This volume gathers together for the first time essays on the intellectual and literary world of both the Greek and Latin Antonines. The contributors provide a broad range of topics including Plutarch's Lives (C.B.R. Pelling), Lucian's Prologues (H.-G. Nesselrath), Aristides' Hymns (D.A. Russell), Apuleius's Cupid and Psyche (E.J. Kenney), Greek poetry of the period (E.L. Bowie), the definition of the Second Sophistic (G. Anderson), and the influence of Plato's Phaedrus (M.B. Trapp). Russell also provides an ...
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This volume gathers together for the first time essays on the intellectual and literary world of both the Greek and Latin Antonines. The contributors provide a broad range of topics including Plutarch's Lives (C.B.R. Pelling), Lucian's Prologues (H.-G. Nesselrath), Aristides' Hymns (D.A. Russell), Apuleius's Cupid and Psyche (E.J. Kenney), Greek poetry of the period (E.L. Bowie), the definition of the Second Sophistic (G. Anderson), and the influence of Plato's Phaedrus (M.B. Trapp). Russell also provides an introductory essay addressing the relationship between the two literary languages, and a full bibliography and table of dates.
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Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 0198140576. Book is fine. Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing.; The quality as well as the historical importance of the flourishing bilingual literature of the second century AD is increasingly recognised. This volume collects together eight papers which offer a wide view of the intellectual and literary world of the Antonines, both Greek and Latin. There are special studies on Plutarch's Lives--C B R Pelling; Lucian's Prologues--H. -G. Nesselrath; Aristides' Hymns--D. A. Russell; and Apuleius' Cupid and Psyche--E. J. Kenney. The relationship between the two literary languages is an important theme of the introductory paper and there are also essays on the neglected topic of Greek poetry of the period--E. L. Bowie, on the definition of the Second Sophistic--G. Anderson, and on the influence of Plato's Phaedrus--M. B. Trapp in this period. There is a full bibliography and a brief table of important dates.; 0.94 x 8.74 x 5.9 Inches; 260 pages.
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