By Professor Marco Fantuzzi, Theodore D Papanghelis

This quantity on Greek and Latin Pastoral includes articles by means of a global group of twenty-three students. The contributions specialize in the old genesis, stylistic and narrative positive aspects and evolution of pastoral, either as style and mode, from Theocritus to the Byzantine interval. distinct recognition has been paid to the assumption of the "invention of a tradition", and to pastoral's thematic and formal courting with different literary genres. of their totality, the contributions, in addition to delivering a complete evaluate of the roughly primary matters and ideas mentioned in reference to pastoral, aspect to new emphases, developments and insights in present scholarly paintings during this sector. the amount is addressed to a variety of scholars and students in classics, yet a lot in it is going to even be of curiosity to these operating within the fields of comparative and sleek literatures.

By Menahem Stern

A accomplished corpus of texts with regards to Jews and Judaism by means of the Greek and Latin authors of Antiquity. the gathering furnishes useful resource fabric at the position of Jews and Judaism within the Mediterranean international in the course of the upward thrust and unfold of Hellenism, concluding with recommendations of Judaism held via the Neoplatonist philosophers. The writings of every writer are observed through an creation, a serious equipment, an English translation and an in depth statement within which the resources are tested within the context of the newest scholarship and archaeological findings.

By Douglas Cairns, Ruth Scodel

The 'Classic' narratology that has been broadly utilized to classical texts is geared toward a common taxonomy for describing narratives. extra lately, 'new narratologies' have all started linking the formal features of narrative to their old and ideological contexts. This quantity seeks one of these rethinking for Greek literature. It has heavily comparable targets: to outline what's frequently Greek in Greek narratives of other classes and genres, and to determine how narrative options and issues boost over time.

The 15 individual members discover questions corresponding to: How is Homeric epic like and in contrast to Gilgamesh and the Hebrew Bible? What do Greek historians constantly fail to inform us, having realized from the culture what to disregard? How does lyric alter narrative ideas from different genres?

By Themistius, Robert B. Todd

Themistius' remedy of Books 1-3 of Aristotle's Physics presents critical positive factors of Aristotle's considered rules, causation, switch and infinity. The culture of synthesising and epitomising exegesis is right here raised to a brand new point by means of the leading edge approach to paraphrase pioneered by means of Themistius. Taking selective, yet telling, account of the sooner Peripatetic and Presocratic culture, Themistius creates a framework that may nonetheless be profitably utilized in the examine of Aristotle. This publication could be of curiosity to all scholars of old and medieval philosophy, background and philosophy of science.

By Plutarch, Frank Cole Babbitt

Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. 45–120 CE, was once born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in important Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming to Rome as a instructor in philosophy, used to be given consular rank through the emperor Trajan and a procuratorship in Greece through Hadrian. He was once married and the daddy of 1 daughter and 4 sons. He appears to be like as a guy of kindly personality and self sustaining proposal, studious and realized. Plutarch wrote on many topics. most well-liked have continuously been the forty six Parallel Lives, biographies deliberate to be moral examples in pairs (in every one pair, one Greek determine and one related Roman), although the final 4 lives are unmarried. All are priceless resources of our wisdom of the lives and characters of Greek and Roman statesmen, infantrymen and orators. Plutarch's many different assorted extant works, approximately 60 in quantity, are often called Moralia or ethical Essays. they're of excessive literary worth, in addition to being of serious use to humans drawn to philosophy, ethics and faith. The Loeb Classical Library version of the Moralia is in fifteen volumes, quantity XIII having components.

By Grammatiki A. Karla, Grammatki A. Karla

This number of essays bargains a complete exam of texts that ordinarily were excluded from the most corpus of the traditional Greek novel and constrained to the margins of the style, comparable to the "Life of Aesop", the "Life of Alexander the Great", and the "Acts of the Christian Martyrs". via comparability and distinction, intertextual research and shut exam, the bounds of the dichotomy among the 'fringe' vs. the 'canonical' or 'erotic' novel are explored, and so the usual identification of the texts in each one team is extra sincerely defined. The collective end result brings the 'fringe' from the outer edge of scholarly learn to the centre of serious realization, and gives methodological instruments for the exploration of alternative 'fringe' texts.

By David Wray

This literary examine of the first-century BCE Roman poet, Catullus makes use of units of comparative types to provide a brand new realizing of his poems. the 1st involves cultural anthropological money owed of male social interplay within the premodern Mediterranean, and the second one, the postmodern poetics of such twentieth-century poets as Louis Zukofsky, that are characterised by way of simultaneous juxtaposition, a "collage" aesthetic, and self-allusive play. The publication might be of curiosity to scholars of comparative literature and gender reviews in addition to to classicists.