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"The Silvae by Statius dethroned Virgil from the Studio in Naples, fostered the creation of a new genre, offered a model for court poetry, and seduced the most prestigious Humanists in the most vibrant centres of Renaissance Italy and the Netherlands. The collection preserves magnificent buildings otherwise lost; speaks of stones otherwise unknown; and memorializes people, rituals, and social relationships that would have passed into oblivion in silence. This volume offers a fresh look into approaches to the Silvae by editors and commentators, both at the time of the rediscovery of the poems and today"-- Provided by publisher

• On the didactic component of Aristarchus' commentaries / René Nünlist
• Gesti, sguardi ed emozioni dei personaggi nel Commentario di Servio all'Eneide / Caterina Lazzarini
• Le son et l'intention : phonétique et stylistique dans les commentaires latins / Daniel Vallat
• Et est poeticum principium professiuum / Ilaria Torzi
• Expressit plenam patheticam. Tiberio Claudio Donato e la retorica delle emozioni / Luigi Pirovano
• L'Énéide selon Tiberius Donat : un poème un et continu (?) / Séverine Clément-Tarantino
• Understanding Pindar in the Scholia to Pindar / Thomas Coward
• [Greek text] : Homeric exegesis in the scholia to Sophocles / Joshua M. Smith
• Servio fra Virgilio e Lucano. Una relazione intertestuale nell'esegesi antica / Stefano Poletti
• Occasional poetics and Pindaric exegesis. A hypothetical Schema Isagogicum in the Scholia Vetera to Pindar and its interpretative premises / Gregor Bitto
• Le 'drame' de l'idylle. Personnages, poètes, lieux dans les scholies à Théocrite / Enrico Emanuele Prodi
• La pratique de l'allégorie chez Virgile et un de ses commentateurs tardifs (Fulgence, Expositio Virgilianae continentiae secundum philosophos moralis) / Jacqueline Fabre-Serris
• Les Diégèses de Callimaque (P.Mil.Vogl.) 1.18). Du résumé au commentaire / Charles Delattre
• Augustin commentateur de Virgile / Marie-Odile Bruhat
• Dare ordine al caos. Alla ricerca di percorsi mentali nelle Interpretationes Vergilianae di Tiberio Claudio Donato / Massimo Gioseffi
• "Sur la lyre à dix cordes, il est bon de louer le Très-Haut" : poétique des psaumes et de leur commentaire selon l'Expositio psalmorum de Cassidore / Bruno Bureau
• [Greek text] : Ovide et les commentaires homériques relatifs à la topographie troyenne et au Mur des Achéens (Ars Amatoria, 2,113-142) / Jean-Christophe Jolivet

"Les commentaires des textes poétiques sont dans l'Antiquité l'un des fondements de la [text in Greek] depuis la période hellénistique et leur usage s'est prolongé jusque dans l'Empire byzantin pour le monde grec, et en Occident au-delà de la chute de l'Empire romain. Ils ont été les promoteurs d'une transdisciplinarité avant l'heure ; l'explication du texte proprement dite était l'occasion d'aborder toute sorte de savoirs : grammaire, rhétorique, mythologie, histoire, droit, religion, etc. Parmi ces savoirs, le présent volume s'intéresse aux différentes formes de poétique dans les commentaires antiques, grecs et latins. Les 17 contributions qu'il réunit expliquent comment, selon leurs schémas de pensée, les commentateurs ont compris et mis en valeur l'art poétique de leurs auteurs 'scolaires' et comment la pratique et la lecture des poèmes antiques leur permettaient de décrypter les phénomènes d'écriture et les intentions du poète. Ainsi, l'exégèse constituait en soi une réception du texte dans les milieux 'professionnels' de l'éducation antique et elle mobilisait, selon les besoins, les composants et outils stylistiques, narratologiques ou rhétoriques : on peut ainsi envisager le commentaire comme l'illustration de méthodes d'analyse littéraire, mais aussi comme le lieu de leur élaboration ou de leur transformation sous l'impulsion de grammatici à la recherche de la spécificité poétique, autant que de l'efficacité pédagogique."--Page 4 of cover

• Introduction
• 1 Premises, Objectives, Goals
• 2 Approaches and Methods
• 3 Ambiguity
• 4 The Structure of Book 4
• 5 Conceptual Structure: How to Use This Commentary
• Commentary
• 1 Scene 1: 1-55 Ausonia before the Outbreak of the Battles
• 2 Summary of 56-479: The Battle of Ticinus
• 3 Scene 2: 56-142 The First Encounter of the Armies
• 4 Scene 3: 143-188 The Attack of the Boians
• 5 Scene 4: 189-247 The Roman Counterattack
• 6 Scene 5: 248-310 Single Combat between the Consul and Crixus
• 7 Scene 6: 311-354 The Attack of the Carthaginians
• 8 Scene 7: 355-400 The Combat between Two Sets of Triplets
• 9 Scene 8: 401-479 The Consul Scipio in Trouble and his Rescue
• Glossary Bibliography Index.
