Category: Ancient Medieval Literature

By Calvo Martínez, José Luis; Lisias

By Philoponus ; Christian Wildberg (translator)

By Peter Wilson

This booklet is the 1st significant learn of the capability during which the classical Athenians organised and funded their many competition choruses. It explores the mechanics of the establishment in which a minority of wealthy voters have been required to rearrange and pay for a competition refrain, together with choruses for tragic and comedian drama, and situates this accountability in the variety of events for elite management in Athens' complicated competition calendar. Peter Wilson is going directly to exhibit the significance of the khoregia to our figuring out of the workings of Athenian democracy itself, and to illustrate the measure to which the establishment was once itself a hugely performative party, a chance for elite show within the democratic atmosphere. The post-classical background of the khoregia and its visual appeal in a variety of different Greek groups also are tested.

By Fritz Schulz

By Michael K. Kellogg

The Roman "philosophy of existence" as reflected within the literature of ten amazing consultant authors

Though Rome conquered a lot of the realm and tested an empire that lasted greater than a millennium, its voters occasionally expressed a feeling of inferiority to the highbrow accomplishments of historical Greece. The inspiration that Roman philosophers, thinkers, and writers have been simply light imitations of Greek originals has continued to at the present time. Even the good Roman poet Horace wrote, "Captive Greece took its Roman captor captive,/ Invading uncouth Latium with its arts."

Michael okay. Kellogg places this inspiration to leisure during this energetic, very readable evaluation of Roman literature. the writer uncovers many examples of Roman knowledge, exhibiting that the Roman contribution to highbrow historical past is substantial and needn't take moment position to old Greek literature.

Kellogg bargains clean and fascinating pix of poets (Lucretius, Virgil, Horace, Ovid); dramatists (Plautus, Terence, Seneca); biographers (Plutarch, Suetonius); historians (Livy, Tacitus); and philosophers (Cicero, Marcus Aurelius), opposed to the heritage of Roman background.  

The modern reader will come clear of this glorious survey with the belief that even this present day our tradition nonetheless bears the lasting imprint of historical Rome.

By Marina Berzins McCoy

A PDF model of this publication is accessible at no cost in open entry through www.oup.com/uk in addition to the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. it's been made to be had below an artistic Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license and is a part of the OAPEN-UK study undertaking. during this publication, McCoy examines how Greek epic, tragedy, and philosophy have vital insights to supply concerning the nature of human vulnerability, that's primary to the human adventure. whereas stories of Greek heroism and advantage frequently specialize in power of personality, prowess in conflict, or the fulfillment of honour, McCoy examines one other aspect to Greek notion that extols the popularity and correct popularity of vulnerability, or the capability to be wounded. starting with the literary works of Homer's Iliad, Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, and Philoctetes, she expands her research to philosophical works the place she analyses imagery of hurting in Plato's Gorgias and Symposium, in addition to Aristotle's paintings at the vulnerability inherent in friendship. McCoy goals at deepening our realizing of the virtues of vulnerability for people and societies alike, and gives an leading edge interpretation of tragic catharsis as a way for society to extend on its imaginative and prescient of itself and the weak inside in the neighborhood. [C:\Users\Microsoft\Documents\Calibre Library]

By Lauri Honko

The sequence Religion and Society (RS) contributes to the exploration of religions as social platforms either in Western and non-Western societies; specifically, it examines religions of their differentiation from, and intersection with, different cultural platforms, resembling artwork, economic system, legislation and politics. Due consciousness is given to paradigmatic case or comparative experiences that show a transparent theoretical orientation with the empirical and ancient info of faith and such features of faith as ritual, the non secular mind's eye, buildings of culture, iconography, or media. moreover, the formation of spiritual groups, their development of identification, and their relation to society and the broader public are key problems with this sequence.

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By Stuart Gillespie, Philip Hardie

Lucretius' didactic poem De rerum natura ('On the character of Things') is an impassioned and visionary presentation of the materialist philosophy of Epicurus, and some of the most robust poetic texts of antiquity. After its rediscovery in 1417 it turned a arguable and seminal paintings in successive levels of literary heritage, the historical past of technology, and the Enlightenment. during this Cambridge significant other specialists within the background of literature, philosophy and technological know-how speak about the poem in its historical contexts and in its reception either as a literary textual content and as a motor vehicle for innovative principles. The significant other is designed either as an obtainable guide for the overall reader who needs to profit approximately Lucretius, and as a sequence of stimulating essays for college students of classical antiquity and its reception. it truly is thoroughly available to the reader who has in simple terms learn Lucretius in translation.

By John Gray

Attention-grabbing, enlightening, and epic in scope, Black Mass appears to be like on the ancient and glossy faces of Utopian ideology: Society’s Holy Grail, yet at what price?

During the final century international politics was once formed by way of Utopian tasks. Pursuing a dream of a global with out evil, strong states waged conflict and practised terror on an unparalleled scale. From Germany to Russia to China to Afghanistan, whole societies have been destroyed.

Utopian ideologies rejected conventional faiths and claimed to be established in technology. They have been truly secular types of the parable of Apocalypse–the trust in a world-changing occasion that brings historical past, with all its conflicts, to an finish. The warfare in Iraq used to be the final of those makes an attempt at making a secular Utopia, promising a brand new period of democracy and generating blood-soaked anarchy and an rising theocracy instead.

John Gray’s robust and scary new booklet argues that the demise of Utopia doesn't suggest peace. as a substitute it portends the resurgence of old myths, now in brazenly fundamentalist varieties. Obscurely combined with geo-political struggles for the keep an eye on of usual assets, apocalyptic faith has back as an immense strength in worldwide conflict.

From the Hardcover edition.

By Randall T. Ganiban

On the finish of the Thebaid, Statius enjoins his epic 'not to compete with the divine Aeneid yet particularly to persist with at a distance and constantly revere its footprints'. the character of the Thebaid's interplay with the Aeneid is, even if, a question of discussion. This publication argues that the Thebaid reworks subject matters, scenes, and concepts from Virgil so one can convey that the Aeneid's illustration of monarchy is insufficient. It additionally demonstrates how the Thebaid's fascination with horror, spectacle, and unspeakable violence is tied to Statius' critique of the ethical and political virtues on the middle of the Aeneid. Professor Ganiban deals either the way to interpret the Thebaid and a mostly sequential studying of the poem.