Loeb Classical Monographs

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Cover: Epiploke: Rhythmical Continuity and Poetic Structure in Greek Lyric

Epiploke: Rhythmical Continuity and Poetic Structure in Greek Lyric

Cole, Thomas

This book argues that feet and phrases, to the extent that they exist at all in Greek lyric verse, tend to be present at the level of parole rather than langue—constituting one of a number of possible ways of articulating some larger rhythmical continuum. These larger rhythmical structures are the minimal independent utterances in lyric discourse.

Cover: The Column of Antoninus Pius

The Column of Antoninus Pius

Vogel, Lise

Cover: East & West: Papers in Ancient History Presented to Glen W. Bowersock

East & West: Papers in Ancient History Presented to Glen W. Bowersock

Brennan, T. Corey
Flower, Harriet I.

The topics offered in East and West range throughout the ancient world from the second century bce to late antiquity, from Hellenistic Greece and Republican Rome to Egypt and Arabia, from the Second Sophistic to Roman imperial discourse, from Sulla’s self-presentation in his memoirs to charitable giving among the Manichaeans in Egypt.

Cover: The Transmission of the Text of Lucan in the Ninth Century

The Transmission of the Text of Lucan in the Ninth Century

Gotoff, Harold C.

Cover: The Roman World of Dio Chrysostom

The Roman World of Dio Chrysostom

Jones, Christopher P.

Christopher P. Jones offers here the first full-length portrait of Dio in English and, at the same time, a view of life in cities such as Alexandria, Tarsus, and Rhodes in the first centuries of our era.

Cover: Athenian Bronze Allotment Plates

Athenian Bronze Allotment Plates

Kroll, John H.

Cover: Euripides and the Full Circle of Myth

Euripides and the Full Circle of Myth

Whitman, Cedric H.

Cover: Images for Classicists

Images for Classicists

Coleman, Kathleen M.

Images for Classicists shows how text and image taken together complicate and enrich our understanding of ancient culture. Working to dissolve distinctions between text- and artifact-based scholarship, it explores challenges the digital revolution poses to curators and sketches ways that image-based collections may be deployed in the future.

Cover: Sculpture and Coins: Margarete Bieber as Scholar and Collector

Sculpture and Coins: Margarete Bieber as Scholar and Collector

Arnold-Biucchi, Carmen
Beckmann, Martin

Based on a Harvard Art Museums symposium on the acquisition of Margarete Bieber’s coin collection, Sculpture and Coins addresses the relation between large statuary and miniature art in the private and public domain. Scholars from various disciplines explain the importance of coins for identifying and analyzing Greek and Roman portraiture.

Cover: Albert’s Anthology

Albert’s Anthology

Coleman, Kathleen M.

Albert’s Anthology comprises 76 brief and informal reflections on a line or two of Greek or Latin poetry—and a few prose quotations and artistic objects—composed by colleagues and students of Albert Henrichs, who devoted his scholarly career to Greek literature and religion—especially his favorite Greek god, Dionysos.

Cover: The Loeb Classical Library and Its Progeny: Proceedings of the First James Loeb Biennial Conference, Munich and Murnau 18–20 May 2017

The Loeb Classical Library and Its Progeny: Proceedings of the First James Loeb Biennial Conference, Munich and Murnau 18–20 May 2017

Henderson, Jeffrey
Thomas, Richard F.

The papers collected in The Loeb Classical Library and Its Progeny explore the legacy for which James Loeb is best known—the Loeb Classical Library—and the three series it inspired, and take stock of these series in light of more general themes bearing on translations of “classical” texts and their audiences.

Cover: The Lives of Latin Texts: Papers Presented to Richard J. Tarrant

The Lives of Latin Texts: Papers Presented to Richard J. Tarrant

Curtis, Lauren
Garrison, Irene Peirano

The Lives of Latin Texts collects papers presented at a 2018 conference in the Department of the Classics at Harvard University in honor of Richard Tarrant on the occasion of his retirement. The breadth of authors, genres, periods, and topics is testament to Tarrant’s influence on the fields of Latin literary studies and textual criticism.

Cover: James Loeb, Collector and Connoisseur: Proceedings of the Second James Loeb Biennial Conference, Munich and Murnau 6–8 June 2019

James Loeb, Collector and Connoisseur: Proceedings of the Second James Loeb Biennial Conference, Munich and Murnau 6–8 June 2019

Henderson, Jeffrey
Thomas, Richard F.

The second James Loeb Biennial Conference focused on his multifaceted engagement with the material culture of the ancient world as a scholar, connoisseur, collector, and curator. The resulting essays also reflect on Loeb’s contemporary significance, as his collections continue to be curated and studied in today’s rapidly evolving arts environment.

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