St. Gregory of Nazianzus' (ca. AD 330-390) classicizing Christian verse is the earliest Greek verse of its kind that survives in any great quantity. This is a critical edition, with introduction and commentary, of four poems (I.2.17; II. 1.10, 19, 32). The commentary is primaril…
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Scholar, ecclesiastic, teacher and poet of the eighth century, Alcuin can be seen as a true hidden saint of the Church, of the same stature and significance as his predecessor Bede. His love of God and his grasp of Christian theology were rendered original in their creative impa…
Revenge in Attic and later tragedy
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"Moderns tend to view the drama of ancient Athens as a presentation of social or moral problems, as if ancient drama showed the same realism seen on the present-day stage. Because it was a state theater, the Attic stage is also supposed to have offered lessons in the peaceable v…
This collection of essays reconsiders Greek tragedy as a reflection of Athenian political culture. The contributors explore the Athenianness of tragedy as the polyphonic discourse of tragedy; the presentation of Athens in some plays; tragedy as an Athenian form of choral perform…
Plutarch of Chaeroneia's philosophical work remained largely in the shadow of his celebrated "Lives", partly because it was often dubbed 'popular philosophy', and partly because it was thought to be lacking in originality. The tides are, fortunately, changing and current scholar…
Der Horaztext von Shackleton Bailey ist ein weltweit verbreiteter Universitätslesetext und wurde speziell auf dem US-Markt der maßgebende Lektürestoff für Studenten der Latinistik. Nach der 1. Auflage von 1985 hat Shackleton Bailey seine Edition in jeder Nachauflage, speziell in…
Wealthy, conceited, hypochondriac (or perhaps just an invalid), obsessively religious, the orator Aelius Aristides (117 to about 180) is not the most attractive figure of his age, but because he is one of the best-known - and he is intimately known, thanks to his "Sacred Tales"-…
Ever since the papyrus containing Alcman's Partheneion was first published in 1863, classical scholars have strived to solve its enigma. This book presents a verse-by-verse commentary to the text with a number of new proposals based on a detailed inspection of the papyrus. The S…
The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite (600s BCE?) tells the story of a brief encounter between the goddess of love and the cowherd Anchises, which led to the birth of the Trojan hero Aeneas. Less than 300 lines long, it is among the shortest of the so-called 'major Homeric Hymns', but i…
The book is a first comprehensive study of the life and work of Euhemerus of Messene. Winiarczyk takes into consideration all scholarly works since the first half of the 19th century to the present day. Euhemerus' utopian novel Sacred history describes the travel to the island P…
Continuing the series of philological and historical commentaries on Ammianus' Res Gestae this volume deals with Book 29, which is devoted to the judicial terror in Antioch under Valens and the warfare in Africa and Central Europe under Theodosius and Valentinian respectively.
