Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2007

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• Achaemenid Culture and Local traditions in Anatolia, Southern Caucasus and Iran

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  • Editors Ivantchik; Vakhtang Licheli
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  • This book contains articles concerning relationship between the ‘imperial’ culture of the Achaemenids and local traditions, including a publication of the unique painting from Tatarlı in Western Anatolia and the results of recent excavations in the Southern Caucasus and Iran. Originally published as issue 3-4 of Volume 13 (2007) of Brill's journal Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia. For more details on this journal, please click here.

• Akrasia in Greek Philosophy

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  • Editors Pierre Destrée; Christopher Bobonich
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  • The 13 contributions of this collective offer new and challenging ways of reading well-known and more neglected texts on akrasia (lack of control, or weakness of will) in Greek philosophy (Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Plotinus).

• Ammianus after Julian

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  • Editors Jan den Boeft; Jan Willem Drijvers; Hengst; Hans Teitler
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  • The papers in this volume treat historical, historiographical and literary aspects of the last six books of Ammianus Marcellinus’ Res Gestae, which deal with the period between the death of Julian (363) and the Roman defeat at Hadrianople (378).

• Aristotle on Definition

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  • Author: M. Deslauriers
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  • This work examines Aristotle’s discussions of definition in his logical works and the Metaphysics, and argues for the importance of definitions of simple substances, drawing the connection between definitions as first principles of demonstration and as statements of essence.

• Aristotle on Memory and Recollection

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  • Author: Bloch
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  • Based on a new critical edition of Aristotle's De Memoria and two interpretive essays, this book challenges current views on Aristotle's theories of memory and recollection, and argues that these are based on misinterpretations of the text and Aristotle's philosophical goals.

• Berichtigungsliste der Griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, Konkordanz zu Band VIII-XI (B.L. Konkordanz II)

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  • Editors Hoogendijk; M.J. Bakker; Kruit; A.V. Bakkers
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  • The Berichtigungsliste der Griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten is a tool of outstanding importance for anyone publishing or studying Greek papyrus documents. The new Konkordanz zu Berichtigungsliste Band VIII-XI facilitates finding corrections to published papyri and includes the CD-ROM edition of B.L. volumes I to XI in making the material instantly accessible using a wide range of quick-search criteria.

• Commentary on the Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri

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  • Author: G.A.A. Kortekaas
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  • After the publication of the Latin text (Brill, 2004), with totally new ideas concerning the text-genese, a detailed commentery is absolutely requested for all future investigations.

• Crises and the Roman Empire

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  • Editors O. Hekster; G. Kleijn; Daniëlle Slootjes
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  • This volume presents the proceedings of the seventh workshop of the international thematic network Impact of Empire, which concentrates on the history of the Roman Empire. It focuses on the impact that crises had on the development and functioning of the Roman Empire from the Republic to Late Imperial times.

• Democritus: Science, The Arts, and the Care of the Soul

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  • Editors Aldo Brancacci; Pierre-Marie Morel
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  • This volume gathers specific investigations dealing with some of the main topics of the research on Democritus: the catalogue of works, music, literary criticism, technics, zoology and the relation to medicine, physics, epistemology, posterity.

• Die Übersetzungen der Elementatio Theologica des Proklos und Ihre Bedeutung für den Proklostext

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  • Author: H.-Chr. Günther
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  • This book offers a study of the medieval Georgian translation of Proklos' Elementatio Theologica. It establishes ist significance for the Greek text and provides first insights into the textual and philosophical significance of Georgian translations and commentaries of Greek texts.

• Dionysos in Archaic Greece

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  • Author: C. Isler-Kerényi
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  • An interpretation of the god Dionysos as seen by Greek vase painters before the golden age of classical culture, which will help understand his wide popularity beyond wine consumption, which lasted until the end of antiquity.

• Granddaughter of the Sun

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  • Author: C.A.E. Luschnig
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  • By looking at aspects of Medea that are largely overlooked in the criticism, this book aims at an open and multiple reading. It shows that stories presented in the drama of 5th century Athens are not unrelated to human beings who actually exist.

• The Impact of the Roman Army (200 B.C. – A.D. 476): Economic, Social, Political, Religious and Cultural Aspects

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  • Editors Lukas Blois; Elio Lo Cascio
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  • This sixth volume of the network Impact of Empire offers a comprehensive reading on the economic, political, religious and cultural impact of Roman military forces on the regions that were dominated by the Roman Empire.

• Influences on Peripatetic Rhetoric

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  • Editor David Mirhady
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  • Each paper explores the influences on different parts of Peripatetic rhetoric, its discussion of character, emotion, reason, and style, its relationships with other texts, including those of Theodectes and the Rhetorica ad Alexandrum, and its relationship with the oratory of the 4th century BC.

• Ivory, Bone, and Related Wood Finds

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  • Author: W. Stern
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  • Parts of crossed-leg chairs and richly decorated fragments of bone and ivory excavated at Kenchreai, the Eastern port of Corinth, include scenes of an emperor and a miniature ivory Corinthian arcade that decorated luxurious furniture produced in late Roman Egypt.

• Kommentar zu den simonideischen Versinschriften

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  • Author: A. Petrovic
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  • The commentary is concerned with 15 verse inscriptions, the composition of which was probably commissioned from Simonides. The commentaries on the individual inscriptions, taking their historical, literary, and architectural contexts into consideration, follow the discussion of the archaic and classical epigrams in the first part of the book.

• La fiction des déclamations

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  • Author: Van Mal-Maeder
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  • Centré sur les déclamations latines, ce livre jette un regard nouveau sur la nature littéraire de ces textes souvent sousestimés, sur leur caractère fictionnel et sur leur relation avec la poésie et le roman. Focussing on the Latin declamations, this book shines a new light on the literary nature of these often underestimated texts, their fictional nature and relation to poetry and the novel.

• La romanisation des dieux

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  • Author: A. Cadotte
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  • Most of the so called Roman deities of North Africa were disguised Libyo-Punic gods. In a global approach of the Roman-African pantheon, using all the available sources, this book investigates on the real identities of each deity worshiped in this area of the Roman Empire.

• The Language of Literature

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  • Editors Rutger Allan; Michel Buijs
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  • Following an interdisciplinary and text-oriented approach, the contributions to this volume discuss various linguistic and literary apects of Greek and Latin prose and poetry and therewith aim at bridging the gap between linguistic and literary study of classical texts.

• The Libraries of the Neoplatonists

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  • Editor Cristina Ancona
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  • The transmission of Greek learning to the Arabic-speaking world paved the way to the rise of Arabic philosophy. This volume offers a deep and multifarious survey of transmission of Greek philosophy through the schools of late Antiquity to the Syriac-speaking and Arabic-speaking worlds.