Literary studies: ancient, classical Books
LUP - University of Michigan Press True Names
Book SynopsisPresents a richly annotated, comprehensive collection of examples of etymological wordplay in Vergil's Aeneid, Eclogues and Georgics. An extensive introduction on the etymologizing of Vergil and his poetic forerunners places the poet in historical context and analyses the form and style of his wordplay.Trade ReviewO’Hara’s catalogue of Vergilian etymological wordplay is a goldmine of information and a welcome contribution to Vergilian studies… Ovid scholars will read with interest section 2.14 of the Introduction, where O’Hara lists and discusses examples of Ovid’s allusions to Vergil’s etymological wordplay. Every Vergil scholar will want a copy of this book."" - Pamela Bleisch, American Journal of Philology""O’Hara has done Virgilian studies a considerable service with this very erudite piece of scholarship."" - Llewelyn Morgan, Classical Review""This book is to be heartily welcomed as a major tool which will be of great use not only for Vergilian scholars but also for all those concerned with the literary texture of Augustan poetry."" - Stephen J. Harrison, Echos du monde classique
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The University of Michigan Press A Student Commentary on Pausanias Book 1
Book SynopsisIntroduces the first book of Pausanias’ “Description of Greece” to students of Classical Greek. Pausanias’ second century CE work is the only surviving ancient description of the monuments and artwork of mainland Greece. Book 1 of the “Description” covers Athens, its demes, and Megara - that is, Attica, the heart of the ancient Greek world.
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The University of Michigan Press Hellenistic Poetry
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[H]ere is plenty here to engage the keen student, especially those intrigued by exotica and intent on further study." - Classics For All
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The University of Michigan Press An Odyssey Reader
Book SynopsisHomer's Odyssey has captivated readers and influenced writers and artists for more than 2,000 years. Reading the poem in its original language provides an experience as challenging as it is rewarding. For anyone who has completed studies in elementary Greek, this edition provides the assistance necessary to read, understand, and appreciate the first book of the Odyssey in its original language.
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The University of Michigan Press A Student Commentary on Pausanias Book 1
Book SynopsisIntroduces the first book of Pausanias’ “Description of Greece” to students of Classical Greek. Pausanias’ second century CE work is the only surviving ancient description of the monuments and artwork of mainland Greece. Book 1 of the “Description” covers Athens, its demes, and Megara - that is, Attica, the heart of the ancient Greek world.
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Corrupting Luxury in Ancient Greek Literature
Book SynopsisA widely accepted truism says that luxury corrupts, and in both popular and scholarly treatments, the ancient city of Sybaris remains the model for destructive opulence. This volume demonstrates the scarcity of evidence for Sybarite luxury, and examines the vocabulary of luxury used by the Hellenic world.
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The University of Michigan Press Our Ancient Wars
Book SynopsisFeatures essays by scholars from across academic disciplines - classicists and historians, philosophers and political theorists, literary scholars - engaging with classical texts to understand how differently they were read in other times and places. Contributors articulate difficult but necessary questions about contemporary conceptions of war and conflict.Trade ReviewThe chapters reflects an unusual degree of thoughtfulness as well as sound scholarship. The collection will appeal to a much broader group than the academic community. All the chapters are readable by an educated general public, and the topics covered are timely and provocative.” —Rosemary Moore, University of Iowa
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The University of Michigan Press Hellenistic Poetry
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The University of Michigan Press Thucydides Book I
Book SynopsisThe first book of Thucydides is a compact masterpiece. H.D. Cameron’s commentary authoritatively accounts for the last one hundred years of evolving grammatical and linguistic theory as they apply to the seminal work of Thucydides.Trade ReviewAt last, a commentary that allows the student of Greek to approach Thucydides as a great historical author and as a bold prose stylist, rather than as a cryptographic puzzle! The help offered is on exactly the right level: It is an aid to reading fluently. The explanations are clear, enabling the reader to master the nuances of Thucydidean grammar and syntax. This work will help a new generation of readers appreciate a masterpiece of historical literature. It is a superb companion to the existing historical commentaries and should immediately take its place as a standard in the field." —Josiah Ober, Princeton University"Students enterprising enough to be reading Thucydides will find this book very helpful-and beyond that, stimulating and congenial. Cameron covers the difficult passages, adding comments and explanation that will enhance the reader's understanding." —Steven Lattimore, University of California, Los Angeles". . . Cameron fills a distinct need for students reading a difficult author for the first time." —Bryn Mawr Classical Review"Until now, the commentary on book 1 of the greatest use for beginning students has been that of Marchant, which Cameron's work should now replace. It elucidates the overall structure of Thucydidean prose, explains vocabulary, morphology, and grammar, while giving references to Smyth for further study. It is ideal for strengthening weaker students' grasp of Greek grammar and is a fine introduction to the obscure and pointed style that makes portion of the History in general and book 1 in particular so daunting." —Classical World
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The University of Michigan Press Acting Like Men
Book SynopsisExamines the concept of gender in relation to Greek drama
