Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> Ancient and Classical

Stories of ghostly spirits who return to this world to warn of danger, to prophesy, to take revenge, to request proper burial, or to comfort the living fascinated people in ancient times just as they do today. In this innovative, interdisciplinary study, the author combines a modern folkloric perspective with literary analysis of ghost stories from classical antiquity to shed new light on the stories' folk roots.

The author begins by examining ancient Greek and Roman beliefs about death and the departed and the various kinds of ghost stories which arose from these beliefs. She then...

You've just won the gold medal, what are you going to do? In Ancient Greece, your patron could throw a feast in your honor and have a poet write a hymn of praise to you. The great poet Pindar composed many such odes for victorious athletes. Esteemed classicist Anne Pippin Burnett presents a fresh and exuberant translation of Pindar's victory songs.

The typical Pindaric ode reflects three separate moments: the instant of success in contest, the victory night with its disorderly revels, and the actual banquet of family and friends where the commissioned poem is being offered as...

Anaxagoras of Clazomenae (circa. 500 B.C.-428 B.C.) was reportedly the first Presocratic philosopher to settle in Athens. He was a friend of Pericles and his ideas are reflected in the works of Sophocles and Aristophanes. Anaxagoras asserted that Mind is the ordering principle of the cosmos, he explained solar eclipses, and he wrote on a myriad of astronomical, meteorological, and biological phenomena. His metaphysical claim that everything is in everything and his rejection of the possibility of coming to be or passing away are fundamental to all his other views. Because of his...

This new commentary on Ovid's Heroides 10 offers an introductory essay, a revised text, and adetailed line-by-line interpretative, linguistic and stylistic commentary on the text. Combining thetraditional philological approach with some of the concerns of more recent critics, both introduction and commentary analyse the construction of the text and survey aspects of Ovidian language and style, as well asthe relationship of the epistle to its literary models.

Die Noctes Atticae des Aulus Gellius mit ihrer ausdrucklich zum Programm erhobenen formalen und inhaltlichen Inhomogenitat wurden bislang der sogenannten Buntschriftstellerei des 2. Jahrhunderts n. Chr. zugeordnet. Der Autorin gelingt es, einen Leitfaden durch die verwirrende Vielfalt der Darstellungsformen und Themen des gellianischen Bildungskompendiums zu finden: Ausgehend von der Vorrede des antiken Autors und unter Bezug auf die modernen Kulturwissenschaften wird die memoria als ein das ganze Werk durchwirkendes Konzept beschrieben.

Boethius (c. 480-c. 525) was a Christian philosopher and author of many translations and works of philosophy, most famously the Consolations of Philosophy which were probably written when he was under house arrest, having been accused of treason by King Theoderic the Great. He was subsequently executed. On Interpretation is the second part of the Organon, as Aristotle's collected works on logic are known; it deals comprehensively and systematically with the relationship between logic and language. In his first six chapters, Aristotle defines name, verb, sentence,...