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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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Zeus, Jupiter, Jesus and the Catholic Church
What Good Is a God?
Why get out of bed in the morning? This book finds an answer in Virgil’s Aeneid: “No day shall erase you from the memory of time.” It connects the Aeneid’s deceitful gods to the Bible’s Devil to reveal an offer of eternal happiness, freely given, not forced.
Why get out of bed in the morning? This book finds an answer in Virgil’s Aeneid: “No day shall erase you from the memory of time.” It connects the Aeneid’s deceitful gods to the Bible’s Devil to reveal an offer of eternal happiness, freely given, not forced.
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A Special Model of Classical Reception
Summaries and Short Narratives
This volume traces the influence of epics like the Odyssey across a vast geographical and cultural space. It analyzes modern and contemporary tales from around the globe, focusing on how major political phenomena can have on universal creativity.
This volume traces the influence of epics like the Odyssey across a vast geographical and cultural space. It analyzes modern and contemporary tales from around the globe, focusing on how major political phenomena can have on universal creativity.
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Victoria Ocampo's account of Rabindranath Tagore’s stay in Argentina is an important document tracing Indo-Argentine contact. This first English translation includes a critical introduction, notes, and an annotated bibliography for scholars and readers.
Victoria Ocampo’s account of Rabindranath Tagore’s stay in Argentina is an important document tracing Indo-Argentine contact. This first English translation includes a critical introduction, notes, and an annotated bibliography for scholars and readers.
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Virgo to Virago
Medea in the Silver Age
Virgo to Virago offers a study of the formidable Medea in the Silver Age. Examining her portrayal in Ovid, Seneca, and Valerius Flaccus, it explores whether this mighty female character has any claim to sympathy or admiration in these texts.
Virgo to Virago offers a study of the formidable Medea in the Silver Age. Examining her portrayal in Ovid, Seneca, and Valerius Flaccus, it explores whether this mighty female character has any claim to sympathy or admiration in these texts.
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The Philosophizing Muse
The Influence of Greek Philosophy on Roman Poetry
Despite the Romans’ reputation, Latin poetry was deeply permeated by Greek philosophy. This volume of original essays is the first to fully investigate this influence, analysing how poets from the 3rd century BC to the 1st century AD absorbed and transformed their sources.
Despite the Romans’ reputation, Latin poetry was deeply permeated by Greek philosophy. This volume of original essays is the first to fully investigate this influence, analysing how poets from the 3rd century BC to the 1st century AD absorbed and transformed their sources.
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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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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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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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Ancient Epic
Literary and Linguistic Essays
This book adopts a broad approach to the Epic, from archaic Greece to imperial Rome, with comparisons to Vedic, Sanskrit, and Medieval poetry. It explores the hero, the bard, and myth, and traces the influence of Homer on authors like Virgil, Ovid, and Seneca.
This book adopts a broad approach to the Epic, from archaic Greece to imperial Rome, with comparisons to Vedic, Sanskrit, and Medieval poetry. It explores the hero, the bard, and myth, and traces the influence of Homer on authors like Virgil, Ovid, and Seneca.
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This study examines Ovid’s use of ecphrasis in the Metamorphoses, exploring his determination to outdo his predecessors. It argues that Ovid's preoccupation with artists makes the epic itself an extended commentary on his own artistry.
This study examines Ovid’s use of ecphrasis in the Metamorphoses, exploring his determination to outdo his predecessors. It argues that Ovid’s preoccupation with artists makes the epic itself an extended commentary on his own artistry.
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Characterisation in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses
Nine Studies
In the first volume on characterisation in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses, distinguished international scholars explore the novel’s significant human and divine figures. This book is a substantial contribution to the interpretation of the most important Latin novel to survive complete.
In the first volume on characterisation in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses, distinguished international scholars explore the novel’s significant human and divine figures. This book is a substantial contribution to the interpretation of the most important Latin novel to survive complete.
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The heroines of ancient myth remain potent today, challenging popular beliefs about the roles of women. This collection of essays examines their legacy from page to stage to screen to understand how they have evolved to retain and increase their power.
The heroines of ancient myth remain potent today, challenging popular beliefs about the roles of women. This collection of essays examines their legacy from page to stage to screen to understand how they have evolved to retain and increase their power.
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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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Zero to Hero, Hero to Zero
In Search of the Classical Hero
What makes a hero? This book challenges standard expectations, exploring the phenomenon of heroism from a range of viewpoints and asking why heroic qualities so often turn sour. Covering Euripides to Monty Python, it examines the changing notion of the hero.
What makes a hero? This book challenges standard expectations, exploring the phenomenon of heroism from a range of viewpoints and asking why heroic qualities so often turn sour. Covering Euripides to Monty Python, it examines the changing notion of the hero.
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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 Children of Herodotus
Greek and Roman Historiography and Related Genres
This collection of essays by international scholars responds to a growing interest in ancient historiography. The volume focuses on historians' methods of approaching the non-Greek world and the political dimension of Roman imperial historiography.
This collection of essays by international scholars responds to a growing interest in ancient historiography. The volume focuses on historians’ methods of approaching the non-Greek world and the political dimension of Roman imperial historiography.
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