By Holly Hughes

By James MacKillop

Covers the gods and goddesses of Celtic fable together with the character of Celtic faith, Celtic deities who have been associated with animals and ordinary phenomena or who later grew to become linked to neighborhood Christian saints, and the wealthy number of Celtic myths.

By John Burnet

If you happen to are contemplating this publication, i discovered it available to novices, since it used to be the *first* ebook at the Presocratics I learn, and that i acquired via it superb (with no previous Greek Philosophy instruction). now not as "strenuous" as Kirk & Raven which had prices imbedded in footnotes and so forth. making it extra of a "scholarly" factor (but additionally very good nonetheless).

By Michele Amari

Storia dei Musulmani di Sicilia

By Chester G. Starr

A well timed reassessment of the important social, cultural, and political position of the aristocrat in Greek society, this e-book via special historian Chester G. Starr presents a concise portrait of the higher periods and their lifestyle. Arguing that the effect of the aristocrat on historic Hellenic civilizatioln is undervalued by way of either glossy Western and Marxist students, Starr takes a detailed examine the social spectrum of old Greece, analyzing the implications of the aristocrats' domination of the traditional polis, their involvement in and patronage of the humanities, and their effect at the constitution of faith and at the historical Greeks' visible conception in their pantheon of gods. In a last bankruptcy, Starr concludes that the impression of the aristocratic excellent didn't finish while historic civilization flickered out, yet really used to be reborn within the Renaissance and has had robust impact at the process smooth Western historical past.

By Plautus, Paul Nixon

Plautus (Titus Maccius), born approximately 254 BCE at Sarsina in Umbria, went to Rome, engaged in paintings attached with the degree, misplaced his cash in trade, then grew to become to writing comedies. Twenty-one performs by way of Plautus have survived (one is incomplete). the foundation of all is a loose translation from comedies through such writers as Menander, Diphilus, and Philemon. So we've Greek manners of Athens approximately 300–250 BCE transferred to the Roman level of approximately 225–185, with Greek areas, humans, and customs, for renowned enjoyment in a Latin urban whose personal tradition used to be no longer but constructed and whose manners have been extra critical. To make his performs dwell for his viewers, Plautus integrated many Roman information, particularly bearing on slavery, army affairs, and legislation, with a few invention of his personal, significantly in administration of metres. The ensuing mix is full of life, genial and funny, with solid discussion and bright kind. There are performs of intrigue (Two Bacchises, The Haunted condo, Pseudolus); of intrigue with a acceptance subject (The Captives, The Carthaginian, Curculio); performs which boost personality (The Pot of Gold, Miles Gloriosus); others which activate incorrect id (accidental as within the Menaechmi; prompted on function as in Amphitryon); performs of family existence (The service provider, Casina, either disagreeable; Trinummus, Stichus, either pleasant). The Loeb Classical Library version of Plautus is in 5 volumes.

By Paul Roche

Pliny's Panegyricus (AD a hundred) survives as a different instance of senatorial rhetoric from the early Roman Empire. It bargains an eyewitness account of the final years of Domitian's principate, the reign of Nerva and Trajan's early years, and it communicates a close senatorial view at the behaviour anticipated of an emperor. it really is an incredible record within the improvement of the beliefs of imperial management, however it additionally contributes drastically to our realizing of imperial political tradition extra as a rule. This quantity, the 1st ever dedicated to the Panegyricus, includes specialist experiences of its key ancient and rhetorical contexts, in addition to very important severe ways to the broadcast model of the speech and its effect in antiquity. It deals students of Roman heritage, literature and rhetoric an up to date evaluation of key techniques to the speech, and scholars and readers an authoritative creation to this very important and under-appreciated speech.

By Jenny Strauss Clay

This examine unearths the team spirit of Hesiod's imaginative and prescient of the Cosmos by way of analyzing either his poems as complementary halves of an entire embracing the human and divine cosmos. within the Theogony and Works and Days, Hesiod, approximately modern with Homer, doesn't describe the deeds of the heroes. He presents as an alternative the earliest finished account of the genesis of the Greek gods and the character of human existence that turned the root for later Greek literature and philosophy.

By Graham Handley (auth.)