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Published 1997
The Greek world of Apuleius : Apuleius and the second sophistic /

: The first three chapters of this book elucidate the scholastic goals of both classical cultures during the Roman Imperial period. Apuleius' works share the stage in these chapters with representatives of the second-century Greek cultural paradigm. They define patterns of discourse and fit selected examples of analogous Apuleian strategies into the broader cultural framework. Subsequent chapters focus closely on the complete Apuleian corpus under the general headings of Apuleius in the roles of orator, philosopher and novelist. Two of Apuleius' philosophical works and his novel the Golden Ass provide an unparalleled opportunity to analyze the methods of translation and adaptation employed by the major Latin writer of the second half of the second century.
: 1 online resource (x, 276 pages) : Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-263) and indexes. : 9789004330320 : 0169-8958 ; : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 1976
The living universe : gods and men in Virgil's Aeneid /

: Also published Dunedin : University of Otago Press, 1976.
New Zealand author.
Includes indexes. : 1 online resource (xiii, 223 pages) : Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-216). : 9789004327634 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 1983
The eponymous priests of Ptolemaic Egypt (P.L. Bat. 24) : chronological lists of the priests of Alexandria and Ptolemais with a study of the demotic transcriptions of their names /

: 1 online resource : 9789004427778
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Published 1998
The propaganda of power : the role of panegyric in late antiquity /

: The 13 essays presented here shed new light on the role of panegyric in the western and eastern Roman Empire in the late antique world. Introductory chapters give an overview of panegyrical theory and practice, followed by studies of major writers of the early empire and the anonymous Panegyrici latini . The core of the volume deals with prose and verse panegyric under the Christian Roman Empire (4th-7th century): key themes addressed are social and political context, the 'hidden agenda', and the impact of Christianity on the pagan tradition of the panegyric, including the portrayal of patriarchs and holy men.
: 1 online resource (x, 378 pages) : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004351479 : 0169-8958 ; : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 1995
Ancient stepmothers : myth, misogyny, and reality /

: Ancient Stepmothers is the first full-length study of the stepmother in Graeco-Roman antiquity. Several perspectives are covered: literary, historical and sociological, the last-mentioned making use of comparative material from modern studies of stepfamilies. The portrayal of the stepmother in myth and literature is thoroughly explored. The historical background in Athens and Rome is examined with a view to determining the relationship between fiction and real life. The book makes an important contribution to the study of both literary history and family relationships: in particular, it sheds light on attitudes to women, the portrayal of the stepmother being an outstanding illustration of misogynistic prejudice. It will also interest sociologists wishing to place studies of the contemporary stepfamily in a wider historical context: for this reason, all Greek and Latin is translated into English.
: 1 online resource (xii, 288 pages) : Includes bibliographical references (p. 272-277) and indexes. : 9789004329485 : 0169-8958 ; : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 1971
Petron : Überlieferung und Rekonstruktion.

: 1 online resource (78 pages) : Includes bibliographical references. : 9789004327269 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2004
Free speech in classical antiquity /

: This book contains a collection of essays on the notion of "Free Speech" in classical antiquity. The essays examine such concepts as "freedom of speech," "self-expression," and "censorship," in ancient Greek and Roman culture from historical, philosophical, and literary perspectives. Among the many questions addressed are: what was the precise lexicographical valence of the ancient terms we routinely translate as \'Freedom of Speech,\' e.g., Parrhesia in Greece, Licentia in Rome? What relationship do such terms have with concepts such as isêgoria , dêmokratia and eleutheria ; or libertas , res publica and imperium ? What does ancient theorizing about free speech tell us about contemporary relationships between power and speech? What are the philosophical foundations and ideological underpinnings of free speech in specific historical contexts?
: Consists of a collection of papers presented at the second Penn-Leiden Colloquium on Ancient Values, held in June 2002 at the University of Pennsylvania. : 1 online resource (xii, 450 pages) : Includes bibliographical references and indexes. : 9789047405689 : 0169-8958 ; : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 1986
Seneca on the stage /

: In the absence of the stage directions employed by their modern equivalents, ancient playwrights were obliged to ''encode'' information into their texts that can be described as implicit stage directions. It is the presence of such information that permits modern ''production criticism,'' intended to determine how ancient plays were meant to be staged. Since the early nineteenth century, it has been debated whether Seneca's tragedies were or were not written for stage production. Seneca's dramatic texts contain material that looks precisely like the implicit stage directions found in all other ancient drama, and when his plays are subjected to production criticism, it emerges that they make sound dramaturgic sense. Also, Seneca avails himself of the same artificial and sometimes irrational dramatic conventions used by other ancient playwrights, a fact often ignored by those who argue that Seneca was only writing plays for reading or recitation. The internal evidence of the plays offers much to support, and little to contradict, the idea that his plays were written with the stage in mind.
: 1 online resource (vi, 72 pages) : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004328310 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2015
Brill's companion to the reception of Cicero /

