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The birth of rhetoric istraced back to the 5th century B.C.E., when the first theoretical treatises on rhetoric were drafted. As early as in the speeches of the Iliad however, one …

Within Lucian's works, Timon is referable to the writer's maturity and it is considered to be one of the best and most typical dialogues written by the author from Samosata. This …

Why was Lucian of Samosata attacked for his ideas but admired for the perfection of his Greek and the elegance of his writings? The origins of this two-sided attitude towards …

The Epistula ex Ponto III 1 sums up the leitmotives of Ovid's poetry of exile. This linguistic-philological commentary reveals intertextual connections with the author's other …

This book considers one of the most important fragments of early Greeklyric (Alkaios frag. 140 V.) as a means of communication, a revolutionary ode in which the exiled poet …

This book presents an introduction to a new edition of Diogenes Laertios' Greek text (Cambridge University Press) by Tiziano Dorandi. It consists of three parts. The first contains …

No exhaustive study is available today about the history of Synesius' poetic corpus. The book offers a set of analyses, dealing with the preservation of the original collection and …

The motifs of fons inspirationis and labor limae lost their semantic force in Latin poetry after the Augustan age. This book analyzes these two topoi from Ovid to Martialand shows …

The volume focuses on the evidence of scenic art present in Quintilian's Institutio oratoria to verify its influence on the education of the speaker. The enquiry will also make …