• 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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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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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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• 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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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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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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The Libation Bearers (Choephori) of Aeschylus is the central tragedy of his Oresteia, the only Greek trilogy that survives in full and one of the acknowledged masterpieces of Greek literature. The play enacts and explores in profound detail the unsettling myth of Orestes, the young hero who was obliged to avenge the murder of his father Agamemnon by killing his mother Clytemnestra. The standard commentary, by A. F. Garvie, is intended for advanced students and professional scholars and makes few concessions to the less experienced. This edition, while taking full account of the latest advances in scholarship and criticism, seeks to make the play accessible to a much wider range of readers. Besides an introduction and bibliography it includes a newly constituted Greek text (with critical apparatus), a facing translation closely matched to this, and a commentary keyed to the translation. The commentary seeks to interpret the play at all levels, not avoiding detailed issues of textual criticism and the meaning of individual words but also exploring the play's imagery, questions of stagecraft and dramatic effect, the poet's use of existing mythical and poetic material, and the wider significance of the play in relation to the rest of the trilogy.
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This is the first Oxford Classical Text of the speeches of Antiphon and Andocides, two Athenian orators of the fifth century BCE. An influential statesman, Antiphon of Rhamnus also wrote speeches for clients in court cases, of which three are extant, and three tetralogies consisting of speeches for hypothetical murder trials arguing for both prosecution and defence. The first oration of Andocides is our principal source about two scandals from the eve of the Athenian expedition against Syracuse in 415, while his second and third speeches shed light on his later exile and diplomatic efforts between Athens and Sparta. The volume also includes a fourth speech, falsely attributed to Andocides, which vigorously pillories the early career of Alcibiades up to a point just before he, like Andocides, was accused of mutilating herms and profaning the Eleusinian Mysteries in 415. Based on a comprehensive study of the manuscript tradition, this critical edition aims to set the standard for a definitive text of the speeches that will serve for the next century. Taking into account all the significant manuscript evidence as well as the most compelling corrections proposed by scholars, it also incorporates testimony from other ancient authors to establish the text of these earliest representatives of Attic oratory.

• Introduction a. Preface b. Date and Authorship 1 c. Manuscript Tradition d. Our Poem e. The Tradition of Fable f. Epic Parody g. Parodic Epic h. Homeric Language and Meter i. Date and Authorship 2 j. A Note on Translation k. Works Cited Greek Text English Translation Commentary Vocabulary.
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This book offers students of Greek and scholars interested in Greek literature the first English-language commentary on the "Battle of Frogs and Mice", a short animal epic ascribed to Homer in the ancient world. The book includes a contextualizing introduction covering issues of literary genre, literary history and the language of Homeric Greek. In addition to a revised Greek text, the volume also offers a new translation of the poem. The commentary furnishes readers with extensive linguistic and literary information so that they may investigate the problem of the poem's character and authorship on their own. A full vocabulary at the back ensures this is a one-stop shop for students reading the poem.
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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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• FRONTMATTER-- INTRODUCTION-- TEXT AND COMMENTARY-- ENDMATTER.
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Relatively little is known of the life of Crinagoras of Mytilene: a Greek epigrammatist and diplomat who lived between the first centuries BC and AD, he was despatched to Rome as part of the embassies to Julius Caesar and Octavian, was held in high regard by his contemporaries, and divided his life between his home of Mytilene and the centre of the Roman Empire, where he was acquainted with the family of the emperor Augustus. Much of the detail we have to flesh out this brief account comes from his poems, which, in keeping with the genre, draw extensively on his personal experience and on the events of the day to provide a key source for the circumstances of his life. They are also eloquent and dynamic in their own right, and as a corpus they cover a wide thematic range: many were inspired by contemporary political or military events or by personal experiences, observations, or contemplation, though they also include several sepulchral epigrams concerning the deaths of persons the poet knew, and many which were composed as notes to be sent with gifts to friends or acquaintances. This new edition collects together all fifty-one of the surviving epigrams which have come down to us as part of the Greek Anthology. Presented here in a new critical text alongside engaging English translations, they are analysed in detail in an incisive introduction and exegetic word-by-word commentary, both as individual poems and as part of the corpus as a whole. With discussion throughout covering not only textual and stylistic matters, but also literary and historical context and Crinagoras' place within his social and cultural milieu, this edition provides a guide to the life and work of this understudied poet which is both authoritative and accessible.
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