Solon of Athens

new historical and philological approaches

This volume offers a range of innovative approaches to Solon of Athens, legendary law-giver, statesman, and poet of the early sixth century B.C. In the first part, Solon#s poetry is reconsidered against the background of oral poetics and other early Greek poetry. The ...

Virgil, Aeneid 3

A commentary

This is the first detailed commentary on Aeneid 3, being some three times the size of that by R.D.Williams(1962), and aimed at the scholarly public. It treats fully the thorny problem of book 3's place in the growth of the poem ...

The governor and his subjects in the later roman empire

INDICE: The position of the governor in administration, A.D. Governors : their position, titles and ranks. The governor's office.The governor's role in jurisdiction and taxation. Governors and higher authorities. The governor as judge : competence versus corruption. Governors' competence in law. Provincials' expectations ...

Sophocles and the Greek language

aspects of diction, syntax and pragmatics

This volume offers an extensive overview of the various ways in which Sophocles# use of the Greek language is currently being studied. Greatly admired in antiquity, Sophocles# style only became a serious subject of investigation with Campbell#s Introductory essay On the language of Sophocles ...

Linguistics into interpretation

speeches of War in Herodotus VII 5 & 8-18

This volume is a sustained exercise in the genre of secondary literature which aims at explaining a literary work as much as possible in and through the author's own words. A passage in direct speech by different speakers from the "History of Herodotus", the ...

Senecas Tragödien

Sprachliche und Stilistische Untersuchugen

'"Cette itude pricise, consciencieuse, qui s'appuie sur une bonne connaissance de l'ensemble de l'oeuvre de Sinhque, rendra service tous ceux qui s'intiressent la langue, et plus spicialement aux lexique, des oeuvres de cet auteur.' Claude Moussy, "Revue des Etudes Latines, 69 ...