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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Aristophanes Cavalry
Book SynopsisOffering for the first time a student introduction to Aristophanes' most explosive political satire, this volume is an essential guide to the context, themes and later reception of Cavalry. The ancient comedy is a fascinating insight into demagoguery and political rhetoric in classical Athens. These are subjects that resonate with a modern audience more now than ever before.Originally performed in 424 BCE, Cavalry was the first play Aristophanes directed himself and it was awarded first prize. It targets the Athenian demagogue, Cleon, who had risen to prominence since the death of Pericles and to pre-eminence after an audacious victory over Sparta in 425 BCE. In Cavalry, Aristophanes attacks Cleon's popularity with the masses, but also criticises the democracy itself as guilty of gullibility, self-interest and political shortsightedness. As the play shows, the only hope of escape from the crisis is for Athens to find a leader even more popular CleTable of ContentsList of Figures Preface A Note on the Spelling of Ancient Greek words in English A Note on the Play’s Title List of Abbreviations 1. Aristophanes and drama in Classical Athens 2. Aristophanes’ Cavalry and Cleon 3. Cavalry 1-302: Prologue scene and parodos 4. Cavalry 303-610: First agon and parabasis 5. Cavalry 611-996: Report of off-stage action and second agon 6. Cavalry 997-1150: Divination contest and ‘duet’ 7. Cavalry 1151-1315: Competition in public service and second parabasis 8. Cavalry 1316-1408: Closing episodes and exodos 9. Modern reception and performance Notes Bibliography Further Reading Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Aristotle ReInterpreted New Findings on Seven
Book SynopsisSir Richard Sorabji is Honorary Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford, and Emeritus Professor, King's College, London, UK. He is the world's leading scholar on the commentators on Aristotle and founder and co-editor of the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series, published by Bloomsbury. He is also the author of the three sourcebooks on the ancient commentators: The Philosophy of the Comentators, 200600 AD, vols 13.Trade ReviewBuilding on the extraordinary achievements of the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle project, [Aristotle Re-Interpreted] is a valuable collection of groundbreaking studies, which, together with [Aristotle Transformed], constitutes a must-read for any scholar and student of philosophy and Classics as well as an indispensable acquisition of any library in these fields. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *In terms of the amount covered [this book is] certainly good value, and in my view anyone working in this subject area would be strongly advised to buy and read both [this and Aristotle Transformed.] * Classics for All Reviews *Classicists and philosophers are devoting increased attention to ancient commentaries on Aristotle. Much of this work began in earnest in the 1980s with the Duckworth/Bloomsbury "Ancient Commentators on Aristotle" series and the present volume's companion collection of scholarly essays, Aristotle Transformed (1990; 2nd ed., 2016), also edited by Sorabji. Aristotle Re-Interpreted updates earlier work in the wake of roughly three decades of research, discoveries, and advancements. Known for his leadership in founding this fascinating field of research, Sorabji (emer., King's College London, UK) brings together 23 essays—some original, some republished, some newly translated—by a host of esteemed scholars and philosophers from across the globe. The resulting volume is physically massive and massively significant for those whose research and teaching interests focus on ancient Aristotelian and Neoplatonist philosophical schools. In addition to the essays, Sorabji provides a lengthy, detailed introduction, which offers a nice survey of the philosophical figures and topics of interest within the field. Classicists, medievalists, and philosophers—really anyone interested in Aristotle, Neoplatonism, or the development of ideas from the classical age to the Middle Ages and Renaissance—will appreciate this scrupulously researched, intellectually breathtaking book. Summing Up: Essential. