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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...
Neoplatonism
Sarah Klitenic Wear
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2013-08-26
Neoplatonism Introduction Neoplatonism (also called “Platonism”) refers to the school of philosophical and religious thought, beginning with t...
Nepos, Cornelius
Rex Stem
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2014-02-25
Cornelius Nepos Introduction Cornelius Nepos (b. c. 110–d. c. 25 bce) is the first biographer in Latin whose works survive and the first biogr...
Nonnus
Gianfranco Agosti
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2019-02-27
NonnusIntroductionNonnus of Panopolis (approximately 400–460/470 ce) is the undisputed protagonist of the flourishing of Greek poetry in Late Antiquit...
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...
Optimates/Populares
Cristina Rosillo-López
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2018-08-28
Optimates/PopularesIntroductionPopulares and optimates are two political denominations, especially used in ancient Roman politics during the 1st centu...
Orosius
Peter Van Nuffelen
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2021-03-24
OrosiusIntroductionOrosius was a Spanish priest, attested in the years 414–419. He is best known as the author of the Histories against the pagans (41...
Orpheus and Orphism
Alberto Bernabé
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2014-08-26
Orpheus and Orphism Introduction In classical Antiquity some religious poems written in hexameters were attributed to Orpheus, a mythical sing...
Ovid
K. Sara Myers
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
OvidIntroductionAll of Ovid’s poetry bears the hallmarks of his distinctive style: humor, wit (often expressed through word play), great literary lear...
Ovid's Metamorphoses
Lee Fratantuono
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2017-04-27
Ovid’s MetamorphosesIntroductionOvid’s Metamorphoses is an epic poem in fifteen books that offers a panoramic vision of classical mythology from the c...
Ovid’s Exile Poetry
Garth Tissol
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2017-09-27
Ovid’s Exile PoetryIntroductionOvid’s poetry of exile, once considered of interest only as a source of historical and biographical details, now enjoys...
Ovid’s Love Poetry
Thea S. Thorsen
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2017-09-27
Ovid’s Love PoetryIntroductionAlways brilliantly marshaling the rich resources of the art of literature, the love poetry of the great and prolific poe...
Painting, Greek
Stella G. Miller
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2016-08-30
Greek PaintingIntroductionThe scope of this article under the heading of Greek painting is broad. In effect, this article takes on the almost impossib...
Panaetius of Rhodes
Francesca Alesse
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2015-01-15
Panaetius of Rhodes Introduction Panaetius of Rhodes was a Stoic philosopher of the 2nd century bce. A pupil of the Stoic scholarchs Diogenes ...
Panathenaic Festival, the
Tyler Jo Smith
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2022-04-25
The Panathenaic FestivalIntroductionThe Panathenaic festival (Panathenaia), celebrated in Athens to honor the city’s patron goddess Athena, is one of ...
Pantheon
Rabun M. Taylor
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2016-05-26
PantheonIntroductionThe Pantheon is the most celebrated and most studied of Roman buildings—not only because of its arresting form, excellent preserva...
Papyrology: Literary and Documentary
Rodney Ast
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Papyrology: Literary and Documentary Introduction Papyrology owes its name to the paper-like writing material produced from the papyrus plant o...
Parmenides
John Palmer
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2013-06-25
ParmenidesIntroductionActive in the earlier part of the 5th century bce, Parmenides of Elea is Presocratic philosophy’s most challenging and profound ...
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