A stunning collection that draws from four decades of verse by one of modern Greece's most lauded poets This is the first English-language collection of work by the renowned Greek poet Michalis Ganas. Originally from a remote village on the northwest border of Greece, Ganas witnessed the Greek Civil War as a young child, and was taken into enforced exile in Eastern Europe with his family. Weaving together subtle references to the events and places that have defined his life's story, Ganas's terse and technically accomplished poems are a combination of folklore, autobiography, and recent history. Whether describing the mountains of his youth or the difficulties of acclimation in Athens of the 1960s and 1970s, Ganas's writing is infused with striking and original imagery inspired by love, memory, and loss. Featuring expert translations-made in collaboration with Ganas himself-by David Connolly and Joshua Barley, this volume also includes a scholarly introduction to the poet's life and work.
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• Preface : Cupis Volitare Per Auras - books, libraries and textual transmission
• Acknowledgements / Roberta Berardi, Nicolette Bruno, Luisa Fizzarotti
• Introduction / Roberta Berardi, Nicolette Bruno, Luisa Fizzarotti
• Figured books : Horatian book-representations / Stephen J. Harrison
• Horace's book and Sphragis. Writing materials in Horace's Epistles 1.20 / Georgios Taxidis
• Fake intellectuals, and books of unquestionable authority in Aulus Gellius' Noctes Atticae and Lucian's aduersus Indoctum / Katherine Krauss
• Martialis Epigrammaton liber decimus : strategies for a second edition / Ambra Russotti
• Poetic quotation in 4th century BC Attic oratory / Antonio Iacoviello
• Jerome's two libraries / Giulia Marolla
• Some remarks on P. Lit. Lond. 63, a riddle epigram of an anthology? / Daniela Immacolata Cagnazzo
• Textual tradition and reception in Theocritus / Leonor Hernandez Oñate
• Eratosthenes' studia Aristophanica / Federica Benuzzi
• Eratosthenes' Πλατωνικός between philosophy and mathematics / Sara Panteri
• Transmission of recipes and Receptaria in Greek medical writings on papyrus / Nicola Reggiani
• Latin epigraphy and literary texts in 4th century AD Rome : the case of Vettius Agorius Praetextatus / Rosa Lorito
• The scribal habits of Codex Sangermanensis in Greek and Latin in light of its exemplar / Alan Taylor Farnes
• The Hypogeum of the Aurelii : a collegiate tomb of professional scribes / John Bradley
• The library and scriptorium of the Abbey of Montevergine in the 12th and 13th century : presences and absences / Veronica De Duonni
• Apocolocyntosis, codex V and the manuscript of Hadrianus Junius / Olivia Montepaone
• The textual transmission of Ovid's Metamorphoses during the Medieval age : the example of Germany / Cristana Roffi.

This book offers the hint for a new reflection on ancient textual transmission and editorial practices in antiquity. In the first section, it retraces the first steps of the process of ancient writing and editing. The reader will discover how the book is both a material object and a metaphorical personification, material or immaterial. The second section will focus on corpora of Greek texts, their formation, and their paratextual apparatus. Readers will explore various issues dealing with the mechanisms that are at the basis of the assembling of ancient Greek texts, but great attention will also be given to the role of ancient scholarly work. The third section shows how texts have two levels of authorship: the author of the text, and the scribe who copies the text. The scribe is not a medium, but plays a crucial role in changing the text. This section will focus on the protagonists of some interesting cases of textual transmission, but also on the books they manufactured or kept in the libraries, and on the words they engraved on stones. Therefore, the fresh voices of the contributors of this book, offer new perspectives on established research fields dealing with textual criticism.

• Introduction--
• 1. Historical background--
• 2. Assembly speeches--
• 3. Language and style--
• 4. Publication--
• 5. The afterlife of the speeches--
• 6. The text: 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 9
• Commentary-- First Olynthiac-- Second Olynthiac-- Third Olynthiac-- First Philippic-- Third Philippic.
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Demosthenes, as an emerging political leader in fourth-century Athens, delivered a series of fiery speeches to the citizens in the democratic Assembly, attacking the Macedonian king Philip II as an aggressive imperialist bent on destroying the city's independence. This volume presents the Greek text of five of these speeches with full introduction and detailed commentary. They show how the foremost politician of the day argued his case before the people who made policy decisions in the Assembly, and how he eventually persuaded them to support his doomed militaristic position in preference to the more pragmatic stance of accommodation advocated by his political opponents. These speeches are unique sources for the ideology and political history of this crucial period, and the best specimens of persuasive rhetoric in action from democratic Athens. This edition takes account of recent studies of fourth-century Athens and showcases Demosthenes as a master of Greek prose style.
