By Miriam Kamil Abstract: Kamil explores bleeding trees as an important motif in ancient literature both in the West and the East, suggesting that ‘transcultural anxiety around the wellbeing of trees’ has racked…
by Arum Park Abstract: It can be argued that Longus’s pastoral landscapes, signaled by the « locus amoenus », have a primarily reproductive rather than erotic function. These landscapes introduce parenthood and child…
By Emma Bridges Xerxes, the Persian king who invaded Greece in 480 BC, quickly earned a notoriety that endured throughout antiquity and beyond. The Greeks’ historical encounter with this eastern king – which resulted,…
By Rosalind Thomas Abstract: Greek ‘local histories’, better called polis and island histories, have usually been seen as the poor relation of mainstream ‘great’ Greek historiography, and yet they were demonstrably…
By Rachel Bird Abstract: This book offers the first comprehensive evaluation of ethics in the ancient Greek novel, demonstrating how their representation of the cardinal virtue sophrosune positions these texts in their…
By Kathryn Bosher Abstract: Studies of ancient theatre have traditionally taken Athens as their creative centre. In this book, however, the lens is widened to examine the origins and development of ancient drama, and…
By Ilaria Andolfi Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the origins of early Greek mythography, exemplarily represented by Hecataeus of Miletus and Acusilaus of Argos. The paucity of verbatim quotations…
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