Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2011

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• Ancient Angels

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  • Author: R. Cline
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  • Ancient Angels brings together inscriptional, literary, and archaeological evidence for angels (angeloi) in Roman-era religions. The book examines Roman conceptions of angels, angel veneration, and how Christian authorities responded to this potentially heterodox aspect of Roman religion.

• Coping With the Gods

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  • Author: H. Versnel
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  • Abandoning monolithic approaches and embracing the possibility of inconsistencies and incongruities in Greek thought, behaviour, and culture, this book investigates how ancient Greeks could validate the complementarity of dissonant, if not contradictory, representations in e.g.polytheism, theodicy, divine omnipotence and ruler cult.

• Cult and Koinon in Hellenistic Thessaly

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  • Author: D. Graninger
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  • This book explores the territorial expansion of the Thessalian League ca. 196-27 BCE, the development of the state religion of the League, and the tension between regional political identity and local cult tradition.

• David the Invincible, Commentary on Aristotle's Prior Analytics

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  • Author: A. Topchyan
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  • This edition of David the Invincible’s Commentary on the Prior Analytics, surviving only in an old Armenian translation from Greek, includes a revised critical text and the first English translation of the work, textual parallels with other commentaries, trilingual glossaries and other material useful to specialists.

• Death and Immortality in Late Neoplatonism

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  • Author: S. R. P. Gertz
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  • This study focuses on the ancient commentaries on Plato’s Phaedo by Olympiodorus and Damascius and aims to present the relevance of their challenging and valuable readings of the dialogue to Neoplatonic ethics.

• Diodorus' Mythistory and the Pagan Mission

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  • Author: I. Sulimani
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  • Examining Diodorus Siculus’ historiographical methods and his representation of mythical culture-heroes, this study demonstrates the significant contribution of the author’s first pentad to his universal history and its importance as a supplement to our perception of Hellenistic civilization.

• The Early Black-Figured Pottery of Attika in Context (c. 630-570 BCE)

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  • Based on the archaeological context of the vessels, this book offers an overview of the production and distribution of early Attic black-figured pottery until the end of the first quarter of the sixth century B.C., aiming at an afresh approach to early Archaic Attika.

• Euripides and the Language of Craft

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  • Author: M. C. Stieber
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  • This first in-depth account of Euripides' relationship with the visual arts demonstrates how frequently the tragedian used language to visual effect, whether through allusion or actual references to objects, motifs built around real or imaginary objects, or the use of technical terminology.

• Frontiers in the Roman World

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  • Editors Ted Kaizer; Olivier Hekster
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  • This volume presents the proceedings of the ninth workshop of the international network 'Impact of Empire', which concentrates on the history of the Roman Empire. It focuses on different ways in which Rome created, changed and influenced (perceptions of) frontiers.

• Gloses et commentaire du livre XI du Contra Proclum de Jean Philopon

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  • Author: P. Mueller-Jourdan
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  • Focusing on the problem of the Prime Matter in the Philoponus' Contra Proclum (Book XI), this study offers the first translation, in French, extensively annoted and commented in the context of the 'quaestio disputata' of the Neoplatonic Alexandrian School (VIe s.). Consacrée au problème de la Prima Materia dans le Contra Proclum, livre XI, de Jean Philopon, cette étude en propose la première traduction, en français, exhaustivement annotée et commentée dans le contexte de la question disputée interne à l'Ecole néoplatonicienne d'Alexandrie (VIe s.).

• The Historical Present in Thucydides: Semantics and Narrative Function

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  • Editors Jean Lallot; Albert Rijksbaron; Bernard Jacquinod; Michel Buijs
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  • In the nine chapters of this book the function of the Historical Present in Thucydides is investigated. By its rich and detailed analyses this collective volume provides important new insights into Thucydides’ narrative technique.

• Interpreting Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics in Late Antiquity and Beyond

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  • Editors F.A.J. Haas; Mariska Leunissen; Marije Martijn
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  • This volume collects Late Ancient, Byzantine and Medieval appropriations of Aristotle's Posterior Analytics, addressing the logic of inquiry, concept formation, the question whether metaphysics is a science, and the theory of demonstration.

• Isis on the Nile. Egyptian Gods in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt

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  • Editors Laurent Bricault; Miguel John Versluys
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  • Against the background of questions on cultural identity and memory, this book offers an overview of the development of the cults of Isis in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt, often presenting new or unpublished material.

• Lateinische Modalpartikeln

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  • Author: J. Schrickx
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  • Dieses Buch bietet eine eingehende Analyse des wenig untersuchten Gebietes der lateinischen Modalpartikeln oder ‘Commitment Markers’ mit Hilfe moderner linguistischer Theorien und Analysen vergleichbarer Partikeln in modernen Sprachen. Es konzentriert sich auf die Partikeln nempe, quippe, scilicet, videlicet und nimirum. This book gives an analysis of the scarcely researched field of Latin modal particles, with the help of modern linguistic theories and analyses of comparable particles in modern languages. It focusses on the particles nempe, quippe, scilicet, videlicet and nimirum.

• New Essays on Ancient Pyrrhonism

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  • Editor Diego E. Machuca
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  • This volume collects eight new essays on ancient Pyrrhonism as it is presented in Sextus Empiricus' writings. They discuss issues not previously examined or reconsider old ones from a different perspective, thus proposing original interpretations and advancing the scholarly study of Pyrrhonian skepticism.

• Plato and the Poets

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  • Editors Pierre Destrée; Fritz-Gregor Herrmann
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  • The nineteen essays presented here aim to illuminate the ways poetry and the poets are discussed by Plato throughout his writing career. As well as throwing new light on old topics, such as mimesis and poetic inspiration, the volume introduces fresh approaches to Plato’s philosophy of poetry and literature.

• Pliny the Elder: Themes and Contexts

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  • Editors Roy Gibson; Ruth Morello
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  • Pliny's Naturalis Historia is a sophisticated encyclopaedia of the riches of the ancient world. The contributors to the present volume represent and join a new generation of critics who have begun to examine the dominant motifs which give shape to the work.

• Plotinus in Dialogue with the Gnostics

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  • Author: Jean-Marc Narbonne

• Poetry as Window and Mirror

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  • Author: J. Klooster
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  • Concentrating on the interaction between contemporary Hellenistic poets, this book attempts to chart the complex dynamics of Alexandrian poetical imitation and reception in the light of poetical self-positioning.

• Polis and Personification in Classical Athenian Art

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  • Author: A. C. Smith
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  • Ancient Greek artists pioneered in the allegorical use of personifications of political ideas, events, places, institutions, and peoples in visual arts. This book surveys and interprets these personifications within the intellectual and political climate of the golden age of Athens.