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The University of Michigan Press Magnus Felix Ennodius
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The University of Michigan Press Staging Masculinity
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The University of Michigan Press Canon Period and the Poetry of Charles of Orleans
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The University of Michigan Press Rethinking Reality
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The University of Michigan Press The Taste for Nothingness
Book SynopsisApplies a close-reading methodology to Lucan's Bellum Civile to analyse Lucan's distortions of traditional epic forms. Sklenar's work not only illuminates many passages of this author for classicists but also captures the attention of comparatists.Trade Review. . . full of fascinating readings of many passages of the Bellum Civile and it is on these grounds that it can most thoroughly be recommended. In particular, the reader who is new to Lucan will find the application of the critical tools which have developed over the last thirty years to large portions of the text very useful." —Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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The University of Michigan Press Women and Laughter in Medieval Comic Literature
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The University of Michigan Press Graceful Errors
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The University of Michigan Press A Cosmos of Desire
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The University of Michigan Press The Myths of Fiction
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The University of Michigan Press Dead Lovers
Book SynopsisExplores the complex attachments to the figure of the dead lover in Western literature, art, and other forms of cultural expression from classical antiquity through the Middle Ages and into the early modern period. By reflecting on the study of dead lovers, this work traces the development of themes and claims about our own investment in a ""dead"".Trade ReviewA cross-disciplinary book that will provoke discussion about how we think of our own academic practices and our investment in them. The substance of the essays is cultural and literary history and aesthetics, informed by theoretical concerns, but not overdetermined by them. Readers from all of the fields touched upon in the book will learn from it. - Sara S. Poor, Department of German, Princeton University ""Dead Lovers features a series of innovative and brilliant insights that help us rethink traditions ranging from literatures of longing, nostalgia and necrophelia, to the metaphysics of memory and relationality in both premodern and contemporary contexts. This genuinely exceptional book is a must-read for anyone thinking through what it may mean, or have meant, to love in the face of death."" - Carla Mazzio, Department of English, University of Chicago
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The University of Michigan Press Role Models in the Roman World
Book SynopsisLooks at the various heroes or the paternal figures, both mythological and historical, that gave inspiration to leaders and authors. This boo demonstrates the importance of figures in inspiring imitation and assimilation in the creation of new identities. It features scholars and essays from a range of fields, including literature and art.Trade ReviewThis collection covers a full range of topics, from how the Romans interpreted their origins from the ashes of Troy on through themes in Roman literature, historiography, declamation, and art, ending with how Christians may have defined their self-presentation in part through reference to earlier, non-Christian models. The editors have shown themselves wonderfully adept at their task, and the result is a uniformly fine volume that will be widely consulted. - Anthony Corbeill, Professor and Graduate Advisor, Department of Classics, University of Kansas
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The University of Michigan Press The Scroll and the Marble
Book SynopsisWhile people of previous ages relied on public performance as their chief means of experiencing poetry, the Hellenistic age developed what one may term a culture of reading. This book explores how poetry accommodated various audiences, and how these in turn experienced the text in diverse ways, offering a coherent vision of Hellenistic poetics.Trade ReviewPeter Bing has long served as a model for acute criticism and careful reading. He has a marvelous ability to make readers re-think their preconceptions. - Ben Acosta-Hughes, Associate Professor of Greek and Latin, University of Michigan
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The University of Michigan Press Homer and the Dual Model of the Tragic
Book SynopsisOffers an examination of 'the tragic' as a concept distinct from tragedy as a genre. This book focuses on the notion of the tragic as a characteristic, rather than on tragedy as a genre. It is suitable for both specialists and undergraduates in a variety of fields.Trade ReviewRinon is a subtle and eloquent reader of Homer, capable of opening fresh perspectives on even some of the most familiar passages of the two epics. - Stephen Halliwell, Professor of Greek, University of St. Andrews
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The University of Michigan Press The Unknown Odysseus
Book SynopsisOffers the exploration of the implications of Odysseus' divided nature, showing how it allows Homer to explore the riddles of human identity in a profound way that is not usually recognized by studies focusing on only one ""real"" hero in the narrative.Trade ReviewThomas Van Nortwick's eloquently written book will give the neophyte a clear interpretive path through the epic while reminding experienced readers why they should still care about The Odyssey's unresolved interpretive cruces. The Unknown Odysseus is not merely accessible, but a true pleasure to read. - Lillian Doherty, University of Maryland ""Contributing to an important new perspective on understanding the epic, Thomas Van Nortwick wishes to resist the dominant, even imperial narrative that tries so hard to trick, beguile, and even bully its listeners into accepting the inevitability of Odysseus' heroism."" - Victoria Pedrick, Georgetown University
