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The present collection brings together papers from Together they contribute to an original under- 3
an international group of researchers all inspired standing of the Roman sensory universe, and add
by ‘the sensory turn’. Focusing on a wide range of an embodied perspective to the notion of Lived
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ritual traditions from around the ancient Roman Ancient Religion.
world, they explore the many ways in which smell
and taste, sight and sound, separately and together,
involved participants in religious performance.
Music, incense, images and colors, contrasts of
light and dark played as great a role as belief or ob-
servance in generating religious experience.
R E A DE R S H I P : All interested in Roman Religion, Sensory Studies and the Study of the Senses in the
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June 2021
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Religions in the Graeco-
Roman World, 195
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The fifth volume of the Yearbook of Ancient Greek epic and finally to Apollonius’s Argonautica. Well-
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Epic comprises five articles on epics dating from known episodes receive innovative new interpreta-
the Archaic to the Hellenistic period. Contributors tions, and hitherto overlooked items receive the
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move from the Iliad to the Odyssey to fragmentary attention they deserve.
January 2022
Hardback
ISBN 9789004504677
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Yearbook of Ancient Greek Epic, 5
Honores inauditi Plutarch and the New Teaching through Images
Ehrenstatuen in Testament in Their Religio- Imagery in Greco-Roman
öffentlichen Räumen Philosophical Contexts Didactic Poetry
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Siziliens vom Hellenismus Bridging Discourses Edited by Jenny Strauss Clay,
bis in die Spätantike in the World of the University of Virginia,
and Athanassios Vergados,
Rebecca J. Henzel, Early Roman Empire Newcastle University
Leiden University
Edited by Rainer Hirsch-Luipold,
University of Bern
This book presents the first “Bridging Discourses in the In this volume an international 5
comprehensive survey of honor- World of the Early Roman team of early career and more
ary statues in Sicily. A wealth of Empire” is a fitting description established scholars explores the
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previously unpublished material of both the religio-philosophical ways in which didactic poets of
reconstructs the spatial and so- spirit of Plutarch and the task Greco-Roman antiquity use im-
cial contexts of honorary statues, of bringing his writings into agery, broadly defined, in order
offering a unique window on fruitful dialogue with the New to convey their teaching.
urbanism and society of the first Testament and Early Christian
Roman province. writings. The contributions in
this volume explore various ways
of how to do it.
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terest for every academic library dents interested in Plutarch and graduate and post-graduate
and archaeological institute and ancient religion and philosophy students in Classics; scholars/
all their users, undergraduates more generally, New Testament students of modern literatures
and graduates, concerned with scholars and historians of philos- working on didactic poetry.
statues in general, but also ur- ophy and religion with a focus on
banism and Roman provinces. imperial Platonism, Hellenistic
Judaism, and Early Christianity.
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Cultural Interactions Brill’s Plutarch Studies, 9 Mnemosyne, Supplements, 450
in the Mediterranean, 6
Brill’s Companion to the Brill’s Companion to Brill’s Companion to
Reception of Pythagoras the Reception of the Reception of Homer
and Pythagoreanism in Ancient Rhetoric from the Hellenistic Age
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the Middle Ages and the Edited by Sophia Papaioannou, to Late Antiquity
Renaissance National and Kapodistrian Edited by Christina – Panagiota
University of Athens, Andreas Manolea, Hellenic Army Academy
Edited by Irene Caiazzo, CNRS Serafim, Academy of Athens, and
– PSL University, Constantinos Michael Edwards, Royal Holloway
Macris, CNRS – PSL University, University of London
and Aurélien Robert, CNRS –
Université de Paris
For the first time, the reader This volume aims to offer a The volume is about the appro-
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can have a synoptic view of the wide examination of the ways priation of the Homeric poems
reception of Pythagoras and in which ancient rhetoric by writers of the 3rd century BCE
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Pythagoreanism in the Middle has been adopted, adapted, to the 6th century CE. It covers
Ages and the Renaissance, East imitated, contested, admired the fields of Literature, Philology,
and West, in a multicultural per- and criticised in representa- Rhetoric and Philosophy, show-
spective. All the major themes of tive genres, cultures and spa- ing Homer’s magnificent journey
Pythagoreanism are addressed, tiotemporal contexts, from across diverse intellectual envi-
from mathematics, number phi- antiquity through Byzantine ronments.
losophy and metaphysics to eth- culture, the Renaissance and
ics and religious thought. the Enlightenment to the 21st
century CE.