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. * CHOICE *This volume is very interesting for many reasons: it provides new findings and fragments on ancient philosophy, it contains essays that deal with poorly studied philosophers and commentaries, and it is a great tool for scholars who want to deepen their understanding of the main themes of ancient philosophy and to know how the works of the greatest ancient philosophers circulated around the world. At the end of the volume readers can also find an extensive bibliography, an Index Locorum, and an index of names and arguments. * Philosophy in Review *The volume is an excellent product that makes a considerable contribution to the study of the acceptance of Aristotelian thought through its commentators. (Bloomsbury Translation) * Sehepunkte *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Contributors Introduction: Seven Hundred Years of Commentary and the Sixth Century Diffusion to other Cultures Richard Sorabji 1. The Texts of Plato and Aristotle in the First Century BCE: Andronicus’ Canon Myrto Hatzimichali 2. Boethus’ Aristotelian Ontology Marwan Rashed 3. The Inadvertent Conception and Late Birth of the Free Will Problem and the Role of Alexander Susanne Bobzien 4. Alexander of Aphrodisias on Particulars and the Stoic Criterion of Identity Marwan Rashed 5. Themistius and the Problem of Spontaneous Generation Devin Henry 6. Spontaneous Generation and its Metaphysics in Themistius’ Paraphrase of Aristotle’s Metaphysics 12 Yoav Meyrav 7. The Neoplatonic Commentators on ‘Spontaneous’ Generation James Wildberding 8. A Rediscovered Categories Commentary: Porphyry? with Fragments of Boethus Riccardo Chiaradonna, Marwan Rashed, and David Sedley 9. The Purpose of Porphyry’s Rational Animals: A Dialectical Attack on the Stoics in On Abstinence from Animal Food G. Fay Edwards 10. Universals Transformed in the Commentators on Aristotle Richard Sorabji 11. Iamblichus’ Noera Theôria of Aristotle’s Categories John Dillon 12. Proclus’ Defence of the Timaeus against Aristotle: A Reconstruction of a Lost Polemical Treatise Carlos Steel 13. Smoothing over the Differences: Proclus and Ammonius on Plato’s Cratylus and Aristotle’s De Interpretatione R. M. van den Berg 14. Dating of Philoponus’ Commentaries on Aristotle and of his Divergence from his Teacher Ammonius Richard Sorabji 15. John Philoponus’ Commentary on the Third Book of Aristotle’s De Anima, Wrongly Attributed to Stephanus Pantelis Golitsis 16. Mixture in Philoponus: An Encounter with a Third Kind of Potentiality Frans A. J. de Haas 17. Gnôstikôs and/or hulikôs: Philoponus’ Accountof the Material Aspects of Sense-Perception Peter Lautner 18. The Last Philosophers of Late Antiquity in the Arabic Tradition Peter Adamson 19. Alexander of Aphrodisias versus John Philoponus in Arabic: A Case of Mistaken Identity Ahmad Hasnawi 20. New Arabic Fragments of Philoponus and their Reinterpretation: Does the World Lack a Beginning in Time or Take no Time to Begin? Marwan Rashed 21. Simplicius’ Corollary on Place: Method of Philosophising and Doctrines Philippe Hoffmann and Pantelis Golitsis 22. A Philosophical Portrait of Stephanus the Philosopher Mossman Roueché 23. Who Were the Real Authors of the Metaphysics Commentary Ascribed to Alexander and Ps.-Alexander? Pantelis Golitsis The Ancient Commentators on Aristotle Translations Bibliography Index Locorum General Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC An Anthology of NeoLatin Literature in British
Book SynopsisCompiled by a team of experts in the field, this volume brings to view an array of Latin texts produced in British universities from c.1500 to 1700. It includes a comprehensive introduction to the production of Neo-Latin and Neo-Greek in the early modern university, the precise circumstances and broader environments that gave rise to it, plus an associated bibliography. 12 high-quality sections, each prefaced by its own short introduction, set forth the Latin (and occasionally Greek) texts and accompanying English translations and notes. Each section provides focused orientation and is arranged in such a way as to ensure the volume''s accessibility to scholars and students at all levels of familiarity with Neo-Latin. Passages are taken from documents that were composed in seats of learning across the British Isles, in Oxford, Cambridge, Dublin, Edinburgh and St Andrews, and adduce a wide range of material from orations and disputational theses to collections of occasional verse,Trade ReviewAn excellent introduction to the volume as a whole lucidly describes the development of universities in early modern Britain. The material collected examines these important institutions through the lens of the languages – Latin, and to a lesser extent, Greek – in which they functioned, revealing the vital role universities played in public and political life. -- Elisabeth Dutton, Professor of Medieval English, University of