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The sixth online collection of Brill’s acclaimed series of Companions to Classical Studies continues to present the best in current scholarship in the field. With topics ranging from Cassius Dio to Greek Land Warfare, these companions provide a graduate-level synthesis of debate and the state of scholarship on the subjects. Designed for students and scholars, the books explain what sources there are, what methodologies and approaches are appropriate in dealing with them, what issues arise and how they have been treated, and what room there is for disagreement. All volumes are in English.
This collection contains eight titles:
* Brill's Companion to Cassius Dio
* Brill's Companion to Greek Land Warfare Beyond the Phalanx
* Brill's Companion to Bodyguards in the Ancient Mediterranean
* Brill's Companion to the Reception of Ancient Rethoric
* Brill's Companion to Warfare in the Bronze Age Aegean
* Brill's Companion to the Reception of Homer from the Hellenistic Age to Late Antiquity
* Brill's Companion to Episodes of 'Heroic' Rape/Abduction in Classical Antiquity and Their Reception
* Brill's Companion to Classical Reception and Modern World Poetry.
This collection contains eight titles:
* Brill's Companion to Cassius Dio
* Brill's Companion to Greek Land Warfare Beyond the Phalanx
* Brill's Companion to Bodyguards in the Ancient Mediterranean
* Brill's Companion to the Reception of Ancient Rethoric
* Brill's Companion to Warfare in the Bronze Age Aegean
* Brill's Companion to the Reception of Homer from the Hellenistic Age to Late Antiquity
* Brill's Companion to Episodes of 'Heroic' Rape/Abduction in Classical Antiquity and Their Reception
* Brill's Companion to Classical Reception and Modern World Poetry.
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Brill's Companions to Classical Studies, Volume: 5 and
Brill's Companions to Classical Studies: Warfare in the Ancient Mediterranean World, Volume: 5
Brill’s Companion to Bodyguards in the Ancient Mediterranean is the first scholarly volume solely dedicated to understanding bodyguards of the ancient Mediterranean world. From the Pharaohs of Egypt through to the emperors of the Early Byzantine Empire, this volume not only identifies who served as bodyguards for rulers and other political powerbrokers, but also details the symbolic role bodyguards played in the maintenance of power. The volume also highlights the political, religious, and social significance of bodyguards to individual regimes, and the important role bodyguards played in the projection of power and legitimacy to key interest groups within a particular society.
This Companion is the first of its kind on the Roman historian Cassius Dio. It introduces the reader to the life and work of one of the most fundamental but previously neglected historians in the Roman historical cannon. Together the eighteen chapters focus on Cassius Dio’s background as a Graeco-Roman intellectual from Bithynia who worked his way up the political hierarchy in Rome and analyzes his Roman History as the product of a politically engaged historian who carefully ties Rome’s constitutional situation together with the city’s history.
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Brill’s Companion to Classical Reception and Modern World Poetry explores the relations between antiquity and modernity from the angle of the reception of Graeco-Roman antiquity in modern world poetry. In an innovative combination of the fields of Classical Reception and World Literature, it tackles ever-challenging questions which are central to both fields, such as the questions of literature and identity, specificity and universality, Eurocentrism, poetics and translation. Leading experts from both Classics and Modern Languages contribute 11 chapters on modern poetry and poets from different linguistic and cultural traditions from around the world.
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Sexual violence is one of the oldest and most difficult problems of humankind. Many of the “love stories” in Classical Greek and Roman Myth are tales of rape, a fact that is often casually glossed over in both popular and scholarly treatments of these narratives. Through a careful selection of stories, this book provides a deep exploration of rape in Classical Myth as well as in the works of art and literature that have responded to it through the millennia. The volume offers an essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand sexual violence from different perspectives and through an interdisciplinary approach, which includes Trauma Theory and Evolutionary Psychology.
Series:
Brill's Companions to Classical Studies, Volume: 4 and
Brill's Companions to Classical Studies: Warfare in the Ancient Mediterranean World, Volume: 4
After decades of controversy, there is now a growing consensus that Greek warfare was not singular and simple, but complex and multiform. In this volume, emerging and established scholars build on this consensus to explore Greek warfare beyond its traditional focus on hoplites and the phalanx. We expand the chronological limits back into the Iron Age, the geographical limits to the central and eastern Mediterranean, and the operational limits to include cavalry, light-armed troops, and sieges. We also look beyond the battlefield at integral aspects of warfare including religion, the experiences of women, and the recovery of the war dead.
This volume, examining the reception of ancient rhetoric, aims to demonstrate that the past is always part of the present: in the ways in which decisions about crucial political, social and economic matters have been made historically; or in organic interaction with literature, philosophy and culture at the core of the foundation principles of Western thought and values. Analysis is meant to cover the broadest possible spectrum of considerations that focus on the totality of rhetorical species (i.e. forensic, deliberative and epideictic) as they are applied to diversified topics (including, but not limited to, language, science, religion, literature, theatre and other cultural processes (e.g. athletics), politics and leadership, pedagogy and gender studies) and cross-cultural, geographical and temporal contexts.
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Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Homer from the Hellenistic Age to Late Antiquity presents a comprehensive account of the afterlife of the Homeric corpus. Twenty chapters written by a range of experts in the field show how Homeric poems were transmitted, disseminated, adopted, analysed, admired or even criticized across diverse intellectual environments, from the late 4th century BCE to the 5th century CE. The volume explores the impact of Homer on Hellenistic prose and poetry, the Second Sophistic, the Stoics, some Christian writers and the major Neoplatonists, showing how the Greek paideia continued to flourish in new contexts.
Series:
Brill's Companions to Classical Studies, Volume: 6 and
Brill's Companions to Classical Studies: Warfare in the Ancient Mediterranean World, Volume: 6
Aegean prehistory was born out of the search for the Trojan War. Since the time of Heinrich Schliemann, new forms of evidence have come to light and innovative questions have arisen, including examinations of warfare as a concept. This volume interrogates the nature of warfare in the Bronze Age Aegean for scholars and teachers with knowledge of the ancient Mediterranean, who wish to access the state of the field when it comes to the ways that specialists approach warfare in the prehistoric Aegean. Authors review evidence, consider the social and cultural place of war, and revisit longstanding questions.