R E ADE R S H IP : This book is intend- READERSHI P: The volume is in- Classicists of all lev-
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ed for anyone interested in an- tended for the specialist scholars els (from undergraduate students
cient, medieval and Renaissance and graduate students of rhetoric to experienced scholars) as well
thought, from graduate students both in Classics and beyond as a wider reading public, as the
to more experienced scholars. (including anyone interested in volume essays are written in a
It provides detailed accounts of the history of rhetoric, modern purely academic, yet approach-
Pythagorean thought in the fields rhetorical and communication able way.
of metaphysics and ethics. studies, politics.
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Reception, 24 Reception, 23 Reception, 22
Brill’s Companion to Brill’s Companion to Apuleius Madaurensis.
Classics in the Early Greek Land Warfare Metamorphoses, Book III
Americas Beyond the Phalanx Text, Introduction,
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Edited by Maya Feile Tomes, Edited by Roel Konijnendijk, Translation, and Commentary
University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, and
Leonardo Costantini,
Adam J. Goldwyn, North Dakota Cezary Kucewicz, University of
niversity of Bristol
State University, and Gdańsk, and Matthew Lloyd
Matthew Duquès
Brill’s Companion to Classics Brill’s Companion to Greek Land The volume offers an in-depth
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in the Early Americas opens a Warfare Beyond the Phalanx commentary with a new text and
window onto classical recep- brings together emerging and English translation of Apuleius’
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tions across the Hispanophone, established scholars to build on Metamorphoses III. The intro-
Lusophone, Francophone and the new consensus of multiform duction and appendix cast new
Anglophone Americas during Greek warfare, on and off the light on the literary, stylistic and
the early modern period, exam- battlefield, beyond the usual textual features as well as the
ining classical reception as a chronological, geographical, and philosophical, socio-cultural and
phenomenon in transhemispher- operational boundaries. religious context of Apuleius’
ic perspective for the first. novel.
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of interest to faculty, graduates chaeology, and Classics institutes specialists, under- and post-grad-
and advanced undergraduates and departments; academic li- uate students in Classics, Latin
in early American literature(s), braries; undergraduate and post- literature and language, Ancient
colonial studies, Iberian studies, graduate students and subject History, Ancient Philosophy.
Francophone studies, Classics specialists in Greek warfare and
and classical reception. the relationship between war
and society.
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Brill’s Companions to Classical Brill’s Companions to Classical Studies:
Reception, 21 Warfare in the Ancient Mediterranean
World, 4
Teaching through Images Visualizing the Poetry of a Statius
Imagery in Greco-Roman Didactic Poetry An Intertextual Approach
Edited by Jenny Strauss Clay, University of Virginia, Christopher Chinn, Pomona College
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In this volume an international team of early ca- This book provides an intertextual reconstruction
reer and more established scholars explores the of the visualities (or ways of seeing) of Statius’
ways in which didactic poets of Greco-Roman poetry. This book reveals the cultural and political
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antiquity use imagery, broadly defined, in order to conditions that affect how we see people, places,
convey their teaching. and objects in Statius’ works.
