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The story of Apollonius King of Tyre has rightly been called the most popular romance of the Middle Ages. From Iceland to Greece, from Spain to Russia, versions of this novel are recorded. It is the variation among the Latin versions and the numerous vernacular adaptations that make this story especially interesting. Shakespeare used and adapted it in his Pericles, Prince of Tyre. Its plot continues to fascinate us. Incest, deception, pirates, famine, sex and shipwreck form its tasty ingredients. Its links with the Greek novel, which today stands in the centre of scholarly interest, are striking. In this commentary the author even attempts to show that the novel originated in Greece, or more precisely Asia Minor, possibly inTarsus. The two recensions (RA and RB) are compared line by line, generally given preference to RA. All these aspects make the present book attractive to scholars of many different disciplines.
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The story of Apollonius King of Tyre has rightly been called the most popular romance of the Middle Ages. From Iceland to Greece, from Spain to Russia, versions of this novel are recorded. It is the variation among the Latin versions and the numerous vernacular adaptations that make this story especially interesting. Shakespeare used and adapted it in his Pericles, Prince of Tyre. Its plot continues to fascinate us. Incest, deception, pirates, famine, sex and shipwreck form its tasty ingredients. Its links with the Greek novel, which today stands in the centre of scholarly interest, are striking. In this commentary the author even attempts to show that the novel originated in Greece, or more precisely Asia Minor, possibly inTarsus. The two recensions (RA and RB) are compared line by line, generally given preference to RA. All these aspects make the present book attractive to scholars of many different disciplines.
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• Vorwort; Bibliographische Notiz, Sigla und Abkürzungen; Kapitel I Einleitung: Ziel, Gegenstand, Methode; Kapitel II Zum Epigramm als literarischer Gattung in der spätarchaischen und klassischen Zeit; Kapitel III Echtheit: Simonides, [Simonides] und Simonideisches
• Kapitel IV Quellen der simonideischen Epigramme; Kapitel V Sammlungen der simonideischen Epigramme; Kapitel VI; Kapitel VII Abschließende Überlegungen; Kapitel VIII Anhänge; Literaturverzeichnis; Incipit-Liste und Indices Incipit-Liste.

"The commentary is concerned with 15 verse inscriptions, the composition of which was probably commissioned from Simonides. The commentaries on the individual inscriptions, taking their historical, literary, and architectural contexts into consideration, follow the discussion of the archaic and classical epigrams in the first part of the book."--Jacket.

• Vorwort; Einleitung; Kapitel I: Theokrits Behandlung der Magischen Praktiken im Zweiten Idyll; Kapitel II: Die Prozession im zweiten Idyll; Kapitel III: Die Hymnen des Kallimachos; Kapitel IV: Hymnos auf Artemis; Appendix; Zusammenfassung und Wertung der Ergebnisse; Abkürzungsverzeichnis und Bibliographïe; Personen- und Sachregister; Ortsregister der Erwähnten Artemiskulte; Stellenregister: Antike Autoren; Stellenregister: Inschriften; Stellenregister: Papyri.

Investigates the reception of contemporary religion in Hellenistic poetry and analyses the treatment of the cult of Artemis - taken as paradigmatic - in Theocritus' second Idyll and Callimachus' Hymns. This monograph aims to advance scholarly understanding of the contextualization and transformation of religious motifs in Hellenistic literature.

The third in a series that explores cultural and ethical values in Classical antiquity, this volume examines the dichotomy between 'city' and 'country' in ancient Greek and Roman cultures. Fourteen papers address a variety of topics on this theme, and include a variety of methodological approaches-archaeological, iconographic, literary and philosophical. The book demonstrates that, despite a common rhetoric of polarity in antiquity that tended to construct city and countryside as very distinct, oppositional categories, there was far less consistency (and far more nuance) about the ideologies felt to inhere in each.
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• Cover
• Contents
• LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
• CHAPTER ONE GENERAL INTRODUCTION
• Ineke Sluiter and Ralph M. Rosen
• 1. Introduction
• CHAPTER TWO CITY-COUNTRY RELATIONSHIPS IN THE 8216; NORMAL POLIS8217;
• John Bintliff
• CHAPTER THREE ON THE BORDER: SACRED LAND AND THE MARGINS OF THE COMMUNITY
• Jeremy McInerney
• CHAPTER FOUR LACK OF BOUNDARIES, ABSENCE OF OPPOSITIONS: THE CITY-COUNTRYSIDE CONTINUUM OF A GREEK PANTHEON
• Irene Polinskaya
• CHAPTER FIVE FARMING, AUTHORITY, AND TRUTH-TELLING IN THE GREEK TRADITION
• Sheila Murnaghan
• CHAPTER SIX HERODOTUS ON SURVIVAL: CITY OR COUNTRYSIDE?
• Angus Bowie
• CHAPTER SEVEN AT HOME, ROUND HERE, OUT THERE: THE CITY AND TRAGIC SPACE
• D.M. Carter
• CHAPTER EIGHT THE WALL IN ARISTOPHANES8217; BIRDS
• Jennifer Clarke Kosak
• CHAPTER NINE AGROIKIA AND PLEASURE IN ARISTOTLE
• Helen Cullyer
• CHAPTER TEN COMIC AISCHROLOGY AND THE URBANIZATION OF AGROIKIA
• Ralph M. Rosen
• CHAPTER ELEVEN HORACE8217; S GARDEN THOUGHTS: RURAL RETREATS AND THE URBAN IMAGINATION
• Diana Spencer
• CHAPTER TWELVE DIDO IN HER SETTINGS: CARTHAGE AND ENVIRONS
• Rachel Hall Sternberg
• CHAPTER THIRTEEN CITY AND COUNTRYSIDE IN VERGIL8217; S ECLOGUES
• Mathilde Skoie
• CHAPTER FOURTEEN MARTIAL BETWEEN ROME AND BILBILIS
• Elena Merli
• CHAPTER FIFTEEN THE BEARDED RUSTIC OF ROMAN ATTICA
• Celina L. Gray
• I INDEX OF GREEK TERMS
• II INDEX OF LATIN TERMS
• III INDEX LOCORUM
• IV GENERAL INDEX.

