The Elements of Theology: A Revised Text with Translation, by Proclus

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

Ovid's Heroides, a list of letters by way of girls who've been abandoned, has too usually been tested as only a lament. In a brand new departure, this publication portrays the ladies of the Heroides as a group of authors. Combining shut readings of the texts and their mythological backgrounds with serious equipment, the publication argues that the issues of similarity among the several letters of the Heroides, so usually derided by means of sleek critics, characterize an excellent 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 entire assortment and scholarly research of a corpus of literary phenomena whose particularity is composed within the creative play with formal positive factors (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 notion of language, the interplay of literary construction and reception, the relation of literary and non-literary sorts of writing, the character of artwork and so forth.

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

This selection of essays deals a entire exam of texts that generally were excluded from the most corpus of the traditional Greek novel and constrained to the margins of the style, reminiscent of 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 significant Greek and Roman works, as a source-based replacement to these textbooks. as well as the total 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.