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independent researcher, Tazuko,
Narrative, Volume five Individual Property, Public Angela van Berkel, Leiden
Edited by Mathieu P. de Bakker, Sales, and Fines (509–58 BC) University, Robin Osborne,
University of Amsterdam, Sofia Piacentin, Ausonius Institut- University of Cambridge
and Irene J.F. de Jong, Université Bordeaux Montaigne
University of Amsterdam
The fifth volume of the Studies This book offers the first coher- This is a wide-ranging study of 9
in Ancient Greek Narrative deals ent discussion of confiscations numbers as a social and cultural
with speech: it discusses the and fines in the Roman Republic. phenomenon in ancient Greece,
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types, modes and functions of By combining literary, epigraphic revealing both the instrumental-
speech in narrative, the boundar- and archaeological sources it ity of numbers to polis life and
ies between speech and narra- reassesses the role of financial the complex cultural meanings
tive context, and the absence of penalties in the Roman economy inherent in their use.
speech (silence). and society, moving beyond the
analysis of their legalistic tech-
nicalities.
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in ancient Greek literature, nar- in the field of ancient history, postgraduate students, academ-
rative theory, literary history, Roman law, epigraphy as well as ics, and researchers. Subject
comparative literature. a larger public interested in the areas: Classics, Ancient History
legal and economic aspects of (specifically Greek), Numeracy,
financial penalties and public Ancient Mathematics, Ancient
sales in antiquity. Philosophy, Historiography,
Rhetoric, Epigraphy.
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Mnemosyne, Supplements, 448 Mnemosyne, Supplements / History and Mnemosyne, Supplements / History and
Archaeology of Classical Antiquity, 447 Archaeology of Classical Antiquity, 446
Reinventing the Raum und Erzählung Ilias Latina
Amphiareion at Oropos in der Odyssee Text, Interpretation,
Alexandra Wilding, Ruobing Xian, Fudan University and Reception
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This book revisits the narrative This book argues that the repre- In Ilias Latina. Text,
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of the Amphiareion through sentation of space in the Odyssey Interpretation, and Reception, the
comprehensive analysis of its plays a much more important contributors approach this short
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monuments; it exposes the sanc- role in the epic’s narrative dy- poem, whose appeal and impor-
tuary’s function as an arena for namics than is hitherto recog- tance have not been sufficiently
political rediscovery and inter- nized. appreciated, from a multitude of
communal association for indi- Das vorliegende Buch fokus- scholarly perspectives, and offers
viduals and communities within siert sich auf die erzählerische a challenging synthesis of the
Attica and central Greece. Funktion des Raums in der different issues.
Odyssee, dessen Darstellung die
narrative Dynamik des Epos in
vielfältiger Weise bereichert.
R E ADE R S HIP : This book will be of READERSHIP: This book is of REA D ERS HI P : All interested in
interest to academics and (post) great relevance not only for Latin epics and poetry, in the
graduate students in ancient Homer specialists, but also for reception of Homer, in textual
Greek history, religion and epig- everybody who wants to follow criticism, and in Neronian lit-
raphy. the new development of literary erature.
interpretation of and theoretical
reflection upon space within the
field of classical studies.
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Mnemosyne, Supplements / History and Mnemosyne, Supplements, 444 Mnemosyne, Supplements, 443
Archaeology of Classical Antiquity, 445
Sallust and the Fall Herodian’s World Reading by Example:
of the Republic Empire and Emperors Valerius Maximus and the
Historiography and in the III Century Historiography of Exempla
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Intellectual Life at Rome Edited by Alessandro Galimberti, Edited by Jeffrey Murray,
Università Catttolica del Sacro University of Cape Town, and
Edwin H. Shaw,
Cuore David Wardle, University of Cape
University of Bristol
Town
This book offers a new interpre- The volume collects fourteen es- From footnote-fodder to intellec-
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tation of the Roman historian says on Herodian that investigate tual: Valerius Maximus, a gener-
Sallust: it reads his works as the most important aspects of ally under-appreciated minor au-
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complex and engaged contribu- his historiography: literature, thor of the early first century AD
tions to the intellectual life of his politics, economy, religion and emerges as a holder of distinct
period, offering a coherent and warfare. views on Rome’s dynasty, their
contemporary perspective on the world, on how to behave within
end of the Roman Republic. that world, and as an influencer
of later thought both pagan and
Christian.
