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To persuade, you need proof. But what counts as satisfactory proof varies by culture and context. This volume assembles experts to address the theme of proof in ancient Greek literature, from the lawcourts to drama and historiography, with a focus on the Athenian orators.
To persuade, you need proof. But what counts as satisfactory proof varies by culture and context. This volume assembles experts to address the theme of proof in ancient Greek literature, from the lawcourts to drama and historiography, with a focus on the Athenian orators.
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Genre Studies in Focus
Transgression or Reconciliation
This collection of essays revises genre theory, exploring literary genres in transition. Adopting a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approach, contributors investigate genre hybridization and evolution, showing that genres are inherently hybrid and flexible.
This collection of essays revises genre theory, exploring literary genres in transition. Adopting a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approach, contributors investigate genre hybridization and evolution, showing that genres are inherently hybrid and flexible.
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German Representations of the Far North (17th-19th Centuries)
Writing the Arctic
German travellers, explorers, and scholars produced significant new knowledge about the Arctic from the 17th to the 19th century. This is the first English-language volume dedicated to their work, offering critical readings of travelogues, histories, and fiction.
German travellers, explorers, and scholars produced significant new knowledge about the Arctic from the 17th to the 19th century. This is the first English-language volume dedicated to their work, offering critical readings of travelogues, histories, and fiction.
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The authors here centre their attention on such thinkers as Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoic philosophers, who used doctrinal elements from Mystery Cults, adapting them to their own thinking, and, as such, offer a new way of looking at various renowned Greek philosophers.
The authors here centre their attention on such thinkers as Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoic philosophers, who used doctrinal elements from Mystery Cults, adapting them to their own thinking, and, as such, offer a new way of looking at various renowned Greek philosophers.
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This book explores history and Althusser's ideology in selected novels by Charles Dickens and Orhan Kemal. Their works reveal the historical and ideological background of their contexts, showing how English and Turkish literature reflect traces of contesting ideologies.
This book explores history and Althusser’s ideology in selected novels by Charles Dickens and Orhan Kemal. Their works reveal the historical and ideological background of their contexts, showing how English and Turkish literature reflect traces of contesting ideologies.
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Incorporeal Heroes
The Origins of Homeric Images
The heroes of the Iliad were not historical figures or artistic creations. They originated as local cult heroes, like saints, with no connection to the Trojan War. This book reveals the sequence in which figures like Achilles were stitched into the epic.
The heroes of the Iliad were not historical figures or artistic creations. They originated as local cult heroes, like saints, with no connection to the Trojan War. This book reveals the sequence in which figures like Achilles were stitched into the epic.
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The Trojan War begins with one sacrifice, Iphigenia, and ends with another, Polyxena. In Greek tragedy, did these ritual killings restore cosmic balance, or did they only unleash greater chaos?
The Trojan War begins with one sacrifice, Iphigenia, and ends with another, Polyxena. In Greek tragedy, did these ritual killings restore cosmic balance, or did they only unleash greater chaos?
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Interpreting Suicide
Textuality of a Mortality
This critical contribution to suicidology analyzes suicides as ‘Texts’. Drawing on theorists like Barthes, Derrida, and Foucault, it explores the deaths of immortalised characters, forgotten writers, and the culturally devoiced by using literary and cultural theories.
This critical contribution to suicidology analyzes suicides as ‘Texts’. Drawing on theorists like Barthes, Derrida, and Foucault, it explores the deaths of immortalised characters, forgotten writers, and the culturally devoiced by using literary and cultural theories.
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This edition of the third speech of the orator Isaeus offers a new Greek text, English translation, and detailed commentary. It demonstrates the skill of the under-appreciated orator and casts light on complex aspects of Athenian family law. Accessible without knowledge of Greek.
This edition of the third speech of the orator Isaeus offers a new Greek text, English translation, and detailed commentary. It demonstrates the skill of the under-appreciated orator and casts light on complex aspects of Athenian family law. Accessible without knowledge of Greek.
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Islands in the Sky
The Four-Dimensional Journey of Odysseus through Space and Time
This study uses mythology and shamanism to recast the Odyssey's sea voyage in cosmic terms. The hero’s journey becomes a celestial one, where the 'wine-dark sea' is the night sky, revealing Homer as both philosopher and student of the cosmos.
This study uses mythology and shamanism to recast the Odyssey’s sea voyage in cosmic terms. The hero’s journey becomes a celestial one, where the ‘wine-dark sea’ is the night sky, revealing Homer as both philosopher and student of the cosmos.
