CSTS 398 Senior Seminar (HC/BMC)

George Grote's (1794-1871) extensive publications on ancient Greek history and philosophy remain landmarks in the history of classical scholarship. Since the late 20th century, lively interest in the works of Grote has seen his profile revived and his ongoing significance highlighted: he has taken up his rightful place among the most celebrated nineteenth-century classical intellectuals.

In classical scholarship, the term "epyllion" was used for short hexametric texts mainly ascribable to the Hellenistic period or the Neoterics (Latin). Apart from their brevity, episodic narration or female characters were regarded as typical features. However, in Antiquity itself, the texts we call "epyllia" were not considered a coherent genre, which seems to be an innovation of the 18th century.

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This companion challenges the view that insurgency and terrorism are specifically modern phenomena by offering an historical perspective that exposes readers to the ways these tactics were common elements of conflict in antiquity. Original research on insurgency and terrorism in various regions including, the Ancient Near East, Greece, Central Asia, Persia, Egypt, Judea, and the Roman Empire is included.

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The Egyptian Nonnus of Panopolis (5th century AD), author of both the 'pagan' Dionysiaca, the longest known poem from Antiquity (21,286 lines in 48 books, the same number of books as the Iliad and Odyssey combined), and a 'Christian' hexameter Paraphrase of St John's Gospel (3,660 lines in 21 books), is no doubt the most representative poet of Greek Late Antiquity.

Only recently have scholars turned their attention to Silius Italicus Punica, a poem the reputation of which was eclipsed by the emergence of Virgil s Aeneid as the canonical Latin epos of Augustan Rome.

"Brill s Companion to Statius" is the first companion volume to be published on arguably the most important Roman poet of the Flavian period.

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Brill's Companion to the Reception of Classics in International Modernism and the Avant-Garde examines how the writers and artists who lived from roughly the last quarter of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth sought to build a new world from the ashes of one marked by two world wars, global economic depression, the rise of nationalism, and the collapse of empires. By surveying the modernist appropriation of Ancient Greece and Rome, the fourteen chapters in this volume demonstrate how the Classics, as foundational texts of the old order, were nevertheless adapted to suit the stylistic innovation and formal experimentation that characterized modernist and avant-garde literature and art.

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This is the first English-language survey on all key aspects of this Flavian poet and his epic "Argonautica (1st century CE).