Brill's Companions in Classical Studies Online I

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• Brill's Companion to Alexander the Great

  • Type: E-Book
  • Editor Joseph Roisman
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  • The book deals with central issues of Alexander’s reign including his depiction in ancient literature and art, his treatment of Greeks, Macedonians, and Asians, the military, political, social and cultural aspects of his campaign, and his legacy in ancient philosophy as well as in modern Balkan communities.

• Brill's Companion to Ancient Macedon

  • Type: E-Book
  • Editor Robin J. Lane Fox
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  • Drawing on the latest archaeology, epigraphy and historical interpretation, this major volume presents a survey of ancient Macedon, important parts of which are published by their excavators for the first time, including the palace of King Philip II. Archaeologists and historians of the ancient Greek worlds will welcome this milestone in the study of this rapidly changing filed, packed with new information, interpretations and essential bibliography.

• Brill's Companion to Aphrodite

  • Type: E-Book
  • Editors Amy C. Smith; Sadie Pickup
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  • In this book an international team of scholars from a wide range of academic fields and perspectives reevaluate the Greek goddess Aphrodite, her worship throughout the Mediterranean, manifold roles in Graeco-Roman antiquity, and reception through the Renaissance and beyond.

• Brill's Companion to Apollonius Rhodius

  • Type: E-Book
  • Editors Theodore D. Papanghelis; Antonios Rengakos
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  • Now available in paperback, the 2nd edition of the Companion to Apollonius Rhodius, comprising now nineteen articles by leading scholars from Europe and America, gives 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.

• Brill's Companion to Callimachus

  • Type: E-Book
  • Editors Benjamin Acosta-Hughes; Luigi Lehnus; Susan Stephens
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  • This volume is the combined effort of over thirty scholars. They analyize Callimachus, the 3rd-century Alexandrian poet, from literary and technical perspectives, reception and influence. It is designed to facilitate the work of scholars and teachers in the classroom.

• Brill's Companion to Cicero

  • Type: E-Book
  • Editor James May
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  • This volume is intended as a companion to the study of Cicero's oratory and rhetoric, for both students and experts in the field. A group of impressive Ciceronian scholars have contributed articles that analyze in new and interesting ways the oratorical and rhetorical works of Cicero

• Brill's Companion to Greek and Latin Pastoral

  • Type: E-Book
  • Editors Marco Fantuzzi; Theodore D. Papanghelis
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  • Now available in paperback for the first time, the twenty-three contributions collected in this volume on Greek and Latin Pastoral focus mainly on the historical genesis, the stylistic and narrative features, the literary self-definition, and the fortunes of pastoral from its Theocritean origins to the Byzantine age.

• Brill's Companion to Hellenistic Epigram

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  • An internationally renowned set of experts on epigram offers an introduction, fresh approaches, and new direction to the study of Hellenistic-era epigram by exploring the models, forms, poetology, sub-genera, intertexts, and ancient and modern reception of Hellenistic epigram.

• Brill's Companion to Herodotus

  • Type: E-Book
  • Editors Egbert J. Bakker; I.J.F. Jong; Hans Wees
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  • Herodotus’ outstanding achievements as a literary figure, intellectual, historian and ethnographer have in recent years come to be appreciated with much greater depth and subtlety. This Companion offers an up-to-date and in-depth overview of current approaches to Herodotus’ remarkable work.

• Brill's Companion to Hesiod

  • Type: E-Book
  • Editors Franco Montanari; Chr. Tsagalis; Antonios Rengakos
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  • Drawing on the growing interest in Near Eastern literature and culture, and applying the insights of both traditional classical philology and the study of oral cultures, this companion offers a wide-ranging, update and comprehensive panorama of the current state of Hesiodic studies.

• Brill's Companion to Lucan

  • Type: E-Book
  • Editor Paolo Asso
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  • The present collection samples the most current approaches to Lucan’s poem, its themes, its dialogue with other texts, its reception in medieval and early modern literature, and its relevance to audiences of all times.

• Brill's Companion to Ovid

  • Type: E-Book
  • Editor Barbara Weiden Boyd
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  • This collection of essays on Ovid’s life, works, and influence is intended to serve as a vade-mecum for all interested in the Roman world’s most versatile literary genius. The broad range of subjects and perspectives represented by the Companion’s fourteen contributors offers readers the best in contemporary classical scholarship.

• Brill's Companion to Propertius

  • Type: E-Book
  • Editor Hans-Christian Günther
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  • Now available in aperback for the first time, this volume provides a comprehensive guide to one of the most difficult authors of classical antiquity. All the major aspects of Propertius´ work are dealt with in contributions by renowned specialists. Due space is also given to the reception of the author. At the centre stands an interpretation of the four transmitted books.

• Brill's Companion to Silius Italicus

  • Type: E-Book
  • Editor Antony Augoustakis
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  • This volume offers a detailed overview of Silius Italicus’ Punica, by placing the poem within its literary and socio-historical context and by documenting its reception in the humanistic tradition of the Renaissance and subsequent centuries.

• Brill's Companion to Thucydides

  • Type: E-Book
  • Editors Antonis Tsakmakis; Antonios Rengakos
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  • With contributions by thirty leading international scholars, this volume offers an up-to-date and in-depth overview of all current approaches to Thucydides’ History.

• Brill's Companion to the Study of Greek Comedy

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  • The Companion to the Study of Greek Comedy sets forth the main resources for the advancing student in three sections: "Contexts,""History," and "Elements.” The volume is a guide for understanding and interpreting the classic comedies as well as for navigating the principal corpora of texts, fragments and scholia.