This book is the first line-by-line analysis of enjambement and verse-internal breaks throughout the entire Iliad. Addressing larger, stylistic questions concerning genre, effect, and the manipulation and enjambing of formulae, Higbie examines a wide range of literary structures, including speeches, similes, battle scenes, and catalogues. A fundamental and thorough examination of enjambement in Homeric verse, this work will become a standard reference for scholars and students of Homer.
This book is the first line-by-line analysis of enjambement and verse-internal breaks throughout the entire Iliad. Addressing larger, stylistic questi...
Volume 105 of 'Harvard Studies in Classic Philosophy' includes, among others, the following contributions: 'Divide and Edit: a Brief History of Book Divisions' by Carolyn Higbie; 'Aristotle's Harmartia Reconsidered' by Ho Kim; and 'Callimachus and his Allusive Virgins' by Andrew Faulkner.
Volume 105 of 'Harvard Studies in Classic Philosophy' includes, among others, the following contributions: 'Divide and Edit: a Brief History of Book D...
Collectors, Scholars, and Forgers in the Ancient World focuses on the fascination which works of art, texts, and antiquarian objects inspired in Greeks and Romans in antiquity and draws parallels with other cultures and eras to offer contexts for understanding that fascination. Statues, bronze weapons, books, and bones might have been prized for various reasons: because they had religious value, were the work of highly regarded artists and writers, had been possessed by famous mythological figures, or were relics of a long disappeared past. However, attitudes towards these objects...
Collectors, Scholars, and Forgers in the Ancient World focuses on the fascination which works of art, texts, and antiquarian objects inspired...