The Closure of Herodotus' Histories
On the other hand, during the past five or six decades a number of observations have accumulated to suggest that the ending of the Histories presents a paradox: While the book is open-ended as a strictly historical narrative, as a work of archaic art it is perfectly and unambiguously closed.
A Perspective of the History of Women’s Sport in Ancient Greece
This investigation examines literary, archaeological, and epigraphical evidence in four historical periods in order to draw as accurate a picture as possible of women’s sport in ancient Greece.
Inaros' rebellion Against Artaxerxes I and the Athenian Disaster in Egypt
The reconstruction of the rebellion of Inaros here will be based on Diodorus Siculus, Thucydides and Ctesias, but also on Aramaic and Egyptian documents from Egypt written in demotic script.”
Gender and public image in imperial Rome
Ancient Roman society was heavily visual; the physical act of seeing and the physical state of being watched informed how a Roman citizen navigated, consumed, and contributed to Roman culture.
Phaedrus The Fabulous
Phaedrus, far from being a Greek freedman striving to inscribe himself among the élite of Latin letters, was a Roman aristocrat masquerading as a man of the people to say in fable what could not safely be otherwise said.
The Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book Five: Last Olympian
The Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book Five: Last Olympian By Rick Riordan Publisher: Hyperion Books, May 5, 2009 ISBN: 9781423101475 All
The Percy Jackson And The Olympians, Book Four: Battle Of The Labyrinth
The Percy Jackson And The Olympians, Book Four: Battle Of The Labyrinth By Rick Riordan Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children, April 14, 2009…
The Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book Two: Sea of Monsters
The Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book Two: Sea of Monsters By Rick Riordan Publisher: Hyperion Books, April 15, 2007 ISBN: 9781423103349 After…
Religion in the Ancient Novel
Religion plays a central role in the plot of virtually every fictional narrative, influencing the lives, actions, mentality, practices, beliefs, and eventual fates of the characters (and narrators); the types, interventions, and motives of divinity or other uncanny forces; the use of mythological exemplars.
Golden Verses: Voice and Authority in the Tablets
Golden Verses: Voice and Authority in the Tablets Richard P.Martin (Stanford) Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics: April (2007) Abstract This paper attempts to…