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  1. Law and Economic Performance in the Roman World /
    Contributor: Erdkamp, Paul, (editor.); Verboven, Koenraad, (editor.)
    Published: [2022]; ©2023
    Publisher:  Brill,, Leiden ;

    Were legal systems in the Roman empire conducive to economic growth and development? Were legal rules and procedure changed in response to economic needs? This book offers detailed studies to provide some answers to these basic questions. This book... more

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    Were legal systems in the Roman empire conducive to economic growth and development? Were legal rules and procedure changed in response to economic needs? This book offers detailed studies to provide some answers to these basic questions. This book offers critical analyses of the dynamic relation between legal regulations, institutions and economic performance in the Roman world. It studies how law and legal thought affected economic development, and vice versa. Inspired by New Institutional Economics scholars the past decades used ancient law to explain economic growth. There was, however, no natural selection process directing legal changes towards macro-economic efficiency. Ancient rulers and jurists modified institutions to serve or safeguard particular interests-political, social, or economic. Nevertheless both economic performance and legal scholarship peaked at unprecedented levels. These were momentous historical developments. How were they related?

     
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    Contributor: Erdkamp, Paul, (editor.); Verboven, Koenraad, (editor.)
    Media type: Ebook
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    ISBN: 9789004525139; 9789004525122
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    DOI: 10.1163/9789004525139
    Series: Impact of Empire ; ; 44
    Subjects: Ancient History.; Classical Studies.; Economic History.; History.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.
  2. Between Miltiades and Moltke: Early German Studies in Greek Military History /
    Author: Konijnendijk, Roel,
    Published: 2023.; ©2023
    Publisher:  Brill,, Leiden ;

    The authors of the first serious scholarly works on Greek warfare were not free to write their surveys as they wished. In the nineteenth-century German-speaking world, the supreme authority on all military history rested with the Great General Staff,... more

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    The authors of the first serious scholarly works on Greek warfare were not free to write their surveys as they wished. In the nineteenth-century German-speaking world, the supreme authority on all military history rested with the Great General Staff, the intellectual nerve centre of the Prussian army. Officers rejected the ability of historians to understand warfare and imposed their pragmatic perspective on any attempt to study past wars. How did classicists and historians respond to this challenge? This book explores how the scope and method of the first handbooks on Greek warfare were shaped by their environment; it questions the ancient wisdom that practical expertise is the best guide to writing military history.

     
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    Language: English
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789004540026; 9789004514300
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    DOI: 10.1163/9789004514300
    Series: Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences
    Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2023
    Subjects: Classical Studies.; Ancient History.; History.; Modern History.; History of Warfare.
    Scope: 1 online resource
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    Array: Preliminary Material /
  3. Philosophical Perspectives on Galen of Pergamum: Four Case-Studies on Human Nature and the Relation between Body and Soul /
    Author: Vinkesteijn, Robert,
    Published: [2022]; ©2023
    Publisher:  Brill,, Leiden ;

    An innovative study of the work of Galen, and the topics of body-soul relations, human nature and melancholy in ancient Greek philosophy. This is a ground-breaking philosophical-historical study of the work of Galen of Pergamum. It contains four... more

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    An innovative study of the work of Galen, and the topics of body-soul relations, human nature and melancholy in ancient Greek philosophy. This is a ground-breaking philosophical-historical study of the work of Galen of Pergamum. It contains four case-studies on (1) Galen's remarkable and original thoughts on the relation between body and soul, (2) his notion of human nature, (3) his engagement with Plato's Timaeus , (4) and black bile and melancholy. It shows that Galen develops an innovative view of human nature that problematizes the distinction between body and soul.

     
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    ISBN: 9789004523821; 9789004520875
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    DOI: 10.1163/9789004523821
    Series: Philosophia Antiqua ; ; 166
    Subjects: Ancient Philosophy.; Ancient Philosophy.; Ancient Science & Medicine.; Classical Studies.; Philosophy.
    Scope: 1 online resource.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.

    Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and Other Notes -- Introduction -- 1 The Cultivation of the Soul in a 'Physicalist' World -- Ethical Philosophy in Galen's QAM -- Introduction -- 1 Aristotle and the Non-rational Parts of the Soul -- 2 Plato and the Rational Part of the Soul -- 3 Positioning in the Scholarly Debate -- 4 The Possible Continuity in the Divine and Human Formation of the Bodily Mixture -- Conclusion -- 2 Galen on the Nature of Man -- Introduction -- 1 The Primary Substance -- 2 Divisio ad principes: a Hippocratic-Platonic Method -- 3 Elements and Qualities -- 4 Grades and Shades of Nature -- 5 Nature of the Body, Nature of the Soul -- Conclusion -- 3 Soul, Mixture and Galen's Timaeus -- Introduction -- 1 Sources -- 2 Scope of the Commentary -- 3 Basic Tendencies in Galen's Interpretation of the Timaeus -- 4 Comparing Galen's Timaeus to the Larrain Fragments -- Conclusion -- 4 Galen on Black Bile and Melancholy -- Introduction -- 1 Precedents -- 2 Galen on Black Bile -- 3 Galen on Melancholy -- Conclusion on Black Bile and Melancholy -- General Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
  4. Honorific Culture at Delphi in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods /
    Author: Grzesik, Dominika,
    Published: 2021.
    Publisher:  BRILL,, Leiden;

    The goal of this inscription-based study is to shed new light on Hellenistic and Roman Delphi by placing inscribed honours at the front and centre of the investigation. This book provides, for the first time, a comprehensive and coherent discussion... more

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    The goal of this inscription-based study is to shed new light on Hellenistic and Roman Delphi by placing inscribed honours at the front and centre of the investigation. This book provides, for the first time, a comprehensive and coherent discussion of the Delphic gift-giving system, its regional interactions, and its honorific network. It employs both conventional and new scientific methods, including an analysis of quantitative trends in the epigraphic records and a Social Network Analysis (SNA) approach. The volume also addresses a broad spectrum of epigraphic topics and discusses current research questions as well as future perspectives.

     
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    ISBN: 9789004502499; 9789004502475
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    DOI: 10.1163/9789004502499
    Series: Brill Studies in Greek and Roman Epigraphy ; ; 17
    Subjects: Classical Studies.; Epigraphy & Papyrology.
    Scope: 1 online resource.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.
  5. Ovid, Death and Transfiguration /
    Contributor: Farrell, Joseph, (editor.)
    Published: 2023.; ©2023
    Publisher:  Brill,, Leiden ;

    The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. Death, the ultimate change, is an unexpected Leitmotiv of Ovid's career and reception. The eighteen contributions collected in this... more

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    The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. Death, the ultimate change, is an unexpected Leitmotiv of Ovid's career and reception. The eighteen contributions collected in this volume explore the theme of death and transfiguration in Ovid's own career and his posthumous reception, revealing a unity in diversity that has not been appreciated in these terms before now.

     
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    Contributor: Farrell, Joseph, (editor.)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789004528819; 9789004528871
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    DOI: 10.1163/9789004528871
    Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements ; ; 465
    Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2023
    Subjects: Classical Studies.; Archaeology, Art & Architecture.; Classical Tradition & Reception Studies.; Greek & Latin Literature.
    Scope: 1 online resource
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    Array: Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- Introduction: Ovid, Death and Transfiguration -- Part 1 Death and the Lover -- Death, Lament, and "Elegiac Aetiology" in Ovid's Metamorphoses /
  6. The Category of Comparison in Latin /
    Author: Pultrová, Lucie,
    Published: 2022.
    Publisher:  Brill,, Leiden ;

    Which Latin adjectives and adverbs allow for comparative and superlative forms, and which ones do not? Based on extensive data collection, this book aims to provide today's readers of Latin with some objective criteria for determining the answer to... more

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    Which Latin adjectives and adverbs allow for comparative and superlative forms, and which ones do not? Based on extensive data collection, this book aims to provide today's readers of Latin with some objective criteria for determining the answer to this question. This book focuses on one of the basic - yet still rather neglected in Latin linguistics- grammatical categories: comparison of adjectives and adverbs. Which Latin adjectives and adverbs allow for comparative and superlative forms, and which ones do not? This question may seem trivial to those working with modern languages but is not at all trivial in the case of a dead language such as Latin that has no native speakers and a limited corpus of written texts. Based on extensive data collection, the book aims to provide today's readers of Latin with some objective criteria for determining the answer.

     
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    ISBN: 9789004523470; 9789004523463
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    DOI: 10.1163/9789004523470
    Series: The Language of Classical Literature ; ; 36
    Subjects: Classical Studies.; Greek & Latin Linguistics.; Historical and Comparative Linguistics & Linguistic Typology.; Languages and Linguistics.
    Scope: 1 online resource.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.
  7. Reading by Example: Valerius Maximus and the Historiography of Exempla /
    Contributor: Wardle, David, (editor.); Murray, Jeffrey, (editor.)
    Published: 2022.
    Publisher:  BRILL,, Leiden;

    Long regarded as a sycophantic producer of overblown moral platitudes, Valerius Maximus emerges from a series of studies as an independent thinker capable of challenging his readers through the material he has collected: he makes them think about... more

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    Long regarded as a sycophantic producer of overblown moral platitudes, Valerius Maximus emerges from a series of studies as an independent thinker capable of challenging his readers through the material he has collected: he makes them think about real moral dilemmas and grants to non-Roman societies a remarkable equivalence to Rome. Through his silences as much as his sermons he decodes the value- and political-system of his day. Valerius is talented as a reader of others and himself was read appreciatively in the Later Empire and even more so by Christians in Medieval Europe.

