IV. Biography and Antiquarian Literature A. Biography. Fascicle 5. the First Century BC and Hellenistic Authors of Uncertain Date [Nos. 1035-1045]

IV. Biography and Antiquarian Literature A. Biography. Fascicle 5. the First Century BC and Hellenistic Authors of Uncertain Date [Nos. 1035-1045]
Author: Pietro Zaccaria
Publisher: Die Fragmente Der Griechischen
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021-12-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789004209138

In FGrHist IV A 5, Pietro Zaccaria offers the first complete corpus of late Hellenistic biography preserved in fragments. The volume contains a critical edition, with English translation and comprehensive commentary, of more than one hundred fragments from eleven Greek biographers.

Ctesias: On India

Ctesias: On India
Author: Andrew Nichols
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2011-09-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781853997426

A Greek doctor serving at the court of the Persian king Artaxerxes II in the fifth century BC, Ctesias met travellers and visitors from the far eastern reaches of the Persian Empire, merchants from along the Silk Road and Indians from near the Indus Valley. His Indika (On India), was the first monograph ever written on India by a western author, introducing its readers to such fantastic creatures as the unicorn and the martichora, along with real life subjects such as the parrot and the art of falconry. Confirming pre-existing conceptions of what were considered to be the edges of the earth, Ctesias' Indika helped shape the Greek view of India.

The Pregnant Male as Myth and Metaphor in Classical Greek Literature

The Pregnant Male as Myth and Metaphor in Classical Greek Literature
Author: David D. Leitao
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2012-04-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107017289

This book traces the image of the pregnant male as it evolves in classical Greek literature. Originating as a representation of paternity and, by extension, "authorship" of creative works, the image later comes to function also as a means to explore the boundary between the sexes.

Ptolemy II Philadelphus and his World

Ptolemy II Philadelphus and his World
Author: Paul McKechnie
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 504
Release: 2008-11-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 9047424204

Heir of Ptolemy son of Lagus, Alexander the Great's general (who took Egypt over in 323BC), Ptolemy II Philadelphus reigned in Alexandria from 282 to 246. The greatest of the Hellenistic kings of his time, Philadelphus exercised power far beyond the confines of Egypt, while at his glittering royal court the Library of Alexandria grew to be a matchless monument to Greek intellectual life. In Egypt the Ptolemaic régime consolidated its power by encouraging immigration and developing settlement in the Fayum. This book examines Philadelphus' reign in a comprehensive and refreshing way. Scholars from the fields of Classics, Archaeology, Papyrology, Egyptology and Biblical Studies consider issues in Egypt and across Ptolemaic territory in the Mediterranean, the Holy Land and Africa.

Bios Philosophos

Bios Philosophos
Author: Mauro Bonazzi
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Philosophers
ISBN: 9782503565460

"In the 4th century B.C., philosophers began to write not only philosophical texts, but also biographical ones. As biographers, they often presented members of their own schools as the epitome of their ideals, or tried to prove that the followers of others lived in ways inconsistent with their own doctrines. The papers collected in this volume explore the many ways in which philosophy was incorporated into such texts, as well as how the genre was used as a means of philosophical instruction, discussion and polemics."--Back cover.