Bibliography Note: In the notes and essays of this volume we have used the abbreviation MHV (= The Making of Homeric Verse) for Adam Parry’s 1971 edition of the collected works of Milman Parry. Ahlberg-Cornell, G. 1992. Myth and Epos in Early Greek Art: Representation… Read more
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Acknowledgments This book began as my D.Phil. thesis at Oxford, where I had the rigorous and pleasant experience of being supervised by Professor Martin Goodman and Professor Chris Pelling. They taught me much and continued to be generous with their help even after I took my degree. Read more
Abbreviations AJC Meshorer, Y. 1982. Ancient Jewish Coinage. Dix Hills, NY. AJP American Journal of Philology ANRW Temporini, H., and W. Haase, eds. 1972–. Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt. Berlin. BMCR Bryn Mawr Classical Review BNP… Read more
Chapter 1. Introduction: Tragedy, Authority, and Trickery; A Greeting [In this on-line version, the page-numbers of the printed version are indicated within braces (“{” and “}”). For example, “{69|70}” indicates where p. 69 of the printed version ends and p. 70 begins. These indications will be useful to readers who need to… Read more
Chapter 2. Toward a Poetics of Embedded Letters Josephus’ competent readers would have been familiar with the practice of embedding letters, as discussed in Chapter One. By describing epistolary embedding in detail, this chapter will argue that Josephus’ readers would have been quite prepared to apprehend the various ways in which embedded… Read more
Chapter 3. Basic Epistolary Functions Scholars have often placed letters into categories based on their specific purpose, whether it was to extend an invitation, make a recommendation, or provide instruction, to name but a few common themes. [1] More broadly than these themes, letters… Read more
Chapter 3: The Ptolemaic Papyri of the Iliad: Evidence of Eccentricity or Multitextuality? Until the end of the nineteenth century, the text of Homer, as preserved in papyri and medieval manuscripts, was relatively uniform, with few significant variant readings to exercise scholars. True, there were instances where… Read more
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Acknowledgments We gratefully acknowledge the support provided by a National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Research grant, which funded in large part the research and writing of this book. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication do not necessarily reflect those of the National… Read more
