Category: Ancient Greece

By Leland Gregory

Best-selling stand-up comedian Leland Gregory deals a blockbuster choice of greater than two hundred strange, bizarre, foolish, surprising, and downright outrageous precise tales approximately historic Greek and Roman history.

New York Times best-selling writer Leland Gregory is one in all Andrews McMeel Publishing’s such a lot winning noncartoon humorists. foolish, surprising, bizarre, hilariously funny—and outrageously true—the brief anecdotes inside of his anthologies of human stupidity are culled from print, on-line, and broadcast media from everywhere in the world. Inside Stupid old History, Gregory chronicles Greek philosophers, Roman conquerors, and ancient mythconceptions, including:

 
— To struggle off Roman ships in three hundred BC, Carthaginians catapulted stay snakes at them.
— The Athenian lawmaker Draco died of suffocation while presents of cloaks have been showered upon him by way of thankful electorate at an Aegina theater in 620 BC. 
— In historic Rome, lengthy earlier than the appearance of the Christian Bible, Roman males swore to “tell the reality, the complete fact, and not anything however the fact” by way of putting their correct hand on their testicles. It is from this ritual that we derived the time period “testimony.”
—  Of the Seven Wonders of the traditional global, The Temple of Artemis in Ephesus burned to the floor in 356 BC. The arsonist used to be accomplished; and to ensure his want for eternal reputation wouldn’t come precise, it was once ordered that his identify be from all files and not pointed out again. But humans will talk. Despite all efforts, his identify leaked, and Herostratus is remembered as essentially the most infamous firebugs in history. 

By K. J. Dover

Comes hugely urged for analyzing after completing an introductory textbook

In this quantity the eminent classicist ok. J. Dover offers a decade of labor at the difficulties of Greek notice order. in keeping with a sequence of lectures he gave on the college of Cambridge in 1959, the ebook is written in a lucid demeanour that continues the reader's curiosity. He explains that even supposing Greek seems to be indeterminate, there are specific conventions which are in its building. He then develops his argument at a extra technical point concentrating on lexical, semantic, syntactical and 'logical' determinants. this can be an insightful learn for all classicists in addition to these in most cases attracted to languages.

By Myfanwy Tristram, Kenneth Dover

Author note: David Harvey (Editor), John Wilkins (Editor), Myfanwy Tristram (Illustrator), Kenneth Dover (Forward)
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Due to the shortage of surviving texts by means of different poets, you possibly can disregard that Aristophanes wrote for pageant and that competition was once a major part within the rhetoric of his comedies, particularly Clouds and Knights .

This vital learn, comprising 26 essays by means of top foreign students offered at a convention held on the Institute of Classical experiences in London in 1996, goals to advertise a greater realizing of Aristophanes' paintings by means of assessing that of his many opponents, together with Cratinus, Hermippus and Eupolis, who on a regular basis triumphed over Aristophanes at significant civic fairs.

The papers additionally ponder the facts for Aristophanes' rival poets in different assets, significantly painted vases. The chapters are divided into 5 sections: enhancing comedian fragments, poets of outdated Comedy, the transition to heart Comedy, literary topics and social topics.

Contributors:
Kenneth Dover, W Geoffrey Arnott, Wolfgang Luppe, Ralph M Rosen, James Davidson, S Douglas Olson, Dwora Gilula, David Harvey, Jeffrey Henderson, David Braund, Giorgos Kavvadias, Ian C Storey, Thomas Braun, Heinz-Guenther Nesselrath, Keith Sidwell, N J Lowe, Bernhard Zimmermann, Stephen Colvin, Michael Silk, Angus Bowie, John Wilkins, Nick Fisher, Andrew Dalby, Edith corridor, Christopher Carey, Alan H Sommerstein, Paola Ceccarelli, Ian Ruffell.

By Kathy L. Gaca

By Virgil

In e-book IV of Virgil's "Aeneid", some of the most studied books of that epic poem, Dido, queen of Carthage, is infected by means of love for Aeneas. The goddesses Juno and Venus plot to unite them, and their 'marriage' is consummated in a cave in the course of a hunt. despite the fact that, Jupiter sends Mercury to remind Aeneas of his accountability, and the hero departs regardless of Dido's passionate pleas. on the finish of the ebook, Dido commits suicide.

This vintage variation of the Latin textual content of e-book IV replaces the long-serving variation through Gould and Whiteley, making this booklet extra obtainable to ultra-modern scholars and taking account of the latest scholarship and significant ways to Virgil. It incorporates a huge advent, annotation to give an explanation for language and content material, and a complete vocabulary.

This quantity is the 1st English-language survey of Homeric reviews to seem for greater than a new release, and the 1st such paintings to aim to hide all fields comprehensively. Thirty top students from Europe and the USA supply brief, authoritative overviews of the kingdom of data and present controversies within the many professional divisions in Homeric reports. The chapters pay equivalent recognition to literary, mythological, linguistic, old, and archaeological subject matters, starting from such customary difficulties because the "Homeric query" to more moderen concerns just like the relevance of narratology and computer-assisted quantification. the gathering, the 3rd ebook in Brill's guide sequence, "The Classical Tradition," might be helpful at each point of research - from the final pupil of literature to the Homeric professional looking a common figuring out of the newest advancements around the entire variety of Homeric scholarship. initially released in hardcover

This quantity examines the assumption of old schooling in a sequence of essays which span the archaic interval to overdue antiquity. It calls into query the concept schooling in antiquity is a disinterested strategy, arguing that instructing and studying have been actions that happened within the context of society. "Education in Greek and Roman Antiquity" brings jointly the scholarship of fourteen classicists who from their certain views pluralize our knowing of what it intended to coach and study in antiquity. those students jointly express that old schooling was once a strategy of socialization that happened via various discourses and actions together with poetry, rhetoric, legislation, philosophy, paintings and faith.

By Irad Malkin

Greek mythology and cult usually served either as expressions of collective, old id and of attitudes to lands and territories. Functioning traditionally, myths supplied justifications and legitimations of conquest, displacement, and payment. targeting the Spartan Mediterranean--the international of Sparta and its colonies--this ebook examines the spectrum of the makes use of of fantasy. Extending past the Greek international, the booklet additionally increases the $64000 query of the way peoples relate to and justify their nationwide and territorial identities.

In Vergil's Aeneid, the poet means that those that were initiated into secret cults get pleasure from a blessed state of affairs either in existence and after demise. This selection of essays brings new perception to the learn of mystic cults within the historic global, fairly those who flourished in Magna Graecia (essentially the world of present-day Southern Italy and Sicily).

Implementing quite a few methodologies, the individuals to Mystic Cults in Magna Graecia learn an array of good points linked to such "mystery religions" that have been interested by person salvation via initiation and hidden wisdom instead of civic cults directed towards Olympian deities frequently linked to Greek faith. members current modern theories of old faith, box stories from fresh archaeological paintings, and different frameworks for exploring mystic cults commonly and person deities particularly, with observations approximately cultural interactions all through. subject matters contain Dionysos and Orpheus, the Goddess Cults, Isis in Italy, and Roman Mithras, explored by way of a world array of students together with Giulia Sfameni Gasparro ("Aspects of the Cult of Demeter in Magna Graecia") and Alberto Bernabé ("Imago Inferorum Orphica"). The ensuing quantity illuminates this usually misunderstood variety of spiritual phenomena.