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Nemesian, ?Cynegetika?
De Gruyter 2013; US$ 112.00Nemesianus?s didactic poem about hunting, written in 283-84 AD, is based in its structure and conception on Vergil?s Georgics, the classical model for the genre. In its presentation of hunting as a leisure sport, the Cynegetica provides an un-heroic counterpoint to earlier hunting poems. This new critical edition includes extensive and detailed philological... more...
Triphiodorus, "The Sack of Troy"
De Gruyter 2013; US$ 182.00This work offers an updated commentary of Triphiodorus? Sack of Troy, furnished with a thorough introduction. The reliable and long-lasting companion fills a gap in the scholarship on Imperial epic, giving a comprehensive approach to the poem for the benefit of researchers and other interested readers in search either of an updated and informed general... more...
The Shadow of Creusa
De Gruyter 2014; US$ 182.00Anders Cullhed?s studyexplores the early Christian confrontation with pagan culture as a remote anticipation of many later clashes between religious orthodoxy and literary fictionality. After a careful survey of Saint Augustine?s long drawn-out farewell to ancient myth and poetry, Cullhed examines other Late Antique dismissals as well as appropriations... more...
Der Dialog in der Antike
De Gruyter 2013; US$ 154.00Gegenstand des Bandes ist der antike Dialog als Gattung, wobei der Schwerpunkt der 17 Beiträge auf dem Verhältnis von Form, Inhalt und Funktion, also auf deren literarischen Aspekten liegt. Insofern die Fortüne des literarischen Dialogs über die Antike hinaus bis in die Moderne reicht, richtet sich der Sammelband gleichermaßen an Altertumswissenschaftler... more...
Ope ingenii
De Gruyter 2013; US$ 84.00This is an original collection of exemplary emendations made by ancient and modern scholars. Single examples are analysed in order to extract a method of emendation. The author reviews some attractive interventions which offer a model of textual criticism: a kind of ideal museum of critical intelligence applied to corruptions or cryptocorruptions which... more...
Virgil, Aeneid 6
De Gruyter 2013; US$ 238.00Working ?in the shadow of Eduard Norden? in the author?s own words, Nicholas Horsfall has written his own monumental commentary on Aeneid 6. This is Horsfall?s fifth large-scale commentary on the Aeneid, and as his earlier commentaries on books 7, 11, 3, and 2, this is not a commentary aimed at undergraduates. Horsfall is a commentators? commentator... more...
The Shaping of Narrative in Polybius
De Gruyter 2013; US$ 112.00In his attempt to explain Rome?s rise to world power, Polybius composed a carefully structured narrative. Yet, despite its sophistication, Polybius? narrative artistry has received little scholarly attention. This study is the first book-length narratological analysis of the Histories. It contributes to our understanding of its content and purpose... more...
The Epic Trickster in American Literatue
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 125.00Just as Africa and the West have traditionally fit into binaries of Darkness/Enlightenment, Savage/Modern, Ugly/Beautiful, and Ritual/Art, among others, much of Western cultural production rests upon the archetypal binary of Trickster/Epic, with trickster aesthetics and commensurate cultural forms characterizing Africa. Challenging this binary and... more...
The Roman Book
Bloomsbury Publishing 2009; US$ 26.99The publishing of Roman books has long and often been misrepresented by false analogies with modern publishing. This comprehensive new study examines, by appeal to what Roman authors themselves tell us, both the raw materials and aesthetic criteria of the Roman book (a papyrus scroll) and the process of literary composition. What was the 'scribal... more...