: Brill's Companion to the Reception of Cicero is a collection of essays by an international and interdisciplinary team of scholars that situates Cicero in the context of his use and abuse from antiquity to the present, and is intended to provide readers with several good reasons to return to the study of Cicero's writings with greater interest and respect.
: 1 online resource (xiii, 402 pages) : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004290549 : 2213-1426 ; : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2003
Andreia : studies in manliness and courage in classical antiquity /

: This volume examines the use of a central concept in the self-definition of any Greek speaking male: Andreia , the notion of courage and manliness. The nature and use of value terms quickly leads the researcher to core issues of cultural identity: through a combination of lexical or semantic and conceptual studies the discourse of manliness and its role in the construction of social order is studied, in a variety of authors, genres, and communicative situations. This book is of interest to students of the classical world, the history of values, gender studies, and cultural historians.
: 1 online resource (359 pages) : illustrations. : Includes bibliographical references and indexes. : 9789047400738 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2005
Mythical and legendary narrative in Ovid's Fasti /

: This book analyses the mythical and legendary narratives in Ovid's Fasti as narrative and concentrates on the neglected literary aspects of these stories. It combines traditional tools of literary criticism with more modern techniques (taken especially from narratology and intertextuality). From a narratological viewpoint it covers important features such as aperture, closure, characterization, internal narrators, description, space, time and cinematic technique. On the intertextual level it examines the narratives' complex relationship with Virgil, Livy and Ovid's own earlier works. Recent criticism on the Fasti has addressed various elements (religious, historical, political, astronomical et cetera), but detailed narrative study has been wanting. This book fills that gap, to provide a more informed and balanced appreciation of this multifaceted poem aimed at classicists and literary critics in general (for whom all the Latin is translated).
: 1 online resource (xiii, 299 pages) : Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-294) and indexes. : 9789047407225 : 0169-8958 ; : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2017
Variation and change in Ancient Greek tense, aspect and modality /

: In this collective volume edited by Klaas Bentein, Mark Janse, and Jorie Soltic, some of the leading experts in the field explore variation and change in one of the core areas of Ancient Greek grammar: tense, aspect, and modality. The contributors investigate key aspects such as the existence of and competition between linguistic variants, the value of modern linguistic theory for the study of linguistic variation, and the interplay between various dimensions of variation. They focus on various stages of the Greek language (Archaic, Classical, Post-classical, and Byzantine), taking both qualitative and quantitative approaches. By doing so, they offer valuable insights in the multi-faced nature of the Greek verbal system, providing an incentive towards the further study of linguistic variation and change.
: Based on the Seventh International Colloquium on Ancient Greek Linguistics, which was held at Ghent University, 21-23 September, 2011. : 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004315358 : 1380-6068 ; : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2011
Brill's companion to Lucan /

: Although it was labeled an anti-epic for trumping the celebratory scope of the Roman national epos, Lucan's Bellum Civile is a hymn to lost republican liberty composed under Nero's tyrannical empire. Lucan lost his life in a foiled conspiracy to replace the emperor, but his poem survived the wreckage of antiquity and enjoyed uninterrupted readership. The present collection samples the most current approaches to Lucan's poem, its themes, its dialogue with other texts, its reception in medieval and early modern literature, and its relevance to audiences of all times.
: 1 online resource (xxi, 625 pages) : Includes bibliographical references and indexes. : 9789004217096 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2003
The Virgin and her Lover : Fragments of an Ancient Greek Novel and a Persian Epic Poem /

: Starting from the authors' discovery that the Persian epic poem Vāmiq and ʿAdhrā by ʿUnṣurī (11th century AD) derives from the ancient Greek novel of Mētiokhos and Parthenopē, the book contains critical editions of the Greek and Persian fragments and testimonia, with English translation and comments. The exciting story of the modern recovery of the two texts is told, and the transformations of the productive theme of The ardent lover and the virgin are traced from Greek novel to Persian poem, and through later Persian and Turkish literature. Of particular importance is the authors' attempt to reconstruct the common plot and individual variations, adding a new work to the limited corpus of ancient novels and shedding new light on the genre of Persian epic poetry.
: 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789047402589
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Published 2007
La fiction des déclamations /