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This Narratological Commentary on Silius' Battle of Ticinus lays bare the narrative form of the text by addressing numerous narratological aspects, including plot-development, focalization, space, and intertextuality. The book also focuses on the phenomenon of ambiguity with its dynamic processes of (un-)strategic production, perception, and resolution. Ambiguity is a central feature of the Punica because of the epic's constant oscillation between fact and fiction: it treats the changing fortunes of war and the tension between Rome and Carthage, which Silius translates into a moment of poetical equilibrium by his paradoxical problematization of triumph in defeat and defeat through triumph.
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• Acknowledgments Abbreviations Cypriot Chronology and Main Centres
• Introduction: In Search of the Lost Kyprion Politeia 1 Nomina nuda 2 Basic Concepts 3 The Development of the Cypriot City-Kingdoms 4 Historiography 5 Epigraphic Sources: The Languages of Cyprus
• 1 Setting the Scene: King, Elite and People 1 The Persistence of Kingship and Royal Ideology 2 The Elite and the Wanaktes 3 Schooling the Elite, Cypriot Education and Political Leadership 4 A Cypriot Secret Police 5
• and
• in the Cypriot City-Kingdoms 5 'I Do Solemnly Swear ...': An Oath of Allegiance as Testimony of Cypriot Royal Supremacy
• 2 The Idalion Bronze Tablet: Cypriot Political and Administrative Institutions in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries BC 1 Establishing the Chronology 2 The Eponymous Magistrate and the Polis: Institutional Representatives beyond the King 3 Territories, Land-Registers and Legal Owners in the Cypriot City-States 4 The Cypriot Land of the King
• 3 The Administration of the Central Palace 1 The Rab Soferim, Chief of Scribes, and His Staff in Kition 2 RB HZ'NM and RB SRSRM, Other Palace Officials?
• 4 The Role of Carians and Their 'Interpreter' in the Kition Administration 1 The Cypriot Epigraphic Attestations of KRSY and MLS (H)KRSYM 2 The KRSYM in the Mediterranean and Near East 3 Carians in Cyprus 4 The MLS HKRSYM, Not Only an Interpreter
• 5 Administrative Officials on the Periphery of the Cypriot City-States: The Bulwer Tablet
• 6 Religious-Civil Officials between the Centre and Periphery in Cypriot Syllabic Greek and Phoenician Inscriptions 1 Hunting for Wolves: A Civic-Religious Magistracy in the Central Administration of Paphos 2 Civic-Religious Governors in the Peripheral Territory of the City-States, the Cases of Paphos and Lapethos
• Conclusion: The Kyprion Politeia Regained 1 The Consistency of the Cypriot Administrative System 2 The Development of the Classical Cypriot Political System between Achaemenid and Greek Influences
• Appendix Plates Bibliography Index.
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Through new readings and interpretation of Cypriot inscriptions - written in Cypriot-syllabic Greek, Eteocypriot, Phoenician, and alphabetic Greek - Kyprion Politeia, the Political and Administrative Systems of the Classical Cypriot City-Kingdoms is the first book which reconstructs in detail the political and administrative systems of the Classical city-kingdoms of Cyprus. The book investigates the bodies of government beyond the Cypriot kings and the roles played by magistrates and officials in local governments, it analyses accounts of the headquarters of the main administrative and economic activities - such as palace archives, and tax collection hubs -, and demonstrates that these systems were similar in all the city-kingdoms.