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• Introduction : Cornutus the philosopher
• The Greek theology
• On pronunciation or othography
• Fragments and testimonia
• Cornutus and Persius.

"The first-century CE North African philosopher, Cornutus, lived in Rome as a philosopher and is best known today for his surviving work Greek Theology, which explores the origins and names of the Greek gods. However, he was also interested in the language and literature of the poets Persius and Lucan and wrote one of the very first commentaries on Virgil. This book collects and translates all of our evidence for Cornutus for the very first time and includes the first published English translation of Greek Theology. This collection offers entirely fresh insight into the intellectual world of the first century."-- Publisher's website.

This book offers an edition of the third speech of the fourth-century BCE orator Isaeus. It contains a new Greek text, based on a full collation of the manuscript evidence, an English translation, an extensive introduction, and a detailed commentary on the textual, linguistic, legal, rhetorical, stylistic, and historical issues encountered in the speech. The book demonstrates the high level of oratorical skill possessed by the under-appreciated orator Isaeus, and casts light on some exceedingly complex aspects of Athenian family law and society in the fourth century. It is accessible to readers without knowledge of ancient Greek, and is essential reading for anyone interested in Attic oratory, rhetoric, and Athenian law.
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The Cypria, so named because its poet supposedly came from the island of Cyprus, was an early Greek epic that is known to us primarily through quotations and references to passages by later authors, as well as through a prose summary of its plot and contents. Malcolm Davies uses linguistic evidence from the available verbatim fragments, along with other considerations, to suggest that the Cypria was written after Homer and was intended as a sort of prequel to the plot of the Iliad. In light of this evidence, it is noteworthy that many of the incidents described in the Cypria seem markedly un-Homeric; to give just one example, the Judgment of Paris, a popular subject in later Greek literature and art, most likely received its first detailed treatment in the Cypria, whereas the Iliad mentions it only fleetingly. Here Davies collects and translates the extant fragments of the Cypria and provides a commentary that anchors it in the Homeric context as well as in the broader world of ancient Greek art and literature.
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• List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction
• 1. The Funerary Landscape: A Reflection of the World of the Living
• 2. The Literary Form: Tears of Simonides ...and of Pindar
• 3. Phrasikleia, forever a maiden. Kroisos, whom raging Ares destroyed.
• 4. How to Deprive the Year of its Spring
• 5. Immortal Remembrance of Friends
• 6. Wives and their Masters
• 7. Powerful Enemies: Childbirth, the Sea
• 8. Rewards for Piety... Next to Persephone Conclusions Notes Index of Inscriptions and Table of Concordances Index Bibliography.
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Taking a wide selection of Greek funerary epigrams from the 6th to 4th centuries BC, this volume considers their historical and chronological contexts to draw out information about the society that created them. Using both Hansen's corpus of epigrams and wider examples, it gives priority to those cases where the whole monument ensemble is preserved, both text and image, enabling a much better understanding of the significance of the texts. A thematic structure within a broader chronological framework provides a valuable lens on the epigrams, allowing readers to compare particular types across the time period. After introducing the funerary landscape in which the selected epigrams fit, Gonzalez briefly considers the literary form of epigrams as a foil for the rest of the book. The remaining chapters focus on epitaphs of individuals in the most significant stages of life, where gender differences are most marked: themes include untimely death, women and wives, friendship, piety and non-kin love. All epigrams are offered in Greek, followed by an English translation. The analysis focuses on the literary aspects of the epigrams, as well as on the information they provide about both society and religion of ancient Greece.
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• List of maps and figures-- Preface-- Abbreviations-- Introduction--
• 1. Cyrus and the Persian empire--
• 2. The Ten Thousand--
• 3. Xenophon's life--
• 4. The Anabasis--
• 5. Xenophon's diction--
• 6. Style: speech and narrative--
• 7. The textual tradition-- Commentary-- Appendix: chronology and topography.
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This is the first comprehensive commentary on a section of Xenophon's Anabasis in English for almost a century. It provides up-to-date guidance on literary, historical and cultural aspects of the Anabasis and will help undergraduate students to read Greek better. It also incorporates recent advances in Xenophontic scholarship and Greek linguistics, showcasing in particular Xenophon's linguistic innovations and varied style. Advanced students and professional scholars will also profit from the sustained attention which this commentary devotes to Xenophon's varied narrative strategies and to the reception of episodes from Anabasis III in antiquity. The introduction and commentary show that Xenophon is just as important (if not more so) to the development of Greek historiography, and of Greek prose in general, as Herodotus and Thucydides.
