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  • Von den Toren des Hades zu den Hallen des Olymp. Artemiskult bei Theokrit und Kallimachosby Ivana Slavkova Petrovic

    BRILL 2007; US$ 130.00

    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. more...

  • Berichtigungsliste der Griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, 12by H. A. Rupprecht

    BRILL 2009; US$ 203.00

    "The Berichtigungsliste der Griechisen Papyruskunden aus Agypten", compiled under the auspices of the 'Association Internationale de Papyrologues', is an indispensable tool for any editor or user of Greek papyrus documents. Like its predecessors, this eleventh volume lists, in alphabetical order of papyri, the new corrections of readings... more...

  • The World of Ion of Chiosby Victoria Jennings; Andrea Katsaros

    BRILL 2007; US$ 144.00

    Ion is important to any study of Classical Greece because of the literary innovations which he pioneered. This book offers a comprehensive examination of the life, works and reception of Ion of Chios, the prolific and innovative fifth century BC writer on classical Greek mythology, history and society. more...

  • Theios Sophistèsby Kristoffel Demoen; Danny Praet

    BRILL 2008; US$ 196.00

    In this collection of interpretative essays on Flavius Philostratus? Vita Apollonii , leading scholars and younger critics make for a combination of methodological continuity and innovation. The wide range of approaches does justice to the text?s high level of literary, historical and philosophical-religious sophistication. more...

  • Plato and Hesiodby G. R. Boys-Stones; J. H. Haubold

    OUP Oxford 2009; US$ 94.99

    It hardly needs repeating that Plato defined philosophy partly by contrast with the work of the poets. What is extraordinary is how little systematic exploration there has been of his relationship with specific poets other than Homer. This neglect extends even to Hesiod, though Hesiod is of central importance for the didactic tradition quite generally,... more...

  • Oresteiaby Aeschylus; Peter Meineck; Helene P. Foley

    Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2009; US$ 10.95

    Winner of the American Translators Association 2000 Lewis Galantière Award. Peter Meineck is Producing Artistic Director of The Aquila Theatre Company, Visiting Scholar at the Center for Ancient Studies, New York University and teaches Greek Drama at the Tisch School for the Arts. more...

  • Tierbilder aus dem ersten Jahrhundertby Ragnar Kinzelbach

    De Gruyter 2009; US$ 126.00

    The Artemidorus papyrus, originating from Alexandria at the beginning of the 1st century A.D., contains on its verso 41 drawings by one hand, thereof 38 sketches of animals (some comprising two species each,thus resulting in 44 species), most of them labelled withtheir Greek names. As visible fromthe ?title? on the papyrus itself, it presents terrestrial... more...

  • Menanders "Kolax"by Matthias Johannes Pernerstorfer

    De Gruyter 2009; US$ 147.00

    Menander?s Kolax (The Flatterer) was very popular in the Ancient World and played a central role in the history of the parasite on the comic stage. This volume provides an edition and a translation of the fragments and testimonies. A dramaturgical commentary, chapters on the sources, on the number of parasites and on the date, as well as notes on terminological... more...

  • Ancient Greek Lyricsby Willis Barnstone

    Indiana University Press 2010; US$ 16.95

    Ancient Greek Lyrics collects Willis Barnstone's elegant translations of Greek lyric poetry -- including the most complete Sappho in English, newly translated. This volume includes a representative sampling of all the significant poets, from Archilochos, in the 7th century BCE, through Pindar and the... more...

  • Lexicographica (2009)by Ulrich Heid; Stefan Schierholz; Wolfgang Schweickard

    Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2009; US$ 203.00

    Published annually since 1985, the International Yearbook of Lexicography contains the following sections: Essays, Discussions, Conference Proceedings, Work-in-Progress, Reviews and a current bibliography of periodical articles dedicated to lexicography. The essay section consists of both subject-related and a non-thematic parts. Lexicographica is... more...