Fribourg, SwitzerlandTable of ContentsList of contributors Preface Introduction (Lucy R. Nicholas, KCL, UK) Texts 1 Academic Freedom on Trial in Tudor Times Stephen Gardiner (1483–1555), letter to John Cheke, 15 May 1542 (Micha Lazarus, University of Cambridge, UK) 2 Why Tudor Cambridge Needs Greek Richard Croke (1489–1558), Orationes duae (Aaron Kachuk, University of Cambridge, UK, and Benedick C.F. McDougall) 3 A Professor in Scottish Politics Andrew Melville (1545–1622), Stephaniskion (Stephen J. Harrison, University of Oxford, UK) 4 A Distinct Mode of Pastoral in Elizabethan Cambridge Giles Fletcher the Elder (c. 1546–1611), Ecloga Daphnis (Sharon van Dijk, University of Birmingham, UK) 5 Greek and Latin poetry from Cambridge on sixteenth-century questions of faith Act and Tripos verses from the 1580s and the 1590s (William M. Barton, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies, Austria) 6 Happy New Year in Jacobean Oxford: Metamorphosing Ovid into Student Comedy Philip Parsons (1594–1653), Atalanta (Elizabeth Sandis, Institute for English Studies, UK) 7 European Networks and the Reformation of the University of Edinburgh Astronomical disputations from the graduating class of 1612–16. Lecturer: William King (David McOmish, University of Glasgow, UK) 8 A Prevaricator Speech from Caroline Cambridge James Duport (1606–1679), Aurum potest produci per artem chymicam (Tommi Alho, University, Finland) 9 An Irish Panegyric on Henry Cromwell Caesar Williamson (c. 1611–1675), Panegyris in Excellentissimum Dominum, Dominum Henricum Cromwellum (Jason Harris, University College Cork, Ireland) 10 Herrings, Linen and Cheese: Celebrating the Treaty of Westminster in 1654 The Musarum Oxoniensium Elaiophoria (Oxford) and the Oliva Pacis (Cambridge) (Caroline Spearing, University of Exeter, UK) 11 Political Poetry from late Stuart Cambridge Cambridge Poems on the Peace of 1697 (David Money, University of Cambridge, UK) Notes Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Sappho and Catullus in TwentiethCentury Italian
Book SynopsisGoing beyond exclusively national perspectives, this volume considers the reception of the ancient Greek poet Sappho and her first Latin translator, Catullus, as a literary pair who transmit poetic culture across the world from the early 20th century to the present. Sappho's and Catullus' reception has shaped a transnational network of poets and intellectuals, helping to define ideas of origins, gender, sexuality and national identities. This book shows that across time and cultures translations and rewritings of Sappho and Catullus articulate modernist poetics of myth and fragmentation, forms of confessionalism and post-modern pastiche. The inquiry focuses on Italian and North American poetry as two central yet understudied hubs of Sappho's and Catullus' modern reception, also linked by a rich mutual intellectual exchange: key case-studies include Giovanni Pascoli, Ezra Pound, H.D., Salvatore Quasimodo, Robert Lowell, Rosita Copioli and Anne Carson, and cover a wide range of unpubliTrade ReviewPiantanida is to be commended on a thoughtful and fascinating study, and her work deserves to be followed and appreciated. * Classics for All *My favourite part of this book comes at the end of an excellent chapter on the Italian poet and translator, Salvatore Quasimodo, where Piantanida recounts Mary Barnard’s encounter with Lirici Greci … Piantanida’s significant achievement is to offer anglophone readers the chance to encounter hugely important literary figures such as Pascoli and Quasimodo, and to remind us of the important status of Italy and its modern and contemporary literature in classical reception studies. * The Classical Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: The Slow Fire 1. Mythical Rewritings 2. Modernist Rites 3. Classical Hermeticism 4. The Self and the Object 5. Body vs Soul 6. Postmodern Sappho and Catullus Epilogue Endnotes List of Manuscripts Audio Visual Material Works Cited
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Hellenistic Literature and Culture
