Tabla de Cebes : Disertaciones-fragmentos menores : manual by C Musonius Rufus; Epictetus

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

Ovid's Heroides, a listing of letters via girls 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 serious equipment, the booklet argues that the issues of similarity among the several letters of the Heroides, so frequently derided through sleek critics, characterize a super exploitation of intratextuality, within which the Ovidian heroine self-consciously models herself as an alluding writer motivated 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 gains (acrostics, anagrams, palindromes and so on. ). The examine either discusses each 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 sorts of writing, the character of paintings and so on.

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

This number of essays bargains a finished exam of texts that often were excluded from the most corpus of the traditional Greek novel and limited 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 spouse to the traditional undergraduate mythology textbooks or, while assigned along the crucial Greek and Roman works, as a source-based substitute to these textbooks. as well as the full 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.