Antiphanes is one of the most important writers of the Middle Attic comedy. His plays deal with matters connected to mythological subjects, although others referenced particular professional and national persons or characters, while other plays focused on the intrigues of personal life. This volume contains an introduction, a critical text, translation and complete philological, literary and historical commentary on the testimonia and fragments (fr. 1 100; Agroikos/The Rustic Ephesia/The Girl of Ephesus) of Antiphanes.

Ephippus is an outstanding playwright of Greek Middle Comedy. He won a single Lenaean victory ca. 378-376 BC and continued being productive until the late 340s. His twenty-eight surviving fragments reveal a wide thematic range: myth burlesque (with a special fondness for Heracles), political allegory, sympotic themes, personal mockery, satire of philosophy (Plato), hetairai. His corpus features seven hapax terms, as well as the highest percentage of anapaestic dimeter lines of all poets of Middle Comedy.

This volume forms the second part of the three-volume commentary on the fragments of Diphilus, who belongs to the prominent triad of the poets of New Comedy alongside Menander and Philemon. The present volume comprises the text and an English translation of the fragments of twenty-two plays of Diphilus, followed by a full-scale (philological, thematic, literary, interpretative, historical) commentary that also yields insight into the reception of Diphilan comedy in Roman theatre. This in-depth study of the Diphilan techniques of verbal humour and performance aims at shedding light on the dramatists distinctive place in the comic tradition, as well as showcasing a degree of variation in the overall image of the production of new comedy.

This book is a fully-fledged commentary on the fragments of the Greek comic poets Nausicrates and Nicostratus. By reconstructing the text and providing metrical, linguistic, and detailed philological analysis, it makes the work of these neglected authors accessible to all those interested in Greek drama and classical literature at large.

Antiphanes is one of the most important writers of the Middle Attic comedy. His plays deal with matters connected to mythological subjects, although others referenced particular professional and national persons or characters, while other plays focused on the intrigues of personal life. This volume contains a critical text, translation and complete philological, literary and historical commentary on the fragments of Antiphanes Sappho and subsequent plays, along with the fragments without a play-title (including dubia).

Mary of Nemmegen, a prose condensation in English of the Middle Dutch play Mariken van Nieumeghen, is an important example of the literature that was imported from Holland in the early part of the sixteenth century. It also may be compared to Everyman, described as a treatise "in the manner of a moral play." Mary of Nemmegen is an analogue of the Faustus story. As such, it is also a window on the obsession in its own time with the occult.

Milman Parrys comparative study of Homer and Southslavic oral song had demonstrated the existence of an oral tradition behind and within the Homeric Epic, thus establishing an indisputable link between Homer and oral poetry. Yet its exact nature has remained a moot point. For equally indisputable is the fact of the coexistence of oral and literate features within the Homeric Epic. Thus not behaving as either a straight oral song or as a straight literate text tout court, the Homeric Epic calls into question the prevailing Parryist axiom of the oral Homer. The link between Homer and oral poetry has thus become an open question again: it is, in fact, the New Homeric Question that turns on the roles of orality and literacy in the genesis of the Homeric Epic. To clarify it this e-book experiments with a third term: postorality. As a postoral poet, having initially been trained as an oral bard absorbing the Hellenic oral tradition, Homer would have acquired literacy in the course of his career as an oral singer. It enabled him to widen, deepen, and refine his epic art, thereby giving rise to an epic as complex and unique, in terms of structure, characterization, and intellectual substance, as the Iliad.

In the first century BCE, Greek intellectuals had to come to terms with the stability of Roman power. Many of them were active in Rome, which became the cultural centre of the Greek world; others were connected with Roman patrons. Their work became important for the emergence of Greek identity in the Roman Empire. Bringing together an international group of leading Classical scholars, this volume represents the first attempt at a comprehensive study of Greek cultural identity in the first century: how did the Romans influence the Greeks view(s) of themselves and of their classical heritage? How did the Greeks interpret the Romans and their role in the world? Covering such different genres as historiography, literary criticism, the novel, and epigram, as well as archaeological material, the contributions explore the intellectual diversity of one of the most significant periods in history and situate the authors active under Augustus within their broader intellectual-historical context.

Ancient literature abounds with portrayals of and reflections on sensory experience, yet there has been no systematic study of its more extreme and marginal phenomena, be it a loss of the senses or their overstimulation. This volume on Graeco-Roman perceptions of sensory experience therefore investigates the aspect of the extreme from multiple angles, encompassing philosophical, social, and literary perspectives. The contributions analyse texts spanning from the Greek Classical period to Roman Late Antiquity and from epigram to epic. They investigate both textual strategies of evoking sensory experiences that were considered extreme by certain agents or groups and the discourses that evolved around them in their socio-cultural context. The volume thereby adds to the flourishing field of sensory studies within Classics by mapping out the sensory extreme and exploring its interrelation with affect and emotion.

