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Munere Mortis - Studies In Greek Literature In Memory Of Colin Austin

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 Colin Austin (1941-2010), Professor of Greek at Cambridge and distinguished editor of poetic texts, was renowned for the precision and brilliance of his scholarship. This collection of studies, offered by some of his pupils, aims to honor his memory. The papers combine philology and textual criticism with a strong interest in setting the works under examination in their literary and cultural context. Individual contributions are devoted to the establishment of the text of the comic poet Menander and the epigrammatist Posidippus of Pella, while one chapter offers a new critical edition of and the first detailed commentary on a number of erotic epigrams. Other essays explore poetic, performative and narratological features in Socratic works of Plato and Xenophon. The volume also includes an analysis of the trope of pathetic fallacy in the bucolic poem Epitaph for Bion and a study of the concept of ‘frigidity’ in ancient literary criticism.
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Steely-Eyed Athena - Wilmer Cave Wright And The Advent Of Female Classicists

by Greenwood David Neal Greenwood

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 This monograph uses the life and work of groundbreaking female classicist Wilmer Cave Wright to examine several questions about the rise of women in that discipline. First, what went into the creation of a classics scholar under circumstances that would seem to preclude that? Second, why was it arguably Wright’s time in Chicago that was her formative experience and period? Third, why did Wright want so desperately to leave Bryn Mawr, and then stay and pour herself into her students? Fourth, through what lens did she approach the evidence of classical literature, and did it make a difference? Fifth, how did Wright survive the Thomas years at Bryn Mawr? Sixth, why did she abruptly abandon her long-term project on Libanius of Antioch? Seventh, what led her to suddenly switch from classical Greek literature to translating medieval Latin medical texts? Wright’s journey from Mason College to Girton College, Cambridge, the University of Chicago, and Bryn Mawr College is placed into historical context. Throughout, the significance of Wright’s work, particularly on the life of the Emperor Julian, is assessed.
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Poems Without Poets - Approaches To Anonymous Ancient Poetry

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 The canon of classical Greek and Latin poetry is built around big names, with Homer and Virgil at the center, but many ancient poems survive without a firm ascription to a known author. This negative category, anonymity, ties together texts as different as, for instance, the orally derived Homeric Hymns and the learned interpolation that is the Helen episode in Aeneid 2, but they all have in common that they have been maltreated in various ways, consciously or through neglect, by generations of readers and scholars, ancient as well as modern. These accumulated layers of obliteration, which can manifest, for instance, in textual distortions or aesthetic condemnation, make it all but impossible to access anonymous poems in their pristine shape and context. The essays collected in this volume attempt, each in its own way, to disentangle the bundles of historically accreted uncertainties and misconceptions that affect individual anonymous texts, including pseudepigrapha ascribed to Homer, Manetho, Virgil, and Tibullus, literary and inscribed epigrams, and unattributed fragments. Poems without Poets will be of interest to students and scholars working on any anonymous ancient texts, but also to readers seeking an introduction to classical poetry beyond the limits of the established canon.
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Theophrastus And His World

by Millett Paul Millett

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 A full-length treatment in English of Theophrastus' "Characters", this study aims to locate this influential work with respect to the political and philosophical worlds of Athens in the late fourth century. It presents a picture of the complex etiquette appropriate for upper-class citizens in the home, the streets and other places in Athens.
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Greek And Latin From An Indo-European Perspective

by George Coulter George, Mccullagh Matthew Mccullagh, Nielsen Benedicte Nielsen e Ruppel Antonia Ruppel

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 Presents a work exploring how the study of historical linguistics can advance our understanding of Greek and Latin and, conversely, how the classical languages can help us to reconstruct Proto-Indo-European and the culture of its speakers. This work is aimed at classicists, Indo-European linguists, and historical linguists generally.
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Ennius Perennis - The Annals And Beyond

by Fitzgerald William Fitzgerald e Gowers Emily Gowers

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 A collection of eight essays by an international group of scholars on different aspects of poetry and legacy of Quintus Ennius (239-169 BC). It discusses such subjects as Cicero's 'invention' of Ennius, the part played by the cor (heart) in unifying Ennius' literary project, the possibility of 'further voices' and a role for women in Ennius.
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Paideia Romana - Cicero''S Tusculan Disputations

by Gildenhard Ingo Gildenhard

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 Analyses the unique literary design, the prefaces, and the didactic plot of the Tusculan Disputations. This title shows how Cicero sets up, justifies, and enacts a drama in philosophical education that turns this dialogue into his most ingenious literary response to the tyranny of Caesar.
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Greeks On Greekness - Viewing The Greek Past Under The Roman Empire

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 Karl Marx observed that ‘just when people seem engaged in revolutionizing themselves... they anxiously conjure up the spirits of the past to their service’. While the Greek east under Roman rule was not revolutionary, perhaps, in the sense that Marx had in mind, it was engaged in creating something that had not previously existed, in part just through the millennia-long involvement with its own tradition, which was continually being remodelled and readapted. It was an age that was intensely self-conscious about its relation to history, a consciousness that manifested itself not only in Attic purism and a reverence for antique literary models but also in ethnic identities, educational and religious institutions, and political interactions with - and even among - the Romans. In this volume, seven scholars explore some of the forms that this preoccupation with the Greek past assumed under Roman rule. Taken together, the chapters offer a kaleidoscopic view of how Greeks under the Roman Empire related to their past, indicating the multiple ways in which the classical tradition was problematised, adapted, transformed, and at times rejected. They thus provide a vivid image of a lived relation to tradition, one that was inventive rather than conservative and self-conscious rather than passive. The Greeks under Rome played with their heritage, as they played at being and not being the Greeks they continually studied and remembered.
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Simonides Lyricus - Essays On The ''Other'' Classical Choral Lyric Poet