     
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    Contributor: Wardle, David, (editor.); Murray, Jeffrey, (editor.)
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    ISBN: 9789004499423; 9789004499409
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    DOI: 10.1163/9789004499423
    Series: Historiography of Rome and Its Empire ; ; 11
    Subjects: Classical Studies.; Greek & Latin Literature.
    Scope: 1 online resource.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.

    Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Historiography of Rome and Its Empire Series -- Carsten H. Lange and Jesper M. Madsen -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Introduction -- Jeffrey Murray -- PART 1: Architecture and Order -- 2 "Not Putting Roman History in Order?" - Regal, Republican and Imperial Boundaries -- David Wardle -- 3 And Now for Something Completely Different ... -- Sarah Lawrence -- PART 2: Roman History -- 4 Coriolanus as an Exemplar in Valerius Maximus -- John Atkinson -- 5 Boundary Issues: Valerius Maximus on Rome's Italian Allies -- Roman Roth -- 6 "Others Took Money from That Victory, but He Took the Glory": Spoils of War in the Facta et dicta memorabilia -- Simon Lentzsch -- 7 Forgetting Germanicus: Reading Valerius Maximus through Tacitus' Tiberian Books -- Alain Gowing -- PART 3: Values -- 8 Valerius Maximus' Engagement with Cicero's Tusculan Disputations on Virtue and the Endurance of Pain, in 3.3 De patientia -- Rebecca Langlands -- 9 Amicitia and the Politics of Friendship in Valerius Maximus -- George Baroud -- 10 Valerius Maximus on Vice -- Jeffrey Murray -- 11 Efficacior Pictura: Morality and the Arts in Valerius Maximus -- Emma Brobeck -- Part 4: Reception and Tradition -- 12 Valerius Maximus' Facta et Dicta Memorabilia and the Roman Biographical Tradition -- Diederik Burgersdijk -- 13 Preaching Ancient History: Valerius Maximus and His Manuscript Reception -- Kyle Conrau-Lewis -- Index.
  8. Aeneis :
    Libri VII-XII. Naar de uitgave van J. van der Vliet en J. Mehler. Opnieuw bewerkt en herzien door R.F.H. Westendorp Boerma /
    Author: Maro, Publius Vergilius,
    Published: 1973.; ©1973
    Publisher:  Brill,, Leiden ;

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    Language: Latin; Dutch
    Media type: Ebook
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    ISBN: 9789004037922; 9789004675049
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    DOI: 10.1163/9789004675049
    Series: Griekse en Latijnse Schrijvers ; ; 15
    Subjects: Classical Studies.; Greek & Latin Literature.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.
  9. Athens and Wittenberg :
    Poetry, Philosophy, and Luther's Legacy /
    Contributor: Kellerman, James A., (editor.)
    Published: 2023.; ©2023
    Publisher:  Brill,, Leiden ;

    Scholarship has tended to assume that Luther was uninterested in the Greek and Latin classics, given his promotion of the German vernacular and his polemic against the reliance upon Aristotle in theology. But as Athens and Wittenberg demonstrates,... more

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    Scholarship has tended to assume that Luther was uninterested in the Greek and Latin classics, given his promotion of the German vernacular and his polemic against the reliance upon Aristotle in theology. But as Athens and Wittenberg demonstrates, Luther was shaped by the classical education he had received and integrated it into his writings. He could quote Epicurean poetry to non-Epicurean ends; he could employ Aristotelian logic to prove the limits of philosophy's role in theology. This volume explores how Luther and early Protestantism, especially Lutheranism, continued to draw from the classics in their quest to reform the church. In particular, it examines how early Protestantism made use of the philosophy and poetry from classical antiquity. Contributors include: Joseph Herl, Jane Schatkin Hettrick, E.J. Hutchinson, Jack D. Kilcrease, E. Christian Kopf, John G. Nordling, Piergiacomo Petrioli, Eric G. Phillips, Richard J. Serina, Jr, R. Alden Smith, Carl P.E. Springer, Manfred Svensson, William P. Weaver, and Daniel Zager.

