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Imagining Telephus - A Greek Myth Across Cultures In The Ancient Mediterranean

by Martina Delucchi

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 Telephus, son of Heracles and king of Mysia, was a key figure in the Trojan War. Both enemy and ally of the Achaeans, he fought against them, was wounded and then cured by Achilles, and led Agamemnons army to Troy. This book is the first comprehensive study on his myth. It investigates fragmentary artefacts and texts, offers new readings and interpretations, and frames the evidence in its socio-political, historical, and cultural contexts. What results is a view of an ever-changing myth embedded in diverse cultural milieux, a product and a catalyst of cross-cultural exchanges, and an instrument of soft power. After assessing the sources, this book provides a contextual history of the myth, from the seventh to the first centuries BC, paying particular attention to cultural contacts in the context of migratory movements and consequent hybridisation of different social and cultural systems; repurposing and remodelling of cultural products to follow specific agendas; cultural policy and propaganda enforced through mass media and used as soft power; and more besides. All texts are translated and thus fully accessible to readers interested in myth, migration studies, cross-cultural studies, cultural history, and literary criticism.
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Euripides And The Myth Of Perseus - Two Lost Greek Tragedies Illuminated By A New Papyrus

by Patrick Finglass

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 A recently-published second-century papyrus, P.Oxy. 5283, contains prose summaries (hypotheses) of six plays by the Greek dramatist Euripides, including two lost plays depicting the hero Perseus, Dictys and Danaë. This book demonstrates the significance of this discovery for our understanding of Greek tragedy. After setting out the mythological and dramatic context, and offering a new text and translation based on autopsy, the book analyses the light which the papyrus sheds on these plays, whose narratives, centred on female resistance to abusive male tyrants, speak as powerfully to us today as they did to their original audiences. It then investigates Euripides’ tragic trilogy of 431 BC, which ended with Dictys and began with Medea, whose dramatic power now stands in sharper focus given our improved understanding of the production in which it originally appeared. Finally, it ponders the purpose which these hypotheses served, and why readers in the second century AD should have wanted a summary of plays written more than half a millennium before. All Greek (and Latin) is translated, making the book accessible not just to classicists, but to theatre historians and to anyone interested in Greek literature, drama, and mythology.
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Euripides And The Myth Of Perseus - Two Lost Greek Tragedies Illuminated By A New Papyrus

by Patrick Finglass

~~135,81€~~ 122,23€ 10% OFF

 A recently-published second-century papyrus, P.Oxy. 5283, contains prose summaries (hypotheses) of six plays by the Greek dramatist Euripides, including two lost plays depicting the hero Perseus, Dictys and Danaë. This book demonstrates the significance of this discovery for our understanding of Greek tragedy. After setting out the mythological and dramatic context, and offering a new text and translation based on autopsy, the book analyses the light which the papyrus sheds on these plays, whose narratives, centred on female resistance to abusive male tyrants, speak as powerfully to us today as they did to their original audiences. It then investigates Euripides’ tragic trilogy of 431 BC, which ended with Dictys and began with Medea, whose dramatic power now stands in sharper focus given our improved understanding of the production in which it originally appeared. Finally, it ponders the purpose which these hypotheses served, and why readers in the second century AD should have wanted a summary of plays written more than half a millennium before. All Greek (and Latin) is translated, making the book accessible not just to classicists, but to theatre historians and to anyone interested in Greek literature, drama, and mythology.
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Song Regained - Working With Greek Poetic Fragments