R E A DE R S H I P : This book will be READERSHI P: Institutes, aca- REA D ERS HI P : Academic libraries,
useful for academics, post-grad- demic libraries, specialists, post- specialists, post-graduate stu-
uates and advanced undergradu- graduate students in Ancient dents and senior undergraduate
ates interested in Roman history History. students interested in Roman
or classical historiography (and Republican and Imperial History,
libraries covering these subjects). exemplary literature, Latin his-
toriography and Roman value-
systems.
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Historiography of Rome Historiography of Rome Historiography of Rome
and Its Empire, 13 and Its Empire, 12 and Its Empire, 11
Hippocratic Commentaries Honorific Culture at Inventing Origins?
in the Greek, Latin, Syriac Delphi in the Hellenistic Aetiological Thinking
and Arabic Traditions and Roman Periods in Greek and Roman
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This collection of article pres- This book brings Hellenistic Aetiologies seem to gratify the
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ents cutting-edge scholarship in and Roman Delphi to life. By human desire to understand
Hippocratic studies in English addressing a broad spectrum of the origin of a phenomenon.
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from an international range of epigraphic topics, theoretical However, as this book demon-
experts. It pays special attention and methodological approaches, strates, aetiologies do not exclu-
to the commentary tradition, it provides readers with a first sively explore origins. Rather,
notably in Syriac and Arabic, and comprehensive discussion of in inventing origin stories they
its relevance to the constitution the Delphic gift-giving system, authorise the present and try to
and interpretation of works in its regional interactions, and its shape the future.
the Hippocratic Corpus. honorific network.
R E ADE R S HIP : Classicists, READERSHIP: This book will be REA D ERS HI P : The book will be
Historians of Medicine, those in- important for scholars interested of interest to students, profes-
terested in reception and transla- in ancient history and Greek sionals, academic libraries and
tion studies. epigraphy, and for post-graduate institutes in the field of Classics
students who are encountering and related disciplines as well as
ancient Delphi for the first time. Early Modern studies.
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Imperial Period and Undated Authors Hellenistic Authors of Uncertain Date
[Nos. 1667-1693] [Nos. 1035-1045]
Edited by Stefan Schorn Pietro Zaccaria
This volume offers new editions of Greek paradox- In FGrHist IV A 5, Pietro Zaccaria offers the first 13
ography and related texts with English translation complete corpus of late Hellenistic biography pre-
and extensive commentaries. served in fragments. The volume contains a critical
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edition, with English translation and comprehen-
sive commentary, of more than one hundred frag-
ments from eleven Greek biographers.
R E A DE R S H I P : This volume is of relevance for clas- READERSHIP: This volume is relevant to ancient
sicists, ancient historians, scholars in religious historians, classicists, historians of ancient philoso-
studies, and all those interested in wonders and the phy, and to all who take an interest in biography.
marvellous.
Late Antique Responses to the By for the first time system- The book presents Greek and
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Arab Conquests is a showcase of atically analyzing all Amazon- Roman philosophical protreptic
new discoveries in an exciting episodes in Graeco-Roman epic, not as a rhetorical and literary
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and rapidly developing field: the Penthesilea und ihre Schwestern appendix to “philosophy proper”
study of the transition from Late demonstrates that Amazon- but as an important genre that
Antiquity to Early Islam. The episodes are a gender-sensitive articulates the discipline of
Arab conquests are shown to structural element of heroic philosophy as a new kind of
have changed both the Arabian poetry. The intertextual analysis education.
conquerors and the conquered. offers a new perspective on the
epic construction of gender.
R E AD E R S HIP : Scholars, students, READERSHI P: This book is aimed REA D ERS HI P : Scholars interested
research institutes and librar- at students and scholars inter- in Greek and Roman literature,
ies with a specialty in the fields ested in epic poetry and the philosophy, rhetoric, education
of (Late) Antiquity, the Middle construction of gender, both in and educational theory.