     
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    Contributor: Kellerman, James A., (editor.)
    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9789004206700; 9789004206717
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    DOI: 10.1163/9789004206717
    Series: Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions ; ; 234
    Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2023
    Subjects: Classical Studies.; Classical Tradition & Reception Studies.; History.; Early Modern History.; Literature and Cultural Studies.; Comparative Studies & World Literature.; Religious Studies.; History of Religion.; Theology and World Christianity.; Philosophy of Religion.
    Scope: 1 online resource
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    Array: Preliminary Material -- Copyright page -- Preface /
  10. Ammianus Marcellinus From Soldier to Author /
    Contributor: Woods, David, (editor.); Hanaghan, Michael, (editor.)
    Published: [2022]; ©2023
    Publisher:  Brill,, Leiden ;

    Ammianus Marcellinus was a soldier and an author. This book explores how his experience of 4th-century military life affected his writing of history and conversely how his knowledge of literature influenced his writing about the Roman army. Ammianus... more

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    Ammianus Marcellinus was a soldier and an author. This book explores how his experience of 4th-century military life affected his writing of history and conversely how his knowledge of literature influenced his writing about the Roman army. Ammianus Marcellinus composed a history of the Roman empire from 96 AD to 378 AD, focusing on the mid-fourth century during which he served in the army. His experience as a soldier during this period provides crucial realia of warfare, while his knowledge of literature, especially the genre of historiography, enabled him to imbue his narrative with literary flair. This book explores the tension between Ammianus' roles as soldier and author, examining how his military experience affected his history, and conversely how his knowledge of literature affected his descriptions of the Roman army.

     
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    Contributor: Woods, David, (editor.); Hanaghan, Michael, (editor.)
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    ISBN: 9789004525351; 9789004525290
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    DOI: 10.1163/9789004525351
    Series: Historiography of Rome and Its Empire ; ; 16
    Subjects: Ancient History.; Classical Studies.; Greek & Latin Literature.
    Scope: 1 online resource.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.
  11. Clavdii Clavdiani De Bello Gildonico /
    Author: Claudiani, Claudii,
    Published: 1978.; ©1978
    Publisher:  Brill,, Leiden ;

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    Contributor: Olechowska, Elżbieta M., (editor.)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789004673502
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    DOI: 10.1163/9789004673502
    Series: Classical Studies - Book Archive pre-2000
    Roma Aeterna ; ; 10
    Subjects: Classical Studies.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.

    Array: Preliminary Material /
  12. Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid's Fasti :
    Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family /
    Author: Erker, Darja Šterbenc,
    Published: 2023.; ©2023
    Publisher:  Brill,, Leiden ;

    Ovid's Fasti offers multifocal views of Augustan religion to convey ambivalences, inconsistencies and paradoxes in the imperial family's religious agenda. Darja Šterbenc Erker explores Ovid's irreverent and ambiguous presentations of calendrical... more

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    Ovid's Fasti offers multifocal views of Augustan religion to convey ambivalences, inconsistencies and paradoxes in the imperial family's religious agenda. Darja Šterbenc Erker explores Ovid's irreverent and ambiguous presentations of calendrical aeitiologies, deifications and imperial gods that humorously call to mind Arachne's tapestry depicting faulty gods and that stand in sharp contrast to the poet's more serious discussions of the values he cherishes, such as freedom and poetic immortality. Especially in the exilic revisions of the poem, Ovid emphasises the motif of bestowing divine honours upon mortals through poetry. For him, the stars in the heavens do not represent deified statesmen but immortal authors.

     
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    ISBN: 9789004527034; 9789004527041
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    DOI: 10.1163/9789004527041
    Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements ; ; 466
    Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2023
    Subjects: Classical Studies.; Religion.; Greek & Latin Literature.
    Scope: 1 online resource
  13. Philosophical Perspectives on Galen of Pergamum: Four Case-Studies on Human Nature and the Relation between Body and Soul /
    Author: Vinkesteijn, Robert,
    Published: [2022]; ©2023
    Publisher:  Brill,, Leiden ;

    An innovative study of the work of Galen, and the topics of body-soul relations, human nature and melancholy in ancient Greek philosophy. This is a ground-breaking philosophical-historical study of the work of Galen of Pergamum. It contains four... more

     

    An innovative study of the work of Galen, and the topics of body-soul relations, human nature and melancholy in ancient Greek philosophy. This is a ground-breaking philosophical-historical study of the work of Galen of Pergamum. It contains four case-studies on (1) Galen’s remarkable and original thoughts on the relation between body and soul, (2) his notion of human nature, (3) his engagement with Plato’s Timaeus , (4) and black bile and melancholy. It shows that Galen develops an innovative view of human nature that problematizes the distinction between body and soul.

