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Toward the Characterization of Helen in Homer
This monograph lays the groundwork for a new approach of the characterization of the Homeric Helen, focusing on how she is addressed and named in the Iliad and the Odyssey and …
Sophisticated Speakers
This book explores for the first time the relation between Atticist lexicography and the pronunciation of Greek, an aspect of Atticism that has never been studied thouroughly …
The Literary Genres in the Flavian Age
The construction of a new Latin library between the end of the Republic and the Augustan Principate was anything but an inhibiting factor. The literary flourishing of the Flavian …
Rhetoric and Religion in Ancient Greece and Rome
It is perhaps a truism to note that ancient religion and rhetoric were closely intertwined in Greek and Roman antiquity. Religion is embedded in socio-political, legal and cultural …
Comic Invective in Ancient Greek and Roman Oratory
This volume acknowledges the centrality of comic invective in a range of oratorical institutions (especially forensic and symbouleutic), and aspires to enhance the knowledge and …
Identities, Ethnicities and Gender in Antiquity
The question of ‘identity’ arises for any individual or ethnic group when they come into contact with a stranger or another people. Such contact results in the self-conscious …
The Embodied Self in Plato
This book argues that, rather than being conceived merely as a hindrance, the body contributes constructively in the fashioning of a Platonic unified self. The Phaedo shows …
Narratology and Interpretation
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 …
Studies in Sappho and Alcaeus
The poetry of the archaic poets of Lesbos, Sappho and Alcaeus, has been imperfectly and poorly transmitted either in book fragments or in later ragged papyri, so that new attempts …
Aristophanes and the Poetics of Surprise
The purpose of this book is to examine the variety, the mechanisms, and the poetological intention of the effect of surprise in Aristophanic comedy, addressing the phenomenon not …
Dionysus and Rome
While most work on Dionysus is based on Greek sources, this collection of essays examines the god’s Roman and Italian manifestations.Nine contributions address Bacchus’ appearance …
Polybius and His Legacy
Although scholars continue to address old questions about Polybius, it is clear that they are also turning their attention to aspects of his history that have been inadequately …