144,43€ + 10% CARD

 Apart from relatively few exceptions of texts which survive intact, what we have of Ancient Greek literature remains, to a great degree, fragmentary. As a result it is often misread, overlooked or mined not for its own sake but to support the investigation of texts which survive in their entirety. This collection of chapters addresses a range of poetic fragments, with a strong (though not exclusive) focus on Archaic epic and lyric, and an emphasis on the papyrological tradition. Its main purpose is to showcase effective methodologies through case studies, through a "hands-on" approach assisted by a robust theoretical underpinning. The topics covered include textual criticism, the editing of fragmentary corpora, the role of palaeography and the physical features of writing materials, the study of ancient editions, annotations and paraliterary texts, matters of indirect or mixed tradition, and fragment placement and attribution. This volume will certainly be a rewarding read, intended equally for new researchers who wish to acquire or improve the skills needed to deal with fragmentary texts and for established scholars who may draw on the authors’ insights to navigate the field improving their experience and enriching their knowledge.
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Demades Papyrus (P.Berol. Inv. 13045) - A New Text With Commentary

by Davide Amendola

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 Despite the significance of its contents, the so-called Demades papyrus (P.Berol. inv. 13045) has received scarce scholarly attention since the 1923 editio princeps by Karl Kunst. This unique late second-century BCE document of almost 430 lines was found in the Egyptian chora, but it is supposed to have been written in Alexandria, where it probably served as a textbook for the highest level of rhetorical education. Besides shedding new light on its find circumstances and physical aspects, the volume offers a full re-edition and commentary of the two adespota texts contained in it, namely a eulogy of the Lagid monarchy and a historical work consisting of a dialogue between Demades and his prosecutor in the trial of 319 BCE at the court of Pella. The aim of the accompanying introduction is to address the question of the origin, nature and purpose of such fragments and of the collection itself, as well as to show to what extent the papyrus contributes to a better understanding of some of the main historical events of the early Hellenistic period. This book is thus meant to fill a significant gap in Classical scholarship, all the more so as a close investigation of most of the topics dealt with therein has hitherto been lacking.
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Demades Papyrus (P.Berol. Inv. 13045) - A New Text With Commentary

by Davide Amendola

173,58€ + 10% CARD

 Despite the significance of its contents, the so-called Demades papyrus (P.Berol. inv. 13045) has received scarce scholarly attention since the 1923 editio princeps by Karl Kunst. This unique late second-century BCE document of almost 430 lines was found in the Egyptian chora, but it is supposed to have been written in Alexandria, where it probably served as a textbook for the highest level of rhetorical education. Besides shedding new light on its find circumstances and physical aspects, the volume offers a full re-edition and commentary of the two adespota texts contained in it, namely a eulogy of the Lagid monarchy and a historical work consisting of a dialogue between Demades and his prosecutor in the trial of 319 BCE at the court of Pella. The aim of the accompanying introduction is to address the question of the origin, nature and purpose of such fragments and of the collection itself, as well as to show to what extent the papyrus contributes to a better understanding of some of the main historical events of the early Hellenistic period. This book is thus meant to fill a significant gap in Classical scholarship, all the more so as a close investigation of most of the topics dealt with therein has hitherto been lacking.
Aphex I

by Marco Perale

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 Adespota Papyracea Hexametra Graeca provides a comprehensive corpus of anonymous hexameter texts on papyri, parchments, ostraca and tablets that have appeared in the current and past two centuries. The project has three main objectives: i) to retrieve and determine how many and what type of unidentified hexameter poems reached us via Egyptian papyri; ii) to restore a readable and reliable text for these poems, providing straightforward access to material that has been hard-to-reach in print format, is still unavailable online, or has not been previously translated into English or any other modern language; iii) to discuss, insofar as the fragmentary state of the evidence allows, issues of style, metre, and attribution. Overall, it aspires to serve as a fresh and solid starting-point for future assessment of Greek poetry in Egypt from the Archaic period to Late Antiquity. This first volume of papyrus adespota contains: i) a catalogue of hexameter adespota, and ii) critical editions with English translation and commentary of: cosmologies and foundation poems (no. 0106), astronomical and astrological texts (0712), didactic and technical poetry (1316), hymns (1732), fragments of erotic content (3338); epithalamia (3943); and two hexameter anthologies, the Goodspeed papyrus (44) and the so-called Pamprepius codex (45). Future volumes will contain: Encomia and Lamentations (4667); Bucolic (6871), and Epic poetry (72144); assemblages of Homeric verses (145154); magical verses (155166); oracles (167169); fragments of uncertain genre or content (170204); hexameter quotes from grammatical papyri and ancient commentaries (205216); (217219); gnomic hexameters (220221); pangrams (222235); texts copied or produced within a school context (236242).
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Song Regained - Working With Greek Poetic Fragments

