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Hellenistic collection : Philitas, Alexander of Aetolia, Hermesianax, Euphorion, Parthenius
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ISBN: 0674996364 9780674996366 Year: 2009 Volume: 508 Publisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press,

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Works by authors such as Philitas of Cos, Alexander of Aetolia, Hermesianax of Colophon, Euphorion of Chalcis and, especially Parthenius of Nicaea, who composed the mythograpical Sufferings in Love, represent rich inventiveness in Hellenistic prose and poetry from the fourth to the first century BCE.


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The construction of the real and the ideal in the ancient novel
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ISBN: 9491431536 9789491431531 9789491431258 9491431250 Year: 2013 Publisher: [Eelde] Groningen

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The present volume comprises thirteen of the papers delivered at RICAN 5, which was held in Rethymnon, Crete, on May 25-26,2009. The theme of the volume, ' The Construction of the Real and the Ideal in the Ancient Novel,' allows the contributors the freedom to use their skills to examine the real and the ideal either individually or in conjunction or in interaction. The papers offer a wide and rich range of perspectives: a political reading of prose fiction in Late Period Egypt (Selden); the presence of robbers and murderers in ideal fiction (Dowden); the interaction between illusion and reali


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Hippocratic oratory : the poetics of early Greek medical prose
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ISBN: 9781472474155 1472474155 1317048792 1317048784 9781315611181 9781317048787 9781317048794 131561118X 9781317048770 1317048776 9780367594107 Year: 2018 Publisher: London Routledge

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On Ancient Medicine, On the Art, On Breaths, On the Nature of Human Beings and On the Sacred Disease are among the most well-known and sophisticated works of the Hippocratic Collection. The authors of these treatises were seeking to find means to express their arguments that built on authoritative models of their predecessors. By examining the range of expressive resources used in their expository prose, James Cross demonstrates how oral tradition and written techniques, such as sound patterning, sign-posting and antithetical formulae, were deployed to help the writers develop a case. The book demonstrates that there were various layers of meaning and manners of communicating ideas which can be found in Hippocratic expository prose, and offers fresh insights into the oral debating culture and experiments in persuasion which characterise the ancient Greek world of the late fifth-century BCE.

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