guide to World Literature by Sara Pendergast, Tom Pendergast

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

Ovid's Heroides, a listing of letters through girls who've been abandoned, has too usually been tested as purely 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 equipment, the ebook argues that the issues of similarity among the several letters of the Heroides, so usually derided through sleek critics, signify an excellent exploitation of intratextuality, during which the Ovidian heroine self-consciously models herself as an alluding writer inspired 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 inventive play with formal good points (acrostics, anagrams, palindromes and so forth. ). The examine either discusses every one phenomenon individually as part of the heritage 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 varieties of writing, the character of paintings and so on.

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

This selection of essays bargains a complete exam of texts that regularly were excluded from the most corpus of the traditional Greek novel and limited to the margins of the style, akin 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 normal undergraduate mythology textbooks or, while assigned along the crucial 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 decisions from over 50 texts composed among the Archaic Age and the fourth century A.