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Culture in pieces : essays on ancient texts in honour of Peter Parsons
Title
Culture in pieces : essays on ancient texts in honour of Peter Parsons / edited by Dirk Obbink and Richard Rutherford.
ISBN
9780199292011
0199292019
Published
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Physical Description
xviii, 342 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes
"This volume originated in a conference with the same title which the editors organized in Christ Church, Oxford, between 20 and 23 September 2006 in honour of Professor Peter Parson's seventieth birthday, which fell on 24 September."--Preface.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 01, 2011
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Bibliography of Peter Parsons: p. [323]-333.
Contents
Vanishing conjecture: the recovery of lost books from Aristotle to Eco / Dirk Obbink
Pindar as a man of letters / Martin West
The papyri of Herodotus / Stephanie R. West
The use and abuse of irony / Richard Rutherford
Greek letters in Hellenistic Bactria / Adrian Hollis
Menander and his rivals: new light from the Comic Adespota? / Heinz-Günther Nesselrath
The rediscovery of Menander / Eric Handley
"My daughter and her dowry": Smikrines in Menander's Epitrepontes / Colin Austin
More facts from fragments? / Annette Harder
Remapping the Mediterranean: the Argo adventure in Apollonius and Callimachus / Susan Stephens
Theudotus of Lipara (Callimachus, fr. 93 Pf.) / Giulio Massimilla
The reputation of Callimachus / Richard Hunter
Telling tales: Ovid's Metamorphoses and Callimachus / Gregory Hutchinson
On ancient prose rhythm: the story of the dichoreus / Michael Winterbottom
Alexander of Aphrodisias, De prouidentia: Greek fragments and Arabic versions / Christopher Riedweg
Missing pages: papyrology, genre, and the Greek novel / Albert Henrichs.
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