Tertullian: A Historical and Literary Study by Tertullian

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

Ovid's Heroides, a list of letters through ladies who've been abandoned, has too often been tested as in basic terms a lament. In a brand new departure, this ebook portrays the ladies of the Heroides as a group of authors. Combining shut readings of the texts and their mythological backgrounds with severe tools, the e-book argues that the issues of similarity among the various letters of the Heroides, so usually derided by way of smooth critics, characterize a super exploitation of intratextuality, during which the Ovidian heroine self-consciously models herself as an alluding writer inspired via what she has learn in the Heroides.

Technopaignia Formspiele in der griechischen Dichtung (Mnemosyne Supplements)

Technopaignia is the 1st finished 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 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 creation and reception, the relation of literary and non-literary sorts of writing, the character of artwork and so on.

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

This number of essays deals a finished exam of texts that usually were excluded from the most corpus of the traditional Greek novel and constrained to the margins of the style, similar 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 principal 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 presents beneficiant decisions from over 50 texts composed among the Archaic Age and the fourth century A.