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The reader is invited to study a choice of typical texts, from the beginnings to the end of Antiquity, and to discover intellectual relationships between different epochs, cultures, literary genres, linguistic and literary patterns.
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This volume presents essays by leading scholars on the nature of orality as represented by the Homeric poems, and the effect of the oral way of thinking on the subsequent literate and literary development of ancient Greek and Roman culture.
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This collection of 11 studies provides a new discussion of Lucretius' History of the Human Mankind and of other topics (Lucretius' explanation of sleep, dreams and optical illusions) in relationship to other philosophical and scientific doctrines of Antiquity.
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This bibliography registers all editions, translations and studies bearing on Aristotle's Poetics and the Tractatus Coislinianus, a treatise partly based on Poetics II. Among the indices, those on passages and subjects should be particularly useful. Most Greek has been transliterated.
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The 13 essays presented here shed new light on the role of panegyric in the western and eastern Roman Empire in the late antique world.
The core of the volume deals with prose and verse panegyric under the Christian Roman Empire (4th-7th century)
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This investigation into Athenian military authority considers both the role played by generals in the deliberative and final stages of Athens' military expeditions and the relationship which obtained between strategoi and their subordinates, colleagues, and the Athenian demos itself.
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This book performs for the Academici Libri what P.L. Schmidt achieved for the De legibus - it studies the entire tradition of the work, including its original publication, its influence in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and Renaissance, manuscripts and printed editions.
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This edition of a newly discovered Byzantine treatise of Pindaric metre discusses on the basis of the new discovery the methods and achievements of Byzantine Pindaric philology in general.
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Based on extensive anthropological and historical research, this book focuses on patterns and processes of social mobility. The character of leadership in tribal society, then under the colonial bureaucracy, and later in modern Indonesia are discussed. Besides political changes, changes in ...
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This is the first substantial commentary on Lucian's fantastic journey narrative, the True Histories - the earliest surviving example of science fiction in the Western tradition. The Introduction situates the text in Lucian's oeuvre and offers a guide to its interpretation as allegory and parody.