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The University of Michigan Press The Humblest Sparrow
Book SynopsisOften regarded as an important transitional figure, Venantius Fortunatus wrote poetry that is seen to bridge the late classical and earlier medieval periods. Written in Latin, his poems combined the influences of classical Latin poets with a medieval tone, giving him a special place in literary history. This work studies the poetry of Fortunatus.Trade ReviewThe Humblest Sparrow is a superbly illuminating study of one of the major Latin poets of late antiquity. Every chapter is marked by a thorough, accurate, and up to date knowledge of the historical and material setting of the Merovingian upper classes. As a deep treatment of Fortunatus' poetry, this book will surely appeal to readers with a serious interest in the Latin verse of late antiquity. - William Klingshirn, Catholic University of America
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The University of Michigan Press New Literary Papyri from the Michigan Collection
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The University of Michigan Press Anatomizing Civil War
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The University of Michigan Press Textual Rivals
Book SynopsisTextual Rivals studies some of the most debated issues in Herodotean scholarship. It speaks to those interested in Greek history and historiography, narratology, and ethnography. Those in the growing ranks of Herodotus fans will find much to invite and intrigue.
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The University of Michigan Press Shipwrecked
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The University of Michigan Press Arguments with Silence
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The University of Michigan Press Kinesis
Book SynopsisAnalyses the depiction of emotions, gestures, and nonverbal behaviours in ancient Greek and Roman texts, and considers the precise language depicting them. Individual contributors examine genres ranging from historiography and epic to tragedy, philosophy, and vase decoration.
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The University of Michigan Press Traces of the Past
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The University of Michigan Press Medieval Women and Their Objects
Book SynopsisPresents multifaceted considerations of the intersection of objects and gender within the cultural contexts of late medieval France and England. Some take a material view of objects, showing buildings, books, and pictures as sites of gender negotiation and resistance and as extensions of women’s bodies. Others reconsider the concept of objectification in the lives of medieval women.
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The University of Michigan Press The Critics and the Prioress
Book SynopsisAddresses key moments in criticism of Chaucer’s the Prioress's Tale - particularly those which stage an encounter between historicism and ethics - in order to interrogate these critical impasses while suggesting new modes for future encounters. It is an effort to identify, engage, and reframe some significant - and perennially repeated - arguments staked out in this criticism.
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Alfred A. Knopf Hearing Homers Song The Brief Life and Big Idea
Book SynopsisFrom the acclaimed biographer of Jane Jacobs and Srinivasa Ramanujan comes the first full life and work of arguably the most influential classical scholar of the twentieth century, who overturned long-entrenched notions of ancient epic poetry and enlarged the very idea of literature.In this literary detective story, Robert Kanigel gives us a long overdue portrait of an Oakland druggist's son who became known as the Darwin of Homeric studies. So thoroughly did Milman Parry change our thinking about the origins of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey that scholars today refer to a before Parry and an after. Kanigel describes the before, when centuries of readers, all the way up until Parry's trailblazing work in the 1930's, assumed that the Homeric epics were written texts, the way we think of most literature; and the after that we now live in, where we take it for granted that they are the result of a long and winding oral tradition. Parry made it his life's work to de
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Random House USA Inc The Complete Plays of Sophocles
Book SynopsisOedipus the King • Antigone • Electra • AjaxTrachinian Women • Philoctetes • Oedipus at ColonusThe greatest of the Greek tragedians, Sophocles wrote over 120 plays, surpassing his older contemporary Aeschylus and the younger Euripides in literary output as well as in the number of prizes awarded his works. Only the seven plays in this volume have survived intact. From the complex drama of Antigone, the heroine willing to sacrifice life and love for a principle, to the mythic doom embodied by Oedipus, the uncommonly good man brought down by the gods, Sophocles possessed a tragic vision that, in Matthew Arnold’s phrase, “saw life steadily and saw it whole.”This one-volume paperback edition of Sophocles’ complete works is a revised and modernized version of the famous Jebb translation, which has been called “the most carefully wrought prose version of Sophocles in English.”*
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Random House USA Inc The Complete English Poems Everymans Library
Book Synopsis John Milton wrote poetry of such sublime beauty that he managed, through its universal influence, to transform the character of the English language. From his astonishing epic Paradise Lost, with its magnificent blank verse and mesmerizing characters, to the tragic brilliance of Samson Agonistes, Milton engaged the political and religious issues of his troubled times with subtlety and sophistication. His moving elegy “Lycidas,” written after the untimely drowning death of a friend, has been hailed as the greatest lyric poem in English. The classic shorter works, from the pastoral poems “L’Allegro” and “Il Penseroso” to the enchanting masque Comus, to the intensely personal sonnets, share the grandeur and vitality of his epics; all serve as continual reminders of the heights the human imagination can achieve. With an introduction by Gordon Campbell.