     
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    ISBN: 90-04-52382-0
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    DOI: 10.1163/9789004523821
    Series: Philosophia Antiqua ; ; 166
    Subjects: Ancient Philosophy.; Ancient Science & Medicine.; Classical Studies.; Philosophy.; Medicine, Greek and Roman
    Other subjects: Galen.; Galen.: Quod animi mores corporis temperamenta sequantur.; Galen.: De atra bile.
    Scope: 1 online resource.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.

    Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and Other Notes -- Introduction -- 1 The Cultivation of the Soul in a ‘Physicalist’ World -- Ethical Philosophy in Galen’s QAM -- Introduction -- 1 Aristotle and the Non-rational Parts of the Soul -- 2 Plato and the Rational Part of the Soul -- 3 Positioning in the Scholarly Debate -- 4 The Possible Continuity in the Divine and Human Formation of the Bodily Mixture -- Conclusion -- 2 Galen on the Nature of Man -- Introduction -- 1 The Primary Substance -- 2 Divisio ad principes: a Hippocratic-Platonic Method -- 3 Elements and Qualities -- 4 Grades and Shades of Nature -- 5 Nature of the Body, Nature of the Soul -- Conclusion -- 3 Soul, Mixture and Galen’s Timaeus -- Introduction -- 1 Sources -- 2 Scope of the Commentary -- 3 Basic Tendencies in Galen’s Interpretation of the Timaeus -- 4 Comparing Galen’s Timaeus to the Larrain Fragments -- Conclusion -- 4 Galen on Black Bile and Melancholy -- Introduction -- 1 Precedents -- 2 Galen on Black Bile -- 3 Galen on Melancholy -- Conclusion on Black Bile and Melancholy -- General Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
  14. The Byzantine Alexander Poem /
    Author: Aerts, Willem J.,
    Published: [2014].
    Publisher:  De Gruyter,, Berlin/Boston :

    Among the many versions of the Alexander Romance originating from Alexandria (3rd century AD) the long Byzantine Alexander Poem takes a special place. It is transmitted in only one miscellaneous manuscript, Ms. Marcianus Graecus 408, and contains... more

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    Among the many versions of the Alexander Romance originating from Alexandria (3rd century AD) the long Byzantine Alexander Poem takes a special place. It is transmitted in only one miscellaneous manuscript, Ms. Marcianus Graecus 408, and contains 6130 ‘political’ (fifteen-syllable) verses. Thisedition presents a new criticaltext of the Byzantine Alexander Poem with an introduction and an extensive commentary.

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: Greek, Ancient (to 1453); English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781614513070
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    Series: Byzantinisches Archiv; ; 26
    Subjects: Byzantine poetry.; Byzantine poetry.; Byzantine Studies.; Classical Studies.; FICTION; Griechische Literatur.
    Scope: 1 online resource(xvi,630p.) :, illustrations.
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    Also available in print edition.
  15. Ancient Comedy and Reception :
    Essays in Honor of Jeffrey Henderson /
    Contributor: Olson, S. Douglas, (editor.)
    Published: [2013].
    Publisher:  De Gruyter,, Berlin/Boston :

    This collection provides an overview of the reception history of a major literary genre from Greco-Roman antiquity to the present day. Looking first at Athenian comic poets and comedy in the Roman Empire, the volume goes on to discuss Greco-Roman... more

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    This collection provides an overview of the reception history of a major literary genre from Greco-Roman antiquity to the present day. Looking first at Athenian comic poets and comedy in the Roman Empire, the volume goes on to discuss Greco-Roman comedy’s reception throughout the ages. It concludes with a look at the modern era, taking into account literary translations and stage productions as well as modern media such as radio and film.

     
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    Contributor: Olson, S. Douglas, (editor.)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781614511250
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    Subjects: Greek drama (Comedy); Latin drama (Comedy); Classical Studies, other.; Classical Studies.; Greek drama (Comedy); Latin drama (Comedy); DRAMA; Griechische Literatur.
    Scope: 1 online resource(xi,1086p.) :, illustrations.
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  16. The Author in Middle Byzantine Literature :
    Modes, Functions, and Identities /
    Contributor: Pizzone, Aglae, (editor.)
    Published: [2014].; ©2014.
    Publisher:  De Gruyter,, Berlin/Boston :

    Author and authorship have become increasingly important concepts in Byzantine literary studies. This volume provides the first comprehensive survey on strategies of authorship in Middle Byzantine literature and investigates the interaction between... more

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    Author and authorship have become increasingly important concepts in Byzantine literary studies. This volume provides the first comprehensive survey on strategies of authorship in Middle Byzantine literature and investigates the interaction between self-presentation and cultural production in a wide array of genres, providing new insights into how Byzantine intellectuals conceived of their own work and pursuits.