Book SynopsisIn this book, leading Greek scholars explore the rich and diverse poetry and prose of the long Hellenistic period. Chapters focus on the poets of Alexandria such as Callimachus, Theocritus, Apollonius, and Posidippus and on prose texts written in Greek in the Roman Empire. This volume demonstrates the versatility of this literature and examines its multiple cultural affiliations. The Hellenistic writers emerge from this volume as complex, playful, and politically engaged figures, interested in the relationship between culture and society, and far removed from the stereotype of them as distant or elitist. This book makes a major contribution to the study of Hellenistic Greek culture.Susan Stephens is the Sarah Hart Kimball Emerita Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University, USA. Her contributions to the study of Hellenistic literature and culture are immense. She is the author of over fifty articles and the author or editor of ten books. Many of these publications haTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Contributors Preface Foreword Abbreviations PART I ARCHAIC AND CLASSICAL GREEK LITERATURE 1. Semonides, Fragment 1, as an Iambic Catalogue in Stanzas (Christopher Faraone, University of Chicago, USA) 2. The Humble and the Grand: Realism in Euripides’ Electra (Marco Fantuzzi, University of Roehampton, UK, and Mathias Hanses, Penn State University, USA) PART II COMING TO EGYPT 3. Iter ad Aegyptum: Alexander’s Trip to Memphis (Daniel L. Selden, University of California, USA) PART III CALLIMACHUS 4. Neglected Splendors: Alcman’s Louvre Partheneion and Callimachus' Tale of Phrygius and Pieria (Giulio Massimilla, University of Naples, Italy) 5. Callimachus’ Duplicitous Iambos (Don Levigne, Texas Tech University, USA) 6. From a Small Beginning: Of Sibling and Poetic Order in Callimachus (Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, Ohio State University, USA) 7. Them He Cannot Take: Callimachus’ Epigram for Heraclitus (Phiroze Vasunia, UCL, UK) 8. Advisory Tops: Callimachus Ep. 54 Gow/Page (1 Pf.) (Markus Asper, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany) 9. On a New Papyrus Fragment of Callimachus’ Hecale (P.Ant. III 179 add.) (Giovan Battista d’Alessio, KCL, UK) 10. No Lyre for Heracles (Peter Parsons, Oxford University, UK) 11. Strabo’s Callimachus (Richard Hunter, University of Cambridge, UK) PART IV HELLENISTIC AND ROMAN CULTURE 12. Seeing Double: Apollonius’ Two Phaethons (Ivana Petrovic, University of Virginia, USA) 13. “Apollonius speaks Greek, Petiharenpi speaks Egyptian”: Cross-Cultural Self-Fashioning in the Serapeum Archive (Edward Kelting, University of Califorina, USA) 14. Young Snakes, Old Models: Hellenistic Poetics and Literary Heritage in Nicander, Theriaca 343–58 (Alexander Sens, Georgetown University, USA) 15. The Death of the Author: Hesiod’s Double Burial in Epigrams of Mnasalkes (AP 7.54 = 18 GP) and Alkaios (AP 7.55 = 12 GP) and in the Biographical Tradition (Peter Bing, University of Toronto, Canada) 16. Doomscrolling at Segesta: An Allusion to Lycophron in Virgil, Aeneid 5. 552-4 (Alessandro Barchiesi, NYU, USA) 17. Father Ammon and the King (Jay Reed, Brown University, USA) 18. Crinagoras of Mytilene and Octavia (Roland Mayer, KCL, UK) 19. Poets, Plants, and Riddles (Kathryn Gutzwiller, University of Cincinnati, USA) PART V ANCIENT PROSE FICTION 20. The sparagmos of Parthenope between Ancient Novel and Myth (Jacqueline Arthur-Montagne, University of Virginia, USA) 21. Alexandria in the Ancient Greek Novels (Stephen Nimis, Miami University, USA) AFTERMATH 22. Practicing Orthodoxy: Body Language in Sophronius’ Thaumata (Maud Gleason, Stanford University, USA) 23. Reading Stephens (Lee Wandel, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) A Bibliography of Susan A. Stephens Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Poems of Optatian
Book SynopsisFor the first time, the poems and accompanying letters of Publilius Optatianus Porfyrius (Optatian) are published here with a translation and detailed commentary, along with a full introduction to Optatian's work during this period.Optatian was sent into exile by Constantine sometime after the Emperor's ascent to power in Rome in 312 AD. Hoping to receive pardon, Optatian sent a gift of probably twenty design poems to Constantine around the time of the ruler's twentieth anniversary (325/326 AD). To enable the reader to experience the multiple messages of the poems, the Latin text is presented near the English translation with any related design close by. Some poems, laid out on a grid of up to 35 letters across and down, have an interwoven poem marking key letters in the primary poem, thereby revealing a highlighted image. Some designs include the Chi-Rho or numerals created from V's and X's to mark imperial anniversaries. Other (previously unrecognised) designs seem to represent se
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Radical Formalisms
