Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2012

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• Aristotle Poetics

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  • Authors: Leonardo Tarán; Dimitri Gutas
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  • This important new editio maior of Aristotle's Poetics is based on all the primary sources and is accompanied by a details critical apparatus. The introductory chapters provide important new insights about the transmission of the text to the present day and especially the significance of the Syro-Arabic tradition.

• Aspects of Apuleius' Golden Ass

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  • Editors W.H. Keulen; Ulrike Egelhaaf-Gaiser
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  • The contributions to this volume on the Isis Book reassess current interpretations, highlight aspects of text, language, and style, and develop new lines of approach regarding the interpretation of this fascinating many-layered text, the last book of Apuleius’ famous novel.

• Boethius on Mind, Grammar and Logic

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  • Author: Taki Suto
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  • Boethius, the Roman philosopher, was executed for treason and pilloried by modern scholars for misinterpreting Aristotle to the West. This book examines his semantics and logic, attempting to clear his name and lend him new credence.

• Coining Images of Power

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  • Author: Erika Manders
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  • Based on a quantitative and qualitative analysis of 8227 coin types, this book describes and interprets the diachronic development of the representation of Roman emperors on imperial coins issued between 193 and 284.

• Egyptianizing Figurines from Delos

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  • Author: Caitlín E. Barrett
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  • This book investigates Hellenistic popular religion through an interdisciplinary study of figurines of Egyptian deities from Delos. The results offer a new perspective on Hellenistic reinterpretations of Egyptian religion, as well as the relationship between “popular” and “official” cults.

• The Emergence of Reflexivity in Greek Language and Thought

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  • Author: Edward T. Jeremiah
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  • Tying together linguistics, philology and philosophy, this monograph explores the morphological and semantic development of the heavily marked reflexive system in Ancient Greek and argues that these changes are connected to a reconceptualisation of the human subject as characteristically reflexive.

• Enargeia in Classical Antiquity and the Early Modern Age

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  • Author: Heinrich F. Plett
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  • The present study provides an extensive treatment of the topic of enargeia on the basis of the classical and humanist sources of its theoretical foundation. These serve as the basis for detailed analyses of verbal and pictorial works of the Classical Antiquity and the Early Modern Age.

• The Eudemian Ethics on the Voluntary, Friendship, and Luck

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  • Editor Fiona Leigh
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  • The papers in this collection on Aristotle’s Eudemian Ethics by Charles, Rowe, McCabe, Whiting, and Buddensiek, offer new readings of Aristotle on the voluntary, friendship, and good fortune in the EE, by treating the EE on its own terms.

• Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen

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  • Author: Jacques Jouanna
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  • This volume makes available in English translation a selection of Jacques Jouanna's papers on Greek and Roman medicine, ranging from the early beginnings of Greek medicine to late antiquity.

• Heritage under Siege

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  • Author: Joris D. Kila
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  • WINNER OF THE BLUE SHIELD AWARD 2012! Drawing on the results of a multidisciplinary research a first comprehensive picture of cultural property protection involving the military is presented. Practical, legal and contemplative aspects are considered while presenting a fascinating new discipline in heritage related studies.

• Hippocrates, On the Art of Medicine

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  • Author: Joel E. Mann
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  • Employing the logical tools of contemporary analytic philosophy, this book places the pseudo-Hippocratic treatise On the Art of Medicine in its proper philosophical, rhetorical, and medical contexts through a new translation and commentary on the Greek text.

• Horace's Iambic Criticism

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  • Author: Timothy S. Johnson
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  • By examining the relationship of the iambic tradition with ritual, this book studies how Horace’s Epodes are more than partisan (consolidating Octavian’s victory by projecting hostilities onto powerless others) but a meta-partisan project (forming fractured entities into a diversified unity).

• Iamblichus and the Foundations of Late Platonism

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  • Editors Eugene Afonasin; John M. Dillon; John Finamore
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  • Drawing on recent scholarship and delving systematically into Iamblichean texts, these ten papers establish Iamblichus as the great innovator of Neoplatonic philosophy who broadened its appeal for future generations of philosophers.

• Inscribed Athenian Laws and Decrees 352/1-322/1 BC

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  • Author: Stephen Lambert
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  • This collection of eighteen papers makes wide-ranging original contributions to the study of the inscribed laws and decrees of the city of Athens, 352/1-322/1 BC, laying the groundwork for the author’s new edition of these inscriptions, IG II³ 1, 2.

• La Raison des signes.

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  • Authors: Stella Georgoudi; Renée Koch Piettre; Francis Schmidt
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  • Le recueil compare les procédures de fabrication et d’interprétation des signes dans les sociétés polythéistes ou monothéistes de la Méditerranée ancienne. Il analyse les rites ou l’argumentation critique visant à endiguer les signes et à préserver l’initiative humaine face aux injonctions du destin. The essays compare the procedure of fabrication and interpretation of signs in the polytheistic and monotheistic societies of the ancient Mediterranean Sea. The writers analyze the rites or the critical argumentation intending to stem the signs and to preserve the human initiative facing the injunctions of destiny.

• La démonologie platonicienne

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  • Author: Andrei Timotin
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  • This book, a history of a religious category of ancient philosophy, is the first synthesis on the notion of daimōn in the Platonic tradition. It focuses on the relationship between demonology and, respectively, cosmology, the philosophical hermeneutics of religion and theories of the soul. Histoire d’une catégorie religieuse de la philosophie ancienne, ce livre représente la première synthèse sur la notion de daimōn dans la tradition platonicienne. Il étudie les relations de la démonologie avec la cosmologie, l’herméneutique philosophique de la religion et les théories de l’âme.

• L'aporie ou l'expérience des limites de la pensée dans le Péri Archôn de Damaskios

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  • Author: Carolle Metry-Tresson
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  • Analyzing the reasons why we fail to grasp genuinely first principles, this book gives a new perspective on how to understand the meaning of the radical aporetism in the treatise on the first principles written by Neoplatonic philosopher Damaskios. Analysant les raisons de nos échecs à dire, connaître et concevoir authentiquement les principes premiers, ce livre offre une compréhension nouvelle du sens et du rôle de l’aporétique radicale du traité des Principes Premiers du néoplatonicien Damaskios.

• Law and Religion in the Roman Republic

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  • Editor Olga Tellegen-Couperus
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  • Drawing on epigraphic, legal, literary, and numismatic sources, this book reveals how, in the Roman Republic, law and religion interacted to serve the same purpose, the continued growth and consolidation of Rome’s power.

• Letting and Hiring in Roman Legal Thought: 27 BCE - 284 CE

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  • Author: Paul J. du Plessis
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  • This book is a fundamental reassessment of one of the most important commercial contracts in Roman law. By drawing on legal and non-legal source material, this book seeks to assess the development of the contract in light of Roman legal thought.

• Orality, Literacy and Performance in the Ancient World

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  • Editor Elizabeth Minchin
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  • This ninth Orality and Literacy volume considers oral composition, performance, reception, and the mutual interplay between oral performance and written text. Authors under consideration are Homer, Hesiod, Plato, Isocrates, orators of the Second Sophistic, and Proclus. Cross-cultural studies are included.