Ages, Arabic History, Islam, antiquity and late antiquity.
Qur’anic Studies, Middle Eastern
Studies, Mediterranean Studies.
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for Volumes XLVI – LX Grammarians: Aelianus, Workshop of the International
(1996 – 2010) Antipater, Basilides, Callias, Network Impact of Empire
Edited by Elias Sverkos, Aristotle Cratinus, Didymus Musicus, (Mainz, June 12-15, 2019)
University of Thessaloniki, and Heraclides Minor, Latinus, Edited by Marietta Horster,
Georgios Tsolakis, New York Menophanes, Nicocles Lacon, JGU Mainz, and Nikolas Hächler,
University University of Zurich
Panaetius Iunior, Ptolemais,
Zoticus
Montana Fausto
These Consolidated Concordances This volume displays a gallery of This volume presents the results
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offer a catalogue of references textual fragments, intellectual of the fourteenth workshop
to inscriptions analyzed in the profiles, and critical problems on of the international network
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volumes XLVI – LX (1996 – 2010) areas ranging from grammar to ‘Impact of Empire’. It focuses
of Supplementum Epigraphicum lexicography, literary criticism on the ways in which Rome’s
Graecum. and biography, music history and dominance influenced, changed,
theory. They are well represented and created landscapes, and in
in the rich range of themes posed which ways (Roman) landscapes
by the remnants of ancient were narrated and semantically
Greek scholarship. represented.
Aristotle University of
Helena Avelar de Carvalho, Jeanne Fahnestock,
Thessaloniki, Evina Sistakou,
The Warburg Institute, London; University of Maryland
Aristotle University of
CIUHCT, Lisboa
Thessaloniki, Antonios Rengakos,
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
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This book offers an internalist Brill’s Companion to Theocritus The Dialectical Questions
view on the history of astrology offers an up-to-date guide to (Erotemata Dialectices) of Philip
by studying the case of S. Belle, a thorough understanding of Melanchthon offers an English
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an astrologer who lived in late Theocritus’ literary output. translation of one of the six-
fifteenth-century France. It ad- Exploring his corpus from a teenth-century’s most influential
dresses his methods of work, variety of novel perspectives, textbooks on argumentation.
his process of learning, and his it presents a detailed account The introduction sets the work
practice. of the intricacy of Theocritus’ in Melanchthon’s life and times,
poetic art. reviews its content, and details
its unique sample arguments
drawn from medicine and natu-
ral philosophy.
R E AD E R S H IP : All interested in the READERSHI P: All readers in REA D ERS HI P : Likely readers in-
history of astrology and medieval Classics and Classical Reception clude academics with an interest
and early modern knowledge, Studies. in the history of rhetoric and
especially those who study the argumentation studies, scholars
learning process and the circula- specializing in Protestant theol-
tion of knowledge in the medi- ogy and church history, and intel-
eval period. lectual historians.
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Providence College Ancient World Paola Volpe Cacciatore
Orality and Literacy in A Life Devoted to Plutarch
the Ancient World, vol. 13 Edited by Serena Citro, University
Edited by Deborah Beck, of Salerno, and Fabio Tanga,
University of Texas at Austin University of Salerno
An introductory guide to modern This volume features an in- This volume includes a selection 17
scholarship on post-Classical ternational group of experts of the most significant essays
Greek elegy and lyric. on the literature, philosophy, on Plutarch published by Paola
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and religion of the ancient Volpe Cacciatore, Professor of
Mediterranean world. Each pa- Greek Language and Literature
per makes a unique contribution, at the University of Salerno
and together, the papers draw an and current President of the
engaging portrait of the idea of International Plutarch Society.
“repetition.”
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be of interest or relevance to the relevant subject areas and in Universities (Departments and
graduate students, post-graduate related areas (Classical literature, Libraries), Institutes for Classical
students, scholars working in Greek philosophy, ancient Greek Studies, Institutes for Philosophy,
fields adjacent to Hellenistic religion, Biblical studies, recep- Art & Archaeology Faculties,
and Imperial Greek poetry, and tion studies); students in the Public and Private Libraries,
specialists looking for updated relevant subject areas. professors, scholars, specialists,
bibliography. post-graduate students.
