Philological and historical commentary on Ammianus Marcellinus.
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This is the final volume in the series of commentaries on Ammianus' Res Gestae . The last book of Ammianus Marcellinus' Res Gestae is the most important source for a momentous event in European history: the invasion of the Goths across the Danube border into the Roman Empire and the ensuing battle of Adrianople (378 CE), in which a Roman army was annihilated and the emperor Valens lost his life. Many contemporaries were of the opinion that this defeat heralded the decline of the Empire. Ammianus is sharply critical of the way Valens and his generals handled the military situation, but holds on to his belief in the permanence of Roma Aeterna , reminding his readers of earlier crises from which the Empire had recovered and pointing to the incompetence of the barbarians in siege craft.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 3, 2018). :
1 online resource (362 pages) :
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. :
9789004353824 :
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Poetic memory : allusion in the poetry of Callimachus and the Metamorphoses of Ovid /
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This book explores Callimachus' allusive practice in his Aetia prologue and Hymns 4, 5, and 6, and in Ovid's Metamorphoses . The study includes an overview of modern approaches to poetic allusion, a close (re-)examination of the lexical allusions in the Aetia's and Metamorphoses' prologues, extensive examinations of allusive techniques within selections of these works, the poets' use of \'signposting\' and \'authorization\' techniques, and the relationship between allusion and genre.
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1 online resource (viii, 218 pages) :
Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-206) and indexes. :
9789047406624 :
0169-8958 ; :
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Paralysin cave : impotence, perception, and text in the Satyrica of Petronius /
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This volume explores the literary representation of male sexual dysfunction and discusses the natural and supernatural elements of an ancient folk medical system based on conceptual associations between male sexuality and specific plants, animals and minerals. The work incorporates material from both literary and scientific sources to draw parallels between ancient and modern paradigms of healing. The literary depiction of attempts to remedy impotence demonstrates how an accessibility to cures contributes to the sexual and social reintegration of the sufferer. The Satyrica of Petronius echoes this process by means of the text itself and so effects similar ends. The book provides new insights into literature and the ancient belief systems underlying it with its original and integrative approach to disciplines such as philology, botany, mineralogy, zoology and medicine.
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Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 1993. :
1 online resource (x, 272 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-244) and indexes. :
9789004330962 :
0169-8958 ; :
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