Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> Ancient and Classical

Book 4 of Lucan's epic contrasts Europe with Africa. At the battle of Lerida (Spain), a violent storm causes the local rivers to flood the plain between the two hills where the opposing armies are camped. Asso's commentary traces Lucan's reminiscences of early Greek tales of creation, when Chaos held the elements in indistinct confusion. This primordial broth sets the tone for the whole book. After the battle, the scene switches to the Adriatic shore of Illyricum (Albania), and finally to Africa, where the proto-mythical water of the beginning of the book cedes to the dryness of the...

This is Book Three in the series.

The categories of classical narratology have been successfully applied to ancient texts in the last two decades, but in the meantime narratological theory has moved on. In accordance with these developments, Narratology and Interpretation draws out the subtler possibilities of narratological analysis for the interpretation of ancient texts. The contributions explore the heuristic fruitfulness of various narratological categories and show that, in combination with other approaches such as studies in deixis, performance studies and reader-response theory, narratology can help to...

In the Graeco-Roman world, the cosmic order was enacted, in part, through bodies. The evaluative divisions between, for example, women and men, humans and animals, -barbarians- and -civilized- people, slaves and free citizens, or mortals and immortals, could all be played out across the terrain of somatic difference, embedded as it was within wider social and cultural matrices.
This volume explores these thematics of bodies and boundaries: to examine the ways in which bodies, lived and imagined, were implicated in issues of cosmic order and social organisation in classical antiquity. It...

"Sozomena" bedeutet auf Griechisch "Gerettetes." Die Reihe widmet sich der Erschlieung von Texten, die aus der griechischen und romischen Antike nur durch ausserordentliche Fund-Umstande erhalten geblieben sind - allen voran durch Papyri, von denen Tausende in Universitaten und Bibliotheken unentziffert vorhanden sind.

Die Reihe soll hauptsachlich Texte edieren und interpretieren, aber auch die Methoden der Erschlieung diskutieren. Verschiedene Buchtypen werden daher hier veroffentlicht: Texteditionen, Kommentare, Monographien und Sammelbande. Die Hauptsprache der Publikationen ist...

Books XXIII and XXIV of Livy's "Ab Urbe Condita" deal with the events of the Second Punic War after Hannibal's victory at Canna. This useful "Macmillan" school edition, with Introduction, Notes, Maps and Indexes, is here reissued in the "Latin Texts" series of Bristol Classical Press.