Books written by Richard Janko
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The Iliad: A Commentary
oval projections from the hoop , as seen on a Syrian ivory of Late Geometric date from Ialysos ; this type was popular in Greece down to 500 B.c. But she reports S. Marinatos ' insight that Mopoeis refers to granulation in gold ...
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The Iliad: A Commentary
Most readers will in any case already have their own texts – the 1920 Oxford Classical Text of D. B. Monro and T. W. Allen , for example , is readily available - and it is far more convenient to have the text in front of one in a ...
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The Iliad: A Commentary
This, the fourth volume in the six-volume Commentary on the Iliad being prepared under the General Editorship of Professor G. S. Kirk, covers Books 13-16, including the Battle for the Ships, the Deception of Zeus and the Death of Patroklos.
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Homer, Hesiod, and the Hymns: Diachronic Development in Epic Diction
This book investigates the history of the ancient Greek tradition of oral epic poetry which culminated in the Iliad and Odyssey.
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Aristotle on Comedy: Towards a Reconstruction of Poetics II
Quandt , TAPA 111 ( 1981 ) 181 – 7 ) . This theory of catharsis will then be an ad hoc bastion erected against Plato's attack on poetry as a pernicious stimulant of the emotions - A. countering that in fact it helps to keep them in ...
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Aristotle: Poetics
Two other unique features are Janko's translations with notes of both the Tractatus Coislinianus, which is argued to be a summary of the lost second book of the Poetics, and fragments of Aristotle's dialogue On Poets, including recently ...
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Ayios Stephanos: Excavations at a Bronze Age and Medieval Settlement in Southern Laconia
Lord William Taylours excavations at Ayios Stephanos in 1959-77 investigated a port that relied on trade, fishing and metallurgy. It lay just north of the main Minoan east-west trade route...
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Philodemus, On Poems, Books 3-4: with the fragments of Aristotle, On Poets
... Περί ποιητών διάλογος και το Περί ποιητικής σύγγραμμα και αι Ρητορικαι τέχναι . Τ 3c Vita Aristotelis Vulgata 3 , p . 132 Düring ( T 3 Laurenti ) ο μεν ουν Αριστοτέλης έτι νέος ών την των ελευθέρων παιδείαν επαιδεύετο , ως δηλοί τα ...