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Divinity and History

Divinity and History: The Religion of Herodotus

Thomas Harrison

Published in print:
2002
Published Online:
January 2010
ISBN:
9780199253555
eISBN:
9780191715112
Item type:
book
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
DOI:
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199253555.001.0001
Subject:
Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval, European History: BCE to 500CE

Critics of Herodotus have generally shown unease in the face of the religious passages of the Histories, a sense that he ‘lets himself down’ by delving into matters irrelevant to the ... More

Drakōn

Drakōn: Dragon Myth and Serpent Cult in the Greek and Roman Worlds

Daniel Ogden

Published in print:
2013
Published Online:
May 2013
ISBN:
9780199557325
eISBN:
9780191745997
Item type:
book
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
DOI:
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199557325.001.0001
Subject:
Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval, Archaeology: Classical

Drakōn is the first substantial survey in any language of the Graeco-Roman reflex of the dragon or the supernatural serpent, the drakōn or draco. Yet dragons were all-pervasive in both cultures: ... More

The Early Latin Verb System

The Early Latin Verb System: Archaic Forms in Plautus, Terence, and Beyond

Wolfgang David Cirilo de Melo

Published in print:
2007
Published Online:
January 2010
ISBN:
9780199209026
eISBN:
9780191706141
Item type:
book
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
DOI:
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199209026.001.0001
Subject:
Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval

Early Latin has archaic futures like faxō ‘I shall do’, archaic subjunctives like faxim I may do’, duim ‘I may give’, or attigās ‘you may touch’, and archaic infinitives like ... More

Entering the Agon

Entering the Agon: Dissent and Authority in Homer, Historiography, and Tragedy

Elton T. E. Barker

Published in print:
2009
Published Online:
May 2009
ISBN:
9780199542710
eISBN:
9780191715365
Item type:
book
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
DOI:
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199542710.001.0001
Subject:
Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval

This book investigates one of the most characteristic and prominent features of ancient Greek literature—the scene of debate or agon, in which with varying degrees of formality ... More

Epic and Empire in Vespasianic Rome

Epic and Empire in Vespasianic Rome: A New Reading of Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica

Tim Stover

Published in print:
2012
Published Online:
September 2012
ISBN:
9780199644087
eISBN:
9780191741951
Item type:
book
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
DOI:
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199644087.001.0001
Subject:
Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval, European History: BCE to 500CE

This book offers a new reading of Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica, a poem which is here dated to Vespasian's regime (70–79 ce). Its primary purpose is to show that Valerius' epic reflects ... More

Erôs in Ancient Greece

Erôs in Ancient Greece

Ed Sanders, Chiara Thumiger, Christopher Carey, Nick Lowe (eds)

Published in print:
2013
Published Online:
May 2013
ISBN:
9780199605507
eISBN:
9780191745928
Item type:
book
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
DOI:
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199605507.001.0001
Subject:
Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval, Ancient Greek, Roman, and Early Christian Philosophy

This book, arising out of a conference at University College London in 2009, examines erôs as an emotion in ancient Greek culture. It considers the phenomenology, psychology, and physiology of erôs; ... More

Exemplary Epic

Exemplary Epic: Silius Italicus' Punica

Ben Tipping

Published in print:
2010
Published Online:
September 2010
ISBN:
9780199550111
eISBN:
9780191720611
Item type:
book
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
DOI:
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199550111.001.0001
Subject:
Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval

The force of example was a distinctive determiner of Roman identity. However, examples always rely upon the response of an audience, and are dependent upon context. Even where the ... More

Feminine Discourse in Roman Comedy

Feminine Discourse in Roman Comedy: On Echoes and Voices

Dorota M. Dutsch

Published in print:
2008
Published Online:
September 2008
ISBN:
9780199533381
eISBN:
9780191714757
Item type:
book
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
DOI:
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199533381.001.0001
Subject:
Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval

Ancient scholiasts and modern scholars have long been aware of a specialized feminine vocabulary (terms of endearment, a special word for ‘please’, and interjections) used by the authors ... More

Film and the Classical Epic Tradition

Film and the Classical Epic Tradition

Joanna Paul

Published in print:
2013
Published Online:
May 2013
ISBN:
9780199542925
eISBN:
9780191745881
Item type:
book
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
DOI:
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199542925.001.0001
Subject:
Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval

This book explores the cultural significance of labelling certain films as ‘epics’, arguing that there is a meaningful relationship between films set in antiquity and the classical epic tradition. ... More

Forgotten Stars

Forgotten Stars: Rediscovering Manilius' Astronomica

Steven J. Green, Katharina Volk (eds)

Published in print:
2011
Published Online:
May 2011
ISBN:
9780199586462
eISBN:
9780191724961
Item type:
book
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
DOI:
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199586462.001.0001
Subject:
Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval

The Astronomica of Manilius is a poem in five books, at least partly written under Augustus, which purports to teach the reader the art of astrology and the means by which an accurate ... More

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