: En dehors d'analyses de type sociologique, les déclamations latines n'ont généralement que peu retenu l'attention des spécialistes de l'Antiquité. Pourtant, ces discours fictifs constituaient le couronnement de l'éducation rhétorique et un élément central de l'activité littéraire. De ce fait, ils appartiennent de plein droit au domaine de la littérature antique. Ce livre veut mieux faire connaître les déclamations latines et leur fonction dans le système éducatif romain. Il s'attache à mettre en lumière leur littérarité, en analysant les techniques narratives mises en œuvres et en soulignant leurs liens avec la poésie et le roman. L'ouvrage se penche également sur la question des rapports que ces textes entretiennent avec la réalité et sur celle de la pertinence de leur utilisation comme sources historiques. Il en ressort une réévaluation des déclamations, susceptible de susciter un nouvel intérêt pour ce genre littéraire majeur de l'Antiquité. The Latin declamations have, except for sociological analysis, drawn but little attention from specialists of Antiquity. However, these fictional discourses represented the highlight of the rhetorical education and were a central element in literary activity. This book strives to draw the Latin declamations and their role in the Roman educational system from the shadows. It will bring to light their literary nature and underline their ties with poetry and the novel. It also investigates the relation between these texts and reality and the pertinence of their use as historical sources. The result is a revaluation of the declamations, liable to provoke a new interest in this major literary genre of Antiquity.
: 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-180) and index. : 9789047423157 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2002
Clio and the poets : Augustan poetry and the traditions of ancient historiography /

: The Augustan age was one in which writers were constantly reworking the Roman past, and which was marked by a profound engagement of poets with the historians and historical techniques which were the main vehicle for the transmission of the image of the past to their day. In this book seventeen leading scholars from Europe and America examine the fascinating interaction between such apparently diverse genres: how the Augustan poets drew on - or reacted against - the historians' presentation of the world, and how, conversely, historians picked up and transformed poetic themes for their own ends. With essays on poems from Horace's Odes to Ovid's Metamorphoses , on authors from Virgil to Valerius Maximus, it forms the most important topic so central to such a particulary relevant period of literary history.
: Selected papers given at a conference at the University of Durham in 1999. : 1 online resource (xv, 396 pages) : illustrations. : Includes bibliographical references (p. 363-379) and index. : 9789047400493 : 0169-8958 ; : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2012
Inscriptional records for the dramatic festivals in Athens : IG II2 2318-2325 and related texts /

: IG II2 2318-2325 represent the most substantial surviving body of evidence for the institutional history of the Athenian dramatic festivals from their establishment at the end of the 6th century BCE to their disappearance sometime in the mid- to late 100s. Millis and Olson offer a completely updated text of the inscriptions, based on a close study of the stones themselves; detailed explanations of the restorations of the dimensions and organization of the original records, with numerous redatings and the like; and new - and in some cases radically different - reconstructions of the monuments on which they were inscribed. The volume also includes substantial interpretative essays on each set of records, a full epigraphic and prosopographic commentary, and several indices.
: 1 online resource (xii, 238 pages) : 9789004232013 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2007
Brill's companion to Hellenistic epigram : down to Philip /

: Important research in recent decades, along with the publication of P.Mil.Vogl. VIII 309 ('the Milan Posidippus papyrus') in 2001, have reinvigorated the study of Hellenistic epigram. Yet, scholarship on this genre often remains fragmented according to disciplinary sub-specialty and approach: some scholars focus on poets of Meleager's Garland, others on Philip's; some on inscriptional epigram, others on literary; each approaching the genre with different motives and questions. In this volume, expert scholars offer those less familiar with the genre an introduction to all aspects of Hellenistic epigram-from models and forms inherited from inscriptional epigram to poetology, sub-genera, epigrammatic intertexts, and ancient and modern reception. Even specialists will find here fresh explorations of epigram, along with new directions for scholarship.
: 1 online resource (656 pages) : Includes bibliographical references (p. 585-622) and indexes. : 9789047419402 : 1872-3357 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2017
Frederick E. Brenk on Plutarch, religious thinker and biographer : "The religious spirit of Plutarch of Chaironeia" and "The Life of Mark Antony" /

: The present book Frederick E. Brenk: Plutarch, Religious Thinker and Biographer, "The Religious Spirit of Plutarch of Chaironeia" and "The Life of Mark Antony" includes the updated and revised version of two seminal articles on Plutarch by F. E. Brenk published thirty years ago in ANRW. Edited by Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta, both articles cover the two sides of Plutarch's corpus, the Lives and Moralia .
: 1 online resource (viii, 344 pages) : Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-312) and indexes. : 9789004348776 : 2451-8328 ; : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2003
The ancient novel and beyond /

: This volume comprises the revised versions of selected papers read at the International Conference on the Ancient Novel (Groningen, July 2000). The papers cover a wide range of scholarly issues that were prominent in the programme of the conference, and feature the most recent approaches to research on the ancient novel. The essays combine judicious use of literary theory with traditional scholarship, and examine the ancient novels and related texts, such as Oriental tales and Christian narrative, both in their larger, literary, cultural and social context, and as sources of inspiration for Byzantine and modern fiction. This book is important not only for classicists and literary historians, but also for a general public of those interested in narrative fiction.
: 1 online resource (xix, 489 pages) : Includes bibliographical references (p. 449-483) and index. : 9789047402114 : 0169-8958. Supplementum ; : Available to subscribing member institutions only.