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The fourth book of Virgil's Aeneid is the shortest of his epic, and yet it has had an inestimable influence. The tragedy of Dido is replete with allusions to the Medeas of Euripides, Apollonius, and Ennius, as well as to Catullus' Ariadne and the historical Cleopatra of Virgil's Augustan Age. The book has intratextual connections to the poet's own fourth Georgic (as he revisits the topic of apian regeneration and the loss of Eurydice), even as it confronts the reality of Rome's bloody history with Carthage. The present volume offers the first full-scale commentary on the book in over eighty years, together with a new critical text that reflects recent scholarship on significant difficulties.
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• Acknowledgements
• Introduction 1 Gregory's Life and Education 2 Gregory's Philosophical Culture
• 1 Mediterranean Festival Culture and Imperial Greek Rhetoric
• 2 Festival Spectatorship and Philosophical Theoria 1 The Origins of Philosophical Theoria
• 3 The Prooemia of Gregory's Orations and Traditions of Exegesis 1 Platonic Preludes: Or. 2 and Gregory's "Apology" 2 Platonic Preludes at the Festival: Or. 38 "On Theophany" and the Timaeus 3 Preludes Continued: The Divine Arrangement of Or. 40 "On Holy Baptism" 4 The Influence of Gregory's Prooemia: Gregory of Nyssa on Easter
• 4 Performing Philosophy: Purification, Contemplation, and Assimilation to the Divine 1 Katharsis at the Festival 2 Theosis at the Festival 3 Katharsis, Theoria, and Theosis: The Nativity Oration (Or. 38.7)
• 5 The Rhetor's Art: The Audience as Theoroi 1 New Sunday and Contemplation of the Heavenly Festival 2 The Holy Spirit and the Rhetor: Enargeia and the Feast of Pentecost
• 6 Gregory's Festival Theoria in Byzantium: From Pseudo-Dionysius to Photius
• Conclusion
• Bibliography Index.
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Before serving as Bishop of Constantinople and becoming known to posterity as "the Theologian", Gregory of Nazianzus was an Athens-trained professional teacher of Greek literature. Steeped in the rhetorical culture of the Second Sophistic, his orations for Christian feasts such as Christmas and Pentecost belong to a Classical tradition that privileged the performance of philosophy at festivals. Widely copied and translated, they were instrumental in Gregory becoming one of the most popular and influential authors in Byzantium. This book shows how his orations represent a crucial point in the Late Antique reception of Platonism, rhetorical theory, and ancient festival culture.
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• Acknowledgments Abbreviations
• General Introduction 1 Background 1: Discussions in Valerian Scholarship 2 Background 2: The Literary & Cultural Contexts of Valerius' Animals 3 Methodology
• 1 Empathy: Animal Experience in Simile 1 Bulls & Herds: Safety in Numbers 2 The Animal Mother: Gender & Generic Boundaries 3 Behaviour Patterns: Life Cycles & Phases Conclusion
• 2 Relating: Human/Animal Interactions 1 Human Dominion 2 Human & Animal Trans-Species Collaboration Conclusion
• 3 Identity: Human Appropriation of Animal Skins 1 Heroic Identification 2 (Re)emergence of the Animal Conclusion
• 4 Presence: Animal Emissaries & Cult Companions 1 Sight: Jupiter's Birds 2 Sound: The Animal Voice Conclusion
• 5 Serpentine: Meditation on the Monstrous 1 Snaky Monsters & the New World Order 2 Snakes on Cyzicus, Arg. 3.456-458 3 Medea & Her draco Conclusion
• General Conclusion
• Appendix: Indices of Animal & Related References in Valerius Flaccus. Bibliography Index.
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This first in-depth study of Valerius Flaccus' animals reveals their role in his poetic programme and the manifold ways in which he establishes their subjectivity. In one encounter, a trapped bird becomes a tragic victim, while the trapper is dehumanized. Elsewhere there are touching portrayals of animal/human camaraderie and friendship. Furthermore, Valerius' provocative consideration of the 'monstrous' challenges simplistic definitions of any being's nature, or the nature of relationships across species. His challenge entails profound ethical implications for his Roman readership, which resonate with us as we assess our own relationship to animals and the natural world today.
