Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2010

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• The Art of the Hekatompedon Inscription and the Birth of the Stoikhedon Style

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  • Author: P.A. Butz
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  • Recognizing the traditional place held by the Hekatompedon Inscription (IG I3 4) in classical studies, this book presents evidence for the meaning of the inscription that comes from its facture, leading to the question of the origin of the stoikhedon style and of Egypt's role in that emergence.

• Aëtiana

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  • Authors: J. Mansfeld; D.T. Runia
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  • This collection of essays written between 1989 and 2009 records the authors’ exploration of the important but elusive genre of ancient doxography. Focusing primarily on the Placita of Aëtius, it can be used as a companion volume for the two earlier volumes of Aëtiana.

• Collected Papers on Greek Tragedy

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  • Author: C. Willink
  • Editor W. Benjamin Henry
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  • Sir Charles Willink’s work on Greek tragedy and metre is among the most important of the last fifty years. This volume collects all his mature papers, including three new articles on Euripides and additions and corrections to his earlier work.

• Discourse Cohesion in Ancient Greek

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  • Editors Gerry Wakker; Stéphanie Bakker
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  • Central in this volume of the 6th International Colloquium on Ancient Greek Linguistics is the question how cohesion is created in Ancient Greek texts. It discusses the use and function of cohesion devices like pronomina, particles, tense and complements.

• Early Greek Poets’ Lives

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  • Author: M. Kivilo
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  • This book offers a detailed overview of the biographical material of six early Greek poets (Hesiod, Stesichorus, Archilochus, Hipponax, Terpander, and Sappho) and provides an outline of the formation, sources and development of their biographical traditions.

• Emperors and Historiography

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  • Editors Diederik Burgersdijk; Joop Waarden
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  • This volume contains scholarly articles by professor Daniël den Hengst, in which structural and intertextual aspects of Roman historiographical texts are studied. Special attention is given to the Historia Augusta and Ammianus Marcellinus' Res Gestae, but also relevant texts by Cicero, Livy, Quintilian and Suetonius are discussed.

• From Face to Face

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  • Author: M. Prusac
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  • This book provides analyses of different recarving methods in Late Antiquity, and argues on the basis of 500 recarved portraits that the late antique portrait style, which was formerly considered an expression of a new era, was rather a technical consequence.

• Hesiod: The Other Poet

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  • Author: H. Koning
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  • This book offers a comprehensive account of the role of Hesiod in the ancient imagination, investigating the poet as a literary-critical concept, a moral and philosophical symbol, and generally a cultural icon endlessly employed and re-created by later Greeks.

• Hippocrates and Medical Education

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  • Editor Manfred Horstmanshoff
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  • The collection of writings known as the Corpus Hippocraticum played a decisive role in medical education for more than twenty four centuries. This is the first full-length volume on medical education in Graeco-Roman antiquity since Kudlien’s seminal article from 1970. The articles in this volume were originally presented as papers at the XIIth International Colloquium Hippocraticum in Leiden in 2005.

• Latin Historiography and Poetry in the Early Empire

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  • Editors John Miller; Anthony Woodman
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  • This book, a sequel to Clio and the Poets (Brill 2002), examines the inter-relationships between Latin poetry and historiography in the first century AD.

• Literary Rhetoric

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  • Author: H.F. Plett
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  • The subject of this book is literary rhetoric which is treated both in a historical outline and a systematic concept, implemented in analyses of literary texts of all ages and languages.

• Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Mediterranean Antiquities, Vol. 2, The Terracotta Collection

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  • Authors: E.P. Zoïtopoúlou; B. Caron; A. Deblois
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  • Continuing the previous volume on the glass collection this volume presents all the Mediterranean Antiquities made of terracotta. Like its predecessor, the volume begins with a discussion of the production techniques and includes an extensive bibliography.

• New Chapters in the History of Rhetoric

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  • Editor Laurent Pernot
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  • This volume gathers over forty papers by leading scholars in the field of the history of rhetoric. It illustrates the current trends of this new area of research and covers the Bible, Classical Antiquity, Medieval and Modern Europe, Chinese and Corean civilization, and the contemporary world. One major topic is Rhetoric and Religion.

• New Perspectives on Aristotle's De caelo

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  • Editors Alan Bowen; Christian Wildberg
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  • Aristotle's great ambition in his De caelo was to determine the nature and structure of the geocentric universe. This collection of essays addresses key epistemological and methodological issues raised by the numerous arguments that Aristotle offers.

• Particulars in Greek Philosophy

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  • Editor Robert Sharples
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  • An examination by leading scholars of what the ancient Greeks had to say on the relation between the universal and the particular in ethics, psychology, metaphysics and cosmology.

• Philological and Historical Commentary on Ammianus Marcellinus XXVII

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  • Authors: J. Den Boeft; J. Drijvers; D. Den Hengst; H. Teitler
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  • Continuing the series of philological and historical commentaries on Ammianus' Res Gestae this volume deals with Book 27, in which the author deals with military operations and internal affairs. In the central part of the book the emperor Valentinian is portrayed.

• Private and Public Lies

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  • Editors Andrew Turner; James Kim On Chong-Gossard; Frederik Vervaet
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  • This book examines despotism and deceit in the Graeco-Roman world from historical and literary perspectives, over a range of historical periods including classical Athens, the Hellenistic kingdoms, late republican and early imperial Rome, late antiquity, and Byzantium.

• Proclus on Nature

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  • Author: M. Martijn
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  • This study presents a revision of Proclus’ natural philosophy, starting from the Commentary on Plato’s Timaeus. It provides new insight into Proclus' metaphysics of nature, his surprisingly peripatetic philosophy of science, the role of mathematics, and the nature of discourse.

• The Regime of Demetrius of Phalerum in Athens, 317-307 BCE

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  • Author: L. O'sullivan
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  • This work draws upon a close re-examination of the literary and epigraphic evidence to offer new understandings of Athenian history during the decade-long rule (317-307 BCE) of the accomplished Peripatetic scholar and renowned legislator, Demetrius of Phalerum.

• Repertorium der Konjekturen in den Seneca-Tragödien

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  • Authors: M. Billerbeck; M. Somazzi
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  • Besides a brief account of the Humanists' editions of the Seneca tragedies in the early 16th century the repertory follows the critical discussion of the text and lists systematically the conjectures recorded since M.A. Delrio (1619) down to the year 2007. Neben einem Überblick über die humanistische Textkritik der Seneca-Tragödien im frühen 16. Jh. verzeichnet das Repertorium die seit M.A. Delrio (1619) bis zum Jahre 2007 systematisch erfassten Konjekturen und ordnet sie unter Angabe des Fundortes in die textkritische Diskussion ein.