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Pater the Classicist is the first book to address in detail Walter Pater's important contribution to the study of classical antiquity. Widely considered our greatest aesthetic critic and now best known as a precursor to modernist writers and post-modernist thinkers of...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-03-02
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Pater the Classicist is the first book to address in detail Walter Pater's important contribution to the study of classical antiquity. Widely considered our greatest aesthetic critic and now best known as a precursor to modernist writers and post-modernist thinkers of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-02-23
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Greek Fragments in Postmodern Frames takes as its subject adaptation ofGreek tragedy in the last decades, arguing that rewritings ofGreek tragic texts in this period can be used as a tool to uncover a significant dialogue with postmodernism. Despite the large number of...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-12-22
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Greek Fragments in Postmodern Frames takes as its subject adaptation ofGreek tragedy in the last decades, arguing that rewritings ofGreek tragic texts in this period can be used as a tool to uncover a significant dialogue with postmodernism. Despite the large number of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-12-22
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The Reception of the Homeric Hymns is a collection of original essays exploring the reception of the Homeric Hymns and other early hexameter poems in the literature and scholarship of the first century BC and beyond.
Although much work has been done on the Hymns over...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-11-17
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The Reception of the Homeric Hymns is a collection of original essays exploring the reception of the Homeric Hymns and other early hexameter poems in the literature and scholarship of the first century BC and beyond.
Although much work has been done on the Hymns over...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-11-17
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Prudentius and the Landscapes of Late Antiquity offers a thematic analysis of the poetry of the late Latin poet Prudentius, focusing in particular on his descriptions of the geographical and cultural landscapes of late antiquity.
Cillian O'Hogan setsPrudentius in the...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-09-22
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The symposion is arguably the most significant and well-documented context for the performance, transmission, and criticism of archaic and classical Greek poetry, a distinction attested by its continued hold on the poetic imagination even after its demise as a...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-09-22
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Prudentius and the Landscapes of Late Antiquity offers a thematic analysis of the poetry of the late Latin poet Prudentius, focusing in particular on his descriptions of the geographical and cultural landscapes of late antiquity.
Cillian O'Hogan setsPrudentius in the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-09-15
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The symposion is arguably the most significant and well-documented context for the performance, transmission, and criticism of archaic and classical Greek poetry, a distinction attested by its continued hold on the poetic imagination even after its demise as a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-09-08
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This monograph is a literary study of Lycophron's Alexandra, whose obscurity, a quality notorious already in antiquity, has long hampered holistic approaches. Through a series of distinct but closely integrated literary studies of major aspects of the poem, including...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-06-24
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This monograph is a literary study of Lycophron's Alexandra, whose obscurity, a quality notorious already in antiquity, has long hampered holistic approaches. Through a series of distinct but closely integrated literary studies of major aspects of the poem, including...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-04-21
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The Octavia is the only surviving historical drama from ancient Rome. With a plot rich in sex, dynastic intrigue, riots, and murder, the play's characters include the philosopher Seneca, the emperor Nero, the ghost of his murdered mother, his wife Octavia, and his...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-12-03
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Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, an exuberant form of festival drama which flourished in Athens during the fifth century BC. One of the most original playwrights in the entire Western tradition, his comedies are remarkable for their...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-11-12
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Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, an exuberant form of festival drama which flourished in Athens during the fifth century BC. One of the most original playwrights in the entire Western tradition, his comedies are remarkable for their...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-11-12
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Wonder Woman. Asterix the Gaul. Watchmen. These popular comics, and many others, use classical sources, narrative patterns, and references to enrich their imaginative worlds and deepen the stories they present. This volume explores that rich interaction. Son of Classics...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-10-01
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'If you're one of those terribly serious readers, now is a good time to leave.'
The poet we call Martial, Marcus Valerius Martialis, lived by his wits in first-century Rome. Pounding the mean streets of the Empire's capital, he takes apart the pretensions, addictions,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-06-11
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'Athena seized the writhing serpent and hurled it into the sky, and fixed it to the very pole of the heavens.'
The constellations we recognize today were first mapped by the ancient Greeks, who arranged the stars into patterns for that purpose. In the third century BC...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-05-14
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'Athena seized the writhing serpent and hurled it into the sky, and fixed it to the very pole of the heavens.'
The constellations we recognize today were first mapped by the ancient Greeks, who arranged the stars into patterns for that purpose. In the third century BC...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-05-14
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Many scholars today believe that early Greek literature, as represented by the great poems of Homer and Hesiod, was to some extent inspired by texts from the neighbouring civilizations of the ancient Near East, especially Mesopotamia. It is true that, in the case of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-04-30
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