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Andokides and the Herms : a study of crisis in fifth-century Athenian religion
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ISBN: 0900587725 9780900587726 Year: 1996 Volume: 65 Publisher: London : University of London, Institute of classical studies,

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Perikeiromene, or, The shorn head
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ISBN: 9781905670598 1905670591 Year: 2015 Volume: 127 Publisher: [London] : Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London,


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Menander Epitrepontes
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ISBN: 9781905670253 1905670257 Year: 2009 Volume: 106 Publisher: London : Institute of Classical Studies, School fo Advanced Study, University of London,

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Studies in the use of fire in ancient Greek religion
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ISBN: 0405140371 0881430269 Year: 1981 Publisher: New York : Arno P.,


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Menander Misoumenos or 'The hated man'
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ISBN: 9781905670970 1905670974 Year: 2021 Publisher: London : Institute of classical studies, University of London,

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Menander’s Misoumenos, or The Hated Man, is one of his most popular plays to have survived from classical times. Dating to approximately 300 BCE, it tells the story of a mercenary soldier and the captive girl he acquires while on campaign in Cyprus. The play follows the soldier’s growing despair as the girl spurns his advances and slowly turns against him, culminating in his suicidal thoughts.The play belongs to the ancient genre of New Comedy, of which Menander was the acknowledged master. This edition presents a significantly updated text and the fullest English language translation of the play to date. It aims to restore as much as possible of the action of Misoumenos, reconstructing the language, stagecraft, and theatrical dialogue of the original based on hypothesis and reconstruction. Some sections can be restored nearly in full, permitting access to brilliantly original theatrical dialogue which had been lost for over two millennia. Apart from meter and sophisticated idiom, the themes of love, despair, and sadness that Menander treats are utterly timeless.


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New Fragments of Menander's 'Epitrepontes'
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ISBN: 9781914477409 Year: 2021 Publisher: London University of London

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In this brand new and exquisite 2021 translation of the classic Greek play, Epitrepontes, or 'The Arbitration', produced around 300 BC, Menander tackles the subject of a broken marriage. Charisios has left his young wife Pamphile over a suspected infidelity and moved in with his neighbour to drown his sorrows in wine and women, specifically, a spirited harp-girl called Habrotonon. The irate father-in-law will not tolerate this waste of a good dowry and demands of his daughter that she divorce. Bravely she holds out against her father's tirades and remains loyal to her husband.A complex and masterly dramatic sequence ensures that by the end 'all's well that ends well' - and Menander has struck a blow for equality of the sexes, for understanding over arrogance and pride. Menander's subtle and, ultimately, good-natured treatment of marital crisis and family tensions, themes which, despite the ancient dress of strict metre and theatrical convention, are strikingly modern, not to say timeless.A large portion of the Epitrepontes was recovered from oblivion in 1905. Now, this startling collection of the new fragments, complete with papyrological readings, translation and commentary, brings together the scholarly work from separate fragments to date, including the author's own edition and interpretation and a revised text of the play in entirety included as an appendix.The commentary aims to explain the printed text, to place Menander's language in the context of Athenian dramatic art and rhetoric, and to appreciate his subtle insights into the psychology of his characters, from the huffy father-in-law Smikrines to the 'little people' of the comedy, the slaves, each with their private agenda.

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Reading the Liver.
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ISBN: 9783161538902 3161538900 9783161538919 3161538919 Year: 2015 Volume: 94 Publisher: Tübingen Mohr Siebeck

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Reading the liver : papyrological texts on ancient Greek extispicy
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Year: 2015 Publisher: Tübingen, Germany : Mohr Siebeck,

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William Furley und Victor Gysembergh haben hier eine Edition mit Einleitung und Kommentar aller bisher bekannten Papyrus-Fragmente, die die antike griechische Eingeweideschau betreffen, zusammengestellt. Die Ergebnisse werfen ein interessantes Licht auf antike Rezeptionsprozesse zwischen Griechenland und dessen östlichen Nachbarn.

Greek hymns : selected cult songs from the archaic to the Hellenistic period
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ISBN: 316147676X 3161475275 3161475534 3161475542 Year: 2001 Volume: 9, 10. Publisher: Tübingen : Mohr,

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Cultural plurality in ancient magical texts and practices : Graeco-Egyptian handbooks and related traditions
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ISBN: 9783161564789 3161564782 9783161564796 Year: 2019 Publisher: Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck,

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