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The rain and lightning miracles are the best-known events of Marcus Aurelius' northern wars. Several pagan and Christian versions existed in Antiquity. The author studies and publishes for the first time all the sources and the development of the legend from Antiquity to the 14th century.
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This volume, the outcome of an international symposium on Statius held in Amsterdam in 2005, contains original contributions to the study of Statius' epics (Thebaid and Achilleid) and occasional poetry (Silvae), as well as the reception of both in European literature and scholarship.
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In this collection of interpretative essays on Flavius Philostratus’ Vita Apollonii , leading scholars and younger critics make for a combination of methodological continuity and innovation. The wide range of approaches does justice to the text’s high level of literary, historical and ...
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Drawing on a rich variety of literary and archaeological data, the twenty chapters of this book explore the implications of competing reconstructions of Italy's demographic history during the Middle and Late Republic. The volume as a whole sheds new light on Italy's economic, social, miltary, ...
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This study is a reference work for the study of Roman Athens: the Epigraphical Catalogue (Part I) represents a supplement to the Inscriptiones Graecae as it pertains to Athens in the Augustan and Julio-Claudian periods; the Prosopographical Catalogue (Part II) offers a prosopography of the ...
€163.00$211.00
Dionysius of Halicarnassus has long been regarded as a rather mediocre critic. This book rehabilitates the Greek rhetorician by demonstrating the creative ways in which he integrated theories from different linguistic disciplines into a coherent programme of rhetoric.
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Introduction, text and translation, detailed commentary and indices to Aeneid 2 are here offered on a scale not previously attempted and in keeping with the author's previous Virgil commentaries (Aeneid 3, 7 and 11); the volume is aimed primarily at scholars, rather than undergraduates.
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This seventh volume on Orality and Literacy in Ancient Greece and Rome presents a series of essays that explore the workings of memory in ancient texts and artworks marking the shift over centuries from an oral to a literate culture.
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Noting previously unrecognised allusions to literary works and contemporary events, this book presents an original portrait of the miscellanist Aulus Gellius (Attic Nights) as a satirical writer and a Roman intellectual working within the cultural milieu of Antonine Rome.