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Humanities and Social Sciences
Supplementum The Syntax and Semantics of Wh-Clauses
Epigraphicum Graecum in Classical Greek
Volume LXVI (2016) Relatives, Interrogatives, Exclamatives
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SEG LXVI covers newly published Adapting tools recently developed in general linguistics and dwelling
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Greek inscriptions and studies on a solid corpus study, this book offers the first comprehensive view
on previously known documents on Classical Greek wh-clauses since Monteil (1963) and scrutinizes
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from the year 2016, with occa- how wh-items (ὅς, ὅστις, τίς) distribute across the different clause
sional additions from previous types. False ideas are discarded (e.g., there are no τίς relative clauses,
years that have been missed in ὅστις does not take over ὅς’ functions). This essay furthermore teases
earlier volumes and from studies apart actual neutralization and so-far-unknown subtle distinctions.
published after 2015 but pertain- Who knew that ὅστις is featured in three different types of appositive
ing to material from 2016. clauses? In the interrogative domain, an analysis is given of what li-
censes ὅς to pop in and τίς to pop out. Tackling these topics and more,
this essay draws a coherent picture of the wh-clause system, whose
basis is the notion of (non)identification.
READERSHIP: As the reference work on the matter of Classical Greek
relative and interrogative clauses, this book targets scholars and ad-
vanced students (Classicists-linguists specializing in Greek and Latin,
philologists, general linguists).
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Christina G. Williamson,
University of Groningen
In Urban Rituals in Sacred In the midst of academic debates about the utility of the term
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Landscapes in Hellenistic Asia “magic” and the cultural meaning of ancient words like mageia or
Minor, Christina G. Williamson khesheph, this Guide to the Study of Ancient Magic seeks to advance
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uses a multi-disciplinary ap- the discussion by separating out three topics essential to the very
proach to examine the phenom- idea of magic. The three major sections of this volume address (1)
enon of monumental sanctuaries indigenous terminologies for ambiguous or illicit ritual in antiquity;
in the countryside in that ac- (2) the ancient texts, manuals, and artifacts commonly designated
companied the second rise of the “magical” or used to represent ancient magic; and (3) a series of con-
Greek city-state in Hellenistic texts, from the written word to materiality itself, to which the term
Asia Minor. “magic” might usefully pertain.
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in landscape, sanctuaries, and Near East, in ancient Greece and Rome, in Early Christianity and
urbanization in Hellenistic Asia Judaism, in Egypt through the Christian period, and in comparative
Minor, local processes of trans- and critical theory.
formation, or performative ritual
and social cohesion.
Calendars in the Making investi- The volume Cassius Dio The classicist and historian Alan
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gates the Roman and medieval the Historian: Methods and Cameron (1938-2017) was one
origins of several calendars we Approaches explores the Roman of the scholars who most con-
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are most familiar with today, historian’s methodology and tributed to the refoundation of
including the Christian liturgical agendas. He had his own agendas late-antique studies. In this trib-
calendar, the Islamic calendar, for writing his Roman History, ute fourteen new studies, which
and the week as a standard but at the same time, he was a range from the first century AD
method of dating and time reck- historian with an ambition to tell to the ninth, pay him homage.
oning. the history of Rome.
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and educated members of the in the study of Cassius Dio, an- ars and libraries interested in
public with an interest in Roman cient and Roman historiography the literature, society, politics
and Medieval social and religious more broadly will benefit for the and religion of the ancient
history, and/or with an interest chapters in this book. Mediterranean world from the
in calendars and time reckoning. first century AD to the ninth.