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• Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Abbreviations Note on Epigraphic Conventions
• 1 Roman Dining in Context: From Commensality to Private Munificence 1 Introduction 2 Definition and Terminology 3 Two Perspectives 4 Quantification and Interpretation 5 Evidence and Structure
• 2 Benefactors of Communal Dining 1 Typology of Benefactors 2 Categories of Benefactions 3 Aims and Concerns of Benefactors: Emic Perspectives 4 Political and Social Dynamics behind Private Munificence 5 Conclusion
• 3 Beneficiaries and the 'Concept of Community' 1 Selected Beneficiary Groups in Public Dining 2 Benefaction Arrangements in Public Dining 3 Beneficiaries and Benefactions in the Context of Collegial Dining 4 Beneficiaries and the 'Concept of Community': From Republic to Empire
• 4 Geographical Distribution of Privately Sponsored Communal Dining 1 Geographical Distribution of Privately Sponsored Public Dining 2 Geographical Distribution of Privately Sponsored Collegial Dining 3 Conclusion
• 5 Chronological Distribution of Privately Sponsored Communal Dining 1 The Emergence of Privately Sponsored Public Banquets in Republican Rome 2 Emperors and Munificence in Imperial Rome 3 Chronological Distribution of Privately Sponsored Public Dining in Italy and the Western Provinces 4 Chronological Distribution of Privately Sponsored Collegial Dining 5 Conclusion
• Conclusion
• Appendix 1. Epigraphic References to Privately Sponsored Public Dining Appendix 2. Epigraphic References to Privately Sponsored Collegial Dining Appendix 3. Benefactors of Public Dining Appendix 4. Western Towns Yielding Evidence of Privately Sponsored Public Dining Appendix 5. Western Towns Yielding Evidence of Privately Sponsored Collegial Dining Bibliography Index.
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Communal Dining in in the Roman West explores why the practice of privately sponsored communal dining gained popularity in certain parts of the Western Roman Empire for almost 300 years. This book brings together 350 Latin inscriptions to examine the benefactors and beneficiaries, the geographical and chronological distributions, and the relationship between public and collegial dining practices. It argues that food-related euergetism was a region-specific phenomenon which was rooted in specific social and political cultures in the communities of Italy, Baetica and Africa Proconsularis. The region-specific differences in political cultures and long-term changes in these cultures are key to understanding not only the long persistence of this practice but also its ultimate disappearance.
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• Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Notes on Contributors
• Introduction Leopoldo Iribarren and Hugo Koning
• Part 1 Reflections on Hesiod's Poetry and the Beginnings of Philosophy
• 1 On Naming the Origins: Hesiod vs. the Ionians
• 2 Aristotelian Perspectives on Hesiod: A Programmatic Sketch Andre Laks
• 3 Hesiod and the Presocratics: A Hellenistic Perspective? Richard Hunter
• Part 2 Comparisons of Form and Genre
• 4 Hesiod, the Presocratic Poets, Aristeas, Epimenides and the Gold Tablets: Genre and Narrative Tom Mackenzie
• 5 The World of the Catalogue Glenn W. Most
• 6 A Grammar of Self-Referential Statements: Claims for Authority from Hesiod to the Presocratics Ilaria Andolfi
• Part 3 Contrasting Worldviews
• 7 Thinking about Time and Eternity-From Hesiod and the Presocratics to Plato and Aristotle Sandra Scepanovic
• 8
• in Hesiod, Anaximander and Heraclitus Stephen Scully
• 9 Xenophanes' Rejection of Theogony Shaul Tor
• 10 Hesiod Reads Empedocles Jenny Strauss Clay
• Part 4 Intertextuality and Continuity
• 11 Parmenides and the Language of Constraint Kathryn Morgan
• 12 Hesiod and Some Linguistic Approaches of the 5th Centure BCE Athanassios Vergados
• 13 Addressees, Knowledge, and Action in Hesiod and Empedocles Xavier Gheerbrant
• 14 Divine Crime and Punishment: Breaking the Cosmic Law in Hesiod's Theogony 783-806 and Empedocles' Fragment DK B115 Marco Antonio Santamaria
• 15 From Humans to Kosmos: Daimones in the Derveni Papyrus between Hesiod and Plato Valeria Piano
• General Index Index Locorum.
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What is the role of Hesiod's poetry in the beginnings of Greek philosophy? This book explores the question by going beyond the traditional responses that stress either continuities or discontinuities between myth and philosophy. Instead, this volume attempts a reflexive or response-oriented approach, that highlights the active re-appropriation and renewal of Hesiodic thought by the Presocratic philosophers. Its fifteen contributions offer large scale comparisons, historiographical considerations, thematic and generic approaches, and detailed case studies.
