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Digressions in Classical Historiography
Although digressive discourse constitutes a key feature of Greco-Roman historiography, we possess no collective volume on the matter. The chapters of this book fill this gap by …
Stesichorus and other Lyric Poetry
Reconstructing the Classics collects across three volumes more than ninety papers by P. J. Finglass (Henry Overton Wills Professor of Greek at the University of Bristol, and …
The Laurel and the Olive
A central, much-studied feature of the poetry of 3rd cent. BCE Alexandria is the artistic treatment of the cultural past, the reception of earlier Greek poetry and artwork in the …
Style in Latin Poetry
Though stylistics undoubtedly plays a crucial role in the scholarship on Latin poetry – from commentaries to textual criticism, from intertextuality to literary criticism – in …
Memory and Emotions in Antiquity
The contributions of this volume discuss the interfaces between memory and emotions in ancient literature, social life, and philosophy. They explore the ways in which memories …
Politeness Strategies in Sophocles’ Dialogue
Scholarship on the rapid dialogue of Attic tragedy mostly focused on form and structure, overlooking language and the relationships between the characters. This book redresses the …
The Play of Language in Ancient Greek Comedy
Ancient Greek comedy relied primarily on its text and words for the fulfilment of its humorous effects and aesthetic goals. In the wake of a rich tradition of previous scholarship, …