     
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    Contributor: Pizzone, Aglae, (editor.)
    Language: English
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781614515197
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    Series: Byzantinisches Archiv; ; 28
    Subjects: Authors, Byzantine.; Authorship.; Byzantine literature; Authors, Byzantine.; Authorship.; Byzantine literature; Byzantine Studies.; Classical Studies.; Griechische Literatur.; LITERARY CRITICISM
    Scope: 1 online resource(xiv,575p.) :, illustrations.
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  17. Reading Roman Declamation :
    The Declamations Ascribed to Quintilian /
    Contributor: Dinter, Martin T.; Guérin, Charles.; Martinho, Marcos.
    Published: [2015]; ©2016
    Publisher:  De Gruyter,, Berlin :

    As a genre situated at the crossroad of rhetoric and fiction, declamatio offers the freedom to experiment with new forms of discourse. Placing the literariness of (Ps)Quintilian’s oeuvre into the spotlight, this volume showcases declamation as a... more

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    As a genre situated at the crossroad of rhetoric and fiction, declamatio offers the freedom to experiment with new forms of discourse. Placing the literariness of (Ps)Quintilian’s oeuvre into the spotlight, this volume showcases declamation as a realm of genuine literary creation with its own theoretical underpinning, literary technique and generic conventions. It is of interest to students and scholars of rhetoric and Roman Literature.

     
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    Contributor: Dinter, Martin T.; Guérin, Charles.; Martinho, Marcos.
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783110352511
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    Series: Beiträge zur Altertumskunde ; ; 342
    Subjects: Rhetoric, Ancient.; Classical Studies.; Deklamation.; Lateinische Literatur.; Latin Language and Literature.; Quintilian.; Rhetorik.
    Scope: 1 online resource (320p.)
  18. The Emperor's House :
    Palaces from Augustus to the Age of Absolutism /
    Contributor: Featherstone, Michael, (editor.); Spieser, Jean-Michel, (editor.); Tanman, Gülru, (editor.); Wulf-Rheidt, Ulrike, (editor.)
    Published: [2015].; ©2015.
    Publisher:  De Gruyter,, Berlin/Boston :

    Intended for specialists and students of Architecture, Art History and History, the volume contains papers on functional and ideological aspects of palace architecture, art and ceremonial in the Roman imperial tradition in its broadest geographical... more

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    Intended for specialists and students of Architecture, Art History and History, the volume contains papers on functional and ideological aspects of palace architecture, art and ceremonial in the Roman imperial tradition in its broadest geographical and chronological limits, from the Principate through Late Antiquity, Byzantium, the Carolingian, Norman and Islamic states, to the absolute monarchies of Europe and the Ottoman empire.

     
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    Contributor: Featherstone, Michael, (editor.); Spieser, Jean-Michel, (editor.); Tanman, Gülru, (editor.); Wulf-Rheidt, Ulrike, (editor.)
    Language: English; German; French
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783110331769
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    Series: Urban Spaces; ; 4
    Subjects: Architektur.; Classical Archaeology.; Classical Studies.; Palast.
    Scope: 1 online resource(viii, 424 p.) :, illustrations.
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  19. Diachrony :
    Diachronic Studies of Ancient Greek Literature and Culture /
    Contributor: González, José M.
    Published: [2015]; ©2015
    Publisher:  De Gruyter,, Berlin ;Boston :

    Diachrony showcases the importance of diachronic models for the interpretation of ancient Greek literature and culture. These models study the evolution of culture as a system. Contributors to this volume seek to be methodologically explicit as they... more

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    Diachrony showcases the importance of diachronic models for the interpretation of ancient Greek literature and culture. These models study the evolution of culture as a system. Contributors to this volume seek to be methodologically explicit as they build a variety of diachronic approaches to a wide range of subjects. The period covered stretches from Homer to Babrius and the topics range from ancient Greek agriculture to Athenian pederasty.