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Literary Misogyny and Praise of Women in the Middle Ages
Commented Readings of Medieval Texts
This book examines two major traditions in medieval literature: the praise of women and misogyny. It explores misogyny from the Church Fathers to secular authors and discusses the major literary works that praised women as a response to their misogynist counterparts.
This book examines two major traditions in medieval literature: the praise of women and misogyny. It explores misogyny from the Church Fathers to secular authors and discusses the major literary works that praised women as a response to their misogynist counterparts.
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Cicero was one of Epicurus’ most fervent critics. This book challenges that conventional view, arguing that despite his anti-Epicurean statements, personal benefit played a vital role in his relationships, even with his family, in accord with the very philosophy he rejected.
Cicero was one of Epicurus’ most fervent critics. This book challenges that conventional view, arguing that despite his anti-Epicurean statements, personal benefit played a vital role in his relationships, even with his family, in accord with the very philosophy he rejected.
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This book examines the connection between mediaeval mystery plays and masonic traditions. It explores how both use symbolic characters, archetypes, stories, and rituals to convey moral and spiritual teachings, a link rooted in the stonemasons’ guilds that performed these dramas.
This book examines the connection between mediaeval mystery plays and masonic traditions. It explores how both use symbolic characters, archetypes, stories, and rituals to convey moral and spiritual teachings, a link rooted in the stonemasons’ guilds that performed these dramas.
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This book focuses on four fragmentary plays by Aristophanes which present characteristics not prominent in his extant work. As mythological comedies and parodies of tragedy, they exhibit elements of Middle and New Comedy, offering new insights into his influential innovations.
This book focuses on four fragmentary plays by Aristophanes which present characteristics not prominent in his extant work. As mythological comedies and parodies of tragedy, they exhibit elements of Middle and New Comedy, offering new insights into his influential innovations.
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Performative Plautus
Sophistics, Metatheater and Translation
Containing a foreword and preface by Barbara Cassin and Florence Dupont, this book provides a theoretical and philosophical framework for the analysis of Plautus within a performative and philosophical perspective on language and theatrical performance.
Containing a foreword and preface by Barbara Cassin and Florence Dupont, this book provides a theoretical and philosophical framework for the analysis of Plautus within a performative and philosophical perspective on language and theatrical performance.
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Plautus’ Erudite Comedy
New Insights into the Work of a doctus poeta
This collection of original essays examines the comedy of Plautus as a creative dialogue with contemporary culture. The studies explore his engagement with Greek literature, science, and philosophy, revealing his foundational influence on Latin literature.
This collection of original essays examines the comedy of Plautus as a creative dialogue with contemporary culture. The studies explore his engagement with Greek literature, science, and philosophy, revealing his foundational influence on Latin literature.
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This collection of essays combines Indo-European and Classical Studies to explore poetic language and religion in Greece and Rome. It tracks the remnants of Indo-European tradition and delves into ritual poetry, hymns, oracles, and magic.
This collection of essays combines Indo-European and Classical Studies to explore poetic language and religion in Greece and Rome. It tracks the remnants of Indo-European tradition and delves into ritual poetry, hymns, oracles, and magic.
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This volume challenges colonial representations of indigenous peoples. It re-reads native discourses from around the world to celebrate their multiplicity of meanings, discussing literary performances, history, testimony, displacement, and the struggle for legitimacy.
This volume challenges colonial representations of indigenous peoples. It re-reads native discourses from around the world to celebrate their multiplicity of meanings, discussing literary performances, history, testimony, displacement, and the struggle for legitimacy.
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Political Religions in the Greco-Roman World
Discourses, Practices and Images
This volume explores the political side of ancient religion. Written by experts, its chapters engage the diversity of the Greco-Roman religious experience as it receives and negotiates power relations in the ancient Mediterranean from the 7th Century BCE to the 4th Century CE.
This volume explores the political side of ancient religion. Written by experts, its chapters engage the diversity of the Greco-Roman religious experience as it receives and negotiates power relations in the ancient Mediterranean from the 7th Century BCE to the 4th Century CE.
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Post-Millennial Perceptions and Post-Pandemic Realities
Living Dystopian
Even in dystopia, mundane life becomes life-giving. This book attests to human resilience, where the darkest images yield the sweetness of hope. A frontier document on Covid-19, its stellar contributors explore art, medicine, economics, and history with tenacity and awe.
Even in dystopia, mundane life becomes life-giving. This book attests to human resilience, where the darkest images yield the sweetness of hope. A frontier document on Covid-19, its stellar contributors explore art, medicine, economics, and history with tenacity and awe.
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