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Ekphrasis in Ancient and Modern Literature

**This volume examines the interaction between literary and visual representation through ekphrasis in contemporary poetry and ancient literature, viewing ekphrasis as a dynamic and evolving concept rathe…

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Melanie Racette-Campbell
The Crisis of Masculinity in the Age of Augustus

The political rupture caused by the ascension of Augustus Caesar in ancient Rome, which ended the centuries-old Republic, had drastic consequences for the performance and understanding of masculinity in a…

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Alis Al-Bustani, Marilyn Booth
Sa'iba

'Let us go on, then! And I will tell you the story of my sister and her daughter, from beginning to end.'Alis al-Bustani's Sa'iba (1891) is one of the earliest known novels authored in Arabic by a female …

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Horror in Classical Antiquity and Beyond

This open-access volume is the first to explore systematically and comprehensively the concept and category of 'horror' in antiquity. The contributors retrieve the ancient grammar of horror by paying equa…

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Intertextuality in Flavian Epic Poetry

This collection of essays reaffirms the central importance of adopting an intertextual approach to the study of Flavian epic poetry and shows, despite all that has been achieved, just how much still remai…

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David Kovacs
Euripides: Electra

This volume presents a newly edited text of Euripides' Electra with a scene-by-scene and line-by-line commentary that addresses a wide variety of questions, including the nature of Euripidean tragedy. In …

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Thomas Biggs,
Plautus: Poenulus

Plautus' Poenulus (Little Carthaginian) is a work of staggering literary and historical significance. Performed in the long shadow of Rome's traumatic struggle with Hannibal's Carthage, this play stages t…

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Conversing with Chaos in Graeco-Roman Antiquity

How did ancient Greeks and Romans perceive their environments: did they see order or chaos, chance or control? And how do their views compare to modern perceptions? Conversing with Chaos in Graeco-Roman A…

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Emily Pillinger, Miranda Stanyon
Music as Classical Reception

Musical as Classical Reception: Amplifying Antiquity investigates music as a site of classical reception from the early modern rise of opera to contemporary hip-hop. The volume's contributors explore topi…

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Emily Wilson
Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea

'Brilliant ... enthralling and profoundly relevant' Salman Rushdie'Joyful, illuminating and engaging ... required reading for anyone interested in translation' Madeline Miller How do we give old words new…

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Laura Loporcaro
Reading Quintilian

Reading Quintilian analyses how didactic authority is created in Quintilian's Institutio oratoria . Laura Loporcaro argues that the implementation in the Institutio of the same rhetorical strategies it de…

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Matthew C Farmer,
Lost Plays of Old Comedy

This is the first accessible volume exploring and analysing evidence for Greek Old Comedy through what remains only in the form of fragments of plays. Hundreds of comedies were written and performed in At…

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Edward Prime-Stevenson, Zsolt Bojti, S Brooke Cameron
Imre

'I love thee... once more helpless, and therewith hopeless!--but this time no longer silent, before the Friendship which is Love, the Love which is Friendship.'Considered one of the first examples of the …

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Edition Seeigel - Das Kalte Herz

Uwe Stoffel (Klarinette), Kurt Berger (Klarinette), Matthias Kaul (Glasharfe und Schlagwerk), Albrecht Holder (Fagott), Christian Brückner (Erzähler)

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H A Drake
The Wisdom of the Ancients

This book is about four cornerstones of modern thought that were put in place by people living in the ancient Mediterranean world. It covers approximately 2,000 years in time (from ca. 1000 BCE to 1000 CE…

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Rabindranath Tagore, Sumit Chakrabarti
Selected Short Stories

'The poem I had planned to write on the banks of the Ganga was never written. But it materialized in my life.'Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), Nobel Laureate and polymath, is one of the most eminent India…

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Luisa Francis
Obadiah's Oracle: Lessons from Edom's Fall

In the shortest book of the Hebrew Bible, the prophet Obadiah delivers a powerful message of divine justice, foretelling the downfall of Edom¿a nation consumed by pride and betrayal. Obadiah¿s Oracle invi…

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Marco Fantuzzi,
The Rhesus Ascribed to Euripides

The first detailed study of the Rhesus, ascribed to Euripides, that is not within an edition of the text, examining its authorship, history, plot, performance and themes.

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Luisa Francis
Obadiah's Oracle: Lessons from Edom's Fall

In the shortest book of the Hebrew Bible, the prophet Obadiah delivers a powerful message of divine justice, foretelling the downfall of Edom¿a nation consumed by pride and betrayal. Obadiah¿s Oracle invi…

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Ashli J E Baker
Identity Crises in Apuleius

In the second century CE, the multiethnic, multilingual, and religiously diverse Roman Empire grew to its greatest extent. To maintain order, Rome relied heavily on strict social hierarchies, established …

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