144,43€ + 10% CARD

 Apart from relatively few exceptions of texts which survive intact, what we have of Ancient Greek literature remains, to a great degree, fragmentary. As a result it is often misread, overlooked or mined not for its own sake but to support the investigation of texts which survive in their entirety. This collection of chapters addresses a range of poetic fragments, with a strong (though not exclusive) focus on Archaic epic and lyric, and an emphasis on the papyrological tradition. Its main purpose is to showcase effective methodologies through case studies, through a "hands-on" approach assisted by a robust theoretical underpinning. The topics covered include textual criticism, the editing of fragmentary corpora, the role of palaeography and the physical features of writing materials, the study of ancient editions, annotations and paraliterary texts, matters of indirect or mixed tradition, and fragment placement and attribution. This volume will certainly be a rewarding read, intended equally for new researchers who wish to acquire or improve the skills needed to deal with fragmentary texts and for established scholars who may draw on the authors’ insights to navigate the field improving their experience and enriching their knowledge.
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The Names Of Homeric Heroes - Problems And Interpretations

by Nikoletta Kanavou

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 Contributes to the appreciation of the linguistic, literary and contextual value of Homeric personal names. This book considers both epics and is structured around the character and action of selected heroes in their Homeric contexts. It offers a survey of modern etymologies set against ancient views.
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The Original Verses Of Apollodorus Chronica - Edition, Translation And Commentary On The First Iambic Didactic Poem In The Light Of New Evidence

by Kilian Fleischer

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 The Chronica by the grammarian Apollodorus of Athens (2nd century BC) was an exemplary chronographical reference work. It was composed in trimeters and represents the first Iambic didactic poem ever. So far, the surviving original verses have hardly been appreciated and analyzed in their own terms. Therefore a comprehensive collection of these verses is provided, including an introduction, edition, translation and commentary. Most verses stem from Philodemus' Index Academicorum, a Herculanean papyrus. Through the use of new imaging techniques and cutting-edge editing methods, enormous textual progress has been made. Many verses have been newly restored or significantly improved. They often reveal new hard facts about Academic philosophers and also bear some relevance for the dating of the Chronica and for Apollodorus' biography. In short, this collection guarantees easy access to the genuine verses of the Chronica, as originally drafted by Apollodorus, and thereby facilitates a contextualization or comparison with other (Iambic) didactic poems on a dramatically changed textual basis. The scope of the book fulfills various scholarly desiderata from a historical, philosophical, philological and literary-critical standpoint.
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Apollodoriana - Ancient Myths, New Crossroads

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 A growing interest in myth over the last decades has brought to the fore the main mythographical manual that has came down to us from Antiquity: Apollodorus’ Bibliotheca. A number of recent editions shows this trend, like the commented translations of Carrière & Massonie (1991) and Scarpi & Ciani (1996), the translations of Guidorizzi (1995), Brodersen (2004), Dräger (2005) and Smith & Trzaskoma (2007) or the critical text by Papathomopoulos (2010). The publication of the first two volumes (2010 and 2012) of Cuartero’s massive critical and commented bilingual edition for the Fundació Bernat Metge series seemed the occasion to address this text from innovative scholarly perspectives. The origins of the present volume lay in a colloquium held at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in 2013. Despite its crucial interest for the scientific study of ancient myth, no conference devoted to this engaging text was held prior to that one. And, to this date, no monographic volume on Apollodorus’ mythology exists either. To cover a broader scope of analysis, three further papers have been commissioned to other specialists. This collection of essays is meant to be a homage to Francesc J. Cuartero.
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The Lyric Of Ibycus - Introduction, Text And Commentary

