Bücher der Reihe Yale Classical Studies

The historians considered in this volume lived between the fifth century BC and the third century AD. They came from areas as far apart as Syria and Sicily and they had in common the Greek language and the Greek tradition of historical writing. They include authors who, though not strictly historians, shed important light on the tradition. Some contributors consider the value of their subjects as historical sources, others deal with problems of historical method or with ideas which arise from their works.

This book covers a wide range of subjects from Latin literature and language to textual history and criticism. E. D. Francis gives a history of the words prae and pro, as adverb, preposition and prefix. H. D. Jocelyn surveys the distribution and differing uses of quotations from Greek poetry in Cicero's prose writings and D. F. S. Thomson takes a fresh look at the manuscript tradition of Catullus. The remaining six articles deal with later authors and are divided equally between the poets and the historians: a reading of Horace's Roman Odes and their relation to the other odes in which he addressed the Roman people; a demonstration of the internal coherence of a Tibullan elegy and two Juvenal satires; a review of disputed readings in the OCT of Livy IX; an analysis of the structure of the prologues to the Annals, Histories and Agricola to cast light on Tacitus' intentions; and a critical review of Tacitus' portrait of Germanicus, generally viewed in a sympathetic light but debated by D. O. Ross.

This volumes begins with a long essay on the nature and structure of Saturnian verse. This is followed by two studies of Plautus (the Menaechmi seen as a comedy of errors and the prologue of the Poenulus as an editor's conflation of several scripts). There is an essay on nine graffito epigrams from Pompeii, and an analysis of the poetic quality of the scientific passages in the De Rerum Natura. Catullus 64 is studied as an epitome of the whole age of heroes; and there are two essays on Horace (his handling of the rhetorical recusatio in the odes to Bacchus and his lyric prayers for poetic inspiration). The volume ends with an investigation into how much Ovid actually knew of the law, and how he exploited this knowledge with piquancy and inventiveness in his writings.

This book advances our understanding of the religion, society and culture of Dura-Europos, the small town on the Euphrates known as the 'Pompeii of the Syrian desert' and one of the best sources for day-to-day life in a community on the periphery of the Roman world.

Aristophanes, one of the greatest and most important poets of the golden age of classical Greek literature, has remained, in the English-speaking world at least, one of the most forbidding, because least well understood. This is a collection of critical and interpretative essays in English devoted entirely to this poet.

Yale Classical Studies volume XXVIII is devoted to papyrology. The volume embraces all the principal facets of papyrological study in the many areas of classical antiquity in which our knowledge has been so immeasurably enriched by the discovery and decipherment of Greek and Latin papyri.

The essays in this 1982 volume of Yale Classical Studies of Greek literature were collected in an attempt to draw attention to the literary excellence of some undeservedly neglected authors and to inspire more readers to take them seriously.

This volume covers a wide range of topics in Athenian intellectual history, drawing on the methods of various other disciplines to provoke a reconsideration of outstanding problems and controversies in classical studies.

The essays in volume 25 of Yale Classical Studies were specially commissioned by the editors to provide a cross-section of contemporary approaches to the interpretation of Greek tragedy. All three Attic dramatists receive attention, some essays being studies of a play as a whole, others concentrating on some particular passage or theme.

This book advances our understanding of the religion, society and culture of Dura-Europos, the small town on the Euphrates known as the 'Pompeii of the Syrian desert' and one of the best sources for day-to-day life in a community on the periphery of the Roman world.

Essential reading for scholars interested in the classical tradition: from its formation in late antiquity to its relevance for the self-fashioning of artists from Petrarch and Shakespeare to James Joyce and Bob Dylan. The essays are written by specialists in classics, English, Italian and art history.

This volume provides a unique overview of the broad historical, geographical and social range of Latin and Greek as second languages. Elucidates the techniques of Latin and Greek instruction across time and place, and the contrasting socio-political circumstances that contributed to and resulted from this remarkably enduring field of study.

Essential reading for scholars interested in the classical tradition: from its formation in late antiquity to its relevance for the self-fashioning of artists from Petrarch and Shakespeare to James Joyce and Bob Dylan. The essays are written by specialists in classics, English, Italian and art history.

The aim of this 1996 book is to identify and assess the distinctive styles of five important ancient Greek sculptors. By using the most recent archaeological evidence and re-evaluating both the ancient literary sources and earlier scholarly literature, the international group of authors whose essays appear here expands our understanding of the role of personal styles in ancient art.

This book investigates religious aspects of the Romanization of Italy during the Middle and Late Republic. The mutual impact of Roman and non-Roman practices and institutions is considered, and attempts are made to define the nature of 'Roman', as opposed to 'Latin', 'Italic', or 'Etruscan', religion in the period in question.

Anger is found everywhere in the ancient world, starting with the very first word of the Iliad and continuing through all literary genres and every aspect of public and private life. This volume brings together several significant studies on literary, philosophical, medical and political aspects of ancient anger.

The advent of monarchy at Rome brought major changes to the city of Rome as well as the political system. Here experts reassess the impact of imperial building programs on the configuration of space, representations of the emperor in the city, and the performance of rituals linking emperor and people.

This collection of essays by specialists in the field focuses on the Eastern Mediterranean world in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. The essays draw on discoveries in archaeology and epigraphy, and discuss developments in methods and interpretations as well as a wide range of social and historical issues.

This volume explores the various ways in which literary works begin, with essays on nearly all the major genres of Greek and Latin literature.

This book investigates religious aspects of the Romanization of Italy during the Middle and Late Republic. The mutual impact of Roman and non-Roman practices and institutions is considered, and attempts are made to define the nature of 'Roman', as opposed to 'Latin', 'Italic', or 'Etruscan', religion in the period in question.

Anger is found everywhere in the ancient world, starting with the very first word of the Iliad and continuing through all literary genres and every aspect of public and private life. This volume brings together several significant studies on literary, philosophical, medical and political aspects of ancient anger.

The advent of monarchy at Rome brought major changes to the city of Rome as well as the political system. Here experts reassess the impact of imperial building programs on the configuration of space, representations of the emperor in the city, and the performance of rituals linking emperor and people.

This collection of essays by specialists in the field focuses on the Eastern Mediterranean world in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. The essays draw on discoveries in archaeology and epigraphy, and discuss developments in methods and interpretations as well as a wide range of social and historical issues.