The Literature of Ancient Egypt: An Anthology of Stories, by William Kelley Simpson, Robert K. Ritner, Vincent A. Tobin,

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

Ovid's Heroides, a listing of letters by way of ladies 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 neighborhood of authors. Combining shut readings of the texts and their mythological backgrounds with serious tools, the publication argues that the issues of similarity among the several letters of the Heroides, so usually derided through smooth critics, characterize a super exploitation of intratextuality, within which the Ovidian heroine self-consciously models herself as an alluding writer prompted 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 inventive play with formal beneficial properties (acrostics, anagrams, palindromes and so on. ). The learn either discusses every one phenomenon individually as part of the background of historical literature and touches upon extra primary questions about the notion of language, the interplay of literary creation 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 normally were excluded from the most corpus of the traditional Greek novel and restricted 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 better half to the traditional undergraduate mythology textbooks or, while assigned along the vital Greek and Roman works, as a source-based substitute 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.