Examining every aspect of the culture from antiquity to the founding of Constantinople in the early Byzantine era, this thoroughly cross-referenced and fully indexed work is written by an international group of scholars. This Encyclopedia is derived from the more broadly focused Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition, the highly praised two-volume work. Newly edited by Nigel Wilson, this single-volume reference provides a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the political, cultural, and social life of the people and to the places, ideas, periods, and events that defined ancient Greece.

Before the publication of the second-century AD papyrus containing eight and a fragmentary ninth of the Mimiamboi of Herodas in 1891, Herodas was known only through approximately twenty lines which had survived in quotations found principally in Athenaios and Stobaios. Even after the publication of the papyrus and subsequent work on it, scarcely anything is known of their author. The scant evidence that has survived suggests that he lived during the reign of Ptolemy Philadelphos (285-247 BC), on the island of Kos, and was a direct contemporary of the greatest of the Hellenistic poets, Callimachus, Theocritus and Apollonius. His Mimiamboi are short humorous dramatic scenes written in verse, often bawdy, reflecting everyday life and dialect. In this Aris & Phillips Classical Text, Graham Zanker explores what we do know of the poet including the language, dialect and metre that he uses. Each poem is translated and accompanied by an individual commentary with synopsis, information on date, setting, sources and purpose, as well as close examination of vocabulary and grammar. This edition, the first translation of the Mimiamboi since 1906 reveals Herodas' work in all its skill and subtlety.

The Mimes of Herodas is a collection of ancient Greek literary works that were written in the form of brief, humorous scenes. These works were intended to be performed in public, and they provide fascinating insights into the everyday life and culture of ancient Greece. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in ancient Greek literature or culture. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

This volume of twenty-two articles offers: Jared S. Klein, "Some Indo-European Systems of Conjunction: Rigveda, Old Persian, Homer"; Ramond Westbrook, "The Trial Scene in the Iliad"; Thomas K. Hubbard, "Remaking Myth and Rewriting History: Cult Tradition in Pindar's Ninth Nemean"; William F. Wyatt, Jr., "The Root of Parmenides"; Joe Park Poe, "Entrance-Announcements and Entrance-Speeches in Greek Tragedy"; Edward M. Harris, "Pericles' Praise of Athenian Democracy: Thucydides 2.37.1"; Simon Hornblower, "The Religious Dimension to the Peloponnesian War, or, What Thucydides Does Not Tell Us"; Michael Haslam, "Hidden Signs: Aratus Diosemeiai 46ff., Vergil Georgics 1.424ff."; Ralph M. Rosen, "Mixing of Genres and Literary Program in Herodas 8"; Lowell Edmunds, "Lucilius 730M: A Scale of Power"; Cynthia Damon, "Sex, Cloelius, Scriba"; Brent Vine, "On the "Missing" Fourth Stanza of Catullus 51"; Henri J. W. Wijsman, "Female Power in Georgics 3. 269/270"; Garth Tissol, "An Allusion to Callimachus' Aetia 3 in Vergil's Aeneid 11"; A. S. Hollis, "Hellenistic Colouring in Virgil's Aeneid"; G. P. Goold, "Paralipomena Propertiana"; Christina S. Kraus, "How (Not?) to End a Sentence: The Problem of -que"; R. J. Tarrant, "Nights at the Copa: Observations on Language and Date"; J. Linderski, "Aes Olet: Petronius 50.7 and Martial 9.59.11"; Ian Rutherford, "Inverting the Canon: Hermogenes on Literature"; Dana R. Miller, "Found: A Folio of the Lost Full Commentary of John Chrysostom on Jeremiah"; and Otto Skutsch, "Recollection of Scholars I Have Known."

This volume contains the papers of the 'Seventh Groningen Workshop on Hellenistic Poetry: Beyond the Canon' (Groningen 2004). During the workshop a first draft of each of the papers was commented on by an international group of specialists in the field of Hellenistic poetry. A number of previous workshops was devoted largely to the major Hellenistic poets. This recent workshop explores what the poets 'beyond the canon' of Callimachus, Theocritus and Apollonius Rhodius had to offer and it discussed questions of canonicity in Hellenistic poetry on a more general level. The papers in the present volume deal with a large range of authors and genres: Herondas, Lycophron, Euphorion, Hermesianax, Cercidas, Crates of Thebes and Alexander Aetolus, and the didactic poetry of Aratus, Nicander and Ps.-Scymnus, the later bucolic poems of Moschus and Bion and the pattern poems of Simias. At the same time special attention is given to the hexameter in inscribed Hellenistic epigram, which is compared to that of poets in the environment of the Museum of Alexandria. This volume is part of a series. Every two years a 'Workshop on Hellenistic Poetry' takes place at the University of Groningen, the papers of which are published in 'Hellenistica Groningana'.

The fourth volume of the collected papers of the ICLA congress “The Many Languages of Comparative Literature” includes articles that study thematic and formal elements of literary texts. Although the question of prioritizing either the level of content or that of form has often provoked controversies, most contributions here treat them as internally connected. While theoretical considerations inform many of the readings, the main interest of most articles can be described as rhetorical (in the widest sense) – given that the ancient discipline of rhetoric did not only include the study of rhetorical figures and tropes such as metaphor, irony, or satire, but also that of topoi, which were originally viewed as the ‘places’ where certain arguments could be found, but later came to represent the arguments or intellectual themes themselves. Another feature shared by most of the articles is the tendency of ‘undeclared thematology’, which not only reflects the persistence of the charge of positivism, but also shows that most scholars prefer to locate themselves within more specific, often interdisciplinary fields of literary study. In this sense, this volume does not only prove the ongoing relevance of traditional fields such as rhetoric and thematology, but provides contributions to currently flourishing research areas, among them literary multilingualism, literature and emotions, and ecocriticism.

The series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZNW) is one of the oldest and most highly regarded international scholarly book series in the field of New Testament studies. Since 1923 it has been a forum for seminal works focusing on Early Christianity and related fields. The series is grounded in a historical-critical approach and also explores new methodological approaches that advance our understanding of the New Testament and its world.