Stevens began identifying and collecting colloquialisms in Tragedy in 1937, refined his definitions in 1945 and finished his work with the monograph upon Euripides of 1976. This revised and enlarged edition assesses the contribution to the field by subsequent scholars. It adds many expressions to Stevenss list, which is now divided into two categories: expressions that are confidently identified as colloquial, and almost as many that are probable or possible. An unexpected finding is that Sophocles used hardly fewer such expressions than Euripides. The e-books chief aim is to broaden the evidential basis for colloquialisms in Tragedy, and to attempt a more useful evaluation of their usage: statistics are gathered on their distribution and location, and their frequent concentration in types of dramatic and stylistic context. Many individual passages, and the possible use of colloquialisms for characterization, are discussed. The e-book includes full indices locorum for expressions and usages.

When we think about Platos philosophy, his Laws is usually not the first work that comes to mind. Platos final magnum opus is a perplexing text in many ways, even apart from the fact that its very existence forces us to reflect on the question of how it relates to Platos other major political work, Republic. The debate about Platos Laws usually disregards its composition and the way in which the legislation takes shape in the dialogue. This e-book offers a fresh reading of Platos Laws that treats its form as an integral part of its philosophy, and asks what the way in which Platos legislative project is given shape in the text suggests about the status of that project. It argues that the legislative project is strikingly pragmatic for a work of Platonic philosophy and should therefore be understood in its own terms. Rather than laying down a definitive law code for a new colony (Magnesia) that is based on, or at least in some way presupposes, a metaphysical norm, Platos last work creates its own moral framework, in which lawgiving provides a convenient practical test for a notion of virtue understood as social conditioning.

In seiner Schrift vom Staat der Athener hat Aristoteles uns den Vertrag uberliefert, durch den nach dem unglucklichen Ausgang des Peloponnesischen Krieges und den ihn begleitenden inneren Unruhen in Athen die beiden Parteiungen der Burgerkriegswirren (Demokraten und Oligarchen) im Jahre 403 zu einem friedlichen Ausgleich zu kommen suchten. Der Autor hat diesen wichtigen Vertrag unter Heranziehung auch anderer Quellen, insbesondere der attischen Redner, erstmals ausfuhrlich kommentiert. Nicht nur die politische Geschichte, vor allem auch die athenische Rechtsgeschichte ist durch diesen Kommentar auergewohnlich bereictert worden.

Reedición completamente revisada y actualizada de la original de 1996. La Introducción incluye los avances en la investigación sobre Sor Juana; la segunda parte, la edición del "Primero sueño", con la grafia y variantes de las ediciones antiguas cotejadas con la de Mendez Plancarte, profusamente anotada. La obra se cierra con un comento.

In his Republic Plato considers grasping the unity of mathematics as the ultimate goal of the mathematical studies in which the future philosopher-rulers must engage before they turn to philosophy. How the unity of mathematics is supposed to be understood is not explained, however. This e-book argues that Plato conceives of the unity of mathematics in terms of the mutually benefiting links between its branches, just as he conceives of the unity of the state outlined in the Republic in terms of the common benefit for all citizens. Evidence for this view is provided by a discussion of his conception of astronomy as a propedeutic to philosophy, which can be best understood as hinting at a historically possible link between fourth-century-BC astronomy and solid geometry. The monograph also includes a detailed discussion of two well-known stories about Plato: not only he motivated Greek mathematicians to solve a difficult problem in solid geometry with his interpretation of a Delphic oracle given to the inhabitants of the island of Delos but he also posed the question which led to the development of the astronomical theory of homocentric spheres. It is argued that these stories are best understood as fictional episodes in Platos life, constructed from passages in his works.

This book is a historical and comparative study of the language of Hipponax, a Greek poet of invective verse who lived in Ephesus in the middle of the sixth century BCE. Many factors invite the linguist to take a close look at the surviving fragments of his poetry, including a creative use of language that is coarse, parodic, barbaric, and sometimes delightfully obscene, his distinctive meter, and his relish for lexical rarities and foreign words borrowed from neighboring languages. The four chapters of the book cover the alphabet and matters related to letter forms, phonology, morphology, and loanwords. Throughout the book the author offers original solutions to linguistic, historical, and textual problems, while also touching on a range of issues such as performance, genre, style, religion, and myth. Shane Hawkins is Associate Professor of Greek and Roman Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.

