This book is the first full-scale edition of the so-called Liber spectaculorum by Martial. A comprehensive introduction addresses the role of epigram in commemorating monuments and occasions, the connection between spectacle and imperial panegyric in Martial's oeuvre, characteristics of the collection, possible circumstances of composition and "publication," transmission of the text, and related issues. Each epigram is followed by an apparatus criticus, an English translation, and a detailed commentary on linguistic, literary, and historical matters, adducing extensive evidence from epigraphy...
This book is the first full-scale edition of the so-called Liber spectaculorum by Martial. A comprehensive introduction addresses the role of epigram ...
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...
How did the Greeks translate tales into images? Why do artistic depictions of ancient myths sometimes "contradict" the textual versions that we think of as canonical? What caused the Romans to be anxious about decorated ceilings? Can numismatic images solve problems in Augustan politics or explain the provenance of the Warren Cup? How are the curators of ancient artifacts to supply the high-quality digital images that scholars need in order to answer these questions? And how are text-based scholars to make productive use of them? Images have their own semantic language, and their survival,...
How did the Greeks translate tales into images? Why do artistic depictions of ancient myths sometimes "contradict" the textual versions that we think ...
Albert's Anthology comprises 76 brief and informal reflections on a line or two of Greek or Latin poetry--and a few prose quotations and artistic objects--composed by colleagues and students of Albert Henrichs on the occasion of his retirement in Spring 2017. Appointed Professor of Greek and Latin at Harvard University at the age of thirty in 1973 and Eliot Professor of Greek in 1984, Professor Henrichs has devoted his scholarly career to Greek literature and religion--especially his favorite Greek god, Dionysos--and to incomparably enthusiastic teaching of countless students at both...
Albert's Anthology comprises 76 brief and informal reflections on a line or two of Greek or Latin poetry--and a few prose quotations and artist...
