Author: G. Schepens
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004113046
Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Die Fragmente Der Griechischen Historiker
Author: G. Schepens
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004113046
Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004113046
Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Die Fragmente Der Griechischen Historiker, Continued
Author: Felix Jacoby
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004113039
Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004113039
Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
IV. Biography and Antiquarian Literature A. Biography. Fascicle 5. the First Century BC and Hellenistic Authors of Uncertain Date [Nos. 1035-1045]
Author: Pietro Zaccaria
Publisher: Die Fragmente Der Griechischen
ISBN: 9789004209138
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In FGrHist IV A 5, Pietro Zaccaria offers the first complete corpus of late Hellenistic biography preserved in fragments. The volume contains a critical edition, with English translation and comprehensive commentary, of more than one hundred fragments from eleven Greek biographers.
Publisher: Die Fragmente Der Griechischen
ISBN: 9789004209138
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In FGrHist IV A 5, Pietro Zaccaria offers the first complete corpus of late Hellenistic biography preserved in fragments. The volume contains a critical edition, with English translation and comprehensive commentary, of more than one hundred fragments from eleven Greek biographers.
Ctesias: On India
Author: Andrew Nichols
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
ISBN: 9781853997426
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
A Greek doctor serving at the court of the Persian king Artaxerxes II in the fifth century BC, Ctesias met travellers and visitors from the far eastern reaches of the Persian Empire, merchants from along the Silk Road and Indians from near the Indus Valley. His Indika (On India), was the first monograph ever written on India by a western author, introducing its readers to such fantastic creatures as the unicorn and the martichora, along with real life subjects such as the parrot and the art of falconry. Confirming pre-existing conceptions of what were considered to be the edges of the earth, Ctesias' Indika helped shape the Greek view of India.
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
ISBN: 9781853997426
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
A Greek doctor serving at the court of the Persian king Artaxerxes II in the fifth century BC, Ctesias met travellers and visitors from the far eastern reaches of the Persian Empire, merchants from along the Silk Road and Indians from near the Indus Valley. His Indika (On India), was the first monograph ever written on India by a western author, introducing its readers to such fantastic creatures as the unicorn and the martichora, along with real life subjects such as the parrot and the art of falconry. Confirming pre-existing conceptions of what were considered to be the edges of the earth, Ctesias' Indika helped shape the Greek view of India.
The Pregnant Male as Myth and Metaphor in Classical Greek Literature
Author: David D. Leitao
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107017289
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
This book traces the image of the pregnant male as it evolves in classical Greek literature. Originating as a representation of paternity and, by extension, "authorship" of creative works, the image later comes to function also as a means to explore the boundary between the sexes.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107017289
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
This book traces the image of the pregnant male as it evolves in classical Greek literature. Originating as a representation of paternity and, by extension, "authorship" of creative works, the image later comes to function also as a means to explore the boundary between the sexes.
Ptolemy II Philadelphus and his World
Author: Paul McKechnie
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047424204
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Heir of Ptolemy son of Lagus, Alexander the Great's general (who took Egypt over in 323BC), Ptolemy II Philadelphus reigned in Alexandria from 282 to 246. The greatest of the Hellenistic kings of his time, Philadelphus exercised power far beyond the confines of Egypt, while at his glittering royal court the Library of Alexandria grew to be a matchless monument to Greek intellectual life. In Egypt the Ptolemaic régime consolidated its power by encouraging immigration and developing settlement in the Fayum. This book examines Philadelphus' reign in a comprehensive and refreshing way. Scholars from the fields of Classics, Archaeology, Papyrology, Egyptology and Biblical Studies consider issues in Egypt and across Ptolemaic territory in the Mediterranean, the Holy Land and Africa.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047424204
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Heir of Ptolemy son of Lagus, Alexander the Great's general (who took Egypt over in 323BC), Ptolemy II Philadelphus reigned in Alexandria from 282 to 246. The greatest of the Hellenistic kings of his time, Philadelphus exercised power far beyond the confines of Egypt, while at his glittering royal court the Library of Alexandria grew to be a matchless monument to Greek intellectual life. In Egypt the Ptolemaic régime consolidated its power by encouraging immigration and developing settlement in the Fayum. This book examines Philadelphus' reign in a comprehensive and refreshing way. Scholars from the fields of Classics, Archaeology, Papyrology, Egyptology and Biblical Studies consider issues in Egypt and across Ptolemaic territory in the Mediterranean, the Holy Land and Africa.