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• Acknowledgements Abbreviations List of Roman Jurists Cited Note on Translations
• Introduction: Shipwrecks and Maritime Cultural Landscapes
• 1 The Beginnings of a Mediterranean Paradigm 1.1 Introductory Remarks: Some Notes about the Sea in Ancient Thought 1.2 Ius Naufragii, or the 'Righteous' Plunder 1.3 But This Is Vis! When the Shore Meets the Sea 1.4 De Incendio Ruina Naufragio Rate Nave Expugnata: A Roman Turn in the Conception of Shipwrecking
• 2 The Nature of the Actio De Naufragio 2.1 Outline of the Behaviours Included in the Actio De Naufragio 2.2 The Spatial Dimension of the Actio De Naufragio 2.3 Processual Remarks
• 3 The Sea Gives, and the Sea Takes: On Ownership 3.1 The Sea And Its Power 3.2 When Humans Mediate in the Ownership of Things 3.3 Ownership between Land and Water: Mental and Legal Chorographies
• 4 It Happened at Sea 4.1 Seizing Space by Using Legal Institutions 4.2 Establishing Parallels with Land Case Studies
• 5 Causing Intentional Harm at Sea 5.1 Shipwrecking Far after the Enactment of the Edictum De Naufragio 5.2 Intentional Wreckage
• Conclusion
• Translation of the Title D. 47.9.: De Incendio Ruina Naufragio Rate Nave Expugnata Appendix Bibliography List of Sources Cited.
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This book changes our understanding of the Roman conceptions about the sea by placing the focus on shipwrecks as events that act as bridges between the sea and the land. The study explores the different Roman legal definitions of these spaces, and how individuals of divergent legal statuses interacted within these areas. Its main purpose is to chart and analyse the Roman conception of the maritime landscape from the Late Republican until the Severan period. This book integrates maritime history and ethnography with the physical remains of past maritime systems, such as shipwrecks, ports, villages, fortifications, and documented legal rulings.
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• Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors
• Introduction: The Narratology of Emotions in Ancient Literature Mathieu de Bakker, Baukje van den Berg and Jacqueline Klooster
• Part 1 Archaic Epic
• 1 A Narratology of the Emotions: Method, Temporality, and Anger in Homer's Iliad Ahuvia Kahane
• 2 Narrative and Emotion in the Iliad: Andromache and Helen Angus Bowie
• 3 Fear and Loathing at the Xanthus Evert van Emde Boas
• 4 Metaleptic Apostrophe in Homer: Emotion and Immersion Rutger Allan
• 5 In Mortal Danger: The Emotions of Two Fighters in the Iliad Marina Coray and Martha Krieter
• 6 Poseidon's Anger in the Odyssey Sebastiaan van der Mije
• 7 Emotions and Politeness in Homer's Odyssey Robert Kirstein
• 8 Emotionally Reunited: Laertes and Odysseus in Odyssey 24 Bruno Currie
• 9 Love and Anger: Emotions in Hesiod Hugo Koning
• Part 2 Archaic Epic and Beyond
• 10 The Text as Labyrinth Francoise Letoublon
• 11 Narrating Pity in Greek Epic, Lyric, Tragedy, and Beyond Patrick Finglass
• 12 Deixis in Teichoscopy as a Marker of Emotional Urgency Albert Rijksbaron
• 13 Exercises in Anger Management: From Achilles to Arginusae Christopher Pelling
• 14 Sunt lacrimae rerum: Emotions at the Deaths of Troilus, Priam, and Astyanax in Athenian Black-Figure Vase-Painting Geralda Jurriaans-Helle
• 15 What the Greeks Left Us: Perspectivation as a Tool in the Pursuit of (Emotional) Knowledge Willie van Peer
• Part 3 Early Lyric, Tragedy, and Biblical Poetry
• 16 Passion versus Performance in Sappho Fragments 1 and 31 Andre Lardinois
