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A commentary on selected elegies of Propertius.
(1984)Standard commentaries on the elegies of Propertius tend either to ignore or to pay curt lip service to literary criticism. Linguistic and textual problems are often discussed, translations of difficult passages and ... -
A brief comparative study of the Tetrabiblos of Claudius Ptolemy and the Vedic Surya Siddhanta.
(2005)The Ancient Indians and Greeks had similar beliefs in the concepts of magic, superstition, and astrology. First I will look briefly at the beliefs of the ancient Greeks and the main astrological text- the Tetrabiblos of ... -
Mask or mirror? : a study of Juvenal's Satires as a reflection of authorial personality and perspective.
(1999)This study aims to present Juvenal's Satires as a whole as the fundamentally coherent and plausible product of the author's own personality, convictions and circumstanceswhere the latter may be reasonably inferred. It ... -
A commentary on books 3 and 4 of the Ethiopian story of Heliodorus.
(1998)The thesis consists of an introduction to and commentary on books 3 and 4 of the Ethiopian Story of Heliodorus. The introduction explores the meagre evidence for the life of the author, and concludes that he was probably ... -
Psychiatry and the plays of Euripides.
(1994)In this study, the nineteen extant plays of Euripides are reviewed from a psychiatric point of view. This has not been done before, as few classicists have an intimate knowledge of modern psychology and psychiatry, and ... -
An Ethiopian paradox : Heliodorus, Aithiopika 4.8.
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Adamastor, gigantomachies, and the literature of exile in Camões' Lusíads.
(Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association., 2009)Canto 5 of Luis Vaz de Camoes' Portuguese epic poem Lusiads, tells the celebrated myth of Adamastor. This section of the poem describes a Portuguese voyage of exploration led by Vasco da Gama in 1497 down the west coast ... -
The role of discourse and lexical meaning in the grammaticalisation of temporal particles in Latin.
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Peoples of Azania.
(University of Otago., 1993)The name Azania, referring to North-East Africa, has long been used for a wide range of political and ideological ends. Modern interpretations given to the name are typically based more on current concerns than on the ... -
The sphragis of Heliodoros, genealogy in the Aithiopika, and Julian’s Hymn to King Helios.
(Departamento de Linguas e Culturas, Universidade de Aveiro., 2011)This article analyses the final sentence of Heliodoros's Aithiopika as a sphragis- an autobiographical statement by the author. Heliodoros here stresses his descent from Helios, as one of characters in the romance, Persinna, ... -
Azania - some etymological considerations.
(Classical Association of South Africa., 1992)There have been a number of attempts to establish an etymology for the name Azania. Liddell and Scott offer the derivation 'land of Zan or Zeus', Casson suggests that Azania has the same root as Zanzibar, and that ... -
The meaning of antitheos (HLD. 4.7.13) again.
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Cohesion in Latin.
(Taylor & Francis., 1993)This article discusses ancient and modern concepts of textual coherence and in Latin. A number of ideas about the degree of cohesion in the letters of Cicero, compared with those of Seneca and Pliny are discussed. The ... -
The dream of Charikles (4.14.2) : intertextuality and irony in the Ethiopian story of Heliodorus.
(Classical Association of South Africa., 2001)There are strong but previously unnoticed intertextual links between the dream of Charikles in Heliodorus (4.14.2), the portent of the eagle in Achilles Tatius (2.12.1-3), and the dream of Penelope in Homer (Od. 19.535-69). ... -
Veiled or unveiled? (Plut. Quaest. Rom. 267B–C).
(Cambridge University Press., 2008)No abstract available.
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