Trade ReviewThis volume provocatively explores the aesthetic and political possibilities of deconstructionist and postcritical approaches to form in ancient texts. While readers may variously be stimulated, challenged, or infuriated by its close and transparently subjective engagement with phenomenological aspects of reading, Radical Formalisms offers classical studies a fresh critical path forward. -- David Christenson, Professor of Classics, University of Arizona, USAA joyous collection by a constellation of star scholars. Mind-expanding, political and systematically committed to the affordances of literary form from the roots: a veritable wake-up call to classical philology. -- David Fearn, Professor of Greek, University of Warwick, UKTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword: A Word Besides, Sarah Nooter (University of Chicago, USA) Introduction, Mario Telo (University of California, Berkeley, USA) Part I: Shaping Forms 1. Myth Formalism and Black Expression: The Case of Icarus, Patrice Rankine (University of Chicago, USA) 2. What Was Classics? Shane Butler (John Hopkins University, USA) 3. Mixed Media: Two Black Artists and the Icons of Classical Antiquity, Allannah Karas (University of Miami, USA) Part II: Proximate Forms 4. Two Ways of Being Alone: Dual Form in Sappho Fragment 168b, Alex Purves (UCLA, USA) 5. Aristophanes and the Flying Sound, Sarah Nooter (University of Chicago, USA) 6. What Thou Art We Know Not: Pindar and Romanticism, Tom Phillips (University of Manchester, UK) 7. "I'm sorry about the poem"; 'Narcissi' and Incommensurability in Jamaica Kincaid's 'Lucy', Ren Ellis Neyra (Wesleyan University, USA) Part III: Forms (Un)becoming 8. Heraclitus Stuttered, Victoria Wohl (University of Toronto, Canada) 9. Electra, Again, Sarah Olsen (Williams College, USA) 10. A Poetics of Imperceptibility in Statius's 'Thebaid', Efrossini Spentzou (Royal Holloway University, UK) 11. Form as Precarious Shelter: Gwendolyn Brooks' 'In the Mecca', Lucy Alford (Wake Forest University, USA) Part IV: Forms Unfurling 12. Formalizations at the Threshold: Introductions to Horace, Victoria Rimell (University of Warwick, UK) 13. Quite a Bind: Couplet, Constraint, Claustrophobia, i.e., Ovid's 'Ibis', Tom Geue (Australian National University, Australia 14. Open Form in Nathaniel Mackey, Sean Alexander Gurd (University of Texas, Austin, USA) 15. 'Chal Chal Chal': Apollonius's Talos Tales (and Medea's), Mario Telo (University of California, Berkeley, USA) Notes Bibliography Contributors Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Greek Literary Topographies in the Roman Imperial World
Book SynopsisFocusing on the Greek world during the high Roman Empire between the 1st and 3rd centuries CE, this edited volume examines the representation of space in literary, rhetorical, and mythographic texts of the period. Authors under discussion include major figures such as Dio of Prusa, Aelius Aristides, Arrian, Lucian, and Philostratus. Texts by Apollodorus, Alciphron, Aelian, Artemidorus, and Pausanias also receive attention, along with the Alexander Romance and Egyptian apocalyptic narratives. Attending to the relationship between mobility and cultural rootedness, each chapter examines how Greek writers of the imperial era constructed and represented the multi-temporal landscapes of their contemporary world.This edited volume contributes to a growing interest in the topographical imagination of the ancient Mediterranean. The Roman Empire was a world of vast trade networks, cosmopolitan culture, and high elite mobility, making geography an essential compone
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Edinburgh University Press The Rise and Fall of the Barmakids
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Union Square & Co. Walden Deluxe Bookmark
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Union Square & Co. Emily Dickinson Deluxe Bookmark
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Union Square & Co. A Tale of Two Truths and a Lie A Classic Literature Trivia Game
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Edinburgh University Press IkYat Ab AlQSim
Book SynopsisThis study compares ?ikayah, a mysterious text surviving in a single manuscript, to other comical banquet texts and party-crashing characters, especially from Ancient Greece and Rome.
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Edinburgh University Press Ovidian Transversions
Book SynopsisThe only scholarly monograph to focus on Ovid's 'Iphis and Ianthe'.
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Edinburgh University Press Revenge and Gender in Classical Medieval and
Book SynopsisThis collection explores a range of literary and historical texts from ancient Greece and Rome, medieval Iceland and medieval and early modern England to provide an understanding of wider historical continuities and discontinuities in representations of gender and revenge.