• 17 Prometheus Bound as 'Epic' Tragedy and Its Narratology of Emotion Anton Bierl
• 18 Self-Description of Emotions in Ancient Greek Drama: A First Exploration Gerry Wakker
• 19 Retelling the War of Troy: Tragedy, Emotions, and Catharsis Sofia Frade
• 20 Body and Speech as the Site of Emotions in Biblical Narrative Ilse Mullner
• Part 4 Greek Prose of the Classical Period
• 21 Herodotean Emotions: Some Aspects Richard Rutherford
• 22 Herodotus, Historian of Emotions Mathieu de Bakker
• 23 Emotions in Thucydides: Revisiting the Final Battle in Syracuse Harbour Tim Rood
• 24 The Dark Side of a Narrative: The Power of Emotions, Digressions and Historical Causes in Hellenica Oxyrhynchia Antonis Tsakmakis
• 25 Cyrus' Tears: An Essay in Affective Narratology and Socratic History Luuk Huitink
• 26 The Joys and Sorrows of the Argument: Emotions and Emotional Involvement in Plato's Narratives of Philosophical Reasoning Margalit Finkelberg
• 27 The Arousal of Interest in Plato's Protagoras and Gorgias Michael Lloyd
• 28 Socratic Emotions Kathryn A. Morgan
• Part 5 Hellenistic Literature
• 29 Heracles' Emotions in Apollonius of Rhodes' Argonautica Silvio Bar
• 30 Away with 'Angry Young Men'! Intertextuality as a Narratological Tool in the Quarrel Episodes in the Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius Annette Harder
• 31 Theocritus and the Poetics of Love Jacqueline Klooster
• 32 Characters, Emotions, and Enargeia in Second Maccabees Jan Willem van Henten
• Part 6 Latin Literature
• 33 Common Ground and the Presentation of Emotions: Fright and Horror in Livy's Historiography Lidewij van Gils and Caroline Kroon
• 34 Dramatic Narrative in Epic: Aeneas' Eyewitness Account of the Fall of Troy in Virgil Aeneid 2 Stephen Harrison
• 35 Unhappy Dido, Queen of Carthage Suzanne Adema
• 36 Emotional Apostrophes in Silius Italicus' Punica 6 Pieter van den Broek
• 37 Metalepsis on the Argo: Debating Hercules in Valerius Flaccus (Arg. 3.598-725) Mark Heerink
• Part 7 Greek Prose of the Imperial Period
• 38 Emotion and the Sublime Casper de Jonge
• 39 The Role of Anger in Epictetus' Philosophical Teaching Gerard Boter
• 40 Emotions and Narrativity in the Greek Romance Tim Whitmarsh
• 41 Another Tale of Anger, Honour, and Love: Achilles in Philostratus' Heroicus Kristoffel Demoen
• Part 8 Late Antiquity and Beyond
• 42 Claudian's De raptu Proserpinae: Grief, Guilt, and Rage of a Bereaved Mother Piet Gerbrandy
• 43 A Desire (Not) to Die for: Narrating Emotions in Pseudo-Nilus' Narrations Koen De Temmerman
• 44 From Myth to Image to Description: Emotions in the Ekphrasis Eikonos of Procopius of Gaza Berenice Verhelst
• 45 How to Write and Enjoy a Tale of Disaster: Eustathios of Thessalonike on Emotion and Style Baukje van den Berg
• 46 A Lawyer in Love: Hugo Grotius' Erotopaegnia (1608) Edwin Rabbie
• Publications of Irene de Jong (until 2021) Glossary Indices Tabula Gratulatoria.
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Emotions are at the core of much ancient literature, from Achilles' heartfelt anger in Homer's Iliad to the pangs of love of Virgil's Dido. This volume applies a narratological approach to emotions in a wide range of texts and genres. It seeks to analyze ways in which emotions such as anger, fear, pity, joy, love and sadness are portrayed. Furthermore, using recent insights from affective narratology, it studies ways in which ancient narratives evoke emotions in their readers. The volume is dedicated to Irene de Jong for her groundbreaking research into the narratology of ancient literature.