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 Simonides of Keos was one of the most important praise-poets of the early fifth century BCE, ranking alongside Pindar and Bacchylides. In Simonides Lyricus, a group of leading international experts revisit familiar questions about his lyric poetry, and pose new ones. Themes discussed include textual criticism and attribution of fragments; poetic genre and the place of the poet’s melic fragments in his larger oeuvre; the historical, cultural and political background of the poems; and Simonides’ afterlife in the biographical and anecdotal traditions that formed around his name. The volume makes a substantial contribution to modern discussions of Simonides’ place in Greek literary and cultural history and to the understanding of this poet’s often fragmentary and difficult texts.
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Unclassical Traditions, - Volume I - Alternatives To The Classical Past In Late Antiquity

by Stuart Williams Michael Stuart Williams

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 Unclassical Traditions: Alternatives to the Classical Past in Late Antiquity is the first of two collections of essays by leading scholars discussing the nature and extent of the late-antique engagement with its classical heritage.
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Unclassical Traditions, - Volume Ii - Perspectives From East And West In Late Antiquity

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 Discusses the nature and extent of the late-antique engagement with the classical past. Rather than concentrating on developments at the centre of empire, this title presents a set of views from the margins: social, political, religious, literary, geographical and linguistic.
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Ratio Et Res Ipsa - Classical Essays Presented By Former Pupils To James Diggle On His Retirement

by Oakley S. P. Oakley e Thompson R. J. E. Thompson

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 Since 1966, when James Diggle was elected to his Fellowship at Queen's College, Cambridge, his teaching and scholarly example have inspired many of his pupils to embark on their own academic careers. In this volume fourteen former pupils have contributed essays to mark his retirement.
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Menander - Eleven Plays

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 Colin Austin, Professor of Greek at Cambridge University 1998-2008, was one of the world's foremost experts in the reconstruction and interpretation of Greek comedy.
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Sophocles' Jebb - A Life In Letters

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 Sir Richard Jebb (1841-1905) was the most celebrated classical scholar in late Victorian Britain: his edition of Sophocles, which remains a classic, brought him a knighthood. Professor of Greek at Cambridge from 1889, and MP for the University from 1891 until his death, Jebb became a national spokesman for the humanities.
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Varro Varius - The Polymath Of The Roman World

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 Rome produced no man more erudite, eclectic, and energetic than Marcus Terentius Varro (116-24 BC). Over a long and busy life, set against the backdrop of near-constant social and political upheaval, Varro studied and codified almost every conceivable topic for intellectual enquiry. His vast output - of at least seventy works in over 600 books - is breathtaking in its range and ambition: antiquity (in all its aspects), language, literary history, theology, philosophy, sociology, agriculture, geography, music, mathematics - to say nothing of his own poetic and satirical writings. In many of these fields Varro redefined the terms of study for the Roman world (and beyond); in some he founded a scholarly discipline and tradition without any precedent. Yet the greatest scholar of Rome has rarely enjoyed the attention he deserves from the modern world: although the fragmentary state of much of his corpus presents serious obstacles to enquiry, the extant material provides a rich and unparalleled insight into Roman scholarship of the first century BC. This volume of new essays on Varro seeks to analyze this multifaceted polymath from several angles, not only revisiting his better known writings and the problems they raise but also reconstructing his intellectual activity and its influence on the basis of insufficiently examined evidence.
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Word And Context In Latin Poetry - Studies In Memory Of David West

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 In this memorial volume for David West, the texts of six Latin poets (Lutatius Catulus, Catullus, Horace, Propertius, Virgil, and Hildebert of Lavardin) are analysed by seven leading scholars: Francis Cairns, Ian Du Quesnay, Bruce Gibson, Alex Hardie, Stephen Harrison, John Moles and Tony Woodman.
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Augustus And The Destruction Of History - The Politics Of The Past In Early Imperial Rome

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 Augustus and the Destruction of History explores the intense controversies over the meaning and profile of the past that accompanied the violent transformation of the Roman Republic into the Augustan principate. The ten case studies collected here analyse how different authors and agents (individual and collective) developed specific conceptions of history and articulated them in a wide variety of textual and visual media to position themselves within the emergent (and evolving) new Augustan normal. The chapters consider both hegemonic and subaltern endeavours to reconfigure Roman memoria and pay special attention to power and polemics, chaos, crisis and contingency - not least to challenge some long-standing habits of thought about Augustus and his principate and its representation in historiographical discourse, ancient and modern. Some of the most iconic texts and monuments from ancient Rome receive fresh discussion here, including the Forum Romanum and the Forum of Augustus, Virgil’s Aeneid and the Fasti Capitolini.
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Kew Gardens

by Virginia Woolf

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 First published in 1921 as part of her ground-breaking short-story collection Monday or Tuesday, Kew Gardens follows the thoughts of a set of characters walking past a flower bed in the royal botanic garden on a hot July day.
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A Practical Guide To Parental Alienation In Private And Public Law Children Cases

by Frankie Shama

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Untapped Potential - Born In Scotland, Found In The Royal Signals

by George Greig

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 Follow George Greig as he joins the army at the age of 16, to the moment, 27 years later, that he reluctantly decided to leave. A memoir told with great frankness that will take you on the ups and downs of army life.
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Twenty - Three Ways To Embrace The Light - A Journey Through The Ups And Downs Of Embracing Your Intuition And Spiritual Guidance

by Lizzy Adams

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Biometric Data And New Technologies - The Law And Practical Issues On Technologies Such As Cctv, Facial Recognition And Drones

by Stock Melissa Stock

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by Clever Eddy

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by Lorena Mueller

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