The third in a series that explores cultural and ethical values in Classical antiquity, this volume examines the dichotomy between 'city' and 'country' in ancient Greek and Roman cultures. Fourteen papers address a variety of topics on this theme, and include a variety of methodological approaches-archaeological, iconographic, literary and philosophical. The book demonstrates that, despite a common rhetoric of polarity in antiquity that tended to construct city and countryside as very distinct, oppositional categories, there was far less consistency (and far more nuance) about the ideologies felt to inhere in each.
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The reign of the Flavian emperors (69-96) saw the production of a large and varied body of Latin poetry: the epics of Valerius Flaccus, Silius Italicus and Statius, the Silvae of the same Statius, and the "Epigrams" of Martial. This poetry, long seen as derivative or decadent, is now increasingly appreciated for the daring originality of its responses both to the Latin literary tradition and to the contemporary Roman world. In the summer of 2003, the first-ever international conference on Flavian poetry, was held at Groningen, The Netherlands, bringing together leading scholars in the field from Europe, North America and Australasia. This volume offers a selection of the papers delivered on that occasion.
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This book considers the relationship between the "Fasti", Ovid's long poem on the Roman calendar, and the calendar itself, conceived of as consisting both in the rites and commemorations it organizes and in its graphic representation. The Fasti treats the calendar, recently revised by Caesar and Augustus, as its most important cultural model and as a quasi-literary 'intertext': the poem simultaneously reshapes and is itself shaped by the calendar. The study includes chapters on Book 4 and the rites of April, on the addition of Julio-Claudian holidays to the calendar, and on the final two books of the poem as shaped by the renaming of the months Quintilis and Sextilis for Julius Caesar and Augustus.
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This volume is the first comprehensive commentary on the fourth book of Martial's epigrams. The introduction discusses its date of publication, major themes (Domitian, literature, death), the arrangement and form of the epigrams, and some issues concerning the transmission of the text. Of special note is the author's study of the structure of the book. The commentary, preceded by the Latin critical text and an English translation, aims to provide readers with as much pertinent information as possible to enable them to fully comprehend the epigrams. Attention is paid to style and literary tradition, as well as to realia. Both each individual epigram and the book as a whole are studied as finely accomplished works of art.
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This volume investigates the transmission and ancient reception of ancient Greek texts with musical notation. It provides a reconstruction of the dynamics of reception orienting the re-use and re-shaping of musical and poetic tradition in the entertainment culture of the post-classical Greek world. The study makes full use of literary, papyrological and epigraphic evidence, and in particular includes a detailed philological analysis of surviving musical papyri and of their relationship to the editorial activity of Alexandrian scholarship. The study helps to relocate musical documents in the world of their production and reception.
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This volume offers a range of innovative approaches to Solon of Athens, legendary law-giver, statesman, and poet of the early sixth century B.C. In the first part, Solon's poetry is reconsidered against the background of oral poetics and other early Greek poetry. The connection between Solon's alleged roles as poet and as politician is fundamentally questioned. Part two offers a reassessment of Solon's laws based on a revision of the textual tradition and recent views on early Greek lawgiving. In part three, fresh scrutiny of the archeological and written evidence of archaic Greece results in new perspectives on the agricultural crisis and Solon's role in the social and political developments of sixth-century Athens. Originally published in hardcover.
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• Cover13;
• Copyright13;
• Dedication13;
• Contents13;
• Acknowledgments13;
• Notes on Abbreviations, Texts and Translations
• Introduction13;
• Part I Solon the Poet
• Chapter One: Have we Solon's Verses?
• Chapter Two: The Transgressive Elegy of Solon?13;
• Chapter Three: Solon's Self-Reflexive Political Persona and its Audience13;
• Chapter Four: Poetics and Politics
• Chapter Five: Strategies of Persuasion in Solon's Elegies13;
• Chapter Six: Solon in No Man's Land13;
• Part II Solon the Lawgiver13;
• Chapter Seven: Identifying Solonian Laws13;
• Chapter Eight: Solon's Funerary Laws
• Chapter Nine: The Reforms and Laws of Solon
• Chapter Ten: Legal Procedure in Solon's Laws13;
• Chapter Eleven: The Figure of Solon in the Authenaion Politeia13;
• Chapter Twelve: Solon and the Spirit of the Laws in Archaic and Classical Greece13;
• Part III Solon the Athenian13;
• Chapter Thirteen: Solon's Reforms
• Chapter Fourteen: Land, Labor and Economy in Solonian Athens
• Chapter Fifteen: Mass and Elite in Solon's Athens
• Chapter Sixteen: Athenian and Spartan Eunomia, or
• Chapter Seventeen: Plutarch's Solon
• Chapter Eighteen: Solon and the Horoi
• Appendix: A Selection of Solonian Poetry13;
• Notes on Contributors13;
• Index of Passages13;
• Index of Subjects13;
• Index of Names and Places13.