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Bartłomiej Bednarek, University Iranian, Hellenistic, and Edited by Laura Gianvittorio-
of Warsaw Central Asian History Ungar and Karin Schlapbach
This book offers a new inter- In Early Arsakid Parthia (ca. Choreonarratives rethinks
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pretation of Aeschylus’ tragic 250-165 B.C.): At the Crossroads dance’s potential for narrating
tetralogy Lycurgeia and Naevius’ of Iranian, Hellenistic, and stories and explores new inter-
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tragedy Lycurgus, the two most Central Asian History, Marek sections between perspectives
important texts that shaped Jan Olbrycht depicts the early of classicists, dance scholars,
the tradition of the myth about Arsakid Parthian state in north- and dance artists. Discussions of
Lycurgus’ resistance against the eastern Iran and Turkmenistan ancient and modern examples
god Dionysus. within the broader historical enlighten dance’s capacity to
context of Western and Central represent storyworlds, rewrite
Asia in the post-Achaemenid/ traditional narratives, and in-
Hellenistic period. spire new ones.
Exploring the relationship be- In Plutarch. De facie quae in This book is the first ever edition
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tween Latin and music during orbe lunae apparet, Luisa Lesage of an abnormal hieratic busi-
the early modern era, this vol- Gárriga offers a new critical edi- ness archive from the Louvre of
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ume focuses on the link between tion with English translation of a mortuary priest in 7th century
Latin and music in the educa- one of Plutarch’s most fascinat- BCE Thebes (Egypt), discussing
tional system of the time, and ing treatises, and yet one of the points of history, law, economics,
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of musical humanism, especially and abnormal hieratic palaeog-
in settings of classical and Neo- raphy.
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The Reception of Antiquity La splendeur des dieux:
in the Age of Enlightenment Quatre études iconographiques sur
Edited by Joachim Jacob l’hellénisme égyptien (2 vols)
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and Johannes Süssmann Gaëlle Tallet, Limoges University
This volume explores engagement with Greco- Why are the rays of the Greek god Helios on the
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Roman Antiquity across Europe and beyond in the forehead of a crocodile-headed Egyptian deity?
18th century. Approximately 100 experts, in some Navigating the maze of Greek and Egyptian com-
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140 articles from “Academy” to “Wallpaper”, show munities and creeds, Gaëlle Tallet investigates
how Classical and rival antiquities were perceived the plasticity of material culture in the polythe-
and studied during the age of Enlightenment, istic context of Graeco-Roman Egypt. Using the
revolution and scientific progress, and how they Ariadne’s thread of the manufacturing of new im-
served the formulation and affirmation of new ages, suitable to new needs and new understand-
ideals. The survey covers the period between ings of the divine, La Splendeur des dieux opens
the outbreak of the Querelle des Anciens et des the doors of the workshops where these images
Modernes in France in 1687 and the reorganization were designed, ordered and crafted.
of Europe at the Congress of Vienna in 1815.
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anthropology.
Images and Narratives Fuitne Europa tunc unita? Andrew Porter, University
of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Edited by María Pilar García Ruiz Isabella Walser-Bürgler,
and Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for
Neo-Latin Studies Innsbruck/
Austria
In this volume, nine contribu- In Europe and Europeanness How can the ancient relationship
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tions deal with the ways in which Isabella Walser-Bürgler offers an between Homer and the Epic
imperial power was exercised in account of the formation of early Cycle be recovered? Using recent
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the fourth century AD, paying modern Europe (c. 1400–1800) research in the field, Andrew
particular attention to how it was based on the most common Porter seeks to question post-
articulated and manipulated by source material of the time, Neo- aural arguments and consider
means of literary strategies and Latin texts. alternative Oral Traditional solu-
iconographic programmes. tions better aligned with ancient
epic performance realities.
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contours of current scholarship honour of Francisca Hoogendijk, Historiography contains 11
on Ovid. Her appraisal covers the containing fifty-six editions articles on how the Ancient
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ratives that posthumanism and dating from the twelfth century the nature of intertextuality, and
other new materialist discourses BCE until the eighth century CE. the frontiers between history and
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