Die Fragmente Der Griechischen Historiker
Author: Felix Jacoby
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
Bios Philosophos
Author: Mauro Bonazzi
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
ISBN: 9782503565460
Category : Philosophers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"In the 4th century B.C., philosophers began to write not only philosophical texts, but also biographical ones. As biographers, they often presented members of their own schools as the epitome of their ideals, or tried to prove that the followers of others lived in ways inconsistent with their own doctrines. The papers collected in this volume explore the many ways in which philosophy was incorporated into such texts, as well as how the genre was used as a means of philosophical instruction, discussion and polemics."--Back cover.
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
ISBN: 9782503565460
Category : Philosophers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"In the 4th century B.C., philosophers began to write not only philosophical texts, but also biographical ones. As biographers, they often presented members of their own schools as the epitome of their ideals, or tried to prove that the followers of others lived in ways inconsistent with their own doctrines. The papers collected in this volume explore the many ways in which philosophy was incorporated into such texts, as well as how the genre was used as a means of philosophical instruction, discussion and polemics."--Back cover.
Brill's Companion to Herodotus
Author: Egbert J. Bakker
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004217584
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
Herodotus’ Histories can be read in many ways. Their literary qualities, never in dispute, can be more fully appreciated in the light of recent developments in the study of pragmatics, narratology, and orality. Their intellectual status has been radically reassessed: no longer regarded as naïve and ‘archaic’, the Histories are now seen as very much a product of the intellectual climate of their own day - not only subject to contemporary literary, religious, moral and social influences, but actively contributing to the great debates of their time. Their reliability as historical and ethnographic accounts, a matter of controversy even in antiquity, is being debated with renewed vigour and increasing sophistication. This Companion offers an up-to-date and in-depth overview of all these current approaches to Herodotus’ remarkable work.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004217584
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
Herodotus’ Histories can be read in many ways. Their literary qualities, never in dispute, can be more fully appreciated in the light of recent developments in the study of pragmatics, narratology, and orality. Their intellectual status has been radically reassessed: no longer regarded as naïve and ‘archaic’, the Histories are now seen as very much a product of the intellectual climate of their own day - not only subject to contemporary literary, religious, moral and social influences, but actively contributing to the great debates of their time. Their reliability as historical and ethnographic accounts, a matter of controversy even in antiquity, is being debated with renewed vigour and increasing sophistication. This Companion offers an up-to-date and in-depth overview of all these current approaches to Herodotus’ remarkable work.
A Companion to Apollonius Rhodius
Author: Theodore D. Papanghelis
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047400461
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
This volume on Apollonius of Rhodes, whose Argonautica is the sole full-length epic to survive from the Hellenistic period, comprises articles by fourteen leading scholars from Europe and America. Their contributions cover a wide range of issues from the history of the text and the problems of the poet's biography through questions of style, literary technique and intertextual relations to the epic's literary and cultural reception. The aim is to give an up-to-date outline of the scholarly discussion in these areas and to provide a survey of recent and current trends in Apollonian studies which will be useful to students of Hellenistic poetry in general as well as to scholars with a specialised interest in Apollonius.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047400461
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
This volume on Apollonius of Rhodes, whose Argonautica is the sole full-length epic to survive from the Hellenistic period, comprises articles by fourteen leading scholars from Europe and America. Their contributions cover a wide range of issues from the history of the text and the problems of the poet's biography through questions of style, literary technique and intertextual relations to the epic's literary and cultural reception. The aim is to give an up-to-date outline of the scholarly discussion in these areas and to provide a survey of recent and current trends in Apollonian studies which will be useful to students of Hellenistic poetry in general as well as to scholars with a specialised interest in Apollonius.