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Literature, Hellenistic
Dee Clayman
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Hellenistic Literature Introduction The Hellenistic era, so named by J. G. Droysen, begins with the death of Alexander the Great in 323 bce
Livy
David Levene
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2013-01-28
Livy Introduction Livy (Titus Livius) was born in (probably) 59 bc, in Patavium (the modern Padua); he died in (probably) ad 17. Little is kno...
Lucan
Susanna Braund
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Lucan Introduction Lucan was one of the major successors of Virgil in the genre of Latin epic poetry. In turn, he exercised a strong influe...
Lucretius
Gordon Lindsay Campbell
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Lucretius Introduction Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus, b. c. 94–d. c. 55 or 51 bce) was one of the most important Latin poets of Antiquity. H...
Macedonia
Miltiades B. Hatzopoulos, Dimitra Andrianou
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Macedonia Introduction Macedonia is understood as the country that existed as an independent kingdom between c. 700 bce and 168 bce; as a forma...
Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World
Radcliffe Edmonds
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World Introduction The study of magic in the ancient Greco-Roman world has blossomed in the decades since the...
Maps
Richard J.A. Talbert
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Maps Introduction Maps and mapmaking may be considered from at least three related perspectives: the nature and purpose of maps produced in cl...
Marcus Aurelius's Meditations
Marcel van Ackeren
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations Introduction Marcus Aurelius (b. 121 ce) was heir to the throne for twenty-three years, beginning in 138 ce, and...
Marcus Manilius
Katharina Volk
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2011-04-14
Marcus Manilius Introduction Marcus Manilius was a Roman poet who in the second decade of the 1st century ce wrote Astronomica, a hexameter poe...
Menander of Athens
David Konstan
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Menander of Athens Introduction Menander, born in 342/1 bce, was an Athenian citizen, the son of Diopeithes and Hegestrate (Suda s.v. Menan...
Metrics, Greek
Joel Lidov
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Greek Metrics Introduction Greek metrics is the discipline that studies the patterns and arrangements of syllables and words that characterize G...
Military, Greek
Fernando Echeverría Rey
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Greek Military Introduction Warfare may be considered a fundamental activity in Greek civilization: warfare and society interacted in ancient G...
Military, Roman
M.C. Bishop
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Roman Military Introduction The Roman army evolved from a small citizen yeoman force into a tool of international diplomacy, the mercenary blad...
Mythography
R. Scott Smith, Stephen M. Trzaskoma
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Mythography Introduction “Mythography” is a broad term used to cover what is, in fact, a disparate set of texts from the ancient world, all in p...
Mythology
Pura Nieto Hernández
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2010-02-15
Mythology Introduction “Classical mythology” is a modern conceit that presents as a unified and relatively coherent whole what for the anci...
Narratology and the Classics
Antonios Rengakos, Chrysanthe Tsitsiou-Chelidoni
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2012-07-24
Narratology and the Classics Introduction Narratology (a term coined by Tzvetan Todorov in 1969), “a humanities discipline dedicated to the st...
Novel, Roman
Edmund Cueva
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2012-05-23
Roman Novel Introduction “Roman novel?” “Did the Romans have novels?” The Romans did not have a term for what we now consider the “novel” as a...
Novel, The Greek
Tim Whitmarsh
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
The Greek Novel Introduction In the first century ce large-scale fictional works written in Greek prose began to appear, generally erotic a...
Numismatics, Greek and Roman
Oliver D. Hoover
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2011-09-30
Greek and Roman Numismatics Introduction The coins struck by the ancient Greeks and Romans have been a subject of scholarly interest since at l...
Ovid
K. Sara Myers
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Ovid Introduction All of Ovid’s poetry bears the hallmarks of his distinctive style: humor, wit (often expressed through word play), great ...
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