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Edinburgh University Press Lucretius II
Book SynopsisHuman suffering, the fear of death, war, poverty, ecological destruction and social inequality: Thomas Nail shows that Lucretius proposed an ethics of motion as simple and stunning solution to these ethical problems in his first-century BC didactic poem De Rerum Natura.
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IRISH PAGES Sappho: Songs and Poems: Translated From the
Book SynopsisHere are Sappho’s songs and poems as English poems, all her famous pieces, all the fragments that can make connected sense, and all the discoveries of 2004 and 2014. These translations set out to be good English poetry first and foremost, and succeed well beyond other current versions. They have been made directly from Sappho’s Greek, by a poet with three collections to his credit, and are relatively close to the Greek. Each piece has a concise footnote that explains references and allusions, and suggests critical appreciation. A substantial Afterword says much more about Sappho’s themes, her art and style, and her historical setting. Sappho is one of the greatest poets of the western world. She lived on the Greek island of Lesbos around 600 BCE, near the very beginning of western literature, and composed 300 or so poems and songs. Her poems create a woman-centred world in which women and relationships are highly valued, a world of beauty and grace, love and loss, sandals and hairbands, all sometimes exalted and idealised. She opposes women’s values to those of the dominant male society around her, and is the first to do this in the western canon. She was famous in her lifetime and has been deeply admired ever since.Trade ReviewFor poetry lovers, lovers of the classics, lovers of love stories – all who care about social and gender equality, personal relationships and personal freedom. Chris Agee, poet and essayist
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Nick Hern Books Imperium: The Cicero Plays
Book SynopsisCicero, the greatest orator of his age, devotes all his energy and cunning to preserve the rule of law, and defend Rome’s Republic against the predatory attacks of political rivals, discontented aristocrats, and would-be military dictators. Imperium is a backstage view of Ancient Rome at its most bloody and brutal, told through the eyes of Tiro, Cicero’s loyal secretary. Adapted by Mike Poulton from Robert Harris’s bestselling The Cicero Trilogy, it was premiered by the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon in November 2017 in an epic event comprising six plays presented in two performances. Mike Poulton is an award-winning dramatist whose many adaptations include Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, The Canterbury Tales and Morte d’Arthur (all for the Royal Shakespeare Company), A Tale of Two Cities (Royal & Derngate, Northampton), Luise Miller (Donmar Warehouse), Don Carlos (Sheffield Crucible/West End) and Wallenstein (Chichester Festival Theatre).Trade Review'A riveting epic for our time – The West Wing in sandals' * The Times *'One of the finest achievements of the Royal Shakespeare Company in recent years… an exhilarating and timely political drama… provides both an intriguing character study and a demonstration of politics in action' * Guardian *'The sheer scale of the enterprise inspires awe… Poulton distils the original trilogy with his customary combination of verbal dexterity, clear storytelling and hefty doses of leavening wit, [which] only serves to accentuate the brilliance of the undertaking… puts these dense historical epics onto the stage with all the panache and pace of a Netflix box set' * Whatsonstage.com *'The West Wing in blood-soaked togas… this turbulent story of bitter rivalries and criminal conspiracy is both timely and entertaining… an instructive and entertaining vision of one of history’s great self-made heavyweights' * Evening Standard *'Ambitious, intricate and compelling… an epic undertaking… Poulton’s adaptation expertly condenses and makes clear all the complex machinations and power plays, the conspiracies, shifting loyalties and betrayals. In his hands the intricate, multi-stranded narrative moves fluidly and is never less than engaging' * The Stage *
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Virgil
