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Library: New Titles
New Titles Cataloged January 2017 Location: Periodicals Bitto, Gregor, author Vergimus in senium: Statius’ Achilleis als Alterswerk, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, [2016] Jonkers, Gijsbert, author The textual tradition of Plato’s Timaeus and Critias, Leiden ; Boston: Brill, 2017 Reif, Matthias, author De arte magorum: Erklärung und Deutung ausgewählter Hexenszenen bei Theokrit, Vergil, Horaz, Ovid, Seneca und Lucan unter Berücksichtigung des Ritualaufbaus und der Relation zu den Zauberpapyri… Read more
Casey Dué, The Captive Woman’s Lament in Greek Tragedy
Casey Dué, The Captive Woman’s Lament in Greek Tragedy… Read more
The Captive Woman’s Lament in Greek Tragedy.
The laments of captive women found in extant Athenian tragedy constitute a fundamentally subversive aspect of Greek drama. In performances supported by and intended for the male citizens of Athens, the songs of the captive women at the Dionysia gave a voice to classes who otherwise would have been marginalized and silenced in Athenian society: women, foreigners, and the enslaved. The Captive Woman’s Lament in Greek Tragedy addresses the possible meanings ancient… Read more
Alexander Hollmann, Master of Signs: Signs and the Interpretation of Signs in Herodotus’ Histories.
Alexander Hollmann, Master of Signs: Signs and the Interpretation of Signs in Herodotus’ Histories… Read more
Poetics of Repetition in Homer
[[This article was originally published in 2004 in Greek Ritual Poetics (ed. D. Yatromanolakis and P. Roilos) 139–148. Hellenic Studies 3. Cambridge, MA and Washington, DC. In this online version, the original page-numbers of the printed version are indicated within braces (“{” and “}”). For example, “{139|140}” indicates where p. 139 of the printed version ends and p. 140 begins.]] Repetition in Homeric poetry is a matter of performance, not… Read more
Papyrus Text
Papyrus Text Redirect Click here to redirect to the Derveni Papyrus site. … Read more