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Underworld Gods in Ancient Greek Religion
This volume presents a case for how and why people in archaic and classical Greece worshipped Underworld gods.These gods are often portrayed as malevolent and transgressive, giving …
Greek Myth and the Bible
Since the nineteenth-century rediscovery of the Gilgamesh epic, we have known that the Bible imports narratives from outside of Israelite culture, refiguring them for its own …
Greek Magic
Magic has always been a widespread phenomenon in Greek Society, starting from Homer’s Circe (the first ‘evil witch’ in western history) and extending to the pervasive belief in the …
Theologies of Fear in Early Greek Epic
This book explores the theological significance of horror elements in the works of Hesiod and in the Homeric Hymns for the characters within these poems, the mortal audience …
Monsters in Greek Literature
Monsters in Greek literature are often thought of as creatures which exist in mythological narratives, however, as this book shows, they appear in a much broader range of ancient …
Frankness, Greek Culture, and the Roman Empire
Frankness, Greek Culture, and the Roman Empire discusses the significance of parrhesia (free and frank speech) in Greek culture of the Roman empire. The term parrhesia first …
Fantasy in Greek and Roman Literature
Fantasy in Greek and Roman Literature offers an overview of Greek and Roman excursions into fantasy, including imaginary voyages, dream-worlds, talking animals and similar …
Body Behaviour and Identity Construction in Ancient Greek and Roman Literature
This book offers the first systematic, up-to-date, cross-cultural, and detailed study of “semi-volitional bodily behaviour” (sneezing, spitting, coughing, burping, vomiting, …
Making Time for Greek and Roman Literature
The essays in this collection explore various various models of representing temporality in ancient Greek and Roman literature to elucidate how structures of time communicate …
Text and Intertext in Greek Epic and Drama
This collection presents 19 interconnected studies on the language, history, exegesis, and cultural setting of Greek epic and dramatic poetic texts ("Text") and their afterlives …