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"The Batrachomyomachia (Battle of the Frogs and Mice) is a Hellenistic pastiche of Homer's Iliad which was often attributed to Homer himself by later commentators. As a parody of epic battle narrative it is quite unlike anything else that survives in full from antiquity; however, despite its popular and influential reception throughout much of history from the Roman period onwards, the advent of the twentieth century saw it largely dismissed and overlooked as a curio. This volume presents a new critical edition of the poem, comprising an introduction, Greek text and English verse translation, and line-by-line commentary, which aims to rehabilitate its image and return it to the centre of scholarly attention by mapping out the wide range of metaliterary jokes, references, and parodies concealed within the apparently simple and childish story. The Greek text is entirely new, based on a fresh collation of the nine most important early manuscripts as well as on the work of previous editors. All verses which appear in these manuscripts are included - those which do not belong in the main text are presented separately at the foot of each page - and are accompanied by a full apparatus criticus and a new facing verse translation, which aims to strike a balance between precision and readability. A comprehensive introduction thoroughly orients readers in the poem's historical and literary context, covering its (highly uncertain) date and disputed authorship, its relationship with the wider genre of 'parody', its language and metre, and its reception and influence up to the present day, among other topics. The commentary forms the largest part of the volume, offering detailed discussion of linguistic, stylistic, and thematic questions, as well as guiding readers through the complex network of references to Homer and Hellenistic poetry and breaking down the textual problems for which the poem is so notorious"--Jacket.

• Volumen I. A-D
• volumen II (in 2 parts). E-O
• volumen IIa. E-I
• volumen IIb. K-O

• Volumen I. Α-Δ
• volumen II (in 2 parts). E-Ο
• volumen IIa. E-I
• volumen IIb. K-O.