by Claire Louise Wilkinson

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 Ibycus is a crucial figure in the world of archaic poetry, whose work has not received the attention it deserves. It provides an introduction to Ibycusâ€™ life and poetry, an individual analysis of each fragment and a detailed commentary on the text, with a new edition of the papyrus fragments.
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Orphism And Christianity In Late Antiquity

by Miguel Herrero De Jáuregui

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 Many recent discoveries have confirmed the importance of Orphism for ancient Greek religion, philosophy, and literature. This thorough study of the ancient sources sheds light on these questions and illuminates the complexity of the encounter between Classical culture and the Jewish-Christian tradition.
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The Poetics Of Philosophical Language - Plato, Poets And Presocratics In The "Republic"

by Zacharoula Petraki

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 The Poetics of Philosophical Language
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Tracing Orpheus - Studies Of Orphic Fragments

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 It contains 65 short new studies on Orphic fragments by leading international scholars who comment one of the most controversial phenomena in Antiquity from a plurality of perspectives. Readers will acquire a global vision of the multiple dimensions of the Orphic tradition, as well as many new insights into particular Orphic fragments.
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From Alexandria To Babylon - Near Eastern Languages And Hellenistic Erudition In The Oxyrhynchus Glossary (P.Oxy. 1802 + 4812)

by Francesca Schironi

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 Presents an introduction and detailed commentary of the "Oxyrhynchus Glossary", a lexicon preserved in several papyrus fragments with glosses taken from Greek, Greek dialects and 'foreign languages', especially Near-Eastern languages.
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Orphism And Christianity In Late Antiquity

by Miguel Herrero De Jáuregui

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 Many discoveries have confirmed the importance of Orphism for ancient Greek religion, philosophy and literature. However, its nature and role are still very controversial. This study of the ancient sources answers these questions, and illuminates the complexity of the encounter between Classical culture and Jewish-Christian tradition.
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Language And Rhythm In Plautus - Synchronic And Diachronic Studies

by Benjamin, Iv Fortson

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 Consists of linguistic case-studies of selected features of the language and meter of Plautus. This book investigates these phenomena for the light they can shed on the prosodic organization of Latin speech and the intersection between prosodic phonology and syntax.
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Doctrine And Doxography - Studies On Heraclitus And Pythagoras

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 This volume contains the proceedings of a conference on the Presocratic philosophers Pythagoras and Heraclitus. Designed for all students of ancient philosophy, this volume will spur further investigations into these cardinal concerns of early Greek scientific thinkers.
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Lucretius And His Sources - A Study Of Lucretius, "De Rerum Natura" I 635-920

by Francesco Montarese

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 Lucretius and His Sources
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Aristophanes' Comedy Of Names - A Study Of Speaking Names In Aristophanes

by Nikoletta Kanavou

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 Aristophanes, the celebrated Greek comic poet, is famous for his plays on contemporary themes, in which he exercises fierce political satire. This title addresses questions such as why particular names are chosen (or invented), and how they relate to the plays' characters and themes.
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The Invectives Of Sallust And Cicero - Critical Edition With Introduction, Translation, And Commentary

by Anna Novokhatko

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 Covers the history of the text of the invectives of Sallust against Cicero and of Cicero against Sallust. This book includes the full manuscript tradition of the text, the history of changes during its transmission, the history of the printed text and, the text itself with an apparatus criticus and also a translation.
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Unity And Time In Metaphysics

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 Deals with the fundamental problem of unity, which plays a decisive role in many contemporary debates (even when this role is not acknowledged).
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Prolepsis And Ennoia In The Early Stoa

by Henry Dyson

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 Offers a reconstruction of the early Stoic doctrine of prolepsis, revealing it to be much closer to Platonic recollection in certain respects than previously thought. This book features a collection of texts relating to prolepsis from Epicurus to Alexander of Aphrodisias.
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