This book offers a reappraisal of basic aspects of Aristotelian cosmology. Aristotle believed that all celestial objects consist of the same substance that pervades the heavens, a stuff unlike those found near the center of the cosmos that compose us and everything in our immediate surroundings. Kouremenos argues that, contrary to the received view, Aristotle originally introduced this heavenly stuff as the matter of the stars alone, the remotest celestial objects from the Earth, and as filler of the outermost part of the heavens, forming a diurnally rotating spherical shell whose fixed parts are the stars, the crust of the cosmos which has the Earth at its center. The author also argues that, contrary to another common view, at no point in the development of his cosmological thought did Aristotle believe the heavens to be structured according to the theory of homocentric spheres developed by his older contemporary Eudoxus of Cnidus, in which the other celestial objects, the five planets known in antiquity, the Sun and the Moon, were hypothesized to move uniformly in circles, as if they were fixed stars.

Los ensayos aquí incluidos involucran variados métodos de exégesis e iluminan disímiles temas que se pueden rastrear en la Segunda Parte de Don Quijote de la Mancha (1615), como la relación amo-sirviente, la continuacion apocrifa publicada por Avellaneda a raiz del exito del texto original cervantino, el teatro, la ciudad de Barcelona, el mundo animal, la medicina politica, la paremiologia, las virtudes cristianas, la pirateria, los titeres, la libertad, la muerte, los estratos ficcionales... incluso los ecos que de la obra se pueden encontrar en la escritura de Garcia Lorca.Es injusto aseverar, como a veces se ha hecho, que la Segunda Parte del Quijote es oscura, ademas de agotadora y de exegeticamente impenetrable. Cierto que quiza requiera mayor concentracion y esfuerzo, asi como la exigencia de que el lector se entregue con candor y confianza a los nuevos mundos que crea la fantasia de Cervantes, pero, de este modo, la obra adquiere aun mas riqueza. Tal es la idea que guia la variedad de lecturas presentes en El Segundo Quijote (1615). Nuevas interpretaciones cuatro siglos despues: promover el acercamiento a una obra que conforma y completa una de las cumbres de la historia de la literatura.

Este volumen pretende suplir una carencia en la trayectoria editorial de El mayor monstruo del mundo, una de las tragedias más conocidas de Calderón, objeto de diversas ediciones críticas, pero que sin embargo carecia hasta el momento de una edicion conjunta de las dos versiones de la obra: El mayor monstruo del mundo y El mayor monstruo los celos.Los dos textos proceden de momentos muy distintos en la trayectoria dramatica calderoniana. La primera version, El mayor monstruo del mundo, se publico en la Segunda Parte de comedias de 1637, mientras que el texto revisado por el dramaturgo, El mayor monstruo los celos, se ha conservado a traves de un manuscrito cuyas licencias para la representacion datan de 1667 y 1672. La edicion conjunta de las dos versiones permitira al lector conocer de primera mano un proceso de reescritura teatral tipicamente calderoniano.Los textos criticos y anotados de las dos versiones van precedidos de un breve estudio introductorio centrado fundamentalmente en la datacion, las fuentes y la adscripcion generica; mientras que en el estudio textual se atiende en profundidad al proceso de reescritura y se ofrece un panorama detallado de la compleja transmision de la pieza. Como es habitual, el volumen se cierra con los aparatos de variantes correspondientes a cada una de las versiones y un indice de notas comun a ambas.

El pastor de Iberia (1591) es el libro más moderno de todos cuantos se queman en el escrutinio de la biblioteca de Alonso Quijano (Don Quijote de la Mancha, 1605). Y todavía al final de su vida volveria Cervantes, en el Laurel de Apolo (1614), a embestir contra la obra de Bernardo de la Vega, cargando las tintas contra su autor. ¿Que contenia esta obra que tanto molesto al creador de la novela moderna? El pastor de Iberia actualiza la bucolica pastoril y reescribe el mito arcadico atendiendo a las complejidades de la realidad historica del siglo XVI y no de acuerdo con las pautas de idealizacion utopica establecidas por los modelos canonicos de la tradicion literaria. La novela se abre tanto a la realidad que sus protagonistas engañan, asesinan con brutalidad y vileza, tratan del amor con una vulgaridad notable, duermen, comen, van a prision por falsas delaciones, gastan dinero en abogados que los libren de sus condenas o piden favores a nobles con nombre y apellidos para que intercedan por ellos.

Claudius Aelianus, also known as Aelian (circa 175235 AD), was a Roman intellectual and writer of the Severan period who wrote his works in Greek, drawing on the rich treasure trove of quotations from classical literature. His collections of animal stories ( , De natura animalium) and the (Varia Historia, which is considered to have given ancient miscellany its name) are more than mere compilations: Aelian himself saw the careful selection and artful presentation of his quotations as a genuine literary achievement.This collection of essays reflects the growing research interest in Aelian and present a comprehensive picture of Aelians use of quotation as a rhetorical device and the wider richness of his literary practices. The volume is aimed at researchers and those interested in learning more about this fascinating author and his work.