     
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    Contributor: González, José M.
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783110422962
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    Series: MythosEikonPoiesis ; ; 7
    Subjects: Greek literature; Classical Studies.; Greek Language and Literature.
    Scope: 1 online resource (408p.)
  20. The Transmission of the Text of Lucan in the Ninth Century /
    Author: Gotoff, Harold C.,
    Published: [1971]; ©1971
    Publisher:  Harvard University Press,, Cambridge, Mass.:

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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780674282124
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    Series: Loeb Classical Monographs
    Subjects: Epic poetry, Latin.; Lateinische Literatur.; Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern); Manuscrits latins.; Textgeschichte.; Transmission de textes.; Transmission of texts.; War and literature.; Classical Studies, other.; Classical Studies.; Epic poetry, Latin; Poésie épique latine; Savoir et érudition; Transmission of texts
    Scope: 1 online resource(209p.) :, illustrations.
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  21. Dreams and experience in classical antiquity /
    Author: Harris, William V.
    Published: [2009]; ©2009.
    Publisher:  Harvard University Press,, Cambridge, Mass.:

    "From the Iliad to Aristophanes, from the gospel of Matthew to Augustine, Greek and Latin texts are constellated with descriptive images of dreams. Some are formulaic, others intensely vivid. The best ancient minds - Plato, Aristotle, the physician... more

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    "From the Iliad to Aristophanes, from the gospel of Matthew to Augustine, Greek and Latin texts are constellated with descriptive images of dreams. Some are formulaic, others intensely vivid. The best ancient minds - Plato, Aristotle, the physician Galen, and others - struggled to understand the meaning of dreams. With Dreams and Experience in Classical Antiquity the renowned ancient historian William Harris turns his attention to oneiric matters. This cultural history of dreams in antiquity draws on both contemporary post-Freudian science and careful critiques of the ancient texts. Harris traces the history of characteristic forms of dream-description and relates them both to the ancient experience of dreaming and to literary and religious imperatives. He analyzes the nuances of Greek and Roman belief in the truth-telling potential of dreams, and in a final chapter offers an assessment of ancient attempts to understand dreams naturalistically."--Jacket.

     
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    ISBN: 9780674053977
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    Subjects: Dreams; Dreams; Ancient History.; Classical Studies.; Electronic books.; LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical; SELF-HELP; Antike.; Literatur.; Traum (Motiv); Culturele aspecten.; Dromen.; Klassieke oudheid.
    Scope: 1 online resource (xv, 332 p.) :, ill.
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-321) and index.
  22. Dinah's Daughters :
    Gender and Judaism from the Hebrew Bible to Late Antiquity /
    Author: Zlotnick, Helena,
    Published: [2002]; ©2002.
    Publisher:  University of Pennsylvania Press,, Philadelphia, Pa. :

    "This is an important title.... It will be valuable in graduate-level study of Western and Middle Eastern antiquity."—Choice. more

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    "This is an important title.... It will be valuable in graduate-level study of Western and Middle Eastern antiquity."—Choice.

     
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    Language: English
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780812204018
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    Subjects: Women in Judaism.; Women in rabbinical literature.; Women in the Bible.; Ancient History.; Bibel.; Classical Studies.; Frau (Motiv); Frau.; Jodendom.; Judentum.; Rabbinische Literatur.; Sekseverschillen.; Women in Judaism.; Women in rabbinical literature.; Women in the Bible.; HISTORY
    Scope: 1 online resource (264 pages) :, illustrations.
  23. Recognizing Persius /
    Author: Reckford, Kenneth J.,
    Published: [2009].; ©2009.
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press,, Princeton, N.J. :

    Recognizing Persius is a passionate and in-depth exploration of the libellus--or little book--of six Latin satires left by the Roman satirical writer Persius when he died in AD 62 at the age of twenty-seven. In this comprehensive and reflectively... more

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    Recognizing Persius is a passionate and in-depth exploration of the libellus--or little book--of six Latin satires left by the Roman satirical writer Persius when he died in AD 62 at the age of twenty-seven. In this comprehensive and reflectively personal book, Kenneth Reckford fleshes out the primary importance of this mysterious and idiosyncratic writer. Reckford emphasizes the dramatic power and excitement of Persius's satires--works that normally would have been recited before a reclining, feasting audience. In highlighting the satires' remarkable honesty, Reckford shows how Persius converted Roman satire into a vehicle of self-exploration and self-challenge that remains relevant to readers today. The book explores the foundations of Roman satire as a performance genre: from the dinner-party recitals of Lucilius, the founder of the genre, through Horace, to Persius's more intense and inward dramatic monologues. Reckford argues that despite satire's significant public function, Persius wrote his pieces first and mainly for himself. Reckford also provides the context for Persius's life and work: his social responsibilities as a landowner; the interplay between his life, his Stoic philosophy, and his art; and finally, his incomplete struggle to become an honest and decent human being. Bringing the modern reader to a closer and more nuanced acquaintance with Persius's work, Recognizing Persius reinstates him to the ranks of the first-rate satirists, alongside Horace and Juvenal.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781400830756
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    Edition: Course Book.
    Series: Martin Classical Lectures
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM; Persius; POETRY; Satire, Latin; Classical Studies, other.; Classical Studies.; Lateinische Literatur.; Literature.; Satire, Latin.
    Scope: 1 online resource (256 pages) :, illustrations.
  24. Female Acts in Greek Tragedy /
    Author: Foley, Helene P.,
    Published: [2001]; ©2001
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press,, Princeton, N.J. :

