Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> Ancient and Classical

Der Band enthalt vier Aufsatze, die von Lennart Hakanson zwischen 1976 und 1982 verfasst, aber aufgrund seines Todes nie veroffentlicht wurden. Hakanson bietet eine allgemeine Darstellung der argumenta in den pseudo-quintilianischen Declamationes maiores und untersucht einige der wichtigsten literarischen Modelle dieser Reden (Cicero, Seneca, Declamationes minores) sowie ihre Uberlieferungsgeschichte. Der letzte Aufsatz ist einer umfassenden Analyse der rhythmischen Klausel in den Declamationes maiores gewidmet: Hakanson setzt sich mit alteren Studien zu...

E luogo comune che, esaurendosi la stagione della poesia augustea, i motivi di sorso ispiratore e labor limae perdano pregnanza semantica: un giudizio legato alla polemica di Persio contro la poesia contemporanea e al Kallimachos in Rom di Walter Wimmel. Entrambi i topoi subiscono in realta una profonda trasformazione, entrando nei nuovi equilibri del sistema letterario (dopo l'Eneide la poesia epica non scorre piu 'fangosa', mentre i generi minori si collocano all'insegna della festinatio e non della cura formale) e nel delicato dialogo fra...

Die Romische Komodie, deren bekannteste Dichter Plautus und Terenz waren, entstand unter Anlehnung an die Griechische Neue Komodie. Die Forschung bemuht sich seit etwa 200 Jahren, aus den romischen Nachbildungen verlorene Originale zu erschlieen. Dies ist besonders aufgrund weitgehend erhaltener Stucke Menanders (dessen Kenntnis im 20. Jh. durch zahlreiche Neufunde erweitert wurde)moglich. Das analytische Verfahren macht sowohl die Eigenart der Griechischen als auch der Romischen Komodie deutlich. Als besonders fruchtbar erweist sich der in den letzten Jahrzehnten entwickelte Ansatzpunkt,...

Working in the shadow of Eduard Norden in the author s own words, Nicholas Horsfall has written his own monumental commentary on Aeneid 6. This is Horsfall s fifth large-scale commentary on the Aeneid, and as his earlier commentaries on books 7, 11, 3, and 2, this is not a commentary aimed at undergraduates. Horsfall is a commentators commentator writing with encyclopedic command of Virgilian scholarship for the most demanding reader. Volume One includes the introduction, text and translation, and bibliography, Volume Two includes the commentary, appendices, and indices.

After completing his labours, Herakles finally returns home, sending ahead a young woman, Iole, to serve his bed. In an attempt to regain Herakles' affection and defend her position, his faithful wife Deianeira accidentally destroys the hero by her use of magic. Sophocles' "Women of Trachis" deals with the roles of the sexes within marriage, the function of sex and procreation in the family and society, the conflict between individual motivation and public perception, and the central tragic theme of the limits of human knowledge. This book enables the student new to the study of Greek...

Rendered in an idiom drawn from present-day nature guides, gardening handbooks, how-to manuals, and scientific treatises--and in a style influenced by twentieth-century poetry--this bold new translation seeks to renew our appreciation of a work often relegated to the pigeonhole of didactic poetry about farming. In doing so, it reveals the "Georgics" as a remarkable window on Roman conceptions of the natural world and of the place of human life within it--and also conveys a sense of how daring were Virgil's poetics in their day. Footnotes offer a wealth of information on mythology,...

A reprint of the University of Toronto edition of 1965.

Since 1923 the Sammlung Tusculum has published authoritative editions of Greek and Latin works together with a German translation. The original texts are comprehensively annotated, and feature an introductory chapter. In the new volumes, additional essays delve into specific aspects of the works, illuminating their historical context and reception to the present day. The high academic quality of the new editions together with clearly written essays and annotations make the Sammlung Tusculum essential reading for students who are discovering an ancient author for the first...

Nonnus of Panopolis (fifth century CE) composed two poems once thought to be incompatible: the Dionysiaca, a mythological long epic with a marked interest in astrology, the occult, the paradox and not least the beauty of the female body, and a pious and sublime Paraphrase of the Gospel of St John. Little is known about the man, to whom sundry identities have been attached. The longer work has been misrepresented as a degenerate poem or as a mythological handbook. The Christian poem has been neglected or undervalued. Yet, Nonnus accomplished an ambitious plan, in two...

Written in Nero's Rome in about AD62, Seneca's "Thyestes" is one of the ggreatest and most influential of classical tragedies. As the bloodiest work in the Greco-Roman canon, "Thyestes" was long reviled for its depiction of savage violence and for its representation of human bestiality. Peter Davis argues that the play needs to be understood as the response of a major politician, philosopher and tragic poet to the increasingly tyrannical rule of the emperor. In this companion he explores key aspects of the play, including the circumstances of its composition, its performance history and...