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Paralysin Cave

Author : John M. McMahon

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 296 pages

File Size : 13,76 MB

Release : 2018-07-17

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 9004330968

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This volume explores the literary representation of male sexual dysfunction and discusses the natural and supernatural elements of an ancient folk medical system based on conceptual associations between male sexuality and specific plants, animals and minerals. The work incorporates material from both literary and scientific sources to draw parallels between ancient and modern paradigms of healing. The literary depiction of attempts to remedy impotence demonstrates how an accessibility to cures contributes to the sexual and social reintegration of the sufferer. The Satyrica of Petronius echoes this process by means of the text itself and so effects similar ends. The book provides new insights into literature and the ancient belief systems underlying it with its original and integrative approach to disciplines such as philology, botany, mineralogy, zoology and medicine.



Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, Book I

Author : Aad Kleywegt

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 528 pages

File Size : 28,94 MB

Release : 2017-07-31

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 9047405676

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This work provides a full commentary on the first book of Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica, an epic which has received increased attention in the last few decades, as may be seen from two recent editions (1997 and 2003). Its first aim is to clarify the text, which is sometimes rather difficult and, in places, still not established with certainty. Apart from this philological aspect, the literary merits of the poem have also been taken into account.



Linguistics into Interpretation

Author : Johannes M. van Ophuijsen

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 376 pages

File Size : 30,81 MB

Release : 2018-07-17

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 9004351264

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This volume is a sustained exercise in the genre of secondary literature which aims at explaining a literary work as much as possible in and through the author's own words. A crucial passage in direct speech by different speakers from the History of Herodotus, the earliest long Greek prose text, has been made the object of a systematic effort to distill and analyse the linguistic characteristics relevant to its interpretation, by confronting it with the rest of the work as well as with earlier and contemporary writings. This is done with the primary aim of placing the interpretation of a major author on the firmest ground available, the author's ipsissimi verba. The result, made accessible by full indexes, will prove helpful to readers of any part of Herodotus' History.



A Commentary on the Letters of M. Cornelius Fronto

Author : Hout

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 743 pages

File Size : 37,92 MB

Release : 2018-07-17

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 9004351302

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This is the first commentary on the letters of Marcus Cornelius Fronto (c. 90-95 - c. 167). It aims at an extensive grammatical, stylistic and historical interpretation of the letters and the ancient testimonies on Fronto. The author demonstrates where Fronto stands in Latin literature; hence the numerous quotations of parallel, similar and dissentient passages from Fronto and other writers. The letters are written in a pure, simple style, with a great deal of colloquialisms and many a post-classical turn of phrase. The many archaisms show how Fronto as a philologist had a comprehensive knowledge of pre-Cicero Latin. This commentary, based on the Teubner-edition by the author (Leipzig 1988), offers a thorough explanation of Fronto's style and language, e.g. of his archaisms and colloquialisms, identification of the persons mentioned, and the chronology of the letters. Seven elaborate indices complete this book.



Lucian's Science Fiction Novel, True Histories

Author : Aristoula Georgiadou

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 280 pages

File Size : 45,86 MB

Release : 1998

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 9789004106673

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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.



Inventing the Novel

Author : Robert Bracht Branham

Publisher :

Page : 242 pages

File Size : 49,70 MB

Release : 2019

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 0198841264

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Inventing the Novel uses the work of the Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin to explore the ancient origins of the modern novel, focusing on one of classical antiquity's most elusive works, Petronius' Satyrica, and arguing in support of Bakhtin's sweeping claim that it plays an "immense" role in the history of the novel.



Petronius

Author : Petronius Arbiter

Publisher :

Page : 446 pages

File Size : 46,38 MB

Release : 1913

Category : Latin fiction

ISBN :

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Sophocles and the Greek Language

Author : Albert Rijksbaron

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 286 pages

File Size : 26,17 MB

Release : 2017-07-31

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 9047417429

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This volume offers an extensive overview of the various ways in which Sophocles’ use of the Greek language is currently being studied. Greatly admired in antiquity, Sophocles’ style only became a serious subject of investigation with Campbell’s Introductory essay On the language of Sophocles (1879). Fourteen chapters, divided into three sections (diction, syntax, pragmatics), discuss the linguistic register and use of gnomai in Ajax’ deception speech, Homeric intertextuality, the style of the Sophoclean satyr-plays in relation to tragedy and comedy, the relation between the repetition of words and focalization, the language of blindness, the image of ‘fire’, the use of deictic pronouns, the semantics of the middle-passive and of counterfactuals, the historic present and the constitution of the text, the suggestive power of descriptions, speech-acts, and strategies of politeness.



Athenian Generals

Author : Debra Hamel

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 272 pages

File Size : 25,52 MB

Release : 2018-07-17

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 9004351485

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This study of the Athenian strategia is concerned with identifying the locus of military authority in the Athenian polis. Consideration of the role played by generals in the deliberative and final stages of military expeditions and of the relationship between strategoi and their subordinates, colleagues, and the Athenian demos itself suggests that Athens' generals did not exercise significant authority over their city's military operations. Rather, the demos controlled its generals both by means of its direct involvement in decision-making related to campaigns and by establishing in Athens a climate of fear which was very often sufficient to dissuade generals from acting in opposition to the Athenians' will. This volume is important reading for anyone who is interested in ancient military history or the question of sovereignty in Athens.



Xerxes' Greek Adventure

Author : H.T. Wallinga

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 193 pages

File Size : 31,12 MB

Release : 2017-07-31

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 9047406540

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This volume deals with Xerxes’ invasion of Greece (480 B.C.), particularly as a naval operation. It examines the traditions preserved by Aischylos, Herodotos, and others against the background of the revolutionary naval developments in the period preceding Xerxes’ decision to attack. Among the subjects discussed are: the naval pressure on Persian foreign policy; the strength in numbers of the Persian navy in 480; its deployment in the waters of Salamis related to the physical features of the battlefield and the position of the Greeks; Themistokles’ legendary message as a key to the Persian plan of attack; the quality of the opposing ships and their tactical capabilities; the battle of Salamis itself and its outcome. The book includes maps and a photograph of the area discussed.