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Random House USA Inc The Theban Plays
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Random House USA Inc A Guide to The Odyssey
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University of Wales Press The Towneley Cycle
Book SynopsisProvides an overview of and introduction to the Towneley cycle of plays, a 32-play cycle written in c 1500, which begins with the fall of Lucifer and ends with the Last Judgement, and was performed as part of the festival of Corpus Christi in Wakefield. This volume examines the cycle's textual history, and discusses issues of language and style.Trade Review'Happe has written an admirable study, which is attractively produced by its publisher. There will be no justice if it is not for many years the book on the Towneley plays.'Andrew Breeze, University of Navarre, Pamplona, MLR, 103.3, 2008 'This book offers rich examples for the study of primary theatre texts and secondary civic documents. Happe's book significantly updates A. C. Cawley's earlier efforts on the Towneley cycle, and no future study of this important manuscript will be complete without reference to his work.' John Warrick, Theatre Notebook, Vol. 62, No. 3Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Problem of Unity PART ONE: THE TEXT 1. Prologue: Place and Date 1.1 The Manuscript 1.2 York and Towneley 1.3 Provenances and Authorship 1.4 The Wakefield Master PART TWO: PERFORMING THE CYCLE 2. Prologue: Some Questions of Performance 2.1 Dramaturgy 2.2 Modern Revivals 2.3 Special Features PART THREE: IDEOLOGIES AND INTERPRETATIVE STRATEGIES 3. Prologue: Interpretations 3.1 Gender 3.2 Religion and Popular Culture 3.2.1 Religion 3.2.2 Popular Culture 3.3 Social Contexts 3.4 Interrelations in the Psychology of Evil 3.5 Good Men and Women PART FOUR: NEGOTIATING THE TEXT 4 . Prologue 4.1 Development 4.2 Playing and Reception 4.3 Interpretations and Structure
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Poems of Catullus
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA translation that successfully re-creates in English the wit, the lyric, exaltation, the playful banter, the despair, the scurrilous invective, and the dramatic flair of the original, all of it moving easily in artfully contrived and skillfully controlled English equivalents of Catullus' many and varied meters. -- Bernard Knox New York Review of BooksTable of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1. The Poems of CatullusChapter 2. A ChronologyNotes on the Poems
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Johns Hopkins University Press A Catalog of Identifiable Figure Painters of
Book SynopsisThe book will serve as a valuable resource for specialists in classics and art history, as well as a unique guide for intellectually adventurous tourists visiting the Museo Nazionale at Naples and the sites of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae.Trade ReviewRichardson's study is a monumental achievement, clearly the result of a lifetime of careful scrutiny and sensitivity to painted forms. -- Diane A. Conlin Bryn Mawr Classical Review This book presents an interesting and thorough analysis of the material. -- Zahra Newby Classical ReviewTable of ContentsPrefaceList of Abbreviations1. Introduction2. Catalog3. AfterwordIndexesTopographical IndexMuseum Inventory Number IndexPicture Subject Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Roman Gaze Vision Power and the Body Arethusa
Book SynopsisSharrock.Trade ReviewFrom the perspectives of present interest and future research-areas this thought-provoking collection is extremely valuable. -- Christine Walde Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004 For classicists wanting a new perspective on gender studies... and for those interested in ancient and modern theories of vision, it will be a resource for years to come. -- Elizabeth H. Sutherland American Journal of Philology These nine essays collectively make the case for Rome as a missing link in the historical formulation of the gaze... A thought-provoking collection. -- Andrew Feldherr American Historical Review 2004Table of ContentsList of Contributors AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Invisible RomeChapter 1. Split Vision: The Politics of the Gaze in Seneca's TroadersChapter 2. This Ship of Fools: Epic vision in Lucan's Vulteius EpisodeChapter 3. Some Unseen Monster: Rereading Lucretius on SexChapter 4. Reading Programs in Greco-Roman Art: Reflections on the Spada ReliefsChapter 5. Look Who's Laughing at Sex: Men and Women Viewers in the Apodyterium of the Suburban Baths at PompeiiChapter 6. Political Movement: Walking and Ideology in Republican RomeChapter 7. Being in the Eyes: Shame and Sight in Ancient Rome Chapter 8. Mapping Penetrability in Late Republican and Early Imperial RomeChapter 9. Looking at Looking: Can You Resist a Reading?Bibliography Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Epic Hero