Book SynopsisThe works of Virgil (70–19 BCE) define the ‘golden age’ of Latin poetry and have inspired a long tradition of interpretation and adaptation that starts in his own time and extends to important modern authors. His ascent from the lesser genre of pastoral (the Bucolics) through a more ambitious didactic mode (the Georgics) to the soaring heights of epic (the incomparable Aeneid) shaped the canonical writings of other authors, from his younger contemporary Ovid through the medieval writers Dante and Petrarch to the early modern poets Spenser and Milton and well beyond. Virgil, as Alison Keith shows, has never gone out of critical or popular fashion. This wide-ranging introduction appraises a figure of central importance in the history of Western music, art and literature. Offering close readings of the Bucolics, Georgics and Aeneid, Keith places Virgil and his poetry in historical context before tracing their impact at key moments in the culture of the West. Emphasis is placed on Virgil’s reception of the classical literary and philosophical traditions, and on how his poetry has attracted modern interest from writers as diverse as T. S. Eliot and Ursula K. Le Guin.Trade ReviewVery good and worth recommending both to students and other readers, who are only just starting their adventure with Virgil. * Electrum *An excellent resource for students ... This book will be a valuable addition to introductory bibliographies on Latin literature and a useful tool for non-Classicists who are interested in studying Virgil for the first time. * The Classical Review *Will give keys to understanding Virgil's poems to any layman interested in the classical world. * Revue des Etudes Anciennes (trans. by Bloomsbury Academic) *Alison Keith’s Virgil is an authoritative and highly readable introduction to the poet, his poems, and their afterlife. Full of fresh insights, especially on philosophical ideas in Virgil, it also guides the reader to some of the most relevant scholarship. -- Fiachra Mac Góráin, Associate Professor of Classics, University College London, UKTable of Contents1. Life and Times 2. Bucolica 3. Georgica 4. Aeneis 5. Reception Notes Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Ajax
Book SynopsisThis is one of the seven plays of Sophocles in the full editions by R.C. Jebb, all of which will be reissued under the BCP imprint. They have occasionally been reprinted but never before in affordable paperback versions. In this set, each volume contains a foreword by P.E. Easterling, concerned with Jebb and his contribution to Sophoclean scholarship; there follows an introduction by a noted Sophoclean scholar dealing with Jebb's treatment of the individual play and its value for - and contrast with - subsequent interpretations, for which a select bibliography is included.
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Cockatrice Books Early Welsh Histories
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Cockatrice Books The Sleeping Bard
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De Gruyter APHex I
Book SynopsisAdespota 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. 01–06), astronomical and astrological texts (07–12), didactic and technical poetry (13–16), hymns (17–32), fragments of erotic content (33–38); epithalamia (39–43); and two hexameter anthologies, the Goodspeed papyrus (44) and the so-called Pamprepius codex (45). Future volumes will contain: Encomia and Lamentations (46–67); Bucolic (68–71), and Epic poetry (72–144); assemblages of Homeric verses (145–154); magical verses (155–166); oracles (167–169); fragments of uncertain genre or content (170–204); hexameter quotes from grammatical papyri and ancient commentaries (205–216); παίγνια (217–219); gnomic hexameters (220–221); pangrams (222–235); texts copied or produced within a school context (236–242).
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de Gruyter Wolken
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Walter de Gruyter Satiren / Saturae
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Walter de Gruyter Aeneis: Lateinisch - Deutsch
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Walter de Gruyter Metamorphosen: Lateinisch - Deutsch
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De Gruyter Otfrids Evangelienbuch
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De Gruyter Walther von der Vogelweide: Leich, Lieder,
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Jesus Sirach, Jüdisches Gesetz und kosmische
Book SynopsisDas Buch Jesus Sirach stellt eine gewaltige Synthese weisheitlicher, kultischer, prophetischer, rechtlicher und historiographischer Traditionen des antiken Israel und des frühen Judentums dar. Um 180 v.Chr. in Jerusalem als Lehrbuch verfasst, verbindet sein auf Hebräisch schreibender Autor das jüdische Gesetz mit der kosmischen Weisheit und formuliert Maximen zum gelingenden Leben in der vielfältigen Welt des Hellenismus. Der vorliegende Band präsentiert alle bis heute bekannten hebräischen Fragmente dieses Buchs samt deutscher Übersetzung sowie ausgewählte Texte der um 120 v.Chr. in Alexandria erstellten griechischen Übertragung. Einzelne Essays führen in die literarischen und kulturellen Kontexte des Sirachbuchs ein, beleuchten zentrale in ihm behandelte Themen wie die rechte Lebensführung, die Gerechtigkeit Gottes, die Bedeutung des Gebets oder die Auslegung der heiligen Schriften Israels und skizzieren exemplarisch die Rolle dieses jüdischen Werkes in der christlichen Frömmigkeitsgeschichte.