This volume offers a range of innovative approaches to Solon of Athens, legendary law-giver, statesman, and poet of the early sixth century B.C. In the first part, Solon's poetry is reconsidered against the background of oral poetics and other early Greek poetry. The connection between Solon's alleged roles as poet and as politician is fundamentally questioned. Part two offers a reassessment of Solon's laws based on a revision of the textual tradition and recent views on early Greek lawgiving. In part three, fresh scrutiny of the archeological and written evidence of archaic Greece results in new perspectives on the agricultural crisis and Solon's role in the social and political developments of sixth-century Athens. Originally published in hardcover.
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This is the first detailed commentary on "Aeneid 3", being some three times the size of that by R.D.Williams (1962), and aimed at the scholarly public. It treats fully the thorny problem of Book 3's place in the growth of the poem, matters of linguistic and textual interpretation, metre, prosody, grammar, lexicon and idiom, as well as Virgil's sources and the literary tradition in which he writes. Full attention is given to matters geographical and nautical. New critical approaches and recent developments in Virgilian studies have been taken into account, with more attention to their spirit than to their language. A text, with translation, and three indices are included.
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This study describes the usage of subclauses and participial clauses in Xenophon's Hellenica and Anabasis, with additional examples from other texts, using a text grammar-oriented approach, which can map more factors underlying the distribution of these clauses, and offers a more satisfactory explanation of a larger number of instances than is possible using the traditional sentence-level approach. The discourse-analytic description of the different clause types focuses on how relations are coded by means of subordinating conjunctions, the differences in form and function as discourse boundary markers between preposed, sentence-initially placed subclauses and participles, and the differences between clause types with respect to the information flow in on-going discourse. The discussion of many examples from the work of Xenophon makes this book interesting for both linguists and classical philologists.
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This volume is intended to accompany the new Oxford edition of Plato's Republic, published in 2003. It is based on a series of ten articles in Mnemosyne, dating from 1988 to 2003. It contains discussions of textual problems of various kinds. Much attention is paid to Plato's use of particles, to the moods and tenses of the verb, and to pragmatics and style. Moreover, the transmission of the text receives ample attention. The book is highly recommended for users of the new edition of the Republic, for those interested in the transmission of the Platonic corpus and in Platonic Greek and for students of linguistics in general.
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This volume offers a historical and factual commentary on Herodotus book 6. The introductory discussions include one on the background to the Ionian revolt and the role of Histiaeus. The commentary aims to assess the reality behind Herodotus' text: the revolt and its aftermath; the various aspects of Spartan affairs in the middle of the book; Datis' invasion of Eretria and Attica; and Miltiades' expedition the following year. Material that cannot conveniently be dealt with in the commentary itself, and a number of related topics that merit consideration, are considered in a series of appendices. These include discussions of Cleomenes' madness in relation to his activities in Arcadia, and the Argive reaction to his victory at Sepeia.
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This book deals with political propoganda in classical antiquity, exploring the contexts, strategies, and parameters of a fascinating phenomenon that has often been approached with anachronistic models (such as the centrally organized 'propaganda machines' of the 20th-century totalitarian regimes) or completely ignored. It offers case studies on the archaic period, classical Athens, the Hellenistic kingdoms, the Augustan age and the late Roman empire, and emphasizes concepts such as interaction, integration, and horizontal orientation.
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• Propaganda in Pindar's first Pythian ode / Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer
• Choral agons in democratic Athens, 510-400 B.C. / Simon R. Slings
• Propaganda and competition in Athenian oratory / C. Carey
• Kings against Celts : deliverance from barbarians as a theme in Hellenistic royal propaganda / Rolf Strootman
• Who are 'we'? : towards propagandistic mechanism and purpose of Caesar's Bellum gallicum / Stephan Busch
• Epic prophecy as imperial propaganda? : Jupiter's first speech in Virgil's Aeneid / Karl A.E. Enenkel
• The Creation of an imperial tradition : ideological aspects of the house of Augustus / Paul G.P. Meyboom
• The propagation of fortitudo : gladiatorial combats from ca. 85 B.C. to the times of Trajan and their reflection in Roman literature / Karl A.E. Enenkel
• The panegyrical inventio : a rhetorical analysis of Panegyricus latinus V / Susanna de Beer.