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Clear. Understandable. Carefully organized. Basics of Biblical Greek Grammar by William D. Mounce is the standard textbook for colleges and seminaries. Since its initial publication in 1993 its integrated approach has helped more than 250,000 students learn New Testament Greek. The fourth edition of Basics of Biblical Greek Grammar has been updated throughout based on continuing feedback from professors, students, self-learners, and homeschoolers, making it even more effective for today's students. As well, improvements have been made based on recent developments in scholarship. The key to the effectiveness of Basics of Biblical Greek Grammar in helping students learn is in how it introduces them to the language. Students learn about the features of the Greek language in a logical order, with each lesson building upon the one before it. Unnecessary obstacles that discourage students and hinder progress are removed, such as rote memorization of endless verbal paradigms. Instead students receive encouragement along the way to assure them they are making the necessary progress. As well, detailed discussions are included at key junctures to help students grasp important concepts. By the time students have worked their way through Basics of Biblical Greek Grammar they will have learned: The Greek Alphabet Vocabulary for words occurring 50 times or more in the Greek New Testament The Greek noun system The Greek verbal system, including indicative and nonindicative verbs, and participles A robust suite of learning aids is available for purchase to be used alongside the textbook to help students excel in their studies. These include a workbook, video lectures for each chapter featuring the author, flashcards keyed to vocabulary in each chapter, a laminated quick study sheet with key concepts, and audio of the vocabulary for each chapter to aid in acquisition.
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• Preface; Introduction;
• 1. Definitions and perspectives;
• 2. Charting the corpus;
• 3. Genre and genres;
• 4. Performers, authors and the lyric voice;
• 5. Relationship with epic;
• 6. Dissemination and transmission;
• 7. Metre; 8 Dialect; Greek lyric: a selection: Alcman, Alcaeus, Sappho, Stesichorus, Ibycus, Anacreon, Simonides, Timotheus, Anonymous song; Commentary.

"The corpus of Greek lyric holds a twofold attraction. It provides glimpses of the song culture of early Greece in which lyric performance had a central place, and it presents us with some captivating and memorable poetry which has been admired since antiquity. This edition gathers poems by seven of the nine canonical lyricists (Alcman, Alcaeus, Sappho, Stesichorus, Ibycus, Anacreon, Simonides), as well as a number of carmina popularia and carmina convivalia and passages from Timotheus' Persians. Both longer and shorter pieces are included. The Introduction discusses major issues in the study of Greek lyric including genre, performance and transmission. The commentary is literary in emphasis but also treats questions of syntax, textual reconstruction, metre and dialect. The volume will be of interest to higher-level undergraduates and graduate students as well as to scholars"-- Provided by publisher.
"'Lyric' in contemporary literary criticism is a term as elusive as it is suggestive. It exists both as an adjective, expressing a poetic quality, and as a noun denoting a poetic mode, and both are notoriously difficult to define. It is this protean quality that has allowed 'lyric' to become a powerful creative stimulus for both poets and theorists. A foundational period for today's sense of 'lyric' was the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth century"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction--
• 1. Book 18 and the choice of Achilles--
• 2. Hector--
• 3. The gods--
• 4. The shield of Achilles--
• 5. Homeric language and style: some important features--
• 6. Metre, grammar, text-- Iliad 18 (
• )-- Commentary-- Appendix: Gilgamesh and Homer.
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Book 18 of the Iliad is an outstanding example of the range and power of Homeric epic. It describes the reaction of the hero Achilles to the death of his closest friend, and his decision to re-enter the conflict even though it means he will lose his own life. The book also includes the forging of the marvellous shield for the hero by the smith-god Hephaestus: the images on the shield are described by the poet in detail, and this description forms the archetypal ecphrasis, influential on many later writers. In an extensive introduction, R. B. Rutherford discusses the themes, style and legacy of the book. The commentary provides line-by-line guidance for readers at all levels, addressing linguistic detail and larger questions of interpretation. A substantial appendix considers the relation between Iliad 18 and the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh, which has been prominent in much recent discussion.
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• INTRODUCTION
• 1. Date
• 2. Life and Biographical Tradition
• 3. Iambus and Elegy a) Iambus b) Elegy
• 4. Relationship with Other Genres a) Heroic Epic b) Wisdom Poetry
• 5. Blame, Abuse, and Morality
• 6. Animal Fable
• 7. Colonization and War
• 8. Sex and Desire
• 9. Style
• 10. Transmission and Reception a) Archaic and Classical Greece b) The Hellenistic Period c) Latin Literature d) Imperial Literature e) After Antiquity TEXT, APPARATUS CRITICUS, AND TRANSLATION COMMENTARY Endmatter Bibliography Index Locorum General Index.
