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 | Marília P. Futre Pinheiro & J.R. Morgan (eds.) |2022 The papers in this volume discuss, from various perspectives, the engagement of the ancient novels with their predecessors and aim to identify and interpret the resonances, of different degrees of closeness, of those texts (Homeric epics, traditional and nuptial poetry… |
 | Poetics and Rhetoric Marília Futre Pinheiro, Massimo Fusillo & Stephen A. Nimis (eds.) |2022 In the Greek world under the Roman Empire, the tradition of rhetorical learning reached its heyday in the second century A.D., with the cultural movement named as “Second Sophistic”. Despite the emphasis on rhetoric, literary culture lato senso was was also part… |
 | Wisdom and Authority in Early Arabic Literature Emily J. Cottrell (ed.) |2020 The collection of essays assembled in this volume addresses the models of divine and practical wisdom in some of the earlier Arabic prose texts passed down to us. All essays were initially presented and discussed at an international conference held… |
 | Stelios Panayotakis & Michael Paschalis (Eds.) |2019 The present volume contains revised versions of most of the papers that were delivered at RICAN 7, which was held in Rethymnon, Crete, on 27-28 May 2013. The focus of the conference was on the portrayal and function of male and female… |
 | Essays in Memory of Bryan Reardon Kathryn Chew, J.R. Morgan & Stephen M. Trzaskoma (eds.) |2019 This volume contains twenty essays by leading scholars of ancient fiction, who were all pupils, colleagues or close friends of Bryan Reardon, in memory of his scholarship, energy, guidance and humanity. They cover a range of topics including ancient literary… |