Book SynopsisThe Epic Hero provides a comprehensive and provocative guide to epic heroes, and to the richly imaginative tales they inhabit.Trade ReviewThe range is vast and covers most of Western epic literature-Greek, Celtic, Nordic, Roman, Persian, and Indian... [Miller] has provided not only a wealth of information on the epic hero, but he shows why the hero presented in the epic mode has held human imagination for so long. Religious Studies Review Miller boldly but intelligently maps out a variety of aspects under which both epic heroism in general and particular can fruitfully be considered. He also discusses an almost intimidating range of material... For Miller, rather refreshingly, the real heroes are Homer's Achilles and his counterparts in, say, Icelandic sagas, not such tricksters, politicians, and priests as Odysseus, Hector, and Aeneas. Miller rightly refocuses attention, furthermore, not only on such well-documented elements of this warrior-hero as his ambivalence and liminality, but also on his enduring, if disturbing, appeal. -- B. D. A. Tipping Journal of Roman Studies Miller commands an impressive range of material, and his original synthesis offers valuable insights to students of ancient and medieval literature. Choice Why does an epic hero tend to act so arrogantly and destructively? Miller offers a convincing answer to this question, which arises with the emergence of modern consciousness, in light of the hero's functional social position an dhis essentially adolescent, flat interior... with thoughtful insight and thorough scholarship, Miller's book is a major piece of research that cannot be ignored in any future discussion of the epic and its ever-dazzling hero. -- Masaki Mori The Comparatist This study, rich and plentiful but also subtle and suggestive, will serve as a reference work for a broad range of researchers in contiguous disciplines (ancient studies, comparative religion, history, philosophy). -- Francois Ripoll Latomus Given his wide reading and his instinct for the telling detail, Miller's observations are truly pregnant; they stimulate the mind to incubate new connections. -- Norman Austin International Journal of the Classical TraditionTable of ContentsContents:Introduction: The Book of the Hero One: The Hero from on High Two: The Heroic Biography Three: The Framework of Adventure Four: The Hero "Speaks" Five: Foils, Fools, and Antiheroes Six: Tertium Quid: Aspects of Liminality Seven: The Final Hero: Beyond Immortality Notes Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press Roman Dining
Book SynopsisToday the Journal has achieved worldwide recognition as a forum for international exchange among classicists by publishing original research in Greco-Roman literature, and culture.Trade ReviewA high-quality collection of essays that those interested in Roman food and Roman social history will want to consult. -- Peter O'Neill Gastronomica 2006Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1. The Way We USed to Eat: Diet, Community and History at Rome2. Land and Sea: Italy and the Mediterranean in the Roman Discourse of Dining3. Horizontal Woman: Posture and Sex in the Roman Convivium4. Toward a Typology of Roman Public Feasting5. The Waiting Servant in Later Roman Art
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Johns Hopkins University Press Rethinking the Medieval Senses
Book SynopsisSpiegel, Johns Hopkins University; Eugene Vance, University of Washington; Gregor Vogt-Spira, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universitat Greifswald; Rainer Warning, University of Munich; Heather Webb, Ohio State University; Michel Zink, College de France.Trade ReviewRethinking the Medieval Senses is a major contribution to our understanding of a fundamental aspect of medieval culture. It is throught-provoking and informative. -- Virginie Greene Clio The collection of essays edited by Nichols et al. is the fruit of cooperation between historians and literary scholars (mainly in the Romance languages) at American and European universities. -- Richard G. Newhauser Senses and Society 2009Table of ContentsPrologueIntroduction. Erudite