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Netzwerke der Nonnen: Kritische Edition der
Book SynopsisDie Briefbücher des Benediktinerinnenklosters Lüne stellen eine reiche Quelle für spätmittelalterliche Frömmigkeit, Gelehrsamkeit und Kommunikationsnetzwerke dar. Die Frauen erzählen lebendig vom Alltag und Festtag im Kloster, vom Verhältnis zum Propst, den Familien oder den Lüner Ratsherren bis zu geistlichen Freundschaften mit Frauen aus den Nachbarkonventen. Als eine Besonderheit sind nicht nur Briefe der Ämterinhaberinnen sondern aller Konventsmitglieder bis zu den Klosterschülerinnen überliefert. Nicht zuletzt kann erstmals das Ringen mit den aufkommenden reformatorischen Gedanken aus der Binnenperspektive einer Benediktinerinnengemeinschaft erfasst werden.Die Edition umfasst über 450 Briefe, die auf Lateinisch, Niederdeutsch und in einer charakteristischen Mischsprache verfasst wurden. Sie erschließt den sozialen, sprachlichen, historischen und rhetorischen Kontext der gelehrten Nonnen und ihre Kommunikationsnetzwerke. Die Lüner Briefbücher erweitern das Korpus der im Spätmittelalter von Frauen selbständig verfassten Texte erheblich. Dabei formten die Nonnen eine auf ihre Bedürfnisse angepasste Sprache, die ihren Klosteralltag und ihre religiösen Ziele angemessen zum Ausdruck bringen konnte.
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Mohr Siebeck Martin Schreiner Between Islamic Studies and
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Mohr Siebeck Die Komposition der Tora im Buch Exodus
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Mohr Siebeck GmbH & Co. K Cur Deus Homo und die vom Ordnungsdenken geprägte Theologie Anselms
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Die Briefe des Isokrates
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Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht Ovid, Metamorphosen
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Peter Lang AG Die Seele bei Plato, Plotin, Porphyr und Gregor
Book SynopsisDas in der Forschung vielfach und kontrovers diskutierte Verhältnis von Platonismus und Christentum erörtert die Arbeit anhand der menschlichen Seele, die ein gemeinsamer Gegenstand der platonischen und der frühchristlichen Denkarbeit war. Gregor von Nyssa, ein maßgebender Theologe der frühen Kirche, wandte sich in mehreren Schriften diesem Gegenstand zu. Die platonische Tradition bot ihm gerade in dieser Frage umfangreiches Material für seine Abhandlungen. Die Arbeit analysiert die theoretischen Voraussetzungen der platonischen Anleihen bei Gregor. Zu diesem Zweck werden die Person und das Leben Gregors untersucht und der Gebrauch des platonischen Materials bei ihm vor dem Hintergrund der Arbeitsmethode der Zeit und seiner eigenen Auffassungen vom Stellenwert des nichtchristlichen Gedankengutes diskutiert. Anschließend erörtert die Arbeit die Ansichten Gregors im Vergleich zu Plato, Plotin und Porphyr an einer Reihe von Themen. Die Analyse ergibt eine vielschichtige Nutzung des philosophischen Materials bei Gregor, die sich einer eindeutigen Definition entzieht.
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Schwabe Verlag GmbH Im Geiste des Dionysos
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Feuertanz-Verlag Infamium: Historischer Verschwörungs-Roman im
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Verlag Antike FrC 24.5 Menandros
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Papierfresserchens MTM-VE Damals ... im Mittelalter
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British Academy Biographical Memoirs of Fellows III Proceedings
Book SynopsisVolume 124 of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains 19 obituaries of recently deceased Fellows of the British Academy.Table of ContentsGerald Edward Aylmer, 1926-2000 ; William Spencer Barrett, 1914-2001 ; Charles Frederick Carter, 1919-2002 ; John Erickson, 1929-2002 ; Raymond William Firth, 1901-2002 ; Hrothgar John Habakkuk, 1915-2002 ; Richard Mervyn Hare, 1919-2002 ; Geoffrey Stephen Kirk, 1921-2003 ; Vivien Anne Law, 1954-2002 ; John Lough, 1913-2000 ; Ian Dalrymple McFarlane, 1915-2002 ; David Neil MacKenzie, 1926-2001 ; John Kieran Barry Moylan Nicholas, 1919-2002 ; Dimitri Dimitrievich Obolensky, 1918-2001 ; John Harold Plumb, 1911-2001 ; Nicolai Rubinstein, 1911-2002 ; John Michael Wallace-Hadrill, 1916-1985 ; William Smith Watt, 1913-2002 ; Richard Bruce Wernham, 1906-1999
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