Angelo Poliziano (1454-1494) was one of the great scholar-poets of the Italian Renaissance and the leading literary figure of Florence in the age of Lorenzo de' Medici, "il Magnifico." The poet's Miscellanies, including a "first century" published in 1489 and a "second century" unfinished at his death, constitute the most innovative contribution to classical philology of the Renaissance. Each chapter is a mini-essay on some lexical or textual problem which Poliziano, drawing on the riches of the Medici Library and Lorenzo's collection of antiquities, solves with his characteristic mixture of deep learning, analytic skill, and brash criticism of his predecessors. Volume 1 presents a new Latin edition of The First Century of the Miscellanies, and these volumes together present the first translation of both collections into any modern language.
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A comprehensive edition and commentary of a late antique codex Mathematics, Metrology, and Model Contracts is a comprehensive edition and commentary of a late antique codex. The codex contains mathematical problems, metrological tables, and model contracts. Given the nature of the contents, the format, and quality of the Greek, the editors conclude that the codex most likely belonged to a student in a school devoted to training business agents and similar professionals. The editors present here the first full scholarly edition of the text, with complete discussions of the provenance, codicology, and philology of the surviving manuscript. They also provide extensive notes and illustrations for the mathematical problems and model contracts, as well as historical commentary on what this text reveals about late antique numeracy, literacy, education, and vocational training in what we would now see as business, law, and administration. The book will be of interest to papyrologists and scholars who are interested in the history and culture of late antiquity, the history of education, literacy, the ancient economy, and the history of science and mathematics.
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• Introduction--
• 1. Elegy and iambus as poetic forms--
• 2. Performance and mobility--
• 3. Poets and personae--
• 4. Society and culture--
• 5. Language, style, metre--
• 6. Transmission of the text-- Greek elegy and Iambus: A Selection: Archilochus-- Semonides-- Callinus-- Tyrtaeus-- Mimnermus-- Solon-- Theognis-- Xenophanes-- Hipponax-- Simonides-- Commentary.
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Elegy and iambus are major forms of Greek literature which are crucial to understanding the Archaic and early Classical periods in particular. This edition gathers work by ten poets: two iambic (Semonides and Hipponax), six elegiac (Callinus, Tyrtaeus, Mimnermus, Theognis, Xenophanes, Simonides), and two writing in both forms (Archilochus and Solon). It explores a representative sample of each poet's surviving work, while also highlighting their variety, and provides an up-to-date commentary on major pieces, including recent discoveries such as Simonides' Plataea elegy and Archilochus' Telephus elegy. The wide-ranging Introduction discusses such issues as poet and persona, contexts of performance, and various cultural themes (expansion and contact with foreign cultures, social and political revolution, sexuality and gender, rationalism) as well as language, style, metre, and textual transmission. The volume will be of interest to upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, as well as to scholars of early Greek literature and cultural history.
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• Frontmatter Bibliographical Note List of Abbreviations Introduction The contents of Q.'s PH Q.'s dates and context Q.'s sources and models The end of the epic: contrasts, continuity, closure Note on the manuscript tradition Text and Apparatus Commentary Endmatter Bibliography Index.
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The Posthomerica, a Greek epic by Quintus of Smyrna believed to have been written in the third century AD, tells the story of the Trojan War beginning with the events immediately following the end of the narrative of the Iliad. Valued as one of the few surviving detailed poetic accounts of this period, Book 14, the final book of the poem, covers the events that take place the day after the sack of Troy, from Helen's return to Menelaus and the sacrifice of Polyxena, to the homeward journey of the victorious Greeks, which is abruptly interrupted by a divine storm. This detailed commentary divides the text of Posthomerica 14 into smaller narrative units, introducing each with an overview of the relevant literary tradition and a discussion of Quintus' possible direct models. There follows a line-by-line commentary addressing points of literary, stylistic, lexicographic, and textual-critical interest, and providing readers with a range of notes on background and vocabulary. The aim throughout is to illuminate the main features of Quintus' poetry and to offer as full an interpretation as possible of Posthomerica 14 within its literary context and in dialogue with the earlier tradition, in particular the diction, motifs, and narrative and literary techniques of the Homeric poems and the epic tradition more generally. For readers new to the Posthomerica, the volume also includes a thorough and up-to-date introduction offering an accessible overview of the poem's content, dates, context, models, and possible sources, including both the Epic Cycle and Latin literature.
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• Introduction / Jacqueline Klooster
• A Lost Pavane for a Dead Princess : Call. fr. 228 Pf. / Benjamin Acosta-Hughes
• Thanks Again to Aristaenetus : The Tale of Phrygius and Pieria in Callimachus' Aetia (Frs. 80-83b Harder) through the Eyes of a Late-Antique Epistolographer / Peter Bing
• Callimachus and Longus / Ewen Bowie
• The Near Eastern Background of Aetiological Wordplay in Callimachus / James J. Clauss
• The Reception of Callimachus in Meleager / Kathryn Gutzwiller
• From Scamander to Demeter : Allusions to Homer in the Sixth Hymn of Callimachus / Annette Harder
• Callimachus Ep. 32 Pf. (Ap 12.148) and Menippus of Gadara / Alex Hardie
• Reading and Citing the Epigrams of Callimachus / Richard Hunter
• New Borders of Fiction? : Callimachean Aetiology as a Narrative Device in Ovid's Metamorphoses / Robert Kirstein
• Your Own Personal Library of Alexandria : Callimachus' Scholarly Works and their Readers / Jan Kwapisz & Katarzyna Pietruczuk
• Poetically Erect : The Female Oriented Humor in Callimachus' Hymn to Demeter / Jackie Murray
• The Didactic Callimachus and the Homeric Nicander : Reading the Aetia Through the Theriacal / Floris Overduin
• Poetry for the New Goddess : A Gift that Keeps on Giving / Ivana Petrovic
• Some Aspects of Closure in Callimachus' Epigrams / Alexander Sens
• Denarrating the Narratable in the Aetia : A Postmodern Take on Callimachean Aesthetics / Evina Sistakou
• Celebrating the Games / Susan Stephens
• Did Erysichthon Eat the Cat? : Some Reflections on Call. H.6.110 / Frederick Williams
• Index rerum et nominum
• Index locorum.

This special volume of the Hellenistica Groningana, in honour of the achievements and career of Professor M.A. Harder revisits the poetry of Callimachus (theme of two earlier Hellenistic Workshops). A number of renowned international scholars in the field of Hellenistic studies reflect on new perspectives in Callimachean scholarship, inspired among other by Annette Harder's 2012 edition of Callimachus' Aetia. Their questions aim to contextualize and analyze Callimachus' poetry in novel ways, inspired by both new literary theory and historical insights and a solid body of existing scholarship. How do Callimachus' learned elegies relate to the genre of didactic poetry? How do his aetiological narratives straddle the border between fiction and reality? What is their basis in Hellenistic scholarship, and in Near Eastern or Egyptian poetic traditions? How and why do later Greek poets incorporate Callimachean poetics, and so facilitate his reception in Latin poetry? What is Callimachus' attitude to gods and divine rulers in his hymnic poetry? These and many more questions are addressed, creating new perspectives in Callimachean scholarship, as the title indicates.
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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.