    Although Classical Athenian ideology did not permit women to exercise legal, economic, and social autonomy, the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides often represent them as influential social and moral forces in their own right. Scholars... more

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    Although Classical Athenian ideology did not permit women to exercise legal, economic, and social autonomy, the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides often represent them as influential social and moral forces in their own right. Scholars have struggled to explain this seeming contradiction. Helene Foley shows how Greek tragedy uses gender relations to explore specific issues in the development of the social, political, and intellectual life in the polis. She investigates three central and problematic areas in which tragic heroines act independently of men: death ritual and lamentation, marriage, and the making of significant ethical choices. Her anthropological approach, together with her literary analysis, allows for an unusually rich context in which to understand gender relations in ancient Greece. This book examines, for example, the tragic response to legislation regulating family life that may have begun as early as the sixth century. It also draws upon contemporary studies of virtue ethics and upon feminist reconsiderations of the Western ethical tradition. Foley maintains that by viewing public issues through the lens of the family, tragedy asks whether public and private morality can operate on the same terms. Moreover, the plays use women to represent significant moral alternatives. Tragedy thus exploits, reinforces, and questions cultural clichés about women and gender in a fashion that resonates with contemporary Athenian social and political issues.

     
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781400824731
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    Edition: Core Textbook.
    Series: Martin Classical Lectures
    Subjects: DRAMA; Femmes et littérature; Greek drama (Tragedy); Tragédie grecque; Women and literature; Women in literature.; Classical Studies, other.; Classical Studies.; Femmes dans la littérature.; Griechische Literatur.; Women and literature.; Women in literature.
    Scope: 1 online resource (424 pages) :, illustrations.
  25. Philosophical Perspectives on Galen of Pergamum: Four Case-Studies on Human Nature and the Relation between Body and Soul /
    Author: Vinkesteijn, Robert,
    Published: [2022]; ©2023
    Publisher:  Brill,, Leiden ;

    An innovative study of the work of Galen, and the topics of body-soul relations, human nature and melancholy in ancient Greek philosophy. This is a ground-breaking philosophical-historical study of the work of Galen of Pergamum. It contains four... more

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    An innovative study of the work of Galen, and the topics of body-soul relations, human nature and melancholy in ancient Greek philosophy. This is a ground-breaking philosophical-historical study of the work of Galen of Pergamum. It contains four case-studies on (1) Galen’s remarkable and original thoughts on the relation between body and soul, (2) his notion of human nature, (3) his engagement with Plato’s Timaeus , (4) and black bile and melancholy. It shows that Galen develops an innovative view of human nature that problematizes the distinction between body and soul.

     
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    ISBN: 90-04-52382-0
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    DOI: 10.1163/9789004523821
    Series: Philosophia Antiqua ; ; 166
    Subjects: Ancient Philosophy.; Ancient Science & Medicine.; Classical Studies.; Philosophy.; Medicine, Greek and Roman
    Other subjects: Galen.; Galen.: Quod animi mores corporis temperamenta sequantur.; Galen.: De atra bile.
    Scope: 1 online resource.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.

    Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and Other Notes -- Introduction -- 1 The Cultivation of the Soul in a ‘Physicalist’ World -- Ethical Philosophy in Galen’s QAM -- Introduction -- 1 Aristotle and the Non-rational Parts of the Soul -- 2 Plato and the Rational Part of the Soul -- 3 Positioning in the Scholarly Debate -- 4 The Possible Continuity in the Divine and Human Formation of the Bodily Mixture -- Conclusion -- 2 Galen on the Nature of Man -- Introduction -- 1 The Primary Substance -- 2 Divisio ad principes: a Hippocratic-Platonic Method -- 3 Elements and Qualities -- 4 Grades and Shades of Nature -- 5 Nature of the Body, Nature of the Soul -- Conclusion -- 3 Soul, Mixture and Galen’s Timaeus -- Introduction -- 1 Sources -- 2 Scope of the Commentary -- 3 Basic Tendencies in Galen’s Interpretation of the Timaeus -- 4 Comparing Galen’s Timaeus to the Larrain Fragments -- Conclusion -- 4 Galen on Black Bile and Melancholy -- Introduction -- 1 Precedents -- 2 Galen on Black Bile -- 3 Galen on Melancholy -- Conclusion on Black Bile and Melancholy -- General Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.