The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts by James P. Allen

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

Ovid's Heroides, a listing of letters via ladies who've been abandoned, has too often been tested as basically a lament. In a brand new departure, this ebook 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 publication argues that the issues of similarity among different letters of the Heroides, so frequently derided by way of smooth critics, characterize a super 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 complete 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 on. ). The learn either discusses every one phenomenon individually as part of the heritage of old literature and touches upon extra basic questions on the notion 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 choice of essays deals a entire exam of texts that routinely 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 traditional undergraduate mythology textbooks or, whilst assigned along the important 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 choices from over 50 texts composed among the Archaic Age and the fourth century A.