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Homer
R.B. Rutherford
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Homer Introduction “Homer” is the name given to the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, the greatest and probably earliest surviving Greek...
Homeric Hymns
Andrew Faulkner
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Homeric Hymns Introduction The Homeric Hymns are a collection of thirty-three hexameter hymns to Greek deities, so named because they were ofte...
Horace
Randall McNeill
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Horace Introduction Horace (Q. Horatius Flaccus, 65–8 bce) was one of the foremost poets of what is traditionally known as the Golden Age o...
Intertextuality in Latin Poetry
Neil Coffee
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Intertextuality in Latin Poetry Introduction The phenomenon of meaningful connections between texts, or “intertextuality,” has been defined an...
Jews and Judaism
Sandra Gambetti
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Jews and Judaism Introduction The Jewish experience in the Greco-Roman period embraces geographically the region of the Mediterranean basin...
Juvenal
Christopher Nappa
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Juvenal Introduction Little is known with certainty about the life of Juvenal, despite the existence of part of an ancient biography. He appear...
Language, Ancient Greek
Stephen Colvin
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2012-04-24
Ancient Greek Language Introduction The Greek language is first attested written in an awkward syllabic script on clay tablets dating to the 14...
Languages, Italic
Philip Baldi, Gabriel C.L.M. Bakkum
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Italic Languages Introduction The Italic languages are a group of cognate languages spoken throughout middle and southern Italy before the pre...
Law, Greek
Michael Gagarin
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Greek Law Introduction The study of Greek law began in the late 19th century as an offshoot of the study of Roman law. The field was long do...
Law, Roman
Paul du Plessis
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Roman Law Introduction The present understanding of Roman law is essentially as a thought experiment based on the snippets of texts collect...
Lexicography, Greek
Patrick James
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Greek Lexicography Introduction Lexicography involves the collection of evidence relating to the meaning and usage of words, the identifica...
Lexicography, Latin
Kathleen M. Coleman
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2010-11-01
Latin Lexicography Introduction Study of the lexicon of the Latin language has been pursued since at least the late Republic, but the modern sc...
Linguistics, Indo-European
Jay Fisher
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Indo-European Linguistics Introduction Linguistics is the study of grammar, a subject matter that is traditionally divided into five areas: pho...
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...
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