Published by De Gruyter

Trends in Classics - Key Perspectives on Classical Research

Edited by: P. J. Finglass, S. J. V. Malloch and Christos Tsagalis

ISSN: 2626-1030

e-ISSN 2626-1049

Overview
Volumes

This new series aims to provide state of the art guides to research in Classical Studies (across the fields of Language and Literature, Ancient History, Archaeology, and Ancient Philosophy and Science) that explore the key themes and ideas shaping previous scholarship on individual authors, genres, and topics.

Each volume is authored by a prominent scholar in the respective field and offers a critical reappraisal of research conducted in recent decades that illuminates the state of contemporary scholarship.

With its paperback volumes, the series is perfectly designed to offer students and scholars reliable, stimulating guides to what really matters in important fields of classical research today, as well as suggestions for future lines of study.

Book Ahead of Publication 2023

Peripatos

A History of Ancient Aristotelianism

Luca Gili

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With the exception of Paul Moraux’s Die Aristotelismus bei den Griechen (in German), the most recent books on the history of ancient Aristotelianism are H. Balthussen 2016 (The Peripatetics: Aristotle’s Heirs) and A. Falcon 2018 (Aristotelismo). Both works do not follow the chronological order followed by Moraux. This book, in turn, presents the development of Aristotelian philosophy diachronically, the first English volume that does so. The book takes a philosophical approach and presents all major philosophers against the backdrop of the most recent scholarship. The book’s chapters focus on the main characters and themes of ancient Aristotelianism: Eudemus, Thephrastus, Strato, Boethus of Sidon, the reception of Aristotle in middle Platonism (Eudorus, the anonymous author of the Didaskalikos), the masters of Alexander of Aphrodisias (Sosigenes, Herminus), Aspasius, Alexander of Aphrodisias.

The book will be a must for all philosophy libraries around the world and the updated most updated reference work for any study on the topic of late antique Aristotelianism.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783110980523
ISBN:: 9783110980523
ISBN:: 9783110993226
ISBN:: 9783110980585
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Authors
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Selected Philosophers
Subject:: Aristoteles
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2022

Cicero’s Philosophy

Stefano Maso

Volume 3 in this series

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Cicero was not only a great Roman politician, lawyer and orator: he also dealt extensively with philosophy, which he believed constituted the surest foundation for his commitment to civic affairs. Not limiting himself to the translation of previous philosophical thought, he critically addressed central theoretical questions, and thereby made a lasting impact on Roman intellectual life. This book offers a modern guide to interpretations of Cicero’s philosophical studies, one that ranges across his numerous philosophical works. Addressed to students and scholars of ancient philosophy, and to interested readers in the humanities more generally, the volume aims to break down the boundaries between the philosophical, literary and linguistic dimensions of Cicero’s highly influential oeuvre.

Stefano Maso is a full professor in Ancient Philosophy at the University of Ca’ Foscari – Venice. Among his books are: Grasp and Dissent: Cicero and Epicurean Philosophy (Brepols 2015); Epicurus on Eidola: Peri Phuseos Book II. Update, Proposals, and Discussions (ed. with F. Masi, Hakkert 2015). He is co-editor of “Lexis. Poetica, retorica e comunicazione nella tradizione classica”.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110661835
ISBN:: 9783110661835
ISBN:: 9783110658392
ISBN:: 9783110658668
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2021

Greek Myth

Lowell Edmunds

Volume 2 in this series

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This volume provides a guide to research in the field of Greek Myth, introducing the main questions, theories and methods related to the study of Greek Myth today. The author points out, with critical reappraisal, the key themes and ideas in recent scholarship and makes suggestions for future lines of study. Aimed at students and scholars in Classics, it will also be of interest to larger audiences in the Humanities.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110696202
ISBN:: 9783110696202
ISBN:: 9783110682335
ISBN:: 9783110696240
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Ancient Religion
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Antiquity
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2020

Ancient Macedonia

Miltiades B. Hatzopoulos

Volume 1 in this series

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Nearly two centuries have passed since K. O. Müller published the first "scientific" study "on the habitat, the origin and the early history of the Macedonian people". An ever growing number of publications appearing each year has rendered urgent a critical appraisal of this exuberant production, the more so that many aspects of ancient Macedonia remain controversial, if not problematic. Yet after seventy years of large-scale systematic excavations the activity of Greek archaeologists, as well as the labour of scholars from all over the world, have revealed a heretofore terra incognita and given a consistency to the people that Alexander led to the end of the known world. Now more than ever before we can tackle the "main problems" that have been contested without conclusion: Where exactly was Macedonia? Which were its limits? Where did the Macedonians come from? What language did they speak? What cults did they practice? Did they believe in an afterlife? What political and social institutions did they have? What was Alexander's role in his father's death? What were his aims? To what extent can we trust ancient historians? Alexander failed to provide a stable successor to the Achaemenid multiethnic empire, and the sands of Egypt have effaced even the traces of his last abode, yet if he returned to life, he could still boast in the words of Cavafy, a modern Alexandrian in every sense, “a new Hellenic world, a great one, came to be ... with the extended dominions, with the various attempts at judicious adaptations. And the Greek koine language all the way to outer Bactria we carried it, to the peoples of India”.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110718683
ISBN:: 9783110718683
ISBN:: 9783110718645
ISBN:: 9783110718768
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter