During a stopover of the Argo in Mysia, the boy Hylas sets out to fetch water for his companion Hercules. Wandering into the woods, he arrives at a secluded spring, inhabited by nymphs who fail in love with him and pull him into the water. Mad with worry, Hercules stays in Mysia…
Latin plays were written for audiences whose gender perspectives and expectations were shaped by life in Rome, and the crowds watching the plays included both female citizens and female slaves. Relationships between men and women, ideas of masculinity and femininity, the stock c…
Classics and Feminism is the first book-length study of the impact of modern feminism on the discipline and profession of classics in the United States. Combining a wide-ranging overview of historical and current developments with in-depth analysis and examples, the book has rel…
"Pliny's letters offer a significant source of information about the lives of Roman women (predominantly, though not exclusively, upper-class women) during the late first and early second centuries CE. In the 368 letters included in his ten published books of epistles, Pliny men…
Magic, miracles, daemonology, divination, astrology, and alchemy were the arcana mundi, the "secrets of the universe," of the ancient Greeks and Romans. In this collection of Greek and Roman writings on magic and the occult, the author provides a comprehensive sourcebook and int…
Aesthetic value in classical antiquity
by Rosen, Ralph M., (Ralph Mark), Sluiter, I., (Ineke)
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Although Greek society was largely male-dominated, it gave rise to a strong tradition of female authorship. Women ppoets of angient Greece and Rome have long fascinated readers, even though much of their poetry survives only in fragmentary form. The volume covers a broad time sp…
The third edition of Scribes and Scholars takes into account the numerous discoveries in this rapidly-advancing field of knowledge by offering substantial revisions and additions. A note on how to interpret the information given in an apparatus criticus is also included.