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In antiquity Archilochus of Paros was considered a poet rivalled only by Homer and Hesiod, yet he has been relatively neglected by modern scholarship. This is largely due to the fragmentary state of his surviving poetry, though our knowledge has expanded significantly since the middle of the twentieth century as new papyrological finds continue to augment the corpus and our understanding of the poet and his work evolves. This volume is the first ever complete commentary on Archilochus, filling a substantial gap in scholarship on archaic Greek poetry and playing an important and timely role in re-establishing him as a major author and in locating the recent discoveries in the broader context of his oeuvre. Presenting the fragmentary texts alongside brand new translations, the volume also contains a comprehensive introduction offering an accessible guide to Archilochus' work and context, and a detailed commentary providing textual, literary, and historical analysis of all of his surviving poetry and discussing broader questions of performance and genre in early Greek poetic culture. The scope and depth of the analysis not only highlights the diversity and sophistication of Archilochus' work, but also sheds new light on our understanding of Greek iambus and elegy, while his influence on later writers means that the commentary will be of significance to scholars and students of Hellenistic and Roman literature, and the later lyric tradition, as well as archaic and classical Greek literature.
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A superb new edition of Epictetus's famed handbook on Stoicism--translated by one of the world's leading authorities on Stoic philosophy Born a slave, the Roman Stoic philosopher Epictetus (c. 55-135 AD) taught that mental freedom is supreme, since it can liberate one anywhere, even in a prison. In How to Be Free, A. A. Long--one of the world's leading authorities on Stoicism and a pioneer in its remarkable contemporary revival--provides a superb new edition of Epictetus's celebrated guide to the Stoic philosophy of life (the Encheiridion) along with a selection of related reflections in his Discourses. Freedom, for Epictetus, is not a human right or a political prerogative but a psychological and ethical achievement, a gift that we alone can bestow on ourselves. We can all be free, but only if we learn to assign paramount value to what we can control (our motivations and reactions), treat what we cannot control with equanimity, and view our circumstances as opportunities to do well and be well, no matter what happens to us through misfortune or the actions of other people. How to Be Free features splendid new translations and the original Greek on facing pages, a compelling introduction that sets Epictetus in context and describes the importance of Stoic freedom today, and an invaluable glossary of key words and concepts. The result is an unmatched introduction to this powerful method of managing emotions and handling life's situations, from the most ordinary to the most demanding.
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• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• General observations
• The profile of the Oidipous Turannos
• The legend of Oidipous before Sophokles
• Herodotean influence
• Delphic oracles
• Oidipous
• Kreon
• Iokaste
• The Priest
• The Chorus
• Perikles
• Aristotle on Oidipous
• Commentary
• The initial part (1-633)
• The central part (634-910)
• The last part (911-1530)
• Structural Summary
• Appendix : the end of the play (1424-1530)
• Bibliography
• Index.

Delves into the history of the ancient Greek work nomos to reveal the richness hidden in this key term for law and law-making. Collects a large number of ancient primary sources, bringing them together for the first time in the field of legal studies. Draws together critical insights on the legal idea of nomos from philological, linguistic, historical, archaeological and ancient and modern philosophical sources . Analyses the philosophies of Giorgio Agamben, Martin Heidegger, Carl Schmitt, Michel Foucault, Kostas Axelos, Jean-Luc Nancy and Gilles Deleuze as they relate to nomos.
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This volume is devoted to aspects of performance in Hellenistic poetry. This theme is approached from various angles. Although drama has long been regarded as typical of fifth century Athens, there is an increasing awareness among classical scholars of the importance of drama also for the Hellenistic period. In that period too drama was still written and performed, but at the same time it also was an important object of study and a source of inspiration for works in other genres, such as the epic of Apollonius Rhodius, for new literary forms like the idylls of Theocritus or the mimiambs of Herodas, or for literary experiments such as the extended messenger speech in the Alexandra of Lycophron. Besides, performance was never restricted to drama, but from the archaic period onwards was essential to the presentation of poetry to an audience and thus remained an integral part of Greek cultural life in all periods, also in times of increasing literacy like the Hellenistic period. Therefore in this volume also epic and didactic poetry as well as shorter works from, e.g., a cultic, ritual or sympotic sphere have been studied from the point of view of performance. The various articles show that the focus on performance is a fruitful perspective for looking at Hellenistic poetry.
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