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"Menander’s 'Misoumenos', or 'The Hated Man', is one of the most popular plays to have survived from classical times, to judge from the numerous recovered papyrus fragments. Dating to approximately 300 BCE, it tells the story of a mercenary soldier and the captive girl he acquires whilst on campaign in Cyprus. The play follows the soldier’s growing despair as the girl spurns his advances and slowly turns against him, culminating in his suicidal thoughts. The play belongs to the ancient genre of New Comedy, of which Menander was the acknowledged master. This edition is the fullest to date of any English language edition of the play. It aims to restore as much as possible of the action of Misoumenos, reconstructing the language, stagecraft and theatrical dialogue of the original, but always distinguishing what we can be relatively sure of, from hypothesis and reconstruction. Some sections can be restored nearly in full, permitting access to brilliantly original theatrical dialogue which had been lost for over two millennia. Apart from metre and sophisticated idiom, the themes of love, despair, and sadness that Menander treats are utterly timeless."--Back cover

• List of Figures List of Abbreviations Notes on Contributors
• 1 Introduction Roman M. Frolov
• Part 1 Locating Political Initiative in Republican Rome
• 2 Governing a City-State: Magistrates, Assemblies, and Public Space in Republican Rome Karl-J. Hoelkeskamp
• 3 Public Opinion and Political Initiative in Republican Rome Alexander Yakobson
• Part 2 Seniority and Status as Factors of Political Agency
• 4 Acting Up: The Post of Master of the Mint as an Early-Career Move in the Late Republic Christopher Burden-Strevens
• 5 Consulars, Political Office, and Leadership in the Middle and Late Republic Catherine Steel
• Part 3 Women's Initiative in Roman Politics
• 6 Female Interventions in Politics in the libera res publica: Structures and Practices Lewis Webb
• 7 Urgulania, Plancina, and Livia: Women's Initiative in Early Imperial Politics Josiah Osgood
• Part 4 Political Initiative in Emergencies
• 8 "He Took Care of the City and Supported It": Initiative as a Prerequisite for Fabius' cunctatio Tassilo Schmitt
• 9 Political Initiative during interregna in the Late Roman Republic Vera V. Dementyeva
• Part 5 Leadership at a Time of Change
• 10 Leadership through Letters: Cicero and Cassius' Correspondence in 44-43 bce Henriette van der Blom
• 11 The Dynamics of Elite Agency in a Post-Caesar World (44-31 bce) Hannah Mitchell
• 12 Seizing Initiative in the Sphere domi: Magistrates, Promagistrates, and the Senate at the Outset of 32 bce Roman M. Frolov
• Part 6 Fighting for Initiative
• 13 Potentiality through Conflict: Political Initiatives, Conflict, and the Political Evolution of the Roman Republic Oliver Grote
• 14 Losing the Lead: The Crisis of the Late Roman Republic as a Crisis of Senatorial Leadership Claudia Tiersch
• Part 7 Political Initiative outside of Rome
• 15 Late Republican Local Rebellions and Marches against Rome: Agency and Initiative in the "Catilinarian Insurgency" Katarina Nebelin
• 16 Petitioning for Change in the Republican Empire Kit Morrell
• Part 8 Political Initiative and Leadership in Military Contexts
• 17 Omnia deinde arbitrio militum acta: Political Initiative and Agency of the Army in Late-Republican and Early Imperial Rome Alexander V. Makhlaiuk
• 18 The Emperor and His Generals: Military Agency in the Early Principate Wolfgang Havener
• Index.
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What does it mean to be a leader? This collection of seventeen studies breaks new ground in our understanding of leadership in ancient Rome by re-evaluating the difference between those who began a political action and those who followed or reacted. In a significant change of approach, this volume shifts the focus from archetypal "leaders" to explore the potential for individuals of different ranks, social statuses, ages, and genders to seize initiative. In so doing, the contributors provide new insight into the ways in which the ability to initiate communication, invent solutions, and prompt others to act resonated in critical moments of Roman history.
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"This monograph examines the literary representation of encounters between the living and the dead in Homer and the Roman epic poets of the early imperial period. The focus is on one particular situation: a witness to the afterlife (e.g. Odysseus or the Sibyl) who narrates encounters with the dead that he or she cannot (it would appear) actually have seen. This insufficiently studied and intriguing motif, namely seemingly impossible eye-witness testimony, can already be traced in Homer and then with variations in Vergil, the Culex poet, Lucan, Silius Italicus, and Statius"-- Provided by publisher

In ancient didactic poetry, poets frequently make use of imagery - similes, metaphors, acoustic images, models, exempla, fables, allegory, personifications, and other tropes - as a means to elucidate and convey their didactic message. In this volume, which arose from an international conference held at the University of Heidelberg in 2016, we investigate such phenomena and explore how they make the unseen visible, the unheard audible, and the unknown comprehensible. By exploring didactic poets from Hesiod to pseudo-Oppian and from Vergil and Lucretius to Grattius and Ovid, the authors in this collective volume show how imagery can clarify and illuminate, but also complicate and even undermine or obfuscate the overt didactic message. The presence of a real or implied addressee invites our engagement and ultimately our scrutiny of language and meaning.
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