Description
Book SynopsisClassica et Mediaevalia is an international, peer reviewed journal covering the field of the Greek and Latin languages and literature from classical antiquity until the late Middle Ages as well as the Greco-Roman history and traditions as manifested in the general history, history of law, history of philosophy and ecclesiastic history. Articles are published mainly in English, but also in French and German. Some of the many contributions to the present issue include Rhetoric in Classical Athens: The Recognition Scene in Aeschylus' Choephoroi and in Sophocles' and Euripides'Electra " and Aphrodite and Inanna: The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite and Sumerian Poetry on Inanna"
Table of ContentsKristoffer Maribo Engell Larsen: "Aphrodite and Inanna: The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite and Sumerian Poetry on Inanna" M. Carmen Encinas Reguero: "Rhetoric in Classical Athens: The Recognition Scene in Aeschylus' Choephoroi and in Sophocles' and Euripides'Electra" Janek Kucharski: "Matricide and Silence in Sophocles' Electra". Charles Pry: "The Artist as Critic? Some Notes on the Portrayal of the Athenian Warmaking in the Plays of Euripides". Benjamin Pedersen: "Callisthenes and the Creation of a Homeric Hero". Katerina Philippides: "Altars and Temples in Plautine Comedy". Nick Geller: "Rhetoric's "Cure": The Sublime τέχνη of Longinus". Keith R. Bradley: Artemidorus and the Dreams of Slaves". Marc Steinmann: "Eine fiktive Depesche der Gymnosophisten an Alexander den Großen: Die Epistula Bragmanorum ad Alexandrum als Einleitung zu einer moralisch-ethnographischen Epitome" Willum Westenholz: "Sidonius as an Auctor in the Middle Ages". Stavroula Constantinou: "The Saint's Two Bodies: Sensibility under (self-)Torture in Byzantine Hagiography. Vasileios Pappas: "Justin Neograecus: The Translation of Epitome of Philippics by Daniel Philippides". Heta Björklund: "A Note on the Aspects of the Greek Child-Killing Demon".