Fascinations and Cultural Energies: How Much Can We Know about the Medieval Senses?Part I: HeritageChapter 1. Seeing God: Augustine, Sensation, and the Mind's EyeChapter 2. Common Sense: Greek, Arabic, LatinChapter 3. Senses, Imagination, and Literature: Some Epistemological ConsiderationsPart II: FascinationsChapter 4. The Critical Sense: Some Spanish ExamplesChapter 5. The Place of the SensesChapter 6. Seeing and Hearing in Ancient and Medieval EpiphanyPart III: Hidden EnergiesChapter 7. Perception, Cognition, and Volition in the Arcipreste de TalaveraChapter 8. Christian Sovereignty and Jewish FleshChapter 9. Paradoxes of the SensesChapter 10. Representation and Participation: Some Remarks on Medieval French DramaChapter 11. Blinding Sight: Some Observations on German Epics of the Thirteenth CenturyChapter 12. Blinded Avengers: Making Sense of Invisibility inCourtly Epic and Legal RitualPart IV: FramesChapter 13. Cardiosensory Impulses in Late Medieval SpiritualityChapter 14. "The Pupil of Your Eye": Vision, Language, and Poetry in Thirteenth-Century ParisContributors Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Birth of Comedy Texts Documents and Art from
Book SynopsisA full index includes not only authors, play titles, and persons mentioned, but themes from the whole Greek comic sphere (including politics, literature and philosophy, celebrities and social scandals, cookery and wine, sex, and wealth).Trade ReviewA unique resource for the serious study of comedy, this book is vast in scope and of incalculable value for those who do not read Greek. Choice This book is a landmark, which has come to stay. Bryn Mawr Classical Review This volume, which is aimed at general readers... and whose generous dimensions rival the size of an Oxford Classical Dictionary, will be an essential resource for anyone who wants to inquire into what is known of Athenian comedy beyond the surviving plays of Aristophanes and Menander... Rusten offers a concise and balanced account. New England Classical Journal The Birth of Comedy is a singularly ambitious and very welcome work. Times Literary Supplement A true reference book, to be dipped into when certain facts or information are required and thoughtfully arranged in an accessible style. Scholarly and academic in both approach and scope, this is a valuable resource for anyone interested in or researching not only Ancient Greek comedy but also the history of comic plays, theatre and drama. After twenty years spent compiling the material it is a resource that will not date and one that should provide for interesting scholarly debate and research outcomes. Reference Reviews A valuable scholarly enterprise. Classical Journal It will certainly be appearing on my reading lists in future. Journal of Hellenic StudiesTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsSymbols and AbbreviationsIntroductionFragments of ComedyPrinciples of This SelectionHow to Use This BookList of Translators and SectionsPlays and Fragments of Special InterestSources of the Comic FragmentsA Short History of Athenian ComedyAttested Dates of Athenian Comedies, 486–280 BCEPart I. Beginnings1. Proto-Comedy2. Epicharmus of SicilyPart II. Athenian Old ComedyIntroduction3. Festivals, Competitions, and Victory Lists4. The First and Second Generations (except Cratinus)5. Cratinus6. Eupolis7. Aristophanes8. Phrynichus and Platon9. Other Authors, ca. 420–390 BCE10. Theater, Audience, Actors, Chorus, and Costume of Old and Middle Comedy11. Scenes from Old or Middle Comedy on Fourth-Century South Italian VasesPart III. Middle ComedyIntroduction12. Anaxandrides, Eubulus, and Ephippus13. Antiphanes14. Timocles and Nicostratus15. Alexis16. Other AuthorsPart IV. Athenian New ComedyIntroduction17. Masks, Actors, Staging, and Scenes from New Comedy18. Philemon19. Menander20. Diphilus of Sinope21. Other AuthorsEpilogue22. Survival of Comedy in Hellenistic Greece and Republican and Imperial Rome23. Ancient Theories of Comedy and Laughter, and Ancient Writers on ComedyKomoidoumenoiBibliographyIllustration CreditsIndex
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The Catholic University of America Press Medieval Latin An Introduction and
Book SynopsisOrganised with the assistance of an international advisory committee of medievalists, this is a standard guide to the Latin language and literature of the period from c 200 AD to 1500. It should be useful for the study of Latin texts and documents in any fields of medieval studies.
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