This is a new text edition, based on several manuscripts not yet employed by previous editors, with Prolegomena, Italian translation, commentary, indices and lexicon of the Ars Rhetorica ad C. Herennium. This text was long-time wrongly ascribed to Cicero as his own correction of…
Across several texts, Epicurus memorably and accessibly summarizes his doctrines. This study systematically analyzes Epicurus' acts of summary, thereby closing a long-standing scholarly lacuna. To this end, a review of existing research is followed by an analysis of the terminol…
by Pontani, Filippomaria, Edmunds, Lowell, Montana, Fausto, Pagès, Joan, Fowler, Robert, Villagra, Nereida, Michels, Johanna, Pàmias, Jordi, Smith, Robert Scott, Montanari, Franco
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Even though there is agreement on the existence of an Imperial commentary on Homer, going under the name Mythographus Homericus, a large-scale study of this work has been lacking. The objective of this collective volume is to fill this blank. The authors represent diverse opinio…
The verse-by-verse commentary on the Ovidian text includes the reading of more than 300 manuscripts, including the so-called Heinsian manuscripts, and of almost 100 editions, from the two "editiones principes" of 1471 to the present day.The introduction describes the manuscripts…
Despite the significance of its contents, the so-called Demades papyrus (P.Berol. inv. 13045) has received scarce scholarly attention since the 1923 editio princeps by Karl Kunst. This unique late second-century BCE document of almost 430 lines was found in the Egyptian chora, b…
"Cicero's Brutus (46 BCE), a tour-de-force of intellectual and political history, was written amidst political crisis: Caesar's defeat of the republican resistance at the battle of Thapsus. This magisterial example of the dialogue genre capaciously documents the intellectual vib…
In den Thukydidesscholien mittelalterlicher griechischer Handschriften sind die Reste der wertvollen antiken und byzantischen Wort- und Texterklärungen zum schwierigen Thukydidestext überliefert. Die letzte, für ihre Zeit sehr verdienstvolle, Ausgabe erschien 1927, sie entsprich…
by Krieter-Spiro, Martha, Strack, Sara, Millis, Benjamin, Visser, Edzard, Coray, Marina
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The renowned Basler Homer-Kommentar of the Iliad, edited by Anton Bierl and Joachim Latacz and originally published in German, presents the latest developments in Homeric scholarship. Through the English translation of this ground-breaking reference work, edited by S. Douglas Ol…
Galen von Pergamon entwickelt in der sechs Bücher umfassenden Schrift De locis affectis (Über das Erkennen erkrankter Körperteile) eine Methode, mit deren Hilfe der antike Arzt den erkrankten Körperteil identifizieren kann, auch wenn dieser nicht unmittelbar wahrgenommen werden …
Galen von Pergamon entwickelt in der sechs Bücher umfassenden Schrift De locis affectis (Über das Erkennen erkrankter Körperteile) eine Methode, mit deren Hilfe der antike Arzt den erkrankten Körperteil identifizieren kann, auch wenn dieser nicht unmittelbar wahrgenommen werden …
"In an analysis that promises to be controversial, Man to Man: Desire, Homosociality, and Authority in Late-Roman Manhood surveys the presence of same-sex desire between men in the later Roman empire. Most accounts of recent years have either noted that sexual desire between men…
Ciceros actio secunda in Verrem gehört zweifellos zu den bekanntesten Reden des großen römischen Politikers. Dennoch wurde sie bisher nur teilweise in moderner Kommentierung erschlossen. Diese Forschungslücke wird durch den hier vorgelegten Kommentar für De praetura Siciliensi g…
A companion to Greek and Roman sexualities' presents a comprehensive collection of original essays relating to aspects of gender and sexuality in the classical world. It views the various practices and discursive contexts of sexuality systematically and holistically. It discusse…
"What is a literature? How do literatures of different countries interact with each other? In this groundbreaking study, Alexander Beecroft develops a new way of thinking about world literature. Drawing on a series of examples and case studies, the book ranges from ancient epic …
"In Rome's Christian Empress, Joyce E. Salisbury brings the captivating story of Rome's Christian empress to life. The daughter of Roman emperor Theodosius I, Galla Placidia lived at the center of imperial Roman power during the first half of the fifth century. Taken hostage aft…
"This volume had its origins in a very specific situation: the teaching of ancient texts dealing with rape. Ensuing discussions among a group of scholars expanded outwards from this to other sensitive areas. Ancient sources raise a variety of issues-slavery, infanticide, abortio…
Scholars have been seeking to understand Sophocles' Antigone for over two millennia. The origins of this long tradition of the play's interpretation are now represented mainly by a series of notes that have survived in the margins of medieval manuscripts. The book offers an Engl…
