The fifth-century BC Greek lyric poet Bacchylides, like his contemporary Pindar, composed epinician odes celebrating victories in the Olympian, Pythian, Isthmian, and Nemean Games---occasions of imme
Containing papers presented at Langford Seminars of the Department of Classics of Florida State University as well as supplementary articles, this collection includes research on Greek and Roman poetr
Virgil's debt to Homer is well known but, as this detailed and specialized analysis demonstrates, Apollonius RhodiusÆ Argonautica, itself influenced by Homer, was a more immediate source. Assuming
PLLS 10 consists, as did earlier volumes in the series, in part of revised and usually expanded versions of papers presented at seminar meetings and in part of further papers contributed at the invita
Even in its incomplete form (the final volume is still in preparation), the Commentary on the Amores of Ovid has become a scholarly standard. The introductions to each elegy are succinct, readable a
It would be difficult to overstate the importance of Aristotle for a number of intellectual disciplines from Antiquity into the Middle Ages and beyond. However, Aristotle's philosophical ideas - both
The narration of lives (bioi) is pervasive in ancient written texts, but there has been comparatively little recent research into the genre of biography, perhaps because it has so many diverse forms a
The fifteenth volume of PLLS (and the fifth in the Langford series) contains major papers on early Greek epic and tragedy, aspects of ekphrasis, Roman republican culture and politics, and astrology in
The fifth century AD has always been a period of intense interest for historians. At the beginning, the Roman Empire looked as impentrable as it had done for centuries, but by 500AD the world had c
Volume 5 of PLLS was the last of the Liverpool series of seminar volumes. Between 1975 and 1985 the Liverpool Latin Seminar held 52 ordinary meetings and 4 colloquia, involving altogether 156 papers a
In this volume (in Italian), Professor Marco Fantuzzi presents a critical text of the Adonidis Epitaphium by the Hellenistic Greek poet Bion of Smyrna, who worked between 130-120 BC and 57-55 BC. Th
